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Found Timmer's old thread. Here:
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=882&forumID=1&archive=1
I list 10 great albums in that, and they're obviously still great classics to me. But filling out that list a little bit, I can add some more. Limiting myself to only ONE per artist/composer, and not including 'best of' albums:
Rock/pop:
Supertramp - "Even in the Quietest Moments"
The Alan Parsons Project - "Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe"
Pink Floyd - "The Wall"
Oingo Boingo - "Nothing to Fear"
Manfred Mann's Earthband - "Watch"
Dire Straits - "Love Over Gold"
The Beach Boys - "Pet Sounds"
10CC - "How Dare You!"
Jethro Tull - "Stand Up"
Rammstein - "Mutter"
a-ha - "Hunting High and Low"
ABBA - "The Visitors"
Giorgio Moroder - "From Here to Eternity"
Daft Punk - "Random Access Memories"
The Rolling Stones - "Sticky Fingers"
Elton John - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Electronic:
Jean Michel Jarre - "Equinoxe"
Vangelis - "Oceanic"
Kraftwerk - "Trans Europe Express"
Juno Reactor - "Labyrinth"
Orbital - "Blue Album"
Paul Oakenfold - "Travelling"
Infected Mushroom - "Legend of the Black Shawarma"
Future Sound of London - "We Have Explosive"
Johnny Jewel - "Windswept"
Classical:
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra/Till Eugenspiege/Salome's Tanz (Berliner Philharmoniker/Solti)
Pärt: Berliner Messe (Harmonia Mundi '50)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis/The Lark Ascending (HMV Classics)
Stravinsky: Rites du Printemps/The Firebird/Persephone (Tilson Thomas/SF Symphony)
Williams: The Five Sacred Trees etc.
Debussy: Images/La Mer/Prelude... (Salonen/LA Philharmonic)
Dukas: La Peri/Sorcerer/Symphony in C (Slatkin)
Bach: Matthaus Passion (Harmonia Mundi '50)
Jóhannsson: Orphée (Deutsche Grammophon)
Goldenthal: Othello (Varese)
Rossini: Petite Messe Solenelle (Harmonia Mundi '50)
Elfman: Serenada Schizophrana
Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (Harmonia Mundi '50)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 (Karajan/Berlin)
Rachmaninoff: Vespers (can't remember performers)
Those are just some off the top of my head. I'll need to fill in more later. If I was stranded on a deserted island, I could easily manage a whole lifetime with access to just the above.
I wanted to include a 'jazz' category, but most of what I have are jazz soundtracks, or early JW albums.
Wow, we really are quite apart when it comes to pop/rock music. Of those pop/rock albums you mentioned, the only one I have got is Hunting High And Low. I don't understand why I still haven't got The Wall though.
Also in the electronic field, I have only got Equinoxe and Oceanic of the ones in your list.
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Yes, certainly better than the later stuff. But I've always found him rather cheesy.
Well, Yanni THE PERSON has always been an acquired taste, with the way he looks and talks, and his relationship to Linda Evans, but I actually think much of his music is really good.
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Not at all. I find a great deal of socalled "New Age" very cheesy -- like Yanni (especially later years), Andreas Vollenweider and the like. Hardly a controversial statement. Not that cheese can't be enjoyable in a kind of kitch or camp way, but it's not something I'm very attracted to.
Musically, I don't feel Yanni and Vollenweider have much in common. I haven't got a single AV album in my collection, and I'm pretty sure I never will get any. Not my thing.
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After seeing the 50th. Anniversary documentary on the making and the idea of the storylines of the songs, my fave album now is :
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
Wonderful album, up there with the likes of 'Pet Sounds' and 'Sgt. Pepper's'
And dare i say that Ray Davies is one of the most under-rated song writers of all time ? !
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Willie Nelson - Stardust
I always meant to check this out one day. :-) Thanks for the reminder.
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