10 Must-Have Albums...

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Originally Posted by dingus

i'll try to get these in correct chronological order ...

Moody Blues - "To Our Childrens, Childrens, Children"
Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Elton John - "Honky Chateau"
Peter Gabriel - "Peter Gabriel" (1st solo album)
Boston - "Boston"
The Cars - "Candy O"
Split Enz - "Time and Tide"
Midnight Oil - "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1"
Crowded House - "Woodface"
Steely Dan - "Two Against Nature"

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The Moody Blues are often left out, good call on that album, although most people would argue that it isn't even their strongest, I have always found SEVENTH SOJOURN to be highly overlooked as most people cite other albums by them as being superior. Although I recently picked up the CD of RED ROCKS LIVE and they sound horrible! I mean, not the recording so much, but their vocals are flat in quite a few places. Ouch.

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Originally Posted by conquest

My top tem list as the ten Cd's that I would want if stranded on a desert Island.

1. Radiohead, OK Computer
2. Nigel Kennedy, Vivaldi - Four Seasons
3. Depeche Mode, Violator
4. Enya, Orinoco Flow
5. Pink Floyd, The Wall
6. Giacomo Puccini, Madame Butterfly
7. Rolling Stones, Forty Licks
8. Sade, Best of Sade
9. Simply Red, A New Flame
10. Killing Joke, Killing Joke

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Yeah another vote for VIOLATOR.

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Originally Posted by basite

only 10?

Miles davis - Kind of blue
Miles davis - b!tches Brew
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Steely Dan - Aja
Donald Fegen - The nightfly
Grant Green - Idle moments
Kenny Burrell - Midnight blue /or/ Blue lights vol 1&2
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Secrets
The eagles - Hotel california
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Man, I couldn't even include brubeck's time out, or ella fitzgerald, or dire straits :(
I could make a list of a 100 albums you Must own :)

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

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Keep those classic jazz hits coming. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Feanor

Keep those classic jazz hits coming. :thumbsup:

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absolutely :thumbsup: :D

Tough to pick just 10, but here it goes:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane . . .
Allman Bros - Fillmore East
Coltrane - Giant Steps
Phish - A Picture of Nectar
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Chuck Prophet - No Other Love
Wilco - Being There
Roy Hargrove - Habana
Pink Floyd - The Wall (what can I say - still my favorite)
SRV - Texas Flood

This is fun but tough to decide on a top 10 but here are my picks.
BTW these are all on Vinyl

1. System Of A Down-Mezmorized
2. Marylin Manson-Lest We Forget
3. Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
4. Leroy Jodie Pierson-APO D2D
5. Alison Krauss & Union Station-Live
6. Black Sabbath-Paranoid
7. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio-Misty (45 rpm)
8. Eagles-Hotel California
9. Boston-Boston
10. Metallica-Black

I have a ton of Van Morrison CD's and I don't believe there is one called "Some Blues". I could be wrong but I consider myself highly familiar with his music (just finished a book on Van). Been listening since 1974!! This might have been a cut on one of his albums. Sorry if I'm wrong.

1. Beatles White Album
2. Van Morrison - Wavelength
3. Steely Dan - Gaucho
4. The Band - Rock of Ages
5. Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel
6. Carole King - Tapestry
7. Joni Mitchell - Miles of Aisles
8. Jackson Browne - For Everyman
9. Crusaders - Chain Reaction
10. Horace Silver - Spiritualizing the Senses (from 1983, only ever available on vinyl but now out of print, Silveto Records now defunct).

If anyone out there has this on vinyl, PLEASE CONTACT ME. I sold mine when I unloaded all of my LP's in one batch not knowing this is not available on CD. It's such a stupendous album from Horace.

Sorry folks but I've got to add just a few more if that's OK. Got to agree with Feanor & Basite:
11. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyaga (a classic for sure)

Also:
12. Marshall Tucker Band - Anthology
13. Jimmy Thackery & the Drivers (blues) - Wild Night Out !!

