Vanity Fair, November 2000

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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 Abba Gold (1992) Knowing Me, Knowing You David Ackles The Road To Cairo (1968) Down River Subway To The Country (1969) That's No Reason To Cry Cannonball Adderley The Best Of Cannonball Adderley (1968) Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Amy Allison The Maudlin Years (1996) The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter Mose Allison The Best Of Mose Allison (1970) Your Mind Is On Vacation Almamegretta Lingo (1998) Gramigna Louis Armstrong The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (2000) Wild Man Blues Tight Like This Fred Astaire The Astaire Story (1952) They Can't Take That Away From Me Johann Sebastian Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier (Edwin Fischer; 1934) The Six Cello Suites (Pablo Casals; 1936) Six Partitas BWV 825-830 (Andras Schiff; 1984) Mass in B Minor (conductor: Otto Klemperer; 1999) Burt Bacharach The Look Of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection (1998) Alfie Chet Baker The Best Of Chet Baker Sings (1989) The Thrill Is Gone You Don't Know What Love Is Broken Wing (1978) The Band Music From Big Pink (1968) Tears Of Rage The Band (1969) The Unfaithful Servant Dave Bartholomew The Monkey (1985) Béla Bartók Six String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet; 1988) Cecilia Bartoli If You Love Me, 18th Century Italian Songs (1992) Alessandro Parisott - Se Tu M'Ami Antonio Vivaldi - Sposa son disprezzata Count Basie The Atomic Mr. Basie (1957) Li'l Darlin' The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966) Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) God Only Knows Carl and the Passions – "So Tough" (1972) Cuddle Up Holland (1973) The Trader Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (boxed set; 1993) Surf's Up Wonderful Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique (1989) Shadrach The Beatles With The Beatles (1963) You Really Got A Hold On Me A Hard Day's Night (1964) Things We Said Today Help! (1965) You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Rubber Soul (1965) Girl Revolver (1966) And Your Bird Can Sing For No One Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) A Day In The Life The Beatles (White Album; 1968) I'm So Tired Past Masters, Vol. 2 (1988) Paperback Writer Rain Beck Odelay (1996) The New Pollution Bee Gees Best Of Bee Gees (1969) To Love Somebody Ludwig Van Beethoven Otto Klemperer Live At The Concertgebouw (1954) Symphony No. 9; Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111 (Sviatoslav Richter; 1965) Symphony No. 7 (conductor: Carlos Kleiber; 1975) Late Quartets (Budapest String Quartet; 1997) Violin Concerto (soloist: Yehudi Menuhin; 1997) Derek Bell Derek Bell Plays With Himself (1981) Tony Bennett and Bill Evans The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975) Some Other Time Alban Berg Violin Concerto (soloist: Anne-Sofie Mutter; 1993) Hector Berlioz Damnation Of Faust (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1987) Agnes Bernelle Father's Lying Dead On The Ironing Board (1995) Leonard Bernstein West Side Story (1957) Chuck Berry Chuck Berry's Golden Decade (1967) Don't Lie To Me Björk Debut (1993) Venus As A Boy Post (1995) Hyper-ballad Rubén Blades Buscando America (1984) Bobby "Blue" Bland Two Steps From The Blues (1961) Blondie The Best Of Blondie (1981) In The Flesh Blur 13 (1999) No Distance Left To Run Dirk Bogarde Lyrics For Lovers (1960) A Foggy Day David Bowie Hunky Dory (1971) Life On Mars? Station To Station (1976) Wild Is The Wind Low (1977) Always Crashing In The Same Car Heroes (1977) Joe The Lion Johannes Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem (conductor: Otto Klemperer; 1962) Johnny Bristol Hang On In There Baby (1974) Benjamin Britten Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings (soloist: Ian Bostridge; 1996) Charles Brown Driftin' Blues: The Best Of Charles Brown (1992) Black Night Clifford