I thought of this after reading some of the responses in XXX's thread about your favorite albums from your favorite style of music.

What would be your pick for 10 "Must Have" Albums? You don't have to list Top 10, just 10 albums of any genre. :)

ok here's my 10:


Prefab Sprout - 38 Carat Collection

Marvin Gaye - Whats Going on

Jefferson Airplane - 2400 Fulton Street

Nu Yorican Soul - Nu Yorican Soul

The Doors - The Doors

Bob Marley - Legend

Wendy and Lisa - Wendy and Lisa

Enya - Shepherd Moons

Vangelis - 1492 Soundtrack

Prince - Parade

If I could only have 10 cd's I'd go with thses. (an hour from now my selections could be totaly different :) )

1. Warrior Soul - Last Decade, Dead Century
2. Geza X - You Goddam Kids!
3. The Nymphs - The Nymphs
4. Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
5. Bad Brains - I Against I
6. Bob Marley - Legends
7. Concrete Blonde - Free
8. Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy
9. Backyard Babies - Total 13
10. T. Rex - Dandy In The Underworld

Sign O' The Times-Prince
Paradise Theatre-Styx
Bat out of hell-Meatloaf
It would take a nation of millions to hold us back-Public Enemy
Four-Foreigner
Controversy-Prince
Hi-infidelity-REO Speedwagon
King of rock-Run-D.M.C.
Fresh horses-Garth Brooks
Parade-Prince

These aren't "essential" albums, just ten of my favorites. This is hard for me because I deal mostly in singles and greatest hits collections.

10 is not big but at least you can do a long time with that, ex: in you're car! ;)


1. The Bangles - Greatest Hits
2. Richard Séguin - Journée d'Amérique
3. U2 - The Joshua Tree
4. Van Halen - 1984
5. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
6. Jefferson Starship - Love Songs
7. Journey - Greatest Hits
8. Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
9. The Beatles - Let It Be...
10. U2 - War

In no particular order.....

1. Iron Maiden ~ The Number Of The Beast
2. REO Speedwagon ~ You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish
3. Queen ~ A Night At The Opera
4. Styx ~ Pieces Of Eight
5. Rush ~ Hemispheres
6. Emerson Lake & Palmer ~ Tarkus
7. Yes ~ Yessongs
8. Symphony X ~ V: The New Mythology Suite
9. Elton John ~ Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
10. Meatloaf ~ Bat Out Of Hell

1) Pyromania- Def Leppard
2) Billion Dollar Babies- Alice Cooper
3) Glass Houses - Billy Joel
4) Bat out of Hell- Meat Loaf
5) Back in Black- AC/DC
6) Van Halen II- Van Halen
7) Alive- Kiss
8) 2112- Rush
9) Appetite for Destruction- GNR
10) Fly like an Eagle- Steve Miller Band

Ten essential albums of all genres? Now THAT is tough question to answer :D

1. Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan
2. Vienna by Ultravox
3. Heart Still Beating by Roxy Music
4. Black Celebration by Depeche Mode
5. Substance by NewOrder
6. Garbage by Garbage
7. Rialto by Rialto
8. OK Computer by Radiohead
9. Alive 1997 by Daft Punk
10. Vapen And Ammunition by Kent

So far, I have seen some great lists! :)

I didn't realize how hard this question was until it was my turn to answer. But here it goes:

"Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track"

The Cure - "Pornography"

TOOL - "Aenima"

Pantera - "Vulgar Display of Power"

Chris Isaak - "Forever Blue"

Depeche Mode - "Black Celebration"

Roxy Music - "Avalon"

Alice In Chains - "Unplugged"

Bad Brains - "I Against I"

Radiohead - "The Bends"


That was tough! :vibrator:

In no particular order..

1. Slayer Reign in blood

2. Heart. Little Queen

3. Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath

4. Ice T. OG

5. The Ramones. I forget the official name of the album but it's a kick a$$ compilation

6. Pantera. Cowboys from hell

7. Kiss. Dressed to kill

8. Metallica. Kill em all

9. Type O Negative. Bloody Kisses

10. Red hot chili peppers. Blood Sugar Sex Magick

Originally posted by djdaffy1227
... This is hard for me because I deal mostly in singles and greatest hits collections.

