Your 5 favorite albums

Renaissance are such a good band. I might go with Live at Carnegie Hall as my pick.

Yeeeah, Cell Scape

I think that the later Melt Banana albums might be more solid but it really comes down to Cell Scape having such an exciting sequence at the start.

Art Tatum & Ben Webster - Art Tatum meets Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins encounters Ben Webster
Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster - Gerry Mulligan meets Ben Webster
Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson - Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson
Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges - The Complete 1960 jazz Cellar Session

i much prefer "The Brute" as a collaborator rather than a leader, he has such a godlike natural style he doesn't need to burdened with anything else imo

Cell Scape rules

Renaissance's first line up are also pretty decent.
They were initially a Yardbirds spin off but I don't think any of that line up lasted into the better known one from the 70s.
Keith Relf and his sister started looking into blending stuff together with classical and folk influences alongside Jim Mcarty the Yardbirds drummer.

I have a Sanctuary compilation 2cd that has some nice stuff on it.

TS: Artist name - Album title VS. Album title - Artist name

album title - artist name

another 5

in/casino/out - at the drive-in
feels - animal collective
antics - interpol
the air force - xiu xiu
yesterday's work - ecstatic sunshine

Cornford/Rodgers - Boring Embroidery
Lambkin/Lescalleet - Air Supply
Olivia Block - Heave to
Skogen - Ist Gefallen in den schnee
Moore/Surgal/Winant - Piece for Jetsun Dolma

Donald Fagen – The Nightfly
ABC – The Lexicon Of Love
Earth Wind & Fire – Raise
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
The Young Gods – L'Eau Rouge

oh look here's another five:

can ege bamyasi
the comsat angels sleep no more
king sunny ade bobby
the necks sex
missy 'misdemeanor' elliott da real world

Another week, another 5 favorite albums:

The God Machine - Songs From the Second Storey
The Stylistics - Round 2
Sonic Youth - Sister
Tool - AEnima
The Party of Helicopters - Please Believe It

This week

Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
Elliott Smith - either/or
Bruce Springsteem - Darkness on the Edge of Town
the Beatles - the Beatles
Stevie Wonder - Innervisisons

All time probably:

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
New Order - Technique
Daft Punk - Discovery
The Avalanches - Since I Left You

jon hassell - aka / darbari / java
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92
yellow magic orchestra - bgm
ryuichi sakamoto - esperanto
b-52s - bouncing off the satellites

Oum Kalthoum - Robaeyat el Khayam
Sun Ra - Out There a Minute
Willie Rosario - Salsa Machine
Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana
X - Wild Gift

the comsat angels sleep no more

this has been creeping upwards into my top 10... so great, at the edge of despondent post-JD goth but with so much clarity and life. and the massive drumming is incredible. just a spectacular job all around (production, songwriting, playing, singing).

Eurythmics In The Garden
Birthday party Junkyard
Public Enemy Fear Of A Black Planet
Swans Various Failures
Funkadelic s/t

yellow magic orchestra - bgm

um this one's creeping up there too! it pushes the boundaries of experimentation w/r/t synth pop while remaining perfectly accessible. not a single unnecessary note.

absolutely - I always liked that album but somehow during one 45-minute drive the whole thing completely clicked for me and I've never heard it the same way since

definitely checking out the other albums on that list now

Aka/Darbari/Java is so good, nothing else quite like it

b-52s - bouncing off the satellites

This is an interesting opinion, one I don't think is widely shared.

Aka/Darbari/Java is so good, nothing else quite like it

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for sure, a hugely inspirational album to me, from a creative standpoint

xpost Yeah, generally Bouncing off the Satellites is really underrated but I could never put it ahead of The B-52's, Cosmic Thing or Wild Planet.

BOtS has an emotional resonance for me that i don't get with their other albums

Fine, okay I'll do another one:

The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol.1
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Jon Hopkins & King Creosote - Diamond Mine

Humble Pie - As Safe As Yesterday Is
Humble Pie - st
Dru Down - Can You Feel Me
Grouper - Violet Replacement
Barna Howard - st

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
Tori Amos - From the Choir Girl Hotel
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen

90s alt-rock edition:

The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Polvo - Celebrate the New Dark Age
Hazel - Toreador of Love
Helium - The Dirt of Luck
Codeine - The White Birch

Television - Marquee Moon
Owen Pallett - Heartland
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Source Direct - Exorcise the Demons
Elliott Smith - XO

American Music Club - Mercury
American Music Club - Everclear
American Music Club - United Kingdom
Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining

Just remembering how great they are.

Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook - Sleeps With Fishes

Pharaoh Sanders You Gotta Have Freedom
Them The Story Of
Burning Spear Marcus Garvey.
Poky Erickson Longbranch Saloon
Modern Lovers s/t

Marcus Garvey is a sick album. I haven't listened to it for years - will probably soulseek it later.

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Roky Erickson Longbranch Saloon
& Pharaoh Sanders You've Got To Have Freedom (especially disc 1)

& yeah Marcus Garvey really is something else. I always found it mixed well inot Can and electric Miles davis among other stuff.
Got a weird spaciousness.

The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 1
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 2
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 3
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 4
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 5

Honourable mention:
The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968 Disc 6

Cecil Taylor, Air Above Mountains
Cecil Taylor, The Cecil Taylor Unit
Cecil Taylor, 3 Phasis
Cecil Taylor, Live in the Black Forest
Cecil Taylor, One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye

are those really your favorites

Today they are.

:-)

Henry Threadgill 5. I'm not familiar with his Air stuff so probably glaring omissions, but he's a marvel imo.

Henry Threadgill Sextett - Rag, Bush and All
Henry Threadgill Sextett - You Know The Number
Henry Threadgill & Very Very Circus - Spirit of Nuff .... Nuff
Henry Threadgill - Too Much Sugar For a Dime
Henry Threadgill & Make A Move - Where's Your Cup

OK if we're all just taking the piss now here's the last 5 albums I recently enjoyed more than most:

The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Efterklang - Parades
...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead - Tao of the Dead
A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Ruins - Tzomborgha

I prefer Threadgill's non-Air stuff myself. All those albums are great.

He is so great, I only just got into him last year with his zooid In for a penny album, which I thought was pretty great. But much of his 90's/00's output is amazing.

black dice - beaches & canyons
hole - celebrity skin
cassie - s/t
ruff sqwad - guns & roses vol. 2
meat puppets - II

^^ top of my head. today.

Ruins - Tzomborgha

ooooh, yeah!

I mean, some days I swear Ruins is the greatest thing on the planet

Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Moose - Live A Little, Love A Lot
Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It

jefferson airplane - surrealistic pillow
jefferson airplane - after bathing at baxters
jefferson airplane - crown of creation
jefferson airplane - volunteers
jefferson airplane - bless its pointed little head