Your all time top 10

[Dan Warburton]

And of course Jon, noone listens (properly) to anything for six hours a day - more like two, three max, for me if I'm lucky. I reckon he (he? I'm assuming it's a he - somehow I can only imagine collectors of anything as guys.. women have more sense) would need more like 150 years. I did these silly calculations myself back in 07 when I "retired" (temporarily) from PT. Very depressing.
Anyway, this is not the thread for that. Nice to see those Beethoven Piano Sonatas on someone else's list. Can't imagine anyone enjoying Unami / Mattin's Attention though

[Jason Brogan]

Nice to see those Beethoven Piano Sonatas on someone else's list.

The Pollini recording is my favorite, but I'm quite fond of the recent Schiff recording on ECM, and I've loved Brendel (his Beethoven and Schubert) and Schnabel for some time.

[Adrian]

I'll just type in some that come to mind here at work

Scott Walker - Tilt
David Sylvian - Blemish
Mark Hollis - s/t
Daniel Lanois - Acadie

Bass Communion - Ghosts on Magnetic Tape
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma
Supersilent - 9
KLF - Chillout

Arvo Pärt - Alina
Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts
Morton Feldman - Last Composition
Frey/Beuger - Duos

Nik Bärtsch' Ronin - Llyria
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Circulasione Totale Orchestra - Bandwidth
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

+Minus - A Rainy Koran Verse
Malfatti/Filip - Imaoto
Akiyama/Nakamura/Sugimoto/Wastell - Foldings
John Wall - Cphon

Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey
Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook

Sugababes - Overloaded (the singles)

That's 25 - enjoy!

[Alastair]

1. Chumbawamba & Credit To The Nation - Enough Is Enough
2. Madder Rose - Swim
3. Huggy Bear - Her Jazz
4. P.J.Harvey - Rid Of Me
5. Stereolab - French Disco
6. Voodoo Queens - Supermodel Superficial
7. Sebadoh - Soul And Fire
8. Breeders - Cannonball
9. Palace Brothers - Ohio River Boat Song
10. Eggs - Government Administrator

(erm, it's the top ten of John Peel's festive 50 for 1993 and it's my all-time top ten list because it has Eggs in it. I didn't know anyone else in England had even heard of Eggs. And that was a great song)

[Charon]

it's my all-time top ten list because it has Eggs in it.

[johnson]

Oh, this is always fun.

01. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
02. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
03. Can - Tago Mago
04. Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
05. Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice Of America
06. Einstürzende Neubauten - ½ Mensch
07. Pan Sonic - Kulma
08. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
09. Autechre - Confield
10. Whitehouse - Racket

Funny, no free improv there at all but these are quite possibly the ten records that have had the biggest impact on me.

- noone listens (properly) to anything for six hours a day...

This is actually quite possible for someone who is both antisocial and unemployed. There was certainly a time in my life when I spent more than six hours every day properly listening. These days I probably get in two or three hours of proper listening on average (and a couple more of decidedly improper listening).

edit: That list - excepting #10 - is comprised of the staples of my childhood and adolescence. For contrast - and because I really love list-making - I'll indulge myself and do a list of ten that have been very inspirational in recent years:

01. Moniek Darge - Soundies
02. David Kirby - Cittacaura
03. Greg Davis & Jeph Jerman – Ku
04. Helena Gough - With What Remains
05. Tatsuya Nakatani - Abiogenesis
06. Wade Matthews / Stéphane Rives - Arethusa
07. Vanessa Rossetto - Dogs In English Porcelain
08. Birgit Ulher - Radio Silence No More
09. Sawako - Bitter Sweet
10. Cindytalk - Hold Everything Dear

[Dohol]

Kate Bush..The Hounds of Love

Anton Webern.. The Complete Works

Xenakis.. Chamber Works 1955-1990

George Crumb.. Makrokosmos III

Buttholesurfers.. Creamcorn from the socket of Davis

King Crimson.. Larks Tongue in Aspic

Can.. Tago Mago

Miles Davis.. Agharta

P J Harvey.. Rid of Me

Derek Bailey.. Lot 74



But this is all old shit...if you came back in a couple of hours this list would be totally different..

[rostasi]

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?

Yup, it's been pretty overwhelming for some time now.
Good to see the variety in the lists posted.
I hope F&B can get to listen to many of these using his Last.FM player.

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Now playing: Henri Chopin - La Civilisation Du Papier (1975)

[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?

Yup, it's been pretty overwhelming for some time now.

Well, Rod, best of luck to you! I'm overwhelmed with barely five thousand (think that's about right - I've been thinning out the collection over the past year and can't be arsed to add them up) and thoroughly miserable at the prospect of probably going to the grave without being able to listen to most of them ever again. Meanwhile, you're right, fun thread

Buttholesurfers.. Creamcorn from the socket of Davis
King Crimson.. Larks Tongue in Aspic

Great pair there.

1. Chumbawamba & Credit To The Nation - Enough Is Enough
2. Madder Rose - Swim
3. Huggy Bear - Her Jazz
4. P.J.Harvey - Rid Of Me
5. Stereolab - French Disco
6. Voodoo Queens - Supermodel Superficial
7. Sebadoh - Soul And Fire
8. Breeders - Cannonball
9. Palace Brothers - Ohio River Boat Song
10. Eggs - Government Administrator
(erm, it's the top ten of John Peel's festive 50 for 1993 and it's my all-time top ten list because it has Eggs in it. I didn't know anyone else in England had even heard of Eggs. And that was a great song)

Richmond VA's finest. I remember that Festive 50 very well - that Chumbawamba disc got some pretty heavy airplay that Christmas. Think I can do without the Sebadoh though.