Well I just joined and saw this thread. I thought I might throw in my 2 cents and hopefully this will keep going. Hard to pick 10 without really thiking for a while but here goes, In no particular order;

David Bowie- Changes One Bowie
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead-Ok Computer
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Billy Joel- Piano Man
Jackson Browne- Running on Empty
Neil Young-Harvest
Simon and Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water
Boston- Boston

Top Ten Albums:
ACDC For Those About to Rock
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
Sublime Second Hand Smoke
Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive!
Bob Marley Legend
U2 War
Led Zepplin IV
Pink Floyd Wish you were here
Green Day American Idiot

801- live
Dylan- highway 61
Eno- anouther green world
Velvet Underground- VU
New Grass Revival- to late to turn back now
Eagles - on the boarder
Genesis- selling england by the pound
Big Brother and the Holding Company- cheap thrills
David Bowie- hunky dory
Fabulous Poodles- mirror star

A big welcome to all the new posters. And some nice choices there guys.

We are all newbes one time or another. :)

Welcome all! :D

Now, will somebody PLEASE vote for Patti Smith's Horses for cryin out loud!!!:incazzato:

Anyone feel like tallying the totals thus far?

Jackson Browne Pretender
Allison Kraus Forget about it]
Beatles All (oops that's,er, 8?!!)..You choose. Blue I guess
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Shaun Colvin Steady on
Primal Scream Screamadelica
Little Feat LastRecord Album
Steely Dan The Steely Dan Story
Andreas Vollenweider Behind the Garden
Dobbie Brothers Living on the Faultline
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Sigh, music ain't what it used to be..mind you, neither is nostalgia!!

real quick in no particular order:
Live-Mental Jewelry
Toad the Wet Sprocket-Dulcinea
Peter Gabriel-So
Ani Difranco-Little Plastic Castles
Cyndi Lauper-She's so Unusual
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours
Bodeans-Black and White
Sister hazel-Somewhere More Familiar
Far too Jones-Picture Postcard Walls
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime

Sorry, 10 is waaaay too limiting so there is no way I can keep it to 10, so I did 25. No particular order. If you really must narrow it down, then take the top 10 listed here, but I wouldn't be without any of these 25. In fact I really would like to make it at least 100 that I couldn't do without.

1. The Specials - The Specials(first album)
2. Avalon - Roxy Music
3. Unplugged - Nirvana
4. Pictures at an Exhibition - Emerson Lake and Palmer also the Telarc recording of same.
5. For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
6. Transformer - Lou Reed
7. Armed Forces - Elvis Costello
8. Sound Affects - The Jam
9. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
10. Zoot Allures - Frank Zappa
11. Close to the Edge - Yes
12. Machine Head - Deep Purple
13. Nilsson Schmilsson - Harry Nilsson
14. Harvest - Neil Young
15. Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
16. Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
17. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd.
18. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
19. Doors - The Doors
20. Abraxas - Santana
21. Sgt Pepper's - The Beatles
22. A New World Record - ELO
23. A Space in Time - Ten Years After
24. Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
25. Any XTC album.

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Originally Posted by Lance B

15. Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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my man!!!

MUST HAVE...for what or whom?...and including how many categories of music?

Seems a little like asking an astrophysicist what his favorite ten meteorites are. I'll tell ya what, take Slumpy's top ten discs and jayra's top ten albums, throw 'em up in the air and whatever ten hit the ground first are my picks...

I realize that coming up with ONLY 10 is nearly impossible, but that is not really the point of this thread... its not that you can't have other albums that you think are worthy of ownership, but that we can compile a master list of 10 that anyone and everyone should have in their collection.

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Originally Posted by bobsticks

MUST HAVE...for what or whom?...and including how many categories of music?

Seems a little like asking an astrophysicist what his favorite ten meteorites are. I'll tell ya what, take Slumpy's top ten discs and jayra's top ten albums, throw 'em up in the air and whatever ten hit the ground first are my picks...

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Regardless of how much unanimity there might be around a list of 10, say, rock albums, nothing would entice me to obtain them. For me, today, that genre is simply impertinent to musical enjoyment.

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Originally Posted by dingus

my man!!!

