Music Starter Pack

Are you unpopular? A 98 POUND WEAKLING? Could you get them to notice you if you only liked the right music?

"But," I can hear you say, "I have no idea what type of music I like! Now I will have acne forever!" Sob not, future pillow-biter!

Here are 100 albums and recordings to get you started on your path to Music Awesomination. In this starter set you'll find:

- Music recorded over 6 centuries!

- Chronological arrangement for easy browsing!

- A wide variety of genres for each decade!

- No repeated artists for maximum diversity!

- No Randy Newman!

Enjoy!

2010s

The Electric Lady by Janelle Monae, 2013

The Suburbs by Arcade Fire, 2012

Radio Music Society by Esperanza Spalding, 2012

Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, 2010

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West, 2010

2000s

Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case, 2006

The Crane Wife, The Decemberists, 2006

Largo, Brad Mehldau, 2002

Original Pirate Material, The Streets, 2002

Don't Give Up on Me, Solomon Burke, 2002

Discovery, Daft Punk, 2001

Is This It?, The Strokes, 2001

Stories from the City Stories from the Sea, PJ Harvey, 2000

Tanto Tempo, Bebel Gilberto, 2000

Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1, Jill Scott, 2000

1990s

Global Underground 013: Ibiza, Sasha, 1999

The Velvet Rope, Janet Jackson, 1997

Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette, 1995

Illmatic, Nas, 1994

Grace, Jeff Buckley, 1994

The Next Hundred Years, Ted Hawkins, 1994

My Life, Mary J. Blige, 1994

A Meeting by the River, Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt, 1993

Anodyne, Uncle Tupelo, 1993

I've Got That Old Feeling, Alison Krauss, 1990

1980s

Paul's Boutique, Beastie Boys, 1989

Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman, 1988

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy, 1988

Appetite for Destruction, Guns n Roses, 1987

Graceland, Paul Simon, 1986

Purple Rain, Prince, 1984

Shoot Out the Lights, Richard and Linda Thompson, 1982

Thriller, Michael Jackson, 1982

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, David Byrne and Brian Eno, 1981

Back in Black, AC/DC, 1980

1970s

The Koln Concert, Keith Jarrett, 1975

Rubycon, Tangerine Dream, 1975

Talking Book, Stevie Wonder, 1972

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie, 1972

Pink Moon, Nick Drake, 1972

What's Going On, Marvin Gaye, 1971

Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin, 1971

The Inner Mounting Flame, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, 1971

Pieces of a Man, Gil Scott-Heron, 1971

Tea for the Tillerman, Cat Stevens, 1970

1960s

Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart, 1969

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles, 1967

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Aretha Franklin, 1967

Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys, 1966

Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan, 1965

A Love Supreme, John Coltrane, 1964

Live at the Apollo, James Brown, 1963

We Shall Overcome, Pete Seeger, 1963

Breakfast at Tiffany's: Music from the Motion Picture, Henry Mancini, 1962

Two Steps from the Blues, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, 1961

1950s

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, 1959

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Marty Robbins, 1959

The Genius of Ray Charles, Ray Charles, 1959

My Fair Lady: Original London Cast, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, 1958

Here's Little Richard, Little Richard, 1957

West Side Story: Original Broadway Cast, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, 1957

Ellington at Newport, Duke Ellington, 1956

Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley, 1956

Black Coffee, Peggy Lee, 1956

In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra, 1955

1940s-20s

The Anthology (1947-72), Muddy Waters, 1947-72

Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland, 1944

Stormy Weather Soundtrack, Original Film Cast, 1943

Dust Bowl Ballads, Woody Guthrie, 1940

The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert, Benny Goodman, 1938

King of the Delta Blues Singers, Robert Johnson, 1936-37

Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke, 1936

Anything Goes: Original London Cast, Cole Porter, 1935

Complete Hot Fives and Sevens, Louis Armstrong, 1925-30

Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin, 1924

Pre-1920s

From Argentina to the World, Carlos Gardel, 1917-35
The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky, 1913

La Mer, Claude Debussy, 1905
21 Favorite Arias, Enrico Caruso, 1902-21

Transfigured Night, Arnold Schoenberg, 1899

The Nutcracker, Peter Tchaikovsky, 1892

The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1879

Carmen, Georges Bizet, 1875

Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, 1869-76

Symphonies, Ludwig van Beethoven, 1800-24

Die Zauberflote, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1791

"Sun" Quartets, Opus 20, Josef Haydn, 1772

St. Matthew's Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach, 1727
Yemenite Songs, Ofra Haza, ~1720
Three Ragas, Ravi Shankar, ~1660

L'Orfeo, Claudio Monteverdi, 1607
Music for the Gods: The Fahnestock South Sea Expedition, Various Performers, ~1600

Missa Papae Marcelli, Palestrina, ~1562

Missa Herculares Dux Ferrariae, Josquin Des Prez, ~1480

Motets, Guillaume de Machaut, ~1377

A Feather on the Breath of God, Hildegard von Bingen, ~1179

Monastic Song: 12th Century Monophonic Chant, Peter Abelard, ~1142
The Spirit Cries: Music from the Rainforests of South America and the Caribbean, Various Performers
China: UNESCO Collection, Various Performers
Aka Pygmy Music, Various Performers