essential music, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s

I’ve a 50 quid amazon voucher to spend and thought I’d expand the music collection a bit. what are, in your view, the must have albums form the last 40 decades (I’m a child of the 70s) pop, rock, hip hop, soul, rap…everything

ta.

Been dipping in to Spotify to refresh myself of the albums I have only only vinyl, cassette or no longer have.

The Who – Quadrophenia

Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen

Blue Nile – A walk across the rooftops

Let It Bleed, After The Gold rush, Blood On The Tracks.

Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers

60s
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland

70s
Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon;
The Doors – LA Woman
David Bowie – The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars;
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the wotsits;
The Clash – London Calling, Give Em Enough Rope;
Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material

80s
Stiff Little Fingers – Nobody’s Heroes;
Fields Of The Nephilim – Dawnrazor or The Nephilim;
Killing Joke – Killing Joke;
New Model Army – No Rest For The Wicked, Thunder & Consolation or The Ghost Of Cain;
The Sisters Of Mercy – First & Last & Always
The Damned – The Black Album or Strawberries

90s
New Model Army (again) – Impurity;
Nirvana – Nevermind
Therapy? – Troublegum (or was that the noughties?)
Foo Fighters – The Colour & The Shape
Pearl Jam – Ten
Alice In Chains – Dirt
Green Day – Dookie

00s
Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters – There is Nothing Left To Lose
New Model Army – Eight, Carnival or High
Green Day – American Idiot

sorry, I’m struggling now, I didn’t really buy much in the noughties, nothing that springs to mind anyway (other than New Model Army, unsurprisingly)

1970’s – Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson : Winter In America
Frank Zappa : Joes Garage

1980’s – Guns n’ Roses : Welcome To The Jungle

1990’s – Moby : Play
Oasis : What’s The Story Morning Glory
Primal Scream : Screamadelica

(apologies for lack of choice – i spent most of the 1990’s in an MDMA fuelled bubble, there was always a bag of them in my bedside drawer that we ate like smarties, occasionally disrupted by weekend long acid or mushroom binges – halcyon days indeed 8) )

2000’s and beyond – I’ll have to have a think after tea and wine.

cheers john, nice list.

although not necessarily those actual albums, I’ve got
hendrix, floyd, bowie, clash, nirvana already.

I had dropped foo fighters greatest hits in the basket too.

I’ll go and listen to those others.

got ‘roses and oasis, but some other good ideas there soma. Moby..my god how do I not have Moby!

you’ve got to love amazon market place and zoverstocks. picking up albums like screamadelica for a quid, while sipping tea and eatng biscuits at home. 🙂

70s

80s

90s

00s

HTH

‘Astral Weeks’ by Van Morrison.

‘Kind of Blue’ by Miles Davis.

How about the last 1000 years?

anything by Bad Religion

70’s What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye
80’s Thriller – Michael Jackson
90’s Nevermind – Nirvana
00’s Kid A – Radiohead

[edit]

‘Kind of Blue’ by Miles Davis.

1950’s innit?

Yeah, you’re right mW!

😳

It’s my age.

Where do I even start? This will take some thought.

70’s – spirits haven’t flown
80’s – the wall
90’s – the bends
00’s – the marshall mathers lp

Joy Division – Closer

New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies

Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

The Smiths – Strangeways, Here We Come

Depeche Mode – Music For The Masses

Tears For Fears – Songs From The Big Chair

Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine

FGTH – Welcome To The Pleasuredome

thinking of one from each decade:

Funkadelic – Funkadelic

Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro

Morcheeba – Big Calm

Eels – Souljacker

Queen – Greatest Hits I & II. /end thread.

Electric Ladyland, hendrix
Court of the Crimson King, king crimson
Velvet Underground
Black Sabbath
Space Ritual, hawkwind
Dark Side of The Moon, floyd
You, Gong
Phaedra. Tangerine Dream
Psychocandy, jesus and mary chain
Janes Addiction
Nevermind, nirvana
loveless, my bloody valentine

70s – Bowie – Hunky Dory
80s – New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies
90s – D J Shadow – Endtroducing
00s – Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!

70’s UFO – Live
70’s The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus
80’s Human League – Dare
90’s – Portishead’s Dummy
00’s Madonna – American Life or Music