Fifteen albums in fifteen minutes

This is one of those Facebook memes. I bent the rules a little: (a) I posted it here on my blog instead of on Facebook, (b) I included 16 albums instead of 15, just because, and (c) I didn't tag anyone except those who already tagged me about it. If you want to make your own version, go ahead—you don't need my permission!

Anyway, the "rules" were: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what albums my friends choose. Or just comment here with them. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your Facebook profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people in the note—upper right hand side.)

So, my list, in alphabetical order. I get a small cut from the links to Amazon if you buy anything (which need not be what I link to, by the way):

• Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Drum Suite (1957)
• The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
• Crowded House - Woodface (1991)
• James Brown - Star Time (box set, 1991)
• Led Zeppelin (1969)
• Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)
• Midnight Oil - Scream in Blue Live (1992)
• Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 (box set, 1998)
• Odds - Bedbugs (1993)
• Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 4, a.k.a. Security (1982)
• The Police - Synchronicity (1983)
• Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings (box set, 1937/1990)
• Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand the Weather (1984)
• U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
• The White Stripes - Elephant (2003)
• The Who - Live at Leeds (extended version, 1970/1995)

You might also like my 2003 list of top albums to listen to in headphones.