What are some must-have albums for my iPod?

the whole album of 'viva la vida' by colplay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5I3RPbS8aI

(especially viva la vida, death and all his friends, violent hill, lost!, and lost?)

the whole album of 'undiscovered' by james morrison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWdC-ELzfYE

(especially you give me something, wonderful world, undiscovered, this boy)

'plans' by death cab for cutie

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=death+...

(especially marching bands of manhatten, i will follow you into the dark)

the whole album of 'give up' by the postal service

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMOkfI7wCrI

(especially nothing better, such great heights)

every single album of the format!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDvLsC9fCGc

(especially inches and falling, i'm ready i am, dog problems, the first single)

bright eyes (songs)

first day of my life

nothing gets crossed out

perfect sonnet

the shins (songs)

a comet appears

new slang

phantom limb

ben folds (songs)

sentimental guy

the luckiest

brick

rogue wave (songs)

bird on a wire

eyes

temporary

jason mraz (songs)

i'm yours

lucky

PAS/CAL (song)

bronzed beach boys

The Strokes

The Postal Service

Rilo Kiley

Interpol

Cat Power

The Pixies

The Libertines

The Shins

Modest Mouse

Bright Eyes

The Killers

Scarling

Pretty Girls Make Graves

Arctic Monkeys

Son, Ambulance

Death Cab for Cutie

Iron and Wine

Spoon

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Arcade Fire

Cursive

Radiohead

The Kaiser Chiefs

Coconut Records

Crystal Castles

Weezer

The Research

Kimya Dawson

The Moldy Peaches

Albert Hammond Jr.

Black Kids

White Lies

Feist

The White Stripes

Nouvelle Vague

Coldplay

MGMT

LCD Soundsystem

Venus Infers

Sigur Ros

Deerhunter

Hot Hot Heat

Tokyo Police Club

Neutral Milk Hotel

The Virgins

Nico Vega

The Last Shadow Puppets

The Deadly Syndrome

Rogue Wave

The Smiths

Camille Couteau

Imbecile

Metric

The Cure

Naast

Jacques Dutronc

The Kills

The Faint

Shwayze

Placebo

Wolf Parade

Los Campesinos!

We Are Molecules

The Fieros

Final Fantasy

Broken Social Scene

The Movies

Nico Stai

The Weepies

Luke Rathborne

Darker My Love

For more indie bands and songs, check out these websites: indie1031.com and http://indie1031.com/fmh_-_playlist.php

That's my favorite type of music..

So to start you definitely need to have some old-school Journey, Aerosmith, and Bon Jovi!

Next, you might want some of the best rock bands, like Three Days Grace, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, The Academy Is..., Cobra Starship, 3 Doors Down, The Almost, Augustana, Coheed & Cambria, The Killers, +44, Tom Petty, and We the Kings.

Hope this helps you!

Beastie Boys, all albums up to Ill Communication

Atmosphere-Seven's Travels

Clutch

Mindless Self Indulgence

Tool

A Perfect Circle

Suicidal Tendencies-ESPECIALLY THEIR SELF TITLED ALBUM!!!!!!!!

Balkan Beatbox

NOFX

Shat

Bogmen

Life of Agony

Filter

Presidents of the United States of America

Cro-Mags

King Missile (They sing "Detachable Penis".)

POS

Led Zepplin

Jimmy Hendrix

Tori Amos

Little Richard

Cream

Messugah

System of a Down

Lacuna Coil

Crisis

Otep

Opeth

Dillinger Escape Plan

The Cure

Nine Inch Nails

Smashing Pumpkins

David Bowie

The Natural Born Killers Soundtrack

Pulp Fiction Soundtrack

SFW soundtrack

Spawn Soundtrack

and of course, the most important historical thing you should download:

THE JUDGEMENT NIGHT SOUNDTRACK

The Doors- The Doors

Radiohead- OK Computer

Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream

Alice in Chains- Dirt

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication

Sublime- Sublime

Taking Back Sunday- Tell All Your Friends

Well, looking at your taste, you might like Michael Jackson's Thriller... But if you want to enter the rock world, I can recommend you:

Nevermind - Nirvana (a must have)

Mothership - Led Zeppelin (a compilation of their biggest hits)

All the Right Reasons - Nickelback (I know it's mainstream but you may want a smoother transition from hiphop to rock...

The Beatles #1 - The Beatles

Viva la Vida - Coldplay

Hotel California - The Eagles

Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses

Greatest Hits - Journey

Black Album - Metallica

Dark Passion Play - Nightwish

Hits - Phil Collins

The Bends - Radiohead

some songs from Run-DMC (Walk This Way, Raising Hell, Rockbox)

Ultimate Santana - Santana

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

You'll probably like one of those...

Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement Fever to inform - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Expo 86 - Wold Parade March of the Zapotec - Beirut final Splash - The Breeders Elastica - Elastica standard - Flipper customary hues - The Horrors hour of darkness advance - The Kills Horses - Patti Smith Dummy - Portishead The Rhumb Line - Ra Ra insurrection The Woods - Sleater Kinney uncooked potential - The Stooges Sweep the barren area - Swell Maps Marquee Moon - television The fool - Warpaint The Mollusk - Ween i will pay attention the guts Beating as One - Yo l. a. Tengo The Calcination of Scout Niblett - Scout Niblett all and sundry knows it is Nowhere - Neil youthful loopy Rhythms - The Feelies Hospice - The Antlers Magic Potion - the Black Keys ....You mentioned positioned as many as i like yet i ended at 24.

most of the ones I was thinking of were said already (like The Doors, and such...) but there is a newer alternative band called Thenewno2, that no one really knows about that you might like.

They just came out with their new album on iTunes called You Are Here.

BUt everyone elses answers are great too. some of those albums are really good

you are spoilt for choice!!!here is a list of things on my ipod:

beastie boys,blur,get cape wear cape fly,belle and sebastian,elbow, hot chip, ting tings, vampire weekend,

i could go on but i won't :) but like the previous dude said, if you go on last.fm then when you are checking out a band it gives you a list of other similar artists too, so youl be able to browse lots of different sounds and bands. there is such a vast difference in all the bands listed at indie tho that it is worth listening to a few before giving up :)

here are some good albums, also look at vh1's classic albums, they show good albums, and some of those albums are in this list.

nevermind-nirvana

who's next-the who

nevermind the bolloks here's the sex pistols-sex pistols

appetite for destruction-guns n roses

slippery when wet-bon jovi

hysteria-def leppard

pyromania-def leppard

led zeppelin IV-led zeppelin

led zeppelin III-led zeppelin

led zeppelin II-led zeppelin

led zeppelin I-led zeppelin

let it bleed-the rolling stones

the white album-the beatles

kinks-kinks

come dancing with the kinks-kinks

dark side of the moon-pink floyd

the wall-pink floyd

disreali gears-cream

wheels of fire-cream

synchricity-the police

regetta de blank-the police

zenyetta mondetta-the police

adious armoudous- the police

let it be-the beatles

please please me-the beatles

Radiohead (I'd say start off with the bends, but it's not their best album) Muse (hmm I sugest downloading either Absolution or Black Holes and Revelations to start off with)

Hope this helped, those two bands are my favourite :)