[JoshK]

When no one's around...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZdNDw3hX330

That's hilarious.

[nathanm]

I got you all beat...

Joanna Newsom.

This is a contest, right?

Hey I've got her record stuck right between the Judas Priests and Jag Panzers!  That ain't nuthin' to be ashamed of, she's downright adorable and can flog a mean harp!  Pretty "hi-fi" sounding album too if I do say so.    Okay sure, it's girly girl music, but all you tough guys seem to have no qualms about listening to Norah Jones fer the sake 'o pete! 

[launche]

Nina Simone's "Anthology", strictly these cuts (in order): "I Loves You, Porgy", "Ne Me Quitte Pas", "Strange Fruit", and, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes". Why these? Because by the end I'm bawling like a baby with a killer diaper rash sitting on a hill of fire ants! Has there ever been a singer who better coveys sadness than she? I almost squeezed out a tear just thinking about those cuts. I think I need help.

I'm a HUGE Nina Simone fan and agree with you 100%.
I just got that disc.  It does have some different versions that others discs I have with the same material.  One thing I like about the set is that with the material pulled from different collections, you can hear the different recording spaces.  It starts right from the first song I Loves You, Porgy then to My Baby Just Cares For Me.  You should hear two entirely different spaces and recording techniques and so on throughtout the collection.

[hartwerger]

Anything by Ella Fitzgerald.  Stravinsky's "Firebird".

[MaxCast]

Two cd's that aren't considered the artists best work, but I like them as much or better that their other stuff.
Elvis Costello  Spike   - Sarcastic and funny
Miles Davis  Amandala  - Groovy beat. 

 

[chadh]

Two cd's that aren't considered the artists best work, but I like them as much or better that their other stuff.
Elvis Costello  Spike   - Sarcastic and funny
Miles Davis  Amandala  - Groovy beat. 

 

That Miles disc, Amandala - I love it.  It's from the period where Miles was pissed at Warner Bros over the details of his contract.  As far as I understand it, Warner Bros gained the rights to all of the music Miles wrote while under contract with them.  So as not to line their pockets any further, Miles simply decided not to write any music.  The tracks on Amandala are written by Marcus Miller.

If the truth be known, I'd give up everything on this disc just to be able to listen to track four (? I think it's four) over and over again.  Hannibal.  It's simply wonderful.

Actually, this was the tune that made me into a fan of two of my favorite musicians ever.  I was watching  a broadcast of highlights from the Montreux Jazz Festival.  There were a couple of tunes from Miles, and one of them was Hannibal.  Kenny Garrett was playing alto and completely blew me (and everybody at the performance) away during an extended solo.  Miles wasn't interested in soloing at this point, and stalked around the stage looking as cool as he possibly could, ocassionally blowing a note or two on his trumpet, sometimes playing a chord or two on the electric keyboard.  Then he took time out to hold up signs to the crowd expressing his amazement at Kenny Garret.  After about nine minutes of this performance I was a committed Miles davis fan, and totally in awe of Kenny Garrett. 

So I have to agree: when nobody else is around, I love to turn up that Amandala disc (and especially Hannibal) as loud as I can I lose myself in the music.

Chad

[Parnelli777]

Stacey Kent - Dreamsville, In Love Again
Patricia Barber - Nightclub
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood, Blacklisted
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Sizzla - well, he's got a LOT of music.

The wife does especially like Stacey Kent though, so it's all good...in general ;^)

[AB]

I got you all beat...

Joanna Newsom.

This is a contest, right?

Hey I've got her record stuck right between the Judas Priests and Jag Panzers!  That ain't nuthin' to be ashamed of, she's downright adorable and can flog a mean harp!  Pretty "hi-fi" sounding album too if I do say so.    Okay sure, it's girly girl music, but all you tough guys seem to have no qualms about listening to Norah Jones fer the sake 'o pete! 

It's not that I am ashamed of listening to Joanna Newsom - it's that I find it impossible not to sing along with her. I feel my masculine falsetto compliments her little girl squeaking perfectly, our harmonies sweet yet challenging but others have and continue to disagree, unfortunately.

[nathanm]

It's not that I am ashamed of listening to Joanna Newsom - it's that I find it impossible not to sing along with her. I feel my masculine falsetto compliments her little girl squeaking perfectly, our harmonies sweet yet challenging but others have and continue to disagree, unfortunately.

Ahh, I see.    Well, you couldn't possibly sound any worse than the dude who sang backup on "Three Little Babes" which is about the worst singing I ever heard on record.  That'll curdle your milk!  That dude's tone deaf!

[Affordable$$Audio]

On a rainy day (half the winter in Portland), Quadrophenia by The Who.

[Joey B]

Back in Black . Nuff said....

Joe

[robert1325]

Neutral milk hotel-  in the aeroplane over the sea,       beautifull album

And sometimes   headphones- selftitled .  I like it's simpleness. 

[MaxCast]

Back in Black . Nuff said....

Joe

 

[PorkpieHat]

Interesting that few here or among the manufacturers/vendors have mentioned classical music.

Alan Hovhaness
Philip Glass
Arvo Part

[PhilNYC]

On a rainy day (half the winter in Portland), Quadrophenia by The Who.

IMHO one of the greatest albums in rock history.  God how I wish this one was recorded better...!