Oh and big ups to the person who listed Bad Religion's Against The Grain. I fucking love that record!

Haha, that comparison never gets old to me. I love it.

sleep - jerusalem
darkthrone - transylvanian hunger
nas - illmatic
monster island czars - escape from monster island
bardo pond - lapsed
the jesus lizard - bang
dj shadow - endtroducing
boards of canada - music has the right to children
zaimph - st
fursaxa - madrigals in duos
acid mothers temple - troubadours from another heavenly world
harmonia - musik von harmonia
the sonora pine - the sonora pine II
the aislers set - the last match

I love that album. It is like Joy Division's "shadowplay" mixed with every Echo and the Bunnymen song ever. Tons of epic guitar overdubs. Amazing album. Everything else they did sucked though..

Ten Jazz LP's for Rob Instigator to love forever


Miles Davis - Birth of The Cool
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & Sinner Lady
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Herbie Hancock - V.S.O.P. the Quintet
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction

Very nice list, haven't heard everything in it but Science Fiction and Somethin' Else are some of the best jazz albums I've heard !

interesting Rob. A lot of good records, though not a lot of my picks. BIRTH OF THE COOL is the cat's balls though. KIND OF BLUE is great as well. I'm not all that into SKETCHES myself.

Monk was the shiz thouhg. Who cares what record? They're all brilliant (corners).

With yr tastes, I can't believe there's no Trane in there.

What's interesting is how many of these bands I've never heard of. I suspect that they are mostly from the nineties. I think Sonic Youth maybe the only band to escape the eighties. Just a bunch of one hit wonders for the most part or two chords 8 albums otherwise known as Utwo.

who are you talking about??

I do love me some 'Trane but I frankly listen more to his work with Miles in the early quintet than to his solo stuff.
I do have 4-6 of his solo records and they are all good.

thelonious is the shit though, any album is choice

Many of the bands listed that I don't know I'm guessing are from the nineties. The fact that I'm 57 it surprises me how much I've missed.

bands in the eighties where mostly one hit wonders other than Sonic Youth and U2 who only played 2 chords on 8 albums.

Is that clear for you?

it's still pretty vague since you're not naming bands.

in no order

Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse"
SubHumAnS "The Day the Country Died"
Bob Marley "Natty Dread"
Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus "Nyabhingi"
deftones "Around the Fur"
sleater-kinney "hot rock"
black sabbath "Vol IV"
jimi hendrix "electric ladyland"
nirvana "in utero"
pink floyd "dark side of the moon (live)"

Trane-wise please tell me you have MY FAVORITE THINGS???

show me the cover of this album so I know what yr talking about?

awesome list

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monster island czars - escape from monster island (YES! YES! YES! Most ppl don't get HOW f'ing amazing this album is. Do you have the 2 MONSTA MIX albums that X-Ray put out? They're basically 2 more albums by this same MIC lineup and others. This was THEEE best MIC lineup. Sad it disolved)

I'm guessing it's a bootleg recording from their 1975 tour. I have one from June 18, 1975 at the Boston Garden which I was fortunate to attend and to this day is one of the top 3 shows I have ever witnessed.

its the Pulses disc two

oh word. I don't have that one. I should check it.

I have

Settin the pace
Lush Life
Blue Train
Giant Steps
My Favorite Things
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
Ascension


I also have these where Coltrane plays w/

(Miles Davis)
Round bout Midnight
Cookin'
Steamin'
Workin'
Miles & Monk at Newport
Kind of Blue

(Thelonious Monk)
Monk's Music
Thelonious Himself


and assorted live stuff...

I love me some Trane, just could not narrow it down to include in the top 10, even though he plays on several of my picks.

Rob, I think you and I have some very overlapped jazz collections.

Kind of a safe list based on older favourites. Most of my albums I haven't listened to in long time. No idea how I feel about lots of stuff I liked years and years ago. And I haven't really acquired new music either thanks to the lack of money or reluctancy of buying CDs these days. I very rarely bother to download anything either.


Bad moon rising
Spiderland
In utero
Lapsed
Two nuns and a pack mule
Junkyard
Grandeur of hair
Chart pimp (Although I am come might be Part Chimp at their best, but I don't actually own it, thus it's not on the list)
Dopethrone
Duh, the big city

That's probably the noise album that has affected me the most. I bought it from the merch table right after his performance four years ago, that might have something to do with it.

I wouldn't list it though as I'm not very avid harsh noise / power electronics listener.

Goslings aceness Phlegmscope. I've played that record so much I'm in need of a new copy.
Rob - miles/coltrane also a nice touch.