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What surprises me, Dingus, is that it would appear that you are from the USA and that you even know about Midnight Oil! They are quite possibly my favourite Australian rock band along with Mental As Anything and Cold Chisel. "10 to 1" and "Diesels and Dust" are my faves from the Oils, but they have a lot of great stuff. I remember going to see them as a pub band in the early eighties and they were fantastic. Did you see the video "Black Rain Falls" when the Oils pulled up in the Centre of New York City outsied the Exxon building on a the back of a flat top at lunchtime and started playing to the lunchtime crowd? That is one of the best! Looking at you age, we are of nearly the same vintage, so maybe taste and age go along together. :wink5:

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Originally Posted by Lance B

What surprises me, Dingus, is that it would appear that you are from the USA and that you even know about Midnight Oil!

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what surprises me is that the Oils arent more well known in the states. one of the best rock bands ever, regardless of geographical location, and the best live band bar none. to say i am a fan would be an understatement, they are my favorite band without question. i've got all their commercial releases and all the live footage that i can get my hands on, Black Rain Falls is no exception.

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Originally Posted by dingus

what surprises me is that the Oils arent more well known in the states. one of the best rock bands ever, regardless of geographical location, and the best live band bar none. to say i am a fan would be an understatement, they are my favorite band without question. i've got all their commercial releases and all the live footage that i can get my hands on, Black Rain Falls is no exception.

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It surprises me also that they are not better known world wide. Maybe their political stance upsets some of the record execs:wink5:
Anyway, it's good to see someone in the States who knows them and likes their music, so you must have good taste. :14:

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Originally Posted by Lance B

It surprises me also that they are not better known world wide. Maybe their political stance upsets some of the record execs:wink5:
Anyway, it's good to see someone in the States who knows them and likes their music, so you must have good taste. :14:

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They were pretty big up here in Canada in their heyday. :23:

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Originally Posted by Lance B

... you must have good taste. :14:

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likewise.

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Originally Posted by bobsticks

I'll tell ya what, take Slumpy's top ten discs and jayra's top ten albums, throw 'em up in the air and whatever ten hit the ground first are my picks...

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Hold it now! Wait just a minute! Don't ever put me in the same category as Jayra...


he has much better musical taste than I do. :D

I would have to say for my tastes a good album to have would be the Counting Crows first disc. You can listen to the whole thing with out forwarding any of them.

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Originally Posted by SlumpBuster

Hold it now! Wait just a minute! Don't ever put me in the same category as Jayra...


he has much better musical taste than I do. :D

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Yeah, but as the resident musical dilettente I respect and admire his good taste while wallowingly embracing your bad taste. Not since our dear, departed Dusty Chalk has anyone accumulated such a useless and affected cornucopia of musical nonsense as I ;)

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Originally Posted by dingus

likewise.

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I shouls have realised from your signature photo!

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Originally Posted by bobsticks

MUST HAVE...for what or whom?...and including how many categories of music?

Seems a little like asking an astrophysicist what his favorite ten meteorites are. I'll tell ya what, take Slumpy's top ten discs and jayra's top ten albums, throw 'em up in the air and whatever ten hit the ground first are my picks...

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Two years later I stand by this...and I like Feanor's jazz list too...

Violator?!...meh, toolboy couldn't even choose the best album by that band much less a top ten must-have...

OK since Bob resurrected this thread. :)
1. Vicente Amigo - Ciudad De Las Ideas
2. Vicente Amigo - Poeta
3. Vicente Amigo - Un Momento En El Sonido
4. Vicente Amigo - Vivencias Imaginadas
5. Vicente Amigo - De Mi Corazon Al Aire
6. Vicente Amigo has also just released Paseo De Gracia although I have not heard it yet, I somehow am sure it will find a spot in my top 6.

7 - 10 Hundreds if not thousands of works of musical art, and none of them have ever been played on top 40 radio. :mad2: :thumbsup: :eek: :cool:

Rudy

I love "Ciudad De Las Ideas"...awesome rec...

Great lists - gives me some ideas to go check out next time in my local record shop.

Glad to see Jackson Browne make someone's list. He's probably my favorite most listenable and most replayed out of the make vocalist/rock guys I have.

