'MASTERPIECE' al***s

Black Lace - Greatest Hits

Never mind The Bollocks - The Sex pistols

Bob

Either

Gone to Earth - David Sylvian
or
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk

ricardo

pz:

What do you mean, "masterpiece"? Does this mean critically acclaimed? I hope not; critics often have foisted some gawdawful shite upon us...

To me, all the albums that really bring me joy could fit into the masterpiece category, even if they're obscure. So, loving lists, here's a few (out of hundreds!) of mine...aiming for the less obscure...in no particular order...

December's Children, the Rolling Stones
Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
A Whiter Shade of Pale, Procol Harum
Days of Future Passed, the Moody Blues
Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles
Apple Venus Vols. I & II, XTC
II, Led Zeppelin
Axis: Bold as Love, the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Village Green Preservation Society, the Kinks
Cross Talk, the Pretty Things
Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac (the 1st one with Peter Green, not the one with Buckingham & Nicks)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bhazen:
pz:

What do you mean, "masterpiece"?

Simply, an album that you will never tire of listening to. Something that becomes intimately familiar over the years yet never ceases to surrender more charm. You hear new ideas with subsequent plays and you just know that your appreciation of the work will continue to grow.

Exile on main street
Saint Dominic's Preview
Lambchop's Nixon
Blood on the tracks
The White Album
Electric Ladyland
Hot Rats
Screamadelica

to name a few off the top of my head.

quote:

Originally posted by Malky:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by bhazen:
pz:

What do you mean, "masterpiece"?

Simply, an album that you will never tire of listening to. Something that becomes intimately familiar over the years yet never ceases to surrender more charm. You hear new ideas with subsequent plays and you just know that your appreciation of the work will continue to grow.
.

Good one Malky; I hadn't had my morning cuppa yet when I groped for a definition.

Willie the Pimp

So many but how about two obvious ones (well to me anyway)

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Adrian

Allman Borthers - Live at Fillmore East
Misty in Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision
Bob Marley - Live at the Lyceum
The Clash - London Calling

Louis Armstrong - Hot 5s and 7s
Robert Johnson - entire output
Duke Ellington - Black, Brown & Beige
Keith Jarrett - Köln concert

Pablo Casals - Bach cello suites
Fitzwilliam Quartet - Shostakovich string quartets
Leningrad PO / Mravinsky - Tchaikovsky 4,5 & 6

Hi All,

Thanks for your posts so far.
I called 'masterpiece' those albums which
one feels that everyone should have a copy/
a must have.
Keep on telling us your favourites!

Cheers,

Misty in Roots Live at the Counter Eurovision
Nick Drake Five Leaves Left
Joni Mitchell Blue
John Coltrane Ballads
Tom Waits Closing Time

Once they're on I want to listen to every track all the way through.

Ah. I get it. I wouldn't impose my taste on other people or tell them what they should have in their music collections, but my personal 'must haves' include (in no particular order and minus artists'names):

Revolver
Gorilla
Keynsham
Elvis at Sun
Pet Sounds
Message from the Country
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Led Zep 4
Shaken n’ Stirred
ELO 1 (version with the BBC sessions)
Thick as a Brick
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Voyage of the Acolyte
Relayer
Never Mind the Bollocks
London Calling
The Kick Inside
Moving Pictures
Song of the Marching Children
Bouncing off the Satellites
Bread and Jam for Francis
Surfer Rosa
Reel to Real Cacophony

I've limited it to one release per artist - tough call in some cases. I guess this represents about 20% of my personal essentials - now that I've started thinking, there are just too many.

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Abbey Road - The Beatles
The Flat Earth - Thomas Dolby
The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
A Night at the Opera - Queen (I know....)
Graceland - Paul Simon
The Velvet Underground and Nico

Jazz:

comp. '61 village vanguard recordings - Contrane
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Porgy and Bess - Miles Davis
A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
Don Ellis - Electric Bath
Sunday at the Village Vanguard - Bill Evans
Waltz for Debby - Bill Evans


Classical:
50s Beethoven Piano Concerto recordings - Wilhelm Kempff
Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 - Klieber/VPO
Beethoven Piano sonatas - Kempff (50s mono)
Mass - Leonard Bernstein
Vladimir Horowitz (also the title)
Mackerras/Janacek recordings
Mahler Symphony no. 4 - Szell/Cleveland
Mahler Symphony no. 6 - Jansons/LSO
Mahler Symphony no. 7 - Abbado/BPO
Mahler Symphony No. 8 - Solti
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde - Ferrier/Walter
Mahler Kindertotenlieder - Ferrier/Walter
Mozart symphonies 40 & 41 - Bernstein/VPO
Mozart piano sonatas - Uchida
Scubert D960 piano sonata - Kempff
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungnen - Solti



just my 2 cents.


regards,

Tam

Ten from me...only one per artiste

Godbluff - VdGG
Script of the Bridge - The Chameleons
Disinitegration - The Cure
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
New Gold Dream - Simple Minds
Signify - Porcupine Tree
Correct Use of Soap - Magazine
New Boots and Panties - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Porcupine - Echo and the Bunnymen
Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants

Only one record needed.

"Intermedia Life Action" by Conrad Schintzler.

