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LISTS
MUSICAL
ARTISTS
THAT EVERYONE
NEEDS TO KNOW OF, RESPECT,
AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE BRILLIANCE OF
Ludwig
Van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Queen
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
The Police
The Smiths
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Pretenders
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Chet Baker
Beastie Boys
Blondie
The Ramones
Metallica
The Misfits (with Danzig)
Minor Threat
Black Flag
Circle Jerks
The Minutemen
Millions of Dead Cops (M.D.C.)
Ben Folds
Elliott Smith
Juliana Hatfield (and her old band Blake Babies)
Imogen Heap (and Frou Frou)
Jawbreaker
Jets To Brazil
Seal
Human League
Invisibl Skratch Piklz (DJ Qbert, Mix Master Mike and DJ Apollo)
Bela Fleck / Flecktones
Beck
Sarah McLachlan
Tori Amos
Fiona Apple
Aesop Rock
Buck 65
Sage Francis
Anticon (and Alias)
Jon Brion
John Mayer
Sonic Youth
Smashing Pumpkins
Portishead
Pennywise
Dixie Chicks (yeah. watch the documentary Shut Up and Sing before
you pass judgement)
Tristeza
The Album Leaf
Mogwai
My Bloody Valentine...
80
great films (vol. 1)
8MM
10 Things I Hate About You
11:14
Almost Famous
Amelie
American Beauty
American History X
Annie Hall
As Good As It Gets
Beautiful Girls
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Being John Malkovich
Brick
Buffalo '66
Butterfly Effect, The
Chasing Amy
Closer
Contact
Count of Monte Cristo, The (2001)
Crow, The
Dear Frankie
Deconstructing Harry
Donnie Darko
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Dream For An Insomniac
Elizabethtown
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Falling Down
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Gas Food Lodging
Good Girl, The
Good Will Hunting
Grindhouse: Planet Terror / Death Proof
Groundhog Day
Gummo
Hard Candy
He Was A Quiet Man
High Fidelity
Holiday, The
Hours, The
In America
Irreversible
Kicking and Screaming (dir: Noah Baumbach)
Leon: The Professional (international cut)
Little Manhattan
Lost In Translation
Love Actually
Manhattan
Manic
Melvin Goes To Dinner
Memento
Mumford
Next Stop Wonderland
Nine Lives (dir: Rodrigo Garcia)
Oleanna
Patch Adams
Pulp Fiction
Pump Up The Volume
RENT
Red Shoe Diaries: The Movie
Running With Scissors
Sex Lies and Videotape
Shawshank Redemption, The
Shopgirl
Sling Blade
Squid and the Whale, The (dir: Noah Baumbach)
Station Agent, The
Stranger Than Fiction
Swingers
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her (dir: Rodrigo Garcia)
Thirteen
Trust (dir: Hal Hartley)
United States of Leland, The
Untamed Heart
V for Vendetta
Waking Life
Welcome To The Dollhouse
When Harry Met Sally
White Oleander
15
documentaries you must see
01 Wal*Mart:
The High Cost Of Low Price
02
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
03
Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore)
04
11th Hour (Leonardo Dicaprio)
05
An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)
06
American Hardcore
07
DIY or DIE: How To Survive As An Independent Artist (Michael
W. Dean)
08
Charles Bukowski: Born Into This
09
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
10
Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
11
Before The Music Dies (B4MD.com)
12
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
(the story of how they spoke out against Bush's administration,
and got hell for it by country fans (even receiving death threats
at concerts), and how they STILL stand fast to their beliefs, even
though it meant they had to rebuild their musical career and fanbase...
best music documentary I've EVER seen... a MUST-SEE.)
