Friday, May 18, 2007

The 100 records you should own overview

OK, lets set the ground rules for this thing. There are a lot of great bands and there are a lot of what used to be called, great albums. They don't always go together. The Beatles made a lot of crappy records, in fact I think they only made one that sounds good start to finish and that's the White Album (it may or may not make the list). The first four Led Zeppelin albums are all great (II and IV will make the list), these guys knew how to make a record start to finish. The Who only made one good album, Who's Next. All the good Who songs that they play over and over again came from this one record.

This will not be just a trip back to last century. There are some great bands that are alive and well and even a couple of classics from the 2000's, but more on that later. What I want to do here is mine my collection and refute the iTunes paradigm that you only need to download the singles you like. There is a place for that, but not here. Here you will be turned on to rare, and not so rare records that you can sit down and enjoy for the entire playing time.

So every so often I will post a new record review and in a couple of years, you'll have a great collection. Enjoy!

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