Vote for Top Ten LPs in history...

Top Ten (Studio-Produced) LPs of the post "64 Era: (not necessarily in order) 1. Abbey Road (the Beatles) 2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the Beatles) 3. The Beatles (aka the "White Album") (the Beatles) 4. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan) 5. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan) 6. Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan) 7. Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen) 8. The River (Bruce Springsteen) 9. Astral Weeks (Van Morrison) 10.Moondance (Van Morrison) 10.Music from Big Pink (the Band) 10.The Band (the Band) 10.Tapestry (Carole King) 10.Are You Experienced (Jimi Hendrix) 10.The Wall (Pink Floyd) 10.Disraeli Gears (Cream) 10.Derek and the Dominoes (Derek and the Dominoes) 10.Rust Never Sleeps (Neil Young) 10.Eat a Peach (Allman Brothers) 10.Pet Dreams (the Beach Boys) 10.The Pretender (Jackson Browne) 10.White Light, White Heat (Velvet Underground) 10.Tommy (the Who) Okay, so it's not a top ten- it's a top 23 (merely posting a topic does not constrain one to it's random, fascist dicta- like I said, this is Amer'ca)...

That's a great list!

In no particular order: 1. Tapestry - Carole King 2. Blue - Joni Mitchell 3. Axis, Bold As Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 4. Crosby, Stills, and Nash - CS&N 4. Famous Blue Raincoat - Jennifer Warnes 5. American Garage - Pat Metheny 6. Absolutely Free - The Mothers of Invention 7. Tommy - The Who 8. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd 9. The White Album - The Beatles (Paul McCartney's old backup band) 10. Turning Point - John Mayall Just a few of the records I have tried to wear out and never could... *smile* Karl

I didn't see Van Morrison in that list, guess he doesn't make the cut. Nor any Grateful Dead.

Karl, do you have the Tapestry Tribute? Various artists covering Carole King's songs? I was listening to it this a.m. It's my "lonely" CD.

Good choice for a lonely CD. I've heard it!

Tapestry tribute? I can't believe I haven't heard of it yet! Where have I been? That may be my very nearly favorite album of all time... She is soooo soulful, so warm. *smile* Who is on the tribute album?

everyone!

Everyone???? Was I on the record? Did this happen in my sleep? Again... *grin*

Didn't you do backups for James Taylor?

It's awesome.

I'm a computer geek Stacey. The closest I might get would be backing up James Taylor's hard drive. *grin* Of course there are those blackout periods where I have been unable to explain my whereabouts. Hmmmmmmmm.

*grin* The BeeGees, Celine Dion, Aretha Frankin, Richard Marx... one on one, not some of my FAVORITE artists but they do great things with her songs!

Top ten LPs in History? I wouldn't even begin, but for me Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Land is on there, as well as the Beatle's White Album. To me these albums were very important in the evolution of rock and roll and were even a turning point in rock music.

The Eagles double album - Hotel California and the Long Run. Mares Eat Oats -- a childrens album I still own and adore! I don't think they were ever on vinyl but... Medusa - Annie Lennox Shaking the Tree -- Peter Gabriel

Top Five Songs from Led Zeppelin IV (untitled): 1. Rock and Roll 2. Black Dog 3. Misty Mountain Hop 4. When the Levee Breaks 5. Going to California Notice any omissions?

Nick has refused to succumb to public pressure! Good for you, Nick!

May each right-thinking, sanity-loving person endeavor to extirpate that irksome song from popular conciousness, once and for all... Was at a club the other night, and between the band's sets must have heard it 17 times (a gruesome experience, to be sure)... Of course, I played "Thunder Road" about 17 times, too (though that's entirely different, obviously)...

obviously... *smile*

okay, the category is top ten singles of the post '64 era... and remember, this will account for 1/4 your final grade...

can't go back that far...... (shucks, wasn't born yet)

and what makes up the 3/4 left?

am gonna crash soon, better make it quick

lemme sleep on it, later :)

