GroovyMan

Yesterday was Movies, tomorrow will be Books, but we thought three days of going through Esquire’s recommendations of some of the best cultural touch points was worth at least a little bit of your time.

So, today, here are their 75 albums every man should own.

We readily admit that we only own 32 of these, which makes us a little short of half a man, but hey, we’re a bit older than some of these guys, we own other albums by the same artists, and any list that leaves off the Stones’ Let It Bleed (even if they did include Aftermath) is suspect. I would also argue that David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust calls the entire list into question as well. But that discussion is for another time.

Notable inclusions to our mind are Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis and Taj Mahal’s Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home. Check them both out. They’ll both raise your cool quotient by at least five degrees.