I guess y’all are familiar with the phenomenon: must haves. Records you needed to buy in order to keep your credibility. Many of these are probably covered in layers of dust now and are only surfaced on special occasions like the wee hours of a well inebriated homeparty. Here’s a list of some must haves, I don’t have. Usually just because I didn’t like’em enough to justify a purchase to my ever thinning purse. Some I never bought just because you were supposed to have them, at times I’m very awkward ;-)
Nirvana - Nevermind, MTV unplugged
Metallica - Black album (i did buy StAnger, I’m awkward told you)
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Deus - Worst Case Scenario (and all other Belgian arty farty so called rockbands)
RATM - S.T.
The Peppers - bloodsugarsexmagic, californication
Rammstein - Mutter
System Of a Down - toxicity (i didn’t steal, steal this album)
offspring - smash
Pearl Jam - Ten, us
U2 - (not one I have)
White Stripes - Elephant
Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Interpol… What’s so special about these?
Beastie Boys - License To Ill (must say I really dig some of their later stuff)
Bob Marley - Legend, Exodus
Slayer - Reign In Blood (I’ve got a decade of aggression, that rocks!)
Foo Fighters, QOTSA,
Here’s some must haves I do have;
Therapy- Troublegum, Infernal Love (no surprise I guess)
Sepultura - Roots
Dog Eat Dog - All Boro Kings (it was very common in my teenage circles anyway)
Napalm Death - Scum
Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Captain Beefheart - Trout mask Replica
Stooges - Funhouse (one of the very few records in the whole list that really deserves this tag)
Anyhow how do you all think about this matter? Wich famous records you never bought? Did you ever feel sorry for buying a so called must have?
Posted on Fri, 7 April 2006 at 12:36