Albums worthy of receiving their own TV Tropes article?

So, you've created a page for the fourth album, but not for Led Zeppelin III?

Fair enough.

When I have time I'm willing to start on The College Dropout—I'm pretty big on that album.

I'll handle Houses Of The Holy... At least after I'm done with The Yardbirds discography.

Also, I'd be interested in handling Band Of Gypsys and GNR Lies as well

edited 26th Jan '15 6:47:50 AM by bluesno1fann

Really, there's a bunch I'd like to work on, but my senior year of college is kicking my ass here

Been working pretty hard... Just added Roger the Engineer by The Yardbirds, T.N.T. by AC/DC and Begin Here by The Zombies, as well as Having a Rave Up by The Yardbirds last night.

edited 26th Jan '15 6:48:29 AM by bluesno1fann

@ Mr. Lavisher Moot: So, you've created a page for the fourth album, but not for Led Zeppelin III? Fair enough.tongue

Yeah, there's a good reason for that. ROCK 'N' ROLL, BABY! .

@ Odd1: Great that you want to add "The College Dropout", but make sure that you don't become one yourself... Just do it in your spare time when you're done studying.

@ The rest:

New albums added are...

• Incesticide by Nirvana.
• Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin.
• Pocket Revolution by dEUS.
• Strange Days by The Doors.
• Turn Back The Years The Essential Hank Williams Collection by Hank Williams.
• Willy and the Poor Boys by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
• Licensed to Ill and Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys

• Mr Matt also added a very well written album to our index, namely Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.

edited 5th Feb '15 10:47:36 AM by Patachou

Unfortunately, due to studies (I'm in Year 11), I will be unable to create album pages as much as I used to. But I've got a basic to-do list for the near future:

• Five Live Yardbirds and Little Games, both by The Yardbirds.
• High Voltage (The Australian version) by AC/DC.
• Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin.
• Band of Gypsys by the Band Of Gypsys.
• G N'R Lies by Guns N' Roses.
• Beach Boys' Party! and Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), both by The Beach Boys.
• Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson.
• Iron Maiden (Album) and Killers, both by Iron Maiden.
• My Generation and A Quick One, both by The Who.
• Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane.

edited 6th Feb '15 3:32:39 AM by bluesno1fann

I Plan on Adding SFSorrow by The Pretty Things later today.

edited 7th Feb '15 4:19:59 PM by DingoWalley1

I put up Songs of Leonard Cohen yesterday – a a shame such an influential artist was previously unrepresented. I was planning on covering at least the first four: Songs From A Room, Songs Of Love And Hate and New Skin For The Old Ceremony.

After that I'm planning to take on the shamefully neglected Richard Thompson, allegedly the best guitarist nobody's ever heard of!

Songs from a Room is up. I'm taking a break from Leonard Cohen (and from troping for tonight as I'm tired and have a dose of flu. Tomorrow or sometime soon I plan to take on Carole King's Tapestry, as it's a disgrace that so few female artists are featured!

Posted Tapestry (Carole King album). Just about to start crossindexing it. The all-time best-selling album by any solo female artist has been a glaring omission IMHO.

Feel free to add and amend as you think appropriate.

edited 9th Feb '15 1:34:14 PM by enitharmon

Added a classic of psychedelic rock, The Small Faces' Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake from 1968.

I've been (relatively) buried under schoolwork and work-work so I haven't gotten to doing any. But when I come back I'll probably blow off most of that list I had up before and try to skew slightly more current and lean a little more toward female artists.

Stuff I'll probably get to in like...a couple weeks:

• Hanging Gardens by Classixx
• The Outsiders by Eric Church
• Black Radio by Robert Glasper Experiment
• Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey
• Yeezus by Kanye West
• Eight Zero Eights And Heartbreak by Kanye West
• Beyond Standard by Hiromi's Sonicbloom
• Move by Hiromi Trio Project
• Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall by Adele
• Ella And Louis by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
• Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
• A Wizard A True Star by Todd Rundgren
• This Girls In Love With You by Aretha Franklin
• Aretha Live At Fillmore West by Aretha Franklin
• A Rose Is Still A Rose by Aretha Franklin
• Anita Sings The Most by Anita O'Day
• Music/Beyonce2014 by Beyoncé
• All Over the Place by Bangles
• The Lady Killer by Cee Lo Green
• Very Very Powerful Motor by Fastbacks
• Give It Up by Bonnie Raitt
• Dreamboat Annie by Heart
• Whitney Houston 1985 by Whitney Houston
• Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck
• My One And Only Thrill by Melody Gardot
• High Priestess Of Soul by Nina Simone
• Nina Simone Sings The Blues by Nina Simone

edited 11th Feb '15 3:33:39 PM by MrMatt

Posted Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate. The thing is awash with tropes and my problem has been finding the headings to put the examples under. Also I still need to do some crosswicking.