Brown Clifford Brown With Strings (1955) Yesterdays James Brown Live At The Apollo (1963) I Found Someone Star Time (boxed set; 1991) Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing Jackson Browne Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using) (1972) My Opening Farewell Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (conductor: Gunter Wand; 1990) Jeff Buckley Grace (1994) Corpus Christi Carol Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980) Above Chiangmai Buffalo Springfield Retrospective: The Best Of Buffalo Springfield (1969) Expecting To Fly Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares (1990) T Bone Burnett Proof Through The Night (1983) Fatally Beautiful T Bone Burnett (1986) River Of Love The Talking Animals (1988) Image The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday (1967) So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968) Goin' Back Artificial Energy Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (1968) Hickory Wind John Cale Music For A New Society (1982) Taking Your Life In Your Hands Maria Callas Five Heroines - Operatic Extracts (1990) Vissi d'arte Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica (1969) The Dust Blows Forward 'n' The Dust Blows Back Clear Spot (1972) Big Eyed Beans From Venus Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy Sings Carmichael (1956) Rockin' Chair James Carr At The Dark End Of The Street (1987) Pouring Water On A Drowning Man Johnny Cash The Essential Johnny Cash (1992) I Still Miss Someone June Carter Cash Press On (1999) Tiffany Anastasia Lowe Ray Charles Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music (1962) You Don't Know Me A Life In Music (1982) I Believe To My Soul Just For A Thrill Chic Chic's Greatest Hits (1979) My Forbidden Lover Frédéric Chopin Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (pianist, conductor: Krystian Zimerman; 1978) The Clash London Calling (1979) Rudie Can't Fail The Singles (1991) (White Man) In The Hammersmith Palais Patsy Cline Greatest Hits (1973) Sweet Dreams The Coasters The Ultimate Coasters (1986) Shoppin' For Clothes Leonard Cohen The Best Of Leonard Cohen (1976) Who By Fire More Best Of (1997) The Future Tower Of Song Ornette Coleman The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959) Peace John Coltrane My Favorite Things (1961) Every Time We Say Goodbye The Impulse! Years (1993) A Love Supreme Ry Cooder Paradise And Lunch (1974) Married Man's A Fool Sam Cooke Night Beat (1963) Get Yourself Another Fool Don Covay Checkin' In With Don Covay (1989) It's Better to Have (And Don't Need) Noël Coward The Master's Voice: His HMV Recordings (1993) The Stately Homes Of England Bing Crosby His Legendary Years (1993) Gigi David Crosby If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971) Laughing Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu (1970) Helpless Crowded House Temple Of Low Men (1988) Into Temptation D'Angelo Voodoo (2000) Devil's Pie Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool (1956) Boplicity Miles Ahead (1957) My Ship Porgy And Bess (1958) Bess, You Is My Woman Now Kind Of Blue (1959) All Blues Sketches Of Spain (1960) My Funny Valentine (1964) In A Silent Way (1969) Shhh On The Corner (1969) New York Girl Miles Davis and Stan Getz and Lee Konitz Conception (1975) Ezz-thetic Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (conductor: Claudio Abbado; 1992) Preludes (Krystian Zimerman; 1994) Alfred Deller William Byrd and His Age (1956) Ye Sacred Muses Destiny's Child The Writing's On The Wall (1999) Say My Name Bo Diddley His Best (1997) Crackin' Up Dr. John Dr. John's Gumbo (1972) Junko Partner Eric Dolphy Outward Bound (1960) G.W. Iron Man (1969) Come Sunday Lee Dorsey Ride Your Pony (1966) Get Out Of My Life, Woman Wonder Woman Yes We Can (1970) Tears, Tears And More Tears John Dowland Awake Sweet Love (The Deller Consort; 1965) Flow My Tears Dowland: The Collected Works (Consort of Musicke; 1980) A Pilgrimes Solice John Dowland And William Byrd Night's