Vanity Fair, November 2000

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Costello's 500


Elvis Costello

From Abba to Zamballarana, and from Mozart to Eminem, one of rock's finest talents has identified 500 albums essential to a happy life. It was a long, tortuous undertaking, but the man knows music — and his aim is true.


I had intended to add a word or two of praise or explanation after each entry on this list. I made a sparkling start.

ABBA: Abba Gold
Fast songs: for nights entertaining your Australian friends, or playing with the dressing-up box. Slow songs: a pop-music version of Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage.


Then I thought, That's enough of that nonsense. How many times can you write "Superb," "Beautiful," "Stomping," or "Absolutely tangerine" before it loses all meaning? How many times do you need to read: "Masterpiece"? Or, better still "Masterpiece...?"

Instead, I decided to also name the tracks that make these albums special to me. So, if nothing is written, head straight for the title track or assume that the whole damned thing is irresistible. When in doubt, play Track 4 — it is usually the one you want.

Here are 500 albums that can only improve your life. Many will be quite familiar, others less so. Ever needed to get rid of unwanted guests in the early hours? Just reach for Dirk Bogarde's Lyrics for Lovers, on which the actor inhales audibly on his cigarette before reciting Ira Gershwin's "A Foggy Day" amid a swathe of violins. Then there are the good records.

It was impossible to choose just one title by Miles Davis, the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Mingus, etc. How can you say Miles Ahead is "in" and Sketches of Spain is "out"? It looked that way for a while. I knew I would need the space for In a Silent Way and On the Corner. In the end Sketches of Spain did make it, but only at the expense of Someday My Prince Will Come. That is the pleasure of a list like this. Everyone will disagree with your choices.

Sometimes an album contains just one indispensable song. Shot of Love may not be your favorite Bob Dylan record, but it might contain his best song: "Every Grain of Sand." Other albums are like sets of chairs. You can't break them up. This is true of the Band's first two records and also of Tom Waits's trilogy of albums, which began with Swordjshtrombones.

There are plenty of "Best of" and "Greatest Hits" collections. That's not just taking the easy way out. Many of these people really only made "singles." No one "album" will give you all the Smokey Robinson and the Miracles or George Jones songs that you need. I've also gone for some less well-known titles by famous artists, but they are records that dig a little deeper.

You should be able to find most of this music, but you may have to go out of your way to locate the records of David Ackles, perhaps the greatest unheralded American songwriter of the late 60s.

This is also a list of where I began and where I stopped listening. There are huge gaps and blind spots. Unsurprisingly, I favor songwriters over players, but any hit parade of great singers would have to include Johnny Hodges. Making this list made me listen all over again.

If your shelf can stand it, I recommend a few boxed sets. Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by the great Harry Smith from rare 78s seems like a trip to another planet, yet it is really just humans singing and playing in the not-so-distant past. The RCA Ellington set runs to 24 CDs, and the Schubert lieder collection is only a little smaller, but they are a bit like having a Complete Works of Shakespeare close at hand.

The Yazoo label's Secret Museum of Mankind series gives a glimpse of the early days, when HMV or the Gramophone Company would send out recording engineers to gather music from the world for the new, curious audience. These editions are not compiled by country. So, they may begin in the Society Islands, travel to Mongolia via Bulgaria, and end up in Nova Scotia. The world that you will hear probably isn't there anymore.

I sometimes torture myself by considering all the musicians who were still performing during my lifetime but whom I failed to see because I was too stupid, too timid, or too preoccupied with some passing fancy. Records can fix some of that. It's a form of time travel. You can hear Lester Young or Bing Crosby close in on the microphone in a way that we now take for granted and regularly abuse. The 30s recordings of Stravinsky reveal him directing a band of musicians who are clinging to the edges of his new, frightening music. Ornette Coleman's "Peace" is a thing of beauty that was once a minor outrage.

The classical recordings are listed by composer; that is not to say that any version of that piece will do. Great vintage recordings sit alongside new releases by artists whom you can actually hear in concert. These are the performers who opened up this music to me. In the end, it is the music of forgiveness in the last act of Le Nozze di Figaro or the way an incomplete Schubert sonata breaks off in a devastating way that matters more than whether the performance was captured digitally or with some sealing wax and a knitting needle. There is a song setting by Hugo Wolf, "Alles Endet, Was Entstehet." The text concludes:

"We too were men joyful and weary like you, and now we are lifeless, we are only earth, as you see. All that is created must end. All, all around us must perish."

These words are by Michelangelo.

The minute this list goes to press I will think of 20 records that I left out. There are no comedy records, unless you count Louis Armstrong's magnificent nine-minute performance of all of the verses of "Let's Do It." In fact, no real spoken-word recordings are included — it was too hard to choose among Richard Pryor, T. S. Eliot, and Bill Hicks. Groucho Marx makes it on the strength of his rendition of "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady."

If you look in the C's, you won't find anything with my name on it. This is not false modesty. There are at least 500 records better than everything that I've made. I do make a few walk-on appearances as vocalist or producer.

You will see that some very famous names are missing completely. There is nothing at all by Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Michael Jackson, or Sting. You may love them. They just don't do it for me. There's not too much disco or dance, except the mighty Chic. If you want something from Los Angeles in the early 70s, I suggest you purchase the first Jackson Browne record; it will save you buying all those Eagles albums. The "Fleetwood Mac" herein is the great group led by Peter Green, not the Californian mob with Stevie Nicks. There is nothing to speak of from the 80s, the decade that music forgot, except for Robert Wyatt. Not many "Divas," except for Callas and Aretha.

As for the hit records of today, maybe some of them will sound just fantastic in 20 years' time. It's your life. So! No Marilyn, Puffy, Korn, Eddie Money — sorry, Kid Rock — Limp Bizkit, Ricky, Britney, Backstreet Boys, etc., etc.

The best record of today that I could find was The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem, faster, funnier, and, in an odd way, more truthful than most records. It's up there with the best of The Simpsons, and I mean that as the highest compliment.

There are probably songs being composed right now that will eclipse every entry on this list in somebody's heart or mind. It is my experience that music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.


500 ALBUMS YOU NEED

ABBA

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Abba Gold (1992)
Knowing Me, Knowing You


David Ackles

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The Road To Cairo (1968)
Down River
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Subway To The Country (1969)
That's No Reason To Cry


Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley The Best Of Cannonball Adderley album cover.jpg
The Best Of Cannonball Adderley (1968)
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy


Amy Allison

Amy Allison The Maudlin Years album cover.jpg
The Maudlin Years (1996)
The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter


Mose Allison

Mose Allison The Best Of Mose Allison album cover.jpg
The Best Of Mose Allison (1970)
Your Mind Is On Vacation


Almamegretta

Almamegretta Lingo album cover.jpg
Lingo (1998)
Gramigna


Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings album cover.jpg
The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (2000)
Wild Man Blues
Tight Like This


Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire The Astaire Story album cover.jpg
The Astaire Story (1952)
They Can't Take That Away From Me


Johann Sebastian Bach

JS Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier Edwin Fischer album cover.jpg
The Well-Tempered Clavier (Edwin Fischer; 1934)
JS Bach The Six Cello Suites Pablo Casals album cover.jpg
The Six Cello Suites (Pablo Casals; 1936)
JS Bach Six Partitas BWV 825-830 Andras Schiff album cover.jpg
Six Partitas BWV 825-830 (Andras Schiff; 1984)
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Mass in B Minor (conductor: Otto Klemperer; 1999)


Burt Bacharach

The Look Of Love The Burt Bacharach Collection album cover.jpg
The Look Of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection (1998)
Alfie


Chet Baker

Chet Baker The Best of Chet Baker Sings album cover.jpg
The Best Of Chet Baker Sings (1989)
The Thrill Is Gone
You Don't Know What Love Is
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Broken Wing (1978)


The Band

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Music From Big Pink (1968)
Tears Of Rage
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The Band (1969)
The Unfaithful Servant


Dave Bartholomew

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The Monkey (1985)


Béla Bartók

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Six String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet; 1988)


Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli If You Love Me album cover.jpg
If You Love Me, 18th Century Italian Songs (1992)
Alessandro Parisott - Se Tu M'Ami
Antonio Vivaldi - Sposa son disprezzata


Count Basie

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The Atomic Mr. Basie (1957)
Li'l Darlin'


The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album cover.jpg
Pet Sounds (1966)
Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
God Only Knows
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Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" (1972)
Cuddle Up
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Holland (1973)
The Trader
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Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (boxed set; 1993)
Surf's Up
Wonderful


Beastie Boys

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Paul's Boutique (1989)
Shadrach


The Beatles

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With The Beatles (1963)
You Really Got A Hold On Me
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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Things We Said Today
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Help! (1965)
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
The Beatles Rubber Soul album cover.jpg
Rubber Soul (1965)
Girl
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Revolver (1966)
And Your Bird Can Sing
For No One
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
A Day In The Life
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The Beatles (White Album; 1968)
I'm So Tired
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Past Masters, Vol. 2 (1988)
Paperback Writer
Rain


Beck

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Odelay (1996)
The New Pollution


Bee Gees

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Best Of Bee Gees (1969)
To Love Somebody


Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Otto Klemperer Live At The Concertgebouw (1954)
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Symphony No. 9; Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111 (Sviatoslav Richter; 1965)
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Symphony No. 7 (conductor: Carlos Kleiber; 1975)
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Late Quartets (Budapest String Quartet; 1997)
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Violin Concerto (soloist: Yehudi Menuhin; 1997)


Derek Bell

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Derek Bell Plays With Himself (1981)


Tony Bennett and Bill Evans

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The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975)
Some Other Time


Alban Berg

Alban Berg Violin Concerto Anne-Sofie Mutter album cover.jpg
Violin Concerto (soloist: Anne-Sofie Mutter; 1993)


Hector Berlioz

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Damnation Of Faust (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1987)


Agnes Bernelle

Agnes Bernelle Father's Lying Dead On The Ironing Board album cover.jpg
Father's Lying Dead On The Ironing Board (1995)


Leonard Bernstein

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West Side Story (1957)


Chuck Berry

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Chuck Berry's Golden Decade (1967)
Don't Lie To Me


Björk

Björk Debut album cover.jpg
Debut (1993)
Venus As A Boy
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Post (1995)
Hyper-ballad


Rubén Blades

Rubén Blades Buscando America album cover.jpg
Buscando America (1984)


Bobby "Blue" Bland

Bobby Blue Bland Two Steps From The Blues album cover.jpg
Two Steps From The Blues (1961)


Blondie

Blondie The Best Of Blondie album cover.jpg
The Best Of Blondie (1981)
In The Flesh


Blur

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13 (1999)
No Distance Left To Run


Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde Lyrics For Lovers album cover.jpg
Lyrics For Lovers (1960)
A Foggy Day


David Bowie

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Hunky Dory (1971)
Life On Mars?
David Bowie Station To Station album cover.jpg
Station To Station (1976)
Wild Is The Wind
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Low (1977)
Always Crashing In The Same Car
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Heroes (1977)
Joe The Lion


Johannes Brahms

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Ein Deutsches Requiem (conductor: Otto Klemperer; 1962)


Johnny Bristol

Johnny Bristol Hang On In There Baby album cover.jpg
Hang On In There Baby (1974)


Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten Serenade Ian Bostridge album cover.jpg
Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings (soloist: Ian Bostridge; 1996)


Charles Brown

Charles Brown Driftin' Blues album cover.jpg
Driftin' Blues: The Best Of Charles Brown (1992)
Black Night


Clifford Brown

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Clifford Brown With Strings (1955)
Yesterdays


