TGP'er Required Listening

[SigXer]

What songs or albums should be required listening? I'm looking for albums or songs that are so musically important or profound that you just have to have heard them at least once (even if they're in a style outside your typical listening genres) to be a well grounded musician. I've got a few to suggest for such a list:

The Beatles: Abbey Road, Help, Sgt. Peppers, and Revolver

Led Zeppelin: I, IV, and Houses of the Holy

SRV: Texas Flood

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are you Experienced? and Bold as Love

Vivaldi: Four Seasons

Beethoven: 5th Symphony

What would you add to the list?

 

[CharAznable]

If you focus on the TGP part, required listening would be Robben Ford, John Mayer, and anyone who has ever played Dumble.

 

[jazzandmetal?]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Joe Pass - Virtuoso

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Dimeola/Mclaughlin/Delucia - Friday Night in San Francisco

Van Halen - Fair Warning

Tony Williams Lifetime - The Collection

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare

There are many, many more.

 

[Member 995]

Mozart: The Four Seasons

I don't think I've heard this.

 

[sinner]

Could that be Vivaldi's Four Seasons?

 

[Rattle&Hum]

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

Yes: Fragile

U2: Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby

Radiohead: The Bends, OK Computer

Soundgarden: Superunknown

Stone Temple Pilots: Purple

Van Halen: 1984

and, gulp...

Seal: Human Being

 

[ben_allison]

TGP'er required listening?

Robbin Ford
Derek Trucks
Joe Bonamassa
John Mayer

 

[Bongo Jonny]

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks.

 

[doublee]

The Band's Brown album.

 

[Doug]

I don't think I've heard this.

It's a cover. Much better than the original, IMO.

 

[SigXer]

Could that be Vivaldi's Four Seasons?

Sorry for that gaff. I'm an idiot.

 

[Broken Cord]

John Mayer?

I don't get it. Really!

 

[blood5150]

Gustav Holst - The Planets

 

[PedalFreak]

I've got to add:

John Coltrane - Blue Train
Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion

 

[The Last Rebel]

Grateful Dead- Live Dead, American Beauty, and Workingman's Dead

Phish- Live at Madison Square Garden- New Year's Eve 1995

The Allman Brothers Band- Live At Fillmore East

Gov't Mule- Dose

 

[edgewound]

The best Led Zepplin ever recorded has been left out...til now.

"Physical Graffiti" is a sonic masterpiece.

 

[70sRock]

John Mayer?

I don't get it. Really!

Your not alone.

I don't get Mayer either.

 

[Lucidology]

So who is anyone to say what's required listening for moi or any other TGP'er...

I mean I'm just saying ....

 

[norumba]

ok, reccomended listening then:

Maha Orch birds of fire, visions of the emerald beyond

any solo Cecil Taylor

Peter Brotzmann, die like a dog quartet

Sonny Sharrock, Ask The Ages

Stravinsky, rite of spring

 

[Simon]

David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars