Essential Music: Albums You Need To Own
This topic made the rounds amongst my friends and family, so I thought I’d share with the remaining few people on the Internets who actually read my blog what my essential list is.
- ZZTop : Tres Hombres – If you want a lesson in the blues – Texas style – this one will take you for a ride
- Stevie Wonder : Songs In The Key Of Life – Don’t really need to say much on this one. If you don’t know it, you’ve been living under a rock
- Alan Parson’s Project : Tales of Mystery and Imagination – In my mind, a triumphant effort to translate the works on Poe into the musical medium
- Journey : Captured – Yeah, it’s pop, but it’s also Journey. ‘Nuff said.
- Fleetwood Mac : Rumours – Lindsey Buckingham at his greatest
- Michael Jackson : Triller – Easy to hate him now, but this album was a hit machine
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience : Are You Experienced – I can’t even imagine what Jimi would have contributed if he’d endured
- Led Zeppelin : Physical Graffiti – I know, I know… everyone likes the namesake better, but this was always my favorite
- Eagles : Hotel California – Well.. it’s Hotel California, c’mon!
- Guns N Roses : Appetite For Destruction – In the Hair band Hell that was the 80′s, this was a breath of hard rockin’ hell that was needed.
- Allman Brothers : At Fillmore East – IMHO, best live album ever
- AC/DC : Back In Black – Pure, unadulterated rock
- Pink Floyd : The Wall – Y’know… I don’t love it as much as I used to, but it’s still a must-have
Published on Monday, Mar 23,2009 |
3 Responses for "Essential Music: Albums You Need To Own"
Why is John Lennon not on that list?
Never was a fan of the Beatles, or Lennon. I know. Huge minority on that one.
Solid list. Nothing I can mount a serious argument against, but I have to say that if you’re going to choose a single Pink Floyd album, I definitely think it should have been _Dark Side of the Moon_. Just saying. :-)
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