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#1 2010-03-02 12:27:01
- sunra
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Favourite Albums
In an attempt to be introduced to some great new music I thought the topic of top 5 favourite albums might be interesting. In no particular order, mine would be, Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night ,although it could have been any of half a dozen of his. Sun Ra Jazz in Silhouette one of the greatest jazz albums to my mind. Marvin Gaye I Want You, so so soulful. Bob Dylan Nashville Skylines, Dylan at his peak for me. And finally, The Velvet Underground Live 1969 a bit of a greatest hits but it was my introduction to my favourite rock band. On a different day, I might have chosen a different 5 but these would always be some of my all time favourite lps.How about you?
#2 2010-03-02 12:49:29
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Re: Favourite Albums
1. Art Pepper - Smack Up
2. Angels and Demons at Play + The Nubians of Plutonia - Sun Ra and his Myth Arkestra
3. Coltrane Plays The Blues - Saint John Coltrane
4. Sex Mob Does Bond - Sex Mob
5. Urubu - Antonio Carlos Jobim
What I've been digging this week in the car and at home - but more Saint JC at home.
Art Pepper's Smack Up is an album I've been returning to again and again and again for the last two years - sheer modernist genius.
Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound
#3 2010-03-02 13:04:45
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Re: Favourite Albums
Off the top of my head:
Muddy Waters - any Chess compilation (his recordings before and after Chess were also mostly outstanding)
Cal Tjader - particularly 60s and 70s e.g. Mambo Sangria
Spoon - At The Rennaisance
Spear - any Studio One or Marcus Garvey
Roberto Torres - Retrato Musical (what I'm listening to now in fact)
bonus album - any Louis Jordan compilation featuring his big hits from the 40s
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#4 2010-03-02 13:07:57
- ScarletStreet
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Re: Favourite Albums
Top 10 (Five is too hard)
Black Flag- My War
Sunn O)))- White 1&2
Bill Evans- Portrait in Jazz
Television- Marquee Moon
Joy Division- Closer
Tomasz Stanko- Suspended Night
Bird and Diz- Carnegie Hall
Desmond Dekker- 007 Shanty Town
Art Pepper- Intensity
Otis Redding- Otis Blue
Honorable Mention: Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ( I went through three (2 LP, 1CD) copies of this because of repeated listening between the ages of 15 and 20.
I think I could make a list that expanded into the hundreds but these ten see the most repeated spins.
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#5 2010-03-02 13:36:35
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Re: Favourite Albums
I couldn't possibly give you a definitive top five - but here are the first ones that came up in no particular order:
David Axelrod - Songs of Experience
João Gilberto - João Gilberto (1973)
Sun Ra - Angels and Demons at Play & The Nubians of Plutonia (good call Hepcat)
J Dilla - Donuts
Ennio Morricone - Veruschka
It's unpossible. I'm leaving at least 500 others out.
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#6 2010-03-02 13:45:51
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Re: Favourite Albums
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." -- H.L. Mencken
#9 2010-03-02 14:03:07
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Re: Favourite Albums
Tom Waits, Cal Tjader, Otis Redding, Burning Spear, Bill Evans - what a great bunch you lot are. We should have a club in real life.
#10 2010-03-02 14:17:29
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Re: Favourite Albums
Without too much thought, five I always go back to:
Chuck Berry: After School Session (Chess)
Bo Diddley: Bo Diddley (Pye International, UK)
Frankie Lee Sims: Lucy Mae Blues (Specialty)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Live at the Star Club (Philips)
The Fabulous Wailers (Golden Crest)
#11 2010-03-02 14:47:57
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Re: Favourite Albums
Skrewdriver "hail the new dawn"
Brutal Attack "stronger than before"
Skullhead "white warrior"
The Skatalites "foundation"
Bound for Glory "fight goes on"
wait, wrong list. well, one of those is in my top 5 records anyways
#12 2010-03-03 00:44:14
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Re: Favourite Albums
Bad Brains: I Against I
Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream Of Trains
Parliament: Mothership Connection
Conflict: The Final Conflict
Brian Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets
#14 2010-03-03 02:09:27
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Re: Favourite Albums
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#15 2010-03-03 02:11:30
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#16 2010-03-03 03:01:31
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Re: Favourite Albums
1. Panpipe Moods II
2. Now That's What I Call Music 41
3. Now That's What I Call Music 55
4. Panpipe Moods
5. Now That's What I Call Music 28
#18 2010-03-03 03:11:37
- heikki k
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Re: Favourite Albums
nsb youve got me mum's list! copycat!
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#19 2010-03-03 03:28:10
- Chris_H
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#21 2010-03-03 06:19:46
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#23 2010-03-03 07:28:09
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Re: Favourite Albums
Just going by what's in the car:
Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out reissue
Apples in Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution
Hayes Carll - Trouble in Mind
The Forty-Fives - Fight Dirty
Monk Plays Ellington (for after Planning and Zoning meetings)
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#24 2010-03-03 07:42:31
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Re: Favourite Albums
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." -- H.L. Mencken
#25 2010-03-03 07:51:42
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Re: Favourite Albums
Otter : Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon : I thought you were pre-med.
Otter : What's the difference?