What 25 CDs are a must have for any collection?

[RageWizard]

Hi everybody, just got back from a morning bicycle race and now I am currently having my first beer waiting for the draft to start. Last night I was removing and installing a new piece of T.V. entertainment center furniture and I realized that I own way too many cds to be believed. I didn't even try to count them, but I was looking at them and I compiled a list of 25 that I feel just must be there. In order to get down to 25 I limited myself to picking just 1 cd from each artist. So groups like Metallica, Tool, Led Zepplin, Rush, Alice in chains, and some others can only have 1 title. Since I am always looking for more music to listen to please list your top 25 cd's that you simply must have. The list has been compiled and placed in random order because that is how I like it.

1. AC DC Back in Black
2. The Who Tommy
3. Alice in Chains Dirt
4. Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
5. Metallica Master of Puppets
6. Pearl Jam Ten
7. Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies
8. Dead Kennedys Give Me Convience or Give Me Death
9. Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
10. Rush 2112
11. White Zombie La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
12. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
13. Pantera Cowboys from Hell
14. Judas Priest British Steel
15. The Doors In Concert
16. Nirvana Nevermind
17. Led Zepplin IV
18. Green Day American Idiot
19. Tool Aenima
20. Jane's Addiction Nothings Shocking
21. Guns N Roses Appetite for Desruction
22. Iron Maiden Number of the Beast
23. NOFX Wolves in Wolves Clothing
24. The Mentors You Axed for It
25. Biohazard State of the World Address

[awhitejackson]

I like your style... several of these would make my final list...Dirt, Siamese Dream, Nothings shocking, Zepplin, Aenima (some others too). I dont really get into the stuff that get much heavier like Pantera and I kind of soured on AC/DC in the past few years

[babaoriley]

An impossible question to get right, and one that I just spent 30 minutes attempting to answer before giving up.

[RageWizard]

An impossible question to get right, and one that I just spent 30 minutes attempting to answer before giving up.

Come on dude, I originally was going to say 10, but when I looked at my list of 100 or so, I decided to cut it down to 25. If you had to load up just 25 of these cds on the ipod and you were going to not be able to change it what would it be?

[purecarnagge]

No ****ing FOO FIGHTERS WTF MAN?

wow...

[pavyracer]

Where is Iron Maiden, Annihilator, or Barry White. This collection is junk without these three legends.

[Kellen]

Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Pantera - Cowboys from hell
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Rush - 2112
Van Halen - 1984
Nirvana - Bleach
Alice In Chains - Facelift
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Pearl Jam - Ten
Dio - Holy Diver

Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Symphony X - Odyssey
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Iron Maiden - The Best of the Beast
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Dr. Dre - Chronic
Snoop - Doggystyle
Ice Cube - The Predator
NWA - Straigh outta Compton
Warren G - Regulate G Funk Era


Thats my list.

[capitalist pig]

There has to be one Lynard Skynard disc in there, JMO.

later

[Kellen]

Billy Ocean greatest hits

[RageWizard]

Where is Iron Maiden, Annihilator, or Barry White. This collection is junk without these three legends.

Iron Maiden is number 22 on the list, I left out Annihilator because I only have the Set the World on Fire cd, and I can't name them all. As for Barry White, he has the hands down top make out music made ever.

[thegreatdiatchi]

25) And Justice For All by Metallica
24) Hello Rockview by Less Than Jake
23) Kill Em All by Metallica
22) Portrait of An American Family by Marilyn Manson
21) And Out Come The Wolves by Rancid
20) self titled (2000) by Rancid
19) Losing Streak by Less Than Jake
18) Nevermind by Nirvana
17) Paranoid by Black Sabbath
16) Great Milenko (Joker Card 4) by The Insane Clown Posse
15) Smash by The Offspring
14) Static Age by The Misfits
13) Use Your Illusion II by Guns N Roses
12) Walk Among Us by The Misfits
11) Dr. Feelgood by Motley Crue
10) Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables by The Dead Kennedys
9) Plastic Surgery Disasters by The Dead Kennedys
8) No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne
7) Use Your Illusion I by Guns N Roses
6) Shout At The Devil by Motley Crue
5) Ride The Lightning by Metallica
4) Master Of Puppets by Metallica
3) Far Beyond Driven by Pantera
2) Dirt by Alice In Chains
1) Appetite For Destruction by Guns N Roses

[Kellen]

Too much Metallica on there Diatchi

[RageWizard]

Try to hold each artist or group down to just 1 entry.