I thought you were a DJ (therefore, no vinyl and turntables) :confused: I've never heard of a DJ who spins from greatest hits collections before.

Originally posted by XXX


I thought you were a DJ (therefore, no vinyl and turntables) :confused: I've never heard of a DJ who spins from greatest hits collections before.

eh not quite sure what you mean there XXX! Lots of DJ's use vinyl and turntables, although the CD has obviously become more popular. I myself use CD's when I'm gigging like Daffy, a lot of my collection would be greatest Hits because at a gig, people only want to hear the hits of an artist. Its rare you get requests for unreleased material!! :)

When you do get requests for a non- released single, you don't play it because only that one person probably knows it (out of hundreds of people there). By only having greatest hits and compilations I don't have to worry about somebody asking for "track 2 on Nelly's new CD" (Trust me, people ask that stuff :lol: ). I am NOT a club jock. I play weddings and corner bars and high school dances and so on. All my new music is on CD's I get in the mail, they are compilations of all the new singles being released to radio. (AC, AOR, Urban, Country, and CHR formats)

Most of the club jocks I know don't use vinyl either. You wouldn't believe some CD players out there and how much easier it is to mix and scratch and do all the things a club jock needs to do on them. You can't buy these CD players at Circuit City, you need to know where to get them.

I still have thousands upon thousands of vinyl records from my early days of DJing. Including over 2,000 12" singles. 2,000 45's and thousands of albums. I still have one of my two Technics 1200 turntables as well.

I don't know any DJ that will play a non-released single. When at a gig you have to play what a majority of people know. I'll never forget playing "Jump" by Kriss Kross when it was brand spankin' new and everyone cleared the floor, a couple months later I couldn't go without playing at least twice a night. (That was in 1991 I think). If I had a dollar for every time I played "Old time rock n' roll", "Electric slide", "Macarena", "Cha cha slide" and so on, I'd be a millionaire.

As for the radio end of things, that is a whole different story.....

I like Prefab was a little confused by your statement. I hope this clears it up a little. If you have any other questions, ask.

Here's my list:

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
2. Skylarking - XTC
3. It's My Life - Talk Talk
4. Never Mind the Bullocks... - The Sex Pistols
5. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
6. Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
7. Xanadu (soundtrack)
8. Rio - Duran Duran
9. Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)
10. Avalon - Roxy Music

Sorry about the confusion there :p Yeah, I can see if it's a top 40 crowd or radio how one would rely on singles only.

Metallica ~ ....And Justice For All
Guns N' Roses ~ Use Your Illusion
Slayer ~ South Of Heaven
Doors ~ L.A. Woman
Rolling Stones ~ Beggars Banquet
Iron Maiden ~ Number Of The Beast
Led Zepplin ~ Physical Grafitti
Bon Jovi ~ New Jersey
Poison ~ Look What The Cat Dragged In
The Ramones ~ Ramones

here's mine: (not in order)
1. At worst the Best of Boy George and Culture Club
2.Master of Puppets-Metallica
3.Nevermind-Nirvana
4.Load- Metallica
5. Follow the Leader-Korn
6.The Best of Billy Joel Volumes 1 and 2
7.Non stop 90's rock
8.Battle of Los Angelos- Rage Against the Machine
9. Hooray for Boobies- The Blood Hound Gang ( it's so perverted it's funny)
10.The History of Rock-Kid Rock

1. "1984" by Van Halen
2. "Volume I" by Traveling Wilburys
3. "The Stranger" by Billy Joel
4. "Ultimate Experience" by Jimi Hendrix
5. "Rubber Soul" by The Beatles
6. "Rapture" by Anita Baker
7. "All Things Must Pass" by George Harrison
8. "Pyromania" by Def Leppard
9. "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby & The Range
10. "Bringing It All Back Home" by Bob Dylan

This is a tough one!!!! No particular order aside from my #1.

1. Zakk Wylde - Book of Shadows (my all-time favorite)
2. Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
3. Garbage - Garbage
4. GNR - Appetite for Destruction
5. Metallica - Master of Puppets
6. Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack
7. The Cure - Disintegration
8. Pink - Mizundastood (sp)
9. Skid Row - s/t
10. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals/Anti-Christ Superstar (tie)

Many more but those are some of my faves.