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Elvis picks the 500 Greatest Albums Ever
Vanity Fair, 2000-11-01
- Elvis Costello
COSTELLO'S 500
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
BY ELVIS COSTELLO
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
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- Subway To The Country (1969)
- That's No Reason To Cry
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- The Best Of Cannonball Adderley (1968)
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
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- The Maudlin Years (1996)
- The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter
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- The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (2000)
- Wild Man Blues
- Tight Like This
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- The Well-Tempered Clavier (Edwin Fischer; 1934)
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- The Six Cello Suites (Pablo Casals; 1936)
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- Six Partitas BWV 825-830 (Andras Schiff; 1984)
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- Mass in B Minor (conductor: Otto Klemperer; 1999)
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- The Band (1969)
- The Unfaithful Servant
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- Six String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet; 1988)
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- If You Love Me, 18th Century Italian Songs (1992)
- Alessandro Parisott - Se Tu M'Ami
- Antonio Vivaldi - Sposa son disprezzata
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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
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- Paul's Boutique (1989)
- Shadrach
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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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- 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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- Odelay (1996)
- The New Pollution
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- Best Of Bee Gees (1969)
- To Love Somebody
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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)
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- Derek Bell Plays With Himself (1981)
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- The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975)
- Some Other Time
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- Violin Concerto (soloist: Anne-Sofie Mutter; 1993)
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- Damnation Of Faust (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1987)
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- Debut (1993)
- Venus As A Boy
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- Two Steps From The Blues (1961)
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- The Best Of Blondie (1981)
- In The Flesh
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- 13 (1999)
- No Distance Left To Run
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- Lyrics For Lovers (1960)
- A Foggy Day
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- Hunky Dory (1971)
- Life On Mars?
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- 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
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- Ein Deutsches Requiem (conductor: Otto Klemperer; 1962)
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- Hang On In There Baby (1974)
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- Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings (soloist: Ian Bostridge; 1996)
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- Driftin' Blues: The Best Of Charles Brown (1992)
- Black Night
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- Clifford Brown With Strings (1955)
- Yesterdays
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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
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- Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using) (1972)
- My Opening Farewell
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- Symphony No. 9 (conductor: Gunter Wand; 1990)
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- Grace (1994)
- Corpus Christi Carol
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- Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980)
- Above Chiangmai
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- Retrospective: The Best Of Buffalo Springfield (1969)
- Expecting To Fly
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Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir
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- Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares (1990)
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- Proof Through The Night (1983)
- Fatally Beautiful
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- T Bone Burnett (1986)
- River Of Love
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- The Talking Animals (1988)
- Image
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- The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
- Goin' Back
- Artificial Energy
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- Music For A New Society (1982)
- Taking Your Life In Your Hands
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- Five Heroines-Operatic Extracts (1990)
- Vissi d'arte
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- Trout Mask Replica (1969)
- The Dust Blows Forward 'n' The Dust Blows Back
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- Clear Spot (1972)
- Big Eyed Beans From Venus
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- Hoagy Sings Carmichael (1956)
- Rockin' Chair
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- Press On (1999)
- Tiffany Anastasia Lowe
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- Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music (1962)
- You Don't Know Me
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- A Life In Music (1982)
- I Believe To My Soul
- Just For A Thrill
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- Chic's Greatest Hits (1979)
- My Forbidden Lover
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- Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (pianist, conductor: Krystian Zimerman; 1978)
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- London Calling (1979)
- Rudie Can't Fail
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- The Singles (1991)
- (White Man) In The Hammersmith Palais
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- Greatest Hits (1973)
- Sweet Dreams
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- The Ultimate Coasters (1986)
- Shoppin' For Clothes
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- The Best Of Leonard Cohen (1976)
- Who By Fire
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- More Best Of (1997)
- The Future
- Tower Of Song
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- The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959)
- Peace
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- My Favorite Things (1961)
- Every Time We Say Goodbye
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- The Impulse! Years (1993)
- A Love Supreme
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- Paradise And Lunch (1974)
- Married Man's A Fool
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- Checkin' In With Don Covay (1989)
- It's Better To Have Than Not Have
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- The Master's Voice: His HMV Recordings (1993)
- The Stately Homes Of England
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- His Legendary Years (1993)
- Gigi
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- If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971)
- Laughing
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- Temple Of Low Men (1988)
- Into Temptation
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- Voodoo (2000)
- Devil's Pie
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- Birth Of The Cool (1956)
- Boplicity
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- Miles Ahead (1957)
- My Ship
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- Porgy And Bess (1958)
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
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- Kind Of Blue (1959)
- All Blues
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- My Funny Valentine (1964)
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- In A Silent Way (1969)
- Shhh
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- On The Corner (1969)
- New York Girl
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- Conception (1975)
- Ezz-thetic
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- Pelléas et Mélisande (conductor: Claudio Abbado; 1992)
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- Preludes (Krystian Zimerman; 1994)
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- William Byrd and His Age (1956)
- Ye Sacred Muses
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- The Writing's On The Wall (1999)
- Say My Name
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- His Best (1997)
- Crackin' Up
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- Dr. John's Gumbo (1972)
- Junko Partner
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- Outward Bound (1960)
- G.W.
