Essential Albums...

[ThePuppetMaster]

Hi guys, I'm looking to add to my music collection with some really groundbreaking/essential albums.

Please don't feel they have to be mainstream either.

I've got a fairly good spread of modern music already, so looking to expand the experience!

Any genre goes; as what point is there in expanding musical tastes if you limit it!?!


A couple that I'll throw up;

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Ramones - Ramones
The Velvet Underground and Nico - TVU
The Clash - London Calling

Would appreciate some help.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Stooges - Fun House
Underground Lovers - Dream it Down.
Sonic Youth - Goo
Boris - Pink
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician.


Get back to me when you have your head around those ones old mate.

 

[PVF]

Nirvana- Nevermind
Metallica- Master of Puppets though The Black Album is pretty good if you want abit more mainstream.
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Guns'n'Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast

 

[thurmanmunson]

Stooges - Raw Power and Funhouse
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs and Bone Machine
The Jesus Lizard - Liar and Goat
Swans - Cop and Children of God
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Big Black - Atomiser and Songs About F***ing
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Slint - Spiderland
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Scientists - Blood Red River
This Heat - Deceit
Howlin' Wolf - London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Muddy Waters - The Real Folk Blues and The Anthology (1947-1972)
Stones - Exile On Main Street
Shellac - At Action Park
Pussy Galore - Dial M for Motherf***er
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Mo' Width
Black Flag - Damaged
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Gang Of Four - Entertainment

Plenty more I can't think of at the moment, but these are essentials to me

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Stooges - Fun House
Underground Lovers - Dream it Down.
Sonic Youth - Goo
Boris - Pink
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician.


Get back to me when you have your head around those ones old mate.

Great start to the thread, given me five albums to try out already.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Nas - Illmatic
Elliott Smith - Either/Or

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Stooges - Raw Power and Funhouse
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs and Bone Machine
The Jesus Lizard - Liar and Goat
Swans - Cop and Children of God
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Big Black - Atomiser and Songs About F***ing
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Slint - Spiderland
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Scientists - Blood Red River
This Heat - Deceit
Howlin' Wolf - London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Muddy Waters - The Real Folk Blues and The Anthology (1947-1972)
Stones - Exile On Main Street
Shellac - At Action Park
Pussy Galore - Dial M for Motherf***er
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Mo' Width
Black Flag - Damaged
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Gang Of Four - Entertainment

Plenty more I can't think of at the moment, but these are essentials to me

Everybody, let's welcome Steve Albini to BigFooty

 

[Tiger Fury #3]

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Revolver
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Airplane Over The Sea
Radiohead - OK Computer
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Love - Forever Changes
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Joni Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

 

[Marlowe]

Do they have to be "groundbreaking"? Or just essential?

AC/DC - Back in Black
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Santana - Abraxas
Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore
Radiohead - OK Comptuer
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Mastodon - Leviathan
Muse - Origin of Symmertery
The Who - Who's Next
The Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
The Eagles - Hotel California
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
Van Halen - 1984
RHCP - Californication
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Bob Dylan - Blond on Blond
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
CCR - Cosmo's Factory
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced

 

[Matching Mole]

Everybody, let's welcome Steve Albini to BigFooty

Biggest laugh of the day, thanks.

Not that some of those records aren't amazing. But that's a limited palette.

A few hats into the ring (apologies if I'm doubling up here):

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
The Band - The Band
Chairs Missing - Wire
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
Black Saint and The Sinner Lady - Charlie Mingus
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
Gala Mill - The Drones
Second Toughest In The Infants - Underworld
The Sun Sessions - Elvis
Solid Air - John Martyn


OK, stopping now.

 

[bhoysdontcry67]

The Cure - Pornography

 

[Necromancer Beth]

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Revolver
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Airplane Over The Sea
Radiohead - OK Computer
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Love - Forever Changes
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Joni Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

This guy has got it close to right.

 

[Burzum]

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Nas - Illmatic
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Wu-Tang - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

 

[Gough]

Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
The Band - The Band (Brown Album)
The Complete Robert Johnson
Flying Burrito Brothers - Guilded Palace of Sin

 

[saint_larry]

The Stooges - Raw Power
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Pixies - Doolittle
X - Aspirations

 

[blackshadow]

Some fine suggestions so far - here are a few more

Television - Marquis Moon
Janes Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street, Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
The Saints - I'm Stranded

 

[Juicy1]

The Saints - I'm Stranded

Looks like I was too late to suggest this!

 

[Eddie Dingle]

The Stooges - Raw Power
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Pixies - Doolittle
X - Aspirations

4 great albums but X - Aspirations is fast becoming a massive favourite. Possibly the most under appreciated album in Australian rock history.

 

[Marlowe]

A few more. . .

Rush - Moving Pictures
Yes - Fragile
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Tool - Aenima
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Neil Young - Harvest
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealstic Pillow
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

 

[Old Skool]

Some fine suggestions so far - here are a few more

Television - Marquis Moon
Janes Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street, Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
The Saints - I'm Stranded

Yes.

Add "Some Kind of Blue"

 

[Old Skool]

Some fine suggestions so far - here are a few more

Television - Marquis Moon
Janes Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street, Beggars Banquet and Sticky Fingers
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
The Saints - I'm Stranded

Yes.

Add "Some Kind of Blue" and "Powerage"

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Every David Bowie album from the 70s.

 

[volcboy]

Agree with Paul's Boutique and Physical Graffiti, amongst others.

Would add:

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
The Beatles - White Album
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Tool - Lateralus

The first for a lesson in what rap can be lyrically.
The second for a pop song writing lesson from the best songwriters in the business.
The last two for how to make a coherent album linked by an overarching theme while not forgetting to write individually brilliant songs

 

[raskolnikov]

Van Morrison - Moondance
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

 

[Tex_21]

Stone Sour - Come What(Ever) May
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film