100 Albums You Would wish for...from a Genie

@mofimadness 

I forgot about Gillian Welch and Patty Griffin.  But who do I bump off my list?  

I hear ya --  I think I'd better turn off the computer and go focus on something else for while !  ;o) 

1) Miles Davis: Second Great Quintet Box Set

2) Allman Bros.: Fillmore East

3) Ry Cooder: Paradise and Lunch

4) Grateful Dead: Europe ’72

5) Bill Evans : Village Vanguard Sessions

6) Wayne Shorter: Night Dreamer

7) Wayne Shorter: Etcetera

8) McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy

9) McCoy Tyner: Soliloquy

10) Ginger Baker Coward of the County

11) Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage

12) Jackie McLean: Dynasty

13) Mal Waldron: You and the Night and the Music

14) Joe Henderson: Inner Urge

15) Joe Henderson: So Near, So Far

16) Andrew Hill: Andrew!

17) Sheila Jordan: Lost and Found

18) Bobby Hutcherson: Stick Up

19) Bobby Hutcherson: Total Eclipse

20) Dexter Gordon: Go

21) Dave Holland Quintet: Prime Directive

22 Dave Holland Octet: Pathways

23) Stan Getz: Windows

24) Stan Getz: live in Paris

25) John McLaughlin: Extrapolation

26) Shakti: A Handful of Beauty

27) Oregon: 1974

28) Oregon: Out of the Woods/Roots In the Sky

29) Milton Nacimiento: Clube Da Esquina

30) Chick Corea: Now He Sings; Now He Sobs

31) Chick Corea/RTF: Return To Forever

32) Chick Corea/RTR: Light as a Feather

33) Chick Corea/Gary Burton: Crystal Silence

34) Bobo Stenson/Jan Garbarek: Witchi Tai To

35) K. Jarrett: Belonging

36) Keith Jarrett European Quartet: Sleeper

37) Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life

38) Kenny Garret: Songbook

39) Kenny Wheeler: Deer Wan

40) Flora Purim: Perpetual emotion

41) J. L. Ponty: Aurora

42) Pat Martino: Exit

43) Pentangle: Basket of light

44) Pentangle: Sweet Child

45) Cedar Walton: Eastern Rebellion

46) Art Farmer: Blame It On My Youth

47) Larry Coryell: Tricycles

48) John Scofield/J. Lovano: Meant to Be

49): NHOP: Unforgettable NHOP Trio Live

50) Joe Lovano: Landmarks

51) Woody Shaw: Live in Bremen

52) Woody Shaw: United

53) Michel Petrucciani: Complete Live in Germany

54) Michel Petrucciani: Live at Village Vanguard

55) Stanley Cowell: Live

56) Billy Harper: Soul of an Angel

57) Grant Green: Idle Moments

58) Jackie Ryan: You and the Night and the Music

59) Vincent herring: Simple Pleasure

60) Jackie Ryan: Doozy

61) Tina May: More Than You Know

62) Tina May: I Never Told You

63) Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellies: Ionia

64) Stray Birds: Magic Fire

65) Birds of Chicago Live

66) Railroad Earth: Last of the Outlaws

67) Gillian Welch: Boots Number One

68) Peter Rowman/Tony Rice: Quartet

69) Kris Delmhorst: Songs For A Hurricane

70) Neil Casal: Fade Away Diamond Time

71) Jorma Kaukonen: Quah

72) Joni Mitchell: Miles of Aisles

73) Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy

74) Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic

75) Steely Dan: Katy Lied

76) Courtney Marie Andrews: Honest Life

77) Patrick Park: Everyone’s In Everyone

78) Patty Griffin: Impossible Dream

79) Patrick Park: Love Like Swords

80) Steve Forbert: Alive On Arrival

81) Steve Forbert: Young Guitar Days

82) John Prine: The Missing years

83) John Prine: Fair and Square

84) Richard, Linda Thompson: I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight

85) Big Brother: Cheap Thrills

86) Hendrix: First Ray of the New Rising Sun

87) Hendrix: Band of Gypsys Box Set: Songs For Groovy Children

88) Who: Whos’ Next

89) Pete Townshend: Who Came First

90) Stones: Exile on Main Street

91) Neil Young: Carnegie Hall 1970

92) Loggins and Messina: Mother Lode

93) Dylan: Blonde On Blonde

94) Dylan: Tell Tale Signs

95) Grateful Dead: Skull and Roses

96) Butterfield Blues Band: East West

97) Emmy Lou Harris: Luxury Liner

98) Emmy Lou Harris: Pieces of the Sky

99) Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

100) Lucinda Williams: Lucinda Williams

90) Rodney Crowell: Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This

91) Brian Auger: Second Wind

92) Albert Collins: Ice Pickin’

94) Taj Mahal: The Real Thing

95) Beatles : White Album

96) Stevie Wonder: Innervisions

97) Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus

98) Janis Joplin: Pearl

99) John Mayall : Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton

100) Blind Faith

 

 

This is really hard. Ask me next week and I’ll probably come up with a different list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@mofimadness 

This brings out my OCD... I can't stop messing with it, trying to get it "just right" !  ;o)

 

 

@laoman

There might be 5 or 6 on your list I would want.

... and there might be none on your list that I would want. For example, the sound of a classically trained voice is like fingernails on a blackboard, to my ears/brain. How would this be relevant, should you post a list? What if I were to say to you "Opera? Yech! How can you stand to listen to that "?

Your subjective tastes are not some sort of universal standard by which to measure others’ esthetic preferences.

