Gacked from Mosca

[quesarah]

50 Albums You Will Pry from My Cold Dead Hands

This isn't supposed to be a list of "best albums." I'm not ranking or judging anything. This is simply *my* list of my favorite albums.

1. Pretenders - Pretenders (okay I lied. Best. Album. Ever.)
2. The Clash - London Calling
3. Bowie - Low
4. X - Los Angeles
5. Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People
6/7. Throwing Muses - University; Real Ramona
8. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
9. Blondie - Parallel Lines
10/11. Patti Smith - Wave; Easter
12. Stooges - Raw Power
13/14. Radiohead - The Bends; OK Computer
15. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
16. Jill Scott - Experience 826+
17. Meshell N'degeocello - Peace Beyond Passion
18. Morphine - Cure for Pain
19. Garbage - Garbage
20. Tuscadero - The Pink Album
21. Joan Osborne - Relish
22. Weezer - Pinkerton
23. Bjork - Post
24. Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs
25. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
26. Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
27. Poe - Haunted
28. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
29. Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
30. D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
31. NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
32. Ella Fitzgerald - Best of the Gershwin Songbook
33. Dinah Washington - the Dinah Washington Story
34. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - Best of Ella and Louis
35. Sarah Vaughan - Swingin' Easy
36. Johnny Cash - The Sun Years
37. Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
38. New Order - Brotherhood
39. Erasure - Pop!
40. B-52s - B-52s
41. Cowboy Junkies - Open
42. Magnapop - Hotboxing
43. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC
44. Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
45. Crowded House - Woodface
46. Aaliyah - Aaliyah
47. Carole King - Tapestry
48. B-52s - Wild Planet
49. Elvis Costello - Girls Girls Girls
50. Etta James - At Last

Comments

[wafflelips.livejournal.com]

Let me start off by saying that, as long as bio's around, there's no need to pry any albums from my hands. "I don't think I can give this up!" "Okay honey!" (she's a music ho)

1. The Clash - London Calling (the Best. Album. Ever.)
2/3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication; What Hits?
4/5/6. Cowboy Junkies - Lay it Down; Trinity Sessions; Miles From Our Home
7/8. Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting; Recollection
9. Annie Lennox - Medusa
10. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
11/12. Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars; Let's Dance
13. Paul Westerberg - Eventually
14. Meshell N'degeocello - Peace Beyond Passion
15. Garbage - Version 2.0
16. NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
17. Morphine - Yes
18. Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
19. Sun60 - Headjoy
20. The Cure - Pornography
21. Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
22. XTC - Skylarking
23. Pretenders - Last of the Independents
24. Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs
25. BAD - Planet BAD
26. Clash - Combat Rock
27. New Order - Brotherhood
28. Echo and the Bunnymen - Echo and the Bunnymen
29. Offspring - Americana
30. Sade - Love Deluxe
31. Erasure - Pop!
32. Tuscadero - The Pink Album
33. Poe - Haunted
34. Hole - Live Through This
35. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - Best of Ella and Louis
36. Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite
37. Violent Femmes - Add It Up
38. Victor/Victoria Broadway Cast Recording

And I don't need to have 50, because biogeekgrrl will gladly pick up the slack for me. I'm sure she can think of an extra 12 albums...

from pee

[(Anonymous)]

Am i a total loser if I haven't heard some of these, or do my best pals just need ot burn me some cds? ;-P

Re: from pee

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

No, you're not a loser because of that.... =P

Re: from pee

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Nah, we just need to let you borry some cd's. You can test drive them, see if some of the music is too "Grr arrgh" for you. You know how I like my "grrr arrrgh" music.

And so you know, some of these albums are on cassette tape because, although the tape is worn out, I am unwilling to part with them until I have a cd replacement in my grubby little hands. Seriously.

That reminds me... I have to borrow some CDs from you.

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

Yesiree bob. Especially since I am embracing my something-other-than blues/country/old-school r&b side lately.

Re: That reminds me... I have to borrow some CDs from you.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Whee! Let us know what you're innerested in. :)

[spacey-lee.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with any album with the lovely Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. I would have them on my list. Don't own a lot of the albums you guys mentioned--wouldn't mind listening to them sometime.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm meaning to burn you a copy of that Best of Ella and Louis. It's really good stuff.

Of course, I may not get it to you until we're in Toronto this summer... ;)

[spacey-lee.livejournal.com]

biogeekgrrl, I'd be a little worried if you did get it to me sooner. I'd think there was something wrong with you...

I'm looking forward to my new CD in the summer. Sweet. Nothing is better than those two together. It's my dream duo. Well, it's not really a dream since they were actually a duo, but if they weren't, it'd be my dream duo. I guess they're just my favourite duo. Yep.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

They perform so well together. Their duets are a delight, really.

I remain consistently enamored with Satchmo's singing...

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

Ol' Satchel-mouth is a brilliant arranger and horn player, so I love his work in general. But his ability to work with a song is pretty damned good, especially since he comes to it with a sense of fun and adventurousness, and tries to do with his none-too-agile voice what he would do with his horn.

He shouldn't keep up with Ella, but he does. Amazing.

Plus, his gravelly, visceral voice echoes the Best.Bluesman.Ever, Howlin' Wolf somewhere in my head, which is a plus.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

He was such a fearless and inventive musician in general. He really works Ella and makes her keep up with him. You can tell that she has a blast doing it, too.

[spacey-lee.livejournal.com]

I love Ella's version of Mack the Knife where she does an imitation of Louis. I think that version is so much fun. "What are the words to this here chorus? This is the one I don't know..." <-- something like that. I just love it because it was spontaneous and she didn't know all of the lyrics.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

She was famous for her imitation of Louis, I believe. There's a recording I've heard of I Can't Give You Anything But Love where she takes a couple turns through the chorus imitating different musicians. The last time she imitated Louis and you can hear the house roaring with applause.

If I had a time machine, I'd go back and see her perform in concert. *sigh*