i know this is a horribly broad topic, but just for laughs, say, you had a 13 year old, and they were just getting into music. they were curious about essential albums period. genre was non existent. hip hop, rock, metal, pop, etc... all of it. What albums would you buy this hypothetical teen? What would you absolutely insist that they own? Albums and music thats essential to know about?
Pearl Jam.... entire library is a must to know them and play on repeat
Eddie Vedder...Into The Wild
Tim Buckley..Greetings from LA. & Happy Sad
Joe Cocker....With A Little Help From my Friends & Joe Cocker! 1969 release
Dean Martin....An Essential mix
Supertramp.....Even in the Quietest Moments, Crime of the Century, Crisis What Crisis
Alan Parsons...I Robot, Eye in the Sky, Pyramid
CCR....Willie and the Poor Boys
CSNY...Déjà Vu & 4 Way Street
Elvis... Essential mix
Barbra Streisand... Essential Mix
Louis Armstrong....Best of
Jesse Colin Young....Songs for Juli
Zeppelin.....Led Zeppelin IV
Marvin Gaye....Best of
Beatles.... White Album
White Stripes....Get Behind Me Satan
Mixed artists....Soundtrack to Forrest Gump
Pearl Jam- Every single album!!!
Eddie Vedder- Into the Wild
Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet
The Killers- Sam's Town
The Racontuers- Broken Boy Soldiers
Journey- Greatest Hits
Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
Where's his Bobness of Marley? (thanks and praises to selassi-i most high)
You'd at least need natty dread, exodus and uprising surely? Although my personal favourite is Survival!
Exodus for sure. That is a fantastic album.
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Mad Season - Above
Temple of the Dog - S/T
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile
A Tribe Called Quest - The Anthology
most of the other albums in this thread also apply, just adding a few i didn't see!
13? I would start with a bunch of greatest hits records dylan, stones, the who, creedence, allmans, ac/dc aerosmith, petty, marvin gaye, police, yes, genesis, james brown, eagles, doors, skynrd, hendrix, cliff, marley, bowie, commodores, earth wind and fire, sinatra etc.
and add in no particular order
Led Zeppelin II
REM-Reckoning
Beastie Boys-Ill communication (yes rappers can play intruments)
Tribe called quest-low end theory
De la soul-3 feet high and rising
Wilco-Yankee hotel foxtrot (although sky blue sky has become my favorite)
Joe Jackson-big world
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese dream
Pearl Jam-Vs.
Grateful Dead-Europe 72'
Sugar-Copper Blue
Crosby, Stills and Nash-4 way street
Fleetwood mac-rumors
The cars-the
Little feat-waiting for Columbus
Kiss-Kiss Alive II
Neil Young-Harvest
Nirvana-Nevermind
Oasis-Whats the story morning glory?
Peter Frampton-Frampton Comes Alive
Michael Jackson-off the wall
Saturday night fever-soundtrack
Sex Pistols-Never mind the bullocks, its the sex pistols
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Talking heads-stop making sense
Van Halen-Van Halen
Guns n roses-appetite for destruction
the clash-the clash US version
Bruce Spingsteen - Nebraska
Neil Young - Harvest
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Marilyn Manson - Anti-Christ Superstar
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Led Zeppelin - IV
Tom Waits - Small Change
Weezer - Pinkerton
Nirvana - In Utero
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Drones - Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of You Enemies Wil Float By
The Tea Party - Edges Of Twilight
The Stooges - The Stooges
Ramones - Ramones
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Grinderman - 2
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Lou Reed - Transformer
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
PJ - Sydney 1998; Sydney 2003; Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle 2006; Melbourne, Sydney 2009; Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney 2014.
EV - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney 2011; Sydney 2014.
And probably stuff from Midnight Oil, Silverchair, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Oasis, Pantera, Rage Against The Machine, The Beatles, Bad Religion, You Am I, Spoon, Pink Floyd, Soundgarden, Wu-Tang Clan, Talking Heads, Camille, The Pogues, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, The Twilight Sad, The National, Ryan Adams, The Strokes, Regurgitator... and ofcourse UGLY KID JOE (hahahaha).
