Going Commando Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 88 - American Beauty - Grateful Dead - 1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Was? That's up for debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 Was? That's up for debate. Hey, I don't smoke pot any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Hey, I don't smoke pot any more. Touché. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRobi21 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Steve blasted Nsync, backstreet boys all through the 90s! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - 1973 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 I still know all of the words to Millennium and have seen Spice World dozens of times. In all seriousness though, I have a horrifying amount of Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, and Creed in my musical history. 1997-1999 was not a good time for me. I'm not (that) ashamed to admit I still jam out to Blink 182 from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 90 - Moanin' in the Moonlight - Howlin' Wolf - 1959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justice98 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 The seems most people only listen to one kind of music judging by how rock heavy most of the entries are in here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 It's 1950 to 1990. Rock was king for almost that entire span. It was also the genre where the concept of the album was invented and developed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I can't wait for the 1990+ list. I already know what my first post is going to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busch1724 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Well, Van Halen - 1984  Granted I posted another Van Halen album prior to this, but this one should be on the list too. The keyboard sound alone was copied by many others much like Eddie's guitar playing.  Someone (I believe Bang), mentioned Rock from Aerosmith. Toys in the Attic should be on the list too.  Somewhere in there, Madonna should be on the list but have no inclination which album was more impactful...maybe Like a Virgin.  I'm a blues, and blue rock guy but recognize the cultural impact that Madonna had. So:  Van Halen - 1984  Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic (1975)  Madonna - Like a Virgin (1984) Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam (1990)  It's off the radar for most people, but it essentially paved the way for MTV Unplugged performances to be released and basically brought back the acoustic trend in the early 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 I can't wait for the 1990+ list. I already know what my first post is going to be It's Willennium isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 The Byrds Fifth Dimension 1966 You could easily argue for Mr Tambourine Man (64) LP over this one as more groundbreaking. This is probably the first concept album, coming a year before Sgt P., and was a break in style from their successful folk rock LPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, 1988. Chuck D rules. The Bomb Squad rules. This album rules. Listen to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Disraeli Gears - Cream 1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 98 - Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim - 1987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momma There Goes That Man Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 It's Willennium isn't it? Willennium ain't got **** on Big Willie Style Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 The Police - Ghost In the Machine - 1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRobi21 Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 The Band, Music From the Big Pink - 1968 The Band, The Band - 1969 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 Halfway through. Here's the first half: 1 - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles - 1967 2 - Grace Under Pressure - Rush - 1987 3 - Van Halen - Van Halen - 1978 4 - Abbey Road - The Beatles - 1969 5 - Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys - 1966 6 - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominoes - 1970 7 - Tons of Sobs - Free - 1969 8 - In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson - 1969 9 - Beginnings - The Allman Brothers Band - 1973 10 - Axis: Bold as Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - 1967 11 - Truth - Jeff Beck - 1968 12 - I Got a Name - Jim Croce - 1973 13 - Smash Hits - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - 1968 14 - The Doors - The Doors - 1967 15 - Strange Days - The Doors - 1967 16 - Sin after Sin - Judas Priest - 1977 17 - Thriller - Michael Jackson - 1982 18 - The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads - Otis Redding - 1965 19 - Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul - Otis Redding - 1966 20 - Exile on Main St. - The Rolling Stones - 1972 21 - Moondance - Van Morrison - 1970 22 - Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin - 1975 23 - Led Zeppelin I - IV - Led Zeppelin - 1969-1971 24 - Sheer Heart Attack - Queen - 1974 25 - Murmur - R.E.M. - 1983 26 - Back in Black - AC/DC - 1980 27 - Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder - 1973 28 - What's Going On - Marvin Gaye - 1971 29 - At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band - 1971 30 - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles - 1962 31 - Then Play On - Fleetwood Mac - 1969 32 - A Long Time Comin' - Electric Flag - 1968 33 - Together For the First Time - Live - B.B. King & Bobby Bland - 1974 34 - Couldn't Stand the Weatehr - Stevie Ray Vaughan - 1984 35 - The Best of the Atlanta Rhythm Section - Atlanta Rhythm Section - 1982 36 - Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton - John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - 1966 37 - Let's Hide Away and Dance Away With Freddie King - Freddie King - 1961 38 - Machine Head - Deep Purple - 1972 39 - Tommy - The Who - 1969 40 - Folk Singer - Muddy Waters - 1963 41 - Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet - The Miles Davis Quintet - 1955 42 - Elton John Greatest Hits - Elton John - 1974 43 - Rocket to Russia - Ramones - 1977 44 - Band of Gypsies - Jimi Hendrix - 1970 45 - The Joshua Tree - U2 - 1987 46 - Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen - 1975 47 - Some Girls - The Rolling Stones - 1978 48 - Rocks - Aerosmith - 1977 49 - Remain in Light - Talking Heads - 1980 50 - Graceland - Paul Simon - 1986 51 - It Serve You Right to Suffer - John Lee Hooker - 1966 52 - Life's Rich Pageant - REM - 1986 53 - Rock and Roll Animal - Lou Reed - 1974 54 - Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy - 1978 55 - Fascination Street - The Cure - 1988 56 - Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 1977 57 - A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio - 1965 58 - It's Only a Movie - The Raybeats - 1983 59 - Kind of Blue - Miles Davis - 1959 60 - Master of Puppets - Metallica - 1986 61 - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses - 1989 62 - Appetite for Distruction - Guns N' Roses - 1987 63 - Doolittle - Pixies - 1989 64 - Who's Next - The Who - 1971 65 - East-West - The Butterfield Blues Band - 1966 66 - On the Beach - Neil Young - 1974 67 - Time Out - The Dave Brubeck Quartet - 1959 68 - ... And Justice for All - Metallica - 1988 69 - Revolver - The Beatles - 1966 70 - Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A - 1988 71 - Sabotage - Black Sabbath - 1975 72 - Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash - 1969 73 - At Last! - Etta James - 1961 74 - Ritual de lo habitual - Janes Addiction - 1990 75 - The Cars - The Cars - 1978 76 - Bleach - Nirvana - 1989 77 - The Royal Scam - Steely Dan - 1976 78 - Leftoverture - Kansas - 1976 79 - Let It Be - The Replacements - 1984 80 - The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths - 1986 81 - Dirty Mind - Prince - 1980 82 - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spider From Mars - David Bowie - 1972 83 - At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash - 1968 84 - The Clash - The Clash - 1977 85 - Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan - 1975 86 - Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 1979 87 - My Favorite Things - John Coltrane - 1961 88 - American Beauty - Grateful Dead - 1970 89 - Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd - 1973 90 - Moanin' in the Moonlight - Howlin' Wolf - 1959 91 - 1984 - Van Halen - 1984 92 - Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith - 1975 93 - Like a Virgin - Madonna - 1984 94 - Five Man Acoustical Jam - Tesla - 1990 95 - Fifth Dimension - The Byrds - 1966 96 - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy - 1988 97 - Disraeli Gears - Cream - 1967 98 - Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim - 1987 99 - Ghost in the Machine - The Police - 1981 100 - Music from Big Pink - The Band - 1968 101 - The Band - The Band - 1969 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, 1988. Chuck D rules. The Bomb Squad rules. This album rules. Listen to it. One of my all time favorites for sure. Chuck D's gotta be one of the most underrated MCs ever. He never seems to make top 5 lists.  Alright, to keep this list balanced -  Kind of Blue feat. Miles Davis (1959)  '59 was a damn good year for jazz music, as you can tell. On the west coast, Brubeck and co. were reaching the mainstream with a cool, relaxed, though musically challenging style, but back east, Miles Davis was establishing himself as the heavyweight champion of the Great American Art Form. Miles had just gotten clean a few years prior and was on a creative tear. Where Brubeck and Desmond broke ground on rhythm, Miles was breaking ground in chord progression.  This album also features one of the greatest lineups in the history of the genre - Bill Evans (who would have a very successful, albeit troubled, decade ahead of him) on piano, Jimmy Cobb on Drums, and two legends - Cannonball Adderly and John Coltrane (who had also just kicked his own heroin habit and also had some of his best work still ahead of him) - sharing sax duties. Not to mention the omnipresent Paul Chambers.  Chances are, when you think of jazz (at least, at its best, not the pretentious, beret wearing, "Oh, I just got back from Europe," crowd) you think of music that is from, or sounds like it's from, this album. This album is sitting in a small, high rise apartment in a big city at 2 a.m., listening to the steady stream of cars pass by, sitting on your windowsill.