Classic albums any true music fan should own or at least listen to

:sigh: I have major issues putting live albums or greatest hits on the list. And House of the Holy for Led Zep? It would be nice if someone could back this list up because I've not heard a single album from it. And Tommy??? I still have nightmares from that movie!! Crack is bad kiRAB!
 
Off the top of my head - albums I keep coming back to...

Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Madness - One Step Beyond
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
The Cure - The Head on the Door
LemonheaRAB - I'ts a Shame About Ray
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Leftfield - Leftism
Sugar - Copper Blue
 
Oh, Inverted world was actually published edit: sorry, 1 year prior to YHF. Should I include an album voted 493 of all time by The Rolling Stone magazine? What about the 492 that are supposedly better?
 
Ok, I think I got it all now...why hasn't anyone (more knowledgeable) mentioned the New York Dolls, or Echo and the Bunnymen? They're supposed to be really influential banRAB no? What about XTC? I've heard them mention a gazzillion times..
 
Most of the songs are pretty good, but that doesn't mean we need all 18. I think chucking a bunch and consolidating to one disc would give us a much stronger set. I guess my main issue is, that if you're gonna put a double album out...Every song should be top notch so that we feel like none could have been left out. While there's nothing I'd be willing to sacrifice in Blonde on Blonde, I think I'd be doin' just fine without about half of this album. Especially when it degenerates into bland soft rock that I almost expect to hear on the top 40 radio stations like on"Dance All Night" and "Life is Beautiful". There are songs here where it doesn't sound to me like they're trying very hard. Where the instrumentation is indistinctive and Ryan voicing trite sentiments like how he wants to "dance all night" and how something "makes [him] believe" and as for "Blossom" if you're gonna make a risk sounding pompous and even a little cheesy by making a piano ballad...it'd better be damned amazing.

All complaints aside though...do you happen to have Love is Hellthat you might be able to upload? I've heard it described as a blend of the Smiths, Jeff Buckley and Radiohead...and if that's anywhere near accurate, then wow.
 
Doh! I forgot we were talking about Nico...so yeah, I didn't mean to say that Nico was currently in the middle of a successful career. But anyway....
Newsom is a SUCESS! I mean consider how hard it is to get a record deal, and then to be widely critically acclaimed and have your album considered one of the best of the year out of the thousanRAB that were released. Still though, kudos on the coloring contest :). I could never stay inside the lines myself.
 
No I don't. I don't want to call anyone out, it's rude. I'll take myself for example. I love Alkaline Trio - my favorite album from them is Goddamnit. I'm not going to list that as a "classic album". I believe that classic albums, in the context that addissasssasasas has requested, are albums that are widely considered to have set some sort of bench mark in music... not... Blink 182's Dude Ranch, or The Buzz****s' Love Bites.

The way I understand it he's talking about albums like:

Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
The Rolling Stones: Exile on Mainstreet
The Who: Who's Next
Carol King: Tapestry (which I'm surprised to discover that not a lot of so-called music junkies know about this album)
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison
Queen: A Night at the Opera
Pixies: Doolittle
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
Elvis Presley: The Sun Sessions
The Beatles: Rubber Soul

Really groundbreaking stuff like that.
 
I also just had a fantastic idea, once the list is pretty much in agreement, we could upload all the albums, essentially making this thread the greatest thread ever!! Is there any file sending service that holRAB the files forever? That would neat.
 
Double Live Gonzo is THE live album at it's finest, you can't help wishing you were there. For the $15.00 those people paid to be there they got their f*cking faces rocked the f*ck off.

As for AC/DC, Flick Of The Switch would be another essential. Dirty.............DIRTY................ROCK AND ROLL
 
I don't think they'll be too damaged by any blows your mind can dish out. They'll be too busy with their sucessful careers.
Anyway...Newsom's voice is not affected. She originally felt extremely uncomfortable with her voice and only started regularly making vocal recordings when a friend of hers sent a tape to a record company without her knowledge and they loved it. If she could have sung in a more conventional way, then she would have. However her voice is totally unique. Besides, what your calling affectation, I'd see as an artist being creative with what they were given. Why is the development of a style such a crime? Music is primarily an aesthetic medium, so the level of stimulation the sound provides is more important than anything behind it. Besides the idea of "honest singing" is more than a little silly to me. Robert Plant didn't have to sing the way he did. That primal howl was an affectation. Is Led Zeppelin all the better for it? I think so.
 
I just mean that all the times Ive picked it up in the store its had at least one article in it about either the Beatles, the Sex Pistols, the Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan.

Theres seems to be a lack of new music mentioned in it apart from the odd article. The last time I looked at it there was something about the Arcade Fire but that was like one article out of twenty or something.

My honest opinion of music journalism is that its just a slave to advertising dollars anyway and isnt worth reading. Theres a fairly famous example of an intensely negative review of a Hootie & the Blowfish album getting a writer fired from Rolling Stone magazine. The writer was Jim Derogatis and in the review he described the banRAB lyrics as "the trite clich
 
Well I'm fairly certain one is dead, so she won't be enjoying much of anything. As for Joanna, well I don't know what we're calling success these days but hey, I won a coloring contest in 3rd grade once.




Im confused here, shes not affecting it in anyway, yet shes being creative? Explain. Either she's singing in a manner to acheive a desiered result or shes singing as she is. If you don't agree with that point, flesh it out further.




Point taken, but don't you think it defines a degree of novelty? I mean newsome isn't even attempting to sing conventionally so to assume she's trying might be far fetched. Its a niche. I think theres a coy degree of "i'm so awful but aren't I so counter-culturally cool?"

If changing your voice was a crime I should throw out all my Waits CD's, thats not what i'm after here, its more the idea that their singing in a way to distance themselves from the masses, and I think whats more irritating about it is that fans of especailly newsome are touting it as if people who dislike her voice are uncultured freaks.
 
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