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100 Albums That Changed Music And 500 Songs You Need to Hear

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ISBN-10: 0785821341

ISBN-13: 9780785821342

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sean Egan

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Which hundred albums have had the biggest impact on music in their time? Which of them have really changed things? And what, if you haven't heard them already are the 500 songs that you simply have to hear? Immediately, a hundred lists will form in a hundred minds, but here you'll find incisive, expert commentary from an array of expert music writers on the stand-out albums by the bands and performers who really turned things on their head: from Bob Dylan to the Sex Pistols, and from Marvin Gaye to Dr Dre. What exactly was the alchemy that the Beatles produced which so profoundly altered popular music in the 60s? How should we understand the impact and lasting significance of albums like…    
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List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Book Sales, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 319
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.78" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Dust Bowl Ballads - Woody Guthrie
Hank Williams Sings - Hank Williams
Shake, Rattle & Roll - Bill Haley And His Comets
Rock 'n' Roll is the New Rock 'n' Roll
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Leiber & Stoller
Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
Chuck Berry Is On Top - Chuck Berry
Muddy Waters At Newport 1960 - Muddy Waters
King Of The Delta Blues Singers - Robert Johnson
Short for Brilliant?
Showcase - Patsy Cline
Howlin Wolf - Howlin Wolf
The Freewheelin, Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Night Beat - Sam Cooke
The Wall of Sound
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
The Big Beat
Going To A Go-Go - Smokey Robinson And The Miracles
Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan
Pet Sounds -The Beach Boys
Don't Forget the Motor City!
Freak Out! - The Mothers Of Invention
Fifth Dimension - The Byrds
Revolver - The Beatles
Do Ya Like Good Music?
Parsley Sage, Rosemary And Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel
66-67 - The Creation
The Doors - The Doors
More Of The Monkees - The Monkees
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
Cosmic
Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Velvet Underground And Nico - The Velvet Underground And Nico
Tim Hardin 2 - Tim Hardin
Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Hit Man
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Heavy Metal Thunder
Something Else By The Kinks -The Kinks
Forever Changes - Love
Truth - Jeff Beck
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother And The Holding Company
Oh You Pretty Things!
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Music From Big Pink - The Band
The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan And The Band
Wheels Of Fire - Cream
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo - The Byrds
Dancefloor Decadence
The Beatles - The Beatles
S.F. Sorrow - The Pretty Things
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Tommy - The Who
Stand! - Sly And The Family Stone
One-Two-Free-Four!
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Fun House - The Stooges
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Back In The Usa - Mc5
When the Spitting Had to Stop...
Live At Leeds - The Who
Tapestry - Carole King
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Bleep!
Electric Warrior - T. Rex
Brian Jones Presents The Pan Pipes At Joujouka - The Master Musicians Of Joujouka
The Concert For Bangla Desh - Various Artists
Tago Mago - Can
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Fuck Art!
The Harder They Come: Original Soundtrack Recording - Various Artists
Nuggets - Various Artists
Talking Book - Stevie Wonder
The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
Yo!
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Any More For Any More?
Radio City - Big Star
Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wallers
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
21st Century Boys and Girls
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Horses - Patti Smith
Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer
Frampton Comes Alive! - Peter Frampton
"Coupled "With"
Ramones - Ramones
Arrival-Abba
Damned Damned Damned - The Damned
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Just The One
The Clash - The Clash
Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf
Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols
We Can Do It Too!
Dub Housing - Pere Ubu
Setting Sons - The Jam
London Calling - The Clash
Closer - Joy Division
Dare! - The Human League
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.
If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right
Like A Virgin - Madonna
Graceland - Paul Simon
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Wheat From Chaff
Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.
Metallica - Metallica
Nevermind - Nirvana
The Chronic - Dr Dre
Spice - The Spice Girls
And Lest We Forget...
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