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[Hat]

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road
2. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5. Nirvana - Nevermind
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (props to Hornless Unicorn for getting to this one before me)
7. Common - Like Water for Chocolate
8. Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
9. The Stooges - The Stooges
10. Some greatest hits compilation of George Clinton

OK, so this is rock-centric with concessions to rap, old blues, and funk.  But still, the first 5 are just essential to anyone who wants to understand anything about music history, and I think the second half of the list has a nice set of introductions to different genres.

It bothers me a little bit that when I looked at this list, I thought "Could probably  replace Dark Side of the Moon with something else" but looked at Nevermind and thought "Yeah, fair enough"

Also, George Clinton for every conceivable kind of win in existance.

[pat101]

Darkside is defenitly on it.

[commercebitchgoddamndone]

lists like that are so unneccessary, I love them

Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy Live (gotta love how beautiful this guy screams)
Doors - LA Woman
Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (yep guys who could wear their girlfriend's pants - and actually do)
Placebo - Without you I am nothing
Radiohead - OK Computer (or My Iron Lung)
Portishead - Dummy
Modest Mouse - whatever u like
The Smiths - the queen is dead
Queens of the Stoneage - Songs for the Deaf
Björk - Debut


-----MUST .... HAVE .... BIG .....PIC.....OF .....UNICORNS.....SCREWING----

[Kai]

AH. GIANT AVATARS. MY BRAIN A SPLODE

[heretic]

yeah Hornless, i thought about NMH, but, even though i love them, most people i give a listen just go "what the hell is thins? it just sounds like staticy noise." so i didn't include it in the ten. you don't want someone just starting out to decide they don't like NMH right away, and then never open up to the greatness that it is.

[Giantandre]

Just for Fun though I doubt anyone is still reading this thread

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonley Hearts Club Band
Daft Punk - Homework
Boards of Canada - Music has The Right to Children
Radiohead - Kid A
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (On the Corner is acceptable too)
The Mineutmen - Double Nickles on The Dime
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Godspeed You Black Emperor - F#A#oo

Tried to get as many genres that i like into the list -----10 albums just isnt enough

[Kai]

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew(On the Corner is acceptable too)

Fixed.


also, bonus points for Double Nickels on the Dime, by the way.

[Borondir]

Oh shit, you're right. Replace Venom with... Fuck, I need something to fill the sort of "Black Metal" category thing (I very loosely chose one for each category, but don't check it really).



And after I looked at that again, I realized... Is a Christian Black Metal band that doesn't sing about slaughtering things and whatnot even possible? I guess, if it was in Swedish and you couldn't understand anything.

Like Khar said, Immortal is pretty safe. Even Bathory is if you take it the right way.  But how should I know? I'm a rather liberal Christian so not much bothers me. There are some decent Christian Black Metal bands, like Schlechtvalk, but most sing about slaughtering things anyway, just from a righteous wrath of God perspective, which bothers me. Khar is right that most aren't quite up to the level of the best normal black metal bands.

[greenMonkey]

Led Zeppelin - I
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Sigur Ros - Takk...
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Broken Social Scene - s/t
The Beatles - s/t
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Groundhogs - Split
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From The Unrealised Film, Dusk At Cubist Castle
Kanye West - Late Registration

That is all.

Very nice. I would swap out Takk for the baby one (i'm not trying to spell it)

Baby one...the first one, Von?  I think Agaetis Byrjun is the most accesible and also the best Sigur Ros album.

[KharBevNor]

Like Khar said, Immortal is pretty safe. Even Bathory is if you take it the right way.  But how should I know? I'm a rather liberal Christian so not much bothers me. There are some decent Christian Black Metal bands, like Schlechtvalk, but most sing about slaughtering things anyway, just from a righteous wrath of God perspective, which bothers me. Khar is right that most aren't quite up to the level of the best normal black metal bands.