James Brown

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Live At The Apollo (1963)
I Found Someone
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Star Time (boxed set; 1991)
Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing


Jackson Browne

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Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using) (1972)
My Opening Farewell


Anton Bruckner

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Symphony No. 9 (conductor: Gunter Wand; 1990)


Jeff Buckley

Jeff Buckley Grace album cover.jpg
Grace (1994)
Corpus Christi Carol


Harold Budd and Brian Eno

Harold Budd Brian Eno Ambient 2 album cover.jpg
Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980)
Above Chiangmai


Buffalo Springfield

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Retrospective: The Best Of Buffalo Springfield (1969)
Expecting To Fly


Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir

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Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares (1990)


T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett Proof Through The Night album cover.jpg
Proof Through The Night (1983)
Fatally Beautiful
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T Bone Burnett (1986)
River Of Love
T Bone Burnett The Talking Animals album cover.jpg
The Talking Animals (1988)
Image


The Byrds

The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday album cover.jpg
Younger Than Yesterday (1967)
So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star
The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers album cover.jpg
The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
Goin' Back
Artificial Energy
The Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album cover.jpg
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (1968)
Hickory Wind


John Cale

John Cale Music For A New Society album cover.jpg
Music For A New Society (1982)
Taking Your Life In Your Hands


Maria Callas

Maria Callas Five Heroines Operatic Extracts album cover.jpg
Five Heroines - Operatic Extracts (1990)
Vissi d'arte


Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band

Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica album cover.jpg
Trout Mask Replica (1969)
The Dust Blows Forward 'n' The Dust Blows Back
Captain Beefheart Clear Spot album cover.jpg
Clear Spot (1972)
Big Eyed Beans From Venus


Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy Sings Carmichael album cover.jpg
Hoagy Sings Carmichael (1956)
Rockin' Chair


James Carr

James Carr At The Dark End Of The Street album cover.jpg
At The Dark End Of The Street (1987)
Pouring Water On A Drowning Man


Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash The Essential album cover.jpg
The Essential Johnny Cash (1992)
I Still Miss Someone


June Carter Cash

June Carter Cash Press On album cover.jpg
Press On (1999)
Tiffany Anastasia Lowe


Ray Charles

Ray Charles Modern Sounds album cover.jpg
Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music (1962)
You Don't Know Me
Ray Charles A Life In Music album cover.jpg
A Life In Music (1982)
I Believe To My Soul
Just For A Thrill


Chic

Chic's Greatest Hits album cover.jpg
Chic's Greatest Hits (1979)
My Forbidden Lover


Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin Piano Concertos 1 and 2 Krystian Zimerman album cover.jpg
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (pianist, conductor: Krystian Zimerman; 1978)


The Clash

The Clash London Calling album cover.jpg
London Calling (1979)
Rudie Can't Fail
The Clash The Singles album cover.jpg
The Singles (1991)
(White Man) In The Hammersmith Palais


Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline Greatest Hits album cover.jpg
Greatest Hits (1973)
Sweet Dreams


The Coasters

The Coasters The Ultimate Coasters album cover.jpg
The Ultimate Coasters (1986)
Shoppin' For Clothes


Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen The Best Of Leonard Cohen album cover.jpg
The Best Of Leonard Cohen (1976)
Who By Fire
Leonard Cohen More Best Of album cover.jpg
More Best Of (1997)
The Future
Tower Of Song


Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman The Shape Of Jazz To Come album cover.jpg
The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959)
Peace


John Coltrane

John Coltrane My Favorite Things album cover.jpg
My Favorite Things (1961)
Every Time We Say Goodbye
John Coltrane The Impulse Years album cover.jpg
The Impulse! Years (1993)
A Love Supreme


Ry Cooder

Ry Cooder Paradise And Lunch album cover.jpg
Paradise And Lunch (1974)
Married Man's A Fool


Sam Cooke

Sam Cooke Night Beat album cover.jpg
Night Beat (1963)
Get Yourself Another Fool


Don Covay

Don Covay Checkin' In With Don Covay album cover.jpg
Checkin' In With Don Covay (1989)
It's Better to Have (And Don't Need)


Noël Coward

Noël Coward His HMV Recordings album cover.jpg
The Master's Voice: His HMV Recordings (1993)
The Stately Homes Of England


Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby His Legendary Years album cover.jpg
His Legendary Years (1993)
Gigi


David Crosby

David Crosby If I Could Only Remember My Name album cover.jpg
If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971)
Laughing


Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu album cover.jpg
Déjà Vu (1970)
Helpless


Crowded House

Crowded House Temple Of Low Men album cover.jpg
Temple Of Low Men (1988)
Into Temptation


D'Angelo

D'Angelo Voodoo album cover.jpg
Voodoo (2000)
Devil's Pie


Miles Davis

Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool album cover.jpg
Birth Of The Cool (1956)
Boplicity
Miles Davis Miles Ahead album cover.jpg
Miles Ahead (1957)
My Ship
Miles Davis Porgy And Bess album cover.jpg
Porgy And Bess (1958)
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Miles Davis Kind Of Blue album cover.jpg
Kind Of Blue (1959)
All Blues
Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain album cover.jpg
Sketches Of Spain (1960)
Miles Davis My Funny Valentine album cover.jpg
My Funny Valentine (1964)
Miles Davis In A Silent Way album cover.jpg
In A Silent Way (1969)
Shhh
Miles Davis On The Corner album cover.jpg
On The Corner (1969)
New York Girl


Miles Davis and Stan Getz and Lee Konitz

Miles Davis Stan Getz Lee Konitz Conception album cover.jpg
Conception (1975)
Ezz-thetic


Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande, Claudio Abbado album cover.jpg
Pelléas et Mélisande (conductor: Claudio Abbado; 1992)
Claude Debussy, Preludes, Krystian Zimerman album cover.jpg
Preludes (Krystian Zimerman; 1994)


Alfred Deller

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William Byrd and His Age (1956)
Ye Sacred Muses


Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child The Writing's on the Wall album cover.jpg
The Writing's On The Wall (1999)
Say My Name


Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley His Best album cover.jpg
His Best (1997)
Crackin' Up


Dr. John

Dr John's Gumbo album cover.jpg
Dr. John's Gumbo (1972)
Junko Partner


Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy Outward Bound album cover.jpg
Outward Bound (1960)
G.W.
Eric Dolphy Iron Man album cover.jpg
Iron Man (1969)
Come Sunday


Lee Dorsey

Lee Dorsey Ride Your Pony album cover.jpg
Ride Your Pony (1966)
Get Out Of My Life, Woman
Wonder Woman
Lee Dorsey Yes We Can album cover.jpg
Yes We Can (1970)
Tears, Tears And More Tears


John Dowland

John Dowland Awake Sweet Love album cover.jpg
Awake Sweet Love (The Deller Consort; 1965)
Flow My Tears
John Dowland Dowland The Collected Works album cover.jpg
Dowland: The Collected Works (Consort of Musicke; 1980)
A Pilgrimes Solice


John Dowland And William Byrd

John Dowland William Byrd Night's Black Bird album cover.jpg
Night's Black Bird (Fretwork; 1989)


Henri Duparc

Henri Duparc Melodies Bernard Kruysen album cover.jpg
Melodies (baritone: Bernard Kruysen; 1971)
Phidyle


Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante September Song album cover.jpg
September Song (1963)


Ian Dury

Ian Dury New Boots And Panties album cover.jpg
New Boots And Panties!! (1977)
Sweet Gene Vincent


Dyke & the Blazers

Dyke & the Blazers So Sharp album cover.jpg
So Sharp (1983)


Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home album cover.jpg
Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde album cover.jpg
Blonde On Blonde (1966)
Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding album cover.jpg
John Wesley Harding (1968)
All Along The Watchtower
Bob Dylan Planet Waves album cover.jpg
Planet Waves (1974)
Dirge
Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks album cover.jpg
Blood On The Tracks (1974)
You're A Big Girl Now
Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes album cover.jpg
The Basement Tapes (1975)
Nothing Was Delivered
Bob Dylan Shot Of Love album cover.jpg
Shot Of Love (1981)
Every Grain of Sand
Bob Dylan Time Out Of Mind album cover.jpg
Time Out Of Mind (1997)
Not Dark Yet
Bob Dylan Live 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert album cover.jpg
Bob Dylan Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998)
Like A Rolling Stone
I Don't Believe You


Edward Elgar

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Symphony No. 1 (conductor: Edward Elgar; 1957)
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Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pré; 1965)


Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Anatomy Of A Murder album cover.jpg
Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
Haupe
Duke Ellington And His Mother Called Him Bill album cover.jpg
...And His Mother Called Him Bill (1968)
Blood Count
Duke Ellington RCA Victor Recordings boxset cover.jpg
The Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (boxed set; 1999)
East St. Louis Toodle-oo
In A Sentimental Mood
Tonk


Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach

Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach album cover.jpg
Money Jungle (1962)
Wig Wise


Eminem

Eminem The Marshall Mathers album cover.jpg
The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
The Way I Am


The Bill Evans Trio

The Bill Evans Trio Waltz For Debby album cover.jpg
Waltz For Debby (1961)
Waltz For Debby


The Gil Evans Orchestra

The Gil Evans Orchestra Out Of The Cool album cover.jpg
Out Of The Cool (1960)
Where Flamingos Fly


The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers It's Everly Time album cover.jpg
It's Everly Time (1960)
Sleepless Nights


The Fairfield Four

The Fairfield Four I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray album cover.jpg
I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray (1997)
There Must Be A City


Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull Blazing Away album cover.jpg
Blazing Away (1990)
Strange Weather


Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame Sound Venture album cover.jpg
Sound Venture (1966)
Funny How Time Slips Away


Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré L'Horizon Chimérique Gerard Souzay album cover.jpg
L'Horizon Chimérique (baritone: Gerard Souzay; 1999)


Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety album cover.jpg
Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety (1991) (conductor on "American Elegies": John Adams)


Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook album cover.jpg
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook (1956)
Miss Otis Regrets


Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

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The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on Verve (1997)
Let's Do It


Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album cover.jpg
Greatest Hits (1971)
Man Of The World


The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace Of Sin album cover.jpg
The Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969)
Juanita


The Four Tops

The Four Tops Anthology album cover.jpg
Anthology (1974)
Bernadette
Seven Rooms Of Gloom


Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You album cover.jpg
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You (1967)
Do Right Woman-Do Right Man
Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)
Soul Serenade," etc., etc.
Aretha Franklin Aretha's Gold album cover.jpg
Aretha's Gold (1969)
I Say A Little Prayer
Chain Of Fools
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
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Amazing Grace (1972)


Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell Quartet album cover.jpg
Quartet (1996)
Egg Radio


Fugees

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The Score (1996)
Ready Or Not


Funkadelic

Funkadelic One Nation Under A Groove album cover.jpg
One Nation Under A Groove (1978)


Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye Super Hits album cover.jpg
Super Hits (1970)
The End Of Our Road
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What's Going On (1971)
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On album cover.jpg
Let's Get It On (1973)
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Here, My Dear (1979)
When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You


Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

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Greatest Hits (1970)
You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin'


Stan Getz

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Stan Getz Plays (1952)
Stella By Starlight


Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto

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Getz/Gilberto (1963)
Desafinado (Off Key)


Dizzy Gillespie

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Perceptions (1961)
The Sword Of Orion


Allen Ginsberg

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The Lion For Real (1989)


Graham Central Station

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Release Yourself (1974)


Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and the Sugar Hill Gang

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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five vs. the Sugar Hill Gang (1997)
The Message


Grateful Dead

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Workingman's Dead (1970)
Dire Wolf
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American Beauty (1970)
Box Of Rain
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Europe '72 (1972)
Tennessee Jed
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Wake Of The Flood (1973)
Stella Blue


Al Green

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Call Me (1973)
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You Say It! Raw! Rare! And Unreleased! (1990)
I'm A Ram


Edvard Grieg

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Lieder (soloist: Anne Sofie von Otter; 1993)
Haugtussa


Charles Haden and Hank Jones

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Steal Away (1995)
Hymn Medley: Abide With Me, etc


Merle Haggard

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The Best Of The Best Of (1972)
No Reason To Quit


George Frideric Handel

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Marian Cantatas (mezzo-soprano: Anne Sofie von Otter; 1994)
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Heroes (countertenor: Andreas Scholl; 1999)
"Ombra mai fu" from Serse


Tim Hardin

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Tim Hardin (1966)
How Can We Hang On To A Dream?


