1 Have Moicy- Hurley, Fredricks, Stamfel and friends
2 Sticky Fingers- Stones
3 Old And In The Way- original album
4 We’re Only In It for The Money- Mothers Of Invention
5 Hard Days Night- Beatles
6 Live Dead-Grateful Dead
7 Candide- 1956 Soundtrack album
8 James Brown Live At the Apollo 1962
9 Buffalo Springfield Again
10 Dumbo soundtrack
11 London Calling- Clash
12 Live at Folsom Prison- Johnny Cash
13 Take Five- Dave Brubeck
14 Band Of Gypsies Live
15 Velvet Underground And Nico
17 The Who Sell Out
18 How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying soundtrack 1961
19 Bookends- Simon and Garfarkle
20 Cripplin’ Crutch- Joe Flood

They are in no particular order (don’t make me rank them; my head hurts enough, alrite?).

Turn the kids on to some of these “undisputed classics”.

This list is/was continuously modified.

“Beginnings” – The Allman Brothers Band

“Hey Jude (or The Beatles Again)” – The Beatles

“Then Play On” – Fleetwood Mac

“Live/Dead” – The Grateful Dead

“American Beauty” – The Grateful Dead
(I want “Ripple” and “Brokedown Palace” played at my funeral, in that order.)

“Electric Ladyland” – Jimi Hendrix

“After Bathing At Baxter’s” – Jefferson Airplane

“Blows Against The Empire” – Paul Kantner (Jefferson Starship)

“The Best” – Leo Kottke

“Physical Graffiti” – Led Zeppelin

“Waiting For Columbus” – Little Feat

“One More From The Road” – Lynyrd Skynyrd

“Outlaws” – The Outlaws

“Meddle” – Pink Floyd

“Bridge Of Sighs” – Robin Trower

“Tres Hombres” – Z.Z. Top

“We’re Only In It For The Money” – The Mothers Of Invention

“Shut Up ‘N Play Yer Guitar” – Frank Zappa

“Apostrophe (‘)” – Frank Zappa

“Easy Rider” (Music from The Motion Picture Soundtrack)

BTW…Notice Boston isn’t on anybody’s list so far?
I haven’t played my copy in 10 years, yet I hear the damn thing every day,
whether I want to or not.
I turn on the radio, and there it is.
I can only assume it’s the same wherever you are.

Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
Joshua Tree – U2
Making Movies – Dire Straits
The Wall – Pink Floyd
The Final Cut – Pink Floyd
Enlightenment – Van Morrison
Live at Liberty Lunch – Joe Ely
Heart Attack and Vine – Tom Waits
Abbey Road – The Beatles
Greendale – Neil Young
Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
August and Everything After – Counting Crows
Wonder Bar – Martin Sexton
News of the World – Queen
This is the Sea – The Waterboys
Darkness on the Edge of Town – Bruce Springsteen
Unforgettable Fire – U2
Bat Out of Hell – Meatloaf
Saint Mary of the Woods – James McMurtry
The Distance – Bob Seger

There’s just too much amazing stuff, if you really look. There is never a time when nobody’s making great music (which is not to say that certain periods aren’t special… the mid-to-late ’60′s, for example).

Ummmm, rock?????

1 Soundtrack to Goldfinger
2 Vince Guaraldi – A Charlie Brown Christmas
3 Benny Goodman – The Carnegie Hall Concert
4 Henry Mancini – Mr. Lucky
5 Beethoven – Sixth Symphony (by any Orchestra)
6 Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
7 Phil Austin – Roller Maidens From Outer Space
8 Duke Ellington – The Nutcracker Suite
9 Soundtrack to Dumbo
10 Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
11 Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief
12 Jai Uttal – Footprints
13 Mary Hopkin – Postcard
14 Brian Eno – Music For Airports
15 Renaissance – Prologue
16 Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
17 Jan & Dean – Ride the Wild Surf
18 Thunderclap Newman – Hollywood Dream
19 Rare Bird – As Your Mind Flies By
20 Coyote Oldman – In Beauty I Walk
21 Dave Brubeck – Brandenburg Gate Revisited

Tom Russell – The Man From God Knows Where (about the best folk album and the best concept album I’ve ever heard – with Dave Van Ronk and Iris Dement)

Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate

Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man

Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (shame he can’t live up to these standards anymore)

Cheryl Wheeler – Driving Home (her others have better novelty songs, but this one is solid throughout.)

Bill Morrissey – Standing Eight

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken Vol. 1 (a classic that stands tall after 30 odd years)

Seldom Scene at the Cellar Door (I miss John Duffey)

Townes Van Zandt – Live at the Old Quarter

Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy (but The Wind was a moving farewell)

Bruce Springsteen – Ghost of Tom Joad (after a few brilliant records early in his career, I lost interest during his rock star years, but this one proved his legendship.)

Beatles – Yesterday and Today

Fred Eaglesmith – Drive In Movie

Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now (this has balls)

Gram Parsons – Grevious Angel (with some of the best stuff Emmylou ever did.)

Eliza Gilkyson – Land of Milk and Honey

Mary Gauthier – Mercy Now

Gordon Lightfoot – Don Quixote

Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line (the original Columbia release)

Dory Previn – Mythical Kings and Iguanas (so personal this can get uncomfortable)

Is this 20 yet?

Pink Floyd – Meddle
Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (mono mix)
The Beatles – Abby Road
Yes – Close To The Edge
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Hawkwind – Warrior on the Edge Of Time
The Roots – Game Theory
Jimi Hendrix – Rainbow Bridge
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson – ProjeKct X
Frank Zappa – Roxy and Elsewhere
Frank Zappa – The Best Band You’ve Never Heard In Your Life
Frank Zappa … well, this could keep going. Moving on…
ELP – Pictures At An Exhibition
Genesis – Foxtrot
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
Roger Waters – Radio KAOS
David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name…

Hmmm… Looks like I just dated myself.
Note: The above should be listened to on vinyl. The lo-fi CD copies just don’t cut it! Unfortunately ProjeKct X and Best Band are only available in the lo-fi CD format.

here are mine, in no particular order

forever changes-love
joshua tree-u2
francis albert sinatra & antonio carlos jobim
physical graffiti-led zeppelin
smile-brian wilson
white album/abbey road (tie)-beatles
blood on the tracks-bob dylan
we’re only in it for the money-frank zappa
stardust-willie nelson
magnetic south-mike nesmith
68 comeback special-elvis
katy lied-steely dan
tales from topographic oceans-yes
strawberry jam-animal collective
rehearsals for retirement-phil ochs
song cycle-van dyke parks
american beauty-grateful dead
camofleur-gastr del sol
melvin-lysol
mastodon-leviathan

yikes, that was tough

Personally I don’t care for a couple of these albums. Some of them aren’t my favorite by the artist.
A best of album would probably be a better choice for a couple of the artists. I’ve only gone that way with the Beatles because their sound changed fundamentally from one album to the next. (Also cause they’re the freakin Beatles)
But all of them will be getting air play after all of us are past being worm food.