We asked our listeners for their essential albums, from the beginning of time through the fall of 2006.
Our DJs have listed their Essentials, and yours are below.
Thanks for your thoughtful answers, and congratulations to our Essential Albums drawing Grand Prize winner Brian Martin of Westchester, who gets all the CDs you see listed here. Among his essentials: Albums from the Shins, Talking Heads and Beck.
- Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
- Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
- The Beatles, Abbey Road
- The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The Beatles, Rubber Soul
- Joni Mitchell, Blue
- The Beatles, "The White Album"
- The Beatles, Revolver
- Van Morrison, Moondance
- The Clash, London Calling
- Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde
- Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
- Paul Simon, Graceland
- Carole King, Tapestry
- Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
- Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
- The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street
- Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
- Grateful Dead, American Beauty
- Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
- Derek and the Dominoes, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
- Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
- The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East
- Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
- Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
- Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends
- Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills & Nash
- The Band, The Last Waltz
- The Who, Who's Next
- U2, The Joshua Tree
- Steely Dan, Aja
- The Band, The Band
- The Who, Tommy
- Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Déjá vu
- Bruce Springsteen, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
- Jackson Browne, Late for the Sky
- Radiohead, OK Computer
- The Band, Music from Big Pink
- The Beatles, Meet the Beatles
- The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers
- The Grateful Dead, Workingman's Dead
- Allman Brothers, Eat a Peach
- Bob Marley, Legend
- The Grateful Dead, Europe '72
- Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home
- Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
- Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball
- John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
- George Harrison, All Things Must Pass
- James Taylor, Sweet Baby James
- Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life
- The Who, Quadrophenia
- Bob Dylan, Desire
- David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
- Crosby Stills Nash and Young, 4 Way Street
- The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
- Blood, Sweat & Tears, Child is Father to the Man
- Counting Crows, August and Everything After
- Bruce Springsteen, The Rising
- The Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed
- Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Ella and Louis
- Neil Young, Harvest
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out
- Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
- Meatloaf, Bat Out of Hell
- Neil Young, Harvest Moon
- Nick Drake, Pink Moon
- Tom Waits, Closing Time
- Radiohead, The Bends
- Pink Floyd, The Wall
- Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
- Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey
- Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
- David Gray, White Ladder
- Elvis Costello, Imperial Bedroom
- Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman
- Eric Clapton, Clapton Unplugged
- Frank Sinatra, Songs For Swingin' Lovers
- Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison
- Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow
- Joe Jackson, Look Sharp!
- Joni Mitchell, Hejira
- Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
- Stevie Wonder, Innervisions
- Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Laura Nyro, Eli and the 13th Confession
- Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus
- R.E.M., Automatic for the People
- Ryan Adams, Gold
