Thursday, 26 November 2009

Best records ever

Trite and predictable but I can't resist listing my best records ever (not just albums, since lots are classical).

Pop & rock & one jazz

Roughly anti-chronological

Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
Bahamut - Hazmat Modine
Gulag Orkestar - Beirut
Elephant - White Stripes
What's the Time, Mr Wolf - Noisettes
Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds . Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen
X&Y - Coldplay
Collected - Massive Attack
Nevermind - Nirvana
OK Computer - Radiohead
I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
Homem Comum -  Caetano Veloso
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
London Calling - The Clash
Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout
Hallowed Ground - Violent Femmes
Almost Blue - Elvis Costello
Dread Beat an Blood - Linton Kwesi Johnson
The Great Van Morrison - Van Morrison
Broken English -  Marianne Faithfull
The Roxy and Elsewhere (LIve) - Frank Zappa
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
Next - Alex Harvey Band
The Best of Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin 1 to IV - Led Zeppelin (4 albums)
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Close to the Edge -
Yes
Live at Budokan - Bob Dylan
Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
The Essential Miles Davis - Miles Davis

Classical
These are pieces rather than albums as such.

Britten - War Requiem
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring, Petrushka
Shostakovich - 5th, 8th and 10th symphonies, cello concertos, preludes & fugues for piano
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra, violin concertos
Mahler - all symphonies, Das Lied von der Erde
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Debussy - La Mer, L'Après-midi d'un Faune
Beethoven - 7th and 9th Symphonies, Piano Sonatas
Mozart - Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Magic Flute, Piano Concerto 20, Symphonies 38 to 41, Clarinet Concerto
Bach - Well Tempered Clavier, Cello Suites, B-minor Mass, double violin concerto
A Song for Francesca - Music in Italy 1330-1430 - Gothic Voices
Vivaldi - Mandolin Concertos, Four Seasons
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Brahms - German Requiem, 3rd symphony
Franck - Symphony in D minor
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Dvorak - Cello Concerto, New World Symphony
Sibelius - 2nd symphony
Rachmaninov - 2nd piano concerto






2 comments:

  1. Very good selection in general, but shouldn't Thelonious Monk be up there? or Coltrane? disappointingly, not much jazz!

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  2. Fair comment, mvb... I actually wish I weren't so ignorant about jazz because when I hear it I usually enjoy it. . I'll add in Weather Report album, if that counts. Perhaps you or someone else could recommend some classic records for me to listen to?

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