[BuddyBear]

None of these albums that have been mentioned are even close to being top 25 material...maybe top 25 metal music, but not general top 25. Like BO'R said, it is almost impossible to construct a list like this...you'd have to do it by musical preference.

Here is a site that everyone now and then I'll consult...

http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/

[TheLock]

Lists like this have to be done by genre.

With that said, Appetite and Back in Black are automatic in any metal/rock list.


For a pop/alternative or whatever you want to call it Top 25, Joshua Tree and Violator are automatics.

[RageWizard]

Why do you guys want to limit or censor yourself to a certain genre. If you had just 25 to take with you, which would they be, in any genre or mixed genre? I admit to being a metal / Punk rock slanted type of music listener myself. My kid is definitely a gangsta rap wigga ( I believe). It is still early on the west coast, so I'm sure that the gangsta guys aren't awake yet. Hell there may even be some lounge lizard types out there with the Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, and possibly Abba taste to weigh in.

[pavyracer]

Didn't like ABBA sell 300 millions records worldwide? They still sell 3 million albums per year eventhough they haven't produced anything in some 30 years.

[Kellen]

Yea, breaking it down into genres is crazy. The way I understood Rage explain it is that If you had to keep 25 cds in your collection, what would it be? I listen to a little rap and mostly metal so those are the CDs I would keep.

[BuddyBear]

You said top 25 CDs....i highly doubt experts would come out with that list unless it was a metal list.

[Wrigley]

How can you leave this off the list

[RageWizard]

You said top 25 CDs....i highly doubt experts would come out with that list unless it was a metal list.

I said to list YOUR top 25 cds. There are no experts in my opinion, just people who are lucky enough to spout their opinions and get paid for it.

[wtt0315]

ok jimmy buffett has like 41 so i will take 25 of his I am a very simple minded person

[treece]

Only did 10 off the top of my head.

1. 2pac-All Eyez On Me
2. Dr. Dre-Chronic
3. Snoop Doggy Dogg-Doggystyle
4. Tha Dogg Pound-Dogg Food
5. Eazy-E-It's On 187um Killa
6. 50 Cent-Get Rich Or Die Tryin
7. Big Pun-Capital Punishment
8. ** Tang Clan-36 Chambers
9. Lil Wayne-Tha Carter 2
10. Jay-Z-Blueprint

[69882000]

In no particular order.

1. Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon.
2. Alice in chains - MTV Unplugged
3. Soda Stereo - MTV Unplugged
4. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band.
5. Led Zeppelin- IV
6. Radiohead- O.K Computer
7. Mobb Deep- The Infamous
8. Nas - Illmatic
9. Notorious B.I.G- Ready to die
10. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds.
11. Metallica - The Black Album
12. Bob Marley - Legend
13. Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt.
14. Jeff Buckley - Grace
15. Ojos de brujo - Bari
16. Manu Chao - Clandestino
17. Jimmy Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
18. Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits
19. Jefferson Airplane - Greatest Hits
20. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
21. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
22. Nirvana - Unplugged in new york
23. The Clash - London Calling
24. Oasis - What's the story (Morning Glory)
25. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of lauryn hill

[kiwi]

I like music - but I don't buy CDs anymore because of the behaviour of the music industry:

- they take to the court poor persons (also children or their parents) whom they blame to have copied some mp3 in the internet (who anyway were not able to buy that music even if they hadn't copied it). Actually they fight against their own customers.