Black Bird (Fretwork; 1989) Henri Duparc Melodies (baritone: Bernard Kruysen; 1971) Phidyle Jimmy Durante September Song (1963) Ian Dury New Boots And Panties!! (1977) Sweet Gene Vincent Dyke & the Blazers So Sharp (1983) Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Subterranean Homesick Blues Blonde On Blonde (1966) Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine John Wesley Harding (1968) All Along The Watchtower Planet Waves (1974) Dirge Blood On The Tracks (1974) You're A Big Girl Now The Basement Tapes (1975) Nothing Was Delivered Shot Of Love (1981) Every Grain of Sand Time Out Of Mind (1997) Not Dark Yet Bob Dylan Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998) Like A Rolling Stone I Don't Believe You Edward Elgar Symphony No. 1 (conductor: Edward Elgar; 1957) Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pré; 1965) Duke Ellington Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) Haupe ...And His Mother Called Him Bill (1968) Blood Count 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 Money Jungle (1962) Wig Wise Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) The Way I Am The Bill Evans Trio Waltz For Debby (1961) Waltz For Debby The Gil Evans Orchestra Out Of The Cool (1960) Where Flamingos Fly The Everly Brothers It's Everly Time (1960) Sleepless Nights The Fairfield Four I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray (1997) There Must Be A City Marianne Faithfull Blazing Away (1990) Strange Weather Georgie Fame Sound Venture (1966) Funny How Time Slips Away Gabriel Fauré L'Horizon Chimérique (baritone: Gerard Souzay; 1999) Morton Feldman Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety (1991) (conductor on "American Elegies": John Adams) Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook (1956) Miss Otis Regrets Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on Verve (1997) Let's Do It Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits (1971) Man Of The World The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969) Juanita The Four Tops Anthology (1974) Bernadette Seven Rooms Of Gloom Aretha Franklin 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's Gold (1969) I Say A Little Prayer Chain Of Fools (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman Amazing Grace (1972) Bill Frisell Quartet (1996) Egg Radio Fugees The Score (1996) Ready Or Not Funkadelic One Nation Under A Groove (1978) Marvin Gaye Super Hits (1970) The End Of Our Road What's Going On (1971) Let's Get It On (1973) Here, My Dear (1979) When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell Greatest Hits (1970) You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' Stan Getz Stan Getz Plays (1952) Stella By Starlight Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto Getz/Gilberto (1963) Desafinado (Off Key) Dizzy Gillespie Perceptions (1961) The Sword Of Orion Allen Ginsberg The Lion For Real (1989) Graham Central Station Release Yourself (1974) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and the Sugar Hill Gang Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five vs. the Sugar Hill Gang (1997) The Message Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead (1970) Dire Wolf American Beauty (1970) Box Of Rain Europe '72 (1972) Tennessee Jed Wake Of The Flood (1973) Stella Blue Al Green Call Me (1973) You Say It! Raw! Rare! And Unreleased! (1990) I'm A Ram Edvard Grieg Lieder (soloist: Anne Sofie von Otter; 1993) Haugtussa Charles Haden and Hank Jones Steal Away (1995) Hymn Medley: Abide With Me, etc Merle Haggard The Best Of The Best Of (1972) No Reason To Quit George Frideric Handel Marian Cantatas (mezzo-soprano: Anne Sofie von Otter; 1994) Heroes (countertenor: Andreas Scholl; 1999) "Ombra mai fu" from Serse Tim Hardin Tim Hardin (1966) How Can We Hang On To A Dream? Slim Harpo The Best Of Slim Harpo (1997) I'm A King Bee Emmylou Harris Elite Hotel (1976) One Of These Days PJ Harvey Rid Of Me (1993) 50 Ft. Queenie Coleman Hawkins Body And Soul (1988) Rainbow Mist (1993) Yesterdays