Hoobawho?
Here’s one. It’s a song you know, but you don’t know who it is generally. But if you like it, now you know.
When it was popular in a commercial years ago, I made my Mom crazy! asking her every time “what song is this???”.
Dave Brubeck. Time Out.
I have a greatest hits album (I mean CD, I’m very young! No, it’s on my Ipod I mean!)
I think a lot of what is called “smooth jazz” is so dull nowadays. This is is wonderful.
Paul Desmond is God!
The sax player? I was impressed with the drummer in that clip. But yeah, the sax makes the song.
Moby - Play
U2 - The Joshua Tree
U2 - Achtung Baby
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Portishead - Dummy
The Cure - Disintegration
New Order - Substance
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Daft Punk - Homework
Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure
Sasha - Involver
Armin Van Buuren - Boundaries of Imagination
Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise 3
Paul Oakenfold - Another World
Joe Morello is his own god. Follow the beat…
Beatles - Abbey Road
Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
Elliott Smith -* XO*
Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head (or Get Away From Me, take your pick)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Roby Lakatos - Alouette
These are essentially my desert island picks (the ones I can remember at the moment, anyway). I can listen to all of these over and over again and still appreciate their awesomeness.
I second this!
I think if your budget is tight, you’d be better off to check the local library or see if any nearby universities allow their CDs to circulate. I’m not suggesting you burn the CDs, mind - I’m just saying it’s better to borrow something and find out if it is or is not something that you need to own. It’s also much easier to check out the astonishing diversity of styles that exists.
Consider, as but one example, Miles Davis. He’s a colossus of jazz, but do you want to hear his early work with Charlie Parker, his ‘Blue Note’ recordings, the ‘Birth of the Cool’, the first quintet, the Gil Evans arrangements, Kind of Blue, the second quintet, Bitches Brew, the wild energy of Jack Johnson and Live/Evil or the later consolidation of Tutu, Amandla and Thalassa? Every one of those periods or albums is worth exploring, and worth many listenings, and it’s extremely worthwhile to listen to all of them back to back to hear his ideas develop. If you get everything I just mentioned, you’ll (I hope!) have a wonderful, ear-opening listening experience, but if you don’t do it through the library, I think I might have just cost you about $500. And that’s just one artist.
I don’t know where you are or if this could work out, but if it can be arranged somehow, I think that’s the way to go. (University of Toronto, where I live, doesn’t allow the circulation of CDs, though you can listen to them in the library. UBC in Vancouver, allows everything to circulate, so when I was last there with a visitor’s library card, I was like a kid in a candy store!)
Just my two cents.
The song is called “Take Five” from the album Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. And, yes, this is a CD everyone should own.
Okay - here’s a start. Note - this is meant to be a survey of some of the best examples within a genre - it is not meant to be a definitive Best of and some things are most certainly missing. But if our OP wants a few more CDs to get a good overview of a specific genre, I offer these suggestions:
50’s Rock / Rockabilly - most of these are Best of’s, since that is the best way to get their hits:
- Chuck Berry
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Buddy Holly
- Little Richard
- Elvis
- Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Carl Perkins (in some kind of rockabilly round-up)
- I don’t know enough about doo-wop to recommend a specific group or album
Early 60’s American Rock
- Beach Boys - Best of (to get the hits); Pet Sounds (because it is Pet Sounds!)
- Motown - Best of collections - I know there are 4-CD and more collections that cover Smokey, the Temps, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Martha Reeves, etc. - when in doubt, buy a bigger box set!
- Jackie Wilson - Best of
- Sam Cooke - either a Best of (for familiar versions) or the live recording from Harlem where he flat out smokes
British Invasion and Brit Blues
- Beatles - honestly, every one of their studio albums; if you want, you can just get '64-'67, then get Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver (their best), Sgt. Pepper, MMT, White Album and Abbey Road…
- Stones - Hot Rocks and the big 4 (Let it Bleed, Beggar’s, Sticky, Exile) add Some Girls and you’re pretty much set
- It might be fun to get a Best of Brit Invasion that has stuff like Dave Clark 5, Freddie and the Dreamers, Gerry and the PM’s, Herman’s Hermits, etc. - but, IMHO, not necessary
- Jeff Beck - Truth
- Yardbirds - best of
- Cream - Disraeli Gears
- John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, featuring Eric Clapton
- The Best of Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac
This is all off the top of my head - I am sure I am leaving off certain key stuff…
Lord Il Palazzo - is this what you’re looking for??
I have tired to reply to this thread on several occasion and I keep coming back to the fact that the essential music library really has said everything I want to say, better and in more detail.
Are the any particular genre’s of music that you are particularly fond of? Cause I can get real specific if you give me some more infomation to help narrow things down a bit.
Ok - the album that came to mind in reading the OP - and I love many of those suggested - was ‘Want One’ by Rufus Wainwright. I could not imagine not owning it and have bought maybe 7-8 copies for friends. I love Joni (Hejirah for me) I love XTC and Costello - I loooove Steely Dan and the Band and Miles and loads of stuff; but I cant imagine being without Want One.
MiM
Heart- “Dreamboat Annie”
Laurie Anderson-“Strange Angels”
Anything by the Blue Man Group