Which Recordings would be listed in a TalkBass Basic Library?

[Blackbird]

Suppose we created a reference thread listing the recordings of every genre of interest to TBers, which recordings should make the list?

It will be more helpful if people post specific album titles, not vague terms like "The entire Artist X catalog".

Here's a few I think would go in:

Revolver - The Beatles
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Heavy Weather - Weather Report
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
Mingus - Joni Mitchell (There's a thread about that album right now).
Clube da Esquina - Milton Nascimento.

This is a pretty broad stroke. Nothing extremely esoteric, as the goal is to list recordings that should be available to the most people as possible.

Repetition of titles is encouraged.

[Matt Till]

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (and/or Volume 4)
King Crimson - Red
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Cream - Disraeli Gears (one of my favorite trippy album covers)
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time (and/or Space Ritual)
Captain Beyond - Self Titled
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Grand Funk Railroad - Closer to Home
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus
Yes - Close to the Edge
Monster Magnet - Spine of God
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
Pink Floyd - Animals


A couple of those might be a little hard to get ahold of, but I consider it all essential music.

[d8g3jdh]

Great list Matt. May I add:

White Album - Beatles
Rust In Peace - Megadeth
Legend - Bob Marley (Best of)
Appetite for Destruction - GnR
Powerslave/Killers/Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (pick one!)
BSSM - RHCP
Undertow - Tool

Some of those blend, but I think they're all essential. I could add more too.

[heath_the_great]

+10 on Jeff Beck Blow By Blow

Band Of Gypsies
Rick James - Street Songs
Sly Family Stone - Theres A Riot Goin On
Stray Cats - Stray Cats
The Roots - The Roots Come Alive
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Prince - Purple Rain
Meshell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion
Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out
SRV - Texas Flood
SRV - Couldnt Stand The Weather
Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Digable Planets - Reachin
John Mayer Trio - TRY!
The Presidents Of USA
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
John Butler Trio - Live At St Gallen
Steve Vai - Passion And Warefare
Lauren Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauren Hill
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Crowded House - Woodface
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Eric Clapton+BB King - Riding With The King
Living Color - Stain
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins - The Day Fingerpickers Ruled The Earth
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
The Tea Party - Edges Of Twilight
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled
Issac Hayes - Shaft (sountrack)
John Mayer - Room For Squares
John Scofield - Up All Night
Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Jamie Cullem - Twenty Something
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Unclassified
Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream
Los Lonely Boys - Self Titled
Echobrain - Self Titled
The Living End - Self Titled




so yeah, theres a few
bit of rockabilly, funk, blues, hip hop, rnb, jazz, rock, pop and everything in between there

[Petary791]

Jaco Pastorius - Self-Titled

[flatwoundfender]

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On , or the whole Motown library
The Meter's - Cissy Strut
James Brown - In The Jungle Groove
Charles Mingus -13 Pictures (compilation album)
Ray Brown - Walk On
Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
Booker T. and the M.G.'s - Best Of

[Peter Squire]

Rush - Moving Pictures
Blues Brothers - Collection
Neil Finn - 7 Worlds Collide
Pearl Jam - 10

[Correlli]

Shihad - Killjoy

[tappingtrance]

Where have I Know You before - chick corea with Stanley Clarke [he finially had gotten his Alembic and his playing is timeless on this album

[heath_the_great]

Originally Posted by Peter Squire

Neil Finn - 7 Worlds Collide

thats the sorta recent album he did will all different artists wasnt it?..i wasnt real impressed by that...

If the Crowded House Farewell concert was available on CD that'd definately be on the list, the video/dvd is a MUST though

[slackdaddy]

Donny Hathaway - Live
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Led Zeppelin - II

[xolin]

Originally Posted by heath_the_great

+10 on Jeff Beck Blow By Blow
so yeah, theres a few
bit of rockabilly, funk, blues, hip hop, rnb, jazz, rock, pop and everything in between there

I was gonna say everything you put was awesome...but maroon 5? Hardly pioneering, epitome, or perfection...IMO.

Primus - Sailin the Seas of Cheese
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come
Prince - Dirty Mind
Big Bro. & the Holding Co. F. Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Led Zeppelin II
The Tea Party - Edges of Twilight
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden, Powerslave
Opeth - Deliverance, Blackwater Park
Metallica - Damn...Kill em All, Master of Puppets, And Justice for All
Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off, Surrealistic Pillow
Sly And the Family Stone - Stand!, There's a Riot Goin' On
Jaco Pastorius [self titled]
James Brown - The Payback
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth, Bleeding, Eaten Back to Life
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Bitches Brew
John Coltrane - Blue Train, Giant Steps, My Favorite Things
Sold Out! The Greatest Rock & Roll Show in the World - Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats domino...
Marcus Miller - Msquared
Dr. Dre - Chronic (he tagged some sick low-end lines)
Necrophagist - EPITAPH (gawddamn)
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Stanley Jordan - My Favorite Things

And more basics...

[d8g3jdh]

How could I have forgotten?

Fragile/The Yes Album - Yes (pick one)

[SoComSurfing]

Alot of great suggestions, but I can't believe I'm not seeing any Stevie!
Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collection
The Beatles - White Album, Abbey Road, 1
Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves

and keeping with xolin's Ornette Coleman suggestion:
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

[MAJOR METAL]

Alot of Metallica.

[flatwounds]

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats.
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory.
Stanley Clarke - School Days.
Ramones - Ramones.
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks.
Travelin' Wilburys - Vol 1.
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour.
Highwaymen - The Road Goes on Forever.

[xolin]

Originally Posted by flatwounds

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory.

"My man, Ron Carter's on the bass..Yes, Ron Carter's on the bass..."
-Q-tip

[SoCalStu]

New here, so I guess the list is for my type, but..

The Doors [self titled]
Pink Floyd - Animals
RHCP
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
Stills Crosby Nash Young
Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia, John McGlaughlin Friday Night in San Fransisco

[Blackbird]

Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL

A lot of Metallica.

I agree, but we need titles.

There's a point to this exercise. In the long term.

A few more from me:

Return To Forever - Return to Forever, Light as a Feather, Romantic Warrior
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Live Art, Flight of the Cosmic Hippo.
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Some Girls
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow, The Queen is Dead, Strangeways, Here We Come.
Michel Petricciani trio: Live in Tokyo

[heath_the_great]

[quote=xolin]I was gonna say everything you put was awesome...but maroon 5? Hardly pioneering, epitome, or perfection...IMO./QUOTE]
i admit they aint something great...but their music, the album is kinda diverse, just clever pop music really

RHCP - Mothers Milk
Jamiroquai - A Funk Oddysey
The Larry Graham and Graham Central Station Anthology
Metallica - St Anger
Echobrain
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu - Baduism Live
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Justin Timberlake - Justified (great production )
Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind
Ben Harper - Live From Mars
Pete Murray - Feeler
Paul Weller - Studio 150
Incubus - Science
Incubus - Fungus Amungus
Dread Zeppelin - Un-Led-ded (AWESOME!!)
War Of The Worlds (70's musical version with Phil Lynott as the priest...awe inspiring)
Flash Gordon Soundtrack - Queen
SRV - Texas Flood