YorkeDaddy

There's no reason to be interested in my list because it's not going to be interesting. If I actually took the topic title seriously I'd have like...

-one Beatles album
-Kind of Blue
-Trout Mask Replica
-Velvet Underground & Nico
-Pet Sounds
-Low
-Led Zep 4
-maybe In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
-What's Going On
-one hip hop album from Wu/Public Enemy/maybe Illmatic

That's basically it.

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grindy

Pet Sounds is a good and important one, seems to have been missing here.
And I've never listened to "What's Going On", which I'm going to do now.

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Frownland

It's sad that you don't think your opinion is interesting because I do. Thanks for actually posting what you think are quintessential albums than getting caught up in semantics. I agree with all of those albums on your list, even if I don't particularly like all of them (I'm looking at you, NMH).

Was that so hard?

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Simon & Garfunkel - Live at Central Park
Swans - To Be Kind, Filth
Fantomas - s/t, Director's Cut
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, This is Our Music

This is exactly what I hoped this thread would accomplish.

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Goofle

This is a great thread for anyone looking for some albums to check out, but I don't believe there are albums that can be deemed "essential listening". I'm sure I will be fine if I don't listen to plenty of the albums listed.

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Moss

I never know how to handle these kinds of threads. There are albums that are very important to me but probably nobody else so I guess those don't count. It seems what we are looking for are records that pushed some boundaries and actually changed the direction of music and the way people think about and relate to music. But if that's the case we should be seeing more Chuck Berry, Elvis, Buddy Holly, etc... in addition to the Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth. So from that aspect, here is a list from the top of my head:

Chuck Berry is on top - Chuck Berry
Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
The Sun sessions - Elvis
Here's Little Richard - Little Richard
The complete recordings - Robert Johnson
Nevermind - Nirvana
The Ramones - The Ramones
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
No depression - Uncle Tupelo
Sgt. Peppers - The Beatles
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground and Nico
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Live/Dead - Grateful Dead
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Trollheart

Come on man, stop putting words in my mouth. I referenced the 1001 albums as an example of people deciding what constitutes a list of what people should listen to. I know nobody said MUST, after all you can't force people to listen to something they don't want to. But look at your OP objectively:

That clearly gives the impression that unless people listen to the albums you list, they're not considered in your view proper music fans, and that's what I have a problem with. If you'd just left out the "die hard music fan" bit that would have been ok, but you're making an elitist statement here and being arrogant, even if you can't see it.

For the benefit of the thread though, essential listening for me would be
Dark Side of the Moon, Born to Run, Hotel California, Zep IV, Bat out of Hell, Number of the Beast or Piece of Mind or Powerslave, Irish Tour 74 by Rory Gallagher, Rumours, Foxtrot, Small Change and Rain Dogs.

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Frownland

I'm sorry that I've been so horribly offensive guys. I made the thread in about two minutes while on my smoke break at work.

Please find it in your hearts to forgive my irreparable sin of being pretentious, something that was never established anywhere else on this forum.

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Trollheart

Ah it's more a joke about his massive ego. Don't worry about it.
I agree with YD. If you just want a thread where everyone posts lists surely there are RYM and places like that where you can do that and get no comments? If you want discussion, then I don't see that YD has done anything wrong here, and like he says, you should be able to debate with him instead of telling him to **** off, which tore would have had you banned for.
Pretty much my point and YorkeDaddy's.

FTR, I believe a true music fan (dunno about a die hard one) is one who listens to music as much as they can, finds out about the bands they like, checks for others that may interest them, takes recs, doesn't just listen to singles and never buy or listen to albums, steps outside the top 40 and radio world, spends money on music and has a genuine passion for it. If you have all that, I don't really think it matters what you listen to, or what others think you should listen to.

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Overcast

Not sure why everyone is taking the thread so literally. Was the intent of this thread to make impersonal and predictable lists, or personal and therefore more interesting lists? It could be either way anyhow, because both serve a purpose of discussion.

Anyway, these are some of the 'essential' albums for me for certain genres. Nowhere near as interesting or groundbreaking as some of the other lists are going to be since I've only listened to a small sliver of mostly safe stuff.

The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 (indie folk)
The Microphones - Mount Eerie (avant-folk)
Joanna Newsom - Ys (chamber folk, singer-songwriter)
Slint - Spiderland (post-rock)
Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses (neofolk)
Agalloch - The Mantle (folk metal)
Akron/Family - S/T & Love Is Simple (very underrated freak folk)
Swans - Children of God (experimental rock/post-punk)
The Cure - Pornography (post-punk)
Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (experimental, noise pop)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 (ambient, electronic)
Beach House - Devotion (dream pop)
Beat Happening - S/T (twee pop)
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (ambient, electronic)
Carissa's Wierd - Songs About Leaving (slowcore)
Low - I Could Live In Hope (slowcore)
Red House Painters - Red House Painters I (slowcore)
Crystal Castles - S/T (electronic)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ (post-rock)
Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway (indie rock)
Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life (indie rock)
Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer (ambient)
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth (dark ambient, doom jazz)
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate (singer-songwriter, folk)
Melody's Echo Chamber - S/T (dream pop)
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (indie rock)
Mount Eerie - Singers (singer-songwriter, lo-fi)
Thanksgiving - S/T (singer-songwriter, lo-fi)
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (indie folk/rock)
múm - Finally We Are No One (post-rock, electronic)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (industrial, rock)
Portishead - Dummy (trip-hop)
Primus - Pork Soda (funk metal, alternative rock)
Radiohead - Kid A (electronic, rock)
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun (post-rock)
A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky (post-rock)
St. Vincent - Actor (indie pop)
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (indie folk)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - S/T (ambient, contemporary classical)
近藤浩治 - Yoshi's Island (VGM)
Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 (VGM)
Angelo Badalamenti & Julee Cruise - Twin Peaks (dream pop, jazz, ambient)

Frownland

Pork Soda is a great choice, I hadn't thought of that (yet).

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