10 records you must have?

[Porta]

Really a bunch of nice albums here - I'm getting quite inspired.
Judging by the choices I get the impression that the average age might be a bit over 30 (I'm 49 myself)

Some of my favourite LP's

1. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
2. Mothers of Invention - We're only it in for the money
3. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
4. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
5. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
6. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
7. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
8. Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
9. Billy Cobham - Spectrum
10. Santana - Abraxas

Plus a lot of other stuff, lots of classical too, but that will have to wait

[pivot]

I did notice very little jazz so far, so here are 50 jazz LPs one should have as a sort of starter kit for the would-be jazz enthusiast:.........

Buy this lot, and you'll know where to go from here...

Super job newdreams!! On the ones I have(or heard) I agree down the line.

The ones on the list that I do not have I will seek out.

[sparrow]

Smiths - Hatfull of Hollow
Pixies - Doolittle
Church - Gold Afternoon Fix
Velvet Underground - Live 1969
Magazine - Play
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
New Order - Low-Life
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Gun Club - Pastoral Hide and Seek

If I had compiled this list tomorrow, the result probably would have been different

Nice to see the Church there....Australia's best kept secret...I only have the Blurred Crusade, Heyday & Remote/Luxury on vinyl and all the rest on CD...great band who deserve to be huge.

[Chapter24]

1. Beatles - "white album"
2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
5. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
6. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
7. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
8. The Doors - Strange Days
9. Led Zeppelin - III
10. Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesty's Request

I like The Church too. The Chameleons are another really great band I like that seem to get overlooked.

[JoeE SP9]

newdreams;
I've looked everywhere but I cant find Art Tatum "anything".
Your selections are right on the button. Most of what you listed I have on vinyl. My Jazz 50 list would have been just a little different. Not that much just slightly. Why no "Bird"? Is it because there's no vinyl available? Just curious.

[newdreams]

newdreams;
I've looked everywhere but I cant find Art Tatum "anything".
Your selections are right on the button. Most of what you listed I have on vinyl. My Jazz 50 list would have been just a little different. Not that much just slightly. Why no "Bird"? Is it because there's no vinyl available? Just curious.

With Art Tatum, I've got three on vinyl, but two are parts of series.
Capitol HiFi "Art Tatum"
Pablo: "The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol 8".
Capitol Jazz Classics "Vol 23 Art Tatum"

I've also got a few great Tatum performances on CD, including more of the Pablo series. I really didn't know what to recommend, and everything I've heard has been stunning.

And yes, there was much I left out. Bird and Diz were two, and there's plenty of used vinyl around. I also have quite a few rarer vinyl jazz items (people like Pepper Adams, Serge Chaloff, etc.), but had to stop at 50 LPs. I should have added Kenny Ball for his UK dixieland jazz, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, and basically another 50. I do think 50 is a reasonable challenge to define the essentials of an area/era.

Everybody's mileage will vary a bit. Glad I pretty much hit the nail on the head for someone.

[Jorlsafar]

Nice to see the Church there....Australia's best kept secret...I only have the Blurred Crusade, Heyday & Remote/Luxury on vinyl and all the rest on CD...great band who deserve to be huge.

The one I would really like to include is "Hindsight 1980 - 1987" a beautiful double LP issued in Australia an bought by me in 1988 for the high price STG 12, as it was an import. It includes the best of the earlier records. But I guess that would be cheating.

The Church and other eighties aussie rock was never a secret in Sweden, but ha a large following. I have several records with Triffids, Moodists, Hunter & Collectors, etc, and of course Church. Today i purchased a S/N mint copy of their first LP, distributed in in Scandinavia by EMI. It has a broken statue on the sleeve, a common eighties feature

Rock trivia: Martyn Wilson-Piper did what Kofi Annan, Sammy Davies JR and Johnny Thunders had done before him, namely got himself a Swedish woman. He also lived here for a while. Unlike Thunders who died in Sweden, he is still alive.

[JollyJeweller]

Jolly, you back? Or are you just getting lagged over there?

Oui. Je suis retourne.

Sadly musicless, have sent my arm to Max for a rewire and my CD player has decided not to function

I'll post a full report of my mad trip later in the off topic section.
Cheers.
Neil (JJ)

[JoeE SP9]

newdreams;
I've looked everywhere but I cant find Art Tatum "anything".
Your selections are right on the button. Most of what you listed I have on vinyl. My Jazz 50 list would have been just a little different. Not that much just slightly. Why no "Bird"? Is it because there's no vinyl available? Just curious.

With Art Tatum, I've got three on vinyl, but two are parts of series.
Capitol HiFi "Art Tatum"
Pablo: "The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol 8".
Capitol Jazz Classics "Vol 23 Art Tatum"

I've also got a few great Tatum performances on CD, including more of the Pablo series. I really didn't know what to recommend, and everything I've heard has been stunning.

And yes, there was much I left out. Bird and Diz were two, and there's plenty of used vinyl around. I also have quite a few rarer vinyl jazz items (people like Pepper Adams, Serge Chaloff, etc.), but had to stop at 50 LPs. I should have added Kenny Ball for his UK dixieland jazz, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, and basically another 50. I do think 50 is a reasonable challenge to define the essentials of an area/era.

