At Home with John and Debbie

Dave blogged a meme wherein someone listed three “albums to hear before you die”, and invited others to highlight the ones they’d heard, then add three more.

It’s mightily flawed, and just leads to an ever-growing and incoherent list of personal choices - many made by idiots.

But, an urge to evangelise the best Primal Scream album has led me to go ahead and do it. Just because I’ve heard some of these doesn’t mean I like them (Outkast, Meatloaf). Others I’ve marked as unheard, but I’ve heard enough of them to know I needn’t bother with the whole album (The Clash. Oh, yes.). Others, I should pursue (The Killers). Others, you’d have to give me a hard sell before I bothered.

• 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
• OK Computer - Radiohead
• The Kiss of Morning - Graham Coxon
• 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
• The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
• Queens of the stone age - Songs for the Deaf
• Ryan Adams - Heatbreaker
• Doolittle - The Pixies
• Speakerboxx/The Love Below - OutKast
• Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
• The Killers - Hot Fuss
• Interpol - Antics
• The Cure - Disintegration

And my three?

• Cake - Fashion Nugget
• Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
• Primal Scream - Vanishing Point

… and the Decemberists’ The Tain, and The Human League’s greatest hits, and Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions…, and Joanna Newsom’s The Milk-Eyed Mender, and Hefner’s The Fidelity Wars and.. and.. and…

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