Joseph Haydn File:Joseph Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas Alfred Brendel album cover.jpg Complete Piano Sonatas (Alfred Brendel; 1987) File:Joseph Haydn String Quartets Quatuor Mosaïques album cover.jpg String Quartets (Quatuor Mosaïques; 1990) Tubby Hayes Tubby's Groove (1959) Embers Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation (1977) New Pleasure Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits (1968) The Wind Cries Mary Electric Ladyland (1968) Crosstown Traffic Live At Woodstock (1994) Star Spangled Banner The Heptones Night Food (1976) I've Got The Handle Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks Last Train To Hicksville . . . The Home To Happy Feet (1973) It's Not My Time To Go Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (1998) Ex-Factor Johnny Hodges Passion Flower (1995) Day Dream Billie Holiday Lady In Satin (1958 Glad To Be Unhappy I'm A Fool To Want You The Billie Holiday Story (1972) The Man I Love Body And Soul The Complete Decca Recordings (1991) Don't Explain The Hollies The Best Of The Hollies (1978) Look Through Any Window Howlin' Wolf His Best (1997) Hidden Charms The Isley Brothers Super Hits (1976) Behind A Painted Smile Charles Ives The Unanswered Question For Orchestra (conductor: Leonard Bernstein; 1998) The Jackson 5 Greatest Hits (1971) I Want You Back The Jam All Mod Cons (1978) Skip James The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James (1994) Devil Got My Woman Leoš Janáček File:Leoš Janáček String Quartets album cover.jpg String Quartets (Talich Quartet; 1994) Jefferson Airplane Crown Of Creation (1968) Greasy Heart The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy (1985) You Trip Me Up Antonio Carlos Jobim Jazz Masters 13 (1995) Insensatez Little Willie John Free At Last (1970) Leave My Kitten Alone Need Your Love So Bad Robert Johnson Complete Recordings (1990) Love In Vain George Jones Anniversary: Ten Years Of Hits (1982) The Grand Tour Cup Of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years (1994) Mr. Fool Window Up Above Relief Is Just A Swallow Away Oum Kaltsoum File:Oum Kaltsoum Anthologie De La Musique Arabe album cover.jpg Anthologie De La Musique Arabe, Vols. 1-8 (1989) The Kinks The Ultimate Collection (1989) Waterloo Sunset Dead End Street Where Have All the Good Times Gone? Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Inflated Tear (1968) Erich Korngold File:Erich Korngold From The Operas Of album cover.jpg From The Operas Of Erich Korngold (1993) "Glück Das Mir Verblieb" from "Die Tote Stadt" (conductor: Erich Korngold) The La's The La's (1990) There She Goes Peggy Lee Miss Peggy Lee (1998) Don't Smoke In Bed John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (1970) I Found Out Imagine (1971) How? Shaved Fish (1975) Instant Karma! Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe File:Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe My Fair Lady album cover.jpg My Fair Lady (1956) I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face File:Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Gigi album cover.jpg Gigi (1958) I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore Jerry Lee Lewis Rockin' My Life Away (1991) Rita Mae Don't Let Go Little Feat Sailin' Shoes (1972) Willin' Feats Don't Fail Me Now (1974) Rock And Roll Doctor Little Richard Here's Little Richard (1957) Slippin' And Slidin' (Peepin' And Hidin') The Explosive Little Richard (1967) Commandments Of Love The Louvin Brothers When I Stop Dreaming: The Best Of The Louvin Brothers (1995) My Baby's Gone The Lovin' Spoonful Anthology (1990) Six O'Clock Nick Lowe Jesus Of Cool (1978) 36 Inches High The Impossible Bird (1994) Shelley My Love Donal Lunny Donal Lunny (1987) Declan Loretta Lynn File:Loretta Lynn The Best Of Loretta Lynn album cover.jpg The Best Of Loretta Lynn (1999) One's On The Way Machito and His Afro-Cubans File:Machito and His Afro-Cubans Cubop City album cover.jpg Cubop City (1992) Si Si, No No Madness The Rise And Fall (1982) Tomorrow's (Just Another Day) Gustav Mahler File:Gustav Mahler Symphony N1 Tennstedt album cover.jpg Symphony No. 1 (conductor: Klaus Tennstedt; 1968) Kindertotenlieder & Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen The Mamas & The Papas A Gathering Of Flowers (1970) I Saw Her Again Last Night Aimee Mann Whatever (1993) 4th Of July Bob Marley and The Wailers African Herbsman (1972) Small Axe Natty Dread (1975) Lively Up Yourself The Marvelettes The Return Of The Marvelettes (1970) No More Tearstained Make-Up Groucho Marx An Evening With Groucho (1972) Lydia, The Tattooed Lady Massive Attack Protection (1994) Karmacoma Matching Mole Matching Mole (1972) O Caroline Curtis Mayfield 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 The Anthology 1961-1977 (1992) Keep On Pushing I'm So Proud Paul McCartney McCartney (1970) Maybe I'm Amazed Flaming Pie (1997) Little Willow Kate & Anna McGarrigle Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1975) Go Leave Tommy McLain The Essential Collection (1997) Sweet Dreams The Meters The Best Of The Meters (1975) Cissy Strut Mina Gli Anni d'Oro (1984) Un Bacio È Troppo Poco Charles Mingus Blues And Roots (1959) Mingus Ah Um (1959) Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Pre-Bird (also known as Mingus Revisited) (1960) Weird Nightmare File:Charles Mingus At Antibes album cover.jpg Mingus At Antibes (1960) What Love? Mingus Plays Piano (1963) Myself When I Am Real Let My Children Hear Music (1971) Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too Epitaph (1990) The Children's Hour Of Dream Joni Mitchell Blue (1971) The Last Time I Saw Richard For The Roses (1972) Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire Court And Spark (1974) Down To You The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (1975) Shades Of Scarlett Conquering Hejira (1976) Amelia Taming The Tiger (1998) Man From Mars Stay In Touch The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers (1976) Pablo Picasso Someone To Care About Thelonious Monk Genius Of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (1951) Off Minor Brilliant Corners (1957) File:Thelonious Monk Monk's Music album cover.jpg Monk's Music (1958) Abide With Me Off Minor Bill Monroe The Music Of Bill Monroe (1994) Walls Of Time Claudio Monteverdi L'Incoronazione Di Poppea (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1993) Moondog The Story Of Moondog (1957) Van Morrison Astral Weeks (1968) Beside You Moondance (1970) Into The Mystic His Band And Street Choir (1970) Street Choir Veedon Fleece (1974) Linden Arden Stole The Highlights Jelly Roll Morton Birth Of The Hot (1995) Dead Man Blues Wolverine Blues The Mothers Of Invention We're Only In It For The Money (1968) Who Needs The Peace Corps? The Move The Best Of The Move (1974) Blackberry Way Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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) File:Mozart La Clemenza Di Tito album cover.jpg La Clemenza Di Tito (conductor: John Eliot Gardiner; 1993) File:Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro album cover.jpg Le Nozze Di Figaro (conductor: Karl Bohm; 1993) Modest Mussorgsky File:Mussorgsky Songs And Dances Of Death album cover.jpg Songs And Dances Of Death (soloist: Sergei Leiferkus; 1995) Roy Nathanson Fire At Keaton's Bar & Grill (2000) Bend In The Night Oliver Nelson The Blues And The Abstract Truth (1961) Stolen Moments Straight Head (1961) Images Willie Nelson Stardust (1978) Moonlight In Vermont Bob Neuwirth Back To The Front (1988) Annabelle Lee Aaron Neville File:Aaron Neville Greatest Hits album cover.jpg Greatest Hits (1990) Tell It Like It Is Randy Newman Randy Newman (1968) Cowboy Sail Away (1972) Good Old Boys (1974) Trouble In Paradise (1983) Real Emotional Girl New York Dolls New York Dolls (1973) Personality Crisis Nirvana Nevermind (1991) Lithium Luigi Nono Fragmente-Stille An Diotima (LaSalle Quartet; 1983) NRBQ NRBQ (1969) Rocket #9 Laura Nyro and Labelle Gonna Take A Miracle (1971) The Bells Roy Orbison The Orbison