1. Hey Jude (the Beatles) 2. Don't Worry Baby (Brian Wilson) 3. All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix) 4. Crazy Love (Van Morrison)(hey, it was our song...) 5. Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)(our other song) 6. The Weight (The Band) 7. Hotel California (the Eagles) 8. The Pretender (Jackson Browne) 9. Behind Blue Eyes (the Who) 10.Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) 10.Our House (CS&N) 10.Here Comes That Girl (Tom Petty) 10.Beast of Burden (the Stones) 10.Lola (the Kinks) 10.Sunshine of my Love (Cream) 10.Bell-bottom Blues (Derek and the Dominoes) 10.Melissa (Allman Bros.) 10.Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 10.Suffragette City (David Bowie) 10.Maggie Mae (Rod Stewart) 10.Some Kind of Wonderful (Grand Funk RR) 10.Coming into Los Angeles (Arlo Guthrie) 10.Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) (this, as all men know, is the greatest song of all time, so the list stops here...i'm growing weary, anyway)

wimp...

you should talk (!!) night-

Wot, no "El Paso"? No "White Christmas"? Being born in 1971, in Jamaica, I'm not really into this one. Pre '64: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs - Marty Robbins; anything by Nat "King" Cole. Pre '64 does not include Rubber Soul by the Beatles, nor anything by Pink Floyd. The Wailers' debut single "Simmer Down" came out locally in 1963...

Here's a couple: 1. Urgent-Foreigner 2. Barracuda-Heart

and a couple more: 3. More Than a Feeling-Boston 4. (Don't Fear) The Reaper-BOC

really liked "more than a feeling", the first 1000 times i heard it. (the last 9000 have presented a problem, though) like "peace of mind", "long time" much more...

don't think i can limit this to 10.......... 5. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love-Van Halen 6. Poundcake-Van Halen

please, God... no "stairway..." no "free bird"... (that's all i ask) p.s. might wanta nix "seasons in the sun", "billy don't be a hero" and "Feelings", too (assuming You have the time)

how'd you know?

7. Photograph - Def Leppard 8. Hysteria - Def Leppard 9. Animal - Def Leppard

Survival: Bob Marley & The Wailers (So Much Trouble In The World, Zimbabwe, Babylon System, One Drop, Ambush In The Night, et al.) The Dark Side Of The Moon: Pink Floyd (Breathe In The Air, Time, Money, Brain Damage, et al.) Bridge Over Troubled Water: Simon & Garfunkel (Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer, So Long Frank Lloyd Wright, Cecelia, et al.) Frampton Comes Alive!: Peter Frampton (Baby I Love Your Way, Do You Feel Like We Do, Show Me The Way, et al.) Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs: Marty Robbins (Big Iron, Billy The Kid, THe Strawberry Roan, The Master's Call, El Paso {NOT El Paso City} et al.) Can't think of any R&B albums; mostly know those as singles. Oh yes... Diamond Life: Sade (Smooth Operator, probably my favourite song!)

Singles and or Album Tracks: Redemption Song: Bob Marley & The Wailers Fast Car: Tracy Chapman (Actually, I should add her self-titled album to the album list) For You: Tracy Chapman (I should name the songs on the album I don't think much of, that'd be easier!) Many Rivers To Cross: Jimmy Cliff Fortunate Son: Creedence Clearwater Revival In The Ghetto: Candy Staton

like Tracy too

9.1 In My Dreams - REO Speedwagon 9.2 Time For Me To Fly - REO Speedwagon Sam, I like Sade as well

Oh man Wolf! You're making me nauseous! I suppose you wanted to rank Loverboy too!?!? Just giving you a hard time. My tastes in music are varied (just not THAT varied!)

yeah, wanted to see how far I could go before I got that response!

I know about as much about REO Speedwagon as I know about the car they're named after! (Actually, I think I know more about the car...)

