The Other Way On Music

So, let's get this thing started.

Music has long been a passion of mine - I can't play to save my life - but I love listening to music and if I could ever play a note properly I'd be a very happy man.

My Musical Tastes (AKA Mr A's essential selection)

Basically, you could condense my taste in music down to the following albums:

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Basically, the third album. It meshes the band's early avant-garde madness with the latter rock purity.

Joy Division - Closer

Cold, dark and totally uncompromising.

De La Soul - Three Feet High And Rising/Jay-Z - The Black Album

The two greatest hip-hop albums of all time.

2ManyDJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 2

Mash-ups and bastard pop. The new rock and roll.

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

The album that defined my attitude.

Johnny Cash - American Recordings IV

The greatest voice of all covering some of the greatest tracks of all.

Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend

The Soul Stirrer's essential selection.

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

No collection should be without any Dylan, and this is his Magnum Opus.

Gang Of Four! - Entertainment

The pre-cursor to all this angular indie-rock plaguing (in a good way) the nation these days.

Belle And Sebastian - Tigermilk

Perfect independent pop-rock from Scotland's greatest songwriters.

Bob Marley - African Herbsman

Reggae god in his dub phase, working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry to define a genre. Epoch making.

LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

Best album of the 2000's. Fact.

The Strokes - Is This It?

I would give my right leg to see this band live.

The White Stripes - Elephant

And the other leg would be given to see these.

Take all those, fill in the gaps, and you've got my taste in music.

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