About:
Hello. My name is John Park. I created The Essentials website because I wanted to showcase some of the most influential albums of the past decades, so that they won't be forgotten or overlooked by future generations. My ultimate goal is to have every visitor exposed to a new (actually old, but you know what I mean) world of music that they wouldn't have known about otherwise.
I hope to have their ears opened as wide as mine were when I first heard of musicians like Black Sabbath and Cream. I remember my friend giving me a copy of Black Sabbath's Paranoid. My mind was completely blown away by how well the music held up, despite being several decades old. It just goes to show that it doesn't matter when the music was made, because good music never gets old. Ehh... I can't believe I just wrote that.