BigYawn

Here is the deal, I wanted to create an as-complete-as-humanly-possible music collection for my as yet unborn kids.

I compiled the list on the following criteria (books unless noted):
-The All Music Guide to Rock
-The All Music Guide to Electronica
-The Great Indie Discography
-1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die
-Mojo 1000
-Amazon’s “A to D: 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die” (web)
-Various Pitchfork/WOXY all time lists (web)
-Various recommendations (web)
-The Pitchfork 500
-www.song-database.com (web)

I carefully thought through artists and whether or not they truly were noteworthy, and what music of theirs required inclusion, whether it be individual albums, greatest hits comps, a couple of songs or a complete discography. All genres of music are represented to the best of my ability. A number of bands may be less noteworthy, but are instead personal favorites of mine, hence the inclusion of so much of their material.

Of course you can always include more, but you have to have a life too. For some reason iTunes had an odd issue in counting the number of songs, and there is the occasional missing track, so the exact number of songs might not add up.

The A’s