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John Williams' STAR WARS, Miklós Rózsa's BEN HUR, Jerry Goldsmith's CHINATOWN, Elmer Bernstein's THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN… Morricone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST... Maurice Jarre's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA... just some of the few film scores that are great and well reputed beyond just these waters of film score fans. Even non-film score listeners usually know that these are some great film scores and chances are one or more of these scores would be on many a "greatest film scores of all times" list.
But all these various "now playing“ threads show that we listen to a lot of music besides film music (or at least some of us here do), and I'd be interested in your opinion what the truly great albums are in whatever other genres of music you enjoy and collect. And by "truly great" I mean not just albums that you like, but albums that you burn for, albums that you think are so great that they have an appeal beyond the usual genre boundaries.
In other words, if you like Rap/Hip-Hop, what are Rap/Hip-Hop albums that are so great, they are representative of the artistic zenith of what the genre has to offer? Or soul... or funk... or punk?
Same with country music, blues, heavy metal, techno, prog rock, whatever genre you want (except of course film music :-D ). I am interested in your opinion what some of the greatest albums are that you ever heard... stuff like The Beatles' WHITE ALBUM or Michael Jackson's THRILLER or Miles Davis' KIND OF BLUE, stuff that may be up for the eternal hall of fame in their respective genres. But could also be something completely unknown that SHOULD be well known because it belongs to the pantheon of "greatest" in your opinion.
Obviously, we've had many lists of the greatest film scores, western scores, science fiction scores, et cetera, but now it's about all the other genres of music.
So, the question is:
What do you consider albums that are among the greatest albums of all time in whatever genre other than film music? Here is your chance.
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MCMXC a.D. by Enigma.
30 years on...still the ultimate shag music ever.
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I don't listen to a lot of music outside of soundtracks but I can think of a few-
Yanni: Night at the Acropolis. Man that concert rocked and I played that album to death a max volume growing up.
Rick Wakeman- The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Another album that I loved to play at max volume.
Did Thor hack Soliums account!?
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You'd be better off with favourite rather than greatest. I could list my favourite albums, but it would only mean something to me.
Of course, these things are always subjective, but I really intended this more as asking for "greatest" than just favorites, in the sense that you should list those albums that you think are more than just personal favorites and that you think have or according to you should have some sort of lasting significance beyond that. Or albums that you consider truly outstanding! Albums you think will still be listened to when you are long gone.. (Or should be listened to. :-) ) Something like that. That said, naturally there are no cut and clear borders, and no "right" or "wrong" entries.
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These are all recordings that I personally love – and that I believe will withstand the test of time. I made the list stop at 20, but it could have gone on and on. No country/western or blues/hiphop/rap as I don’t listen to those styles very often. These are not in any particular order:
1. Gunter Wand’s recording of Bruckner’s 8th Symphony – a live recording that used to be on Angel.
2. Antal Dorati’s recording of Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies 1-2-3 – on Mercury – at a very young age the lp version introduced me to classical music on a grand scale. They sounded glorious on our old RCA console stereo.
3. Pretty Things: Parachute. A perfect album.
4. David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
5. Led Zeppelin: IV
6. Tim Buckley: Goodbye and Hello
7. The Band: The Band
8. Awol Nation: Megalithic Symphony
9. Ella Fitzgerald: The Jerome Kern Songbook
10. Stephen Sondheim: Original Cast Album of Follies (the version remixed by Mr. Kimmel and Kritzerland)
11. Bruno Walter’s recording of Das Lied von der Erde with Kathleen Ferrier
12. Thomas Schipper’s recording of Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915 with Eleanor Steber
13. The Velvet Underground and Nico (the banana album)
14. The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
15. Van Morrison: Moondance
16. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
17. The Karajan recording of Der Rosenkavalier with Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
18. Harry Partch: Delusion of the Fury
19. Mono Cast Recording of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady with Andrews/Harrison.
20. The Beatles: Abbey Road
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I think Georg Solti’s recording of the Ring Cycle would definitely qualify for a greatest album of all time, if only for accomplishing the ambitious task it set out to do.
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These are all recordings that I personally love – and that I believe will withstand the test of time.
Exactly the kind of stuff I thought would be neat to list, stuff one personally loves and that one thinks will remain. :-)
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