1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

[Aggie]

i.e. this book:


A radio site in Romania has the entire list available as streaming audio, ordered from oldest to newest: 
http://www.radio3net.ro/dbalbums/albume1001

Enjoy!

[Opsa]

Wow! But I need pointers on how to make the thing work. 

[Aggie]

Click on the album, and the little player in the upper-right corner should start playing (?).   You may need to adjust the volume.  If you're not seeing the album cover & player apparatus, you might need an additional plugin...?

[Opsa]

I tried to play Miles Davis. I saw the album, clicked on it, it appeared in the upper right, with it looked like a player apparatus, but when I tried to hit play, it just sat there. maybe I'll try a different one.

Does it take a while to load?

[Opsa]

I'm getting : Server not found: rtmp://media.netmedia.ro/fastplay/

[Aggie]

How fast is your interwebz these days? It's been snappy for me -  that it's giving you hassles.

[Opsa]

 I have DSL, and it's okay. Maybe it doesn't like jazz. I tried Thelonius Monk, too.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

**sigh**

I looked at several pages of album covers in the list... I actively disliked more than 1/2 per page, and the rest I'd either never heard of, or heard of but had no interest in listening to again.

So I gave up.

I guess I'm a musical zombie...

[The Meromorph]

Some real classics there...
I love it, Thank You.   

[Lindorm]

The list looks suspiciously like yet another endless list from the editors of Rolling Stone, or something similar, male, us-centric, fifties-plus with receding hairline, big motorbike and a Macbook.

Endless reams of seventies prog rock and som Ravi Shankar, with a bit of female soul singers thrown in to show that they are not sexist, oh, and some blacks, too!

How many have actually listened to "The United States of America" outside those very same states? Roxy Music and Hanoi Rocks being some sort of musical milestones? Def Leppard having several albums on the list? Um, riiight. (Though I actually think that "Pyromania" deserves an inclusion, since it was one of the first albums that integrated synthesizers with metal-style music and broke the guitar/bass/drums -dogma).

Nah, I'll pass on this one.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

The list looks suspiciously like yet another endless list from the editors of Rolling Stone, or something similar, male, us-centric, fifties-plus with receding hairline, big motorbike and a Macbook.

Endless reams of seventies prog rock and som Ravi Shankar, with a bit of female soul singers thrown in to show that they are not sexist, oh, and some blacks, too!

How many have actually listened to "The United States of America" outside those very same states? Roxy Music and Hanoi Rocks being some sort of musical milestones? Def Leppard having several albums on the list? Um, riiight. (Though I actually think that "Pyromania" deserves an inclusion, since it was one of the first albums that integrated synthesizers with metal-style music and broke the guitar/bass/drums -dogma).

Nah, I'll pass on this one.

Much more eloquently put than I, but pretty much describes my thoughts.

[beagle]

The list from 1970 to 1990 is pretty much the albums we considered significant at the time in the UK I think. After that, I sort of lost track so have no idea.
Reggae was quite big in the UK around 1980 which isn't reflected here. But (institutionally racist that I am, probably) it all sounded the same to me; maybe the list author felt the same.

[The Meromorph]

The list looks suspiciously like yet another endless list from the editors of Rolling Stone, or something similar, male, us-centric, fifties-plus with receding hairline, big motorbike and a Macbook.

Hey! I don't have a Macbook... 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Are you an editor for Rolling Stone? Lord Mero you never stop surprising us!

[Aggie]

The list looks suspiciously like yet another endless list from the editors of Rolling Stone, or something similar, male, us-centric, fifties-plus with receding hairline, big motorbike and a Macbook.

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Def Leppard having several albums on the list? Um, riiight. (Though I actually think that "Pyromania" deserves an inclusion, since it was one of the first albums that integrated synthesizers with metal-style music and broke the guitar/bass/drums -dogma).

See, what I was thinking was:  1001 streaming full albums.  Good opportunity to root out a couple dozen that I haven't heard but always meant to listen to, or I've never heard of.  Not that I disagree with your assessment.

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I did find it a shame that there seems to be a "I like this artist, let's drop the whole discography in there" approach.  Better to pick at most the 2 best from any given artist, IMHO.  I must admit to owning or having listened to an obscene amount of the stuff from the 90's on the list, although I probably started listening to most of it in the 00's.

_{Notably, the title is not The 1001 Albums...}

[Lindorm]

Well, yes, 1001 albums worht of streamed music is always 1001 albums worth of streamed music, and quite a few of those albums are really good, so on that point I wholeheartedly agree. But I am somewhat allergic to those "you have to X before you die" lists, not to mention those "The greatest X of all time" lists, since I tend to find them quite predictable and narrow-minded, as you might have noticed.

[Aggie]

Fair criticism.

Any tips on which albums command your particular esteem would be appreciated, though!

[Darlica]

All Joy Division and the early New Order + the album Get Ready which isn't listed, they are house-gods in our home, and Kraftwerk of cause.
They all broke new ground.

I can recomend:
Jean Michel Jarre Oxygen I suspect L will disagree on this one. ( )
Leonard Cohen especially I'm your Man
Motorhead Ace of Spades
Iron Maiden The Number Of the Beast
Tom Waits Swordfish Trombone and Rain dogs
U2 War and The Joshua Tree
Jesus and Mary Chain Psycho Candy  (and pretty much all their other albums too)

I can't believe they didn't mention Eurythmics. 

This is before 1988 I have to take the rest another day.
Sleepy time.

[beagle]

Pink Floyd/Everything
The Doors/Everything
Neil Young/Harvest,After the Goldrush,Rust Never Sleeps, Live Rust
Stones/Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed
Joy Division/ Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Substance
New Order/Technique
Jimi Hendrix/Electric Ladyland
Air/Moon Safari
Tangerine Dream/Stratosfear, Rubycon [sic]
Kraftwerk/Computer World
Bowie/Station to Station, Low
Simon and Garfunkel/Greatest Hits
Velvet Underground/The Velvet Underground
The Who/Who's Next
Pet Shop Boys/Everything (except Disco 2)
Chemical Brothers/Exit Planet Dust
Deep Dish/Junk Science
Placebo/Once More With Feeling
Alphaville/Forever Young


Fairly typical for my age I suspect, except I've never liked the Beatles or Bob Dylan.

[Lindorm]

Oh, I am not disagreeing with the inclusion of a few Jean-Michel Jarré albums. While I am not that big a fan of his music, I still think his works are important as a part of contemporary musical history. He did a lot to develop electronic music, and especially move it from "sound effects for commercials" to "modern culture" -after all, the french ministry of culture has supported several of his projects through the years.

But then again, are we talking about good or historically important albums and artists from that list, or are we talking about our own favourites?

[Aggie]

A bit of both, I suppose, although since that list is providing access, I'd say focus there for recommendations (we have other good threads for lesser-known albums/artists).

I notice that while Disposable Heroes made the list, more recent Michael Franti (Spearhead) stuff did not - which is a shame.


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Addition:

Tom Waits Swordfish Trombone and Rain dogs

I'm listening to Swordfishtrombones right now and realize that I've heard a number of the songs before on Big Time (live album), and like the live versions better (which isn't as true for Glitter and Doom).  I'm a little more partial to some of Tom's later stuff; Bone Machine and Alice stand out for me.  In temporal context, I can see how Swordfishtrombones was more cutting edge, though.