13 The U.S. Vs. John Lennon (2006)
14 This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
15 We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)
200
albums you need to own (vol. 1 - in chronological order)
01
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
02 Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy (1973)
03 The Beatles - 1967-1970 (1973)
04 Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974)
05 Queen - A Night At The Opera (1975)
06 Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul For Rock N' Roll (1976)
07 Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits (1978)
08 Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-1978 (1978)
09 Queen - The Game (1980)
10 Circle Jerks - Group Sex (1980)
11 Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat (1981)
12 Black Flag - Damaged (1981)
13 Bad Brains - Bad Brains (1982)
14 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (1983)
15 Black Flag - My War (1984)
16 Black Flag - Family Man (1984)
17 Madonna - Like A Virgin (1984)
18 The Smiths - The Smiths (1984)
19 Metallica - Ride The Lightning (1984)
20 The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (1985)
21 Black Flag - In My Head (1985)
22 Heart - Heart (1985)
23 Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega (1985)
24 Misfits - Collection I (1986)
25 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
26 Nick Drake - Fruit Tree Box Set (1986)
27 Run DMC - Raising Hell (1986)
28 Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (1986)
29 Slayer - Reign In Blood (1986)
30 Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing (1987)
31 Pretenders - The Singles (1987)
32 Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1988)
33 Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
(1988)
34 Slayer - South of Heaven (1988)
35 Dinosaur Jr. - Bug (1988)
36 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
37 Nirvana - Bleach (1989)
38 Chet Baker - The Best Of Chet Baker Sings (1989)
39 Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989)
40 Green Day - 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1990)
41 Prong - Beg To Differ (1990)
42 Lightning Seeds - Cloudcuckooland (1990)
43 The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (1990)
44 Blake Babies - Sunburn (1990)
45 Flotsam and Jetsam - When The Storm Comes Down (1990)
46 Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (1990)
47 Alice In Chains - Facelift (1990)
--------------------- 47a. MC900 Ft. Jesus - Welcome To My Dream
(1990)
48 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
49 Operation Ivy - Energy [aka Operation Ivy] - (1991)
50 Pet Shop Boys - Discography I (1991)
51 Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly (1991)
52 Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
53 Pennywise - Pennywise (1991)
54 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
55 Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992)
56 Ministry - Psalm 69 (1992)
57 Green Day - Kerplunk! (1992)
58 Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (1992)
59 Alice In Chains - Dirt (1992)
60 Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe (1992)
61 Face To Face - Don't Turn Away (1992)
62 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993)
63 Blake Babies - Innocence and Experience (1993)
64 Pearl Jam - Vs. (1993)
65 Life Of Agony - River Runs Red (1993)
66 Pennywise - Unknown Road (1993)
67 The Juliana Hatfield Three - Become What You Are (1993)
68 311 - Music (1993)
69 311 - Grassroots (1994)
70 Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)
71 Lagwagon - Trashed (1994)
72 Underworld - Dubnobasswithmhyheadman (1994)
73 Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (1994)
74 Weezer - Weezer [blue album] - (1994)
75 Rancid - Let's Go (1994)
76 Downset - Downset. (1994)
77 Portishead - Dummy (1994)
78 Rollins Band - Weight (1994)
79 Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
80 Erasure - I Say I Say I Say (1994)
81 Cranes - Loved (1994)
82 Catherine Wheel - Chrome (1994)
83 Jawbreaker - Dear You (1995)
84 Garbage - Garbage (1995)
85 Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut (1995)
86 Misfits - Collection II (1995)
87 Senser - Stacker Up (1995)
88 Deftones - Adrenaline (1995)
89 Vanessa Daou - Zipless (1995)
90 Dance Hall Crashers - Lockjaw (1995)
91 Ben Lee - Grandpaw Would (1995)
92 Discount - Half Fiction (1995)
93 Fistfunk - Totalmassconfusion (1995)
94 The Innocence Mission - Glow (1995)
95 Archive - Londinium (1996)
96 Satisfact - The Unwanted Sounds Of Satisfact (1996)
97 Fiona Apple - Tidal (1996)
98 Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire (1996)
99 Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out! (1996)
100 The Cardigans - First Band On The Moon (1996)
101 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996)
102 Fountains Of Wayne - Fountains Of Wayne (1996)
