essential albums.

[beth]

hiyaa! basically my old laptop died meaning i lost all way of transferring my old music over to this new one and i need to start my music collection from scratch. so i was wondering (just to give me ideas and get the downloading flow going haha) what are yr essential albums you couldn't live without?

for example on my iphone i have a few albums that never ever get deleted:

gil scott-heron + jamie xx - i'm new here.
bloc party - silent alarm.
arctic monkeys - favourite worst nightmare.

BUT yeah, what about you? which albums couldn't you live without???

[Rozi]

hole - live through this
still corners - creatures of an hour
erm
obvs best of bowie
now 49 <-- honestly, it's a classic

[FlyingJesus]

Cher Lloyd - Sticks and Stones
Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes
All of the studio albums by Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Mariah Carey
All of the studio albums by Get Up Kids (you really need to get into them), Ben Jelen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jimmy Eat World, and Something Corporate
EVERYTHING HANSON HAS EVER DONE
Aqua - Aquarium and Aquarius (two separate albums)
and a whole host of blacks you won't like

also the best NOW album is 41 but all from 34-51 are fab

[Shar]

There's a lot of albums I guess..especially Drake - Take Care and Adele - 21 atm but there are others

[Jurv]

adele - 19 & 21
lana del rey - born to die (out in five days)
mumford & sons - sigh no more
the vaccines - what did you expect from the vaccines
foals - total life forever/antidotes
bon iver - bon iver
johnny cash - american recordings
bob dylan - the essential bob dylan

that's all i can think of at the moment, haha!

[Judas]

okay WELL here are some of ma favs (these are only my absolute favourites that I can think off from the top of my head, I love most of the other albums by these artists too but these are all incredible)

[Plebings]

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broken social scene - broken social scene <-- favourite album of ALL TIME (probably)
los campesinos! - we are beautiful, we are doomed <-- my personal fav lc! album
these new puritans - hidden <-- fav album of 2010 (though abit dark)
sufjan stevens - the age of adz <-- musical marmite
cut copy - in ghost colours <-- amazing synthpop
slow club - paradise <-- fav album of 2011
fall out boy -infinity on high<-- 15 year old me would want me to dothis
los campesinos! - romance is boring <-- the 'best' lc! album (2nd favourite though)

and then we are left with the ones that i listen to a lot, but don't mean as much to me
tokyo police club - champ
passion pit - chunk of change ep
robyn- body talk
johnny foreigner bsides
friendly fires - pala
grammatics - grammatics
dom - sun bronzed greek gods ep
owen pallett - heartland
deerhunter - weird era continued

[J0SH]

Eminem ft Royce Da 5'9 - Bad Meets Hell: The Sequel if you like Hip Hop
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP which is the greatest
Eminem - Relapse
Eminem - Recovery

Yes I love Eminem

[hiyahon]

daydream by mariah carey

[Ellz]

beyonce - 4
anything by the script
jessie j - who you are
talk that talk - rihanna