Graceland/Brothers in Arms for today's 30-somethings?

[sublimatica]

When I was a kid, every family in Britain owned Paul Simon's Graceland and Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms.

What's today's equivalent? What vital zeitgeist-defining album is missing from my collection?

[mybrainhurts]

...old fart

[Lord Pikey]

Guns n roses - apetite?
Spice girls - Spice?
Queen - Greatest hits 1?

Stop me or ill keep going

[sublimatica]

[G'kar]

Dido seems to be in just about every collection I've seen.

[sublimatica]

Queen? Thought their Greatest Hits was out in the '90s. My Dad was listening to that when I was a teenager. (Good album though.)

Spice Girls - Maybe. Just can't bring myself to like that sort of frothy pop though.

GnR - Really? Does everybody but me own that album?

Thanks for the suggestions.

[shirt]

how recent are you thinking?

[shalmaneser]

Something by Coldplay, definitely. Agree with Dido.

I'd like to point out neither of these feature in my collection!

[elster]

Probably say Oasis, definitely maybe.

More recent perhaps for 2008

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Duffy - Rockferry
Coldplay - Most albums

[Andy Zarse]

elster said:

Probably say Oasis, definitely maybe.

Talk about equivocation. Look, do you think they own it or not?

[shirt]

best selling albums 2000-2005:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/ijkidd/best_selling_...


i own 2, 9 & 10.

[elster]

G'kar said:

Dido seems to be in just about every collection I've seen.

Indeed 21 million copies of No Angel sold!


It also seems Britney has 2 albums with over 20 million sales

[Fittster]

shirt said:

best selling albums 2000-2005:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/ijkidd/best_selling_...

There are some real horrors on that list.

[alanruss]

Michael Jackson - BAD
Bonjovi - Crossroads

Now 46??

[Nolar Dog]

As said, Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Also:

Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)
Blur - Parklife
Take That - Greatest Hits
Michael Jackson - Bad
The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land

Probably feature highly in collections.

[Sciroccology]

Keane's "Hopes And Fears", or anything by Coldplay, seems to be the album du jour these days. Although Dido's "Life For Rent" must be well up the "must have" chart.

Anyone remember Jem?

[Terzo123]

I'm in my very early 30's

Most of the music i have is from 10 to 15 years ago

Just about all my friends had the following in their collection

RHCP's - Blood sugar sex magic
Radiohead - The bends & OK Computer
Pearl jam - Ten
Oasis - definitely maybe
Smashing pumpkins - Siamese Dream (My personal favourite)
Sound garden - Super unknown
Snoop Dogg - The dog pound

Just to add, most of today's music is gash. I sound like my dad

[RDE]

I've got Brothers in Arms, but didn't realise it was a zeitgeist thing.

Most people have The Joshua Tree, don't they?

By the way, i'm a 20-something, not a 30-something.

[Sciroccology]

For the record (no pun intended) I have "Brothers In Arms" on SACD, in glorious 5.1 surround.

I'm just showing off.

[sublimatica]

Dido's No Angel is a good call. Got that one. I was also wondering about Norah Jones but that seems to be popular with today's oldies so I figured it wasn't quite what I'm seeking.

Some of the others (Oasis, Prodigy, Snoop Dogg (!), Radiohead) could be a little too genre-specific to be universal contemporary classics. I'm not saying they're not great albums though.

Keane's Hopes and Fears and Coldplay's Parachutes are contenders...

Portishead / Dummy would have been a good call from a decade ago. Every bugger owns that one.