103 Ivy - Apartment Life (1997)
104 Laika - Sounds of the Satellites (1997)
105 Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (1997)
106 Bigwig - Unmerry Melodies (1997)
107 Ben Lee - Something To Remember Me By (1997)
108 Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever, Amen (1997)
109 Misfits - Static Age (1997)
110 Deftones - Around The Fur (1997)
111 Portishead - Portishead (1997)
112 Crystal Method - Vegas (1997)
113 Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)
114 Jets To Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
115 Mysteries Of Life - Come Clean (1998)
116 Esthero - Breath From Another (1998)
117 Phantom Planet - Is Missing (1998)
118 Garbage - Version 2.0 (1998)
119 Zebrahead - Waste Of Mind (1998)
120 Hum - Downward Is Heavenward (1998)
121 Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come (1998)
122 Starseeds - Parallel Life (1998)
123 Teen Idols - Pucker Up! (1998)
124 American Beauty - Score by Thomas Newman (1999)
125 Antarctica - 81:03 (1999)
126 Anticon - Music For The Advancement Of Hip-Hop (1999)
127 Moby - Play (1999)
128 Slipknot - Slipknot (1999)
129 Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect (1999)
130 Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Vol. 1, 2 and 3 (1999)
131 Dance Hall Crashers - Purr (1999)
132 Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (1999)
133 Tristeza - Dream Signals In Full Circles (2000)
134 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
135 Splashdown - Blueshift (2000 / Capital Records, never released)
136 Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide (2000)
137 Jets To Brazil - Four Cornered Night (2000)
138 Starseeds - There Is Enough For Everyone (2000)
139 VNV Nation - Empires (2000)
140 The Operacycle - Warmer (2000)
141 Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be On Time (2001)
142 Pinback - Blue Screen Life (2001)
143 Aesop Rock - Labor Days (2001)
144 Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs (2001)
145 Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American [aka Jimmy Eat World] - (2001)
146 Azure Ray - Azure Ray (2001)
147 Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the New Loud (2001)
148 Frou Frou - Details (2002)
149 Jets To Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness (2002)
150 Ova Looven - 58:34 (2002)
151 Sage Francis - Personal Journals (2002)
152 Sonic Youth - Murray Street (2002)
153 Soviet - We Are Eyes, We Are Builders (2002)
154 Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002)
155 Denali - Denali (2002)
156 Alias - The Other Side Of The Looking Glass (2002)
157 Spylab - This Utopia (2002)
158 VNV Nation - Futureperfect (2002)
159 Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)
160 Buck 65 - Vertex (re-released in 2002)
161 Buck 65 - Synesthesia (re-released in 2002)
162 Buck 65 - Man Overboard (re-released in 2002)
163 Buck 65 - Talkin' Honky Blues (2003)
164 Buck 65 - Square (re-released in 2002)
165 Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk (2002)
166 Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers (2003)
167 Mew - Frengers (2003)
168 Kaki King - Everyone Loves You (2003)
169 Denali - The Instinct (2003)
170 The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
171 Nada Surf - Let Go (2003)
172 Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
173 Laika - Whatever I Am, I Am What Is Missing (2003)
174 M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, Lost Ghosts (2003)
175 Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer - Jalopy Go Far (2003)
176 Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer - Popsicle EP (2004)
177 Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust (2004)
178 Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street (2004)
179 The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight (2004)
180 Jimmy Eat World - Futures (2004)
181 Joss Stone - Mind, Body & Soul (2004)
182 Keane - Hopes and Fears (2004)
183 Tegan and Sara - So Jealous (2004)
184 Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman (2005)
185 M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (2005)
186 Bright Eyes - Digital Ash In A Digital Urn (2005)
187 Maria Taylor - 11:11 (2005)
188 L'Altra - Different Days (2005)
189 Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself (2005)
190 Wheatus - Suck Fony (2005)
191 Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time (2006)
192 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (2006)
193 Maria Taylor - Lynn Teeter Flower (2007)
194 A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea (2007)
195 Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer - Schematics (2007)
196 Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (2007)
197 The Pierces - Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge (2007)
198 The Bird and the Bee - The Bird and the Bee (2007)
199 Kate Havnevik - Melankton (2007)