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I absolutely love High Fidelity. If you haven’t seen it, what the hell is wrong with you?

Here’s a clip:

There are some definitive reasons that make me love this film. It integrates a few of my favourite things.

1. John Cusack is a phenomenal actor.
2. Quirky and fast conversation, dialogue and monologue. Brilliant.
3. Music and opinion about music.
4. Jack black as a supporting actor is incredible.
5. Scepticism and slight insanity.
6. The feeling of a cult hit, underground culture and subversive messages of disdain for society and pop norms.

If you haven’t seen this film, rent it. Now.

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

#19

The Beach Boys, Today!

#18

Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman

#17

Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge over troubles water

#16

Cat Stevens, Early tapes

#15

Elton John, Goodbye yellow brick road

#14

The Foo Fighters, In your honour (Disc 1)

#13

Nirvana, MTV unplugged in New York

#12

Marvin Gaye, Let’s get it on

#11

Aretha Franklin, Lady soul

#10

U2, The Joshua Tree

#9

Greenday, American idiot

#8

Fatboy Slim, You’ve come a long way baby

#7

Jamiroquai, Emergency on planet Earth

#6

Dave Matthews Band, Under the table and dreaming

#5

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours

#4

George Michael, Older

#3

Bob Marley, Legend

#2

The Beatles, 1962 - 1966

#1

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!