Slim Harpo

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The Best Of Slim Harpo (1997)
I'm A King Bee


Emmylou Harris

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Elite Hotel (1976)
One Of These Days


PJ Harvey

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Rid Of Me (1993)
50 Ft. Queenie


Coleman Hawkins

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Body And Soul (1988)
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Rainbow Mist (1993)
Yesterdays


Joseph Haydn

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Complete Piano Sonatas (Alfred Brendel; 1987)
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String Quartets (Quatuor Mosaïques; 1990)


Tubby Hayes

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Tubby's Groove (1959)
Embers


Richard Hell and The Voidoids

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Blank Generation (1977)
New Pleasure


Jimi Hendrix

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Smash Hits (1968)
The Wind Cries Mary
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Electric Ladyland (1968)
Crosstown Traffic
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Live At Woodstock (1994)
Star Spangled Banner


The Heptones

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Night Food (1976)
I've Got The Handle


Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks

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Last Train To Hicksville . . . The Home To Happy Feet (1973)
It's Not My Time To Go


Lauryn Hill

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The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (1998)
Ex-Factor


Johnny Hodges

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Passion Flower (1995)
Day Dream


Billie Holiday

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Lady In Satin (1958
Glad To Be Unhappy)
I'm A Fool To Want You
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The Billie Holiday Story (1972)
The Man I Love
Body And Soul
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The Complete Decca Recordings (1991)
Don't Explain


The Hollies

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The Best Of The Hollies (1978)
Look Through Any Window


Howlin' Wolf

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His Best (1997)
Hidden Charms


The Isley Brothers

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Super Hits (1976)
Behind A Painted Smile


Charles Ives

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The Unanswered Question For Orchestra (conductor: Leonard Bernstein; 1998)


The Jackson 5

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Greatest Hits (1971)
I Want You Back


The Jam

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All Mod Cons (1978)


Skip James

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The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James (1994)
Devil Got My Woman


Leoš Janáček

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String Quartets (Talich Quartet; 1994)


Jefferson Airplane

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Crown Of Creation (1968)
Greasy Heart


The Jesus and Mary Chain

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Psychocandy (1985)
You Trip Me Up


Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Jazz Masters 13 (1995)
Insensatez


Little Willie John

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Free At Last (1970)
Leave My Kitten Alone
Need Your Love So Bad


Robert Johnson

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Complete Recordings (1990)
Love In Vain


George Jones

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Anniversary: Ten Years Of Hits (1982)
The Grand Tour
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Cup Of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years (1994)
Mr. Fool
Window Up Above
Relief Is Just A Swallow Away


Oum Kaltsoum

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Anthologie De La Musique Arabe, Vols. 1-8 (1989)


The Kinks

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The Ultimate Collection (1989)
Waterloo Sunset
Dead End Street
Where Have All the Good Times Gone?


Rahsaan Roland Kirk

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The Inflated Tear (1968)


Erich Korngold

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From The Operas Of Erich Korngold (1993)
"Glück Das Mir Verblieb" from "Die Tote Stadt" (conductor: Erich Korngold)


The La's

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The La's (1990)
There She Goes


Peggy Lee

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Miss Peggy Lee (1998)
Don't Smoke In Bed


John Lennon

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Plastic Ono Band (1970)
I Found Out
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Imagine (1971)
How?
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Shaved Fish (1975)
Instant Karma!


Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

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My Fair Lady (1956)
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
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Gigi (1958)
I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore


Jerry Lee Lewis

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Rockin' My Life Away (1991)
Rita Mae
Don't Let Go


Little Feat

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Sailin' Shoes (1972)
Willin'
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Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1974)
Rock And Roll Doctor


Little Richard

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Here's Little Richard (1957)
Slippin' And Slidin' (Peepin' And Hidin')
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The Explosive Little Richard (1967)
Commandments Of Love


The Louvin Brothers

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When I Stop Dreaming: The Best Of The Louvin Brothers (1995)
My Baby's Gone


The Lovin' Spoonful

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Anthology (1990)
Six O'Clock


Nick Lowe

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Jesus Of Cool (1978)
36 Inches High
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The Impossible Bird (1994)
Shelley My Love


Donal Lunny

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Donal Lunny (1987)
Declan


Loretta Lynn

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The Best Of Loretta Lynn (1999)
One's On The Way


Machito and His Afro-Cubans

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Cubop City (1992)
Si Si, No No


Madness

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The Rise And Fall (1982)
Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)


Gustav Mahler

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Symphony No. 1 (conductor: Klaus Tennstedt; 1968)
Kindertotenlieder & Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen


The Mamas & The Papas

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A Gathering Of Flowers (1970)
I Saw Her Again Last Night


Aimee Mann

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Whatever (1993)
4th Of July


Bob Marley and The Wailers

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African Herbsman (1972)
Small Axe
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Natty Dread (1975)
Lively Up Yourself


The Marvelettes

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The Return Of The Marvelettes (1970)
No More Tearstained Make-Up


Groucho Marx

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An Evening With Groucho (1972)
Lydia, The Tattooed Lady