PJ - Sydney 1998; Sydney 2003; Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle 2006; Melbourne, Sydney 2009; Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney 2014.
EV - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney 2011; Sydney 2014.
Beatles - White Album
Led Zeppelin - id go with all of them, but at least get: I through IV, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti
Stones - Sticky Fingers, Beggars Banquet, Exile on Main Street, Let it Bleed, Get Your Ya Yas Out
The Who - Tommy, Live at Leeds, Whos Next, Quadrophenia
Dylan - Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks
Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were here, the wall (my personal preference is Animals and Meddle)
Radiohead- OK Computer, the Bends
Hendrix - Are you Experienced? Electric Ladyland
The Cure- Disintegration
Bowie - Ziggy, Diamond Dogs, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane
Grateful Dead - AMerican Beauty, Workingmans Dead, Europe 72
Allman Brothers-- Eat a Peach, Live at the FIllmore
Ramones- first three albums
Nirvana - Bleach, Nevermind
PJ - first four albums
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
Neil Young-- Harvest, Everybody knows this is nowhere, Live Rust, On the Beach, Decade
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Deep Purple -- Made in Japan
Bruce-- Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bob Marley & the Wailers- Live
Ro Sham Bo by The Grays (arguably my favorite album ever)
Villa Elaine by Remy Zero
Thirteen by Teenage Fanclub
Big Red Letter Day & Let Me Come Over by Buffalo Tom
A few (American) punk rock essentials (that haven't been mentioned yet):
Operation Ivy - Energy
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Black Flag - Damaged
Minor Threat - Minor Threat LP
Green Day - Dookie
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
The Who - Quadrophenia, Who's Next
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Metallica - Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice for All
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power, Live Between Us, We Are The Same
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers, Rubber Soul, Revolver
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
All Pearl Jam
Led Zeppelin - Mothership
Rush - Exit Stage Left, 2112
Offspring - Smash
Green Day - Dookie
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Live - Throwing Copper
Nirvana - Nevermind, Bleach, In Utero, MTV Unplugged
and this list could go on...
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Buffalo, Phoenix, Toronto 2003
Boston I&II 2004
Kitchener, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto 2005
Toronto I&II, Las Vegas 2006
Chicago Lollapalooza 2007
Toronto, Seattle I&II, Vancouver, Philly I,II,III,IV 2009
Cleveland, Buffalo 2010
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You'd at least need natty dread, exodus and uprising surely? Although my personal favourite is Survival!
Send my credentials to the house of detention
Pearl Jam.... entire library is a must to know them and play on repeat
Eddie Vedder...Into The Wild
Tim Buckley..Greetings from LA. & Happy Sad
Joe Cocker....With A Little Help From my Friends & Joe Cocker! 1969 release
Dean Martin....An Essential mix
Supertramp.....Even in the Quietest Moments, Crime of the Century, Crisis What Crisis
Alan Parsons...I Robot, Eye in the Sky, Pyramid
CCR....Willie and the Poor Boys
CSNY...Déjà Vu & 4 Way Street
Elvis... Essential mix
Barbra Streisand... Essential Mix
Louis Armstrong....Best of
Jesse Colin Young....Songs for Juli
Zeppelin.....Led Zeppelin IV
Marvin Gaye....Best of
Beatles.... White Album
White Stripes....Get Behind Me Satan
Mixed artists....Soundtrack to Forrest Gump
Eddie Vedder- Into the Wild
Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet
The Killers- Sam's Town
The Racontuers- Broken Boy Soldiers
Journey- Greatest Hits
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
Exodus for sure. That is a fantastic album.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
Temple of the Dog - S/T
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile
A Tribe Called Quest - The Anthology
most of the other albums in this thread also apply, just adding a few i didn't see!
and add in no particular order
Led Zeppelin II
REM-Reckoning
Beastie Boys-Ill communication (yes rappers can play intruments)
Tribe called quest-low end theory
De la soul-3 feet high and rising
Wilco-Yankee hotel foxtrot (although sky blue sky has become my favorite)
Joe Jackson-big world
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese dream
Pearl Jam-Vs.
