[FullRangeMan]

1 Tangerine Dream
2 Edgar Froese
3 Cluster/Harmonia
4 CAN
5 Faust
6 Pink Floyd
7 La Dusseldorf/Michael Rother
8 Nektar
9 Mike Oldfield(Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn)
10 Eloy

[Odal3]

World Music:
"The Indestructible Beat of Soweto" (Shanachie Sh43033)

Thank you Elizabeth. I like it! I still need to try to find the second artist you mentioned.

This also had me dig deep into my African collection that I hadn't played in years and rediscovered the very good Orchestra Baobab's Pirates Choice. Not exactly the same style as the one you recommended since it has more of Afro-Cuban feel but it has such magical & relaxing rhythm. Recorded in Dakar, Senegal in 1982 so perhaps not as clear as a typical "audiophile recording" to showcase audio equipment, but it is still highly recommended

[006.9]

What does your shrink say about people that give you twenty when you ask for ten?

1.   J. S. Bach – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
2.   Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major
3.   W. A. Mozart – Symphony No. 40 in G minor
4.   Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
5.   J. S. Bach – St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
6.   Beethoven – Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major, Opus 7
7.   Bill Evans – The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
8.   J. S. Bach – The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080
9.   Handel – Water Music
10.   Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
11.   Beethoven – Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131
12.   Gerry Mulligan – Night Lights
13.   Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67
14.   Mozart – Sonata in B-flat major, K. 333
15.   J. S. Bach – Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
16.   W. A. Mozart – Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
17.   J. S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
18.   Mendelssohn – Overture in E major, Op. 21 to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
19.   Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
20.   W. A. Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622

[CanadianMaestro]

What does your shrink say about people that give you twenty when you ask for ten?

1.   J. S. Bach – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
2.   Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major
3.   W. A. Mozart – Symphony No. 40 in G minor
4.   Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
5.   J. S. Bach – St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
6.   Beethoven – Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major, Opus 7
7.   Bill Evans – The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
8.   J. S. Bach – The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080
9.   Handel – Water Music
10.   Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
11.   Beethoven – Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131
12.   Gerry Mulligan – Night Lights
13.   Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67
14.   Mozart – Sonata in B-flat major, K. 333
15.   J. S. Bach – Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
16.   W. A. Mozart – Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
17.   J. S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
18.   Mendelssohn – Overture in E major, Op. 21 to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
19.   Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
20.   W. A. Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622

Narcissistic, accomplished, OCD   

Nice playlist by the way. 

You need to add some Schubert.

[006.9]

You need to add some Schubert.

I've never been able to warm up to Schubert. Or Brahms. There's an era in there between late Beethoven and full-blown romanticism with all kinds of music that just doesn't grab me. Give me the Eroica or the Manfred Symphony but spare me The Bride of Messina.

[FullRangeMan]

My psychiatrist tells me you can tell a lot about a person based on their favourite Playlist.

Please list your Top 10 selections. 

James

Hi James,
What analisys do you can tell about these play list?

[CanadianMaestro]

I've never been able to warm up to Schubert. Or Brahms. There's an era in there between late Beethoven and full-blown romanticism with all kinds of music that just doesn't grab me. Give me the Eroica or the Manfred Symphony but spare me The Bride of Messina.

I agree to an extent.

Brahms' sextet is wonderful. Schubert's piano sonatas (esp. D 960 and 664) are not as "romantic" as with Chopin's works. And Schubert's #9 is the only symphony that has 4 mvts that make me tap my feet. Beethoven's 7th comes close, but that Allegretto is a bore after repeated listenings. His #2 is under-rated but still excellent.

Any Baroque?

[006.9]

Any Baroque?

Baroque (and 50s jazz) is my passion. Give me Handel's opus 6 concerti grossi, or Corelli, or Vivaldi, and I'm lost for hours with score in one hand and glass of wine in the other. Put on a CD by Bach, and I have no idea what my hands are doing. Probably resting motionless in awe.

[CanadianMaestro]

Baroque (and 50s jazz) is my passion. Give me Handel's opus 6 concerti grossi, or Corelli, or Vivaldi, and I'm lost for hours with score in one hand and glass of wine in the other. Put on a CD by Bach, and I have no idea what my hands are doing. Probably resting motionless in awe.

Bach is great, esp his choral and piano stuff. Gould and Hewitt, with some Richter (his WTC is phenomenal). CPE Bach's piano pieces are crazy good, and unjustly obscure. Vivaldi bores me, except for his choral stuff and guitar concerti (John Williams). Heinrich Schutz and Biber are excellent too. Les Arts Florissant (Christie) did a fabulous recording of Handel's music years ago (Water Music etc).

[006.9]

Vivaldi bores me

Have you dug around in his smaller works? Oboe concertos? Stuff like that? I like to find recordings that give me a feeling for what this music was like when it wasn't "classical" yet, when all music was live music, when you might have a buddy or two who get together with you on Thursday evenings to make music together (since otherwise you'd have no music in your life).

[CanadianMaestro]

Have you dug around in his smaller works? Oboe concertos? Stuff like that? I like to find recordings that give me a feeling for what this music was like when it wasn't "classical" yet, when all music was live music, when you might have a buddy or two who get together with you on Thursday evenings to make music together (since otherwise you'd have no music in your life).

