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Which Recordings would be listed in a TalkBass Basic Library?

#21
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial (best of)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I & II
Bob Marley - Gold (best of)
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Kill 'em all
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Queen - Greatest Hits
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Exit... Stage Left
Yes - Close to the Edge
ZZTop - Rancho Texicano : The Very Best of

These are my personnal "must have" (there are a lot more, but this is the basics...)
 
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#22
I was actually shocked to see some of the suggestions...
And didn't come across one Steely Dan!!

"Aja" Steely Dan (Chuck Rainey & Walter Becker)
"Upfront" David Sanborn (Marcus Miller-IMO, much better than his solo stuff-he kills that record)

My students would ask me what disc's to get. And I would suggest those two.
I would tell them:
"If you want to become a good contemporary jazz/pop/rock/R&B bassist, learn each one front to back. Not just the tunes, but how they groove."
 
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heath_the_great said:
i like hearing other teachers album suggestions....

personally i gave my students Jeff Becks Blow By Blow and Band Of Gypises...IMO they're the epitome of Groove, How to Support and be upfront, and be simple
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Blow By Blow- freakin' great album!!
 
#29
heath_the_great said:
although i only got them last night ill DEFINATELY add them to the list
The Roots - Organix
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
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Heath, if you haven't already, check out People's Instinctive Travels in the Path of Rhythm(That's from memory?) and Midnight Marauders by A Tribe Called Quest. People's was their debut, then came Low-end, followed by Midnight Marauders.

All three are highly recommended.
 
#30
a few more
Rhonda Smith - Intellipop....after a few more listenings this album really grows on me, seriously, its the first solo bassist album iver heard where theres been multi-tracked bass that doesnt interfere with anything....its a real nice pop/rnb album

Stu Hamm - Kings Of Sleep...everybody loves hamm

Vail Johnson - Says Who...some rather interesting songs and playing

Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music
 
#33
Alright. I'm hopin' to start teaching some beginning kids sometime soon to help make a couple bucks. I guess this would be the list of CD's I would tell them to check out (though I do need more Jazz and R&B). Lemme see...

The Who-Quadrophenia/Live at Leeds (HOW DID NO ONE MENTION THE WHO YET?)
Rush-Moving Pictures
Opeth-Blackwater Park/Live at Sheppard's Gate
Marvin Gaye-What's Goin' On
Some Motown hits collection
Sade-Diamond Life
Queensryche-Operation: Mindcrime
Jaco-S/T
Los Lonely Boys-S/T
John Mayer Trio-TRY!
D'Angello-Voodoo
Beatles-Abbey Road/Revolver
Ben Folds Five-Whatever and Ever Amen
Green Day-Kerplunk!
Operation Ivy-S/T
Don Henley-End of the Innocence (Pino is all over a couple songs on there)
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones-Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Beach Boys-Pet Sounds
Dave Matthews Band-Central Park Concert
Derek and the Dominoes-Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Living End-S/T
Johnny Cash-Live at Folsom Prison
Incubus-S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Iron Maiden-Live After Death
James Brown-Live at the Appolo
Megadeth-Peace Sells.../Rust In Peace
No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom
NOFX-Punk in Drublic/Pump Up the Vallum
Ozomatli-Live at the Fillmore
Peter Gabriel-So
Pink Floyd-Animals/Dark Side of the Moon
The Police-Every Breath You Take, The Classics
Steely Dan-Decade of Steely Dan
Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life
STP-Thank You
Sublime-S/T
Third Eye Blind-S/T
Thursday-Full Collapse
Tool-Aenima
Tower of Power-What is Hip?
U2-Joshua Tree/War
The Standing in the Shadows of Motown Soundtrack, DVD AND book
Weather Report-Heavy Weather
Willie Nelson-16 Biggest Hits/Red Headed Stranger
Yes-Fragile

Lynard Skynard-Skynard's Innards Greatest Hits (just to prepare beginners for drunks yelling at them to play it front to back) :help:

And just to make sure things stay fun:
Tenacious D-S/T
Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer-Popsicle E.P.
 
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#40
jamiroquai - return of the space cowboy
porno for pyros - porno for pyros
mahavishnu orchestra - birds of fire
king crimson - the great deceiver, in the court of the crimson king
the breeders - last splash
beastie boys - pollywog stew (aka some old bullsh**), aglio e olio, (also the aforementioned "in sound from way out")
sod - speak english or die
ween - pure guava, god ween satan
bauhaus - burning from the inside
devo - freedom of choice, oh no, its devo
primus - miscellaneous debris

and pretty much anything by the masters: zeppelin, sun ra, herbie, stevie, jimi, JB, p-funk, the meters, lakeside, dick cheese
 

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