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Music to Listen to Before you Die

As Simon says, yet another meme (reminiscent of an e-mail chain letter). But the idea has sucked me in to the extent that I'll take the bait.

"Copy the list on to your blog, put in bold the ones you have listened to (completely from beginning to end) and then add three more albums that you think people should have heard."

Simon's list:

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
London Calling - The Clash
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
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
America Beauty - The Grateful Dead
Toxicity - System of a Down
Train a Comin' - Steve Earle
Folksinger - Phranc
Come From the Shadows - Joan Baez
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
The River - Bruce Springsteen
The Very Best of Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Outside - David Bowie
Passionoia - Black Box Recorder
Version 2.0 - Garbage
Too Young To Die (Greatest Hits) - St. Etienne
The Complete Recordings - Robert Johnson
Absolution - Muse
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

My three:

Handel: Suites for Keyboard - Keith Jarrett
Dream of the Elders - Dave Holland Quartet
Musica Barocca - Il Giardino Armonico

(I notice Simon has added some jazz, as have I; but I feel compelled to augment the list with a couple of sublime classical albums.)

My curiosity got the better of me and I found the original list.

Update (03/03): I've had to make a slight amendment... Simon inspired me to purchase Kind of Blue, which not only features Miles Davis on trumpet but John Coltrane on tenor sax. I've already listened to it from beginning to end several times. And it would appear to be an excellent choice. As the concluding sentence on the back cover says:

If you're going to heaven, might as well go first-class all the way.

Posted to Music by Keith Pitty