1000 albums to hear before you die

[rollhead]

1000 albums to hear before you die.

I don't think I am going to make it. Are you?

[Scott Dolan]

Nope. Nor do I intend to try.

[Noj]

This is one of the better of these sort of lists which I've seen, I like the variety.

[Surfer]

From "M"

Minor Threat
Complete Discography (1988)
The brief but fiery career of hardcore punk's founding fathers is compiled on this one CD. Those early-80s singles, recorded with a minimum of technology, still sound brutal today, and Ian Mackaye's straight-edge message - no drink, no drugs, no casual sex - helped define alternative music's sense of opposition to the mainstream. The final single, Salad Days, probably invented emo, too.

Minutemen
Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
Singular heroes of US indie-rock's early wave, San Pedro's Minutemen were among those peeling off from hardcore punk (alongside Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü etc) to broaden out the radical end of rock. Their jazzy, skittery noise is ingenious, and for their unique spirit of independence, humour, politics and poetry, they remain an unmatched inspiration.

[Brian Olewnick]

Eh, just looked at A & B. "Full Force" for the Art Ensemble? "Ballads" for Derek Bailey? Yes, more varied than you might expect but....

[Bill Barton]

Didn't make it past the "A"'s...

Abba?!?

accccckk

[Rob C]

You guys do realize that the Guardian is a general-interest publication, not a rarified circle jerk like our little corner here? I think it's a pretty decent list, all things considered.

[Brian Olewnick]

Originally Posted by Rob C

rarified circle jerk

Lois! Awesome new name for the site!

Yeah, but still, if you have someone on the staff who's aware enough to include Bailey at all and you're not doing "1,000 Albums to Ease You into Weird Music", you can come up with several dozen Bailey albums more deserving than that one (which I don't think is bad, btw, just not top shelf).

[Gary Sisco]

Question is how many of that thousand I want to hear before I die.

[Gentle Giant]

And how many might actually kill me to listen to.

[Rob C]

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

Lois! Awesome new name for the site!

Yeah, but still, if you have someone on the staff who's aware enough to include Bailey at all and you're not doing "1,000 Albums to Ease You into Weird Music", you can come up with several dozen Bailey albums more deserving than that one (which I don't think is bad, btw, just not top shelf).

Hmm. I sort of think it's implied with this kind of list that these are supposed to be "1,000 Albums You Should Hear Before You Die Which You Might Stand a Chance of Liking Without Necessarily Having Laid the Groundwork for via Several Years of Listening to Progressively More Outre Music and Developing an Appreciation for Abstract Sounds."

I dunno, maybe it's just me. Full Force and Ballads each helped me, personally, to appreciate the artists in question.

(Also, I want a commission if the site name gets changed.)

[rollhead]

Hell, I was hoping someone would actually look at all 1,000 and tell me which ones are worth listening to (that means cut out all Abba-like stuff). Not that I am lazy or anything