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
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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.
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I'm Nat.
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
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I'm Barry.
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)
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I'm Luke.
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.
Listening is the act of aural discrimination and dissemination of sound, and accepting you get it wrong sometimes.
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