Albums you should listen to before you die
March 16th, 2005
Found this via My cummerbund fell in the toilet (another Pebble user). The idea is you take the list of albums, highlight the ones you’ve listened too and add three.
- Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
- London Calling - The Clash
- Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- Think Tank - Blur
- This is Hardcore - Pulp
- Moon Safari - Air
- Elastica - Elastica
- OK Computer - Radiohead
- The Kiss of Morning - Graham Coxon
- The Wall - Pink Floyd
- Setting Sons - The Jam
- America Beauty - The Grateful Dead
- Toxicity - System of a Down
- Train a Comin’ - Steve Earle
- Folksinger - Phranc
- Come From the Shadows - Joan Baez
- Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
- The River - Bruce Springsteen
- The Very Best of Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
- Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
- Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
- Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
- Outside - David Bowie
- Passionoia - Black Box Recorder
- Version 2.0 - Garbage
- Too Young To Die (Greatest Hits) - St. Etienne
- The Complete Recordings - Robert Johnson
- Absolution - Muse
- Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
- The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
- Queens of the stone age - Songs for the Deaf
- Ryan Adams - Heatbreaker
- Doolittle - The Pixies
- Speakerboxx/The Love Below - OutKast
- Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
My additions are:
- The Killers - Hot Fuss
- Interpol - Antics
- The Cure - Disintegration
I could easily add a hundred more though…
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Hmm, interesting concept, but it looks like a way to end up with a huge list of unrelated albums. Already you can pick an entry from the middle of the list, and tell what group of three came from the same person.
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It only takes one person to believe Will Young has made an album you should hear before you die, for it to get into the list, and never get culled.
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I struggle to think of a better system though, because any “fair” way turns into a “will of the masses” affair where only the bland survive.
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So, instead of joining in (until I get bored and succumb), I’ll take a scattershot at commenting on some of the more interesting entries:
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<li>Sgt. Pepper: can’t fault it, but Revolver and Abbey Road are both better.
<li>I don’t get the Chilli Peppers.
<li>”Blur” is the best Blur album (and “MOR” is the best track on it)
<li>”His’n'hers” is the best Pulp album. “A Different Class” is good too. “This is Hardcore” represents a drop in quality.
<li>I’m not going to knock “OK Computer” — it’s brilliant, but I’ll go out on a limb and say that “Hail to the Thief” is better. (”Kid A” and “Amnesiac” are also better than “OK Computer”, but I understand how many people would have trouble with them)
<li>You can stick your Pink Floyd where the sun don’t shine. Especially Dark Side of the Moon.
<li>Grateful Dead: does anyone outside America even know who these people are/were? I couldn’t hum you a single Dead song.
<li>Frankly bizarre choice of Bowie album there.
<li>That QOTSA album is fantastic, yes.
<li>So’s “The Soft Bulletin”
<li>Reasonable choice of Pixies album (but I like “Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim”)
<li>It’s time for right thinking people to stand up and proclaim: “While ‘Hey Ya’ is indeed a work of rare genius, the rest of Outkast’s ‘Speakerboxx/The Love Below’ is drivel of the first magnitude”. It really is awful. Anyone want to buy my copy?
<li>I want that Killers album
<li>Wot no Mike Oldfield? “Ommadawn” not “Tubular Bells” though.
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Pebble bug report!
That unordered list showed as a list in the preview, but it’s been wrecked in submission.
Only 3? That’s impossible! In no particular order …
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Keane - Hopes And Fears
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Nirvana - In Utero
White Stripes - Elephant
Portishead - Dummmy
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Strokes - Is This It?