I attended a 1st birthday yesterday. I gave the child in question a strange birthday present for a first birthday. I gave him his very first two music albums. That got me thinking about the music that I would try to educate my child with one day.
So here is a list of the 20 greatest albums that will help to educate your child, one day:
#20
Elvis, 30 #1 hits
The Beach Boys, Today!
Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman
Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge over troubles water
Cat Stevens, Early tapes
Elton John, Goodbye yellow brick road
The Foo Fighters, In your honour (Disc 1)
Nirvana, MTV unplugged in New York
Marvin Gaye, Let’s get it on
Aretha Franklin, Lady soul
U2, The Joshua Tree
Greenday, American idiot
Fatboy Slim, You’ve come a long way baby
Jamiroquai, Emergency on planet Earth
Dave Matthews Band, Under the table and dreaming
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
George Michael, Older
Bob Marley, Legend
The Beatles, 1962 – 1966
Queen, Greatest Hits I & II
OK, so I cheated on #1 and gave you a double hit. But Queen, it gets no better.
I’ve thrown in some way back classics, some soul, some funk, some punk, some rock, some now and then and some never to be repeated again.
These are my 20, not necessarily the best 20 ever in the world, just my 20. This is very subjective. But if I ever have a child, I want him/her to know these bands, groups or individuals. In my life, they defined me and my taste in music.
So thanks to Jayx for this little idea. I am not fond of tagging on blogs, I hate writing ten things, 5 secrets, 50 ideas blah, blah, blah. BUT I do love music and I am extremely interested to know what bloggers listen to and what they regard as classic, eternal music.
So I am ammending this post to ask ten other bloggers to post their TOP TEN albums that they would educate their kids with.
Here goes:
Jayx
Matthew
Justin
Vincent
Paul
Rafiq
Sheena
Coda
Grant
Mike
Gregor
(OK it’s more than ten, so shoot me).
I hope you all respond and post your top ten albums!
Melissa 2:31 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink
Nice choices Nic, I went to a 1st BDay yesterday too but my pressie wasn’t half as cool! LOVE that you put George Michael in there, I may have slipped in some Doors, Supertramp and Randy Crawford…:)
Nic 2:49 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink
Oooohhhh, all three great choices. Just weren’t definitive in my musical education growing up!!
Thanks for the compliments! I always knew I had good taste in music. hahahaha.
Henré 4:59 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink
Hooray!!! Queen #1. Best band ever. See the DVD live at Wembley.
Throw in Metallica Black and you’ve got yourself a party, people!
Shove JK and and put in Cranberries, Def Leppard Vault and Offspring Smash (legendary first album) and you’re good to go.
matt 6:16 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink
I accept this duel.
Nic 10:11 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink
@matt oooohhhhh sounds like a challenging response!!!
matt 10:26 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink
to the death
Nic 10:34 pm on April 14, 2008 Permalink
what that got real, real fast! Intense! Bring it on, I’m keen, let’s do it.
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Sheena 10:32 am on April 15, 2008 Permalink
I hate you!
Fine. Will do. Watch for link.
Nic 11:08 am on April 15, 2008 Permalink
@Sheena – You don’t hate me, you lurv me!!
Sheena 11:15 am on April 15, 2008 Permalink
Ja. Okay. I do.
*sulks*
coda 12:18 am on April 16, 2008 Permalink
That is a fine list Nic, plenty of classics.
Might have to put off responding on my own blog for a while (busy switching to Wordpress and trying to keep new posts to a minimum to avoid a logistical nightmare), but will get to it eventually.
Nic 2:35 pm on April 16, 2008 Permalink
Ah coda the big switch. I did it myself a while back. I know the mess it can become!! I feel for you.
Thanks, I am fond of the old classics I guess.
Look forward to your list when you eventually get to it and goodluck with that whole move thing!
rafiq 1:10 pm on April 22, 2008 Permalink
Only spotted this now, will get round to it when time allows.
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Mike 8:44 am on May 13, 2008 Permalink
What – no Radiohead! how do you expect this kid to learn (of couse im talkin Radiohead up to OK computer – after that .. well)
Nic 12:31 pm on May 13, 2008 Permalink
Mike – Sorry dude, just not that in to Radiohead to make them one of my 20 definitive albums!
Jayx 9:30 pm on June 10, 2008 Permalink
Why was I not notified? Well you’ve been tagged and now you have to post … sorry
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