nonostante mi senta poco calcolata ultimamente, ma va benissimo
, vorrei copiarvi alcune liste pubblicate dall rivista inglese Q!, dichiaratamente mainstream.
Q Magazine
(UK mainstream Pop/Rock monthly publication since 1986)
The Q Ultimate Music Collection SUDDIVISA PER GENERI
Rock
Albums
o Bowie, David – Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
o Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
o Hendrix, Jimi – Are You Experienced?
o Led Zeppelin – IV
o Nirvana – Nevermind
o Oasis – Definitely Maybe
o Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
o Radiohead – OK Computer
o Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
o REM – Automatic for the People
o Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed*
Tracks
o Alone Again Or – Love
o And It Stoned Me – Van Morrison
o Baba O’Riley – The Who
o Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
o Born in the USA – Bruce Springsteen
o Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House
o Eight Miles High – Byrds
o Everlong – Foo Fighters
o Fall On Me – REM
o Feel Good Hit of the Summer – Queens of the Stone Age
o Get It On – T Rex
o Golden Touch – Razorlight
o Hard to Handle – Black Crowes
o Heroes – David Bowie
o Hotel California – Eagles
o House of the Rising Sun – Animals
o Instant Karma! – John Lennon/Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band
o Jumpin’ Jack Flash – Rolling Stones
o Kashmir – Led Zeppelin
o Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley
o Life’s What You Make It – Talk Talk
o Like a Hurricane – Neil Young
o Lust for Life – Iggy Pop
o Maggie May – Rod Stewart
o My Generation – The Who
o Mystery Train – Elvis Presley
o National Anthem – Radiohead
o Political Scientist – Ryan Adams
o Rearviewmirror – Pearl Jam
o Reelin’ in the Years – Steely Dan
o Refugee – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
o Reservations – Wilco
o Riders on the Storm – Doors
o River, the – Bruce Springsteen
o Scientist – Coldplay
o September Gurls – Big Star
o Stay with Me – Faces
o Sunshine of Your Love – Cream
o Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley
o Time is Running Out – Muse
o Tin Soldier – Small Faces
o Today – Smashing Pumpkins
o Virginia Plain – Roxy Music
o Walk on Gilded Splinters – Dr John
o Walk on the Wild Side – Lou Reed
o Waterloo Sunset – Kinks
o We Will Rock You – Queen
o Why Does It Always Rain on Me? – Travis
o You Do Something to Me – Paul Weller
o You Really Got Me – Kinks
Pop
Albums
o Abba – Gold: Greatest Hits
o Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
o Bee Gees/Various Artists – Saturday Night Fever [Soundtrack]
o Blondie – Parallel Lines
o Jackson, Michael – Thriller*
o John, Elton – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
o Prince & the Revolution – Purple Rain
o Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
o TLC – CrazySexyCool
o Various Artists/Phil Spector – Back to Mono 1958-1969 [box set]
o Williams, Robbie – Life Thru a Lens
Tracks
o Antmusic – Adam & the Ants
o Baby, One More Time – Britney Spears
o Big Time Sensuality – Björk
o California Dreamin’ – Mamas & the Papas
o Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue
o Clint Eastwood – Gorillaz
o Come On Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
o Crazy in Love – Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z
o Cum On Feel the Noize – Slade
o Dirrty – Christina Aguilera
o Don’t You Want Me – Human League
o Drive – Cars
o Dry Your Eyes – Streets
o Echo Beach – Martha & the Muffins
o Every Breath You Take – Police
o Fairytale of New York – Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
o Faith – George Michael
o Freak Like Me – Sugababes
o Good Times – Chic
o Gotta Get Thru This – Daniel Bedingfield
o Groove Is in the Heart – Deee Lite
o Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) – Spiller
o House of Fun – Madness
o I’m Not In Love – 10cc
o Independent Women, Pt 1 – Destiny’s Child
o Last Train to Clarksville – Monkees
