At the urging of a friend on Facebook, I am accepting the challenge to name fifteen albums that don't suck. This isn't as easy as it sounds, either. I was around and buying music when CDs first hit the market -- you know, back when they were called "record stores?" Investing in an album on CD was just that, an investment -- CDs cost $20 back then. So an album had to be good before I spent any money on it. I eventually reached the point where I wasn't as picky, and would buy an album for a song or two that I liked, but only if the CD single wasn't available.
So my list includes some of that older stuff, but a few newer albums. But the point is, the whole album has to be good -- i.e. something I would sit down and listen to from beginning to end -- not just two or three good tracks and a bunch of filler. So here goes, in no particular order:
- Prince - Purple Rain
- Green Day - American Idiot
- Yes - 90125
- Asia - Asia
- Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot
- Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
- Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
- They Might Be Giants - Flood
- Depeche Mode - Violator
- Billy Joel - An Innocent Man (the first CD I ever bought)
- UB40 - Live in Moscow
- Yaz - Upstairs At Eric's
- The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
- The Time - What Time Is It?
- Digital Underground - Sex Packets
What do you think?