1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

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I copy this from my book I got for Christmas today, but (if this gets started), post your own albums as a must hear.

I'll start.

1) Rust In Peace - Megadeth

2) (What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

3) Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy

4) Second Toughest In The Infants - Underworld

Sombre Romantic - Virgin Black

Best Of - The Smiths

Unplugged in New York - Nirvana

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Selftitled - Rage Against The Machine

Lucifuge - Danzig

The Essential - The Clash

Leave Home - Ramones

Host - Paradise Lost

Discouraged Ones - Katatonia

Panik Manifesto - Diary of Dreams

Suedehead - Morrissey

I don't have these albums but I really want to have them after hearing MP3 samples from them:
707 - 707/The Second Album
Brother Firetribe - False Metal

19 (?). In Absentia by Porcupine Tree.
20. Lightbulb Son by Porcupine Tree.
21. Betthoven's 7th Symphony.

Hangar 18 is my song.

AC/DC - Back in Black
Alanis - Jagged Little Pill
Bjork - Debut
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Voivod - Killing Technology
Voivod - Dimention Hatross
Voivod - Nothing Face
Evanescence - Fallen
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia
Guns N Roses - Use your Illusion I and II
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of ozz
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Pearl Jam - Ten

The 976 others are coming ...

Same here. One of Megadeth's finest songs.

Whipping Boy-Heartworm
Neil Young- On the beach
Gang of Four- Entertainment!
Scott Walker- The Drift
Television - Marquee Moon
Talk Talk- Laughing Stock

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Metallica - black album
Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
Grateful Dead - Steal Your Face
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
The Crystal Method - Las Vegas

In my attempts to create such a list, a year ago I went and listened to every record I owned or had, giving each record a score and a two-sentence writeup that described my reaction to the record (sounds very stereotypically Aspie, does it not...). Of course, such a project became overly ambitious and I only have fragments of it remaining.

According to the data that I did gather, all of these records are essential listening (i.e. I gave them a 90 or higher on a 100-point scale):

Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Beatles - The Beatles
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Clash - Sandinista!
The Clash - London Calling
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
The Fall - Hex Endunction Hour
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
The Kinks - Lola vs. Powerman vs. the Money-go-Round
The Mekons - Retreat From Memphis
Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think about
Modest Mouse - Building Nothing out of Something
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

And it temporarily ends there. I eventually get back in the groove aroun the Rs, and stop as abruptly as I started:

R.E.M - Life's Rich Pageant
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
They Might Be Giants - John Henry
Sebadoh - III
Sigur Ros - takk...
Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
Spoon - Telephono

Far too many more... but that list's a good beginning.

I wouldn't ask anyone to listen to any album, no matter how wonderful or classic I feel it is, unless I knew them personally and thought that they would like it given their personal taste. You can give me practically any "classic" album and chances are I won't like it because I have such narrow taste.

Definitely one of my favorite albums of any genre, hands down.
Chemical Brothers: Dig your own hole
Shyne- self titled
High Contrast: High Society
Nas: Illmatic
Jay-Z: reasonable doubt
Cam'Ron: purple haze
Daft Punk: Homework

Old Crow Medicine Show - Old Crow Medicine Show

Self Titled Album - Gorillaz.

Demon Days - Gorillaz.

Violater - Depeche Mode.

Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld

And Justice For All - Metallica.

Last edited by Alternative on 28 Dec 2006, 5:41 am, edited 3 times in total.

Yup. Underworld rule.

Eyedea & Abilities - The many faces of oliver hart

Definitely Maybe - Oasis