[Jasper994]

The albums on this list predominately make the list based upon musical merit, but the bulk of them are also well recorded. A few make it on sound quality alone.

Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live Art
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Resurrection
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
Cannonball Adderly - Know What I Mean
Cantus - Let Your Voice Be Heard
Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World
Cowboy Junkies - 'Neath Your Covers, Pt. 1
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Session
Danny Elfman - Nightmare Before Christmas (OST)
Dean Martin - The Capitol Collector's Series - Dean Martin
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Depeche Mode - Violator
Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
Diana Krall - Christmas Songs
Diana Krall - Live in Paris
Disturbed - The Sickness
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Evanescence - Fallen
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Frank Sinatra - Classic Sinatra (His Greatest Performances 1953-1960)
Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger
Infected Mushroom - I'm the Supervisor
Infected Mushroom - The Gathering
Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Alone in Iz World
Jacintha - The Girl From Bossa Nova
James Horner - Titanic OST
Jane Monheit - Taking a Chance on Love
Jesse Cook - Gravity
Jesse Cook - Nomad
Jesse Cook - Tempest
Jewel - Pieces of You
Jewel - Spirit
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Josh Groban - Josh Groban
Josh Groban - Closer
Katie Melua - Call off the Search
Katie Melua - Piece by Piece
Korn - Unplugged
Led Zeppelin - IV
Linkin Park - Meteora
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz - With Guest Elvis Costello
Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Michael Buble - Michael Buble
Michael Buble - Call Me Irresponsible
Michael Jackson - Bad
Michael Jackson - Thriller
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
Nirvana - Unplugged
Nirvana - Nevermind
(The Peter Malick Group Featuring) Norah Jones - New York City
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Olga Kern - Rachmaninov Transcriptions and Corelli Variations
Patricia Barber - Nightclub
Paul Anka - Rock Swings
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Peter Cetera - World Falling Down
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Ray Charles - His Greatest Hits Vol 1
Rebecca Pidgeon - Retrospective
Sade - The Best of Sade
Sarah McLachlan - Mirrorball
Sheryl Crow - The Very Best of Sheryl Crow
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz-Gilberto
Sublime - Sublime
Susan Wong - Just a Little Bossa Nova
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Cure - Galore
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Little Willies - The Little Willies
The Nylons - Perfect Fit
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Tony Bennett - Tony Bennett Sings the Rogers & Hart Songbook

...okay that's my massive list. I skipped country and classical. I'm not a huge classical fan though I enjoy some at times I would hardly be the best person to ask which albums to get. I skipped country because it doesn't seem to be a very popular genre on this board.

 

[CMasten]

Evanescence - Fallen

I had never heard this album before today.. what a great band, and great sounding album. Amy Lee has an incredible voice.

 

[uraflit]

an update on awesome music that i have listened to, and cant let down!

- Orbital
- Al Green
- Yoko Kanno
- did i mention Jesse Cook?
- Keiki Matsui
- Nicholas Gunn
- BT

 

[SR-71Panorama]

Mark Knopfler - Kill To Get Crimson

This is still new, but I was hooked from the first listen. As most viewers here already know, Mark was the leader in the rock band Dire Straits. I will just say he is famous for a reason; the man has TONE. This new solo album isn't so much about solos as it is about 'the broad picture', but he plays with amazing restraint, and wonderful tone. I would most definitely categorize this as an audiophile release. It has a wonderful warm sound, with no bite or sizzle in the guitars, (an all too common problem in my book.) All the vocals and instruments have so much room to breathe. I am particularly taken aback by his slightly reverbish atmospheric playing in many of the songs. It almost sounds Hawaiian or surfish, except the songs tend to have more common chord progressions and/or structures.
In addition, something about this album keeps my close attention for the entire duration; something not always accomplished with Dire Straits, as much as I loved that band.

I buy a lot of music. If I could only buy one album in 2007, this would easily be it, by a country mile.

I give it my strongest possible recommendation.

 

[Demonmnky]

U.N.K.L.E. - Psyence Fiction
DJ Shadow - Entroducing...
The Crystal Method - Vegas
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
RJD2 - Deadringer
Goldfinger - Hang-Ups
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Know How to Party
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Bedlam Ballroom
B.B. King & Eric Clapton - Riding with the King.

 

[epaludo]

Reading this thread, i saw most of the albums remembered are old school. The majority of my music preference come from the past. Most from late 50's up to 90's. Regarding all this, i decided to relate a terrific album that just came out in august 28th. I'm talking about Ben Harper's Lifeline album. It's such a brilliant album and it was recorded during 7 days in Paris. No computer not even pro tools were used during the recordings, as the packaging says. The band ended the tour and recorded the album. Ben wrote and composed all the songs and lyrics. For me, Ben Harper is one of the best artists of world's contemporary music.

