Inspired by my worthless brother’s well intentioned but ultimately doomed plan to watch 24 movies in a weekend, I’ve decided to go on a splurge of CD listening. I’m talking albums that I’ve never heard before, mostly by bands or singers that I haven’t listened to much. I have a tentative list of about 50. Here they are:

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Beck - Odelay
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Carole King - Tapestry
The Stones - Sticky Fingers
Prince - Purple Rain
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
The Beatles - Revolver
The Clash - London Calling
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Elvis Costello - This Year’s Model
Radiohead - The Bends
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blondie - Parallel Lines
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Kiss - Alive
The Pretenders - Pretenders
Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Otis Redding - The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
CCR - Cosmo’s Factory
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
Roxy Music - Avalon
Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
The Police - Synchronicity
Peter Gabriel - So
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Doors - LA Woman
The Strokes - Is This It
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Cheap Trick - In Color
Eurythmics - Touch
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard