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What songs do you guys think NEED to be staples in everyone's music collections?

One of those songs in my collection is Baba O'Riley-The Who

I have so many...I'll add on more songs later.

What do you guys think?
 
Essential albums from my rock-centered tastes.

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
Miles David - Kind of Blue
Neil Young - Harvest
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Queen - A Night at the Opera
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Who - Who's Next
 
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Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan-Highway 61
Bob Dylan-Bringing it all Back Home
Bruce Springsteen-Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen-Wild, Innocent, E-Street Shuffle
Radiohead-Ok Computer
Radiohead-Kid A
Radiohead-Amnesiac
The Who-Who's Next
The Who-Quadrophenia
The Who-Live at Leeds
The Who-The Who Sell Out
Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed
Velvet Underground-Velvet Underground and Nico
U2-Achtung Baby
Neil Young-Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
Neil Young-Harvest

I could probably keep going or expand the list to more artists, but I think those are all must haves
 
The Replacements - Left Of The Dial, Skyway & Can't Hardly Wait
REM - Radio Free Europe, Losing My Religion
Face To Face - Disconnected, Velocity
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name, With Or Without You, One, Pride, Sunday Bloody Sunday
Foo Fighters - Everlong, Learn To Fly
Pearl Jam - Jeremy, Better Man
Counting Crows - Long December
Black Crows - She Talks To Angels
Green Day - Longview
My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay
Snow Patrol - Chocolate
The Cure - Love Song
Coldplay - Yellow
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning & Blue Sky Mine
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing, Romeo And Juliet
The Police - King Of Pain, Everybreath You Take
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence, Personal Jesus
Guns N Roses - Patience
Tesla - What You Give
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run, Darlington Co, I'm On Fire
John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane, Little Pink Houses
Billy Joel - Piano Man, You May Be Right, Keeping The Faith
Son Volt - Drown, Windfall
Elton John - Tiny Dancer, Rocketman
John Lennon - Imagine
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Metallica - The Unforgiven
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black, Start Me Up
Simon & Garfunkle - Sounds Of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water
The Eagles - Hotel California, Lyin' Eyes
 
Elvis Presley - 1's + 2nd2none
The Beatles - Let It Be
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
U2 - Joshua Tree
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Who - Who's Next
Ac/DC - Back In Black
Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
Sex pistols - nevermind the bollocks
nirvana - nevermind
radiohead- ok computer
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Peter Gabriel- So
David Bowie - Heroes
RHCP - Californication
 
Brian Wilson - Smile
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Frank Zappa - We're only in it for the money
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
AC/DC - Let There be Rock
Marvin Gaye - What's going on?
John Coltrane - A love supreme
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92
Los Lobos - Kiko and the Lavender Moon
Talk Talk - Colour of Spring
Talking Heads - Remain in Light

and more personal opinion:
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I got worry
Palace Music- Arise therefore
Guided by Voices - Alien lanes
Quasimoto - Further adventures of Lord Quas
Beck - One foot in the grave
U2 - The unforgettable Fire
R.E.M. - Out of time
 
Most of the above mentioned :wink: and then

Rolling Stones - Some Girls, Exile on Main Street
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Beatles - Revolver, Rubber Soul
 
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