 

@mofimadness 

Wait... "no box sets" ? How did I miss that? !  ;o)

 

@laoman

I don’t believe all music is of equal artistic merit but the OP stated from the outset that this was to be "just for fun".

Enough said. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@mahgister 

No one go on the same road to the same house... You are right about that...

...And a house may have many entrances ;o)

 

@mahgister

One thing i discovered is music is less about our tastes than about the way we learn how to hear and how to listen...

I definitely recognize that I’m limited by my tastes -- as time goes on, I’m finding less and less music that I want to buy. As mentioned above, I’ve never enjoyed the sound of Classical Vocals. It’s not the music. It’s what I experience as an overall highly exaggerated, unnatural and off-putting quality of the sound.

It’s not clear to me how one could "learn to listen" to a sound that one finds inherently unpleasant/annoying. Care to expound further?

I don't mean to "pick on" Classical singers but this just happens to be one of the genres most affected by the limiting aspects of my taste. 

@simonmoon , @mahgister

Thanks to both of you for your very generous responses 🙏

@simonmoon

When I tried to listen to them, I was initially taken aback by the dissonances they use, and it made no sense to me. It sounded wrong to me. So, I put their recordings on my shelf and ignored them for probably close to a year. Fast forward many months, and after listening to many other prog bands, I decided to take them off the shelf and give them another listen. It was like a light went off in my brain. What made no sense just months before, was brilliant now. They almost immediately became one of my favorite bands, and remain so until this day.

There is only instance I can recall where I changed my mind about music I initially disliked and that was the two recordings by the acoustic version of Return to Forever. For a long time, they sounded extremely light weight and commercial to me. But I kept "returning" to them and then, one day, I enjoyed them and have ever since.

However, that was an aberration -- the exception-- rather than the rule. I’ve tried this "re-listening" tactic with other music (such as Prog -- "A Tab In The Ocean" is one that comes to mind-- ) and consistently failed. All I can conclude is that I’m unusually resistant to being dislodged from the familiar. No doubt there are psychological underpinnings for this that can be explored.

@mahgister

If you dont cry listening that you need a heart...It is no more singing...Because she pray really, she dont merely sing...

It would appear I’m a bit of an outlier re: your "test" of whether I posses a heart or not because, paradoxically, I’m not immune to the emotion M. A. conveys but neither do I enjoy the vocal esthetic. The latter tends to render the latter moot, in my case. Make of this what you will. ;o)

Of the samples you posted, the two I did enjoy were The Canticles of Ecstasy and the Schutz piece. I related to these not as "music for listening" but due to their strong emphasis on the vibrational aspect as a means of elevating consciousness, more as mantra or bhajan and in so doing, the question of esthetics/taste receded into the background.

That being said, I don’t want to listen to bhajan all the time!

Still, you have succeeded in opening up the possibility that Classical choral music (without orchestral accompaniment) might be something I could enjoy.

Finally, in the interest of accentuating the positive, here is an example of vocal music I have no difficulty enjoying that is not Jazz or any type of western popular music (the sound on the video is fairly quiet -- you may need to turn it up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAQYISy-3YQ

 

@mahgister

Your latest post brings things into much clearer focus for me. Thanks for making the effort to keep going until I was able to understand 🙏

 

This is music experience for me... Not only confort, relaxation, feeling, thinking, but the will to go where no one bodly goes...

This reminds me very much of Buddhism’s emphasis upon a willingness to be fully present in every moment, in any type of situation -- pleasant or unpleasant.-- equally. And it’s made me curious about what it is about (solo) classical vocals that evokes such a strong determination in me not to be present. I was aware of this listening to Alfred Dreller -- the emotional aspect felt overwhelming -- like something I had to "fend off".

On the other hand, I can listen to other music (Blues, for example) that is also intensely emotional, but without the sense of overwhelm. I could say the same for Indian music -- it can be intensely emotional but this type of expression I feel "at home in", just like the Blues, or the Savina Yanatou piece I posted. By contrast, Western Classical music feels quite "alien" to me, like I "don't belong" there. Perhaps this has to do with past lives; I don't know.

There remains at least one aspect that confuses me. When you say :

Music is not ALWAYS about esthetical tastes...It is way more...

How do you separate the "esthetic" from the "more" ? Do you view this in terms of which chakras a given musical piece activates... or?

Thanks for your ongoing patience!

 

 

 

@rpeluso

I love Willie’s version of "Crazy". I don’t think he gets enough recognition for his guitar playing, personally. I regard Willie's voice as elemental, like the wind -- timeless.

 "Funny How Time Slips Away" is another favorite. 

And when you put ’em both together....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hdod4ltsms&list=OLAK5uy_lVWbillStyAoMIexCRzEydjOz6rKhOUls

 

@bdp24

I'm very sensitive to harsh highs and as I don't have the option of following the embedding advice of  @mahgister (my system in in our living room), I try to be very careful with gear choices. Nevertheless, I unintentionally ended up with too forward a presentation earlier in the year., after replacing my Moon transport with a Jay's.

At first, I was seduced by the significant increase in resolution. Resolution had never been a top priority for me, so this level of detail was a novelty. However, as time went on, I found myself listening less and less. I reached a point where after 30 seconds of music, I had to turn off the system.

Utilizing advice from forum members, I was able to identify and address the problemmatic parts of the signal chain. It's hard to say whether the system has any less detail, now. If it does, I don't miss it. Still, there are some particularly poor-sounding CDs I've had to get rid of. So, for those who don't have a well treated room, it would appear to be a balancing act -- having enough resolution to make for a convincing presentation, without pushing it so far that it becomes fatiguing.