Massive Attack

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Protection (1994)
Karmacoma


Matching Mole

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Matching Mole (1972)
O Caroline


Curtis Mayfield

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The Very Best Of Curtis Mayfield (1996)
Move On Up
(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go


Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions

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The Anthology 1961-1977 (1992)
Keep On Pushing
I'm So Proud


Paul McCartney

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McCartney (1970)
Maybe I'm Amazed
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Flaming Pie (1997)
Little Willow


Kate & Anna McGarrigle

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Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1975)
Go Leave


Tommy McLain

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The Essential Collection (1997)
Sweet Dreams


The Meters

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The Best Of The Meters (1975)
Cissy Strut


Mina

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Gli Anni d'Oro (1984)
Un Bacio È Troppo Poco


Charles Mingus

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Blues And Roots (1959)
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Mingus Ah Um (1959)
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
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Pre-Bird (also known as Mingus Revisited) (1960)
Weird Nightmare
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Mingus At Antibes (1960)
What Love?
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Mingus Plays Piano (1963)
Myself When I Am Real
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Let My Children Hear Music (1971)
Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too
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Epitaph (1990)
The Children's Hour Of Dream


Joni Mitchell

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Blue (1971)
The Last Time I Saw Richard
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For The Roses (1972)
Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
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Court And Spark (1974)
Down To You
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The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (1975)
Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
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Hejira (1976)
Amelia
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Taming The Tiger (1998)
Man From Mars
Stay In Touch


The Modern Lovers

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The Modern Lovers (1976)
Pablo Picasso
Someone To Care About


Thelonious Monk

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Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (1951)
Off Minor
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Brilliant Corners (1957)
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Monk's Music (1958)
Abide With Me
Off Minor


Bill Monroe

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The Music Of Bill Monroe (1994)
Walls Of Time


Claudio Monteverdi

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L'Incoronazione Di Poppea (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1993)


Moondog

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The Story Of Moondog (1957)


Van Morrison

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Astral Weeks (1968)
Beside You
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Moondance (1970)
Into The Mystic
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His Band And Street Choir (1970)
Street Choir
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Veedon Fleece (1974)
Linden Arden Stole The Highlights


Jelly Roll Morton

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Birth Of The Hot (1995)
Dead Man Blues
Wolverine Blues


The Mothers Of Invention

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We're Only In It For The Money (1968)
Who Needs The Peace Corps?


The Move

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The Best Of The Move (1974)
Blackberry Way


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Piano Concerto No. 20 (pianist: Clifford Curzon; 1970)
File:Mozart Requiem album cover.jpg
Requiem (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1986)
File:Mozart Quartets Dedicated To Haydn album cover.jpg
Quartets Dedicated To Haydn (Quatuor Mosaïques; 1991)
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La Clemenza Di Tito (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1993)
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Le Nozze Di Figaro (conductor: Karl Bohm; 1993)


Modest Mussorgsky

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Songs And Dances Of Death (soloist: Sergei Leiferkus; 1995)


Roy Nathanson

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Fire At Keaton's Bar & Grill (2000)
Bend In The Night


Oliver Nelson

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The Blues And The Abstract Truth (1961)
Stolen Moments
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Straight Head (1961)
Images


Willie Nelson

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Stardust (1978)
Moonlight In Vermont


Bob Neuwirth

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Back To The Front (1988)
Annabelle Lee


Aaron Neville

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Greatest Hits (1990)
Tell It Like It Is


Randy Newman

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Randy Newman (1968)
Cowboy
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Sail Away (1972)
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Good Old Boys (1974)
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Trouble In Paradise (1983)
Real Emotional Girl


New York Dolls

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New York Dolls (1973)
Personality Crisis


Nirvana

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Nevermind (1991)
Lithium


Luigi Nono

Fragmente-Stille An Diotima (LaSalle Quartet; 1983)




NRBQ

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NRBQ (1969)
Rocket #9


Laura Nyro and Labelle

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Gonna Take A Miracle (1971)
The Bells


Roy Orbison

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The Orbison Way (1966)
Crawling Back


Augustus Pablo

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El Rockers (2000)
Black Gunn


Giovanni Palestrina

Missa Viri Galilaei (direction: Philippe Herreweghe; 1992)




Charlie Parker

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The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions (1978)
Ko-Ko


Van Dyke Parks

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Discover America (1972)
Jack Palance


Gram Parsons

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GP (1973)
We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning
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Grievous Angel (1974)
Hearts On Fire


Ann Peebles

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I Can't Stand The Rain (1974)


Dan Penn

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Nobody's Fool (1973)
Raining In Memphis


Dan Penn And Spooner Oldham

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Moments From This Theater (1999)
It Tears Me Up


Sam Phillips

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Martinis And Bikinis (1994)
Same Rain


The Pogues

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Rum, Sodomy & The Lash (1985)
The Old Main Drag
I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day


Dulce Pontes

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Caminhos (1998)
O Infante


Iggy Pop

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The Idiot (1977)
Nightclubbin'
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Lust For Life (1977)
Some Weird Sin


Portishead

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Dummy (1994)
Sour Times
Glory Box
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Portishead (1997)
Western Eyes


Francis Poulenc

Melodies (baritone: Pierre Bernac; 1950)
Hotel




Bud Powell

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The Best Of Bud Powell On Verve (1994)
April In Paris


Elvis Presley

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The Sun Sessions (1976)
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
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The Memphis Album (1987)
Power Of My Love


The Pretenders

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Pretenders (1980)
Kid
Precious
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The Singles (1987)
Message Of Love


Prince

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Around The World In A Day (1985)
Pop Life
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Parade (1986)
Kiss
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Sign Of The Times (1987)
If I Was Your Girlfriend


John Prine

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John Prine (1972)
Sam Stone


Sergey Prokofiev

Romeo And Juliet (conductor: Charles Dutoit; 1998)




Pulp

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Different Class (1995)
Sorted For E's & Wizz


Henry Purcell

Dido And Aeneas (Dido: Dame Janet Baker; 1993)
Fantasias & In Nomines (Fretwork, 1995)




Radiohead

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The Bends (1995)
The Bends
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O.K. Computer (1997)
No Surprises


Bonnie Raitt

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Give It Up (1972)
Love Has No Pride


Otis Redding

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The Very Best Of Otis Redding (1992)
Mr. Pitiful


Jimmy Reed

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The Best Of Jimmy Reed (1962)
Take Out Some Insurance On Me Baby


Lou Reed

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Berlin (1973)
The Kids


R.E.M.

