09.  Miike Snow – Miike Snow

08.  Two Suns – Bat For Lashes

07.   jj n° 2 – jj

06.  Yours Truly, The Commuter – Jason Lytle

05.  The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

04.  Album – Girls

03.  xx – The xx

02.  Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective

01.  Real Estate – Real Estate

The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat

Love – Forever Changes

Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Who – The Who Sell Out

The Kinks – Something Else By The Kinks

The Doors – The Doors

Cream – Disareli Gears

Nico – Chelsea Girl

The Beatles – Revolver

The Kinks – Face To Face

Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde

The Rolling Stones – Aftermath

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

The Byrds – Fifth Dimension

Paul Revere And The Raiders – Midnight Ride

The Mothers Of Invention – Freak Out

Nina Simone – Wild Is The Wind

Simon And Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today!

The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics

The Who – My Generation

Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home

The Beatles – Rubber Soul

B.B. King – Live At The Regal

The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

Otis Redding – Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul

Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil

The Beatles – Meet The Beatles

Jaques Brel – Olympia 64

Dusty Springfield – A Girl Called Dusty

Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changing

Buck Owens And His Buckaroos – I’ve Got A Tiger by the Tail

Soloman Burke – Rock ‘n Soul

Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan

The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night

The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones

Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream

Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

Dexter Gordon – Our Man in Paris

James Brown – Live At The Apollo

Stan Getz And Joan Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto

Phil Spector – A Christmas Gift For You

Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And Sinner Letter

The Beatles – Please Please Me

Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder

Sam Cooke – Live At The Harlem Square Club

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Glad to finally hear from The Beatles, and it turns out that “Live at the Apollo” is a great album to run to.

Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington And His Orchestra Featuring Paul Gonsalves

Horace Silver – Paris Blues

Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Nina Simone – Nina Simone Sings Ellington

Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan

Ray Prince – Night Life

Booker T And The MG’s – Green Onions

Stan Getz And Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba

Ray Charles – Modern Sound in Country & Western Music
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All of this Jazz music is starting to get to me, I’m ready for a change… Love the Dylan self titled.

Miles Davis – Steamin’ with The Miles Davis Quintet

Buck Owens – Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard

Joan Baez – Joan Baez, Vol. 2

Ella Fitzgerald – Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth

Etta James – At Last!

Bobby Bland – Two Steps from the Blues

John Coltrane – My Favorite Things

Bill Evans – The Village Vanguard

Robert Johnson – King Of The Delta Blues

Ella Fitzgerald – Hello, Love

The Everly Brothers – A Date With The Everly Brothers

Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack

Joan Baez – Joan Baez

Ray Charles – Ray Charles In Person

John Coltrane – Giant Steps

Muddy Waters – At Newport

Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain

Elvis Presley – Elvis Is Back!

Ray Charles – The Genius Hits the Road

Originally uploaded by sdennehey

I like music.

I like lists.

I like a challenge.

So I started this music appreciation project I’m calling 50 years 500 albums.

The objective is to discover new (old) music and develop a better understanding of how musical style has progressed through the last 50 years.

I plan to listen to albums that I’ve heard about but never taken the time to investigate. I want to experience the selected music in context, so I plan to start in 1960 and listen to all of the albums consecutively, in the order they were created, until I’m caught up with current music here in 2009.

Lately I’ve been so obsessively listening to new releases and emerging bands that I haven’t taken the time to appreciate music that’s already out there. This project will force me to stop looking for the next new thing in music and shift my focus to the great music that’s already been recorded.

About a month ago I made the lists. Each containing ten albums worth listening to from the past 50 years. To build the lists I started with the book 1001 Albums To Listen To Before You Die then I filled in the blanks with the help of Wikipedia and a couple of Google searches.

Today I began stage two of my little music project, I started listening.

08: Little Joy – Little Joy

07: Heretic Pride – Mountain Goats

06: O My Heart – Mother Mother

05: Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

04: Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles

03: Feed The Animals – Girl Talk

02: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

01: For Emma, Forever Ago – Bon Iver

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A collection of info graphics assembled by Catalogtree:

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A Flickr set I put together:

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More from Flickr, this time from insect54:

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Via Pixdus

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08: Sound Of Silver – LCD Sound System

07: Cross – Justice

06: Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? – Of Montreal

05: The Reminder – Feist

04: The Broken String – Bishop Allen

03: Boxer – The National

02: Neon Bible – Arcade Fire

01: In Rainbows – Radiohead

check out this graphic representation of my listening habits. this one is from the day i started using Last.fm (on january 04, 2006) to October 31, 2007.

created at lastgraph.aeracode.org/

very cool app