@ enitharmon: Thanks for the excellently written albums you've contributed so far. It's indeed a shame that Leonard Cohen, Richard Thompson and a lot of female artists are under-represented. We're all going to do our best to change that and support this cause, right people?

@ Mr Matt: Look forward to your album additions. Very happy to see Anita O' Day, Whitney Houston and Nina Simone under consideration. Though Nina Simone will have to receive her own article first. A few weeks ago me and bluesno1fann conincidentally talked about the fact that Jeff Beck isn't featured in our list yet, despite "Blow By Blow" being one of my favorite albums.

It's over... It's finally over... Every album that I had promised to deliver earlier on this page is finally completed with Pacific Ocean Blue...

Tonight I added Leonard Cohen's fourth album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony. It needs some crosswicking and of course the more tropes the merrier.

Yesterday, as a prelude to coverage of the albums of Richard Thompson, I set up a page for Fairport Convention and added their album Unhalfbricking from 1969 — the only one of theirs to make either the Observer or Q Magazine's 100 Best British Albums (not that I set much store by such lists). I set up links to their other 1969 albums "What We Did On Our Holidays" and "Liege & Lief" (ie the ones with Thompson and Sandy Denny together in the lineup) but I don't propose to cover any more of their very lengthy discography.

@ enitharmon: That's fine. We prefer having the essential, notable or best albums by an artist. In many cases only a few albums are good anyway, the rest is so unneccessary that most people don't bother buying or re-releasing it anyway. So no need to bother with that.

And thanks for another essential and great Leonard Cohen album, as well as the Small Faces and Fairport Convention entries.

Right, let's see what albums have been added since my last round-up:

• Agents of Fortune by Blue Öyster Cult
• American Beauty by The Grateful Dead
• Amnesiac by Radiohead
• Anthem of the Sun by The Grateful Dead
• A Quick One by The Who
• Arular by M.I.A.
• Band of Gypsys by Jimi Hendrix
• The Beach Boys Today! by The Beach Boys
• Call Me by Al Green
• Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane
• Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie
• Eskimo by The Residents
• Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy
• Five Live Yardbirds by The Yardbirds
• Francesco Zappa by Frank Zappa
• Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention by Frank Zappa
• The Fugs First Album by The Fugs
• The Fugs Second Album by The Fugs
• G N'R Lies by Guns 'N' Roses
• Halcyon by Ellie Goulding
• Hejira by Joni Mitchell
• Home Cookin' by Jimmy Smith
• Homogenic by Björk
• Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
• Ice Cream for Crow by Captain Beefheart
• Invincible by Michael Jackson
• Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden
• Kala by M.I.A.
• Killers by Iron Maiden
• Let's Stay Together by Al Green
• Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos
• Little Games by The Yardbirds
• Madonna by Madonna (her debut)
• The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
• My Generation by The Who
• My Way by Frank Sinatra
• Murmur by R.E.M.
• New Skin for the Old Ceremony by Leonard Cohen
• Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces
• Orchestral Favorites by Frank Zappa
• Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson
• Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson
• Roxy & Elsewhere by Frank Zappa
• Saturday Night! – The Album by Schoolly D
• Schooly D by Schoolly D
• Self Portrait by Bob Dylan
• S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things
• Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley
• Sleep Dirt by Frank Zappa
• Songs from a Room by Leonard Cohen
• Songs of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
• Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen
• Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor
• Spectres by Blue Öyster Cult
• Star Fleet Project by Brian Mary & Friends
• The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses
• Studio Tan by Frank Zappa
• Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos
• Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits
• Surfers Choice by Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
• Tapestry by Carole King
• This Is War by Thirty Seconds To Mars
• This Year's Model by Elvis Costello.
• Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
• Uprising by Bob Marley
• Vespertine by Björk

Many thanks to bluesno1fann, creatordest, enitharmon, Trust Ben, Tazmily, Mark Lungo, Dingo Walley 1, Night Spectre and myself for these additions.

