It was Andy Warhol who wanted Lou Reed and John Cale to let his beautiful new friend Nico sing with their avant-garde rock band. The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), The Velvet Underground But first, the olde English meaning of list, or “lyst”: shush and harken. Hopefully, you’ll use the comment section to tell us what surprised you and what confirmed your suspicions. Hopefully you can hear the influence of these albums on some of your own favourites. Hopefully you can still feel the electricity of invention in The Beatles’ Revolver, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Nas’s Illmatic. Most of our personal favourites aren’t here, because we’ve tried to pick the records that broke new ground rather than those that refined old sounds. We’ve included classics and curveballs, because “to list” can also mean to tilt. This list is designed for anybody interested in extending their aural attention span and genuinely challenging their preconceptions. Watching it blow his mind, I changed mine. Then I played it to my nine-year-old son, who doesn’t share any of my cultural baggage. I didn’t want to include Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Consequently we can end up believing we have solid opinions on records we may never have given our honest and sustained attention. When was the last time you listened to an old album from start to finish? With our ears set to shuffle since the death of the CD, only the vinyl fetishists seem to do it any more.
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