the big list

Well as some may know, I love music. Big fan. I love playing it. I love seeing it. And I love listening to it. I own a decent catalog of music but I recently made myself a list of albums I need to own to not only be a better musician but indeed a better person.

The list as it now looks:

The Bee Gee's - Saturday Night Fever
Jackson Browne - The Pretender, Late For The Sky

Ray Charles - The Genius Of Ray Charles, Modern Sounds of Country and Western Music, Birth of Soul
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend ('51-64)
Elvis Costello - This Years Model

The Drifters - Golden Hits
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind, John Wesley Hardin, Basement Tapes, Desire, The Free Wheel'n, Bring It All Back Home, Blood On The Tracks, Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited

Elvis - From Elvis In Memphis, Elvis Presley, The Sun Sessions

Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul, I Never Loved A Man...

Marvin Gay - Let's Get It On

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Buddy Holly - The "Chirping" Crickets, 20 Golden Greats
Howlin' Wolf - Rocking Chair

Michael Jackson - Bad, Thriller
David Johansen - any/all
Elton John - Honky Tonk Chateau, Greatest Hits

John Lennon - Imagine, Plast Ono Band

The Meters - Look-ka Py Py
Minutemen - Double Nickles On The Dime
Joni Mitchel - Cart and Spark, Blue

Willie Nelson - Stardust
Randy Newman - Good Old Boys, 12 Songs, Sail Away
New York Dolls - self titled

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Slanted and Enchanted
Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedoes
The Pretenders - self titled
Prince - Dirty Minded, 1999, Sign of the Times, Purple Rain
John Prine - John Prine

Otis Redding - Dictionary of Soul, Dock of the Bay, Otis Blue
Lou Reed - Berlin, Transformer
Smokey Robinson - Going to a Go-Go
The Rolling Stones - Some Girl, Tattoo You, Sticky Fingers, Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Exile on Mainstreet
The Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
Diana Ross and the Supremes - Anthology

Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours
Snoop Dog - Doggystyle
Harry Smith - Anthology
Patti Smith - Horses
Bruce Springsteen - Ashbury Park, The River, Nebraska, Darkness and the Edge of Town, The Wild..., Born in the USA
The Stooges - Fun House, Raw Power

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

Van Halen - Van Halen
Velvet Underground - self titled, White Light/White Heat, Loaded

Jackie Wilson - Mr. Excitement
Wings - Band On the Run
Stevie Wonder - Song in the Key of Life, Intervisions

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

That's it. The long and appallingly shameful list!

Most of these came from Rolling Stone Magazines list of top 500 albums of all time. And in my defense, i do own music by most of these artists...just not what some might call their most important works : /

I think at one time, my plan was to buy 3 a month but i've fallen off that plan the last couple months. I'm definitly due for a new wave of old classics. Any suggestions? : )

Be good,
-adm