Grateful Dead-Europe 72'
Sugar-Copper Blue
Crosby, Stills and Nash-4 way street
Fleetwood mac-rumors
The cars-the
Little feat-waiting for Columbus
Kiss-Kiss Alive II
Neil Young-Harvest
Nirvana-Nevermind
Oasis-Whats the story morning glory?
Peter Frampton-Frampton Comes Alive
Michael Jackson-off the wall
Saturday night fever-soundtrack
Sex Pistols-Never mind the bullocks, its the sex pistols
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Talking heads-stop making sense
Van Halen-Van Halen
Guns n roses-appetite for destruction
the clash-the clash US version
Thats all I can think of right now
Neil Young - Harvest
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Marilyn Manson - Anti-Christ Superstar
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Led Zeppelin - IV
Tom Waits - Small Change
Weezer - Pinkerton
Nirvana - In Utero
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Drones - Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of You Enemies Wil Float By
The Tea Party - Edges Of Twilight
The Stooges - The Stooges
Ramones - Ramones
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Grinderman - 2
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Lou Reed - Transformer
Silversun Pickups - Swoon
EV - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney 2011; Sydney 2014.
EV - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney 2011; Sydney 2014.
Led Zeppelin - id go with all of them, but at least get: I through IV, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti
Stones - Sticky Fingers, Beggars Banquet, Exile on Main Street, Let it Bleed, Get Your Ya Yas Out
The Who - Tommy, Live at Leeds, Whos Next, Quadrophenia
Dylan - Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks
Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you were here, the wall (my personal preference is Animals and Meddle)
Radiohead- OK Computer, the Bends
Hendrix - Are you Experienced? Electric Ladyland
The Cure- Disintegration
Bowie - Ziggy, Diamond Dogs, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane
Grateful Dead - AMerican Beauty, Workingmans Dead, Europe 72
Allman Brothers-- Eat a Peach, Live at the FIllmore
Ramones- first three albums
Nirvana - Bleach, Nevermind
PJ - first four albums
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
Neil Young-- Harvest, Everybody knows this is nowhere, Live Rust, On the Beach, Decade
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Deep Purple -- Made in Japan
Bruce-- Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bob Marley & the Wailers- Live
6/24/08 (MSG1)
6/25/08 (MSG2)
7/1/08 (Beacon Theater -NYC)
10/30/09 (Philly3)
5/18/10 (Newark, NJ)
5/20/10 (MSG1)
5/21/10 (MSG2)
10/18/13 (Brooklyn 1)
10/19/13 (Brooklyn 2)
5/1/16 (MSG 1)
5/2/16 (MSG 2)
3/30/20 (MSG)
9/3/24 I(MSG1)
9/4/24 (MSG 2)
Ro Sham Bo by The Grays (arguably my favorite album ever)
Villa Elaine by Remy Zero
Thirteen by Teenage Fanclub
Big Red Letter Day & Let Me Come Over by Buffalo Tom
Operation Ivy - Energy
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Black Flag - Damaged
Minor Threat - Minor Threat LP
Green Day - Dookie
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Metallica - Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice for All
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power, Live Between Us, We Are The Same
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers, Rubber Soul, Revolver
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
All Pearl Jam
Led Zeppelin - Mothership
Rush - Exit Stage Left, 2112
Offspring - Smash
Green Day - Dookie
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Live - Throwing Copper
Nirvana - Nevermind, Bleach, In Utero, MTV Unplugged
and this list could go on...
Buffalo, Phoenix, Toronto 2003
Boston I&II 2004
Kitchener, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto 2005
Toronto I&II, Las Vegas 2006
Chicago Lollapalooza 2007
Toronto, Seattle I&II, Vancouver, Philly I,II,III,IV 2009
Cleveland, Buffalo 2010
Toronto I&II 2011
Buffalo 2013
Toronto I&II 2016
10C: 220xxx