Your all time top 10

[F&B]

Within all genres, what are the 10 best albums you own?

Looking for inspiration for some essential listening experiences.

[Dan Warburton]

Hahaha, I can't resist daft questions like this one (much more fun that trying to pick a Best Of for the year in question). Tried a Top 40 eight years ago, which I'm still more or less happy with (though the exclusion of Parliament / Funkadelic is utterly unforgiveable)
http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magaz ... top40.html
But, um, perhaps you're looking for more "challenging" music?

[Ricci]

Jotting down ten in thirty seconds, without thinking. Maybe not the "best" - but they are all "essential". No preferential order.

GENESIS – Trespass
FRANK ZAPPA – Joe’s Garage (entire set)
STEVE REICH – Music For 18 Musicians
PHILIP GLASS – Music With Changing Parts
STEPHEN SCOTT – Vikings Of The Sunrise
PHILL NIBLOCK – Touch Three
ELIANE RADIGUE – Trilogie De La Mort
KLAUS WIESE – Space
ROLAND KAYN – Tektra
MIRROR - Front Row Centre
Reserves:
HENRY COW - In Praise Of Learning
HATFIELD AND THE NORTH - Hatfield And The North
NATIONAL HEALTH - Complete
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH - Atavachron
MADONNA - True Blue (...just kidding!)

[cleanzero]

MADONNA - True Blue (...just kidding!)

It was a more than decent pop album



However, I can't really list my top ten, but only some of the records that for several reasons changed the way I look at music, like

Torture Garden - Naked City
Reign In Blood - Slayer
Dean Roberts - All Cracked Medias
Taku Sugimoto - Italia
Alvin Lucier - I'm sitting in a room
This Heat - Deceit

[Ricci]

It was a more than decent pop album

Sure, but I am quite doubtful about Madonna's "essential" status as far as the needs of the thread's initiator are concerned.

[presquepartout]

in no order!

Big Blood - Space Gallery Jan. 27, 2007 / Sahara Club Jan. 28, 2007 (2007)
The Ronettes - Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica (1964)
Taku Sugimoto - Opposite (1998)
Nikos Veliotis, Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinoshita & Taku Unami - Quartet (2005)
Zhou Xuan - The Legendary Chinese Hits (1992)
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (2006)
Ludwig van Beethoven - The Late Beethoven Quartets, Vol. 2 (Lindsay String Quartet) (1994)
Nmperign & Jason Lescalleet - Love Me Two Times (2006)
Franz Schubert - Quintett C-dur (Schiff, cello/ Alban Berg Quartett) (1983)
Arnold Schoenberg / Alban Berg / Anton Webern - Neue Wiener Schule: Die Streichquartette (LaSalle Quartett) (1971)

[J.F.]

Melt-Banana: Charlie
King Crimson: USA
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Gunter Hampel: 8th of July
Manfred Schoof: European Echoes
Peter Brötzmann: Machine Gun
Schlippenbach Trio: Detto Fra Di Noi
Steve Lacy: The Owl
Luigi Nono: probably the collegno-CD which includes "Varianti"
Le Domaine musical: 1956-1967 Volume 1 (crisp historical analogue recordings focussing on 50s/early 60s compositions of Stockhausen, Pousseur, Berio, Boulez, Messiaen etc)

- not necessarily "the best" albums by those artists, but some which have a certain significance to my own musical development

[fslmy]

my suggestion would be to create your own essential listening experiences as it can be very subjective with experimental music.

[FifePsy]

No particular order and guaranteed to have missed something:

Morton Feldman - String Quartet II
Trilogie de la Mort - Eliane Radigue
I'm The One - Annette Peacock
Hex Induction Hour - The Fall
Uncle Meat - Frank Zappa
Butch - The Geraldine Fibbers
Get Up With It - Miles Davis (Or preferably The Complete On the Corner Sessions)
Marquee Moon - Television
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud
The Necks - Drive By.

Could also have included something by Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Patti Smith, John Coltrane, Henry Cow, This Heat, Super Furry Animals, Steve Reich.............