I highly recommend his Acoustic Vol 1&2 albums - excellent recordings to boot. But it is just him with the piano and guitar. I find them immensely replayable.

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Originally Posted by bobsticks

I love "Ciudad De Las Ideas"...awesome rec...

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The man is like no other, his other works are also quite impressive. I love many many different types of music, but in my 44 years of musical enjoyment I've never heard anything like Vicente's music. It's sort of in a category of its own.
I believe "Ciudad" is a Grammy winner if memory serves me correctly.
I'm so glad you resurrected this thread as I'm always happy to find out about fellow Vicente fans. He is like a treasure that very few have discovered, at least in the US.

Can you imagine Vicente on SACD or Blu-Ray? :thumbsup: That would be the Ultimate of the Ultimate.

Rudy

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Originally Posted by Rudy Gireyev

The man is like no other, his other works are also quite impressive. I love many many different types of music, but in my 44 years of musical enjoyment I've never heard anything like Vicente's music. It's sort of in a category of its own.
I believe "Ciudad" is a Grammy winner if memory serves me correctly.
I'm so glad you resurrected this thread as I'm always happy to find out about fellow Vicente fans. He is like a treasure that very few have discovered, at least in the US.

Can you imagine Vicente on SACD or Blu-Ray? :thumbsup: That would be the Ultimate of the Ultimate.

Rudy

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Hey Rudy. Has Vicente recorded anything in English? It's really hard for me to appreciate music if I can't understand the lyrics. It's very beautiful music, but it won't grab me if I don't know what he's singing about. Maybe that's why I can't get into Opera.

Tough Proposition...in no particular order...

1) Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks

2) Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

3) Led Zeppelin- II

4) The Beatles- Revolver

5) Guns N Roses- Appetite for Destruction

6) Stevie Wonder- Innervisions

7) Parliament Funkadelic- Mothership Connection

8) Curtis Mayfield- Curtis

9) Bob Marley- Exodus

10) Bad Brains- S/T

...now I will go and stay awake all night contemplating this bloody list...

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Originally Posted by conquest

My top tem list as the ten Cd's that I would want if stranded on a desert Island.

1. Radiohead, OK Computer
2. Nigel Kennedy, Vivaldi - Four Seasons
3. Depeche Mode, Violator
4. Enya, Orinoco Flow
5. Pink Floyd, The Wall
6. Giacomo Puccini, Madame Butterfly
7. Rolling Stones, Forty Licks
8. Sade, Best of Sade
9. Simply Red, A New Flame
10. Killing Joke, Killing Joke

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.....Killing Joke, great touch

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Originally Posted by Jack in Wilmington

Hey Rudy. Has Vicente recorded anything in English? It's really hard for me to appreciate music if I can't understand the lyrics. It's very beautiful music, but it won't grab me if I don't know what he's singing about. Maybe that's why I can't get into Opera.

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That's funny that you say that. As a youngster I enjoyed a lot of music in English even though I could not speak a word of it, until I turned 16 and we came to this country. Now that I know what those lyrics were about I so miss those days of old when I had no idea .....
In Russia lyrics were written by actual poets and music was composed by actual composers. The performers were just that, performers. Everyone played to their strengths and the results were quite spectacular. I'm still looking for something even remotely poetic in the English language, from either side of the Pond.
Anyway, no he does not have anything in English, save the single he did with Sting. He is very much a Flamenco artist and the tradition of it would not allow him to do something that brazen. I think it would be considered a betrayal of sorts. You know what I mean?
Also bear in mind that the amount of singing in his material is, I don't want to say minimal, but rather measured. The vocals are used as instruments more so, rather than a traditional lead for the "band" role they usually play.

Like you I don't really speak a word of Spanish let alone the Andaluz dialect that so dominates Flamenco. But I actually like it that way. :) Makes me focus on the music and prevents the potential disappointment upon discovering what the words actually say. :)

Rudy

Edit: Just a note, he doesn't actually sing on any of his albums he has two regular singers "Cantaors" that have been with him since his first album "De mi Corazon al Aire" that do the job quite admirably. One of those singers Potito has become quite famous is his own right in the Flamenco world.