List your top ten music recordings

Those albums, CDs and other works that you have listened to again, and again, and again, without ever getting tired of them. Please don't say, "Anything by ______ " as I'm not asking for your top 10 artists, just the specific works. Thanks!

Hope by Klaatu
Thick as a Brick
School's Out
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Cords by Synergy
Discreet Music
The Planets as recorded by Tomita

I omitted a few that were on CBGLuthier's list.

Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Red Tape
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Camel - Mirage
Gypsy - Gypsy
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Ledbetter Heights
Lake - Lake
Mountain - Twin Peaks
The Outlaws - The Outlaws
UFO - Lights Out

I spent some significant cash to get the two original Gypsy LPs back in the 1990s when I worked in a record store. Hometown (Mpls MN) boys they were. Too bad that the main songwriter, Rico Rosenbaum (Enrico ROSENBAUM - what the eff is up with that handle??) kicked it in the early 1980s. :hi:

Used. My originals were lost by my brothers while I was in the service (along with 90% of my records). I've since bought them on CD and the LPs are on my daughter's bedroom wall. She loves the artwork.
Great stuff!

I just went to look on amazon and a cd is almost a hundred bucks! Then I went to itunes and nada.

The Ill-conceived P.D.Q. Bach Anthology
Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Song Book
Alicia de Larrocha, Nights in the gardens of Spain
Korngold's Concerto for violin and Orchestra in D major/Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Swing! Greatest Hits
Beethoven's 6th, conductor Bruno Walter
Davis' Kind of Blue
The Carl Stalling Project
Allegri's Miserere
Tomita Snowflakes Are Dancing

Sgt Peppers
Massey Hall, Neil Young
Freewheelin Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde
Exile on Main St
Prologue Renaissance
Volunteers Air Plane
Blows against the Empire
Lots of the Dead

That's just what I had on recently during the day

(Dylan and Clash )....followed by, in random order:
First Doors album
Give Em Enough Rope -The Clash
Born To Run
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The Wild,The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle
Speaking in Tongues-Talking Heads
With a Lot of Soul-The Temptations
Wish It Would Rain- Temptations again



Tough call though-I can think of a couple dozen that could replace #'s 3-10 on any given day, ranging from Elvis Costello to Kid Creole and The Coconuts to The Beachboys to several Beatles albums, especially Revolver, Rubber Soul, and Yesterday and Today.
Add Temptin' Temptations, American Beauty by The Dead ,and pretty much all the other Doors albums ,and I think I cheated and listed at least 20 here. Oh well....

Highway 61 Revisited
Blood on the Tracks
No Pocky for Kitty
Born to Run
Toys in the Attic
Wildflowers
Pink Moon
My Aim is True
And Out Come the Wolves


*subject to change at my leisure

Rush: Vapor Trails and Snakes & Arrows
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
Elton John: Madman Across the Water
Buffalo Springfield: Last Time Around
Peter Gabriel: 3 (Melting Face)
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman

That would be a decent list. I could do several combinations, but there are 4 or 5 of the above that would be on every list.

Right here, right now, subject to hourly revisions, a cross section:

Beethoven 8th and 9th Symphonies - Bruno Walter/Columbia Symphony Orchestra
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Orchestral Works - Sir Adrian Boult/varied orchestras
Bill Evans Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Gil Evans - Out of the Cool
Sugar (Korean girl group) Heart and Soul (single)
Emmylou Harris - Roses in the Snow
King Crimson - Discipline
Yes - Close to the Edge

Certainly in the digital age it's easy to come up with a list; for example iTunes shows a list of "Top 25 Most Played" songs, but if like me, your music library is based on vinyl LPs or CDs, browsing through the collection would make it fairly easy to pick on the ones that you have played hundreds of times. I should have phrased the title of the thread to "Your 10 most-played recordings" and that might have made it easier.

September of my Years

Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. II

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning




All by Frank, of course....

and about 10 others besides

"It Was a Very Good Year" is one of my most-played songs of any genre!

Brian Eno, Before and After Science

The Beatles, Rubber Soul

Blind Faith, Blind Faith

Minutemen, Double Nickles on the Dime

Hüsker Dü, Zen Arcade

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica

Brian Wilson, SMILE

DEVO, Q: Are We Not Men?/A: We Are DEVO!

The Clash, London Calling

Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True

By Leo Kottke:
Guitar Music
Ice Water
My Feet Are Smiling

By Bruce Hornsby
Hot House
Scenes From The South Side

By Mark Knopfler
Sailing to Philadelphia
Golden Heart

By Billy Joel
The Stranger

By Knut Kiesewetter
Leeder Vun Mien Fresenhof
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f7wDJLPE8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-KdPKgBK8U&feature=related

Haunting songs in obscure dialects of the extreme northwest coastal areas of Germany,
more Scandinavian (Nordfriesisch-the first one) or Dutch (Ostfriesisch-the second one) than German.


