“1001″ albums to listen to before you die!
Got my niece a copy of “1001 albums to listen to you before you die“, one of a huge number of lists books, all exorting or advising to get on and travel, read, listen, eat, visit a thousand things or so before you die. It’s shameless nostalgia and also controversial as not everyone ever agrees with such lists. I think I can live without ever listening to all the albums the authors recommend, but there are some “essentials” (now, there’s a Classic FM adjective!). The Beatles White Album is there, as is Abbey Road. Taking me back to 1970s Greenock Academy, I see the Yes Album, and its antithesis; the soundtrack to Shaft, along with other schoolday icons such as ELP’s “Pictures at An Exhibition”. Bowie’s Hunky Dory and Genesis’ Lamb Lies Down in Broadway.. I particularly remember Autobahn, by German technogroup Kraftwerk, who provided the soundtrack to four mad, funpacked weeks of archaeological digging at the Peel of Lumphanan in Deeside in 1979. Old smoothies are there too; Count Basie and Frank Sinatra.
What I’d like to know is, what 5 albums would you put into such a list. If you have any suggestions, post them here!
Santana, Caravanserai
Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers
Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin, Vol. 4
Sam 1T9
My top 5 would be (in no order);
1. Guns’n'Roses- Greatest Hits
2. Stereophonics- Performance and Cocktails
3. Kanye West- Graduation
4. The Enemy- We’ll Live And Die In These Towns
5. Nickleback- All The Right Reasons
Thanks Nick, pretty much agree with your choices; Sam-first two I’d certainly listen to; not sure about the others…
Maybe throw in some Beatles (eg Revolver), Bob Dylan, and, to take me back to my teaching days in Germany, Prefab Sprout-always seemed to listen to them when driving along the autobahn.
here are my picks
1)Get Behind me Satan – The White Stripes
2)Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
3)The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
4)Sgt. Peppers Lonley Hearts Club – The Beatles
5)The Trick to Life – The Hoosiers