For those of you that don't know me, I'm a classic rock girl at heart. It's the genre of music that I grew up on, what I lived and breathed before NYC, my inspiration for the music-filled life that I live now. A few years ago, I was the type of person that mostly sought out "Greatest Hits," "Best of," "Top Singles" albums, figuring, what's the point of testing out all of an artist's albums if their greatest hits are supposedly all on one? In truth, if you want to get to know an artist fast and decide whether you like them or not, test out their greatest hits album. Every classic band has one. But if you truly want to get to know an artist, enjoy an album as a sum of its parts the way it was meant to be, lose yourself in the moment in time it was written and recorded, question the lyrics and the order of tracks; you can really appreciate an album in it's entirety and see an artist in a pleasingly new light. If you're willing to go all out--listen to the hard cold record.
There are an endless amount of albums I have yet to discover, but here, a few of my most cherished.
The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed, Exile On Main St and Beggars Banquet
David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Starman
The Doors, Morrison Hotel and Waiting for the Sun
George Harrison, All Things Must Pass
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Who, Live at Leeds
Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy and Led Zeppelin III
The Beatles, Abbey Road
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced?
Cat Stevens, Footsteps in the Dark
Paul Simon, Graceland
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon and Animals
The Allman Brothers Band, An Evening with The Allman Brothers
Eric Clapton, 461 Ocean Boulevard
The Band, The Band
Jethro Tull, Aqualung
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Exodus
The Grateful Dead, American Beauty and Workingman's Dead
Carol King, Tapestry
Rush, Moving Pictures
The Police, Outlandos d'Amour
Steely Dan, Can't Buy a Thrill
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Yes, The Yes Album
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