[DavidMahler]

Made this list for my friend and thought i'd post it here....
The 100 greatest / most important / and must-have recordings of Pop / Rock / Soul in my order are.......please don't be me up for not including ur favorite haha.
[size=medium]1.THE BEATLES – Revolver (1966)
2.BOB DYLAN – Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
3.THE BEATLES – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
4.JIMI HENDRIX – Are You Experienced? (1967)
5.THE BEACH BOYS – Pet Sounds (1966)
6.THE BEATLES – Rubber Soul (1965)
7.BOB DYLAN – Blonde on Blonde (1966)
8.MARVIN GAYE – What’s Going On (1971)
9.LED ZEPPELIN – Led Zeppelin (1969)
10.PINK FLOYD – Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
11.THE BEATLES – Abbey Road (1969)
12.NIRVANA – Nevermind (1991)
13.THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
14.THE BEATLES – The White Album (1968)
15.STEVIE WONDER – Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
16.ELVIS PRESLEY – Elvis Presley (1956)
17.THE CLASH – London Calling (1979)
18.LED ZEPPELIN – Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
19.THE WHO – Who’s Next (1971)
20.THE ROLLING STONES – Let it Bleed (1969)
21.THE BEATLES – Meet the Beatles (1964)
22.CHUCK BERRY – Chuck Berry is on Top (1959)
23.JONI MITCHELL – Blue (1971)
24.THE RAMONES – The Ramones (1976)
25.BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Born to Run (1975)
26.THE ROLLING STONES – Exile on Mainstreet (1972)
27.BOB DYLAN – Bringing it all Back Home (1965)
28.MICHAEL JACKSON – Thriller (1983)
29.DAVID BOWIE – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
30.ELVIS PRESLEY – For LP Fans Only (1959)
31.STEVIE WONDER – Innervisions (1973)
32.ARETHA FRANKLIN – I Never Loved a Man the Way That I Love You (1967)
33.THE BAND – Music From Big Pink (1968)
34.BOB MARLEY – Exodus (1977)
35.U2 – The Joshua Tree (1987)
36.THE DOORS – The Doors (1967)
37.JIMI HENDRIX – Electric Ladyland (1968)
38.BOB DYLAN – Blood on the Tracks (1975)
39.JAMES BROWN – Live at the Apollo (1962)
40.THE SEX PISTOLS – Nevermind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
41.JOHN LENNON – Plastic Ono Band (1970)
42.LED ZEPPELIN – Led Zeppelin II (1969)
43.BOB DYLAN – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1962)
44.LITTLE RICHARD – Here’s Little Richard (1957)
45.PRINCE – Purple Rain (1984)
46.PINK FLOYD – The Wall (1979)
47.BLACK SABBATH – Paranoid (1970)
48.JOHNNY CASH – At Folsom Prison (1968)
49.CREAM – Disraeli Gears (1967)
50.THE BEE GEES – Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack [featuring Various Artists] (1977)
51.CAROLE KING – Tapestry (1970)
52.STEVIE WONDER – Talking Book (1972)
53.RAY CHARLES – Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)
54.OTIS REDDING – Otis Blue (1966)
55.THE BYRDS – Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
56.BUDDY HOLLY – The “Chirping” Crickets (1957)
57.VAN MORRISON – Astral Weeks (1968)
58.NEIL YOUNG – After the Gold Rush (1970)
59.THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND – At Filmore East (1971)
60.THE ROLLING STONES – Sticky Fingers (1971)
61.KING CRIMSON – In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
62.AC/DC – Back in Black (1980)
63.LED ZEPPELIN – Physical Graffiti (1975)
64.SIMON & GARFUNKEL – Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
65.CURTIS MAYFIELD – Superfly Soundtrack (1972)
66.DEREK & THE DOMINOES – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
67.THE ROLLING STONES – Beggar’s Banquet (1968)
68.ELTON JOHN – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
69.THE BEATLES – Please Please Me (1963)
70.FLEETWOOD MAC – Rumours (1977)
71.JOHN LENNON – Imagine (1971)
72.PINK FLOYD – Wish You Were Here (1975)
73.QUEEN – A Night at the Opera (1975)
74.SLY & THE FAMILY STONE – There’s a Riot Going On (1971)
75.BOB MARLEY – Burnin’ (1973)
76.PATTI SMITH – Horses (1975)
77.BILLY JOEL – The Stranger (1977)
78.CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
79.AL GREEN – Call Me (1973)
80.ELVIS COSTELLO – This Year’s Model (1978)
81.JEFF BUCKLEY – Grace (1994)
82.THE EAGLES – Hotel California (1976)
83.VAN MORRISON – Moondance (1970)
84.MUDDY WATERS – Live at Newport (1960)
85.THE POLICE – Synchronicity (1983)
86.LYNYRD SKYNYRD – Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd (1973)
87.JANIS JOPLIN – Pearl (1971)
88.ARETHA FRANKLIN – Lady Soul (1967)
89.GUNS N ROSES – Appetite for Destruction (1987)
90.THE WHO – Tommy (1969)
91.THE GRATEFUL DEAD – American Beauty (1970)
92.KRAFTWERK – Trans-Europe Express (1977)
93.LOVE – Forever Changes (1968)
94.PARLIAMENT – Mothership Connection (1976)
95.RADIOHEAD – OK Computer (1997)
96.STEELY DAN – Aja (1977)
97.IKE & TINA TURNER – River Deep, Mountain High (1966)
98.CROSBY, STILLS & NASH – Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)
99.THE SMITHS – The Queen is Dead (1986)
100.FRANK ZAPPA – We’re Only in it for the Money (1968)
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[TheMarchingMule]