Everybody's mileage will vary a bit. Glad I pretty much hit the nail on the head for someone.

You're kind of preaching to the choir. I have 28 Miles Davis LP's including an original KOB. Yes it's the one that's a semitone fast! I also have KOB on 3 different CD versions.

You left out Way Out West! Just kidding.

[scho2684]

I've tried to sum up some albums that I do like very much that arent mentioned yet, so among all that Pink Floyd, Dylan and others that ik also play regular, here's my (vinyl)list:

1. Harry Bellafonte - at Carnegie Hall (RCA Victor, Classic Records)
2. Alison Kraus + Union State - Live (MFSL)
3. Red Norvo Quintet - The Foreward Look (Reference Recordings)
4. Nanci Griffith - One fair summer evening (MCA and playing now )
5. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (Curtom Records)
6. Marvin Gaye - What's going on (Motown and i'm waiting for the MFSL pressing now)
7. Dire Straits - unnamed first album, to me the best album from Dire Straits
8. CSN&Y De ja vu
9. Linda Ronstadt - Hasten down the wind (Asylum)
10. Bob Marley - Live (Island Records)

I like live recordings very much, specially when the sound quality is very good. Well, those first three records, the recordings are in one word fantastic, specially when you concider that number one is from '59 and number three from '57, if you hear this you begin to wonder what went wrong later on with sound engineers....

Marco

[JoeE SP9]

I've tried to sum up some albums that I do like very much that arent mentioned yet, so among all that Pink Floyd, Dylan and others that ik also play regular, here's my (vinyl)list:

1. Harry Bellafonte - at Carnegie Hall (RCA Victor, Classic Records)
2. Alison Kraus + Union State - Live (MFSL)
3. Red Norvo Quintet - The Foreward Look (Reference Recordings)
4. Nanci Griffith - One fair summer evening (MCA and playing now )
5. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (Curtom Records)
6. Marvin Gaye - What's going on (Motown and i'm waiting for the MFSL pressing now)
7. Dire Straits - unnamed first album, to me the best album from Dire Straits
8. CSN&Y De ja vu
9. Linda Ronstadt - Hasten down the wind (Asylum)
10. Bob Marley - Live (Island Records)

I like live recordings very much, specially when the sound quality is very good. Well, those first three records, the recordings are in one word fantastic, specially when you concider that number one is from '59 and number three from '57, if you hear this you begin to wonder what went wrong later on with sound engineers....

Marco

I've been looking for an original copy of Superfly for some time now. You'ld think it would be an easy find in an inner city neighborhood in America. Not!

[scho2684]

I've been looking for an original copy of Superfly for some time now. You'ld think it would be an easy find in an inner city neighborhood in America. Not!

I can see what you mean, just had a look on Ebay and there is only one worth looking at: Superfly on Ebay

Mine is a re-issue, some 180gram so called highfidelity pressing...but it sounds not to bad.

[Steerpike_jhb]

Not only but also:

Pink Floyd - D S of the M
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Roxy Music - Avalon
Ian Gillan, Murray Head, et al - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970 MCA)
Gerry Rafferty - Sleepwalking
Freedoms Children - Astra
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
Sixto Diaz Rodriguez - Cold Fact

[JollyJeweller]

Chaps:
I don't have the discipline to narrow it dowm to 10, so here's my top 40 or so (Alphabetically by artist, not preference)

Beatles : Abbey Road
Jeff Beck : Blow by Blow
BOC : Agents of Fortune
Buckley : Grace
Can : Tago Mago
Chicago : Transit Authority
Stanley Clarke : School Days
Cooper : Billion $ Babies
CSNY: Deja Vu
Crowded House: Woodface
Miles Davies : Kind of Blue
Purple : Fireball
Doobies : Toulouse St.
ELP: Trilogy
F Mac : Rumours
Genesis: Foxtrot & Selling England
Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
Horslips : Man who built America
Humble Pie : Performance , at the Filmore
Jayhawks: Sound of Lies
Jethro Tull : Stand UP
Dr John : Gris Gris
Zepp : 3
Baaba Maal : Nomad Soul
Aimee Mann : Bachelor No 2.
Dave Matthews : Before these crowded streets
J Mayall : The Turning Point
Pat Metheny : As Wichita falls , so falls wichita falls
Joni Mitchell : Hejira
Pearl Jam : 10
Floyd : Wish you were here
Jean Luc Ponty : Open Mind
Chris Rea : On the Beach
Rush : Farewell to Kings/Moving Pictures
Seal : Seal (1st)
P Simon : Rhythm of the Saints
S Dan: Aja / Katy Lied
Sufjan Stevens : Illinoise
S/Tramp: Crime of the Century
Talk Talk : Colour of Spring
Tears 4 Fears : Seeds of Love
Traffic : Low spark of the high heeled boys
Tubes : Young and Rich
Uriah Heep: Demons and Wizards
Jennifer Warnes : The Well
Weather Report : Heavy Weather
Stevie Wonder : Innervisions
Yes : Close to the Edge
Zappa : One size fits all.

Plus some Beethoven & Mozart