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Reckoning (1984)
Pretty Persuasion
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Green (1988)
Orange Crush


The Replacements

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All Shook Down (1990)
Nobody


Marc Ribot

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Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos (1998)
No Me Llores Mas


Charlie Rich

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Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich (1997)
A Woman Left Lonely


Jeannie Robertson

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The Queen Among The Heather (1998)
Son David


Smokey Robinson And The Miracles

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The Anthology (1973)
Going To A-Go-Go


The Rolling Stones

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Aftermath (1966)
Stupid Girl
Take It Or Leave It
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Between The Buttons (1967)
My Obsession
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Let It Bleed (1969)
You Can't Always Get What You Want
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Some Girls (1978)
Shattered


Sonny Rollins

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Saxophone Colossus (1964)
St. Thomas


Diana Ross And The Supremes

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The Ultimate Collection (1997)
Reflections
I'm Living In Shame


Gioachino Rossini

Rossini Arias (mezzo-soprano: Cecilia Bartoli; 1989)
Assisa A Piè D'un Salice


Otis Rush

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His Cobra Recordings (1989)
It Takes Time


George Russell

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The Jazz Workshop (1956)
Ye Hypocrite, Ye Beelzebub


Salt'N Pepa

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The Best Of Salt'N Pepa (1999)
Whatta Man


Sam & Dave

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The Best Of Sam And Dave (1969)
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby


Franz Schubert

B-flat Major Piano Sonata, D. 960 (Alfred Brendel; 1971)
F-sharp Minor Piano Sonata (fragment), D. 571 (Andras Schiff; 1993)
Winterreise (Wolfgang Holzmair; 1996)
22 Lieder (boxed set; 1997)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau And Gerald Moore, "Meerestille"




Jimmy Scott

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Heaven (1996)


Raymond Scott

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Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights (1992)
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Manhattan Research Inc. (2000)
Limbo: The Organized Mind.


Andres Segovia

Andres Segovia and His Contemporaries, Vol. 6 (1999)
(Maria Luisa Anido: Bouree BWV l009, J. S. Bach)




The Sex Pistols

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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)
Pretty Vacant


Ron Sexsmith

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Ron Sexsmith (1995)
Wastin' Time


Dmitri Shostakovich

Cello Concerto No. 1 (cellist: Mstislav Rostropovich; 1959)
The String Quartets (Brodsky Quartet; 1991)
24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (pianist: Tatiana Nikolayeva; 1995)
Shostakovich Plays Shostakovieh, Cello Sonata, Op. 40 (cellist: Mstislav Rostropovich; pianist: Dmitry Shostakovich; 1998)
Symphony No. 14 (soloists: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Julia Varady; 2000)




Paul Simon

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Paul Simon (1972)
Congratulations
Peace Like A River
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There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)
American Tune


Simon & Garfunkel

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Bookends (1968)
Overs


Nina Simone

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The Best Of Nina Simone (1969)
Mississippi Goddam
I Loves You, Porgy


Frank Sinatra

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In The Wee Small Hours (1955)
Dancing On The Ceiling
When Your Lover Has Gone
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Songs For Swingin' Lovers (1956)
I've Got You Under My Skin
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Only The Lonely (1958)
Good-bye
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No One Cares (1959)
I Can't Get Started
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Live In Paris (1962)
Without A Song


Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
How Insensitive


Percy Sledge

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When A Man Loves A Woman (1967)
Out Of Left Field


Sly & The Family Stone

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Anthology (1981)
Stand!
Family Affair


The Small Faces

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The Immediate Years (1995)
Itchycoo Park


Elliott Smith

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XO (1998)
Waltz #2


The Smiths

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The Smiths (1984)
Still Ill


Son Volt

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Trace (1995)
Loose String


The Specials

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Specials (1979)
Blank Expression


Phil Spector

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Back To Mono (1991)
The Crystals, "He's Sure The Boy I Love"


The Spinners

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The Best Of The Spinners (1978)
Rubberband Man


Dusty Springfield

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Dusty In Memphis (1969)
I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore
Just One Smile
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Greatest Hits (1979)
I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten


Bruce Springsteen

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The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle (1973)
The E Street Shuffle
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The River (1980)
Point Blank
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Tunnel Of Love (1987)
Brilliant Disguise
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The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995)
Galveston Bay


Squeeze

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East Side Story (1981)
A Woman's World


The Stanley Brothers

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The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers (1996)
Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet


Steely Dan

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Countdown To Ecstasy (1973)
Show Biz Kids


Rod Stewart

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The Mercury Anthology (1992)
You Wear It Well


Richard Strauss

Der Rosenkavalier (conductor: Carlos Kleiber; 1934)
Four Last Songs (soloist: Gundula Janowitz; 1996)




Igor Stravinsky

L'Histoire Du Soldat (conductor: Stravinsky; 1938)
Le Sacre Du Printemps (conductor: Leonard Bernstein; 1958)
Igor Stravinsky Edition (conductor: Stravinsky; 1963)




The Stylistics

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The Best Of The Stylistics (1975)
People Make The World Go `Round


June Tabor

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Abyssinians (1983)
A Smiling Shore


Howard Tate

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Get It While You Can (1967)
I Learned It All The Hard Way


Art Tatum

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20th Century Piano Genius (1992)
Love For Sale


