A page devoted to some of the best music ever produced.
(There's no Britney on this site i'm afraid!!!)
Underground - A 60s & 70s Music Society from the University of Warwick.
Below is a list of top quality albums as recommended by the DJs themselves:
- Rolling Stones - Let
It Bleed - Full of classic Stones tracks, this is an essential R&B
album.
- Rolling Stones - Exile
On Main Street
- Beatles - Abbey
Road - Classic soft and hard rock numbers from the Beatles and
arguably one of the best intermixed B sides anywhere.
- Beatles - Revolver
- Electric Prunes - Underground
- The Stooges - Fun
House
- MC5 - High Time
- Pink Floyd - Piper
At The Gates Of Dawn
- Velvet Underground - White
Light White Heat
- Funkadelic - Free
Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
- Can - Tago Mago
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid
- 13th Floor Elevators -
Bull Of The Woods - The mission statement of the 13th Floor
Elevators was to expand the mind; the classic psychedelia of this album
does just that.
- The Doors - Strange
Days
- James Brown - The
Payback
- Miles Davis - Get
Up With It
- Roxy Music - Roxy
Music
- Neil Young - On The
Beach
- Neu! - Neu! 75
- Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic
Pillow - Containing the classic hippy freakout White Rabbit; a real
journey of the mind.
- From Grace Slick
- Television - Marquee
Moon
- Sly And The Family Stone
- There's A Riot Goin' On
- Jimi Hendrix - Electric
Ladyland - The name Hendrix is almost synonymous with the overdriven
and distorted guitar tones littered over a top rock album.
- The Notorious Byrds
Brothers
- Captain Beefheart - Trout
Mask Replica
- Captain Beefheart - Safe
As Milk - Discordant tunes and crazy lyrics but still an album that
makes you want to get up and dance!
- Beach Boys - Pet
Sounds
- Grateful Dead - American
Beauty
- Nick Drake - Pink
Moon
- Nick Drake - Five
Leaves Left - Beautiful sleepy acoustic musings.
- Tom Waits - Asylum
Years
- Love - Forever
Changes - An essential 1967 album with an incredibly intricate
structure.
- Neil Young - After
The Goldrush
- Velvet Underground And
Nico - The album that gave birth to punk.
- John Mayall - Bluesbreakers
With Eric Clapton - The album that almost took blues mainstream;
positively dripping with overdriven guitar work from Eric Clapton on a Les
Paul.
- Bob Dylan - Highway
61 Revisited - A class selection of longer Dylan tracks kicked off
with the classic Like A Rolling Stone
- Cream - Disraeli
Gears - A top class blues-influenced album that boasts one of the best
album covers ever.
- Procol Harum - A
Whiter Shade Of Pale - Everyone knows the title track; but the album
is a collection of solid songs with unhinged lyrics.
- Pink Floyd - Relics
- "I've got a bike you can ride it if you like"... Syd Barrett's
classic Pink Floyd psychedelia is captured well here.
- Sex Pistols - Never
Mind The Bollocks - Neither the first nor the best punk band; but this
is the album that defined 1977's punk explosion.
- The Clash - The
Clash - Not just a fantastic punk album but a top-class rock record in
its own right.
- The Undertones - The
Undertones - No band since has quite managed to get pop-punk as purely
right as the Undertones. For those put off by the usual whining punk
tones@ Feargal Sharkey's singing is the perfect antidote.
- The Clash - London
Calling - The first of the more experimental Clash albums; punk fuses
with reggae and other influences, while the title track is a bona-fide
classic.
- Otis Redding - Otis
Blue - Various classic atlantic soul songs given a unique
interpretation by Otis Redding
- Blondie - Parallel
Lines
- Parliament - Up For
The Downstroke - One of the straight-out sexiest albums ever.
- Tim Buckley - Tim
Buckley - A great singer-songwriter's naive yet romantic teenage
debut.
- The Kinks - Village
Green Preservation Society - It's about England... of course it's ace!
- The Stooges - Raw
Power
- The Doors - The
Doors
- Led Zeppelin - IV
- Arguably the best band playing the best song on the best album ever.
Thanks goes to Matt Kimber of Underground for compiling the list from all the suggestions.
