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

I dunno know about everybody else...but not that I've thought about it, I think it may be best to exclude recorRAB made after 2000. I think we need the perspective granted by time to consider anything a true classic. Of course, exceptions could be made if someone presented their case really really well.
 
Im reading Psychotic Reactions & Carburetor Dung at the moment and I really believe having read his article "John Coltrane Lives" that had he wanted he could have been one of the greatest short story writers who ever lived. His passionate style really gets to me.

The ironic thing is that the book is compiled by Greil Marcus, a writer who's overly cerebral style I find to be some of the worst, most unreadable writing ever committed to paper. His book Lipstick Traces is one of the worst crimes committed against music that I can think of. Its even worse than the first Led Zeppelin album and the Tommy movie put together.
 
Meat Puppets- Meat Puppets II (1983/Alt. Rock)

The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club (1967/Psychedelic Rock)-Honestly I think it's one of the only Beatles albums worth buying

Black Sabbath- Paranoid (1971/Metal)

N.W.A.- Straight Outta Compton (1988/Rap)

The Jesus and Mary Chain- Psycho Candy (1985/Noise Pop)
 
Yo - I'm new here - part of a band that rocks with the "pre-classic rock" syles of Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Santana, Greatful Dead, Emerson Lake & Palmer, etc.

I'd like to chime in with a couple of favorites that kick ass fully in anyone's mind who's into really cool rock:

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

Jethro Tull - Benefit

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

Greatful Dead - Terrapin Station

Greatful Dead - Blues for Allah

There's something to chew on....
 
These Who albums people are suggesting is just painful.

The Who were at their best when they were an anti establishment mod pop act.Not some bunch of classic rock dinosaurs making bloated rock operas.

Quadrophenia is the sound of a band totally past it. I love the movie , but the worst thing about it is the music.
 
That said..."Magnolia Mountain" is one of the best songs the Grateful Dead never wrote in their Country-Rock period. And he slips into falsetto vocals with a sense of class that few can muster anymore. So anyway...I'm not saying I dislike the guy...
 
Usually high commercial success signifies that the album has lost a certain uniqueness or individuality, preferring a catchier, more musically that the band had. I actually only mentioned that albums commercial success, because he had the overwhelming tendency to pick the albums that were the most famous, instead of the album that was more musically more complex and innovative.

I never referred to it as VD either, I have no qualms with the majority of commercial music, in fact 2 of my most played songs on lastfm account are from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. I just don't think that it is their most intovative or musically superior album, like most commercial albums.


by the way, you might it enjoy reading the main article in Magnet this month, it's on Chan Marshall, I assume from your sn that you like her.
 
Every Led Zeppelin album, including How the West Was Won, except for In Through the Out Door.

Who's Next- The Who

Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd

Paranoid- Black Sabbath

Disraeli Gears- Cream

Machine Head- Deep Purple

In Rock- Deep Purple

The Doors- The Doors

Van Halen- Van Halen

The Nuraber of the Beast- Iron Maiden

Highway to Hell- AC/DC

White Light/White Heat- Velvet Underground

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- the Beatles

Master of Puppets- Metalilca

A Night at the Opera- Queen

Jailbreak- Thin Lizzy

News of the World- Queen

Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols- the Sex Pistols

Superunknown- Soundgarden

Nevermind- Nirvana

Siamese Dream- Smashing Pumpkins

Undertow- Tool

Rated R- Queens of the Stone Age

Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine

Enema of the the State- Blink 182

Songs for the Deaf- Queens of the Stone Age

Ten- Pearl Jam

Lullabies to Paralyze- Queens of the Stone Age

Lateralus- Tool

Wolfmother- Wolfmother
 
Okay, everyone if you're going to post an album do it in this format.

band/artist - album title (release year) (genre)

If you put the dates after the genre or don't include certain things I don't know about Marijan but I am going to skip it. It doesn't take much time to make it properly format so it can be added well, seriously.

The ones that didn't have genres I used wikipedia on so if its wrong ill edit it, and I imagine it is.

60s

13th Floor Elevators - The Psychadelic SounRAB Of The 13th Floor Elevators (1966) (Psychedelic Rock)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club (1967) (Psychedelic Rock)
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (1968) (Proto-Punk)

70s

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1971) (Metal)
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973) (Soul)
Brian Eno - Another Green World (1975) (Experimental)
David Bowie - Low (1977) (Art-Rock)

80s

Black Flag - Damaged (1981) (Hardcore)
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II (1983) (Alt. Rock)
Husker Du - Zen Arcade(1984) (Alternative Punk)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy (1985) (Noise Pop)
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (1988) (Rap)
The Stone Roses - S/T (1989) (Madchester)
Fugazi - 13 Songs (1989) (Post-Hardcore)

90s

Melvins - Houdini (1992) (Heavy Metal/Punk Rock)
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1992) (Alternative)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (1994) (Post-emo)
Tricky - Maxinquaye (1995) (Trip Hop)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996) (Hip-Hop)
Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997) (Singer/Songwriter)
Catch 22 - Keasby Nights (1998) (Third Wave Ska)
 
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