Originally Posted by Trollheart

To be fair, there should be no albums you're required to listen to. I had been a true music fan (as far as I would understand the term) for over thirty years before I even joined here, and not listening to any of the albums so far did not detract one jot from my enjoyment of my music. It's actually quite a pretentious thing to say, isn't it? That you can't be considered a true music fan unless you listen to this and this and this, and don't forget this.

Not trying to get at you Frown, but it really is a little arrogant that someone should think you're not a proper music fan just because you haven't heard particular albums that they think you should. Look at 1001 albums: there are selections there, many of them, that I could quite happily die without ever having heard.