That's cool, I have about...half...of them already.

 

[JSTpt1022]

The Wall above Wish you Were Here...? I think not.

 

[Night Surfer]

Very nice list.
I would have had to include the following on it:
RUSH - 2112
JETHRO TULL - Aqualung
PETER FRAMPTON - Frampton Comes Alive
KANSAS - Point of Know Return
DOOBIE BROTHERS - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
HEART - Dog & Butterfly
AEROSMITH - Toys in the Attic

 

[omegaman]

Nice list, everyone's will be different but I own 12 of your top 20, so not to far out.

 

[donunus]

nothing from the smiths?...Blasphemy

 

[analogbox]

Great list! Most that I thought should be included are indeed in the list. Great job!

 

[Uncle Erik]

101.

Nice list otherwise.

I'll pick up the few I don't already have - you have good taste.

 

[donunus]

hahahaha NKOTB. or menudo, probably the original boy band

 

[DavidMahler]

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Originally Posted by donunus /img/forum/go_quote.gif nothing from the smiths?...Blasphemy

Queen is Dead #99

 

[Jubei]

As sensible as any list I've seen. Of course, I would have ranked some albums differently, but these are all reasonable mainstream choices . . . nothing to disagree too much about.

 

[donunus]

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Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif Queen is Dead #99

whoops, i missed that. great album. I personally prefer strangeways but thats the mainstream best that no one can argue about.

 

[Sordel]

Seven Beatles albums just looks like you couldn't make up your mind - and to my taste you could drop all Lennon's solo work - but certainly this list as good as (or better than) most of those that are backed by a big magazine or poll. It's a very impersonal list, though ... I find it hard to believe that anyone actually likes all these albums, and despite my pretty enormous music collection I own less than 40% of it.

I guess that where you are missing things is in the Pop department, where your list looks very out of touch. By its nature, it's an evanescent market in which critics have reliably failed to stake their reputations, but would it be crazy to say that an album from Abba (probably Arrival) should be on that list? Why no Saturday Night Fever OST, one of the most influential albums of all time? Doesn't Depeche Mode deserve a mention for Black Celebration, Dire Straits for Brothers in Arms or Duran Duran for Rio?

I think that your error is to go for albums which no one would deny are important and have ended up skewing things massively towards the 1967-1976 period. I'd rather that you had gone out on a limb more and included as great albums the sort of things that are so routinely overlooked in these lists that there's a lot of room to spring valid surprises.

If you rethought it with no artist allowed to appear more than twice you might make some room for some more good selections.

 

[TimJo]

Great list David! I'm sure your friend is going to have a blast going through these.

In many ways the best way to fully appreciate the impact of this list would be to collect them on vinyl, since all but a couple of them were originally released that way, and many in mono (since they were meant for playing on phonographs, before the days of 'stereos' being common). The artwork is best seen in the LP format as well.

I remember when Sgt. Pepper's came out and the lyrics were printed on the back of the album. There were many nights spent at the dinner table with my brother's and I passing the album around and talking to my mom about what they meant.

The only album I would have also included in the list would have been Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at BAXTER'S (1967). It was a groundbreaking album in many ways - kind of the west coast's psychedelic response to Sgt. Pepper's. It was also quite unique for it's time in that it was divided into five 'suites' with each suite made up of two or three songs that segued into one another in a single album track. Due to the nature of the band, and the 'scene' in San Francisco, and the true psychedelic sound of the tracks, it undoubtedly helped define the term acid rock.

Anyway, great list!!!

 

[jilgiljongiljing]

Nice list, but IMHO, you should limit the albums to 1 or 2 per band. Having several albums by the same band simply seems biased. There were several other influential bands and albums that arent in the list simply because some of the other bands/artists just took up too many spots.

You would end up with a more widely accepted and universal list if you listed fewer albums by these artists. This would make sure they are getting the credit for being great while at the same time leave room for other artists who equally deserve a spot.