Also, people I want to thank everybody in the forum for the fact that in just a half year since I started this thread we've already crossed the 500 (!!!!!) albums mark (though some albums are listed double in our index, because of a few collaborations between two equally important musicians).

I'll present a small statistic here. With "Dust Bowl Ballads" by Woody Guthrie as the latest addition we have, at this point, albums by artists who are:

American: 294 (consisting of Tori Amos (1 album), Louis Armstrong (1), The Band (1, but also mostly Canadian), Band of Gypsys (1), Beach Boys (13), Beastie Boys (2), Big Black (1), Big Brother & The Holding Company (1), Blue Oyster Cult (2), Garth Brooks (1), James Brown (2), Jeff Buckley (2), The Byrds (1), Captain Beefheart (7, though one with Frank Zappa), Wendy Carlos (1), Ray Charles (1), Gilby Clarke (1), Ornette Coleman (1), John Coltrane (4), Creedence Clearwater Revival (1), Bing Crosby (1), Dick Dale (1), Miles Davis (4), The Dead Kennedys (1), Delaney & Friends (2), Devo (2), Eric Dolphy (1), The Doors (3), Dream Theater (1), Bob Dylan (9), Eels (1), Exploding Hearts (1), Fireaxe (1), Firesign Theatre (1), Fleetwood Mac (1, part American and part British), Forgive Durden (1), Stan Freberg (2), The Fugees (1), The Fugs (2), Marvin Gaye (1), Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (1), The Grateful Dead (2), Al Green (2x) Green Day (2), Arlo Guthrie (1), Woody Guthrie (1), Guns 'N' Roses (3), Herbie Hancock (2), Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa (1), Jimi Hendrix (3), Lauryn Hill (1), Hole (1),Michael Jackson (6), Jefferson Airplane (3), Robert Johnson (1), Daniel Johnston (2), Paul Kanter (1), Carole King (1), Kiss (5), Kendrick Lamar (1),Betty Lavette (1), Linkin Park (2), Little Richard (1), Madonna (9), Marilyn Manson (5), Don McLean (1), Charles Mingus (1), Thelonious Monk (1), Modest Mouse (1), My Chemical Romance (2), Nine Inch Nails (2), Nirvana (5), NWA (1), Dolly Parton (1), Pepe De Luxe (1), The Pixies (1), Iggy Pop (2), Elvis Presley (2), Prince (1), Public Enemy (2), REM (1), Queensryche (1), Ramones (5), Red House Painters (1), Otis Redding (1), Lou Reed (3), The Residents (3), Marty Robbins (1), Run DMC (3), Todd Rundgren (1), Savatage (5), Schoolly D (2), Gil Scott-Heron (1), Paul Simon (1), Simon & Garfunkel (1), Frank Sinatra (4), Sly & The Family Stone (1), Brendon Small (1), Smashing Pumpkins (3), Jimmy Smith (1), Patti Smith (1), The Sparks (1), Regina Spektor (1, who was born in Russia), Stagehands (1), The Stooges (3), Donna Summer (2), Sun Ra (1), Talking Heads (5), Television (1), They Might Be Giants (2), 30 Seconds To Mars (1), Christopher Tin (1), Trans Siberian Orchestra (1), A Tribe Called Quest (1), TV On The Radio (1), The Velvet Underground (5, on their first two albums the Welshman John Cale played along), Tom Waits (10), Muddy Waters (1),, Weezer (1), Kanye West (1), White Stripes (1), Hank Williams (1), Tony Williams (1), Brian Wilson (1), Dennis Wilson (1), Stevie Wonder (3), Frank Zappa (35)

Australian: 5: AC/DC (3), Nick Cave (1), Martin Pearson (1)

Belgian: 4: dEUS (4)