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrison J Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies - 1983  Defining album in synth pop and contains my favourite song of all time in 'Age of Consent'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 BTW, for those of you that don't remember: Â The Tailgate 500 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die List Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted November 26, 2015 Author Share Posted November 26, 2015 Alright it's bugging me that there are only three Beatles albums on the list so far. All of their UK original LPs except for Yellow Submarine should be on here. Plus Magical Mystery Tour. Since I started the thread I have the power to do this. We're adding them. #104 - Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles For Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles (White Album), Let it Be - The Beatles - 1963-1970 These albums, plus the aforementioned Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, and Revolver, range from absurdly strong to masterpiece. But to break it down a little: Please Please Me I Saw Her Standing There is the first track and it tips off the best studio catalog any artist has ever recorded. A quintessential Beatles song. All of their energy and proficiency and creativity. So good and natural you didn't notice they were revolutionary. That quality kind of defines them for me. With the Beatles One of my favorites. I think this album features some of Paul McCartney's finest bass playing. That's what really stands out about it to me. A Hard Day's Night You can hear them evolving. No covers on this one, which was a big change for the time. This is kind of John Lennon's album as he wrote and sang the majority of it. Beatles for Sale My favorite "Early Beatles" pre-Rubber Soul record. Probably one of their most ignored, oddly enough. They recorded it after extensive touring in the U.S. and their is some discernible exhaustion and disillusionment on here. Almost half the songs are classic covers, but I think the originals are the gems. No Reply and Baby's in Black convey the angst the band was feeling. What You're Doing is one of my favorite Beatles songs and it's an unusual composition compared to their other songs--no chorus. I love when George Harrison played his 12 string. Help! This album was the precursor hinting at the major break they'd make with Rubber Soul. Their compositions were moodier and with more of a folk influence. The record makes the initial departure from the 1950's rock and roll love song driven pop music that was the norm for the time. Tell Me What You See is awesome, it shows them expanding their instrumentation in a way that would characterize their albums from the second half of their catalog. I love the percussion on it and I love the pianet. Ticket To Ride is iconic. And Yesterday was a seminal recording that I think is the most covered song in history. Rubber Soul A watershed record in the history of pop music. It brought into the mainstream the "album as concept." A collection of original compositions tied together thematically. That said, it's not one of their albums I know and enjoy best. I like In My Life in particular. I think it's a measure of how comfortable they were getting with experimenting with recording techniques and instrumentation that they seamlessly work in that bizarre ass harpsichord-like solo. Magical Mystery Tour This was my introduction to the Beatles. Weird huh? It accompanied one of their more nonsensical movies. This album gets overlooked too, but when you read the sleeve, it has some of their most well known recordings: Strawberry Fields, I Am the Walrus, Penny Lane, All You Need is Love, Lucy in the Sky, etc. I am the Walrus anticipates Hip Hop as a musical form. I love everything about that song. And Flying is my favorite instrumental track they recorded. This album is perfect. The White Album This album is a mess. So many friggin disparate ideas jammed into this thing. This was the beginning of the end for the Beatles, the record is pulled in so many different directions by the individual creative brilliance of each of Paul, George, and John. The result is an enormous and incoherent four sided record full of incredible songs of no stylistic connection, with a few truly oddball recordings mixed throughout. Basically the Beatles showed off their mastery of a range of genres. The album contains some of their best compositions: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Dear Prudence, Blackbird, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Back In the USSR, Helter Skelter. I Will is my favorite Beatles love song. And I love Rocky Raccoon. The only songs I don't really care for are Birthday, Revolution, and the ****ing Yoko Ono nonsense Revolution #9. Let It Be Ok I don't really love this album and I threw it on here for posterity's sake. It's a good and important record but it's easily my least favorite one aside from the bull**** Yellow Submarine album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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