Your ten most cherished recordings...

Natural thread to help cross pollenate our musical tastes:
List your ten most cherished recordings in no particular order.

(I'm still trying to to make a final decision, will post asap)

 

"New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)", by Simple Minds.
"Voodoo", by D'Angelo.
"ESCM", by BT.
"Grace", by Jeff Buckley.
"King of America", by Elvis Costello.
"Sketches of Spain", by Miles Davis.
"Diamonds & Pearls", by Prince.
"Swordfishtrombones", by Tom Waits.
"Embrya", by Maxwell.
"Superunknown", by Soundgarden.

 

You're asking me to think on a Saturday night :grrr:

It will take days to decide which are the top ten

 

thats just too hard for words! :O


al i can say is it would include...

1) a bob marley album. Babylon by bus?
2) Led Zep album. Can I have a greatest hits?
3) alison krauss - new favorite.
4) faithless - outrospective
5) beatles - white album
6) stone roses - stone roses


Im going to come back and edit/add to this!!

Chris

 

1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2. Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocence & The E Street Shuffle
3. The Pixes - Death To The Pixies
4. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
5. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
6. Love - Love
7. Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
8. Muddy Waters - Electric Mud
9. Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
10. AC/DC - If You Want Blood...

This will undoubtedly change.

 

impossible, my top ten would probably be about 100 long!

Needs some though. Not to pick albums I love, but to cut it down to 10!............

 

Oooh... make an easy topic why don't you . Off the top of my head these would be a good start.

Faith No More - Angel Dust

One of those rare albums I can put on and actually leave to play all the way through. With the highlights for me being Midlife Crisis and Midnight Cowboy.

Kid Koala - Scratchappyland

A classic and rare slice of scratching filled with some wonderful samples about quitting smoking, sandwiches and turntables.

Jurassic 5 - LP

The album that brought me from bigbeat/breakbeat into hip-hop.

DJ QBert - Wavetwisters

Spectacular cuts and scratches combined to tell a sonic story make this one of my favourite turntabilist records in my collection.

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

A classic of instrumental hip-hop/trip-hop which still gets regular spins in my system.

RJD2 - Your Face Or Your Kneecaps

A mix of classic/rare 60-70's funk which was well worth tracking down.

Jimmy Smith - Jimmy Smith's Finest Hour

A spin off from my love of hip-hop, got into Jimmy Smith while tracking down original tracks that were sampled by various hip-hop artists.

Cut Chemist - Rare Equations

Yet another rather good mix of soul/funk/hip-hop. Reminds me of going to see his live performance.

DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Brainfreeze

Wonderful blend of soul/funk/hip-hop put together by two of my favourite turntabilists that never fails to get me grooving.

Edan The DJ - Fast*Rap

A non-stop mix of classic/rare hip-hop trakcs. Which helped to introduce me to some older hip-hop acts that I would have missed otherwise.

 

Impossible... So, I'm going to cheat and offer a number of top tens, split into different categories...

Classical:

1. Beethoven - Symphonies (Abbado/VPO)
2. Grieg - Piano Concerto (Zimerman/Karajan/BPO)
3. Ryuichi Sakamoto - BTTB
4. Beethoven - Piano Concertos (Zimerman/Bernstein/VPO)
5. Elgar - Cello Concerto (Du Pre/Barbirolli/LSO)
6. Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini (Rubinstein/Reiner/CSO)
7. Arvo Part - Sanctuary
8. Mozart - Piano Sonatas (Uchida)
9. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 (Bernstein/NYPO)
10. Copland - Symphony No. 3 (Bernstein/NYPO)

Non-classical (studio):

1. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
2. The Beatles - Blue Album
3. Level 42 - Running In The Family
4. Enya - Watermark
5. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
6. Miles Davis - Amandla
7. Genesis - Invisible Touch
8. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By The Way
9. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
10. Incantation - Panpipes From The Andes

Live:

1. Dire Straits - Live At The BBC
2. Dire Straits - Alchemy
3. G3 (Satriani/Vai/Johnson) - Live In Concert
4. The Corrs - Unplugged
5. Eric Clapton - 24 Nights
6. Eric Clapton - MTV Unplugged
7. The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
8. Jean-Michel Jarre - Jarre Live (Destination Docklands)
9. Jean-Michel Jarre - Concerts In China
10. Gary Moore - Blues Alive

More top tens from me soon...

 

Physical Graffiti Zep
Made In Japan Deep Purple
Harvest Niel Young
Freeway Dylan
Pink Moon Nick Drake
Wish You Were Here Floyd
"One" Metallica
Bat Out Of Hell
British Steel Judas Priest
anything by Eva Cassidy

 

Ok this is a working list trying to pick the favoured from different genres and in no particular order

Joni Mitchell "Blue" (LP/CD)
Priceless. Notably Little Green makes me cry each and every time and sums up my second daughter Lauren.

Pharoah Sanders "Thembi" (LP/CD)
Could pick any of four or five from the Pharoah. Seen him live three times and he brings a strange aura with him.

Talking Heads "Remain in Light" (LP/CD)
Again could pick any of six+ albums - massive influence on me over 17 years so far.