- the costs of CDs didn't drop even if the costs of production decreased a lot

- the music industry claims to support the artists but in reality it is only useful for a few artists who are rich anyway but the majority of not so well known artists doesn't profit at all from that industry (by the way why must art be an 'industry' - doesn't real artists do art even if they wouldn't get any money for it? And haven't there been good music before there was that industry which tries to profit by it?)

- I don't like the lobbyism how they try to influence the politicians to protect their rights more than the rights of other groups of society

... and many more reasons...

[20Four7]

Maybe it's my age but missing from a lot of lists: In no order


Beatles: Abbey Road
The Clash: London Calling
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
Stones: Exile on Mainstreet
Sex Pistols: Never mind the bullocks here's the sex pistols
Velvet underground: Velvet Underground and Nico
Ramones: Ramones
Beatles: White Album
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd/Second Helping (Sweet home, free bird, gimme three steps)
Eric Clapton rock the Cradle
Led Zepplin: Zepplin IV
AC/DC: Back in Black
Guns and Roses: Appetite for destruction
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
The doors: The doors
Carol King: Tapestry
U2: Joshua Tree
John Lennon: Imagine
The who: Tommy
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
NIrvana: Nevermind
Pearl Jam: 10
blondie: AutoAmerican (Only because Rapture was the first single released by a mainstream band the used rap)

[imgv94]

too much work.

[RageWizard]

I can't believe that I didn't have a Pink Floyd CD in my list.

[element1286]

Top ten, in no order

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Nirvana - Nevermind
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Tool - Aenema
Linkin Park - Meteora
Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
System of a Down - Toxicity
Smile Empty Soul - Anxiety

Also, very strong leans on Zeppelin and Floyd, but couldn't pick one album.

[LVHerbie]

Maybe it's my age but missing from a lot of lists: In no order


Beatles: Abbey Road
The Clash: London Calling
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
Stones: Exile on Mainstreet
Sex Pistols: Never mind the bullocks here's the sex pistols
Velvet underground: Velvet Underground and Nico
Ramones: Ramones
Beatles: White Album
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd/Second Helping (Sweet home, free bird, gimme three steps)
Eric Clapton rock the Cradle
Led Zepplin: Zepplin IV
AC/DC: Back in Black
Guns and Roses: Appetite for destruction
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
The doors: The doors
Carol King: Tapestry
U2: Joshua Tree
John Lennon: Imagine
The who: Tommy
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
NIrvana: Nevermind
Pearl Jam: 10
blondie: AutoAmerican (Only because Rapture was the first single released by a mainstream band the used rap)

This is a pretty good list but I would take Wish You Were Here over Dark Side of the Moon... although I know I'm not in the majority on this...

[SECfan23]

Great thread ragewizard!
Ill stick with the one album per band rule:
No particular order

Little Feat – Waiting for Columbus (Rock N Roll’s Best Kept Secret)
Radiohead – OK Computer
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Muse – HARPP (Just got this. The dvd that comes with album is incredible. They are a watered down version of Radiohead. Great Band.)
Dave Matthews Band – Crash
Alice in Chains – Unplugged
Metallica – S & M Concert
The Beatles – Sgt. Peppers
The Band – The Last Waltz
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (Got to have some jazz. Might as well have the best.)
Pearl Jam – Ten
Led Zeppelin – BBC Sessions
Phish – A Live One
Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive
Jimmy Buffet – Living and Dying in ¾ Time
Randy Newman – Good ole Boys
Allman Brothers Band – Filmore East
Kings of Leon – Because of the Times
Tommy Emmanuel – Live One (Incredible Guitarist)
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
Eric Clapton – The Cream of Clapton
Sourwood Honey - Oxydendrum Arboreum
Parliament – Mothership Connection (Gotta have the P-Funk)
Coldplay – Live 2003
Dr. Dre – The Chronic (Need a little rap too.)

I have a lot of live albums because you can get a lot of great hits from a bunch of different albums. This was much harder than I thought. So much left out.