I'll probably second-guess myself the minute I hit "send." But hell, I'll
try. These are personal favorites in stream of consciousness order. I
kinda tried to approach this in the "Desert Island" sense, so actually a
vast number of my favorites are not included here. It's just a list of ten
albums I wouldn't want to be without under any circumstances. And I didn't
allow myself any box sets or "everything by..." loopholes, tempting though
that might be.
1. King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic
2. Kip Hanrahan: Desire Develops an Edge
3. American Music Club: Everclear
4. Butthole Surfers: Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac
5. Fairground Attraction: The First of a Million Kisses
6. Power Tools: Strange Meeting
7. bloodcount: Unwound
8. Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come
9. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
10. Claude Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes (Boston Symphony Orchestra / Colin
Davis)
Already there are about 50 other discs vying for inclusion. Sigh...
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
(who would definitely miss 'Workers Playtime' by Billy Bragg, and
'Heartworks' by Carcass, and Roger Norrington's overwhelming
period-instruments Beethoven 9th, and Derek Bailey's 'Drop Me Off at 96th,'
and... and... and... well, and 'The Big Gundown'... can't I have a little
more room in my carry-on when the plane goes down?)
NP: Bill Bruford, "Revel Without a Pause," 'The Sound of Surprise' (DGM)
NR: Kenneth Chalmers, 'Bela Bartok' (Phaidon)
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:32:19 -0800
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com>
Subject: Re: unheard top 10
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:27:37 +0100 "Truyens" wrote:
>
> Lacy plays loads of Monk, Jon..
Are you sure? I remember a soprano player called Steven Lackritz who
used to.
Patrice.
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:40:46 -0800
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Top Ten
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:48:31 -0500 "Steve Smith" wrote:
>
> 3. American Music Club: Everclear
Darn! I am not the only one.
Patrice.
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:46:05 -0500
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Re: Elvis C
>How in the world is Rhino going to improve upon the Ryko series is >what I'm wondering? Two new bonus tracks barely warrant a $5
Maybe the new editions won't be an improvement but assuming the Ryko versions go out of print then that won't matter (except to collectors). If you want "Armed Forces" then Rhino is the only game in town (or at least the US).
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:48:17 -0500
From: wlt4@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Re: unheard top 10
>> Lacy plays loads of Monk, Jon..
>Are you sure? I remember a soprano player called Steven Lackritz who
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 18:01:54
From: "William York" <william_york@hotmail.com>
Subject: well-informed, open-minded people
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<P>>How 'bout it's more interesting than *any * music of<BR>>Mike Patton?<BR><BR>>Top 10s change with the years, but let me note three<BR>>sessions which have stood the test of time and deserve<BR>>to be in *every* thinking music person's collection.<BR>>Very simple:<BR><BR>>Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid)<BR>>The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus (Impulse!)<BR>>Mingus Ah Um -- Charles Mingus(Columbia)</P>
<P>how 'bout, i have all these Mingus albums, and I love them, and have listened to them over and over (more the first two then the third, and also Pithecanthropus .... and several others), AND I have a bunch of stuff Patton is on, and I love that too?? I certainly don't worship Patton, and the discussions of him here (or elsewhere) aren't generally all that interesting, but I should say that plenty of his music would at least qualify as "more interesting" than a lot of people's top ten lists. especially top ten lists that don't mention albums recorded in the last twenty years.</P>
<P>i don't see why "jazz" and "metal" or "rock" have to be mutually exclusive. then again, i doubt that the people making these dismissive statements have actually heard more than a few minutes (seconds??) of the music they are dismissing, so why even bother trying to reason with them??? arrggh. for that, i apologize, people.</P>
<P>on with your day,</P>
<P>wy</P>
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:56:12 -0500
From: Rick Lopez <bb10k@velocity.net>
Subject: Re: Barry Guy *and* TOP TEN MY ASS
on 2/21/01 2:17 PM, Brian Olewnick at olewnick@gis.net puffed
unimpressively:
> It was also a pleasure to meet listers Rick Lopez and Dave Belkin (am I
> getting that last name right?). Hope to see you around town more often.
> We can take in a Yankee game!
What know ye of the depths of my baseball buzz???
Okay, this took me awhile, but it was great to meet you folks time back way
back on the 20th (Brian; Marge Babe; Stevey Smith; Tina Pelikan; Dave of
IbarraWeb; not Jon Abbey...) and to put faces and substance to all these
blocks of anonymous text.
Lopez: "I don't know why, but I pictured Steve Smith as TALL..."
Belkin: "He *writes* tall."
The Crispell gig (my first [!!!] ) was absolutely wonderful, and that's all
the verbiage I'll put to it, because as we all know words fail, so instead
