- Messages
- 830
- Reaction score
- 203
- Trophy Points
- 63
I own one of these books too and have listened to a lot of them but no idea how many. So many great records to discover. Running over the list, these would would be my personal "listen before you die" highlights (although there are tons more I love too)...
Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (1959)
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today! (1965)
The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics (1965)
The Monks – Black Monk Time (1966)
Love – Forever Changes (1967)
Nico – Chelsea Girl (1967)
The Doors – The Doors (1967)
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground And Nico (1967)
Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends (1968)
The Who – Tommy (1968)
The Zombies – Odessey And Oracle (1968)
Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis (1969)
Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969)
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (1969)
Johnny Cash – Johnny Cash At San Quentin (1969)
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Scott Walker – Scott 4 (1969)
Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman (1970)
John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band (1970)
Nick Drake – Bryter Layter (1970) (aka THE GREATEST ALBUM EVER!!!)
The Stooges – Fun House (1970)
Harry Nilsson – Nilsson Schmilsson (1971)
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971)
Big Star – No 1 Record (1972)
David Bowie – Hunky Dory (1972)
Lou Reed – Transformer (1972)
The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street (1972)
Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel (1973)
Iggy & The Stooges – Raw Power (1973)
Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks (1974)
Kraftwerk – Autobahn (1974)
Neil Young – On The Beach (1974)
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run (1975)
Patti Smith – Horses (1975)
Tom Waits – Nighthawks At The Diner (1975)
David Bowie – Low (1977)
Ian Dury – New Boots And Panties! (1977)
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (1977)
Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express (1977)
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers (1977)
Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model (1978)
Kraftwerk – The Man Machine (1978)
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasure (1979)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979)
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music (1979)
The Clash – London Calling (1979)
The Specials – Specials (1979)
The Undertones – The Undertones (1979)
AC/DC – Back In Black (1980)
Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (1980)
Motorhead – Ace Of Spades (1980)
Talking Heads – Remain In Light (1980)
Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain (1984)
Dexys Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down (1985)
The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy And The Lash (1985)
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (1986)
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction (1987)
Pet Shop Boys – Actually (1987)
Prince – Sign ‘O’ The Times (1987)
Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique (1989)
Coldcut – What’s That Noise? (1989)
De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising (1989)
Happy Mondays – Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches (1990)
A Tribe Called Quest – Low End Theory (1991)
Primal Scream – Screamadelica (1991)
Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque (1991)
Nirvana – In Utero (1993)
Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible (1994)
The Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation (1994)
Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes (1995)
Jeff Buckley – Grace (1995)
The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust (1995)
Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Come Find Yourself (1996)
Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)
Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space (1997)
The Divine Comedy – A Short Album About Love (1997)
Pulp – This Is Hardcore (1998)
The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (1999)
Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (2000)
Lambchop – Nixon (2000)
Radiohead – Amnesiac (2001)
Ryan Adams – Gold (2001)
The Hives – Your New Favourite Band (2001)
The Strokes – Is This It? (2001)
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (2001)
Jurassic 5 – Power In Numbers (2002)
The Coral – The Coral (2002)
Rufus Wainwright – Want One (2003)
The White Stripes – Elephant (2003)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell (2003)
The Libertines – The Libertines (2004)
Richard Hawley – Coles Corner (2005)
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005)
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquour (2006)
LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (2007)
Good luck with the challenge! I seem to remember 'Louis Prima – The Wildest (1957)' being a blast early on the list.
I find it really embarassing I've heard barely any of these