I prefer Prurient's ''Black Vase''. Still, a cool choice Johnny.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Stereolab - Dots & Loops
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
Slint - Spiderland
Ride - Nowhere
The Fall - Hex
Sebadoh - Bakesale
(Urusei) Yatsura - We Are...
Wedding Present - Bizarro

Urusei Yatsura! And you picked the right record. You, sir, can come around for tea any time you like.

Bad Beach - Cut It Off
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
Mark Perry - Snappy Turns
Lsd March - Suddenly Like Flames
Crass - Stations
CCM - Into the Void
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Mob - Let the Tribe Increase

Obviously subject to change

If you guys are into that classic era of American jazz (approx '55 to '67) I would really suggest listening to:

1: Wayne Shorter- Speak No Evil AND Night Dreamer AND Juju
2. Jackie McLean- Demon's Dance
3: Herbie Hancock- Maiden Voyage AND Empyrean Isles
4: Sam Rivers- Fuchsia Swing Song
5: Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane: Live at Carnegie Hall


AND for everyone here, if youre into Sonic Youth (I assume everyone?) then the electric period of Miles Davis is essential:

Thats albums like Live-Evil... Black Beauty... On The Corner... It's About That Time. Most people go for Bitches Brew and that has an amazing atmosphere, but I find the other albums are a bit more coherent.

notice I did not include and Grateful Dead albums, which is because not because they have not been one of the all time greatest bands, rather it is because they do not have very many good albums, their best music did not translate into albums but only LIVE recordings ;)

also my list was MY ten all time albums..

if the list was to be readjusted for cultural/musical impact I would say

Chuck Berry "Chuck Berry Is on Top"
The Velvet Underground "Velvet Underground and Nico"
Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers"
Grateful Dead "Anthem of the Sun"
Black Sabbath "Paranoid"
Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
Bob Marley and the Wailers "Catch A Fire"
Crass "Feeding the 5000"
Nirvana "Nevermind"
Michael Jackson "Off the Wall"

ALSO if youre into the Miles first quintet (with Coltrane, Garland, Chambers, Jones) then get the album MILESTONES.. it's the natural progression of all the work that band had done plus Cannonball Adderley is in the group with Coltrane and they basically battle for the whole album.

props props props to you all!

I implore you to get 'John Coltrane Plays' (the album after 'A Love Supreme'). It's possible my favourite Trane, and is depressingly underloved. Seriously fantastic. At the very least, 'Song of Praise' would likely be my single favourite Trane track if I was forced to pick. Oh, and how do you not have the Monk/Coltrane at the Carnegie hall record?! That's beyond ace.

It's such a great album. What a blast!

Imagine being the person who found that tape in the archives... possibly the greatest live jazz recordings ever

That's extremely difficult.
Excluding classical / contemporary classical which is not at all about albums:

1. John Coltrane - Ascension
2. Charles Mingus - The black saint and the sinner lady
3. Tim Buckley - Starsailor
4. Jazz Composers' Orchestra - s/t
5. K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat - The music of KRT Wasitodiningrat
6. Slint - Spiderland
7. Robert Wyatt - Rock bottom
8. Gamelan Ensemble of STSI Denpasar - Music of the gamelan gong kebyar
9. Ornette Coleman - Free jazz
10. Paul Dolden - L'ivresse de la vitesse

Still, a list of 10 classical releases:
1. Claude Debussy - Préludes, vol. II (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli)
2. Morton Feldman - Durations I-V / coptic light
3. Alfred Schnittke - Symphony #1
4. Charles Ives - Symphony #4
5. Luciano Berio - Orchestral works
6. Bela Bartok - Music for strings, percussions and celesta
7. Per Norgard - Seadrift
8. Samuel Feinberg - Piano sonatas ##1-12
9. Gérard Grisey - Taléa / Vortex temporum
10. Arnold Schoenberg / Anton Webern / Alban Berg - Neue Wiener Schule: die Streichquartette

aarrggh no room left for Boulez Messiaen Ruders Scelsi Nono Ligeti Janacek Saariaho and the others

10 all time favourites in no particular order:

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Les Rallizes Denudes - Heavier Than a Death in the Family
Gate - The Lavender Head 1.1.1.2-2.1.2.2
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
John Coltrane - The Olatunji Concert
Sleep - Dopesmoker
The Stooges - Funhouse
The Dead C - Trapdoor Fucking Exit
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

It doesn't really mean all that much because I could easily make 10 of these.... including top 10's that aren't strictly dudes + Kim Gordon.

I started thinking about a classical 10 and I got so far as going 'there is no fucking way I'm picking just one Feldman piece' before I gave up. What recording of the Bartok do you have? Only I have a 1950s recording that's not the best.

YES!!!!!