Graeme Park recorded at The Hacienda 21/11/1991 (23:30 - 02:00) (Compact Cassette)
Fantastically architected mix, superb selection of tracks, with excellent theming. Beautifully captures one of the best years at the Hacienda and best of all recorded the night we celebrated my 21st birthday.

Gwen Guthrie "Seventh Heaven" Larry Levan mixes (EP)
Incredible honesty, pure lyrics, superb remix by one of the god fathers. Captures a post disco, post punk high point - The Paradise Garage in New York and the man who inspired a (sub)generation - Larry Levan.

Incognito "Nights Over Egypt" Masters at Work remixes (EP)
Excellent production, the effect it imparts on the dancefloor must be seen to be understood. I had to pick a MaW track and this week it had to be this one.

Herbie Hancock "Maiden Voyage" (LP/CD)
Grew up with it and always brings a tear. Had to select a HH album - this week...

The Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced"
Do I need to explain?

The Stone Roses "The Stone Roses" (LP)
Maybe this is the "Never mind the bollocks" for my generation. Oh the nostalgia - its not what it used to be

Marvin Gaye "What's going on" (LP)
Cant believe I left it out. Thanks to Merlin for the reminder.

 

Difficult but...

Jeff Buckley : Grace
Marvin Gaye : What's Going On
Bobby Womack : The Poet
Bob Marley : Kaya
UB40 : Signing Off
Stevie Wonder : Songs in the Key of LIfe
Bran Van3000 : Discosis
Joni Michell : Blue
Prince : Sign of the Times
Fleetwood Mac : Rumours

Yep that'll keep me going on the desert island!

 

One of my favourite threads on the old Pink Fish forum was about precisely this topic:

http://pub110.ezboard.com/fpinkfishmediafrm3.showMessage?topicID=81.topic

The 10 I chose then would probably do for me now.

-- Ian

 

I've loved many albums over the years but unfortunately some of them where played so incessantly that i could probably live with out them now and just survive on memories etched into my brain. (Sex Pistols - NMTB, The Cult - Love, instantly spring to mind here).

Here are the Top 10 Lp's that have been seeing lots of action on my rig this past year, not in any specific order they are all equal #1 . BTW no attempts here to try and look cool, un-cool, political, non-political , etc , etc these are just genuinely the albums that i reach for when i get up out of bed and want to veg out to, another thing is; on these albums I love every single track !

a) Coldplay- A rush of Blood to the head
b) UB40 - signing off ( & madame medusa)
c) Oasis- The Masterplan
d) Richard Ashcroft- Alone with everybody
e) Stereophonics- word gets around
f) Oasis - standing on the shoulder of giants
g) Eva Cassidy- Songbird ( her voice brings tears to my eyes - what a tragedy, what a loss )
h) Ther Strokes - Is this it
i) Fun Lovin Criminals- 100% colombian
j) Ryan Adams - Gold
k) Lincoln Mayorga Vol 3 ( mywife thinks it sounds like circus music ) I bought this as an 'Audiophile recording' on the Sheffield Labs label, just 'cause it was reasonably priced and i wanted to see what an 'audiphile recording 'sounded like. i planned to buy it, clean it , listen to it, flog it. I ended up really liking it.
l) Deacon Blue- Raintown, Shitty thin vinyl that sounds really good !
m) Queen - A kind of magic.

Apologies i thought that if i put letters instead of numbers nobody would notice i'd gone over my quota.

 

good point about Raintown,i went through all my old vinyl recently and was really surprised and how good that recording sounds

 

At the moment it'd be:

Sunspot - Dark Soho
Loved Up - OST
Forever Changes - Love
Blue album - Beatles
Little earthquakes - Tori Amos
Communique - Dire Straits
The queen is dead - The Smiths
Hunky dory - David Bowie
MTV Unplugged - Nirvana
Licenced to ill - Beastie Boys (for the cheese good memories factor)

Always constantly changing!

 

1)Counting Crows - Across a Wire
2)Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends Box Set
3)India Arie - Voyage to India
4)Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
5)John Martyn - Solid Air
6)Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
7)Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
8)Barber - Adagio for Choir - Accentus Chamber Choir/Laurence Equilbey
9)John Rutter - Requiem - Cambridge Clare College Choir/Timothy Brown
10)Favourite Cello Concertos - Box Set (Du Pre)

I could really put anything down, but these sort of popped into my head first for different reasons.

 

This Charles Mingus fella seems to pop up a bit. Is there a disc to start with? Also, Frank Zappa? Is it hardcore jazzy stuff though? Excuse my philistinism, but i only came across music a couple of years ago, so i'll blame it on lack of exposure.

 

Dino, there's no single good place to start, he made so many great records, but you might as well start with The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, his masterpiece. Other favourites: Blues & Roots, Ah Um, Pithecanthropus Erectus, Oh Yeah, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Presents Charles Mingus, Live at Antibes, Myself When I Am Real... You get the idea.

I'll burn you a compilation of highlights, if you like, so you can see what you make of him.

-- Ian

 

I've looked up 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady' on Amazon, and for £7.99 its worth a punt, so i've stuck it in the basket.

Ian, next time i come over you can give me a proper music induction course.

cheers

 

T'will be a pleasure.

-- Ian