Albums to pass on to the young generation

[alonso]

A few minor disagreements with one or two of you

I'd go with Goo by Sonic Youth and Master of Puppets from Metallica as their best...

Add in

Gang of Four - Entertainment
Velvet Underground and Nico
Lou Reed - Berlin
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Green Day - Dookie
Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum
Propagandhi - How to Clean Everything
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Slayer - Reign in Blood
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
INterpol - Antics

BIFFY CLYRO - Anything but specifically the last two, or the first two... genius

Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
The get up Kids - Something to Write Home about

[borntorum]

It's too difficult to try and remember all the great albums of yesteryear, I know I'll forget loads of good ones. More interesting perhaps to think of recent releases that will, or at least should, pass the test of time.

Off the top of my head, I'd suggest:
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
And for a bit of Irish: Villagers - Becoming a Jackal

[jake76]

Primal Scream - Screamadelica
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

In the last few years

Nixon - Lambchop
Person Pitch - Panda Bear
Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens

[yellowfish]

Casual Friday soi slightly off topic.

My favourite nephew finished the leaving cert yesterday. So I sent him some music from my own era and some a little more recent for his iPod. Protest songs featured but it was mostly about the music.

Top ten albums to hand down the line.

Joni Mitchell's Blue (which contains A Case of You - best song ever, imho)
CSNY's Four Way Street (because of Ohio etc)
Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde
The Clash's London Calling
Steely Dan's Aja (contains the fantastic Home at Last and six absolute classics)
Van Morrison's St Dominic's Preview (better that Astral Weeks, though not so iconic)
Nirvana's Nevermind
Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed
Van Morrison's Into the Music - it's always hard to pick the last one.

All very nice and Glad to see the clash in there, but unless you glue young people down (Or take control of the music in the car) and make them listen to the Doors on full volume they will never learn to apreciate music.

[bokuden]

And before anyone says anything, Morrissey, Maher, Joyce and O'Rourke, more Irish than U2

Word up!

Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

Dinosaur JR: Bug

Husker Du: Zen Arcade, Warehouse

Dylan : Blood on the Tracks, Infidels

NWA: Straight outta Compton

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

Charles Mingus: Oh Yeah

Peter Tosh: Equal Rights

Planxty: First Album

Smiths/Morrissey: Meat is Murder, You are the Quarry

Bach's Brandenberg concertos

Eno: Music for airports

Velvet Underground: first three albums.

But they have to actually LISTEN to the whole album Many times!

Oh, I have to stop !

[controller]

All very nice and Glad to see the clash in there, but unless you glue young people down (Or take control of the music in the car) and make them listen to the Doors on full volume they will never learn to apreciate music.

I can't work out is that post pro or anti The Doors, who I consider to be a rather overrated band. I found that they are o.k as an intro into music but their limitations soon appear and are then left behind. IMO

[sic transit]

I can't work out is that post pro or anti The Doors, who I consider to be a rather overrated band. I found that they are o.k as an intro into music but their limitations soon appear and are then left behind. IMO

The first album and LA Woman are pretty good but they do epitomise part of that generation where music was evolving. Where do you think we got the "moody" frontman pose from?

[bokuden]

All very nice and Glad to see the clash in there, but unless you glue young people down (Or take control of the music in the car) and make them listen to the Doors on full volume they will never learn to apreciate music.

The words "soft" and drugs" spring to mind for some reason.

[Dolores Ibárruri]

Carole King's Tapestry

[gatsbygirl20]

Casual Friday soi slightly off topic.

My favourite nephew finished the leaving cert yesterday. So I sent him some music from my own era and some a little more recent for his iPod. Protest songs featured but it was mostly about the music.

Top ten albums to hand down the line.

Joni Mitchell's Blue (which contains A Case of You - best song ever, imho)
CSNY's Four Way Street (because of Ohio etc)
Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde
The Clash's London Calling
Steely Dan's Aja (contains the fantastic Home at Last and six absolute classics)
Van Morrison's St Dominic's Preview (better that Astral Weeks, though not so iconic)
Nirvana's Nevermind
Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed
Van Morrison's Into the Music - it's always hard to pick the last one.

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) - The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds (1966) - The Beach Boys
3. What's Going On (1971) - Marvin Gaye
4. Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) - Pink Floyd
5. Revolver (1966) - The Beatles
6. Live at the Apollo (1962) - James Brown
7. Highway 61 Revisited (1965) - Bob Dylan
8. Thriller (1982) - Michael Jackson
9. Are You Experienced? (1967) - Jimi Hendrix
10. Rubber Soul (1965) - The Beatles
11. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988) - Public Enemy
12. Nevermind (1991) - Nirvana
13. Elvis Presley (1956) - Elvis Presley
14. Born To Run (1975) - Bruce Springsteen
15. Exile On Main Street (1972) - The Rolling Stones
16. Blonde On Blonde (1966) - Bob Dylan
17. Innervisions (1973) - Stevie Wonder
18. London Calling (1979) - The Clash
19. Abbey Road (1969) - The Beatles
20. Purple Rain (1984) - Prince

Yep, that about covers it. I would include:

Joni Mitchell--Hejira--and also--Court and Spark

Dylan--Planet Waves

The Band--Music from Big Pink

JJ Cale--Naturally

Janis Joplin--Pearl

The Stones--Sticky Fingers

Jackson Browne--Jackson Browne--and also-For Everyman

Van the Man--Astral Weeks (yes I agree St Dominics Preview is totally under-rated, but still..)

Amazingly if the "younger generation" get a chance to rummage through Dad's old battered collection, they will love this stuff. Or that has been my experience anyway.