I dischi imprescindibili non sono quelli che contengono due o tre hit. Sono quegli album che vanno ascoltati nel loro insieme perché non sono una banale somma di canzoni più o meno belle, ma la fotografia dello stato di grazia di una band in quel preciso momento storico. In studio o anche dal vivo. Sono spesso pietre miliari, opere destinate a durare nel tempo, a lasciare il segno in più generazioni.
Facile pensare a The Dark side of the moon dei Pink Floyd o a Pet Sounds dei Beach Boys. Ma anche a Kid A dei Radiohead, Blonde on blonde di Bob Dylan, American Idiot dei Green Day o a Me against the world di Tupac Shakur.
Così, per non farci mancare nulla, ne abbiamo selezionati 150 che per noi sono il simbolo della bellezza in musica.
P.S. Non è una classifica…
1) Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
2) Beatles – White album
3) Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
4) Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
5) John Coltrane – A love supreme
6) Radiohead – Kid A
7) Clash – London Calling
8) Guns ‘N Roses – Appetite for destruction
9) Television – Marquee Moon
10) Joni Mitchell – Blue
11) Sex Pistols – Never Mind the bollocks
12) Aretha Franklin – Lady soul
13) Who – Who’s next
14) Marvin Gaye – What’s going on
15) Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
16) James Brown – Live at Apollo
17) Beastie Boys – Licensed to ill
18) Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
19) Black Sabbath – Sabbath bloody sabbath
20) Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
21) Bob Marley – Natty Dread
22) Frank Sinatra – In the wee small hours
23) Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground
24) Charlie Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
25) Tupac Shakur – Me against the world
26) Pink Floyd – The Dark side of the moon
27) Neil Young – Harvest
28) Green Day – American Idiot
29) Nirvana – Nevermind
30) Genesis – Selling England by the pound
31) Queen – A night at the Opera
32) Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
33) Notorius B.I.G. – Ready to die
34) Eminem – The Slim Shady Lp
35) Duke Ellington – Masterpieces by Ellington
36) Stevie Wonder – Songs in the key of life
37) Ramones – It’s Alive
38) Dead Kennedys – Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables / In God we Trust
39) Iggy Pop & Stooges – Raw Power
40) Robert Plant – Dreamland
41) The Doors – The Doors
42) Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
43) Robbie Robertson – Music for Native Americans
44) Jeff Buckley – Grace
45) Lou Reed – Transformer
46) Smiths – The Queen is dead
47) D’Angelo – Voodoo
48) Michael Jackson – Thriller
49) Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad
50) Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
51) Cheap Trick – Live at Budokan
52) Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the run
53) Van Halen – Fair Warning
54) Bob Dylan – Time out of mind
55) Radiohead – Ok Computer
56) Beatles – Set. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band
57) Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
58) Rolling Stones – Exile on Main street
59) Roxy Music – For your pleasures
60) Talking Heads – Remain in light
61) The Harder they come – Colonna sonora
62) Saturday night fever – Colonna sonora
63) Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
64) Police – Reggatta de blanc
65) Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers
66) Jesus Christ Superstar – Colonna sonora
67) Johnny Cash – American Recordings
68) Lauryn Hill – The Myseducation of Lauryn Hill
69) Miles Davis – A kind of blue
70) Neil Young – Live Rust
71) Moby – Play
72) Pink Floyd – The Wall
73) Jethro Tull – A Minstrel in the gallery
74) Leonard Cohen – Songs of love and hate
75) U2 – Achtung Baby
76) Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
77) Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes
78) The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psycho Candy
79) Parliament – Mothership Connection
80) Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
81) Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Freak out!
82) Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
83) Emerson Lake & Palmer – Tarkus
84) Yes – Fragile
85) Rush – Emispheres
86) Motorhead – No sleep ‘til Hammersmith
87) Kiss – Destroyer
88) Genesis – The Lamb lies down on Broadway
89) Peter Gabriel – Us
90) New York Dolls – New York Dolls
91) Santana – Abraxas
92) Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman
93) Prince – Sign “O” Times
94) Ac-Dc – Back in black
95) Strokes – Is this it
96) Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley (1956)
97) Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
98) Deep Purple – Made in Japan
99) The Who – Quadrophenia
100) Otis Redding – The dock of the bay
101) Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
102) Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
103) Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the edge of town
104) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Deja Vu
105) Grace Slick – Manhole
106) Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis
107) The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream
108) Sonny Rollins – The Bridge
109) Janis Joplin – Pearl
110) Sly and the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
111) Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
112) Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water
113) Faith No More – Angel’s Dust
114) U2 – The Joshua Tree
115) Metallica – Metallica (Black album)
116) King Crimson – In the court of King Crimson
117) Oasis – (What’s the story) Morning Glory
118) Toto – Toto IV
119) Alice Cooper – The Alice Cooper Show
120) Robert Johnson – The complete recordings
121) Supertramp – Live in Paris
122) Abba – Live at Wembley Arena
123) Dire Straits – Making Movies
124) Chic – Risqué
125) Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
126) Billy Joel – 52nd Street
127) David Bowie – The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust
128) John Martyn – Solid Air
129) R.E.M. – Automatic for the people
130) Eagles – Hotel California
131) Pearl Jam – Ten
132) Donald Fagen – The nightfly
133) Peter Tosh – Legalize it
134) Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
135) Herbie Hancock – Headhunter
136) Jeff Beck – Wired
137) Pop Group – Y
138) Nine Inch Nails – Downward Spiral
139) John Martyn – Solid Air
140) Cure – Disintegration
141) Patti Smith – Horses
142) Devo – ‘Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!’
143) Paul Simon – Graceland
144) Blur – 13
145) Quincy Jones – Big Band Bossa Nova
146) Kate Bush – Hounds of love
147) Carole King – Tapestry
148) The Band – Music from Big Pink
149) Nina Simone – I put a spell on you
150) Roger Waters – The pros and cons of hitchhiking