Help a guy out! If it's in red, I need a copy. Email address is "whinesATSIGNspitemagDOTcom"
UPDATE (12/31/05): Man, check out all the green rows. I got to learn a lot of albums. I guess I'm going to start a new list soon becuase I don't think people will be handing me any more of the music listed below. Next time, you're required to get me a copy if you want to recommend something.
| Recommended By | Title | Artist | Have A Copy? | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eliza | Innervisions | Stevie Wonder | Yes | Perfect! |
| eliza | Purple Rain | Prince | No | Pretty great. |
| eliza | Nevermind | Nirvana Knew it. World-changing and great. | Yes | Part of my bones. |
| eliza | Thriller | MJ | No | Way way good. |
| eliza | Back in Black | AC/DC | Yes | Rocks super hard. Great fun. |
| eliza | Low End Theory | Tribe Called Quest | Yes | Dug it. |
| eliza | Blue | Joni Mitchell | Yes | Beautiful and amazing. |
| k!m | Out of the Shadow | Rogue Wave | No | |
| tony | Helioself | Paps Fritas | No | |
| tony | Air | Moon Safari | Yes | I like it. It makes me feel like a girl, but I do. |
| tony | AC/DC | Highway to Hell | No | |
| tony | I Get Wet | Andrew WK | No | |
| tanouye | Where'd You Hide The Body | James McMurty | Yes | I need to give this one another listen. |
| tanouye | London Calling | The Clash | Yes | Fun. And makes you feel cool. |
| tanouye | 11 Tracks of Whack | Walter Becker | Yes | Dug it. Tanouye's choices are very definitely whole ALBUMS. They have a consistent aesthetic to them, and seem to be very carefully produced. The recordings sound clean and delibertate. They are soothing, maybe because they were recorded with such a clean sound. |
| tanouye | Kind Of Blue | Miles Davis | Yes | It's weird. I knew every track already. I had a Miles Davis album - "The Birth of the Cool" which I loved for its title alone. The liner notes say it was recorded in 1949! Is Kind of Blue a greatest hits compilation? It sounds like one, which is a sort of compliment. |
| tanouye | You Were Here | Sarah Harmer | Yes | Loved it. Soothing. My favorite of Tanouye's picks. Walking the fence between folksy droning and poppy singles. Reminds me of girl band pop songs of the mid-90s like Jen Trynin and Poe and Letters to Cleo. |
| tanouye | Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | Lucinda Williams | Yes | Love it. |
| tanouye | Moondance | Van Morrison | Yes | Really liked it. Beautiful voice, great songs. The only detriment is that the singles (Into the Mystic, etc) are SO overplayed on my hometown's classic rock that I felt like I was in the outside smoker's court at Danbury High School. |
| tanouye | The Rhythm of the Saints | Paul Simon | Yes | Addictive. I get this mixed up in my head with Graceland. It's strange how well Simon's quiet voice works with the drums. Tanouye's albums are all SOOTHING. Are you stressed, Tanouye? Do you seek solace in reassuring melodies recorded in confident, blanketing production? |
| tanouye | OK Computer | Radiohead | Yes | Really, really love it. |
| tanouye | Pink Moon | Nick Drake | Yes | Pretty good. |
| IRCTess | Gran Turismo | The Cardigans | No | Totally underrated band. Jarrett gave me a copy of "Life" which I hadn't heard and I loved it as much as I love "First Band On The Moon." |
| IRCTess | Get Behind Me Satan | The White Stripes | Yes | I love these guys for 10 minutes then I'm sick of 'em. |
| IRCTess | X&Y | Coldplay | No | Ugh. Do I have to? |
| IRCTess | Blue Album | Weezer | Yes | GREAT |
| IRCTess | Achtung Baby | U2 | Yes | Great, though anything looks good when followed by Zooropa. |
| Foster | Brothers In Arms | Dire Straits | Yes | Really great. |
| Terry | Time | ELO | No | |
| Terry | Golden Heart | Mark Knopfler | Yes | Soothing and cool. |
| Terry | Viva El Amor | Pretenders | No | |
| Terry | Photo Finish | Rory Gallagher | No | |
| Terry | Yes | Relayer | No | |
| Terry | The Bends | Radiohead | Yes | I like OK Computer better, but this is great. |
| Terry | Communique | Dire Straits | Yes | Better than BIA. |
| dc | Since I Left Your | The Avalanches | Yes | Pretty cool, though I don't feel like listening again. |
| justin | Lucinda Williams | Lucinda Williams | Yes | I actually like Essence better. |