Yes. Not too bad, better than Telemann, much of whose music bores me to death seriously. The Four Seasons is overplayed imho. Has become "elevator music", unfortunately. 

[006.9]

The Four Seasons is overplayed imho. Has become "elevator music", unfortunately.

Same for Water Music, Pachelbel Canon, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Messiah, 1812 Overture, and on and on. Don't you wish you could hear some of those overplayed pieces with the ears of a musically educated adult encountering them for the first time?

[CanadianMaestro]

Same for Water Music, Pachelbel Canon, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Messiah, 1812 Overture, and on and on. Don't you wish you could hear some of those overplayed pieces with the ears of a musically educated adult encountering them for the first time?

I am not "musically educated" -- I can't read a score. I just listen and go with the flo, jo.
I prefer to discover truly new music, or renditions of older music. For example, there are some recent albums of Bach's Cello Suites that are/sound refreshingly novel -- e.g. David Watkins, Matt Haimovitz, Viola de Hoog.

https://www.prostudiomasters.com/search?cs=1&q=bach+cello#quickview/album/4393
https://www.prostudiomasters.com/search?cs=1&q=bach+cello#quickview/album/5764
https://www.prostudiomasters.com/search?cs=1&q=bach+cello#quickview/album/12717

cheers off to mark exams.

[FullRangeMan]

I am not "musically educated" -- I can't read a score. I just listen

Me too but this not demerit, Jimi Hendrix also could not read sheet music and was the best.

[Jeff_From_Michigan]

Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
Pretenders' first album
John Mayall - Jazz Blues Fusion
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Don Byron - Romance with the Unseen
Santana - Lotus
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - I Learned the Hard Way

[006.9]

Grant Green - Idle Moments

Nice!

[Delta77]

Here is a List I’ve been accumulating on Tidal , they  just do something extra on my system..


1. Dire Straits- Follow Me Home
2. Fortunate Youth- Love is the most high
3. Robert Cray - Right next door
4. Stick Figure- Out the door
5. Dire Straits- Where do you think your going
6. Tatanka- Easy
7. Pickin’ On - Let’s get rocked
8. Zap & Rodger - I heard it through the grapevine
9. Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd.
10. Traffic  - Dear Mr. Fantasy
Some more:
Tribal Seeds - Love Psalm
Iration- Time Bomb
Pepper- Freeze
Rose Royce- Wishing on a star
Rebelution- Roots Reggae Music

[95Dyna]

James, I'm with you on Diamonds On The Soles of Her Shoes.  Sounds so good on the Big Box.  My three little grandsons  love to dance around to it and ask me to play it  frequently.  They call it the Ta Na Na Na Song.  As the Circle of Life would  have it I danced to it at a Paul Simon Concert with their mother on my shoulders when she was 8 years old.  It gave me great joy to see it on your list.  The list below is just off  the top of my head as I would never  be able to boil it down to 10 thinking about it too long:

- Bob Dylan:                                Tangled Up In Blue
- Allman Brothers Band:                In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (At the Filmore 3/13/1971)
- Jethro Tull                                 Thick As A Brick (full 42 minute album version)
- Chicago                                     Ballet For A Girl In Buchanan
- Traffic                                       John Barleycorn Must Die (the song although I love the same named album as well)
- Leo Kottke                 l               Pamela Brown
- Steely Dan                                Pretzel Logic
- Creedence Clearwater Revival     Have You Ever Seen the Rain (Willie Nelson and his daughter do a beautiful cover)
- Beatles                                     Nowhere Man
-Led Zeppelin                              When the Levee Breaks (The story of Memphis Minnie from which the original song comes is heartwarming as well)

I am a huge fan of Jazz and Classical but can't listen to either casually so entries from these genres wouldn't likely end up on a play list.

[brother love]

I came up w/ 25 faves, so 1st 10 if forced to choose (can't believe I left out Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, etc.). I'm heavy on Brits, particularly the great guitarists:

jeff beck   behind the veil   guitar shop
jeff beck   pork pie hat   wired
jimi hendrix experience   manic depression   are you experienced
the who   young man blues   live at leeds
the pixies   hey   doolittle
red hot chili peppers   if you have to ask   blood sugar sex magik
cannonball adderley w/ miles davis   autumn leaves   somethin' else
miles davis   so what   kind of blue
the white stripes    black math   elephant
thelonious monk   straight no chaser   straight no chaser
the band   tears of rage   music from big pink
cream   sleepy time time   cream live
fishbone   when problems arise   in your face
dire straits   once upon a time in the west   communique
rolling stones   gimme shelter   let it bleed
the beatles   a day in the life   sgt. peppers lonely hearts club band
dave brubeck   take five   time out
joe satriani  flying in a blue dream    flying in a blue dream
bob dylan   it's alright ma (I'm only bleeding)   bringing it all back home
smashing pumpkins   cherub rock   siamese dream
elvis costello & the attractions   pump it up    this years model
elvis costello & the attractions   watching the detectives   my aim is true
the clash   london calling   london calling
the beat farmers   riverside   van go
marianne thorsen/ trondheim solistene     mozart violin concertos (pick 1 of 9)   mozart violin concertos

[bjski]

Jeff Beck playing now,Live at the Hollywood Bowel....48:24:2 flac