Essential Albums...

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It's all relative
black Crowes - Amorica
Opeth - ghost reveries or blackwater park
mark lanegan band - blues funeral
Screaming trees - dust
Fugazi - in on the kill taker
PJ Harvey - rid of me
Isis - panopticon
 
Tiger Fury #3 said:
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Radiohead - OK Computer
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
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thurmanmunson said:
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs and Bone Machine
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
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blackshadow said:
The Saints - I'm Stranded
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saint_larry said:
Pixies - Doolittle
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these are the correct answers.

also:

nick cave and the bad seeds - the murder ballads
the drones - wait long by the river and the bodies of your enemies will float by
david bowie - hunky dory (can't believe no one has mentioned this)
massive attack - blue lines
the avalanches - since i left you


i'll keep the list short so as not to dilute it...
 

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Rock and Roll Albums were not so much the rage in 1979 but "Damn The Torpedoes" still stands tall as an essential rock album


  1. Refugee
  2. Here Comes My Girl
  3. Even the Losers
  4. Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)
  5. Century City
  6. Don't Do Me Like That
  7. You Tell Me
  8. What Are You Doin' in My Life?
  9. Louisiana Rain


A performance of Refugee from this year....



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Tool - Aenima
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Church - Starfish (can't go wrong with any of their albums really)
Doves - Lost Souls
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Neil Young - Decade

I know Neil Young's Decade is a compilation but it's a great one stop shop for Neil Young's best work from the late 60s and 70s when he was at his peak. Listening to that album was the reason I became such a big fan of his.

Zuma said:
Rock and Roll Albums were not so much the rage in 1979 but "Damn The Torpedoes" still stands tall as an essential rock album


  1. Refugee
  2. Here Comes My Girl
  3. Even the Losers
  4. Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)
  5. Century City
  6. Don't Do Me Like That
  7. You Tell Me
  8. What Are You Doin' in My Life?
  9. Louisiana Rain


A performance of Refugee from this year....



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Great choice :thumbsu:

I'm a big fan of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, great rock band. Their greatest hits album is one of my favourite albums, just killer track after killer track. Great to whack it on in the car during long drives and sing along to.

Track listing;

1. American Girl
2. Breakdown
3. Listen To Her Heart
4. I Need To Know
5. Refugee
6. Don't Do Me Like That
7. Even The Losers
8. Here Comes My Girl
9. The Waiting
10. You Got Lucky
11. Don't Come Around Here No More
12. I Won't Back Down
13. Runnin' Down A Dream
14. Free Fallin'
15. Learning To Fly
16. Into The Great Wide Open
17. Mary Jane's Last Dance
18. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

My favourite Tom Petty track which has one of the best guitar solos of all time.

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+1 for Tom Petty's best of.

Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Die Toten Hosen - Opium furs Volk
 
I'm a big fan of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (mentioned in my top 10 artists in another thread) but Damn the Torpedoes blows chunks compared to Hard Promises, the debut album or Mojo. Refugee is a great single, and You Tell Me has a great groove. But the rest is pretty unlistenable IMO.

I'm sorry, but greatest hits collections should never be mentioned in threads like this. Also, a lot of the songs on that album are Tom Petty-solo songs. Always bugged me.

The essential TP&TH album is Hard Promises.
 
Quadrophenia - The Who (their defining piece after Who's Next)
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac (duh)
Eliminator - ZZ Top (for sheer originality at the time)
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
Woodface - Crowded House
 

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DrVanNostrand said:
I'm a big fan of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (mentioned in my top 10 artists in another thread) but Damn the Torpedoes blows chunks compared to Hard Promises, the debut album or Mojo. Refugee is a great single, and You Tell Me has a great groove. But the rest is pretty unlistenable IMO.

I'm sorry, but greatest hits collections should never be mentioned in threads like this. Also, a lot of the songs on that album are Tom Petty-solo songs. Always bugged me.

The essential TP&TH album is Hard Promises.
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Each to their own, Hard Promises was a sold follow up to Damn The Torpedos. "The Waiting" is just killer. Loved Eddie Vedder's recollections of running to the record store from school when the song came out, buying it and learning to play it the next day. Also the period where Stevie Nicks was hanging around. We all know "Stop Draggin My Heart Around" but it is Petty's "Insider" sung with Nicks which is probably his best song from 1981.
 
Tex_21 said:
Anyone mentioned INXS' Kick yet?
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Eh. Give me Welcome to Wherever You Are or Listen Like Thieves any day. Mystify is a great song from Kick, though.

@Zuma: Yep. Draggin' and Insider are two killer tunes. Fantastic contrast between their two voices. On that same Nicks album there's also a duet with Don Henley that is wonderful, "Leather and Lace".
 
Here's 10 of my premium "go to" records ...

Sugar - Copper Blue
Meat Puppets - Too High To Die
Janes Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Hot Rats
Red Kross - Phaseshifter
Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
Celibate Rifles - Sideroxylon
 
My Aim is True - Elvis Costello

...and for the blues-rockers among us:

A Nod is as Good as a Wink....to a Blind Horse - Faces
I've Got My Own Album to Do - Ron Wood
Main Offender - Keith Richards
Cosmo's Factory - CCR
Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
 
Stevie Ray Vaughan --Texas Flood
Eric Clapton--Timepieces
Rod Stewart --Atlantic Crossing
AC/DC--Back in Black
Van Halen--Van Halen
White Stripes-Elephant
Rolling Stones -Some Girls
Jack Johnson --On and On
 
Tommy - The Who
The Who Sell Out - The Who
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band self titled
A Question Of Balance - Moody Blues
The Yes Album
Close To The Edge - Yes
Chicago 2
Led Zep 1, 2 and 3
Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
Get Yer Ya Yas Out - Rolling Stones
Cold Chisel - self titled
 
Anyway;

The Drones - Wait Long....
Modest Mouse - This is a long drive for somebody with nothing to think about.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
 
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