Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl

to paraphrase Traffic “ sometimes I feel so constrained “

maybe that is the point….nothing magic about 5…and nothing magic about starting a top x or n thread alsooo.

i for one have the streamer working overtime with fresh new to me music that others have chosen to elevate…..

re RT: he does float my boat on several levels. Lucky to have caught him live in large and small venues alike. I particularly like the Live in Austin TX CD. 

There are any number of guitarists, blazingly fast with incredible technical skills that I find boring as oatmeal frappe….I don’t dwell on them, nor insist that you ignore…..

carry on

Since I'm seeing a dearth of RB/Soul/Pop, I'll list my top five in this category:
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Prince - Purple Rain
Stevie Wonder - Hotter than July
Anita Baker - Rapture

Jazz:
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Dexter Gordon - The Other Side of Round Midnight
Miles Davis - Kinda Blue
Kenny Burrell - Blue Midnight

Metallica- Black Album / and Justice for All
Megadeth -Rust in Peace / Peace Sells
Slayer - Reign in Blood /South of Heaven
Overkill - Taking Over / I hear Black
Michael Jackson - Bad / Thriller

Been reading what’s on everyone’s turntable tonight and got to wondering…what’s your top 5?

My top 5 for tonight from vintage vinyl, all records recorded incredibly well, but linked fines on youtube below are not from my records :) 

I will post specific tunes that I like from the albums:


1. Donald Byrd - Love's So Far Away (1973) LISTEN

2. The Staple Singers & Curtis Mayfield - Big Mac (1975) LISTEN

3. Gil Scott-Heron - Inner City Blues (1981) LISTEN

4. Azymuth - Estreito De Taruma (1982) LISTEN 

5. Daniel Janin - Black Night (1975) LISTEN

NOT A TOP FIVE, 5 that came to my head first which i like to spin!


 Dark Angel - darkness descends. 
Slayer - hell awaits. 
Bathory- the return...

Onslaught - the force

Venom - welcome to hell / black metal / possessed

300 more, a top five is impossible. 

David Bowie - Live at The Tower, Philadelphia
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pagent
Rolling Stones - Stickey Fingers
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
*Honorable Mention: Bob Mould - Workbook & Free - Fire And Water

Wow! just listened to Sally Oldfield's Water Bearer based off of ticat's suggestion. FANTASTIC! Can't believe I've never heard that one before.

1. Stravinsky conducts Rite of Spring (Columbia)
2. The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
3. Beatles Revolver
4. Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta/Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion, Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
5. Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5, Previn, London

Steely Dan: Gaucho or AJA can't decide
Who: Quadrophenia
Joni Mitchel: Blue
Patty Griffin: Silver Bell
Over the Rhine: Drunkards Prayer

I don't have it on vinyl YET but 
Antonio Forcione Touch Wood

1. Gene ammons Soulful mood of Gene ammons Moodsville
2. Dick Hyman Swing RR59
3. Netania Davrath Song of Auverge VSD2090
4. Ray Brown Solar Energy Super Analog version
5. Bill Henderson Send in the clowns Quiex