Way (1966) Crawling Back Augustus Pablo El Rockers (2000) Black Gunn Giovanni Palestrina Missa Viri Galilaei (direction: Philippe Herreweghe; 1992) Charlie Parker The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions (1978) Ko-Ko Van Dyke Parks Discover America (1972) Jack Palance Gram Parsons GP (1973) We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning Grievous Angel (1974) Hearts On Fire Ann Peebles I Can't Stand The Rain (1974) Dan Penn Nobody's Fool (1973) Raining In Memphis Dan Penn And Spooner Oldham Moments From This Theater (1999) It Tears Me Up Sam Phillips Martinis And Bikinis (1994) Same Rain The Pogues Rum, Sodomy & The Lash (1985) The Old Main Drag I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day Dulce Pontes Caminhos (1998) O Infante Iggy Pop The Idiot (1977) Nightclubbin' Lust For Life (1977) Some Weird Sin Portishead Dummy (1994) Sour Times Glory Box Portishead (1997) Western Eyes Francis Poulenc Melodies (baritone: Pierre Bernac; 1950) Hotel Bud Powell The Best Of Bud Powell On Verve (1994) April In Paris Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions (1976) Blue Moon Of Kentucky The Memphis Album (1987) Power Of My Love The Pretenders Pretenders (1980) Kid Precious The Singles (1987) Message Of Love Prince Around The World In A Day (1985) Pop Life Parade (1986) Kiss Sign Of The Times (1987) If I Was Your Girlfriend John Prine John Prine (1972) Sam Stone Sergey Prokofiev Romeo And Juliet (conductor: Charles Dutoit; 1998) Pulp Different Class (1995) Sorted For E's & Wizz Henry Purcell Dido And Aeneas (Dido: Dame Janet Baker; 1993) Fantasias & In Nomines (Fretwork, 1995) Radiohead The Bends (1995) The Bends O.K. Computer (1997) No Surprises Bonnie Raitt Give It Up (1972) Love Has No Pride Otis Redding The Very Best Of Otis Redding (1992) Mr. Pitiful Jimmy Reed The Best Of Jimmy Reed (1962) Take Out Some Insurance On Me Baby Lou Reed Berlin (1973) The Kids R.E.M. 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(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 Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (1977) Pretty Vacant Ron Sexsmith 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 Paul Simon (1972) Congratulations Peace Like A River There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973) American Tune Simon & Garfunkel Bookends (1968) Overs Nina Simone The Best Of Nina Simone (1969) Mississippi Goddam I Loves You, Porgy Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours (1955) Dancing On The Ceiling When Your Lover Has Gone Songs For Swingin' Lovers (1956) I've Got You Under My Skin Only The Lonely (1958) Good-bye No One Cares (1959) I Can't Get Started Live In Paris (1962) Without A Song Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967) How Insensitive Percy Sledge When A Man Loves A Woman (1967) Out Of Left Field Sly & The Family Stone Anthology (1981) Stand! Family Affair The Small Faces The Immediate Years (1995) Itchycoo Park Elliott Smith XO (1998) Waltz #2 The Smiths The Smiths (1984) Still Ill Son Volt Trace (1995) Loose String The Specials Specials (1979) Blank Expression Phil Spector Back To Mono (1991) The Crystals, "He's Sure The Boy I Love" The Spinners The Best Of The Spinners (1978) Rubberband Man Dusty Springfield Dusty In Memphis (1969) I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore Just One Smile Greatest Hits (1979) I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten Bruce Springsteen The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle (1973) The E Street Shuffle The River (1980) Point Blank Tunnel Of Love (1987) Brilliant Disguise The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) Galveston Bay Squeeze East Side Story (1981) A Woman's World The Stanley Brothers The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers (1996) Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstasy (1973) Show Biz Kids Rod Stewart 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 The Best Of The Stylistics (1975) People Make The World Go `Round June