o Let Me Blow Your Mind – Eve featuring Gwen Stefani
o Look of Love – ABC
o Milkshake – Kelis
o Moments in Love – Art of Noise
o Mr Blue Sky – ELO
o My Sharona – Knack
o No Good Advice – Girls Aloud
o Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor
o Only Living Boy in New York – Simon & Garfunkel
o Party Fears Two – Associates
o Planet Earth – Duran Duran
o Pull Up to the Bumper – Grace Jones
o Rock On – David Essex
o Rock Your Body – Justin Timberlake
o Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush
o Sign ‘O’ the Times – Prince
o Sing It Back – Moloko
o Tainted Love – Soft Cell
o Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa – Gene Pitney
o West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
o What You Waiting For? – Gwen Stefani
o Where Is the Love? – Black Eyed Peas
o Yeah – Usher
o You Get What You Give – New Radicals
Punk
Albums
o Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
o Clash – London Calling
o Fugazi – Repeater
o Green Day – American Idiot
o Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising
o Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power*
o Ramones – Ramones (1st Album)
o Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the…
o Smith, Patti - Horses
o Television – Marquee Moon
o Wire – Pink Flag
Tracks (Punk & New Wave)
o All the Small Things – Blink 182
o Alternative Ulster – Stiff Little Fingers
o Another Girl, Another Planet – Only Ones
o At Home He’s a Tourist – Gang of Four
o Babylon’s Burning – Ruts
o Blank Generation – Richard Hell & the Voidoids
o California Über Alles – Dead Kennedys
o Chinese Rocks – Johnny Thunders
o City of Angels – Distillers
o Come Out and Play – Offspring
o Contort Yourself – James Chance & the Contortions
o Fat Lip – Sum 41
o Frankie Teardrop – Suicide
o Going Underground – Jam
o Hot Wire My Heart – Crime
o (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – Devo
o (I Don’t Want to Go To) Chelsea – Elvis Costello & the Attractions
o I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Slits
o If the Kids Are United – Sham 69
o Kerosene – Big Black
Kick Out the Jams – MC5
o Knife Slits Water – A Certain Ratio
o Lake of Fire – Meat Puppets
o Los Angeles – X
o Making Plans for Nigel – XTC
o New Rose – Damned
o Oh Bondage, Up Yours! – X Ray Spex
o Oliver’s Army – Elvis Costello & the Attractions
o One Armed Scissor – At the Drive In
o Peaches – Stranglers
o Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
o Public Image – PIL
o Punchline – Minutemen
o Rat Trap – Boomtown Rats
o Roadrunner – Modern Lovers
o Sailin’ On – Bad Brains
o Sex and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll – Ian Dury & the Blockheads
o Shot by Both Sides – Magazine
o Sound of the Suburbs – Members
o Spellbound – Siouxsie & the Banshees
o Straight Edge – Minor Threat
o Time Bomb – Rancid
o TV Party – Black Flag
o 21st Century Digital Boy – Bad Religion
o 20 Jazz Funk Greats – Throbbing Gristle
o Up the Junction – Squeeze
o We Are All Prostitutes – Pop Group
o White Riot – Clash
Rap
Albums
o De La Soul – 3 Feet High & Rising
o Dr Dre – The Chronic
o Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
o Eric B & Rakim – Paid in Full
o Jay-Z – Blueprint
o Notorious BIG – Ready to Die
o OutKast – Aquemini
o Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
o Run DMC – Raising Hell
o 2Pac – All Eyez On Me*
o West, Kanye – College Dropout
Tracks
o Baby Got Back – Sir Mix a Lot
o Back That Azz Up – Juvenile
o Bridge is Over – Boogie Down Productions
o Can I Kick It? – A Tribe Called Quest
o Country Grammar – Nelly
o CREAM – Wu Tang Clan
o Crossroads, tha – Bone, Thugs & Harmony
o Doowutchyalike – Digital Underground
o Drop It Like It’s Hot – Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell
o Fight the Power – Public Enemy
o Fix Up, Look Sharp – Dizzee Rascal
o Frontin’ – Pharrell featuring Jay-Z
o Fuck that Police – NWA
o Gangsta’s Paradise – Coolio
o Get Low – Lil’ Jon featuring Ying Yang Twins
o Get Ur Freak On - Missy Elliott
o Got Ya Money – Ol’ Dirty Bastard featuring Kelis
