The Albums You Should Have Listened To Before You Die

A great blog meme, which I can't resist contributing to. Here are the original rules.

"Copy the list on to your blog, put in bold the ones you have listened to (completely from begining to end) and then add three more albums that you think people should have heard before they turn into their parents - remember, it isn't necessarily your most favourite albums but the ones you think people should listen to... and when we say listen we mean from track one through to the end... If you put a link to your follow-on post in the comments of the site where you found it, the chain will be trackable."

Mike has added another rule: "From now on, you are also allowed to DELETE up to THREE albums on the existing list, if you feel a) that this is an album which should not reasonably be foisted upon anybody, or b) that one Steve Earle album is quite enough for one lifetime, thank you."

Well, I got my list from Cllr Andrew Brown (click here to see how it's mutated from Troubled Diva via Assistant), and here's my revised list:

London Calling - The Clash
Think Tank - Blur
This Is Hardcore - Pulp
Moon Safari - Air
Elastica - Elastica
Never Mind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
OK Computer - Radiohead
The Kiss of Morning - Graham Coxon
Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Setting Sons - The Jam
Come From The Shadows - Joan Baez
The River - Bruce Springsteen
The Very Best Of Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Metal Box - Public Image Ltd
Orbital #2 (The Brown Album) - Orbital
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Apple Venus Vol. 1 - XTC
Marquee Moon - Televison
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - Aretha Franklin
No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses

I've deleted Club Classics Vol. 1 - Soul II Soul, Train A Comin' - Steve Earle and Folksinger - Phranc, and added the last three.

Now it's over to you...

Update: Oh dear. It looks as though I was too late and have inadvertently managed to fray the thread. What's worse is that as soon as I shut down my computer yesterday, I realised the error of my ways in not adding The Jesus & Mary Chain's Psychocandy at the expense of either The Velvet Underground or Guns N Roses. Doh!

Anyway, Nick of Auspicious Fish has taken up my thread, and you can read his amended list here. Suffice to say that my addition of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part to the list was short-lived...

Update: Ian's picked up the thread from Nick, and done away with both Daydream Nation and Appetite For Destruction - "boring boring boring" and "except for the singles ... utter shit" respectively. Surely shum mistake?!! OK, I'll stop wailing and gnashing my teeth now. Variety is the spice of life, variety is the spice of life...