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- Iron Man (1969)
- Come Sunday
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- Awake Sweet Love (The Deller Consort; 1965)
- Flow My Tears
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- Dowland: The Collected Works (Consort of Musicke; 1980)
- A Pilgrimes Solice
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- Melodies (baritone: Bernard Kruysen; 1971)
- Phidyle
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- New Boots And Panties!! (1977)
- Sweet Gene Vincent
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- Blonde On Blonde (1966)
- Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
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- John Wesley Harding (1968)
- All Along The Watchtower
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- Planet Waves (1974)
- Dirge
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- Blood On The Tracks (1974)
- You're A Big Girl Now
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- The Basement Tapes (1975)
- Nothing Was Delivered
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- Shot Of Love (1981)
- Every Grain of Sand
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- Time Out Of Mind (1997)
- Not Dark Yet
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- Bob Dylan Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998)
- Like A Rolling Stone
- I Don't Believe You
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- Symphony No. 1 (conductor: Edward Elgar; 1957)
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- Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pré; 1965)
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- Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
- Haupe
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- ...And His Mother Called Him Bill (1968)
- Blood Count
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- The Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (boxed set; 1999)
- East St. Louis Toodle-oo
- In A Sentimental Mood
- Tonk
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- Money Jungle (1962)
- Wig Wise
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- The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
- The Way I Am
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- Waltz For Debby (1961)
- Waltz For Debby
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- Out Of The Cool (1960)
- Where Flamingos Fly
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- It's Everly Time (1960)
- Sleepless Nights
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- Blazing Away (1990)
- Strange Weather
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- Sound Venture (1966)
- Funny How Time Slips Away
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- L'Horizon Chimérique (baritone: Gerard Souzay; 1999)
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- Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety (1991) (conductor on "American Elegies": John Adams)
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- Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook (1956)
- Miss Otis Regrets
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- The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on Verve (1997)
- Let's Do It
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- Greatest Hits (1971)
- Man Of The World
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- The Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969)
- Juanita
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- 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.