| justin | Songs for A Blue Guitar | Red House Painters | Yes | I kept sleeping! |
| justin | Stores from the City, Stories from the Sea | PJ Harvey | Yes | Fcking great! |
| justin | Endtroducing | DJ Shadow | Yes | Not bad |
| justin | Paul's Boutique | Beastie Boys | Yes | A blast. |
| Rob W | The Wall | Pink Floyd | No | It's been a while. |
| Rob W | Dark Side of the Moon | Pink Floyd | No | Great! |
| Rob W | Tommy | The Who | No | Can't argue |
| Rob W | Frampton Comes Alive | Peter Frampton | No | Really? |
| Rob W | The White Album | The Beatles | Yes | Dude. Absorbed directly into my spinal cord. Love it. |
| Rob W | Hotel California | The Eagles | No | Actually, never have listened to it. |
| Margaret/Syrup | Mysterious Production of Eggs | Andrew Bird | No | |
| tony | Sticky Fingers | Rolling Stones | Yes | Great! |
| Gethard | In the Aeroplane Over The Sea | Neutral Milk Hotel | Yes | GREAT choice! Love it. Magic. |
| Gethard | Illmatic | Nas | Yes | Wow. Pretty amazing. Here's a strange compliment: the album feels SHORT. I love that. So many "epic" albums, including several hip-hop albums that I've heard, go on forever. They're padded with "skits" and long intros and boring outros. This one flew by, in the best way. Economy = editing = confidence. |
| Z-Tab | Pause | Four Tet | Yes | One of my many new soothing albums which I use when working deep into the night. |
| Z-Tab | Philip Glass String Quartets | Kronos Quartet | Yes | Another soothing one. Kinda robotic. But I dig it. |
| Z-Tab | Future Days | Can | No | A bizarre album. I think I like it. This is another electronica one, right? |
| Z-Tab | Grievous Angel | Gram Parsons | Yes | I'm going to give the Gram Parsons albums more of a listen. Overall, I was a bit bored. But I love the idea of Gram Parsons, from what little I've gleaned. Or let me say -- that I love the idea of a southwestern musician into drugs and country music -- who combines traditional Americana with groovy 60s rock. Someone who could wear a parka and make it look cool. A hippie who rocks. I don't know if GP IS that person, but it's what I've always assumed and that image makes me like these albums more than the music itself. |
| Z-Tab | Gram Parsons | Gram Parsons | Yes | See previous note. |
| Z-Tab | Elvis Country, I'm 10,000 Years Old | Elvis Presley | Yes | The version of "Snowbird" is worth the whole album -- I don't think Elvis P. makes a wrong move behind the microphone. But each track ends with a short teaser of the final song. Weird and distracting. |
| Z-Tab | From Elvis in Memphis | Elvis Presley | Yes | The King! I loved it. |
| Z-Tab | Village Green Preservation Society | The Kinks | Yes | Super great. |
| Z-Tab | Arthur | The Kinks | Yes | Even better! |
| Z-Tab | Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space | Spiritualized | Yes | Loud, spacey noise. Kinda good, but by the end of the album I'm clawing to turn it off. I'm old. |
| Z-Tab | Clear Spot | Captain Beefheart | Yes | Yeah! 60s, dude! This is what I always wanted psychadelic guitar-oriented rock to be. |
| Z-Tab | Sweetheart of the Rodeo | The Byrds | Yes | So this is The Byrds with GP. Well, I like it MUCH better than the GP solo stuff. Maybe I just have to learn to appreciate GP more before getting into his solo stuff. "The Christian Life" is a song I did not know that I instantly loved. Not to get too name-droppy, but I'm reading Flannery O'Connor novels right now, and she writes about Christianty a lot -- so that made the songs doubly intriguing. |
| Garrett | Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State | Surfjan Stevens | Yes | I was glad to get these albums. Many people with fine musical taste rave about S.Steven and I hate being left out. And I found myself underwhelmed! I was impressed by how professional these albums sounded. For some reason, I assumed someone with a pretentiously-spelled name like Surfjan wouldn't bother to actually work hard at his craft. Yet, these albums sound professional and polished. Too bad I can't remember any of them the second they're done playing. This, and Illinoise, both reminded me of The Decemberists. But maybe that's just the long titles with historical old-timey terms in them. |
| Garrett | Illinoise | Surfjan Stevens | Yes | See previous note. I liked this a bit better than Michigan. |