The apex of all humankind's creative and artistic endevours.

DS

OTIR - Buzzcocks - Fictionromance

quote:

Originally posted by ricardo:
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk

ricardo

Kudos to you Ricardo!

john

Misty in Roots...!!!
What a blast from my past - I used to have both live at the counter eurovision and wise and foolish - I would love to get hold of either or both if anyone knows where or how (a whole load of my music got stolen when we moved house and every now and again something reminds me of stuff I am missing..)
Yes, I know it is a little off thread..
JeremyD - you should check out Blue Sky Mining - gotta be the Oils finest !
I will post my list once I have had time to compile it..

quote:

Originally posted by Tam:

Classical:
50s Beethoven Piano Concerto recordings - Wilhelm Kempff
Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7 - Klieber/VPO
Beethoven Piano sonatas - Kempff (50s mono)
Mass - Leonard Bernstein
Vladimir Horowitz (also the title)
Mackerras/Janacek recordings
Mahler Symphony no. 4 - Szell/Cleveland
Mahler Symphony no. 6 - Jansons/LSO
Mahler Symphony no. 7 - Abbado/BPO
Mahler Symphony No. 8 - Solti
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde - Ferrier/Walter
Mahler Kindertotenlieder - Ferrier/Walter
Mozart symphonies 40 & 41 - Bernstein/VPO
Mozart piano sonatas - Uchida
Scubert D960 piano sonata - Kempff
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungnen - Solti

regards,

Tam

An excellent list, Tam, but rather elective.

Regards,

quote:

Originally posted by pe-zulu:

An excellent list, Tam, but rather elective.

Regards,

Aren't they always. But I suspect you mean in terms of that there's nothing earlier than Beethoven (which probably reflects the balance of my cd collection - perhaps I could have put in Glenn Gould's 81 goldbergs or Rostropovich's cello suites, though I know you don't get on with his , and I'd like b minor mass, but the one I have doesn't quite do it for me). What we need is your list to compliment it.


regards,

Tam

Soul Mining - The The
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
77 - Talking Heads (on old vinyl)

Jono

quote:

Originally posted by Huwge:

Pablo Casals - Bach cello suites
Fitzwilliam Quartet - Shostakovich string quartets
Leningrad PO / Mravinsky - Tchaikovsky 4,5 & 6

Splendid choice, but I'd have to add the two Shostakovich Cello concertos performed by Heinrich Schiff with Maxim Shostakovich conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

quote:

Originally posted by pz:
I called 'masterpiece' those albums which
one feels that everyone should have a copy/
a must have.

Classical
None - since I find it almost impossible to sit through a whole piece. Oh ok then...
Cello concerto - Elgar (must be the EMI/du Pre version)

Rock/pop:
Forever changes - Love
The dreaming/Hounds of love - Kate Bush
Little earthquakes - Tori Amos
Martin - Various (Factory compilation)
Revolver - The Beatles (forget blinkin' Sgt Pepper!)

Chill:
Dummy - Portishead
Blue lines - Massive attack
Moon safari - Air

Indie:
The queen is dead/The Smiths - The Smiths
Loveless - My bloody valentine
Definitely maybe - Oasis (everything else they've done has been crap...)

Dance
Loved up - Various (BBC soundtrack - ENSURE you have the single disc version - the double disc is nothing like as good, even though it has all the tracks)
The gathering - Infected mushroom
Contact - Cosmosis

My choices would be as Tams list, except i would include,
Transformer-------Lou Reed
Ziggy srardust----Bowie
Who`s next--------Who

Tam,

your pop/rock tastes are almost identical to mine, i have tried many times to educate myself to enjoy jazz and classical, but to no avail.Out of over a thousand lps/cds my jazz/classical albums are less then ten.I wonder if you could give me a couple of reccommendations of each, to try and get me started and enthused.

Regards Mike.

Mike, you could do a lot worse than have a read through this thread on classical music:

http://forums.naim-audio.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/38019385/m/1222941996/p/1

I know, it's seven pages (sorry). However, mid way through I give some getting started recommendations (including Mackerras conducting Beethoven's symphonies which I think is a good, and very cheap, place to start).

In so far a Jazz is concerned, I'd certainly pick up Kind of Blue and Porgy and Bess by Miles Davis, you can't really go far wrong with Bill Evans (and in particular the two discs I mentioned), similarly John Coltrane. Ben Webster's sessions with Oscar Peterson are really nice and Louis Armstrong's Hot 5s and 7s are good. (I'm sure others here will have good suggestions).

It's worth noting, though, that my tastes are pretty eclectic and I tend to like a bunch of wildly different things, so liking my pop/rock tastes isn't going to ensure success with the rest. Still, that should give you some starting points.


regards,

Tam

quote:

Originally posted by Tam:
What we need is your list to compliment it.

Tam

Tam.

I shall try in a few days.

By the way, I aquired, with you in my mind, for about 8 Euro, another copy of my favorite recording of Bachs cellosuites (Morten Zeuthen) at the publisher, who runs a music-club, of which I am a member.
If you have got the courage, I will send it to you as a favor.

Regards,

That sounds interesting.

e-mail me at tam_pollard@yahoo.co.uk



regards,

Tam