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pink floyd - dark side of the moon
beatles - sgt peppers lonely heart club band
u2 - achtung baby

swim

I veto U2 and I think mb as a whole agrees that they shouldn't be on the list.

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Moon Pix

Ive gotta be honest and say Ive never really been able to see this. To my mind theres too much filler on it ("Room 13", "Police Story" plus a few others) for it to classify as a classic album.

Good effort though.

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cardboard adolescent

Although it is a bit overrated, you can't really deny the importance of REM - Murmur in bringing attention to alternative music.

Also, Achtung Baby is a pretty important album musically and culturally, and even though I don't particularly like it all that much, I'm not going to veto it.

White Lies

I agree, there's filler. I don't think it's even Black Flag's best release, but it IS the one that is essential to listen to, if you're going to listen to only one Black Flag album. This is the album that started hardcore punk as a nationwide thing. So many bands were influenced by it, and by Black Flag and SST's DIY ethic, and not just hardcore bands. Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Mudhoney, and pretty much every late 80s alternative band counted Black Flag as a big influence, and also other music as diverse as The Boredoms, Wolf Eyes, The Melvins, Slayer, Beastie Boys, Napalm Death, The Mars Volta/At The Drive In and Beck. A lot of modern extreme music (death/black metal, noise, powerviolence, grindcore, etc) has bands which owe a lot to Damaged, whether direct or indirect.

So, since it defined an entire decade of underground music, I'd say it's a classic album. Certainly more so than 50% on the original list already (from the 80s onwards), a lot of whom themselves owe a lot to Black Flag.

Any "true music fan", as the title of this thread suggests, should at least hear this album.

So put it on the list.

adidasss

Done, although, I was a bit iffy about adding Tricky...is it classic?

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Moon Pix

I don't know if its just the digital transfer that SST did of it but my CD copy of that album sounds absolutely dreadful. Its one of the worst mixing jobs Ive ever heard (you can barely hear the drums when Ginn's playing) and its got by far one of the worst, flattest drum sounds Ive ever heard.

A remastering job is long overdue on Damaged and The First Four Years. Black Flag have never sounded as good as they desrve to on CD.

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right-track

James Brown - 'Live At The Appollo' is a must add to the list.
Arguably THE greatest live album ever.
Everyone should own a copy.

right-track

And where's Marvin Gaye - 'What's Going On!'

Soulless wankers.

sleepy jack

Okay, everyone if you're going to post an album do it in this format.

band/artist - album title (release year) (genre)

If you put the dates after the genre or don't include certain things I don't know about Marijan but I am going to skip it. It doesn't take much time to make it properly format so it can be added well, seriously.

The ones that didn't have genres I used wikipedia on so if its wrong ill edit it, and I imagine it is.

60s

13th Floor Elevators - The Psychadelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators (1966) (Psychedelic Rock)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club (1967) (Psychedelic Rock)
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (1968) (Proto-Punk)

70s

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1971) (Metal)
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973) (Soul)
Brian Eno - Another Green World (1975) (Experimental)
David Bowie - Low (1977) (Art-Rock)

80s

Black Flag - Damaged (1981) (Hardcore)
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II (1983) (Alt. Rock)
Husker Du - Zen Arcade(1984) (Alternative Punk)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy (1985) (Noise Pop)
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (1988) (Rap)
The Stone Roses - S/T (1989) (Madchester)
Fugazi - 13 Songs (1989) (Post-Hardcore)

90s

Melvins - Houdini (1992) (Heavy Metal/Punk Rock)
Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1992) (Alternative)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (1994) (Post-emo)
Tricky - Maxinquaye (1995) (Trip Hop)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996) (Hip-Hop)
Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997) (Singer/Songwriter)
Catch 22 - Keasby Nights (1998) (Third Wave Ska)

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