| Foster | Master of Puppets | Metallica | No | A truly great album. |
| Foster | Garage, Inc. | Metallica | No | Should get it. |
| Foster | Unleashed in the East | Judas Priest | No | |
| Foster | Somewhere in Time | Iron Maiden | No | |
| Foster | Appetite For Destruction | Guns n' Roses | No | Actually hated it when it came out because I associated it with bullies. |
| Foster | The Warning | Queensryche | No | |
| Spencer | Automatic For The People | R.E.M. | Yes | The best album from a great band. |
| MJC | Smile | Brian Wilson | Yes | Not as good as they say, but better than I expected. |
| MJC | Imperial Bedroom | Elvis Costello | Yes | Part of the Will Hines canon. |
| MJC | The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle | Bruce Springsteen | Yes | Good, but c'mon! |
| MJC | Together We're Heavy | The Polyphonic Spree | No | |
| MJC | Ingenue | k.d. lang | No | |
| MJC | Message From The Country | The Move | No | |
| MJC | A Wizard/A True Star | Todd Rundgren | No | |
| MJC | Something/Anything? | Todd Rundgren | No | |
| MJC | Pet Sounds | The Beach Boys | No | Almost as good as they say. |
| MJC | The Heavy Blinkers | The Heavy Blinkers | No | |
| MJC | The Night And Are Still So Young | The Heavy Blinkers | No | |
| MJC | Solitude Standing | Suzanne Vega | No | What is this, 1987? Hey, I'm kidding! I like this album. |
| MJC | We Shall All Be Healed | The Mountain Goats | No | |
| MJC | Court & Spark | Joni Mitchell | Yes | Nowhere near as amazing as Blue, but it's unfair to judge her based on that, right? This is a beautiful album. I notice her amazing voice more on this one, and that's probably bad, right? I love Twisted. It was given to me on a mix tape in 1990 and I never knew what album it came from until I got it back with this recommendation. Thank you for that, if nothing else, MJC (and KCragg -- who actually got the album to me). |
| MJC | The Hissing Of Summer Lawns | Joni Mitchell | No | |
| MJC | Healing | Todd Rundgren | Like Todd Rundgren much, MJC? | |
| MJC | Play | Squeeze | No | |
| Angela | The Hour of Bewilderbeast | Badly Drawn Boy | Yes | If this band wasn't heartily recommended by my brother as well, I would never have given them a chance. They sound too middle-of-the-road at first listen. But, similar to the Old '97s, they have a lot more depth than I given them credit for. I'm a big snobby crybaby. |
| Angela | Quiet Is The New Loud | Kings of Convenience | No | |
| Angela | Transfiguration of Vincent | M. Ward | No | |
| Angela | The Creek Drank the Cradle | Iron & Wine | No | |
| Angela | Our Constant Concern | Mate of State | No | |
| Angela | Beulah | The Coast Is Never Clear | No | |
| Angela | Old 97's | Satellite Rides | Yes | Catchy! |
| Angela | So Much For The City | The Thrills | Yes | Catchy! And cool! |
| Angela | Keep It Like A Secret | Built To Spill | No | Couldn't get into it. |
| Fretty McSarah | The Slow Wonder | A.C. Newman | No | |
| Fretty McSarah | Wallpaper for the Soul | Tahiti 80 | No | |
| Fretty McSarah | Oh! The Grandeur! | Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire | No | |
| Fretty McSarah | Paul Weller | Paul Weller | No | Love The Jam |
| Fretty McSarah | Armchair Theater | Jeff Lynne | No | Love ELO, so I should get this. |
| dunford | Live at Folsom Prison | Johnny Cash | No | It's pretty cool. But I don't get into it that often. |
| dunford | New Adventures In Hi-Fi | R.E.M. | Yes | Eh. Smart people tell me I should like it better. |
| dunford | Things Fall Apart | The Roots | No | |
| dunford | Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | Lucinda Williams | Yes | Dig it. |
| dunford | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | Wilco | Yes | Love the titles, forgot the songs. |
| dunford | Wildflowers | Tom Petty | No | Fantastic! Man, this is great! Wildflowers is a such a great song, too. |
| Eason | The Flat Earth | Thomas Dolby | No | |
| Eason | 12 Ways To Win People To Your Way of Thinking | Wes Cunningham | No | |
| Eason | Black Rose | Thin Lizzy | No | |
| Eason | Live! Go For What You Know! | Pat Travers Band | No | |
| Eason | That Nigger's Crazy | Richard Pryor | No | |
| Eason | Waiting for the Electrician (or Someone Like Him) | Firesign Theater | No | |