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Jonathan Livingston Seagull

omigod... (a neil diamond fan is among us)

Well I can't help it, can I! I grew up with two sisters who were mad on Neil Diamond and they brainwashed me with large doses of his music. By the time I realized that he wasn't much better at singing than Michael Bolt-Head it was too late! Besides which, what's wrong with the soundtrack for Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

hey, my sister was in love with that defranco twerp (so i KNOW the awful taste of misery, bub)... but he ain't on my top ten list, either... that record struck me as , what? goofy, i guess... neil diamond doing serious, conceptual music makes as much sense as bob denver doing hamlet (and if you've seen that particular gilligan's island, you'll probably agree the latter was more sucessful at it... that "neither a borrower nor a lender be" tune had a nice ring to it)... (sorry, sit-com anologies are the best i can come up with, tonight)

Who's defranco? never heard of him! BTW, one of those sisters was also heavily into R&B along with her two older brothers (I'm the last of seven), and they turned me on to R&B, so don't knock 'em too hard! My first exposure to Jonathan Livingston Seagull was the soundtrack, which I enjoyed. I then read the book by Richard Bach, which I also enjoyed. I tried to watch the movie when it came on T.V. but it bored me to tears. I think someone should take the book and the soundtrack and write a ballet.

The Very Best Of Sam Cooke

excellant choice... have you heard any of his soul stirrers stuff?

No... just know "Another Saturday Night", "What A Wonderful World This Would Be", "Cupid", "Summertime", "Chain Gang", etc. I don't remember which '70s group covered "Cupid", but I wish they hadn't... I'm actually called Sam Blob 'coz I sang Sam Cooke songs for my hall's concert (the Blob part is because I'm fat).

don't forget "havin' a party" (if you get the chance, listen to southside johnny and the jukes cover... really excellant)... if you're a sam cooke fan, the soul stirrers (the gospel group he headed before he went pop) are an essential... "Touch the Hem of His Garment", "Peace in the Valley", and "Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles" are as good as anything he ever did, and some of the very best gospel music ever created...

Barry White!! "baby, baby, baby.... can't get enough of your love baby" Whatami gonna do with your love baby?" Love serenade.... King of cheese makes GREAT sex music!

I LOVE BARRY WHITE!!! (he deserves his own topic- hell, if sting gets a topic, barry oughta have 3)

Woo! Woo!

Three topics? "I don't know, I don't know why..." So tell me, what makes Barry White great while Neil Diamond and Sting stink?

first, i don't actually think sting "stinks"... among my redneck friends, he is regarded as the Man Who Killed the E. Street Band, and we're always cutting him, so i guess it's kind of instinctual... i think his music can be ponderous, and banal, but overall i think he's okay... i have several of his records, and turn "roxanne" all the way up, every time i hear it, even if grandma's in the car (a little classic rock and roll never hurt anyone)... same, kind of, goes for neil diamond... don't own any of his records (nor will i, i suspect), but i do respect the 60's pop music he created... it's not really my cup of tea, but it was top-flight stuff... it was in his pandering, feeble attempts at becoming "a major artist" that he invited scorn upon himself... neil diamond jokes are pretty old stuff... (yeah, i know... especially mine)... and barry white is sooooo smooth... (just love him... what can i say?)

Worst Neil Diamond song: "Jungletime". Even worse than "Soggy Pretzels"; almost as bad as "Get Up And Boogie" by The Silver Connection! BTW, it's songs like "Fly Robin Fly", "Love To Love Ya Baby" and the forementioned "Get Up And Boogie", that give disco such a bad name. K.C. And The Sunshine Band were rather good, although the Bee Gees sounded like they had their collective round objects in a vise (but their songs were still infinitely better than "Get Up And Boogie"!). ABBA is also classified as disco, and they're extremely good! Let's see, wasn't "Another Brick In THe Wall, Part II" also popular in discos?

nick, if I didn't think you were okay already, the consensus on Barry White would've cemented the deal. And last night I was hankerin' for a listen but I lent the CD out to an old roommate years ago... never returned. (group sigh) [1~And, although she doesn't come close to affecting me in quite the same way, Natalie is certainly a glorious singer/songwriter. And, I'll give you she is an excellent representation of the female gender. She toured with REM a couple of years ago and I attended the concert in Austin. Southpark Meadows, methinks.

she has perfect eyebrows, you know... (like a goddess)

What does Natalie Cole have in common with Ziggy Marley and Julian Lennon? They all make their living off the talent of their fathers, with no genuine talent of their own.

Man. You didn't give me a chance to even answer! I woulda got it too!

I kind of like Julian.

me, too...

know this is off topic- but who in the hell is colin firth?

(and boy, must his ears be burning)

I find Julian a bit whiny actually.

