I've gone through the list (thanks
Onechordtrick ) and markd in red those I bought - mostly as LPs, though some later duplicated on CD.
1 Marvin Gaye Whats Going On
2
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds3 Joni Mitchell Blue
4 Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life
5
The Beatles Abbey Road6 Nirvana Nevermind
7 Fleetwood Mac Rumours
8 Prince and the Revolution Purple Rain
9
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks10 Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
11
The Beatles Revolver12 Michael Jackson Thriller
13 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
14 The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
15 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
16 The Clash London Calling
17 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
18
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited19 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
20 Radiohead Kid A
21
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run22 The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die
23
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico24
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band25
Carole King Tapestry26 Patti Smith Horses
27 Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
28 D’Angelo Voodoo
29
The Beatles White Album30 Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced
31 Miles Davis Kind of Blue
32 Beyoncé Lemonade
33 Amy Winehouse Back to Black
34 Stevie Wonder Innervisions
35
The Beatles Rubber Soul36 Michael Jackson Off the Wall
37 Dr. Dre The Chronic
38 Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde
39 Talking Heads Remain in Light
40 David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
41 The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
42 Radiohead OK Computer
43 A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
44 Nas Illmatic
45 Prince Sign O the Times
46
Paul Simon Graceland47 Ramones Ramones
48 Bob Marley and the Wailers Legend
49 OutKast Aquemini
50 Jay-Z The Blueprint
A strange collection, as all lists inevitably will be. Pleased to see Rubber Soul gets a mention - great LP! But no Elvis or Clff, no S&G (though PS comes in fairly lowdown with the magnificent Graceland) - maybe they appear in 51-500 - can't be bothered to check though!
As for me, there'd have to be some Richard Thompson, Fairport Convention, Ralph McTell in my own faves list, plus Sky in my Pie (John James and Pete Berryman - I don't listen to much soloish acoustic guitar music, but this is just magnificent!), Emmylou Harris, Blazin'Fiddles, Dire Straits, Chuck Berry, Francoise Hardy, maybe Moody Blues, Tom Paxton, Steeleye Span, Ry Cooder, Eagles and even perhaps Peter Skellern (who?!), and, of course, Des O'Connor.
I'm not sure I could make a list of 500, but then that list took lots of people to compile it. I'd maybe choose 20, though they would likely change form day to day....
Keith
PS I lied about Des O'Connor.