Johnnie Taylor

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Raw Blues (1968)
That's Where It's At


Television

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Marquee Moon (1977)
See No Evil


The Temptations

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Anthology (1973)
Just My Imagination
Ball Of Confusion


Joe Tex

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The Best Of Joe Tex (1965)
Love You Save (May Be Your Own)


Them

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The Story Of Them (1997)
Don't Look Back


Irma Thomas

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Ruler Of Hearts (1989)


Richard And Linda Thompson

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I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
Calvary Cross


Henry Threadgill

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Easily Slip Into Another World (1987)
Black Hands Bejewelled


TLC

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Fanmail (1999)
Unpretty


Mel Tormé

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Easy To Remember (1979)
They Didn't Believe Me


A Tribe Called Quest

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Anthology (1999)
Check The Rhime


Tricky

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Maxinquaye (1995)
Overcome


Lennie Tristano

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The New Tristano (1960)
Requiem
Line Up
Turkish Mambo


Big Joe Turner

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The Very Best Of Big Joe Turner (1998)
Honey Hush


U2

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The Unforgettable Fire (1984)
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Bad
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Achtung Baby (1991)
One
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Pop (1997)
Please


The Undertones

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The Undertones (1980)
Teenage Kicks


The Velvet Underground

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The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966)
Femme Fatale


The Verve

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Urban Hymns (1997)
The Drugs Don't Work
Neon Wilderness


Anne Sofie von Otter

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Wings In The Night (1996)
De Vilda Svanarna


Richard Wagner

Tristan And Isolde (conductor: Wilhelm Furtwangler; 1952)
Der Ring Des Nibelungen (conductor: George Solti; 1983)




Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton

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The Right Combination: Burning The Midnight Oil (1972)
Her And The Car And The Mobile Home


Tom Waits

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Swordfishtrombones (1983)
16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six
In The Neighborhood
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Rain Dogs (1985)
Jockey Full Of Bourbon
Time
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Frank's Wild Years (1987)
Innocent When You Dream
Hang On St. Christopher
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Bone Machine (1992)
A Little Rain
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
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Mule Variations (1999)
Take It With Me
Georgia Rae
Filipino Box-Spring Hog


Scott Walker

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Tilt (1995)
Farmer In The City


Dionne Warwick

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The Windows Of The World (1968)
Walk Little Dolly


Muddy Waters

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More Real Folk Blues (1967)
Too Young To Know


Doc Watson

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The Essential Doc Watson (1973)
Tom Dooley


Anton Webern

Complete Works (conductor: Pierre Boulez; 2000)




Kurt Weill

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O Moon Of Alabama (1994)
Lotte Lenya, "Wie Lange Noch?"


Kenny Wheeler with Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Dave Holland

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Angel Song (1997)


The Who

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My Generation (1965)
The Kids Are Alright
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Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy (1971)
Substitute


Hank Williams

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40 Greatest Hits (1978)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive


Lucinda Williams

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Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998)
Drunken Angel


Sonny Boy Williamson

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The Best Of Sonny Boy Williamson (1986)
Your Funeral My Trial
Help Me


Jesse Winchester

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Jesse Winchester (1970)
Quiet About It
Black Dog
Payday


Wings

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Band On The Run (1973)
Let Me Roll It


Hugo Wolf

Lieder (soloist: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; 2000)
Alles Endet, Was Entstehet




Bobby Womack

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The Best Of Bobby Womack (1992)
Harry Hippie


Stevie Wonder

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Talking Book (1972)
I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
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Innervisions (1973)
Living For The City
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Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)
You Haven't Done Nothin'


Betty Wright

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The Best Of Betty Wright (1992)
Clean Up Woman
The Baby Sitter
The Secretary


Robert Wyatt

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Mid-Eighties (1993)
Te Recuerdo Amanda


Lester Young

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Ultimate Lester Young (1998)
The Man I Love


Neil Young

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
Down By The River
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After The Gold Rush (1970)
Birds
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Time Fades Away (1973)
Don't Be Denied
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On The Beach (1974)
Ambulance Blues
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Freedom (1989)
The Ways Of Love
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Ragged Glory (1990)
Fuckin' Up


Zamballarana

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Zamballarana (1997)
Ventu


Soundtracks

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Betty Blue (Gabriel Yared; 1986)
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Big Night (Louis Prima et al.; 1996)
Claudio Villa, "Stomelli Amorisi"
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The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff; 1972)
Many Rivers To Cross
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High Society (Cole Porter; 1956)
Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, "Well Did You Evah?"
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One From The Heart (Tom Waits; 1982)
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Torn Curtain (Bernard Herrmann; 1978)
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High Society (1999)
Mystikal & Outkast, "Neck uv da Woods."


Various

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The Alan Lomax Collection Sampler (1997)
Genoese Longshoremen, "La Partenza"
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Anthology Of American Folk Music (1997)
Dock Boggs, "Country Blues"
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The Birth Of The Third Stream (1957)
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Chess Golden Decade: The Early Fifties, Volume 1 (circa 1970)
Willie Mabon, "I'm Mad"
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Ethiopiques: Ethio Jazz And Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974, Vol. 4 (1998)
Mulatu Astatqé, "Yèkèrmo Sèw"
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Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones (1996)
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Mysteries Of The Sabbath: Classic Cantorial Recordings, 1907-47 (1994)
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era: 1965 - 1968 (1998)
the Knickerbockers, "Lies"
the Barbarians, "Moulty"
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The Real Kansas City Of The '20s, '30s, & '40s (1996)
Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra, "Queer Notions"
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The Secret Museum Of Mankind, Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48 (1995 - 1998)
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There Will Be No Sweeter Sound: Columbia Okeh Post-War Gospel Story 1947-1962 (1998)
Mello-Tones, "Looking for That City Called Heaven"
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Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music (1993)
Dave And Ansel Collins, "Double Barrel"
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Elvis Costello names 500 albums you need.

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