10 Must-Have Albums...

[limonv]

pretty cool albums here...
i´d add van halen

[dingus]

i'll try to get these in correct chronological order ...

Moody Blues - "To Our Childrens, Childrens, Children"
Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Elton John - "Honky Chateau"
Peter Gabriel - "Peter Gabriel" (1st solo album)
Boston - "Boston"
The Cars - "Candy O"
Split Enz - "Time and Tide"
Midnight Oil - "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1"
Crowded House - "Woodface"
Steely Dan - "Two Against Nature"

[jim goulding]

Neil Young Greatest Hits (Classic Records)
If Only I Could Remember My Name - David Crosby (Classic Records)
Kind of Blue (Classic Records)
Let It Bleed- Stones
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances- Johanos/Dallas Symphony (Athena Records)
Free For All- Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers (Blue Note)
Horses- Patti Smith Group (Arista)
BB King Original Greatest Hits (Virgin)
After Bathing At Baxter's- Jefferson Airplane (RCA)
Coltrane Live at The Village Vanguard (Impulse)

[PeruvianSkies]

i'll try to get these in correct chronological order ...

Moody Blues - "To Our Childrens, Childrens, Children"
Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Elton John - "Honky Chateau"
Peter Gabriel - "Peter Gabriel" (1st solo album)
Boston - "Boston"
The Cars - "Candy O"
Split Enz - "Time and Tide"
Midnight Oil - "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1"
Crowded House - "Woodface"
Steely Dan - "Two Against Nature"

The Moody Blues are often left out, good call on that album, although most people would argue that it isn't even their strongest, I have always found SEVENTH SOJOURN to be highly overlooked as most people cite other albums by them as being superior. Although I recently picked up the CD of RED ROCKS LIVE and they sound horrible! I mean, not the recording so much, but their vocals are flat in quite a few places. Ouch.

[bobsticks]

The Cars - "Candy O"

Aw, what's wrong Ric?...why the long face?

[SlumpBuster]

At least Ric is putting Phil Spector's wig collection to good use while he is locked up.

And in related news:

[Rich-n-Texas]

Come on kids, one more vote for Horses and I'll be very grateful!

[R.S.]

The Doors- L.A. Woman

King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King

The Allman Brothers- Live at the Fillmore East

The Beatles - Love

Jeff Beck - Truth

Traffic - Smiling Phases

Jim Hall - Concierto

Quincy Jones - Walking in Space

Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "New World Symphony", Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner Conductor

Holst - The Planets, Montreal Symphonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Conductor

[basite]

only 10?

Miles davis - Kind of blue
Miles davis - b!tches Brew
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Steely Dan - Aja
Donald Fegen - The nightfly
Grant Green - Idle moments
Kenny Burrell - Midnight blue /or/ Blue lights vol 1&2
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Secrets
The eagles - Hotel california
...

Man, I couldn't even include brubeck's time out, or ella fitzgerald, or dire straits
I could make a list of a 100 albums you Must own

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[jim goulding]

only 10?

Miles davis - Kind of blue
Miles davis - b!tches Brew
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Steely Dan - Aja
Donald Fegen - The nightfly
Grant Green - Idle moments
Kenny Burrell - Midnight blue /or/ Blue lights vol 1&2
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Secrets
The eagles - Hotel california
...

Man, I couldn't even include brubeck's time out, or ella fitzgerald, or dire straits
I could make a list of a 100 albums you Must own

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

Good call on Grant Green. I own Matador and think he is way under appreciated.

[jim goulding]

Pix- I saw you picked another album by this band but it made me recall their first, the one I got, which I put on and listened to both sides. Man, this is one motherjumpin "good God almighty" great album! I saw this band in east Dallas for $2 on their first visit to the US. Rich, you gotta get a load of this for your commute if you're not already hip to it. Try "Tattooed Love Boys" to kick out your jams. There is a bunch of winners on this. Thanks for pullin my chain, Pix.

[pixelthis]

Pix- I saw you picked another album by this band but it made me recall their first, the one I got, which I put on and listened to both sides. Man, this is one motherjumpin "good God almighty" great album! I saw this band in east Dallas for $2 on their first visit to the US. Rich, you gotta get a load of this for your commute if you're not already hip to it. Try "Tattooed Love Boys" to kick out your jams. There is a bunch of winners on this. Thanks for pullin my chain, Pix.

Anytime. Have to include this album on the amazing guitar and bass alone, not to mention crissys voice.
Thats the problem with lists like this, there are clear choices, kinda blue is amazing and groundbreaking for a lot of reasons, but there are so many that just hit ya in the gut.
Anything by Bowie is something special, even his album of covers, "pinups", is special.
And what about red octopus?
and joe cocker?
the Beatles?
Sade?
Allman bros.....

[Feanor]

only 10?

Miles davis - Kind of blue
Miles davis - b!tches Brew
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Steely Dan - Aja
Donald Fegen - The nightfly
Grant Green - Idle moments
Kenny Burrell - Midnight blue /or/ Blue lights vol 1&2
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Secrets
The eagles - Hotel california
...

