If you were to recommend 20 albums to a complete stranger.
 

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why would I keep any to myself?

I'd probably go for diversity instead of just my 20 favorite albums ever. But I wouldn't hold anything back. That's weird. Sharing good music doesn't prevent you from listening to it.

lol specify which albums plz.

-edited the first post

So is there some assumption that this stranger has never listened to music before?

Oh Vulgar, the stranger is you isn't it

awww

big baby da big baby - big baby
mustachio - big baby
mustachio 2 - big baby
mustachio 3 - big baby
its a-me big bb - big baby
big baby kamehameha - big baby
big baby chronicles - big baby
BBLP - big baby
BBLP2 - big baby
little baby part 1 - big baby
little baby part 2 - big baby
transformation to baby - big baby
big baby transformation -big baby
relapsed baby -big baby
purple baby - big baby
the bluebaby - big baby
big baby da big baby big baby - big baby
baby - big baby
babybooty - big baby
..big baby.. - big baby
illbabyatic - big baby

in no order

GZA- liquid swords
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Television - Marquee Moon
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Public Enemy -Fear of a Black Planet
Boat - Lets Drag our Feet
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Death from Above -1979
Deltron 3030- deltron 3030
Dr. Dog - Fate
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Rage Against the Machine - self-titled
Radiohead - Kid A

why? because I like them

Did not expect in the aeroplane

Wowza

@big baby makes me happy but I don't think he likes me.

I'd scoop truly essential albums from a wide variety of genres that connect to show different elements of each genre.

Rock:
The Who, Who's Next
The Clash, London Calling
Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town
Nirvana, Nevermind
Led Zeppelin, IV
Metallica, Ride the Lightning

Pop:
The Beatles, Revolver
Prince, Purple Rain
Michael Jackson, Thriller
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life

Rap:
Nas, Illmatic
Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Dr. Dre, The Chronic

Experimental/progressive:
Radiohead, OK Computer
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon

Jazz:
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters

Classical:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Mozart, Symphony No. 25 in G minor

Country:
Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison