Monday, May 26, 2008

Okay, let's try this again.

Literally the day after I made my last post, my brother coincidentally mentioned to me that there's also a 1001 albums to hear before you die list. Now we're talking my language: music. But I'm going to do this one a little differently. If I have at least one song from the album in my iTunes library, I'll include it here. If I have the whole album, I'll star it.

And keep in mind, reading this list has caused me to want to make some additions to my iTunes collection, but I'll do that later. And there are several albums on here that I do own in their entirety, but don't want to put in their entirety in my iTunes, so they're not starred.

Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley
Fats Domino – This is Fats
The Crickets – The Chirping Crickets
Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard
Dave Brubeck – Time Out
Joan Baez – Joan Baez
The Everly Brothers – A Date with the Everly Brothers
Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music
The Beatles – With the Beatles*
Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Sam Cooke – Live at the Harlem Square*
Stan Getz & João Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night*
Bob Dylan – Bringing it All Back Home*
The Beatles – Rubber Soul*
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
The Who – My Generation
The Beatles – Revolver*
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
The Mamas & the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears*
The Rolling Stones – Aftermath
Simon & Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme*
The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band*
Cream – Disraeli Gears
The Who – Sell Out
Donovan – Sunshine Superman
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love
Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends*
The Band – Music from Big Pink
The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
The Beatles – The Beatles [aka the White Album]*
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash
The Beatles – Abbey Road*
The Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
Sly & the Family Stone – Stand!
Derek & the Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band*
Led Zeppelin – III
Van Morrison – Moondance
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass*
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water*
Paul McCartney – McCartney
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
John Lennon – Imagine*
Don McLean – American Pie
Led Zeppelin – IV
Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story
Nilsson, Harry – Nilsson Schmilsson
Neil Young – Harvest
Stevie Wonder – Talking Book
Paul Simon – Paul Simon
The
Temptations – All Directions
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run
Queen – Sheer Heart Attack
Bob Marley & the Wailers – Natty Dread
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
Dion – Born to Be With You
Queen – A Night at the Opera
Billy Joel – The Stranger
Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel
Elvis Costello – My Aim is True
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model
B52s – B52s
The Clash – London Calling
Michael Jackson – Off the Wall
AC/DC – Back in Black
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – The Message
Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA
Paul Simon – Graceland
Michael Jackson – Bad
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
Nirvana – Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
Nirvana – In Utero
Sheryl Crow – Tuesday Night Music Club
Portishead – Dummy
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
TLC – CrazySexyCool
Offspring – Smash
Blur – Parklife
Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
Jeff
Buckley – Grace
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
Nine Inch Nails – Downward Spiral
Green Day – Dookie
Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
Garbage – Garbage
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Elastica – Elastica
Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
Beck – Odelay
The
Eels – Beautiful Freak
Fiona Apple – Tidal
Fugees – The Score
Ash – 1977
Blur – Blur
Radiohead – OK Computer
System of a Down - System of a Down
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
Coldplay – Parachutes
Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
Gorillaz – Gorillaz
The Strokes – Is This It
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
Norah Jones – Come Away with Me
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Johnny Cash – American IV: Man Comes Around
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Beck – Sea Change
Justin Timberlake – Justified
The Vines – Highly Evolved
Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
The
White Stripes – Elephant
OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below
Rufus Wainwright – Want One
Brian Wilson – SMiLE
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand*
Kanye West – College Dropout
Rufus Wainwright – Want Two
The Killers – Hot Fuss
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan

Only 134?! Well, that's better than the other two, at least. And I've heard of a lot of the stuff on the list, but it's just not on my iTunes. Sigh. Where's the "1001 pieces of renaissance choral music to hear before you die" list? I'd rock that one.

3 comments:

Dave said...

I'd love to go through this list myself. I can't help but wonder if I'll think this one will have the same problem as the 1001 Books list -- namely, that there's too much emphasis on stuff that's way too recent.

For instance, I already beg to differ muchly with the presence of Get Behind Me Satan.

Liz said...

Actually, my biggest problem with it was that it has a British bias. I mean, there's a New Order album on there! Two, even! Neither of which has "Blue Monday" or Bizarre Love Triangle" on it!

Anonymous said...

Well written article.