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24 Hours of Music I'm tired of software problems and
World War Recently a big music honcho, maybe Brian Eno, put together "24 Hours of Music" for some event. Presumably this guy was perfectionist who added up a lot of 2:33 + 5:16 etc. until he got 24:00:00. My method was simply to assume that every record is exactly half an hour long. So here are the 48 greatest albums of all time. In several cases, out of laziness, I just list a generic greatest hits album, since the recording I happen to have have is an offbrand. (I'm not a discographer in the least, just a music lover. Everything I have is on vinyl, but I'm not a purist -- just lazy and cheap). I left out classical music, which I also do listen to. The way things turned out, everything on the list except Charlie Christian was recorded in my lifetime. There's almost no early jazz, be-bop, roots-rock, blues, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, metal, rap or punk. Someone who wanted to could probably profile me from this list . (If you want to try, send me your guesses) I have a pretty broad range, but the only moderately obscure musicians on the list are Jan Garbarek, Marion Brown, and Don Cherry (whose Norwegian albums don't seem to circulate much). I imagine that I've listened to everything here at least fifty times. (Sadly, I haven't added much new in the last ten years. I'm getting old and tired, I guess. It's the Bush Crime Family's fault). Categories: Jazz (broadly defined) 20; Rock 17; Reggae 4; African 3; Blues 2; Funk/Soul 2. But there's a lot of hard-to-classify stuff in there. Just to mix things up I arranged these alphabetically by the first name of the musician or group.
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Greatest Albums
Bob Marley: Greatest Hits Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde Buddy Guy: Stone Crazy Charley Mingus: Oh Yeah Charlie Christian: Greatest Hits Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Sessions David Murray: Live at Sweet Basil, vol. 2 Don Cherry: Eternal Now Elvis Costello: Armed Forces Fela Ransome Kuti: Greatest Hits Gary Burton/ Carla Bley: Genuine Tong Funeral Gato Barbieri: Chapter One Iggy Pop: The Idiot James Blood Ulmer: Free Wheelin' (add: America. Do you Hear the Love) Jan Garbarek: Afric Pepperbird Jan Garbarek: Dis Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland Jimmy Cliff: Greatest Hits Joan Armatrading: To the Limit John Coltrane: Africa John Handy at Monterey Larry Young: Lawrence of Newark Led Zeppelin III Lester Bowie: Twilight Dreams Marion Brown: Geechee Recollections Marion Brown: Sweet Earth Flying Miles Davis: Agharta Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Ornette Coleman: Change of the Century Paul Butterfield: East-West Peter Tosh: Equal Rights Pogues: If I Should Fall from Grace With God Ray Charles: New Sounds in C&W, vol. 1 Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magic Richard & Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights Richard & Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Again Rolling Stones: Let it Bleed Sly and the Family Stone: Anthology Sonny Sharrock: Highlife (add: Ask the Ages) Stanley Clarke: School Days Tarika: Balance The Doors: The Doors The Pretenders: The Pretenders Thelonius Monk: Brilliant Corners Tom Waits: SwordfishTrombones Van Morrison: Astral Weeks Various Artists: The Harder They Come Willie Nelson: Redheaded Stranger Zap Mama: Sabsylma
ADDS: The Clash: London Calling Joni Mitchell: For the Roses Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo Youngbloods: Elephant Mountain Leonard Cohen: Greatest Hits And yeah, I should have something by Marvin Gaye, James Brown, and Otis Redding -- Greatest Hits all around! And maybe a Motown box set.... and so on.
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