10. Beast Rest Forth Mouth – Bear in Heaven
07. jj n° 2 – jj
06. Yours Truly, The Commuter – Jason Lytle
05. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
04. Album – Girls
03. xx – The xx
In Heavy Rotation
1967
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
Love – Forever Changes
Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Who – The Who Sell Out
The Kinks – Something Else By The Kinks
The Doors – The Doors
Cream – Disareli Gears
Nico – Chelsea Girl
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1966
The Beatles – Revolver
The Kinks – Face To Face
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
The Rolling Stones – Aftermath
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
The Byrds – Fifth Dimension
Paul Revere And The Raiders – Midnight Ride
The Mothers Of Invention – Freak Out
Nina Simone – Wild Is The Wind
Simon And Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
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1965
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today!
The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics
The Who – My Generation
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home
The Beatles – Rubber Soul
B.B. King – Live At The Regal
The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Otis Redding – Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
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1964
Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
The Beatles – Meet The Beatles
Jaques Brel – Olympia 64
Dusty Springfield – A Girl Called Dusty
Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changing
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos – I’ve Got A Tiger by the Tail
Soloman Burke – Rock ‘n Soul
Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones
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1963
Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream
Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Dexter Gordon – Our Man in Paris
James Brown – Live At The Apollo
Stan Getz And Joan Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
Phil Spector – A Christmas Gift For You
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And Sinner Letter
The Beatles – Please Please Me
Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder
Sam Cooke – Live At The Harlem Square Club
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Glad to finally hear from The Beatles, and it turns out that “Live at the Apollo” is a great album to run to.
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1962
Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington And His Orchestra Featuring Paul Gonsalves
Horace Silver – Paris Blues
Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Nina Simone – Nina Simone Sings Ellington
Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
Ray Prince – Night Life
Booker T And The MG’s – Green Onions
Stan Getz And Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
Ray Charles – Modern Sound in Country & Western Music
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All of this Jazz music is starting to get to me, I’m ready for a change… Love the Dylan self titled.
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Selected albums from 1961
Miles Davis – Steamin’ with The Miles Davis Quintet
Buck Owens – Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard
Joan Baez – Joan Baez, Vol. 2
Ella Fitzgerald – Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Etta James – At Last!
Bobby Bland – Two Steps from the Blues
John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
Bill Evans – The Village Vanguard
Robert Johnson – King Of The Delta Blues
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My selected albums from 1960
Ella Fitzgerald – Hello, Love
The Everly Brothers – A Date With The Everly Brothers
Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack
Joan Baez – Joan Baez
Ray Charles – Ray Charles In Person
John Coltrane – Giant Steps
Muddy Waters – At Newport
Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
Elvis Presley – Elvis Is Back!
Ray Charles – The Genius Hits the Road
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50 years 500 albums
I like music.
I like lists.
I like a challenge.
So I started this music appreciation project I’m calling 50 years 500 albums.
The objective is to discover new (old) music and develop a better understanding of how musical style has progressed through the last 50 years.
I plan to listen to albums that I’ve heard about but never taken the time to investigate. I want to experience the selected music in context, so I plan to start in 1960 and listen to all of the albums consecutively, in the order they were created, until I’m caught up with current music here in 2009.
Lately I’ve been so obsessively listening to new releases and emerging bands that I haven’t taken the time to appreciate music that’s already out there. This project will force me to stop looking for the next new thing in music and shift my focus to the great music that’s already been recorded.
About a month ago I made the lists. Each containing ten albums worth listening to from the past 50 years. To build the lists I started with the book 1001 Albums To Listen To Before You Die then I filled in the blanks with the help of Wikipedia and a couple of Google searches.
Today I began stage two of my little music project, I started listening.
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