Don't say that too loud. He's the object of drooling around here.

Oh, is that what that liquid is? I thought someone threw up!

Gross!!!

To be gross on the 'Net... interesting!

Hi Sam! Have you found Natalie M yet?

Hello? (as my voice echoes into the abyss)

hey, isn't that my line?

*gasp* why it....it lives! *hysterical laughter*

i think you're giving "it" too much credit...

ok, it's barely breathing.....better? You don't check your mail anymore, huh?

that a question or an answer... actually just limped home a few minutes ago...

both (you ok?)

you see how much stuff is being posted about colin firth? Geez, he must be some dude!

no. (my mail has been frightening lately) yes. (nearly sober)

geez, was it something I said.... (my mail has been MT) getting ready to be totally unsober now, huh? (am feelin' alright with help from tylenol)

no. not referring to your mail. yes. determined to be sober some time this weekend (have my kids tomorrow)

ya want mine too? they're driving me nuts with this preholiday spirit! (just kidding) (and if it were my mail, you wouldn't tell me)

*sigh*

no, i wouldn't (but i wouldn't be talking to you, either...that's my famous escape move...avoidance)

(by the way, go to the planet, angel just posted somethin' you'll really like)

don't sigh at me (you're stealing my best lines)

stealing, nay sir. imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (haha)

did you see that thing the guy without a name posted? it was chilling (no joke)

yes it was....

but powerful...

still there? (got disconnected)

annie struck a blow against the normans (it was beautiful)

knew you'd like it........

well, uh, you were right...

what was that? can you say that a bit louder? (just teasin')

didn't mean to space out (which is a really stupid thing to say, i know, because i never MEAN to, though i'm invariably doing it) trying to talk/chew on gum at same time

gum, not gums, incidentally (know how your mind works)

we all zone out once in a while (i actually did it right in the middle of a live conversation and didn't wake up til i was asked a question). yeah, that doin' two things at once can be a real bummer.....

do you now?

so, like...uhhhh... what's up? (this is what's known as clever reparte...) (in lampasas)

not a whole lot. been sufferin' really....

you're getting p.o.'d about the e-mail thing, huh? (slow simmer is a thing i know well)

no (as long as you're not ignoring me) (my sufferin' is due to this darned head/chest cold, it's kickin' butt)

(it'd be nice if ya wrote back once in awhile though *grin*)

sorry to hear that (the suffering part...can live without the simmering) shall i let you go?

am ok.........

(unless this is your way of getting me to shut up *grin*)

no (can actually think of better ways to accomplish that maneuver)

enlighten me *wink*

enlightenment often comes at a steep cost

name the price............. *smile*

*sigh* perhaps you should do some comparison shopping (loss leaders aren't always what they're cracked up to be)

you need to give me and item description then, sweet, along with delivery, maintenance, terms, etc.

damaged goods... (caveat emptor)

in that case, what kind of discount are you offering?

like i said... overpriced (it's a seller's market these days...)

one price for all, then?

sight unseen?

no clauses?

sheesh (one at a time)... get the feeling you're not much of a horse trader

ok, what will you ask in return?

i dunno... (for some reason, that question threw me)... like i told you, very jaded...

i don't think you are.........at least not to the extent that you mean........

perhaps we should adjourn to poetry? (symmetry, you know)

sure, i'll follow you........

Just because I'm not on, Nick, doesn't mean you need to take my place...

hi, wer... whaddaya mean?

You just seem, oh, depress-ed, and thought maybe you were making up for me not posting since I couldn't get the Spring to come up. Plus, you and Wolf sound a lot like me and Stacey sometimes...

naah, i'm not depressed (too egoistic for that)...

Then I really feel honored to be allowed to lead you into battle...

*roflmao* anytime, wer...

