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

[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*