Every now and then the music magazines come up with a list of the top music albums of all time. I believe that Rolling Stone had a list of the top 500 back in 2003. I have that magazine around here somewhere. I was out last night shopping for music for my youngest son of the Disney genre and thought that I deserved to purchase some music for myself. Whenever I buy music now, I am thinking about building a core collection of must have classic CD’s.
So don’t laugh but I bought the greatest hits of….drum roll please…Guns-N-Roses. The funny thing about this purchase is at the time when this band was gold, I sneered at the thought of ever buying their stuff. But now that I am…ahem…a little older…I am seeing that they did produce some classic rock. Favorite song? To me, Sweet Child of Mine, is the quintessential rock love ballad. I always did love that little jiggy dance Axl did to it. If you are wondering whatever became of Axl Rose, here is a good article talking about his reclusive nature, his love for throwing Halloween parties, and his plans for producing a new album.
I also bought a compilation of the best of Jimi Hendrix which includes my favorite song of his, Angel. You can’t have a good music collection without Hendrix. I often wonder if he were born in a later generation, would he still have chosen rock as his genre? We shall never know.
Other CD’s which I feel are essential for a good core collection are:
1. Pink Floyd’s Wish you were here
2. Any Led Zep album
3. Radiohead Pablo Honey, In Rainbows
4. The Rolling Stones…best of
5. Madonna’s Immaculate Conception
6. Nirvana…Nevermind
7. Carole King Tapestry
8. AC/DC live
9. Pearl Jam…even flow
10. Ramones best hits
11. Nine Inch Nails with teeth and downward spiral
12. Alanis Morrisette…jagged little pill
13. Stone Temple Pilots-Core
14. The White Stripes-Elephant
15. David Bowie-changes
16. Bon Jovi-one wild night
17. Joe Cocker’s greatest hits
18. Classic The Kinks
19. Rattle and Hum U2
20. The Black Crowes..southern harmony and musical companion
On my list to get next…sex pistols, the clash, boston, fleetwood mac-rumors, metallica, REM, velvet revolver, etc and so on.
Your turn…what albums are on your list for the best albums of all time?
Come sit a spell and shoot the breeze. Sweeten the day with a little synchronicity...
16 comments:
Excellent! Floyd's Wish You Were Here is, in my opinion, right up there with Dark Side of The Moon as their best album.
How about adding ELO's "Time" to that list, and maybe some old Styx, like "Pieces of Eight," "Grand Illusion" or "Equinox." And Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy." And... *lol*
Jackson 5, MJ, Motown Hits, Sound of Music, Jesus Chrit Super Star, Westside Story. My Fair Lady, Tapestry
I did one of these lists awhile back I'll have to dig it up but I like your list. :)
It changes from time to time but here are my top 10 (in no particular order):
1. The Beatles - Abbey Road
2. Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
3. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald - Compact Jazz
4. Handel's Water Music
5. Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow
6. Audioslave - Audioslave.
7. Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
8. XTC - Skylarking
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uplift Mofo Party Plan
10. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not
Without thinking too deeply or long about it, I would add Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak, Billy Idol - a 'Best Of'
I would also suggest that the impending purchase of a Fleetwood Mac album should be Tusk
Wow do we ever have similar tastes in music. I wore out my Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy" cassette and also my Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon". I'm definitely not a Joe Cocker fan though but I do like all the rest of your picks.
I have quite a few, but rather than me list them, I have a suggestion for your "core" collection. Get some Who. I'd suggest "Who's Next", "Tommy", and "Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy"
Definitely a classic band, with staying power, that should be represented in your collection.
i lost all my LPs, CDs and audiotapes [another story], but since i got my ipod shuffle, think that's the way to go... with backups on a harddrive, can't lose it :)
Your list plus these: Best of The Doors, The Very Best of Cream, INXS's Kick, Michael Jackson's Thriller, something from The Police and at least one Beatles album.
And since you've done some boundary stretching, I'd also add the Eagles (Desperado or Hotel California), Willie Nelson (Red Headed Stranger), Garth Brooks (Ropin The Wind or No Fences) and a Bob Marley greatest hits collection.
I own everything on my list and about half of yours. I better do some shopping.
That you have the Kinks makes you a wonderful person -- which I already knew -- and Hendrix's Purple Haze still does it for me.
Yay! Hendrix and Ramones
Ok, I actually was a Guns-n-Roses fan way back when. And you certainly are missing The Dark Side of the Moon from your list.
Some albums I have enjoyed in the past and present...
U2 - Joshua Tree or War
Sting - Soul Cages
The Police - Live!
Yo-Yo Ma/Bobby McFerrin - Hush
Bobby McFerrin - Paper Music
Pete Gabriel - Passion
Ravi Shankar - Inside the Kremlin
Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
Dave Brubeck - Take 5
All Mahler Symphonies, Bernstein conducting
All Brahms Symphonies, Szell conducting
Chopin played by Ashkenazy
Mozart played by Horowitz
Any American Horn Quartet stuff
and...The London Horn Sound!
well, you get the idea. :)
I can't resist best of's --
Steve Miller Band, Fly like an Eagle
The Smiths, Meat is Murder
The Cure, Head on the Door
Old 97s, Drag it Up
Queen, News of the World
REM, Murmur
Elvis Costello, When I Was Cruel
Who's Next - The Who
Legend - Bob Marley
I would at least add those two
TV
With Teeth and not The Fragile? Strange choice.
Some in there I'd go for. Wish you were here over Dark Side of teh Moon... with you there.
Has to be Led Zep 2 followed closely by Physical Graffiti.
Joshua Tree - U2, would get my vote as their best
Odd ones from me...
Living Colour Time's Up - stunning
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Travels - Pat Metheny
Blackbird - AlterBridge
Live and Dangerous Thin Lizzy.
I could carry on all day on this.... :-)
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