In no particular order, and with little aforethought--just free flow and honest 1. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles) 2. Exodus (Bob Marley and the Wailers) 3. Frampton Comes Alive (Peter Frampton) 4. Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) 5. Pet Sounds (Beach Boys) 6. Can't Buy a Dream (Steely Dan) 7. Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits (Marvin Gaye) 8. The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (Traffic) 9. Innervisions-Stevie Wonder 10. St. Dominic's Preview-Van "the Man" Morrison other honorable mentions: Tapestry-Carole King Court and Spark-Joni Mitchell Hellbound Train-Savoy Brown Rumours-Fleetwood Mac Abraxas-Santana 461 Ocean Boulevard-Eric Clapton Wired-Jeff Beck Born to Run-Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Band of Gypsies-Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles, Billy Cox The Four Tops Second Album Aretha Franklin's Greaatest Hits Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan Every Picture Tells a Story-Rod Stewart The Very Best of Sam Cooke Hotel California-Eagles

Cool choices, but Jimi Hendrix? What on earth was his appeal???

Innovative, groundbreaking, maybe NOT ON EARTH (to use your words). His appeal was instead other-earthly...his use of feedback as a musical device instead of unwanted noise and his lefthanded style of playing with a guitar strung for a righty changed the way guitar was played forever...for better. Wasn't a great singer, for sure...but an incredible live performer. I saw him in an outdoor fest 1969, near Kickapoo, Illinois. He blew my doors off, and I wasn't on acid! The "Band of Gypsies" was a live a bum, and Buddy Miles did most of the singing. His song "Them Changes" may have defined 70s power funk. Other honorable mentions I could add off the top of my head include Superfly-Curtis Mayfield Graceland-Paul Simon (with Ladysmith Black Mombazo) Anticipation-Carly Simon (best album covers in the business, great legs) Quiet Storm-Smokey Robinson Briefcase Full of Blues-Blues Brothers Sticky Fingers-Rolling Stones Disraeli Gears-Cream The Joshua Tree-U2 Labour of Love (I, II, III)-UB40 Hot August Night (live)-Neil Diamond The Harder they Come Soundtrack-Jimmy Cliff Legalize It-Peter Tosh The Captain and Me-Doobie Brothers Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road-Elton John Venus and Mars-Wings Who's Next-The Who Rufus featuring Chaka Khan All Things Must Pass-George Harrison Days of Future Passed-Moody Blues Mark Cohn-Mark Cohn Hot Streets-Chicago Blood Sweat & Tears-Blood Sweat & Tears

That's "a live album"...not "live a bum" (YAPP shorthand with a Freudian twist to your dissenting view instead of my own). If you only took issue with one of my (original) choices...I'd say our tastes are similar...

George Harrison is great. I think it's sad that he was so neglected as a Beatle. He is cool - evasive and myterious.

He wrote some of their best music, in quality...if not in quantity. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" "(Baby You Can) Drive My Car" He lives on Maui and is

I hate YAPP! Mr. Harrison is VERY private. I haven't met him...but I hear stories about him from a few people who know him. He has a very large estate way in the boonies with a jillion KAPU ("keep out") signs. Some of his neighbors resent him because of how much land he owns and his personal inaccessibility. As long as he isn't bothering others, so #$@$%^^ what!

Mmmh, I like that Bob Dylan album - it's the only one I have. My favourite 10 LP's would look like 1. Sex Pistols - Never mind the Bollocks... 2. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat 3. Devo - Q:Are we not men? A: We are Devo! 4. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 5. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life 6. Nick Cave - Henry's Dream 7. Violent Femmes - s.t. 8. Pavlov's Dog - Pampered Menial 9. Bobby Conn - Rise Up! 10.The Clash - Combat Rock 11. The Ramones - All Mmh, that makes at least eleven... but there are many more Hey John, I would've bet a Dollar, that you are a Deadhead! No?

Funny you should mention that. No Dead albums mentioned there. I've seen them live only eight times--would've seen them 80 times if time and circumstances had permitted. All the concerts were in California between 1972-75 (Navy) and 79-81 (when I went back and worked as a TV writer/stand-up comic/weekend radio dude). I'm not sure only eight concerts would qualify me as a Deadhead...but they were a great live band and only a mediocre studio band. Your taste is more--for lack of a better word--punk th n mine. But love the Clash, the Ramones, and the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed is still amazing (and I wouldn't have thought that he would still be alive). I met Popa Chubby (now a blues guitarist) a couple of years back. He had been the original guitarist for Richard Hell and the Voidoids. (remember them?) We got along great (we both look like Hell's Angels enforcers) and partied after his show here in Hilo.