[Yii]

Hose - Hose
Kaeru-moku - Shukan
Jackie Mclean - Capuchin Swing
Jeph Jerman - Harvester Ants
Graham Lambkin - Salmon Run

[Miguel Prado]

today....

The Stooges - Funhouse
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Radu Malfatti - s/t (die temperatur der debeutung)
Mattin / Taku Unami - Attention
Taku Sugimoto - Opposite
Nico - Desertshore
This Heat - Deceit
Morton Feldman - All piano - London Hall
D. Shostakovich/ Borodin Quartet - Complete Quartets
The Units - Ready For The House

[F&B]

my suggestion would be to create your own essential listening experiences as it can be very subjective with experimental music.

Yours being....

[F&B]

Thanks for all the suggestions. As expected there are tons of artists to check out I haven't heard about, and now I know at least someone is totally devoted to this record, so that must be some kind of guarantee that it could be very good!

[Jason Brogan]

Ludwig van Beethoven, The Late Piano Sonatas (Pollini) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Morton Feldman, For Philip Guston [Dog w/ a Bone]
Annette Krebs and Taku Unami, motubachii [Erstwhile Records]
Luigi Nono, Fragmente, Hay que caminar [Discques Montaigne]
Michael Pisaro, mind is moving I [Edition Wandelweiser]
Keith Rowe and John Tilbury, Duos for Doris [Erstwhile Records]
Franz Schubert, The Last Four Quartets (Quartetto Italiano) [Philips] - Also the complete sets by the Auryn and Melos quartets
Anton Webern, Complete Webern (Boulez) [Deutsche Grammophon]
Christian Wolff, Exercises [Hat]
Iannis Xenakis, Orchestral Works and Chamber Music [Col Legno]

[mudd]

there's already this thread: http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=121

but it's pretty old and out of data. lots of stuff on my list i don't care very much about anymore.

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[Steve Reynolds]

I will try this completely off the cuff choosing a few from the time and space of my 51 years and from different musical directions....all of which I am still interested in.....but varies depending on the mood or what I might yearn for or maybe what I see live.....

1) Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
2) Thelonious Monk: Monk's Music
3) Can: Tago Mago or Future Days or Ege Bamyasi
4) Rowe, Sachiko M, Toshi Nakamura, Oshihide: 3 CD live
5) Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted
6) AMM: Live in Allentown
7) Joe Maneri: Coming Down The Mountain
8) SME: A new Distance
9) Evan Parker, John Edwards & Mark Sanders: The Two Seasons
10) Stooges: Fun House

[rostasi]

This is nearly impossible with a collection that runs into the six figures,
but these were ultra-major stepping (s)tones that are still the top five
(and actually in descending order - amazingly so):

• Karlheinz Stockhausen: Hymnen
• Pierre Henry - Apocalypse de Jean
• Iannis Xenakis: Bohor (LP version!)
• François Bayle: Toupie Dans Le Ciel
• John Cage & Maryanne Amacher: Empty Words/Close Up

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Now playing: Parviz Meshkatian - Chaharmezrab

[Nabozo]

6 figures?

I'm new here, didn't want to but I may as well begin in this thread. So mine would be (not sure the list even makes sense to me)

Joanna Newsom - Ys
The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus
Belle and Sebastian - If you're feeling sinister
Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
Björk - Medulla
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - L'autre cap
Kazumi Nikaido - Mata Otoshimashitayo
Big Blood & The Bleeding Hearts - s/t
The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum
Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello

Reserve: The Sirens Wave (Nalle), Medasi (Haki R. Madhubuti and Nation: Afrikan Reveration Arts Ensemble), Dolmen Music (Meredith Monk), The Unquiet Grave (Andrew Rowan Summers), Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures: Taken From the Vaults, Vol. 1 (VA), Aquemini (Outkast), How to measure a planet (The Gathering)...

[Dan Warburton]

This is nearly impossible with a collection that runs into the six figures

Am I reading that right? You have more than one hundred thousand records / tapes / cds? Who are you, Paul Mawhinney?

[jon abbey]

doing the math on that, 100,000 items (at a minimum), let's say 40 minutes on average, that's 4 million minutes of music. at six hours of listening every single day, that would take someone 45 years just to listen to everything once.