The plot so far is I am listing my 100 essential albums so when they come to put me in an old people’s home they know which ones to take with me! Hopefully, not for a few years yet but planning is always good. The 10th on my list of 100 essential albums was to be Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones. I had begun writing the blog to say what is so good about this album. The thing is the more I wrote about Exile on Main Street the more I realised that it did not belong in a list of my essential 100 albums. Nice to have, yes but an essential album? No.
The really odd thing is that I find that I am feeling vaguely guilty about taking this out of my essential albums list. Yes, really. How weird is that? By the time I get down to the bottom half of the list of essential albums perhaps it will reappear. But if it is not an essential album and makes it at number 90 or whatever then I do not have 100 essential albums. In the meantime I will be reviewing my essential album list, are there any more that need to be dropped? Time will tell.
Until then Here is the updated list of my essential albums;
1 Strictly Personal Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
2 Gone Ant Gone Tim Fite
3 Horses Patti Smith
4 Music From a Dolls House Family
5 Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
6 Transformer Lou Reed
7 The Original Ray Charles
8 Disraeli Gears Cream
9 George Thorogood and the Destroyers George Thorogood and the Destroyers
10 Velvet Underground with Nico Velvet Underground with Nico
11 The Great 28 Chuckles Berry
12 The Complete Recordings Robert Johnson
13 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
14 Bitches Brew Miles Davis
15 It’s A Beautiful Day It’s A Beautiful Day
16 Punk Single Collection The Adverts
17 Berlin Lou Reed
18 We’re only in it for The Money Mothers of Invention
19 Howlin’ Wolf Howlin’ Wolf
20 Go Bo Diddley
21 Songs for Swinging Lovers Frank Sinatra
22 The Heart of Saturday Night Tom waits
23 Bringing it All Back Home Bob Dylan
24 Let It Bleed Rolling Stones
25 Revolver The Beatles
26 The Rise & fall of Ziggy Stardust etc. David Bowie
27 The Anthology Muddy Waters
28 Live at the Regal BB King
29 Marquee Moon Television
30 Back in Black AC/DC
31 Raw Power Iggy and the Stooges
32 Freak Out The Mothers of Invention
33 American Beauty Grateful Dead
34 Closing Time Tom Waits
35 Stripped Rolling Stones
36 With Eric Clapton John Mayall Blues Breakers
37 Nick of Time Bonny Raitt
38 Ramones Ramones
39 Saucerful of Secrets Pink Floyd
40 In the Court of the Crimson King King Crimson
41 Those About to Die Coliseum