Wow, that's impressing! Punk's the music I grew up with and one always sticks to that, I think. But I like every kind of music, as long as it has no "metal" in it, like in Death Metal...

Hey Isabel, you forgot the Talking Heads and Television! (I've seen all the bands you've mentioned live, except for #8 & 9. I would like to add the Waterboys, Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley to the list. Traffic's "John Barleycorn must die," is also a classic.

Hmh, top ten LPs in history? Then you're ALL WRONG! That's all YOUR favorite LPs - but truly the greatest? Since 1949 (=LPs hit market...), I'd expect something like Miles Davis's "Sketches of Spain" and more mixed stuff... Personal Top Ten: A tough one, too - all time, or personal history? Personal Top Ten LPs (First Try, in order of historic appearance) Carolyn Mas - Mas Hysteria The Who - The Kids Are Alright The Clash - Sandinista! (because it's THREE LPs in that album!) The Ramones - Road To Ruin (One MUST love this stuff!) DEVO - NOW IT CAN BE TOLD (fabulous 2LP-live Album) Radiohead - Pablo Honey (Soooo depressed, but know how to rock!) Kreidler - Weekend (First new electronic record I madly fell in love with) Hazeldine - How Bees Fly (Great LP - why did they ever change line-up?) Bo Diddley - ??? (Forgot the title, a new outtakes-compilation) Epic Soundtracks - Everything Is Temporary (Enough said in other topics.) - To be revised on short notice! -

I must insist that at least The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground and Devo belong to an "All-Time-Goodies"-List! But You're right, Alexander, there have to be many, many more...even on my personal hit list, this would be an endless story...

Yes, there's the "Personal History All Time Top Ten", the "Personal All-Time Top Ten", and the undisputed "ALL TIME TOP TEN", which is something like the philosophers' stone, or truth, or objectivity - an abstract idea that never will come to be! Devo, too, huh? John, I know a guy who knows Richard Hell from old CBGBs days... They met again this spring... One day, I'll post my fave 78s... Just you folks know what y'all've missed!

I could list my top ten jazz, blues, reggae, world beat, classical even Hawaiian albums...but it seemed this list was pretty much pop/rock oriented. Marley could make any pop list, though. So obviously missing are artists like Davis, Coltrane, B.B. King, Brubeck (who I interviewed and then talked to informally for about 2 hours--great guy)... As for fave 78's, Louis Armstrong's version of "Reefer Man" would have to be on it, as would Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" (Gene Krupa's drums)!

Is one allowed to list one's CD's? I don't have LP's.

Although I'm not a moderator I'd have to guess "Yes."...LP is now a "historical" reference

OH! God, all this terminology! I should've been born in the stone age, I'm sure. Okay: Radiohead - OK Computer Bette Midler - Bathouse Betty John Lennon - Imagine Those are my favourites at the moment.

Isabel, if you bring "The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground and Devo", then I'll take the brandnew Stereo Total (current band from Berlin), and reconsider my choices... Die Dissidenten, the Sahara Electric album - these guys INVENTED what is called worldmusic today. They called it Ethno Beat, and recorded in the Sahara with their mobile studio. Perhaps one Tocotronic album, though I'm not sure which one, maybe WIR KOMMEN UM UNS ZU BESCHWEREN.

Okay-since someone mentioned jazz...my Jazz Top Ten (basically acoustic, some vocals, NO FUSION) 10. Phil Woods-"Full House" 9. Tony Bennett-"MTV Unplugged" 8. Miles Davis-"Bitches Brew" 7. Chet Atkins & Les Paul-"Chester and Lester" (first one) 6. Cal Tjader/Vince Guaraldi-"Jazz at the Blackhawk" 5. Clifford Brown-"At Basin Street" 4. Mongo Santamaria-"Watermelon Man" 3. Duke Ellington/Louis Bellson/Clark Terry-"At Birdland 1952" 2. Mingus Moods-Charles Mingus 1. Take Five-Dave Brubeck A few honorable mentions: Miles Davis-"Sketches of Spain" "Bob Dorough Live" Marian McPartland-"Piano Jazz with Dave Brubeck" "The Best of Art Blakey" "The Very Best of Joe Pass" Dizzy Gillespie-"A Night in Tunisia" Cannonball Adderley-"Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival" Sorry, no Coltrane...too far out there for me. Bird, loved what I've heard, but that's not a lot.