Man, I couldn't even include brubeck's time out, or ella fitzgerald, or dire straits
I could make a list of a 100 albums you Must own

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

Keep those classic jazz hits coming.

[basite]

Keep those classic jazz hits coming.

absolutely

[Olivertmc]

Tough to pick just 10, but here it goes:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane . . .
Allman Bros - Fillmore East
Coltrane - Giant Steps
Phish - A Picture of Nectar
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Chuck Prophet - No Other Love
Wilco - Being There
Roy Hargrove - Habana
Pink Floyd - The Wall (what can I say - still my favorite)
SRV - Texas Flood

[BRANDONH]

This is fun but tough to decide on a top 10 but here are my picks.
BTW these are all on Vinyl

1. System Of A Down-Mezmorized
2. Marylin Manson-Lest We Forget
3. Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
4. Leroy Jodie Pierson-APO D2D
5. Alison Krauss & Union Station-Live
6. Black Sabbath-Paranoid
7. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio-Misty (45 rpm)
8. Eagles-Hotel California
9. Boston-Boston
10. Metallica-Black

[conquest]

My top tem list as the ten Cd's that I would want if stranded on a desert Island.

1. Radiohead, OK Computer
2. Nigel Kennedy, Vivaldi - Four Seasons
3. Depeche Mode, Violator
4. Enya, Orinoco Flow
5. Pink Floyd, The Wall
6. Giacomo Puccini, Madame Butterfly
7. Rolling Stones, Forty Licks
8. Sade, Best of Sade
9. Simply Red, A New Flame
10. Killing Joke, Killing Joke

[PeruvianSkies]

My top tem list as the ten Cd's that I would want if stranded on a desert Island.

1. Radiohead, OK Computer
2. Nigel Kennedy, Vivaldi - Four Seasons
3. Depeche Mode, Violator
4. Enya, Orinoco Flow
5. Pink Floyd, The Wall
6. Giacomo Puccini, Madame Butterfly
7. Rolling Stones, Forty Licks
8. Sade, Best of Sade
9. Simply Red, A New Flame
10. Killing Joke, Killing Joke

Yeah another vote for VIOLATOR.

[poppachubby]

My top tem list as the ten Cd's that I would want if stranded on a desert Island.

1. Radiohead, OK Computer
2. Nigel Kennedy, Vivaldi - Four Seasons
3. Depeche Mode, Violator
4. Enya, Orinoco Flow
5. Pink Floyd, The Wall
6. Giacomo Puccini, Madame Butterfly
7. Rolling Stones, Forty Licks
8. Sade, Best of Sade
9. Simply Red, A New Flame
10. Killing Joke, Killing Joke

.....Killing Joke, great touch

[conquest]

Damn! I forgot my Back in Black - ACDC album. Can I have 11?

[PDN]

I have a ton of Van Morrison CD's and I don't believe there is one called "Some Blues". I could be wrong but I consider myself highly familiar with his music (just finished a book on Van). Been listening since 1974!! This might have been a cut on one of his albums. Sorry if I'm wrong.

1. Beatles White Album
2. Van Morrison - Wavelength
3. Steely Dan - Gaucho
4. The Band - Rock of Ages
5. Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel
6. Carole King - Tapestry
7. Joni Mitchell - Miles of Aisles
8. Jackson Browne - For Everyman
9. Crusaders - Chain Reaction
10. Horace Silver - Spiritualizing the Senses (from 1983, only ever available on vinyl but now out of print, Silveto Records now defunct).

If anyone out there has this on vinyl, PLEASE CONTACT ME. I sold mine when I unloaded all of my LP's in one batch not knowing this is not available on CD. It's such a stupendous album from Horace.

[PDN]

Sorry folks but I've got to add just a few more if that's OK. Got to agree with Feanor & Basite:
11. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyaga (a classic for sure)

Also:
12. Marshall Tucker Band - Anthology
13. Jimmy Thackery & the Drivers (blues) - Wild Night Out !!

[Fleet1950]

Well I just joined and saw this thread. I thought I might throw in my 2 cents and hopefully this will keep going. Hard to pick 10 without really thiking for a while but here goes, In no particular order;

David Bowie- Changes One Bowie
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead-Ok Computer
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Billy Joel- Piano Man
Jackson Browne- Running on Empty
Neil Young-Harvest
Simon and Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water
Boston- Boston

[Shadfly]

Top Ten Albums:
ACDC For Those About to Rock
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
Sublime Second Hand Smoke
Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive!
Bob Marley Legend
U2 War
Led Zepplin IV
Pink Floyd Wish you were here
Green Day American Idiot

[mikemorrow]

801- live
Dylan- highway 61
Eno- anouther green world
Velvet Underground- VU
New Grass Revival- to late to turn back now
Eagles - on the boarder
Genesis- selling england by the pound
Big Brother and the Holding Company- cheap thrills
David Bowie- hunky dory
Fabulous Poodles- mirror star