| Alex Berg | Split Personalities | 12rods | No | |
| Alex Berg | Pleased To Meet Me | The Replacements | Yes | Super great. |
| Alex Berg | Spirit of The Saints | Paul Simon | No | |
| Alex Berg | supermodified | amon tobin | No | |
| Alex Berg | Forbidden Love EP | Death Cab For Cutie | No | |
| Alex Berg | Big Loda | Squarepusher | No | |
| Alex Berg | Astral Weeks | Van Morrison | Yes | I love it even more than Moondance. |
| Alex Berg | Uprock Narratives | Prefuse73 | No | |
| Alex Berg | I Should Coco | Supergrass | No | |
| Alex Berg | Bizarre Ryde 2 The Pharcyde | The Pharcyde | No | |
| Alex Berg | 40 oz. to Freedom | Sublime | No | |
| Alex Berg | Speak No Evil | 12rods | Wayne Shorter | |
| Alex Berg | Under the Western Freeway | Grandaddy | No | |
| Alex Berg | Giant Steps | John Coltrane | No | |
| Brandy | Girlfriend | Matthew Sweet | Yes | Okay at first, then great as you listen more! |
| Brandy | Grand Prix | Teenage Fanclub | Yes | Can't stop humming it a decade later. |
| Brandy | First Band on the Moon | The Cardigans | Yes | Really fun. Really well-performed. I like these guys. |
| Brandy | Inspiration Information | Shuggie Otis | No | |
| tony | Dead Serious | Das Efx | No | |
| tony | Cosmic Thing | B-52s | No | Not as good as their debut, but still really fun. |
| porter | 2001 | Dr. Dre | No | Man, I forgot about Dre. Reference? Reference, anyone? |
| porter | Too Far To Care | Old 97s | Yes | I always want to NOT like these guys. They sound too buttoned-down, too "good student", too much like someone who found the formula for a great pop song. But then each song is somehow moving and personal and I have to admit that this guy knows what he's doing, and I shouldn't hate him for it. |
| porter | Pack Up The Cats | Old 97s | No | |
| tony | Fire | Electric Six | No | |
| tony | The Gilded Palace of The Sun | Flying Burrito Bros. | No | |
| Eason | Monk's Dream | Theolonious Monk | No | |
| Eason | Alone in San Francisco | Theolonious Monk | No | |
| Eason | Thelonious Monk Trio | Theolonious Monk | No | |
| justin | MTV Unplugged | 10,000 Maniacs | Yes | Eh. |
| justin | Blind Man's Zoo | 10,000 Maniacs | Yes | Good. |
| justin | Never Die Young | James Taylor | Yes | Zzz. Well, wait. It's good. |
| justin | Hourglass | James Taylor | Yes | Great! Zzzz. No, wait, great! Zzzz. |
| justin | Out of Time | R.E.M. | Yes | Fcking great! |
| justin | What's Next To The Moon | Mark Kozelek | Yes | I can't remember. |
| justin | The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill | Lauryn Hill | Yes | Super perfect. |
| justin | You Think It's Like This But It's Really Like This | Mirah | No | I thought I had heard it -- re-checked. I was "not authorized" to play it. |
| justin | I'm Still In Love With You | Al Green | Yes | This album is amazing. Is it weird that it made me fall in love with Al Green, though? |
| justin | Noon Chill | Arto Lindsay | Yes | Chill, yes. But I can't remebmer any of it. |
| justin | Acadie | Daniel Lanois | Yes | I think I respected this. Man, it's tough listening to 33 albums at a shot. |
| justin | Anodyne | Uncle Tupelo | Yes | Always have loved this. ALWAYS! |
| justin | Black Love | Afghan Whigs | No | Angry dude, this guy. Wait, I couldn't play it! ("not authorized") I was thinking of "Gentlemen," which I have. |
| justin | Unplugged | Jay-Z | Yes | Cooler than me. |
| justin | Whip-Smart | Liz Phair | Yes | Cooler than everyone. |
| justin | Is This Desire? | PJ Harvey | Yes | She makes me feel like I should be yelling at more people. |
| justin | Rain Dogs | Tom Waits | Yes | Hated it at first, then suddenly I loved it more than air. |
| justin | You Are Free | Cat Power | Yes | Loved it |
| justin | This is a Long Drive For Someone... | Modest Mouse | Yes | These dudes are so sad! Someone hug them. |
| justin | UNKLE | Psyence Fiction | Yes | Nope. |
| justin | Infinity Plus | Lois | Yes | I honestly can't remember this at all. |
| justin | Loveless | My Bloody Valentine | Yes | Great! |
| justin | Aja | Steely Dan | Yes | More! |
| justin | Tidal | Fiona Apple | Yes | Groovy. |
| justin | Either/Or | Elliott Smith | Yes | Too good to have died. |
| justin | The Will To Live | Ben Harper | Yes | Very cool. I sense this man does not have trouble meeting girls. |