Artists: Dylan Pavement Lambchop Yo La Tengo The Who Albums: Blood On the Tracks - Dylan Desire - Dylan Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One - Yo La Tengo In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Murf
groups REM Clash Husker Du Replacements Black Flag albums Fable of the Reconstruction (of the Fables???) REM Pornography- the Cure Flip Your Wig- Husker Du Damaged- Black Flag Fresh fruit for Rotting Vegetables- Dead Kennedys
trying to come up with an honest and not pretentious sounding list artists: clash toots and the Maytals (greatest jamaican act ever) swingin utters johnny cash social distortion albums (in album sense, as in solid from front to back): crystal method - vegas sonic youth - daydream nation pixies - trompe le monde Buju Banton - 'Til shiloh clash - sandanista smiths - strangeways EDIT: add social distortion - somewhere between heaven and hell to that
Call me a jazz snob if you must, but I can't separate jazz and rock. Good music is good music. Favorite artists Elliott Smith Bob Dylan Bill Evans Bill Frisell John Zorn Favorite albums Elliott Smith - Either/Or Bob Dylan - Bringing it all Back Home Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby Paul Motian - On Broadway, Volume 2 Don Byron - Romance with the Unseen
Very good picks. Some people slag the 80s too. I wonder what hair bands they were listening to back then.