Alright dude. Can't wait to see the review~

Okay guys, still digesting "Loveless" and will be for some time. Next one up is this:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qw1xkAWDzo...es_-_front.jpg

Expect my first-time review shortly...

I notice you don't have Rum, Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues on your list.

Is that because it's the against law in Dublin not to have heard it, or is it because it's against the law in Dublin not to like it?
:)

No, it's because I think the Pogues are a joke and I'm embarrassed to be from the same country as them...

:laughing:

That a no then? ;)

Oh yeah! Some of their finest work on that gem.

That would be a no. ;)
You've already challenged me with three (I think) albums I hadn't considered, so you're done pal. Don't try to convince me to listen to the Pogues too!:eek:

Ah, ZZ! Pure Texas blues bliss! Now THIS is what I like! (More later)-ish :)
:dj:

Obviously, I don't know what you've listened to, so here are a few pretty accessible albums that are classics in my book. I tried to provide a nice variety.

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Dio - Holy Diver
Dr. Dre - The Chronic 2001
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy if you want to push yourself Darklands if you want to stay accessible
Television - Marquee Moon

and someone mentioned the Low End Theory from A Tribe Called Quest…I completely agree. That album has helped so many people enjoy rap, including myself. Maybe you will want to ignore The Chronic 2001 for now...but seriously...listen to the Low End Theory.

Low End Theory is a classic which should be heard by more people. A lot of late '80s/early '90s rap groups who were attempting to expand the creative boundaries of hip-hop were crushed in the monsoon of gangsta rappers. Among my favorite albums of indie hip-hop from that era are:

3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of... by Arrested Development

3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul

Of the Heart, Of the Soul and Of the Cross: The Utopian Experience by P.M. Dawn

Blow Out Comb by the Digable Planets (Blow Out Comb is perhaps the greatest alternative rap album of all time)

Grandmaster Flash's earliest collaborations with the Furious Five and the Sugarhill Gang were released on Sugarhill Records as 12" singles and those oldest of the old school recordings are still the best. All of those singles have been collected on two different long playing albums, Message From Beat Street (1994) and The Best of the Best of the Sugarhill Gang (1996). Those two collections of Flash's earliest single releases simply blow away all of the current day rap music artists.

Thanks Duga. As I think I mentioned I'm not looking to stray far, if at all, from my usual genres. This isn't a genre-busting or crossing exercise. What I'm looking to do is listen to albums which are considered classics and that I should really have heard.

So in your list, I've bolded the ones I already know and have heard (as a dedicated headbanger in my youth I should bloody hope so too!), italicised the ones I may try and underlined the ones I have no intention of going near. I don't want this list to get out of control, so I'm trying to confine it to albums that mean something to me but that I've never listened to. Rap and hiphop I have no interest at all in, zero, sorry. Not gonna happen.

Thanks for the interest and the list: I'll add any I decide in the next draft.