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- Aretha's Gold (1969)
- I Say A Little Prayer
- Chain Of Fools
- (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
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- The Score (1996)
- Ready Or Not
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- One Nation Under A Groove (1978)
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- Super Hits (1970)
- The End Of Our Road
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- Here, My Dear (1979)
- When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
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- Greatest Hits (1970)
- You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin'
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- Stan Getz Plays (1952)
- Stella By Starlight
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- Getz/Gilberto (1963)
- Desafinado (Off Key)
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- Perceptions (1961)
- The Sword Of Orion
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- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five vs. the Sugar Hill Gang (1997)
- The Message
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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
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- You Say It! Raw! Rare! And Unreleased! (1990)
- I'm A Ram
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- Steal Away (1995)
- Hymn Medley: Abide With Me, etc
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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
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- The Best Of Slim Harpo (1997)
- I'm A King Bee
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- Elite Hotel (1976)
- One Of These Days
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- Rid Of Me (1993)
- 50 Ft. Queenie
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- Rainbow Mist (1993)
- Yesterdays
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- Complete Piano Sonatas (Alfred Brendel; 1987)
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- String Quartets (Quatuor Mosaïques; 1990)
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- Tubby's Groove (1959)
- Embers
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- Blank Generation (1977)
- New Pleasure
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- Electric Ladyland (1968)
- Crosstown Traffic
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- Live At Woodstock (1994)
- Star Spangled Banner
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- Night Food (1976)
- I've Got The Handle
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- Last Train To Hicksville . . . The Home To Happy Feet (1973)
- It's Not My Time To Go
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- The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (1998)
- Ex-Factor
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- Passion Flower (1995)
- Day Dream
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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
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- The Best Of The Hollies (1978)
- Look Through Any Window
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- Super Hits (1976)
- Behind A Painted Smile
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- The Unanswered Question For Orchestra (conductor: Leonard Bernstein; 1998)
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- Greatest Hits (1971)
- I Want You Back
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- The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James (1994)
- Devil Got My Woman
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- String Quartets (Talich Quartet; 1994)
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- Crown Of Creation (1968)
- Greasy Heart
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- Psychocandy (1985)
- You Trip Me Up
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- Complete Recordings (1990)
- Love In Vain
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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
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- Anthologie De La Musique Arabe, Vols. 1-8 (1989)
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- From The Operas Of Erich Korngold (1993)
- "Glück Das Mir Verblieb" from "Die Tote Stadt" (conductor: Erich Korngold)
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- The La's (1990)
- There She Goes
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- Miss Peggy Lee (1998)
- Don't Smoke In Bed
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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
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- Rockin' My Life Away (1991)
- Rita Mae
- Don't Let Go
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- Sailin' Shoes (1972)
- Willin'
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- Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1974)
- Rock And Roll Doctor
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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
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- When I Stop Dreaming: The Best Of The Louvin Brothers (1995)
- My Baby's Gone
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- Jesus Of Cool (1978)
- 36 Inches High
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- The Impossible Bird (1994)
- Shelley My Love
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- Donal Lunny (1987)
- Declan
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- The Best Of Loretta Lynn (1999)
- One's On The Way
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- Cubop City (1992)
- Si Si, No No
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- Symphony No. 1 (conductor: Klaus Tennstedt; 1968)
- Kindertotenlieder & Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen
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- A Gathering Of Flowers (1970)
- I Saw Her Again Last Night
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- Whatever (1993)
- 4th Of July
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- African Herbsman (1972)
- Small Axe
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- Natty Dread (1975)
- Lively Up Yourself
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- An Evening With Groucho (1972)
- Lydia, The Tattooed Lady
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- Protection (1994)
- Karmacoma
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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
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- McCartney (1970)
- Maybe I'm Amazed
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- Flaming Pie (1997)
- Little Willow
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- Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1975)
- Go Leave
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- The Best Of The Meters (1975)
- Cissy Strut
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- Mingus Ah Um (1959)
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
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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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- Epitaph (1990)
- The Children's Hour Of Dream
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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 Scarlet Conquering
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- Taming The Tiger (1998)
- Man From Mars
- Stay In Touch
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- The Modern Lovers (1976)
- Pablo Picasso
- Someone To Care About
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- Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (1951)
- Off Minor
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- Monk's Music (1958)
- Abide With Me
- Off Minor
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- The Music Of Bill Monroe (1994)
- Walls Of Time
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- L'Incoronazione Di Poppea (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1993)
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- The Story Of Moondog (1957)
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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
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- Birth Of The Hot (1995)
- Dead Man Blues
- Wolverine Blues
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- We're Only In It For The Money (1968)
- Who Needs The Peace Corps?
