paligap said:

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I have to just drop this without thinking about it anymore...or else I'd have to change every list completely! But here goes....just the 5 for each decade....

1960’s

Are You Experienced – Jimi Hendrix Experience

Abbey Road – The Beatles

Scorpio and Other Signs – Gary McFarland

Free Design (Kites Are Fun) – Free Design

Songs – Rotary Connection

1970’s

Extension of a Man - Donny Hathaway

Inner Visions – Stevie Wonder

I Want You – Marvin Gaye

All N All - Earth Wind and Fire

Aja – Steely Dan

1980’s

Don Blackman – Don Blackman

First Circle - Pat Metheny Group

Sign O’ The Times - Prince

World Machine – Level 42

Two Wheels Good – Prefab Sprout

1990’s

The Angel In The House – Jonatha Brooke and The Story

Dreamland – The Yellowjackets

Blackadelic Blu – Jean Paul Bourelly

High Life – Wayne Shorter

Lewis Taylor – Lewis Taylor

2000’s

Lewis II – Lewis Taylor

Spirit Tales - Stephen Simmonds

Residue – Hefner

Kamaal The Abstract – Q-Tip

Hadrien Feraud – Hadrien Feraud

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[Edited 4/17/12 16:04pm]

70% of your albums I haven't heard yet. But since I have a lot of respect for the ones you mention I know (Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie, Marvin, Prince of couse), but more importantly your not so common choices that I loved (Donny Hathaway, Steely Dan, Earth Wind & Fire), you got me curious to seek the rest of your list.

[Edited 5/28/12 13:07pm]

Let's try this

60s

Aretha - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You

Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits

Jimi - take your pick

Judy Garland - Live at Carnegie Hall

Beatles - Abbey Road

70s

Bob Marley - Live!

Bowie - Low

Joni - Blue

Led Zep - IV

Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

Van Halen - Van Halen

80s

Prince - Lovesexy

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come

MJ - Thriller

Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

90s

Lauryn - Miseducation

Nirvana - Nevermind

Nick Cave - Let Love In

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Faith No More - Angel Dust

Radiohead - OK Computer

00s

Amy - Back to Black

Britney - Blackout

Gaga - Fame

Queens of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Jay-Z - Blueprint

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

JoeTyler said:

60s

Beatles- Revolver

Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico

The Doors - The Doors

70s

David Bowie - Low

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Roxy Music - Country Life

80s

Prince - SOTT

Madonna - Like a Prayer

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Metallica - Master of Puppets

U2 - Achtung Baby

Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish

Depeche Mode - Violator

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

00s

Eminem - Marshal Matters LP

Brian Wilson - Smile

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Kylie Minogue - Fever

Lady GaGa - The Fame

[Edited 4/16/12 14:38pm]

Curious you're a fan of both Kylie Minogue, Metallica and U2. I felt they were kind of polarizing artists, didn't think of seeing them together. Curious mix.

well, dance/pop and metal were (and probably still are) my fav genres when I was a teen, I need to be in touch with both my masculine and femenine side

[Edited 5/29/12 5:59am]

I tried to think of only the albums that I absolutely love and to keep the same standards for every decade. Thus I mentioned more albums in some decades than the others.

I'm also a big fan of jazz, but I think it's absurd to rank it amongst "popular" music. There are ranks by some magazines that list "popular" records and put amongst them some 7 jazz/world music albums. It's like putting it together with Classical music. I can't compare these genres.

1960s

1. Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

2. Aretha Franklin - I never loved a man the way I love you
3. James Brown - Live at the Apollo

4. Rolling Stones - Beggar's banquet

5. Bob Dylan - Blonde on blonde

6. Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced?
7. Led Zeppelin II

8. The Temptations sing Smokey

9. Ray Charles - Modern sounds in Country and Western music
10. Beatles - Revolver

11. Etta James - At last

12. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul

13. Frank Zappa - Hot rats

14. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited

15. Cream - Disraeli gears
16. Zombies - Odessey and oracle

1970

1. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life

2. Led Zeppelin IV
3. Joni Mitchell - Blue
4. Steely Dan - Countdown to ecstasy
5. David Bowie - Low
6. Queen - A night at the Opera
7. Stevie Wonder - Talking book
8. Labelle - Nightbirds
9. Donny Hathaway - Everything is everything

10. Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
11. Rolling Stones - Exile on main street

12. Joni Mitchell - For the roses
13. Earth, Wind & Fire - That's the way of the world
14. Michael Jackson - Off the wall
15. Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh
16. Steely Dan - Aja
17. Caetano Veloso - Transa
18. Gilberto Gil - Rafazenda
19. David Bowie - Hunky Dory

1980

1. Michael Jackson - Thriller

2. Prince - Purple Rain
3. Prince - 1999
4. Prince - Sign 'o' the times
5. Chaka Khan - Watcha gonna do for me

6. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
7. Peter Gabriel IV

1990

1. The miseducation of Lauryn Hill

2. Fiona Apple - When the pawn...
3. Madonna - Ray of light
4. TLC - CrazySexyCool
5. Prodigy - The fat of the land

6. REM - Automatic for the people

7. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon collie and the infinite sadness

2000

1. MIA - Kala

2. Daft Punk - Discovery

3. Madonna - Music

4. Amy Winehouse - Back to black

5. Kelis - Tasty

6. Outkast - The love below
7. Björk - Vespertine
8. D'Angelo - Voodoo

9. Justice - Cross

[Edited 5/30/12 19:09pm]

1960s

1. Dusty Sprinfield - Dusty in Memphis

2. The Supremes - More Hits by the Supremes

3. Barbra Streisand - The Second Barbra Streisand Album

4. Dionne Warwick - Valley of the Dolls

5. Cher - 3614 Jackson Highway

1970s

1. Diana Ross - Diana Ross

2. Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams

3. Donna Summer - Bad Girls

4. Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M

5. Blondie - Eat to the Beat

1980s

1. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814

2. Tina Turner - Private Dancer

3. Diana Ross - Diana

4. Olivia Newton John - Physical

5. Madonna - Like a Virgin

1990s

1. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope

2. Madonna - Ray of Light

3. TLC - CrazySexyCool

4. Diana Ross - The Force Behind the Power

5. Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey

2000s

1. Dido - No Angel

2. Madonna - Confessions on a Dancefloor

3. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

4. Destiny's Child - Destiny Fulfilled

5. P!nk - I'm Not Dead

sextonseven said:

1960s:

1. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
2. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
3. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
4. Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis (1969)
5. The Beatles - Revolver (1966)

1970s:

1. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box (1979)
2. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)
3. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars (1972)
4. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (1979)
5. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)

1980s:

1. Prince and The Revolution - Parade (1986)
2. Prince and The Revolution - Purple Rain (1984)
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)
4. Christian Death - Only Theatre Of Pain (1982)
5. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland (1987)

1990s:

1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992)
2. Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
4. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (1995)
5. Deadsy - Commencement (1999 version)

2000s:

1. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes (2007)
2. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (2008)
3. Goldfrapp - Supernature (2006)
4. Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me (2004)
5. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2007)

I love making lists. I miss Moonbeam's org music polls.

awesome albums!