Yet another meme.
"Copy the list on to your blog, put in bold the ones you have listened to (completely from begining to end) and then add three more albums that you think people should have heard."
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
London Calling - The Clash
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Think Tank - Blur
This is Hardcore - Pulp
Moon Safari - Air
Elastica - Elastica
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
OK Computer - Radiohead
The Kiss of Morning - Graham Coxon
Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Setting Sons - The Jam
America Beauty - The Grateful Dead
Toxicity - System of a Down
Train a Comin' - Steve Earle
Folksinger - Phranc
Come From the Shadows - Joan Baez
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
The River - Bruce Springsteen
The Very Best of Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Outside - David Bowie
Passionoia - Black Box Recorder
Version 2.0 - Garbage
Too Young To Die (Greatest Hits) - St. Etienne
My three:
The Complete Recordings - Robert Johnson
Absolution - Muse
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Via badly dubbed boy.
Great meme!
My take is at http://www.holygoat.co.uk/blog/entry/2005-03-01-1
Posted by: Rich on March 1, 2005 07:50 PMHey, no fair picking more than three! I know it's hard, and it was hard for me too, but rules is rules. *I* don't make the rules.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on March 2, 2005 09:19 AMI've taken the bait: http://squizlog.keithpitty.org/archives/000323.html
Posted by: Keith Pitty on March 2, 2005 10:09 AMWhat is a meme? Looks like an excuse to show off obscure music references to me...
Posted by: Katherine on March 2, 2005 12:52 PMLink added...
Posted by: Simon Brunning on March 2, 2005 12:59 PMmmh i love lists, Katherine says it looks like an excuse to show off obscure music references like its a bad thing.
Actually - Pet Shop Boys
Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode
Strangeways here we come - The Smiths
I wont post the entire list on the blog as it seems like a gigantuan redundancy to have the list everywhere :-)
Jeez if I listen to this pile of middle of the road / adult orientated rock rubbish I probably would die...
Posted by: Daz on March 2, 2005 02:14 PMWhat, all of them, or just mine? ;-)
Posted by: Simon Brunning on March 2, 2005 02:15 PMNothing wrong with trying to introduce people to new and interesting (and obscure) music - it's showing it off that's a bit geeky and sad. 'Ooh, look at all the obscure band names that I can come up with and look clever whilst making you feel ignorant and uncultured', says the music geek. 'Yawn', says everyone else. Don't get me wrong; some of my best friends are music snobs [;-)] - but when they start banging on about the hidden track on the album of which only 4 copies were ever produced by a band only 5 people have ever heard of....
Sometimes, just sometimes, there is reason why bands are obscure...
Posted by: Katherine on March 2, 2005 02:17 PMI joined in too.
http://boncey.org/2005_3_2_the_albums_you_should_have_listened_to_before_you_die
(Simon, I couldn't trackback you).
I have to admit, most of the stuff on that list I'd happily die without listening to, including some of the stuff I did actually listen to (yes I'm talking about Meatloaf).
Kind of Blue would have been on my list if you hadn't already added it Simon, good call.
I think that 'greatest hits' albums should be excluded. But here's my take on it.
http://modular.autonomous.org/pebble/scotartt/2005/03/05/1109976083541.html
Posted by: Scot Mcphee on March 4, 2005 10:46 PMThere's a serious lack of quote-classical-unquote music here.
Eh.
You need to have "The Art of the Fugue" or "The Well Tempered Clavier" in your repertoire (I guess "The Four Seasons" will do as a dose of the Baroque if Bach's too ascetic for you).
Posted by: Peter da Silva on March 6, 2005 11:07 PMSee Keith Pitty's entry for a correction to this. For what it's worth, "Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin" was hovering around number four or five on my list.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on March 7, 2005 09:09 AM