Essential Music, The albums you cant live without

We talk alot on here about the players, the tech, our mutual disregard for fruit branded products and the sheep that buy them and the faults that occasionaly occur.

Has anyone remembered what the player does though? It brings the joy of music to every available opportunity. Stealing moments to listen to what you love. So what is it? when you charged the battery up on your player, and pluged it into your computer, what did you put on first?

My first (and most essential) 5;

1. Radio 1 live lounge album
2. Fatboy slims Greatest hits
3. Wolfmother (Got to love "The Mother")
4. Razorlight (the first self entitled album)
5. Richard Cheese & Lounge against the machine - Tuxicity

My first top 5:

1. Metallica
2. Linkin Park
3. Delain
4. System Of A Down
5. Red Hot Chilli Peppers

I listen to mostly asian music, to which most here won't know. So i'll just list my favourite albums/singles for western music:

Linkin park and all their albums
Any new chart toppers, especially RnB and hip-hop, like Ne-Yo, Chris Brown etc.

My Top 5:
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Razorlight
3. Alkaline Trio
4. Dendemann (some nice German rap)
5. Orishas (some even nicer Spanish rap)

I don't have essentials, as my taste in music changes a lot. Currently, it would have to be these:

1. Timbaland - Timbaland Presents: Shock Value
2. Tahiti 80 - Fosbury
3. The Hives - Your New Favorite Band
4. Se7en - 24/7
5. The Faint - Wet from Birth

I love the reanimation album from linkin park, it just missed my top 5. And alkaline trio were top 10.

i dunno any albums, but I sure do know some artitst which solely has good music...

The strokes
Ed Harcourt
Andrew Bird
Of Montreal
The Queue (with their only good song "Blue Sky" available through download.com)

The Beatles
Rolling stones

and a few more, but i guess these are the most important ;p

The beatles, how could I miss that one! awesome

Avantasia - the metal opera...
i love it but i don't think that it is very popular so don't be sad when you don't know it... just listen to it at amazon.com and buy it afterwards

My choices:

Never Mind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Blizzard Of Oz - Ozzy Osbourne
In The Heat Of The Night - Pat Benatar

Individual songs a plenty - but gotta have these 5 albums.

WOW, nevermind the bollocks, thats great!

for me:
Combat Rock - The Clash
Dedication - Raised Fist
Nevermind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
The Singles Collection 1996~1997 - Dropkick Murphys
Power of Moonlite - Tiger Army

btw, nice to see u liked that much the faint err0r

My Top 5:

1. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
2. Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
3. Beatsteaks - Limbo Messiah
4. Billy Talent - Billy Talent I
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

There are so many... x)

But for last days I can't live without.. maybe listen mostly will be better way to tell it:

Powerman 500 - "Anyone for Doomsday?"
Third Eye Machine - "Romkert"
Tricky - "Vulnerable"
Sneaker Pimps - "Bloodsport"
KoRn - "Take a look in the mirror"
Godsmack - "Faceless"
Sofa Surfers - "Sofa Suerfers"

I highly recomend those albums;]
Anyway... I listen to trip-hop, electronic, nu-metal, metal, and hard rock

Originally Posted by iversonjack

I listen to mostly asian music, to which most here won't know. So i'll just list my favourite albums/singles for western music:

Linkin park and all their albums
Any new chart toppers, especially RnB and hip-hop, like Ne-Yo, Chris Brown etc.

My curiosity is tickled...

When you say Asian, do you mean mostly Chinese, or is Japanese and Korean included? And then, what kind of Asian music? Although Asian music (like all other regions, perhaps) is centered in the pop persuasion, there are other kinds...

So what are we talking about here? Zhou Jie Lun, SHE? Or something incredibly nifty that I must get to know quickly?

As for myself, I'm a foreigner living in China, and one of the issues I have with that is that I am completely out of the loop as to what's going on in music today, outside of China (especially since I'm not an MBA produced western boy-band fan).

The internet brings some solace, and recommendations by friends over yonder help. One of the things I've discovered (sounds a little silly, I'm sure they're incredibly well known in the west) is Interpol. Kind of fits in with my appreciation of all things The Cure and Joy Division.

Something else that I found worth checking out is The Arcade Fire. I found them on Metacritic, which actually filled the void I mentioned quite well (it offers compound scores for albums and movies - good for people stuck out beyond the reaches of western culture).

I love things like the old Portishead album from the 90s, the one that propelled them into stardom.

I've enjoyed the albums by the Belgian band Arsenal. Very eclectic and palatable. (and oh, bit of a disclaimer, I am Belgian).

Besides that, much much more.

I must say, my 4GBs are often filled to the brim with podcasts. I love using the player to soak up information about all kinds of stuff. Photography, news, literature, technology, I just love it. Cleaning the house, a late evening stroll, ... I'm learning.

Zaan that is a brilliant use for a meizu, and you rmusic choice is eclectic indeed. The Cure and Joy division, good choice, i have joy division on mine. I have 8gb and it is just over half full at the moment. I am really enjoying video on it. I got the videoget software and am downloading loads of stuff from youtube. Its brilliant.