To go along with the top-10 song thread. From a "25 life-changing albums" thread on FB.
Now you guys won't recognize any of the albums on my list, 'cuz they all came out on 78s. And, of course, there's more than 25 of 'em -- always give you more for your money. So, in random alpha order:
Acoustic -- Everything but the Girl
All the News That's Fit to Sing, I Ain't a Marchin Any More, There but for Fortune -- Phil Ochs
American Fool -- John Cougar
Aqualung -- Jethro Tull
Beatles -- Beatles
Blind Faith -- Blind Faith
Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits -- Dire Straits
Buffalo Springfield -- Buffalo Springfield
Can't Buy a Thrill, Pretzel Logic -- Steely Dan
Cars -- The Cars
Circle Game -- Tom Rush
Diesel and Dust -- Midnight Oil
Disraeli Gears -- Cream
Doors -- The Doors
East-West -- Butterfield Blues Band
Eric Burdon Declares "War" -- Eric Burdon and War
Greatest Hits -- Bob Seger
Highway 61 Revisited, Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Times They Are A Changin' -- Bob Dylan
If You Could Read My Mind, Don Quixote, Old Dan's Records -- Gordon Lightfoot
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida -- Iron Butterfly
John Barleycorn Must Die, Low Spark of High Heeled Boys -- Traffic
Joshua Tree -- U2
Just Like You -- Keb Mo
Kick -- INXS
Ladies of the Canyon -- Joni Mitchell
Land of the Bottom Line -- John Gorka
Love Deluxe -- Sade
Mass in F Minor -- Electric Prunes
Miracle -- Willy Deville
Out of Our Heads -- Rolling Stones
Rei Momo -- David Byrne
River: The Joni Letters -- Herbie Hancock
Round About Midnight -- Miles Davis
Rumor and Sigh -- Richard Thompson
Shaking the Pumpkin -- Hugh Marsh/Robert Palmer
Steppenwolf, The Second -- Steppenwolf
Stranger -- Billy Joel
Strong Persuader -- Robert Cray
Surrealistic Pillow -- Jefferson Airplane
Too Long in the Wasteland -- James McMurtry
Tumbleweed Connection -- Elton John
Unplugged -- Eric Clapton
Willis Alan Ramsey -- Willis Alan Ramsey
World Is a Ghetto -- War
And, as usual, I'll be waking up occasionally the next couple of nights as more albums pop into my head...
Now you guys won't recognize any of the albums on my list, 'cuz they all came out on 78s. And, of course, there's more than 25 of 'em -- always give you more for your money. So, in random alpha order:
Acoustic -- Everything but the Girl
All the News That's Fit to Sing, I Ain't a Marchin Any More, There but for Fortune -- Phil Ochs
American Fool -- John Cougar
Aqualung -- Jethro Tull
Beatles -- Beatles
Blind Faith -- Blind Faith
Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits -- Dire Straits
Buffalo Springfield -- Buffalo Springfield
Can't Buy a Thrill, Pretzel Logic -- Steely Dan
Cars -- The Cars
Circle Game -- Tom Rush
Diesel and Dust -- Midnight Oil
Disraeli Gears -- Cream
Doors -- The Doors
East-West -- Butterfield Blues Band
Eric Burdon Declares "War" -- Eric Burdon and War
Greatest Hits -- Bob Seger
Highway 61 Revisited, Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Times They Are A Changin' -- Bob Dylan
If You Could Read My Mind, Don Quixote, Old Dan's Records -- Gordon Lightfoot
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida -- Iron Butterfly
John Barleycorn Must Die, Low Spark of High Heeled Boys -- Traffic
Joshua Tree -- U2
Just Like You -- Keb Mo
Kick -- INXS
Ladies of the Canyon -- Joni Mitchell
Land of the Bottom Line -- John Gorka
Love Deluxe -- Sade
Mass in F Minor -- Electric Prunes
Miracle -- Willy Deville
Out of Our Heads -- Rolling Stones
Rei Momo -- David Byrne
River: The Joni Letters -- Herbie Hancock
Round About Midnight -- Miles Davis
Rumor and Sigh -- Richard Thompson
Shaking the Pumpkin -- Hugh Marsh/Robert Palmer
Steppenwolf, The Second -- Steppenwolf
Stranger -- Billy Joel
Strong Persuader -- Robert Cray
Surrealistic Pillow -- Jefferson Airplane
Too Long in the Wasteland -- James McMurtry
Tumbleweed Connection -- Elton John
Unplugged -- Eric Clapton
Willis Alan Ramsey -- Willis Alan Ramsey
World Is a Ghetto -- War
And, as usual, I'll be waking up occasionally the next couple of nights as more albums pop into my head...