If you haven't bought any albums in the last 50 or so years, then check out this decade-by-decade shopping list to beef up
your record collection:
THE FIFTIES
Chuck Berry - Anthology
Johnny Burnette - Rockabilly Boogie
Johnny Cash - Sun Years
Eddie Cochran - Somethin' Else...
Bo Diddley - His Best
Dion & the Belmonts - Complete...
Fats Domino - Fats Domino Jukebox
Duane Eddy - Have Twangy Guitar...
Everly Brothers - Cadence Classics
Bill Haley - The Millennium Collection
Buddy Holly - The "Chirping" Crickets
Wanda Jackson - Queen Of...
Jerry Lee Lewis - 18 Original Sun...
Little Richard - Georgia Peach
Ricky Nelson - Ricky/Ricky Nelson
Roy Orbison - Complete Sun...
Carl Perkins - Original Sun...
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Ritchie Valens - Come On, Let's Go
Gene Vincent - ...& His Blue Caps
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THE SIXTIES
The Band - Music From Big Pink
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Bros.
Capt. Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
The Doors - The Doors
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
The Kinks - Something Else
Love - Forever Changes
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Nico - The Marble Index
Rolling Stones - Satanic Majesties...
Soft Machine - Vols. 1 & 2
The Stooges - The Stooges
Velvet Underground - ...& Nico
The Who - The Who Sell Out
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
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THE SEVENTIES
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
Tim Buckley - Greetings From L.A.
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
John Cale - Paris 1919
Can - Ege Bamyesi
L. Cohen - Death Of A Ladies' Man
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
The Pretty Things - Parachute
Lou Reed - Berlin
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
B. Springsteen - The Wild, The...
Steely Dan - Aja
Television - Marquee Moon
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
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THE EIGHTIES
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Cure - Disintegration
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Duran Duran - Rio
GNR - Appetite For Destruction
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Joy Division - Closer
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
The Pixies - Doolittle
The Police - Synchronicity
Prince - 1999
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
R.E.M. - Document
Roxy Music - Avalon
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Van Halen - 1984
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THE NINETIES
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Beck - Odelay
Blur - Parklife
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Green Day - Dookie
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Hole - Live Through This
J. Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind
Oasis - What's The Story...
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Pulp - Different Class
Radiohead - OK Computer
S. Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
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THE PRESENT
Audioslave - Audioslave
Blink 182 - Blink 182
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood...
The Darkness - Permission To Land
Evanescence - Fallen
Foo Fighters - One By One
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
Jet - Get Born
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Linkin Park - Meteora
Muse - Absolution
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Slipknot - Vol. 3 (Subliminal Verses)
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Vines - Highly Evolved
The White Stripes - Elephant
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
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POST-2000 CDs...
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