By Wolverlei
Wind Tegen

Even if you don't understand Dutch (and I know there are still a few of you out there who don't),
this is just THE height of northwestern European old acoustic music--just an AMAZING recording.

10.the united states of america-the united states of america
9. the dreaming-kate bush
7. foxtrot-genesis
6. innervisions-stevie wonder
5. in search of the lost chord-the moody blues
4. present tense-sagittarius
3. odessey and oracle-the zombies
2. number 1 record/radio city-big star
1. the white album-the beatles

:hi:

thanks for asking. I love music.

In no particular order:

Beggar's Banquet - Rolling Stones
Revolver - Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
Tea For the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Abbey Road - Beatles
Who's Next - The Who
Greetings From LA - Tim Buckley
L.A. Woman - The Doors
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

With deep and heartfelt apologies to Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Rascals, the Kinks and many, many others.

Kept it to one album per performer. I own the complete catalogs of every performer on this list.

01). Neil Young & Crazy Horse / Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
02). Cream / Disraeli Gears
02). Creedence Clearwater Revival / Cosmo's Factory
03). Jefferson Airplane / Surrealistic Pillow
04). Beatles / Revolver
05). Rolling Stones / Exile On Main Street
06). Free / Fire & Water
07). Allman Brothers / At Fillmore East
08). Derek & The Dominos / Layla
09). Grateful Dead / Grateful Dead (A.K.A. "Skull & Roses")
10). Frank Zappa / Bongo Fury

:toast:

...it's somewhere in my top 100, not my top 10. Those were the vinyl albums I wore out, the ones that defined my little world.

I've probably played "Surrealistic Pillow" AT LEAST 200 or 300 times...easily.

:toast:

Jefferson Airplane-Surrealistic Pillow
It's A Beautiful Day- the marrying maiden album
John Lennon-Legend, The Best of
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Lightning Hopkins-Mojo Hand
Marianne Faithfull-Broken English
Pink Floyd-Piper At the Gates Of Dawn
Paul Kantner & Grace Slick-Baron Von Tollboth and The Chrome Nun
Robert Johnson-Hellhound On My Trail
Spooky Tooth-Spooky Two

I suspect many of us posting here are no longer younger than springtime?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cin0QzuEss

I really could put all Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel CDs. Like:

Beatles - Rubber Soul
Beatles - Abbey Road
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles - Revolver
Beatles - White Album
Beatles - Please Please Me
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Maynard Ferguson: Live at Jimmy's
Rush: 2112
Rush: A Farewell to Kings
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Deborah Coleman: A Soft Place to Fall
Johnnie Bassett & The Blues Insurgents: I Gave My Life to the Blues
Buddy Guy: Sweet Tea
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Texas Flood
Neil Young: Unplugged
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Tommy Emmanuel: Live One
U2: The Joshua Tree
Dio: Holy Diver

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
Willie Nelson - Teatro
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
Soundtrack - Honeymoon In Vegas
Girl Talk - All Day
Alice in Chains - Jar Of Flies
Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
Oscar Peterson - With Respect To Nat

Art Of Noise - In No Sense? Nonsense!
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
King Crimson - Discipline
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Van Halen - Diver Down
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Neil Young - Unplugged
Robert Fripp - Discreet Music
Pretenders - Pretenders
Thievery Corporation - Babylon Rewound

Wish You Were Here -- Pink Floyd
Doolittle -- Pixies
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic -- The Sundays
Pretenders first album -- The Pretenders
Moving Pictures -- Rush
Never Mind the Bollocks -- Sex Pistols
Avalon -- Roxy Music

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
3. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. The Antlers - Hospice
6. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
7. Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
8. The Twilight Sad - 14 Autumns and 15 Winters
9. The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children
10. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

If I had to come up with a list of the past 10 years best records I'd say a good chunk of those would be on it. But I want to give them another couple of years to marinate before putting them on my "of all time" list. Although the Interpol record came pretty damn close.

He tried the soup...you know, before it was cool.

In no particular order since obviously they are all over the map and reflect different moods and environments:

Slayer - Reign In Blood
Prince - Purple Rain
Black Flag - Damaged
X - Lost Angeles
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Cure - Disintegration
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Clash - London Calling

Janis Joplin - Pearl

Van Morrison - Moondance

Dispatch - Zimbabwe

Carole King - Tapestry

Johnny Cash - The Legend of Cash

Lyle Lovett - Road to Ensenada

Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

John Prine w/ Iris Dement - In Spite of Ourselves

Bonnie Raitt - Angel From Montgomery