British: 177: Adam And the Ants (3), Adam Ant (4), Syd Barrett (2), The Beatles (15), Black Sabbath (1), David Bowie (11), Eric Clapton (1), The Clash (2), Joe Cocker (2), Elvis Costello (3) Cream (1), Deep Purple (3), Derek & The Dominoes(1), Dire Straits (1), Duran Duran (1), Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1), Brian Eno (3), Fairport Convention (1), Fleetwood Mac (2, part American and part British), Peter Gabriel (1), Genesis (1), Gorillaz (1), Ellie Goulding (1), George Harrison (1), Iron Maiden (3), Jethro Tull (1), Elton John (1), Joy Division (2), Judas Priest (1), King Crimson (1), The Kinks (3), Led Zeppelin (6), Christopher Lee (1), John Lennon (6), Madness (3), Brian May (1), Paul McCartney (2), John McLaughlin (1), MIA (2), Motorhead (1), New Order (1), Mike Oldfield (1), Pink Floyd (15), The Police (2, though they have an American drummer), Portishead (1), The Pretty Things (1), The Prodigy (1), Queen (4), Radiohead (4), The Rolling Stones (22), Sex Pistols (1), Small Faces (1), Stone Roses (1), Underworld (1), Jeff Wayne (1), Andrew Lloyd Webber (2), The Who (6), Amy Winehouse (2), XTC (1) The Yardbirds (5), The Zombies (2)

Canadian: 11 : Arcade Fire (1), The Band (1, also American), Leonard Cohen (4), Joni Mitchell (2), Alanis Morissette (1), Rush (1), Neil Young (1)

Danish: 1: King Diamond (1)

Dutch: 1: Doe Maar (1)

Filipino: 1: Eraserheads (1)

French: 2': Daft Punk (1), St. Germain (1)

German: 4: Kraftwerk (3), Nico (1, with the Velvet Underground)

Iceland: 5: Bjork (5)

Irish: 1: U2 (1)

Jamaica: 10 : Bob Marley (8), Peter Tosh (1), Max Romeo (1)

Japanese: 3 Yoko Ono (3, with John Lennon)

Mexican: 2: Carlos Santana (2)

New Zealand: 1: Lorde (1)

Nigeria: 1: Babatunde Olantunji (1)

Norwegian: 1: The Kovenant (1)

Russian: 1: Regina Spektor (1, though she did move to New York later in life)

Swedish: 1: Roxette (1)

I've also looked at how many albums we have represented per decade:

1920s: 1!

1930s: 1!

1940s: 2!

1950s: 12!

1960s: 109!

1970s: 169!

1980s: 92!

1990s: 65!

2000s: 42

2010s: 13

And regarding female artists, we have about 38 albums by female solo artists: Lorde (1), Yoko Ono (3, in collaboration with John Lennon), Björk (5), Nico (1, in collaboration with The Velvet Underground who also had a female drummer by the way), Joni Mitchell (2), Alanis Morrissette (1), Amy Winehouse (2), Ellie Goulding (1), Donna Summer (2), Regina Spektor (1) Patti Smith (1), Dolly Parton (1), MIA (2), Madonna (9), Betty Lavette (1), Carole King (1), Hole (1), Lauryn Hill (1), Beth Hart (1) and Tori Amos (1).

A lot of our bands do in fact have female musicians too and/or a female lead singer who is the face of the band: Big Brother & The Holding Company, The Fugees, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Pixies, Portishead,... And we even have one transsexual with Wendy Carlos.

edited 23rd Feb '15 12:11:11 PM by Patachou

You certainly have a lot of time on your hands there

I'm really kinda glad we have an article on Amnesiac now. That album holds a special significance to me.

I might quibble with Fleetwood Mac being an American band seeing as even in the pop incarnation 60% of them are British. Some time I'll get round to putting up an entry for Then Play On, an authentically 100% British Fleetwood Mac album that knocks eight bells out of Rumours. But don't hold your breath!

You're right: I forgot to list them as British too. Have fixed it now. Thanks.

Is there a point to the image caption on Tusk? Seems extremely redundant.

It's no big deal. If you have a problem with it, why not replace it with a song lyric from the album? Simple!

@Enitharmon Fully agreed with Fleetwood Mac, much prefer their stuff with Peter Green. Would definitely like to handle their first three albums, but I had to add Rumours first due to it's significance and how much it sold.