Perhaps it's just great music. From a time when people actually made great music!
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Oh, this is tricky!
1. Genesis - Seconds Out
2. The Police - Ghost In The Machine
3. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (or any one of their first four)
4. Tool - Aenema
5. Yes - 90125
6. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
7. Bartok: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
8. Pink Floyd - Animals
9. Yello - Stella
10. Trentemøller - The Last Resort
Subject to change!
That was the conclusion I was hoping for and expecting! It's quite correct IMHO. Genuine genius and class will stand out and hence be named and enjoyed by many people :)
Some, apparently, like country and western, sound tracks from musicals and even stock, aitkin and waterman... To calibrate taste we must be aware of the extremes in order to set a benchmark:D
Muddy Waters - Folk singer
John Lee Hooker - The Healer.
Pink Floyd - Meddle.
Peter Gabriel - 4.
Willy DeVille - Miracle.
Steely Dan - Aja.
Dr Feelgood - Down by the jetty.
Jimi Hendrix - Electric ladyland.
Santana - Abraxus.
Tracy Chapman - Self titled.
Gregory Isaccs - More Gregory
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Who - Quadrophenia
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Bob Marley - Exodus
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Bobby Womack - The Poet
Bobby Womack - Facts of Life
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Ocean Colour Scene - Mosely Shoals
Good to see another Bobby Womack fan :)
Anything less than 50-75 is tough. Always an exercise in futility unless I think of a couple obvious desert island choices and say, "Everything else I pick I have to like as much as these". But, I'll take a shot...
Billie Holiday: Music for Torching
Andres Segovia: On Stage
Heinrich Neuhaus: Well-Tempered Clavier select books
Jimmy Rowles: Mediacomm Special
Adam Makowicz: Zimny Kvety
Gerry Mulligan: Night Lights
Jimmy Giuffre: Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet
Bill DeArango: self titled
Max Bruell Quartette: Cool Bruell
Jazz Couriers: self titled (the group with Dave Pike, not the Tubby Hayes group)
Best,
Barry
I could do this several times and come up with a different 10 each time, but it was a fun exercise. Several choices were due to nostalgic reasons rather than necessarily being the 'best' album by the artist:
Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening
Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
Dustin O'Halloran - Vorleben
Hauschka + Hilary Hahn - Silfra
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Nils Frahm - Felt
Paul Simon - Graceland
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
Talib Kweli - Reflection Eternal
Toumani Diabate - New Ancient Strings
I was going to start a new thread of your Top 10 albums on vinyl but then came across this, although I have a déjà vu feeling doing this post, anyway here goes in no particular order
1. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
2. Deep Purple - In Rock
3. Eva Cassidy - Nightbird
4. Led Zeppelin I
5. Hugh Masakela - Hope
6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
7. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
8. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
9. Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream
10. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
I could easily add many more Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Metallica and so on, but the one above are albums over the years I have regularly returned to for a listen and don't tire of.