Yr favorite Classic Albums
 

What's Goin' On? - Marvin Gaye
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
King of the Delta Blues - Robert Johnson
The White Album - The Beatles
VU & Nico


The Chronic - Dr.Dre
Paid in Full - Rakim
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick - Slick Rick
Ready to Die - Notorious B.I.G
Doggystyle - Snoop
Straight Outta' Compton - N.W.A

Jesus & Mary chain - Psychocandy
Joy Division - Substance
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Iggy pop - Lust for life
The Velvet Underground - Self titled












































Xiu Xiu - A promise

you threw in xiu xiu thinking noone would notice!

I cry bulldookie on that!


My fave classic albums

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

The Beatles - The Beatles

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust

Talking Heads - '77

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

black sabbath-black sabbath
led zeppelin-2
iggy and the stooges-raw power
hendrix-bold as love
neil young-weld
ac/dc-let there be rock
motorhead-no sleep till hamersmith
ozzy-blizzard of ozz

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Stephen Malkmus - (self titled)
Beck - Odelay
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat


They're the ones that first come to mind...

Sonic Youth - Sister
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Velvet Underground - VU & Nico
Ascension - John Coltrane
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker

ugh....

Siamese Dream-Smashing Pumpkins
VU and Nico
White Light/white Heat- Velvet Underground
Psychocandy-Jesus and Mary Chain
Loveless-My Bloody Valentine
Zen Arcade-Husker Du
Daydream Nation
Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division
s/t-The Stooges
Meat Puppets 2-Meat Puppets
Up on the Sun-Meat Puppets
Surfer Rosa-Pixies
Doolittle-Pixies
Kid A-Radiohead
OK Computer-Radiohead
Slanted and Enchanted-Pavement
Crooked Rain-Pavement

I pretty much own alot of classics.

Pixies - Surfer Rosa and Doolittle
REM - Document
Mudhoney - SuperFuzz Bigmuff, I guess it's debatable if this is a classic
Led Zeppelin - #4

captain beefheart - trout mask replica
velvet underground - white light/white heat
syd barrett - the madcap laughs

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Fall - Live at The Witch Trials
The Smiths - Queen is Dead
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Slint - Spiderland
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Clash - The Clash
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
Evol - Sonic Youth
Ragged Glory - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Berlin - Lou Reed
Desertshore - Nico
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
Free Jazz - Ornette Coleman

Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Led Zeppelin - zofo
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Duran Duran - Duran Duran

The difficulty with this is defining a "classic" album. Is an Indie classic album really a classic album? If it is:

Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technicina
Big Black - Songs About F***ing

I always think of a "classic" album being one that is universally heralded as a great. So, for instance, some of Roxy Music's later albums may be considered classics by the sort of writers who decide what is classic and what isn't, while we would largely consider them utter middle-of-the-road drivel. Can something that is incredibly difficult for the man in the street to listen to be considered a classic, or is it just good?

The Stooges - Fun House
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
REM - Green
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Charles Mingus - Oh yeah
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Neil Young - Harvest
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove

etc, etc.

I feel I should have listed something by Abba, but I'm not sure if there's any one album of theirs that defines them.

You see, that's the problem with "classic" album lists, they're always going to contain something by a band that might be considered crass but who have released an album that defines an era or a genre.

It could be because they were more of a singles band.Why not start a thread for singles?Go on sonicl,i know that you want to.

No, it's okay. You can have the honour. Classic "Best Of" albums maybe, in honour of bands or artists who have produced a consistently great body of work. But I'll wait a while before I start that one, I'll let this one run its course first.

Do it!

Well I prefer the term "classic" instead of "cult record"...Maybe I exceeded with labeling MMM a classic.

Oh no, Metal Machine Music is a classic, it's just that it's a classic because of what it represents, rather than because of the music. I'm reading this thread as being about classic records musically.

I happen to think that "classic" is a rather over-used term when referring to records. "Classic" is generally a status that is awarded by the media, where it tends to mean "ticks all the right boxes".