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- The Best Of The Move (1974)
- Blackberry Way
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- Piano Concerto No. 20 (pianist: Clifford Curzon; 1970)
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- Requiem (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1986)
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- 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)
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- Songs And Dances Of Death (soloist: Sergei Leiferkus; 1995)
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- The Blues And The Abstract Truth (1961)
- Stolen Moments
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- Straight Head (1961)
- Images
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- Stardust (1978)
- Moonlight In Vermont
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- Back To The Front (1988)
- Annabelle Lee
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- Greatest Hits (1990)
- Tell It Like It Is
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- Randy Newman (1968)
- Cowboy
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- New York Dolls (1973)
- Personality Crisis
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- Fragmente-Stille An Diotima (LaSalle Quartet; 1983)
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- The Orbison Way (1966)
- Crawling Back
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- El Rockers (2000)
- Black Gunn
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- Missa Viri Galilaei (direction: Philippe Herreweghe; 1992)
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- The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions (1978)
- Ko-Ko
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- Discover America (1972)
- Jack Palance
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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
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- I Can't Stand The Rain (1974)
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- Nobody's Fool (1973)
- Raining In Memphis
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- Martinis And Bikinis (1994)
- Same Rain
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- Caminhos (1998)
- O Infante
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- The Idiot (1977)
- Nightclubbin'
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- Lust For Life (1977)
- Some Weird Sin
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- Dummy (1994)
- Sour Times
- Glory Box
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- Portishead (1997)
- Western Eyes
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- Melodies (baritone: Pierre Bernac; 1950)
- Hotel
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- The Best Of Bud Powell On Verve (1994)
- April In Paris
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- The Sun Sessions (1976)
- Blue Moon Of Kentucky
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- The Memphis Album (1987)
- Power Of My Love
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- Pretenders (1980)
- Kid
- Precious
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- The Singles (1987)
- Message Of Love
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- Around The World In A Day (1985)
- Pop Life
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- Sign Of The Times (1987)
- If I Was Your Girlfriend
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- John Prine (1972)
- Sam Stone
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- Romeo And Juliet (conductor: Charles Dutoit; 1998)
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- Different Class (1995)
- Sorted Out For E's And Wiz
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- Dido And Aeneas (Dido: Dame Janet Baker; 1993)
- Fantasias & In Nomines (Fretwork, 1995)
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- The Bends (1995)
- The Bends
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- O.K. Computer (1997)
- No Surprises
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- Give It Up (1972)
- Love Has No Pride
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- The Very Best Of Otis Redding (1992)
- Mr. Pitiful
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- The Best Of Jimmy Reed (1962)
- Take Out Some Insurance On Me Baby
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- Reckoning (1984)
- Pretty Persuasion
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- Green (1988)
- Orange Crush
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- All Shook Down (1990)
- Nobody
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- Marc Ribot Y 10s Cubanos Postizos (1998)
- No Me Llores Mas
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- The Queen Among The Heather (1998)
- Son David
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- The Anthology (1973)
- Going To A-Go-Go
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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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- Saxophone Colossus (1964)
- St. Thomas
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- The Ultimate Collection (1997)
- Reflections
- I'm Living In Shame
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- Rossini Arias (mezzo-soprano: Cecilia Bartoli; 1989)
- Assisa A Piè D'un Salice
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- His Cobra Recordings (1989)
- It Takes Time
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- The Jazz Workshop (1956)
- Ye Hypocrite, Ye Beelzebub
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- The Best Of Salt'N Pepa (1999)
- Whatta Man
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- The Best Of Sam And Dave (1969)
- When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
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- 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"
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- Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights (1992)
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- Manhattan Research Inc. (2000)
- Limbo: The Organized Mind.
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- Andres Segovia and His Contemporaries, Vol. 6 (1999)
- (Maria Luisa Anido: Bouree BWV l009, J. S. Bach)
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- Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)
- Pretty Vacant
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- Ron Sexsmith (1995)
- Wastin' Time
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- 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)
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- The Best Of Nina Simone (1969)
- Mississippi Goddam
- I Loves You, Porgy
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- In The Wee Small Hours (1955)
- Dancing On The Ceiling
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- Songs For Swingin'
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- 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
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- Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
- How Insensitive
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- When A Man Loves A Woman (1967)
- Out Of Left Field
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- Anthology (1981)
- Stand!