Tabor Abyssinians (1983) A Smiling Shore Howard Tate Get It While You Can (1967) I Learned It All The Hard Way Art Tatum 20th Century Piano Genius (1992) Love For Sale Johnnie Taylor Raw Blues (1968) That's Where It's At Television Marquee Moon (1977) See No Evil The Temptations Anthology (1973) Just My Imagination Ball Of Confusion Joe Tex The Best Of Joe Tex (1965) Love You Save (May Be Your Own) Them The Story Of Them (1997) Don't Look Back Irma Thomas Ruler Of Hearts (1989) Richard And Linda Thompson I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (1974) Calvary Cross Henry Threadgill Easily Slip Into Another World (1987) Black Hands Bejewelled TLC Fanmail (1999) Unpretty Mel Tormé Easy To Remember (1979) They Didn't Believe Me A Tribe Called Quest Anthology (1999) Check The Rhime Tricky Maxinquaye (1995) Overcome Lennie Tristano The New Tristano (1960) Requiem Line Up Turkish Mambo Big Joe Turner The Very Best Of Big Joe Turner (1998) Honey Hush U2 The Unforgettable Fire (1984) Pride (In The Name Of Love) Bad Achtung Baby (1991) One Pop (1997) Please The Undertones The Undertones (1980) Teenage Kicks The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966) Femme Fatale The Verve Urban Hymns (1997) The Drugs Don't Work Neon Wilderness Anne Sofie von Otter 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 The Right Combination: Burning The Midnight Oil (1972) Her And The Car And The Mobile Home Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones (1983) 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six In The Neighborhood Rain Dogs (1985) Jockey Full Of Bourbon Time Frank's Wild Years (1987) Innocent When You Dream Hang On St. Christopher Bone Machine (1992) A Little Rain I Don't Wanna Grow Up Mule Variations (1999) Take It With Me Georgia Rae Filipino Box-Spring Hog Scott Walker Tilt (1995) Farmer In The City Dionne Warwick The Windows Of The World (1968) Walk Little Dolly Muddy Waters More Real Folk Blues (1967) Too Young To Know Doc Watson The Essential Doc Watson (1973) Tom Dooley Anton Webern Complete Works (conductor: Pierre Boulez; 2000) Kurt Weill O Moon Of Alabama (1994) Lotte Lenya, "Wie Lange Noch?" Kenny Wheeler with Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Dave Holland Angel Song (1997) The Who My Generation (1965) The Kids Are Alright Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy (1971) Substitute Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits (1978) I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998) Drunken Angel Sonny Boy Williamson The Best Of Sonny Boy Williamson (1986) Your Funeral My Trial Help Me Jesse Winchester Jesse Winchester (1970) Quiet About It Black Dog Payday Wings Band On The Run (1973) Let Me Roll It Hugo Wolf Lieder (soloist: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; 2000) Alles Endet, Was Entstehet Bobby Womack The Best Of Bobby Womack (1992) Harry Hippie Stevie Wonder Talking Book (1972) I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) Innervisions (1973) Living For The City Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) You Haven't Done Nothin' Betty Wright The Best Of Betty Wright (1992) Clean Up Woman The Baby Sitter The Secretary Robert Wyatt Mid-Eighties (1993) Te Recuerdo Amanda Lester Young Ultimate Lester Young (1998) The Man I Love Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) Down By The River After The Gold Rush (1970) Birds Time Fades Away (1973) Don't Be Denied On The Beach (1974) Ambulance Blues Freedom (1989) The Ways Of Love Ragged Glory (1990) Fuckin' Up Zamballarana Zamballarana (1997) Ventu 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) High Society (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 Fifties, Volume 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: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era: 1965 - 1968 (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" << >> Vanity Fair, November 2000 Elvis Costello names 500 albums you need. 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