[surfer]

1. Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land (Asch Recordings Vol. 1)
2. Minor Threat - Complete Discography
3. Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow
4. Furtwangler Conducts Beethoven: The Wartime Legacy
5. Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
6. Gastr Del Sol - Camofleur
7. Giorgio Gaslini - Gaslini Plays Monk
8. The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
9. Dimi Mint Abba - Moorish Music of Mauritania
10. Mike Adcock / Clive Bell - Sleep It Off
11. Martin Siewert / Martin Brandlmayr - Too Beautiful To Burn
12. Sibelius - Symphony No. 4 (Colin Davis - Boston Symphony Orchestra)
13. Waco Brothers - Do You Think About Me?
14. Vienna Art Orchestra - The Minimalism of Erik Satie
15. Milton Nascimento / Lo Borges - Clube Da Esquina
16. Franz Koglmann - L'Heure Bleue
17. Big Youth - Dread Locks Dread
18. Burkhard Stangl - Taku Unami - I Was
19. Clusone Trio - Rara Avis
20. Flipper - Generic Flipper

That'll do pig.

[yonhosago]

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

Luigi Nono Prometeo [Ingo Metzmacher, Emi classics]
Bernd Alois Zimmermann Requiem für einen jungen Dichter [Wergo]
MIMEO The hands of Caravaggio
Taku Unami Malignitat
Keith Rowe The room
Barzábal, Kaplan, Charles, Pallandre Patagonia [Three chairs recs]
Varèse Amériques/Ives Fourth Symphony [von Dohnányi, Cleveland Orchestra]
Circle Paris concert
Sun Ra & his Intergalactic Research Orchestra Black myth/Out in space
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of invention Uncle meat
Anton Webern Cantatas, Variationen opus 30, Das Augenblick [Boulez, DG]

(I should own more of my formative and essential listening experiences)

[leroysghost]

ten is a pretty impossible number

but surprised no one's mentioned Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music Vol. 1-4

[mono tony]

descendents - somery
frank black - teenager of the year
gastr del sol - upgrade & afterlife
moore/surgal/winant - piece for jetsun dolma
sonic youth - experimental jet set
the magic sound of fenn o'berg
brotzmann sextet - nipples
us maple - acre thrills
aphex twin - drukqs
autechre - amber

doesn't really reflect my listening nowadays, but these are big for me.

[j-p]

in no particular order:

Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing
Keith Hudson & Soul Syndicate - Nuh Skin Up
David Tudor - Music for Piano
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
r/s - One (Snow Mud Rain)
Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
John Wiese - Soft Punk

[Gaendaal]

Always find these things ridiculous to complete as it changes from minute to minute, but...

The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey

YES!

[Arvo]

T. Rex - Electric Warrior (the desert island record for me without question, Bang A Gong and all)
Ennio Morricone - The Thing
Beethoven - Allegretto from 7th Symphony
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Nilsson Sings Newman
Angels of Light - New Mother
Eno - Warm Jets
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
The Stooges - S/T
GANDALF - s/t

[Alastair]

Think I can do without the Sebadoh though.

I can always do without Sebadoh.

[aek51745]

Tough one:

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
AMM: Laminal
Amalgam: Wipe Out
Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is a Rare Thing
Paul Dunmall & Paul Rogers: Folks History
Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Leucocyte
Bobby Previte: Weather Clear Track Fast
Weather Report: Live in Tokyo
Joe Zawinul: Brown Street
Henry Threadgill/Air: Air Lore
Alex von Schlippenbach: Monk's Casino

Oops that's eleven. Oh well. Got to add:

Keith Rowe & John Tilbury: Duos For Doris
Atomic: Retrograde
Miles Davis: Cellar Door Sessions
Mujician: There Is No Going Back Now
Bobby Previte: Pan Atlantic
Cecil Taylor: Two T's For a Lovely T
Uri Caine: Gustav Mahler in Toblach
Herbie Nichols: Mosaic Complete Blue Note
Duke Ellington: Fargo Concert

So many more, plus The Beatles, Cream hey this is an impossible task. Jack Bruce Songs for a Tailor!

Funny, looking at my list if you count multiple disk sets there's way more than ten. But if pressed I just couldn't go wrong with any of the above.

Alan

[surfer]

ten is a pretty impossible number

but surprised no one's mentioned Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music Vol. 1-4

That'd make my next ten, along with Dick Gaughan's Handful of Earth, Gruppo Folk Internazionale's Canti Anarchici di Pietro Gori, Alva Noto / Ryuichi Sakamoto's Vrioon, John Fahey's Blind Joe Death, George Lewis' Homage to Charles Parker, Maderna's Oboe Concertos, Webern's Chamber Music for Strings (Boulez), Rokia Traore's Bowmboi, and Such's The Issue at Hand.

That's 30.

[negative potential]

Only ten? Being limited to a number like that is really good for forcing you to focus only on the stuff that you absolutely would not want to go without listening to.

In no particular order, since they're all equally essential:

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

2. Gang of Four - Entertainment

3. Public Image Limited - Second Edition (or Metal Box, depending on whichever version you own)

4. Wayne Shorter - Juju

5. Miles Davis - Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel (Boxed sets count as one album right?)

6. John Coltrane - Complete Atlantic Recordings (Boxed sets still count, right?)

7. Bach, Brandenburg Concertos, as played by the Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin

8. Morton Feldman, All Piano pieces, played by John Tilbury

9. AMM - Newfoundland

10. The Raincoats - The Raincoats