I'll be posting an update in the coming days. My current list is both too small and out of date.

Okay, here it is. I realize its big, so if there's a cap on the number of albums, don't feel bad chopping some off for the front page.

1) Blood on the Tracks- Bob Dylan
2) Astral Weeks- Van Morrison
3) What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
4) Quadrophenia- The Who
5) London Calling- The Clash
6) Red- King Crimson
7) Blonde on Blonde- Bob Dylan
8) Innervisions- Stevie Wonder
9) Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
10) King of the Delta Blues Singers- Robert Johnson
11) West Side Soul- Magic Sam
12) Sticky Fingers- The Rolling Stones
13) Bootleg Volume 4: The Royal Albert Hall Concert- Bob Dylan
14) Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
15) John Wesley Harding- Bob Dylan
16) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill- Lauryn Hill
17) The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady- Charles Mingus
18) Mingus Ah Um- Charles Mingus
19) In the Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson
20) Pastel Blues- Nina Simone
21) Songs in the Key of Life- Stevie Wonder
22) Highway 61 Revisited- Bob Dylan
23) Texas Flood- Stevie Ray Vaughan
24) he Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars- David Bowie
25) A Love Supreme- John Coltrane
26) Exile on Main Street- The Rolling Stones
27) Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
28) Illmatic- Nas
29) Pink Moon- Nick Drake
30) Bringing It All Back Home- Bob Dylan
31) American Recordings- Johnny Cash
32) Court & Spark- Joni Mitchell
33) In a Silent Way- Miles Davis
34)Talking Book- Stevie Wonder
35) Music from Big Pink- The Band
36) Ready to Die- The Notorious B.I.G.
37) Who's Next? - The Who
38) Time Out- The Dave Brubeck Quartet
39) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan
40) Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
41) Nevermind- Nirvana
42) Close to the Edge- Yes
43) Harvest- Neil Young
44) 1955 Shrine Concert- Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers
45) Another Side of Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan
46) Otis Blue- Otis Redding
47) Giant Steps- John Coltrane
48) At Last- Etta James
49)Velvet Underground & Nico- Velvet Underground
50) Paid in Full- Eric B. & Rakim

a_man_named_gray more like a_man_named_cash $$$

Red that high is

Those are all great albums, heaps of good choices in there, but it's all old stuff. I think the newest one on there is the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and that was 13 years ago. There have been so many monumental albums since then, I would have thought one or two would make an appearance. Have you listened to much of the last decade?

his taste really seems to be limited to the more "classic" artists.

No I haven't Mitch. I had a really close minded attitude towards modern music for a while. I'm starting to come around a bit, but my favorite genres still seem to have hit their haydays much earlier.

I'm sure it'll all hit with you in time. You're about 16 or so, are you not Gray? I was listening to similarly older stuff mainly back then too (but probably not as varied as you).

Yup, 16 Georgi. I'm actually starting to gain an appreciation for the modern day pop hits that I'll hear on the radio, something I never thought would happen(though I'm still quite far from wanting to listen to them in my free time)

5 years later, you discover that k-pop is some of the most brilliantly crafted pop in the universe

Do I?

I assume that's because I almost exclusively used DDD's "greatest" lists to discover more music when I first started to get into it.

Bitch please, that only took me 3 years.

a_man_named_gray, if you are starting to appreciate modern pop, but still aren't quite their and want an entrance which has it's basis is guitar music, then go and get yourself a copy of 69 Love Songs, rip-it to your PC or iPod and for the next 3 weeks just stick it on shuffle and appreciate it's goodness and you will become unbelievably addicted to it.

I should have figured you'd be coming in here to talk about your Stephen Merritt.

I'll give it a try.