o Hey Ya! – OutKast
o I Used to Love HER – Common
o I Wish – Skee Lo
o In da Club – 50 Cent
o Insane in the Brain – Cypress Hill
o It’s All About the Benjamins – Puff Daddy & the Family
o It Takes Two – Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
o It Was a Good Day – Ice Cube
o Jump Around – House of Pain
o Just to Get a Rep – Gang Starr
o Lose Yourself – Eminem
o Made You Look – Nas
o Mama Said Knock You Out – LL Cool J
o Message, the – Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
o Mind Playing Tricks on Me – Geto Boys
o 99 Problems – Jay-Z
o Only One – DM & Jemini
o OPP – Naughty By Nature
o Planet Rock – Afrika Bambaataa
o Push It – Salt ‘N’ Pepa
o Rapper’s Delight – Sugarhill Gang
o Ready Or Not – Fugees
o Rock the Bells – LL Cool J
o Sabotage – Beastie Boys
o Seed 2.0 - Roots
o Shoot Ones (Pt II) – Mobb Deep
o Still Dre – Dr Dre
o Tipsy – J-Kwon
o Umi Says – Mos Def
o Witness (1 Hope) – Roots Manuva
o Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check – Busta Rhymes
o (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right to Party – Beastie Boys
o You’re All I Need to Get By – Method Man featuring Mary J Blige
Country
Albums
o Cash, Johnny – American Recordings*
o Harris, Emmylou – Wrecking Ball
o Parsons, Gram – Grievous Angel
o Various Artists – O Brother Where Are Thou? [Soundtrack]
o Williams, Hank – 40 Greatest Hits
Blues
Albums (No Essential choice given)
o Hooker, John Lee – Plays & Sings the Blues
o Howlin’ Wolf – His Best [MCA/Chess 1997]
o Johnson, Robert – King of the Delta Blues
o Muddy Waters – Anthology [MCA/Chess 2001]
Soul
Albums
o Brown, James – Live at the Apollo (1963)
o D’Angelo – Brown Sugar
o Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)
o Gaye, Marvin – What’s Going On*
o Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…
o Kelly, R – Happy People/You Saved Me
o Mayfield, Curtis – Superfly [Soundtrack]
o Parliament – Mothership Connection
o Redding, Otis – Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
o Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
o Wonder, Stevie – Innervisions
Tracks
o A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
o Across 110th Street – Bobby Womack
o Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
o Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
o At the Dark End of the Street – James Carr
o Back to Life – Soul II Soul
o Band of Gold – Freda Payne
o Boy is Mine – Brandy & Monica
o Cissy Strut – Meters
o Criticize – Alexander O’Neal
o Fallin’ – Alicia Keys
o Family Affair – Mary J Blige
Green Onions – Booker T & the MGs
o Heat Wave – Martha & the Vandellas
o I Can’t Stand the Rain – Ann Peebles
o I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
o I Say a Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
o I Want You Back – Jackson 5
o It’s Not Right But It’s OK – Whitney Houston
o La La Means I Love You – Delfonics
o Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
o Love TKO – Teddy Pendergrass
o Love Train – O’Jays
o Lovin’ You – Minnie Riperton
o Make Me Believe in You – Patti Jo
o My Baby Just Cares for Me – Nina Simone
o No Diggity – Blackstreet
o No Scrubs – TLC
o On & On – Erykah Badu
o Only the Strong Survive – Jerry Butler
o Papa was a Rolling Stone – Temptations
o Quiet Storm – Smokey Robinson
o Reach Out (I’ll Be There) – Four Tops
o Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron
o Right Here – SWV
o (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
o Smiling Faces Sometimes – Undisputed Truth
o Soul Man – Sam & Dave
o Stand by Me – Ben E King
o Strawberry Letter 23 – Shuggie Otis
o Summer Breeze – Isley Brothers
o Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
o Try Again – Aaliyah
o Uptight (Everything’s Alright) – Stevie Wonder
o Walk On By – Dionne Warwick
o War – Edwin Starr
o What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? – Jimmy Ruffin
o Working in a Coal Mine – Lee Dorsey
o You’re the First, the Last, My Everything – Barry White