- Family Affair
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- The Immediate Years (1995)
- Itchycoo Park
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- The Smiths (1984)
- Still Ill
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- Trace (1995)
- Loose String
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- Back To Mono (1991)
- The Crystals, "He's Sure The Boy I Love"
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- The Best Of The Spinners (1978)
- Rubberband Man
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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
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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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- The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995)
- Galveston Bay
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- The Mercury Anthology (1992)
- You Wear It Well
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- Der Rosenkavalier (conductor: Carlos Kleiber; 1934)
- Four Last Songs (soloist: Gundula Janowitz; 1996)
- L'Histoire Du Soldat (conductor: Stravinsky; 1938)
- Le Sacre Du Printemps (conductor: Leonard Bernstein; 1958)
- Igor Stravinsky Edition (conductor: Stravinsky; 1963)
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- The Best Of The Stylistics (1975)
- People Make The World Go `Round
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- Get It While You Can (1967)
- I Learned It All The Hard Way
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- 20th Century Piano Genius (1992)
- Love For Sale
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- Anthology (1973)
- Just My Imagination
- Ball Of Confusion
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- The Story Of Them (1997)
- Don't Look Back
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- I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
- Calvary Cross
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- Easily Slip Into Another World (1987)
- Black Hands Bejewelled
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- Easy To Remember (1979)
- They Didn't Believe Me
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- Anthology (1999)
- Check The Rhime
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- Maxinquaye (1995)
- Overcome
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- The New Tristano (1960)
- Requiem
- Line Up
- Turkish Mambo
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- The Unforgettable Fire (1984)
- Pride (In The Name Of Love)
- Bad
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- The Undertones (1980)
- Teenage Kicks
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- Wings In The Night (1996)
- De Vilda Svanarna
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- Tristan And Isolde (conductor: Wilhelm Furtwangler; 1952)
- Der Ring Des Nibelungen (conductor: George Solti; 1983)
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- The Right Combination: Burning The Midnight Oil (1972)
- Her And The Car And The Mobile Home
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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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- Bone Machine (1992)
- A Little Rain
- I Don't Wanna Grow Up
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- Tilt (1995)
- Farmer In The City
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- The Windows Of The World (1968)
- Walk Little Dolly
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- More Real Folk Blues (1967)
- Too Young To Know
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- Complete Works (conductor: Pierre Boulez; 2000)
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- O Moon Of Alabama (1994)
- Lotte Lenya, "Wie Lange Noch?"
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- 40 Greatest Hits (1978)
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
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- Band On The Run (1973)
- Let Me Roll It
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- Lieder (soloist: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; 2000)
- Alles Endet, Was Entstehet
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- The Best Of Bobby Womack (1992)
- Harry Hippie
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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'
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- The Best Of Betty Wright (1992)
- Clean Up Woman
- The Baby Sitter
- The Secretary
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- Mid-Eighties (1993)
- Te Recuerdo Amanda
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- Ultimate Lester Young (1998)
- The Man I Love
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- After The Goldrush (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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- Ragged Glory (1990)
- Fuckin' Up
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- Zamballarana (1997)
- Ventu
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Soundtracks
- Betty Blue (Gabriel Yared; 1986)
- Big Night (Louis Prima et al.; 1996)
- Claudio Villa, "Stomelli Amorisi"
- The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff; 1972)
- Many Rivers To Cross
- High Society (Cole Porter; 1956)
- Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, "Well Did You Evah?"
- One from the Heart (Tom Waits; 1982)
- Torn Curtain (Bernard Herrmann;1978)
- The Wood (1999)
- Mystikal & Outkast, "Neck uv da Woods."
Various
The Alan Lomax Collection Sampler (1997)
- Genoese longshoremen, "La Partenza"
Anthology Of American Folk Music (1997)
- Dock Boggs, "Country Blues"
The Birth Of The Third Stream (1957)
Chess Golden Decade: The Early '50s, Vol. 1 (circa 1970)
- Willie Mabon, "I'm Mad"
Ethiopiques: Ethio Jazz And Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974, Vol. 4 (1998)
- Mulatu Astatqé, "Yèkèrmo Sèw"
Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones (1996)
Mysteries Of The Sabbath: Classic Cantorial Recordings, 1907-47 (1994)
Nuggets (1998)
- the Knickerbockers, "Lies,"
- the Barbarians, "Moulty"
The Real Kansas City Of The '20s, '30s, & '40s (1996)
- Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra "Queer Notions"
The Secret Museum Of Mankind, Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48 (1995-1998)
There Will Be No Sweeter Sound: Columbia Okeh Post-War Gospel Story 1947-1962 (1998)
- Mello-Tones, "Looking for That City Called Heaven"
Tougher Than Tough
- The Story Of Jamaican Music (1993)
- Dave And Ansel Collins, "Double Barrel"
