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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited is an album every fan of rock should own. It's possibly one of the most important albums in all of modern music, but it's also one of the very best. Rolling Stone Magazine even named it's opening song 'Like a Rolling Stone' the greatest song of all time, and a number of other media outlets gave it similar accolades.
You got it. Even if you were not there, listening to this will give you an immediate appreciation of the era. Recommended with a Phil Ochs chaser
For Classical. The Solti Ring, once again a series of albums that stunned not only classical opera fans but music enthusiasts in general at the time by the pure excellence of the recording. It knocked more than a few bands off the pop top 100's in its day.
Bowies LOW, almost lost to the masses it is easily his most brilliant work from the era.
Jazz Kind of Blue and Brubecks live double album the long version of Take 5 is awesome.
Can Saw Delight the origins of Krautrock
The Jam, Setting Sons pivitol end of the punk age album.
Roger Waters The Wall, Live in Berlin The megalomaniac who opposed stadium rock, highjacks an entire city and most of the prominent musical acts of the time, with the very megaconcert designed as the protest. Awe inspiring by the pure mass hypnosis it engendered.
Tangerine Dream LiveMiles. New Age, perhaps, the birth of trance/electronica, definitely.
Mercedes Sosa Mi Historia, South America's legend recounting a life musically.
OOOPs Almost forgot. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing. An album that almost never got released, saves a generations soul from the vapid hell of disco and launches M Knopfler on a career of unimaginable diversity.