I'll work on my list if y'all promise not to laugh too hard.

Lemme guess. Would that include . . . . Ray Conniff? �grin�

mine is full of baroque trumpet and organ stuff and Beethoven...and the original Saint-Saens organ symphony...oh well. Go ahead, Terry, I won't laugh!

I'm working on it and the answer is no, ree.

Don't diss Ray Conniff! I won't let you borrow my Lawrence Welk albums!!! ;=)

JOHN!!!! tell me you do not have LW albums or I will have to reassess my adoration of you...bleah!!!

Terry, my next guess is ... Blondie? I KNEW someone would like Ray Conniff!! My mum sometimes listens to it! But I'm proud to say she mostly listens to the Beatles, the Stones and the Kinks.

No, Marcia...no Welk albums. But once I had a terrible dream that I was forced at gunpoint to work at an elevator music station. The station manager used mind control. He tied me up with cobra-skin ropes and played "Calcutta" over and over until my ears bled! Hey Ree, Ray Conniff was a party animal. He and Mantovani roomed together at Betty Ford!!!!

Ah, the Kinks! "I'm not the world's most passionate man, but I know what I am and I bet I'm a man and so is Lola!" It may belong in silly song lyrics, but Ray Davies is a bleedin' genius!

ha-ha! That's hilarious!

Love the Brits.

Defenitely. Battiest nation on earth!

OK, gotta throw in my $.02 Top albums not in any particular order.... Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time Santanna - Abraxis Grateful Dead - American Beauty Tangerine Dream - Phaedra The Orb - Orb Live 93 Steve Hillage - Fish Rising King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King Pink Floyd - Ummagumma Incredible String Band - Changing Horses Gong - Angels Egg Meat Puppetts - Forbidden Places and the list goes on and on and on and ...... mike aka cosmo

Wow, easy with that prog/psych shtuff! I guess you forgot your favorite Cpt. Beefheart-LP. Lots of British there, and a bit German, too. Hmh, I played that Floyd record the morning we got called and told my grandfather had died. For dubios reasons, the record was pretty quick off the turntable again, as my family couldn't see the appropriateness... No, not of Careful With That Axe Eugene, nor Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, but of the Grand Vizier's Garden Party. Thank you for your list! Next: your favorite all-time live experience...

Carolos Montoya filling the Civic Auditorium just with his unmiked Spanish guitar.

Carlos Montoya, of course - in Hilo, Hawaii! Second best was the Preservation Hall Society of Lower Basin Street playing the most git-down Dixieland you ever heard.. Incredible! Same venue.

I can't really decide for myself. There's been so much fantastic stuff... Bobby Conn in 1998 (he hated the concert, because the PA blew out all the time). The Sisters of Mercy in 1992 (when they opened with Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb - perfect!) Fela Kuti, mid-eighties. His sax blew my mind. Cosmo, how about you?

Me, too, if you consider my entire life. Toscanini conducting anything. Margot Fonteyn dancing anything. Budapest String Quartet, Swedish National Orchestra, musicals on Broadway...Never mind - I am boggled just by the choices I have from the first 10 years of my life!

Oh, man.... best concerts? Lots to choose from... SRV's second to last show with Clapton and Robert Cray Band at Alpine Valley David Bowie at the Erwin Center Pink Floyd at the Astrodome King Crimson and Emerson Lake and Palmer at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater The 'Dead at Manor Downs ZZ Top at the Aragon 'Brawl Room' in Chicago Yes at some outdoor arena in Phoenix Poi Dog Pondering during their 'Volo Volo' tour at the Riviera and at a private concert at Lake Forest College Kraftwerk at the Riviera Tangerine Dream at the Vic in Chicago Gong and Hawkwind at the Cubby Bear in Chicago The Orb and Orbital at Metro in Chicago Brave Combo at Stubbs (had to get that one in there....) And probably SXSW back in '88 and '89 And thats enuf for now..... Mike aka cosmo