1. Ben Harper - Lifeline

 

[terriblepaulz]

I skimmed (and I mean quickly) this thread, and there are some great suggestions for the OP. Sorry if there are repeats. Here's my immediate stream-of-consciousness list, omitting selections I recall from earlier in the thread---

Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Black Sabbath, and Master Of Reality
The Obsessed - The Church Within
Bad Brains - I Against I
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Allman Brothers Band - Live At The Fillmore East
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street, Sticky Fingers, and Let It Bleed
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost
Neu! - Neu! '75 and Neu! 2
Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum
Beck - Odelay
The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks, and The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Various Artists - The Harder They Come Soundtrack
Various Artists - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles
Various Artists - Chess Blues
Various Artists - Nuggets
Various Artists - The Decline Of Western Civilzation Soundtrack
Various Artists - Cooley High Soundtrack
Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted, Blood On The Tracks, and Nashville Skyline
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Big Star - Big Star/#1 Record
Love - Forever Changes
fIREHOSE - Flyin' The Flannel
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Black Uhuru - Red
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model, and My Aim Is True
Suicide - Suicide (1978)
Nirvana - Bleach

OK, back to work now.

 

[uraflit]

Quote:

Originally Posted by epaludo /img/forum/go_quote.gif Reading this thread, i saw most of the albums remembered were old school. The majority of my music preference come from the past. Most from late 50's up to 90's. [/LIST]

i was kinda aiming towards older music, but feel free to throw in new stuff too. theres been many many many great selections on this thread i have yet to even sample!

 

[Lasher]

I've been a Metal Head since ......well.......I don't want to date myself here.....let's just say a long time...lol. One of the best new bands I've heard in ages in a band called Throwdown. Their new album Venom & Tears is top notch. If you were ever a fan of Pantera then you will love this Album. Just my .02

Lasher

 

[kunuggs]

I really can't remember all that has been suggested so far. Here are my suggestions:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Van Morrison - Moondance
Weezer - Blue
Rage Against the Machine - S/T
Art Blakey - Buhaina's Delight
Bjork - Homogenic
Clifford Brown - At Basin Street
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Fela Kuti - Roforo Fight, Expensive ****, Zombie
Grateful Dead - Live/Dead
John Coltrane - Blue Train, Giant Steps, A Love Supreme, My Fav Things, Interstellar Space
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Lee Morgan - Take 12
Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, Bitches Brew, In A Silent Way, Jack Johnson Sessions
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Nas - Illmatic
Outkast - Aquemini
Paul Simon - Graceland
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellanchollie, Siamese Dream
Beastie Boys - License To Ill
The DOC - No One Can Do It Better
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi, Soft Bulletin
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Ween- Chocolate and Cheese
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Summerteeth
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold, Dead Place
GYBE - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
Sublime - 40oz To Freedom

 

[SR-71Panorama]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SR-71Panorama /img/forum/go_quote.gif ^^ On Carnegie Hall, the first disc tracks 2-4 are now my favorite consecutive 3 tracks on any album of all time. It is also possibly my favorite drum tones of any album of all time.

For anyone interested, I just put up a review of this album on my blog, as found in my signature below

 

[Know Talent]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SR-71Panorama /img/forum/go_quote.gif Mark Knopfler - Kill To Get Crimson This is still new, but I was hooked from the first listen. As most viewers here already know, Mark was the leader in the rock band Dire Straits. I will just say he is famous for a reason; the man has TONE. This new solo album isn't so much about solos as it is about 'the broad picture', but he plays with amazing restraint, and wonderful tone. I would most definitely categorize this as an audiophile release. It has a wonderful warm sound, with no bite or sizzle in the guitars, (an all too common problem in my book.) All the vocals and instruments have so much room to breathe. I am particularly taken aback by his slightly reverbish atmospheric playing in many of the songs. It almost sounds Hawaiian or surfish, except the songs tend to have more common chord progressions and/or structures. In addition, something about this album keeps my close attention for the entire duration; something not always accomplished with Dire Straits, as much as I loved that band. I buy a lot of music. If I could only buy one album in 2007, this would easily be it, by a country mile. I give it my strongest possible recommendation.

Great review! Thanks, I'll be picking this one up shortly

 

[Know Talent]

Based on your description of Knopfler's new release I would suggest you check out Van Morisson's "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/cus...e=UTF8&index=1

It's smoooooooth and definately worthy of audiophile SQ rating

 

[aych]

mines lily comes face to face with chris.
lily chen
chris babida

for all of you non asians out there, chris is a pretty famous producer in the asian hi-fi world =) love the recording on it.

 

[SR-71Panorama]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Know Talent /img/forum/go_quote.gif Based on your description of Knopfler's new release I would suggest you check out Van Morisson's "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart"...

So you're saying I'm inarticulate?

Kidding...
...you gotta admit that is funny

I am in the process of getting the Van Morrison catalog (I am more-or-less attacking key artists by entire catalog now, instead of an occasional album here or there)

I will order it next week.

From Know Talent: Quote:

Great review! Thanks, I'll be picking this one up shortly

You're welcome

Actually I just got Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris All The Roadrunning, and Mark Knopfler's Shagri-La. Haven't listened to both yet, but I am also loving what I've heard, and may review them in time. I have the other Mark Knopfler albums on order too.

I know alot of loving music is about the moment, and timing, but I think I am loving Mark's solo stuff even more than Dire Straits

I didn't know that was possible, lol!