Quintessential Listening
 

What albums do you think that are required listening for someone to call themselves a die hard music fan? It doesn't necessarily have to be albums that the heads like, but albums that are important enough (or should be) in the music world that they warrant at least one listen.

Go!

*Disclaimer - If you haven't heard all of the albums posted in this thread you can still consider yourself a die hard music fan so you guys don't have to bitch and moan about elitism.

Off the top of my head:

Tago Mago
In The Court Of The Crimson King
Richard D. James Album
Madvillainy
Naked City
The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Rain Dogs
Pawn Hearts
Filosofem
Roxy Music
The Modern Dance
Heroes
The Second Annual Report
Heresy
Kind Of Blue
Y
Starsailor
Fun House
Liquid Swords
One Size Fits All
Electric Ladyland

^That list makes me hard. Who does Heresy? I'm seeing a few albums with that title.

Some more:
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
This Heat - Deceit
Lounge Lizards - Voice of Chunk
Led Zeppelin - I, IV, and Presence (I'd put their whole discog but those are the real bangers)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Lustmord.
I'm not even a huge fan, but it is the go-to album for creepy dark ambient and pretty influential.
Forgot all about Deceit, totally agree. Didn't forget about Trout Mask Replica, but it was obvious you'd mention it.
Some more:
Black One (Sunn O)
Gravity (Fred Frith)
Symphonie Pour Le Jour Où Brûleront Les Cités (Art Zoyd)
Fu****susha (1989) (Fu****susha) (lol at the censorship)
Remain In Light (Talking Heads)
6 (Supersilent)
Marquee Moon (Television)
Third (Soft Machine)
Requiem (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi)
The Sound Of Perseverance (Death)
Obscura (Gorguts)
Some Combinations Of Fingers And Passion (Sergey Kuryokhin)
Foxtrot (Genesis)
Close To The Edge (Yes)
Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Into The Everflow (Psychotic Waltz)

Nice, I'm listening to Obscura right now.

Masada - Alef
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour
The Residents - Meet the Residents
Nirvana - Nevermind
Gong - Flying Teapot
United States of America - United States of America
Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron
Zu - Carboniferous
Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats, Freak Out!, Absolutely Free
Kevin Coyne - Marjory Razorblade
DEVO - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

Some of these picks...just lol

That reminds me
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music, Transformer
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico, White Light/White Heat

Yeah Metal Machine Music for sure, you're not a true music fan if you don't like that album

It's a very important album and everyone should listen to it to find out why it's so hated. Hell, some might actually find the right opinion and start loving it.

To get away from all this terribly pretentious experimental stuff a little:

The Complete Recordings (Robert Johnson)
OK Computer/Kid A (Radiohead)
The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground & Nico)
The Doors (The Doors)
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (Godspeed You Black Emperor!)
Spirit Of Eden (Talk Talk)
Grace (Jeff Buckley)
How Dare you! (10cc)
In Rock (Deep Purple)
Rock Bottom (Robert Wyatt)
Tabula Rasa (Arvo Pärt)
Rage Against The Machine (Rage Against The Machine)
Time Out (The Dave Brubeck Quartet)
Getz/Gilberto (Stan Getz & João Gilberto)
Symphony No. 9 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Concerto No.2 (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
Selected Ambient Works Vol. II (Aphex Twin)