The List[]
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The Beatles |
A Hard Day's Night |
1964 |
An essential band with a discography big enough for everyone to find something that they enjoy. |
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The Beatles | Help | 1965 | Download | |||
The Beatles | Rubber Soul | 1965 | Download | |||
The Beatles | Revolver | 1966 | Download | |||
The Beach Boys |
Pet Sounds |
1966 |
Amazing harmonies and brilliant orchestration on Brian Wilson's part. This is required listening for anyone who wants to get into music. |
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The Doors | The Doors | 1967 | Their self-titled LP, marking the beginning of their short, but sweet eight year odyssey. It culminates in a darkly mystic 12 minute long psychedelic journey into the surreal. | Download | ||
The Beatles | Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 | Probably the gayest album cover known to man. | Download | ||
The Mothers of Invention | We're Only In It For The Money | 1968 | Oh, nevermind. ^ | Download Mono Version | ||
The Beatles | The Beatles (White Album) | 1968 | Download | |||
The Beatles | Abbey Road | 1969 | Pt 1 | |||
The Who | Live at Leeds | 1970 | Thought by many critics to be the best live rock album ever recorded. A lot of the songs had been reworked by The Who to be more hard-driving and bluesy, including Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' 'Shaking All Over'. Disc two contains the entire 'Tommy' rock opera played live. | |||
Pink Floyd | Live at Pompeii | 1972 | Pink Floyd perform live in the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy. They do a couple of songs off of Meddle, which marked their transformation from psychedelic into progressive. The album is mystic in its entirety. Rare interviews with the band are inserted between some of the tracks. | |||
The Rolling Stones | Exile on Main Street | 1972 | The Stones' most successful album by far. At first it was lamented by critics, but has steadily grown in popularity. It is now considered one of the best rock and roll albums ever released. | |||
Pink Floyd | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1973 | About life, the universe, and everything - the greatest album of all time. | Download | ||
The Who | Quadrophenia | 1973 | A double concept album, its story involves social, musical, and psychological happenings from an English teenage perspective, set in London and Brighton in 1964 and 1965. The name is a variation on the popular usage of the medical diagnostic term schizophrenia as dissociative identity disorder to reflect the four distinct personalities of Jimmy, the album's protagonist. Each personality is said to represent the personality of one member of The Who. | |||
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Neil Young |
On the Beach |
1974 |
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Queen |
Queen II |
1974 |
Split into the "White" side (dominated by Brain May written tracks), and the "Black" side (all written by Mercury), Queen II delivers some of the most ambitious and progressive material they've ever written, especially the tracks by Mercury. Sadly, it's almost entirely overlooked in many of Queen's later pop-filled "Greatest Hits" packages. It's a cult favorite album, and prog-rock masterpieces such as "March of the Black Queen" deserves a listen from any true bohemian. |
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Lou Reed |
Rock 'n' Roll Animal |
1974 |
A live album, it features five songs from different periods of his creative career, including several songs by the Velvet Underground. It begins with an epic 8 minute 10 second long version of 'Sweet Jane'. |
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Aerosmith | Toys in the Attic | 1975 | Their second most commercially successful album and by far their most unique and artistic. It has since become a landmark in classic rock. | |||
Queen |
A Night at the Opera |
1975 |
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Boston |
Boston |
1976 |
Their debut album, full of classic arena rock. Recorded almost entirely by guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter Tom Scholtz in his own basement. Songs include More Than A Feeling, Piece of Mind, and Foreplay/Long Time. |
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Pink Floyd | Animals | 1977 |
It's like Animal Farm, but with capitalism!
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Pink Floyd |
The Wall |
1979 |
The story of a man who isolates himself from the world, and his subsequent descent into madness. A concept album, and one of the most wildly successful albums of all time.
No matter how he tried, he could not break free... And the worms ate into his brain. |
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Dire Straits |
Brothers In Arms |
1985 |
Brothers in Arms is the fifth studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1985. The first half of the album is a development of their unique brand of arena rock which had evolved in their music since the 1980 album Making Movies, while the second half consists of more folk-influenced material. The whole album maintains the original Dire Straits' bluesy and laid back guitar-based sound whilst retaining a more lavish and bombastic production and overall sound. It is the band's best-selling album, and one of the top 10 best-selling albums in UK music history. |
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Led Zeppelin |
Untitled (Often regarded as Led Zeppelin IV) |
1971 |
A rather pedestrian outing for the Zep. Do note that "pedestrian" for Led Zeppelin still is out and out one of the best Hard Rock albums in the history of recorded music. |
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