In 2019, I (Dave Whitaker) formed the Classic Albums Club through Meetup. The group meets in person in the Kansas City metropolitan area once a month, discussing a different classic album each time. You can see more at the Classic Albums Club Meetup page here.
The albums eligible for discussion include:
1 albums featured in The Top 100 Albums of All Time book published 2014
2 albums featured in The Top 100 Albums of the 20th Century book, published 2024
3 the top ten albums featured in the upcoming book The Top 100 Albums of the 21st Century
4 albums picked by group members in December 2024
Albums Already Discussed Or Scheduled for Discussion
- Dec. 2023: Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (composers) South Pacific (cast album: 1949, soundtrack: 1958) 1,2
- Nov. 2023: Massive Attack Blue Lines (1991) 1
- Oct. 2023: The Who Who’s Next (1971) 1,2
- Sept. 2023: U2 Achtung Baby (1991) 1,2
- Aug. 2023: Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions (archives: 1954-55, released 1975) 1
- July 2023: Neil Young Harvest (1972) 1,2
- June 2023: The Police Synchronicity (1983) 1,2
- May 2023: Joni Mitchell Blue (1971) 1,2
- April 2023: Beck Odelay (1996) 1,2
- March 2023: The Allman Brothers At Fillmore East (live, 1971) 1
- Feb. 2023: Bee Gees/Various Artists Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack, 1977) 1,2
- Jan. 2023: Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968) 1,2
- Dec. 2022: Pink Floyd The Wall (1979) 1,2
- Nov. 2022: The Stone Roses The Stone Roses (1989) 1,2
- Oct. 2022: Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975) 1,2
- Sept. 2022: Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971) 1,2
- Aug. 2022: Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987) 1,2
- Sept. 2022: The Clash London Calling (1979) 1,2
- June 2022: Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I (1969) 1,2
- May 2022: Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977) 1,2
- April 2022: Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) 1,2
- March 2022: Black Sabbath Paranoid (1970) 1,2
- Feb. 2022: Pearl Jam Ten (1991) 1,2
- Jan. 2022: Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (1985) 1,2
- Dec. 2021: Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim (composers) West Side Story (cast album: 1957, soundtrack: 1961) 1,2
- Nov. 2021: Derek and the Dominos Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) 1,2
- Oct. 2021: The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965) 1,2
- Sept. 2021: Jeff Buckley Grace (1994) 1,2
- Aug. 2021: David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) 1,2
- July 2021: The Band The Band (1969) 1,2
- June 2021: John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965) 1
- May 2021: Bob Marley & the Wailers Legend (compilation: 1973-83, released 1984) 1,2
- April 2021: Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) 1,2
- March 2021: Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times (1987) 1,2
- Feb. 2021: Van Halen Van Halen (1978) 1,2
- Jan. 2021: The Beatles Revolver (1966) 1,2
- Dec. 2020: Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980) 1,2
- Nov. 2020: Stevie Wonder Innervisions (1973) 1,2
- Oct. 2020: Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) 1,2
- Sept. 2020: Joy Division Closer (1980) 1,2
- Aug. 2020: Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) 1,2
- July 2020: Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965) 1,2
- June 2020: The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (1971) 1,2
- May 2020: Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (live, 1968) 1
- April 2020: Television Marquee Moon (1977) 1,2
- Feb. 2020: Radiohead OK Computer (1997) 1,2
- Jan. 2020: Paul Simon Graceland (1986) 1,2
- Dec. 2019: Carole King Tapestry (1971) 1,2
- Nov. 2019: James Brown Live at the Apollo Volume 1 (live, 1962) 1,2
- Oct. 2019: R.E.M. Automatic for the People (1992) 1,2
- Sept. 2019: Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (1995) 1,2
- Aug. 2019: Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959) 1,2
- July 2019: Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (1984) 1,2
- June 2019: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966) 1,2
- May 2019: Patti Smith Horses (1975) 1,2
- April 2019: Queen A Night at the Opera (1975) 1,2
- Feb. 2019: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 1,2
Albums Still Up for Discussion
- AC/DC Back in Black (1980) 1
- Adele 21 (2011) 3
- Alice in Chains Dirt (1992) 4
- The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night (soundtrack, 1964) 2
- The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968) 1
- The Beatles Abbey Road (1969) 1
- Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet (1986) 2
- David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971)
- The Clash The Clash (1977) 1
- Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) 3
- Cream Disraeli Gears (1967) 4
- Crosby, Stills & Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) 4
- Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young Déjà Vu (1970) 1
- The Cure Disintegration (1989) 4
- DJ Shadow Endtroducing… (1996) 4
- Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966) 1
- Eagles Hotel California (1976) 1
- Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) 3
- George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward (composers) Porgy and Bess (opera/musical, composed 1935) 4
- Green Day Dookie (1994) 2
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (1968) 1
- Whitney Houston/Various Artists The Bodyguard (soundtrack, 1992) 2
- Michael Jackson Off the Wall (1979) 2
- Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) 1
- Norah Jones Come Away with Me (2002) 3
- Judas Priest British Steel (1980) 4
- Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) 3
- Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II (1969) 1
- Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 1
- Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (1975) 1
- John Lennon Imagine (1971) 1
- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers/Eric Clapton Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966) 4
- Metallica Metallica (aka ‘The Black Album’) (1991) 1
- Van Morrison Moondance (1970) 1
- My Chemical Romance The Black Parade (2006) 4
- Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta/Various Artists Grease (soundtrack, 1978) 1
- Nirvana Nevermind (1991) 1
- Radiohead The Bends (1995) 1
- Radiohead Kid A (2000) 3
- R.E.M. Murmur (1983) 2
- The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (1968) 1
- The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (1969) 1
- The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972) 1
- The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977) 1
- Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) 1
- Steely Dan Aja (1977) 4
- The Strokes Is This It (2001) 3
- Taylor Swift 1989 (2014) 3
- Shania Twain Come on Over (1997) 2
- U2 Under a Blood Red Sky (live, recorded 1983) 4
- U2 The Joshua Tree (1987) 1
- The White Stripes Elephant (2003) 3
- The Who Tommy (1969) 1
- Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001) 4
- Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998) 4
- Amy Winehouse Back to Black (2006) 3
- Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life (1976) 1
- Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970) 1
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