Well, I figure, and let's be honest here, a lot of black metal is either a) mediocre or b) awful. There are a very small number of really good black metal bands, and there's also a very small number (comparatively) of Christians listening to black metal and thus forming bands. The chances of there ever really being a christian BM band up to the scratch of the old-school Gods is relatively slim. And yeah, Immortal are the pretty normal choice for white metallers to sample the mainstream, as pretty much all their lyrics are about being really, really, cold or have very vague spiritual interpretations that could be put to almost any religion. Bathory I would be wary of...it depends what album. 'Blood on Ice' would be safe for a committed Christian, but 'Octagon' or prett much any of the Jubileum compilations wouldn't.

Of course, we assume she's christian when we say religious. I'm religious, but not a christian. Maybe she's asatru? In which case, shovel all the BM down her throat you can find.

...as if he's EVER gonna make her listen to any BM anyway.

[Borondir]

Your reasoning for why theres not much good Christian bm is exactly mine. Its numbers really. Most metal overall is not very good. So a minority like Christian metal will probably reflect about the same proportions of bad to good as the mainstream does.

On Bathory I was just pointing out that the very earliest few albums aren't anything as bad as you would expect from the way Mayhem and company claim to be inspired by them.

And yeah, its not like she's ever gonna hear bm in her life anyway...

[Spartan Pho3nix]

I've come to the conclusion, through repeated listens, that the second half of Abbey Road is the best album of all time. It's flawless perfection. The music is catchy, amazing. Not a single flaw or bad track on the entire half. It all works together so well. It just builds and builds until The End, where it crashes down into Her Majesty, a perfect end to the album. A fun little song which sums everything up.

For someone who has no clue about music, you can't forget to include the most popular band of the 60s...The Beatles. And the best album of all time: Abbey Road.

[KharBevNor]

I mean, also, I think there's a feeling that the christian metal in general suffers somewhat from the 'musical nazi' syndrome: ie, most bands with nazi sympathies are actually shit (which is why they're concentrated playing oi, black metal and neo-folk, none of which require anything beyond chords and basic time-keeping) but rely on the fact that because they have nazi sympathies, nazi skins will buy their records. Whilst I've generally seen a higher level of quality from christian metal, I do think there is a bit of that.

[dancarter]

Try my hand at a reply here...not sure where it will go.

1. Spiderland - Slint
I haven't seen this mentioned yet, which is a bit surprising.  It's a really good album, if short and a little strange.

2. The Dividing - Android Lust
My favourite album made in the last two or three years.  It's brilliant and has incredible range for an 'industrial' album.

3. On This Cold Floor - I, Parasite
Loud, angry, moving, sad and just a specatcular album all around.  Consider this album and #2 as a matched set, play them back to back.

4. Blue Valentines - Tom Waits
Really, you could go with any Tom Waits album, but this is him at his balladeer best and far more accessible to start with than something like Bone Machine or Mule Variations.

5. VIVIsectVI - Skinny Puppy
I sorta feel I have to put one of there albums on here.  This is considered one of the best and is really dynamic, dense and layered for an album of this nature made in the 80's.

6. D.O.A. - Throbbing Gristle
People have mentioned Kraftwerk, and rightfully so.  However, you also need to include TG in a list of essential early electronica.

7. Self Titled - Mira
If you dig on My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Sundays and a dash of Love Spirals Downwards.  This is really great shoe-gazer dreaminess from Florida.

8. Defiance - Assemblage 23
As far as current synthpop/EBM goes, eschew the VNV Nation(much as I like them) and go for this album.  It's a standout from start to finish and more mellow than Tom Shear's other three efforts.

9. Louder than Bombs - The Smiths
Most people go for Queen is Dead. This however, is my favourtie in their catalogue.  Why?  Because it has Shoplifters of the World Unite on it.  Petty reason?  Maybe.  But the rest of the album is just as good too.

10. Closer - Joy Division
It's a must have, simple as that.