Twenty or so essential CDs out of my three hundred or so collection

In no particular order, because they are all essential.
1. Highway 61 Revisted - Bob Dylan
2. Freak Out - The Mothers of Invention
3. The Velvet Underground with Nico - The Velvet Underground with Nico
4. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
5. Captain - Kasey Chambers
6. Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
7. Back In The USA - The MC5
8. Hums From The Lovin' Spoonful - The Lovin' Spoonful
9. Songs From A Room - Leonard Cohen
10. Forever Changes - Love
11. Surrealistic Pillow - The Jefferson Airplane
12. Strange Days - The Doors
13. Nuggets: Original Artifacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1-4 - Various Artists
14. Basher - Nick Lowe
15. New Wave Women - Various Artists
16. Nancy Griffith The MCA Years - Nancy Griffith
17. Prime Prine - John Prine
18. West Textures - Robert Earl Keen Jr
19. Something Else By The Kinks - The Kinks
20. My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
21. King Of Skiffle - Lonnie Donegan
22. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

There are more, but I guess that's essentially it, and besides my neck is starting to hurt from rubbernecking my CD cabinet.