“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!
