Which Recordings would be listed in a TalkBass Basic Library?

[the harp unstrung]

Level 42 : level 42

I remember seeing Level 42 open up for Tina Turner...1999 / 2000...in Birmingham, AL.
That guy was GREAT!

 

[Joe Bananas]

Some of my faves.

 

[BazzTard]

in no particular order

Led Zeppelin 1

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Yes - Fragile

Rush - Moving Pictures

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

The Beatles - Revolver

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Led Zeppelin 2

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Cold Chisel - Breakfast At Sweethearts

ACDC - TNT

 

[jd56hawk]

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.

Nine pages and no one's mentioned Alice Cooper? Dennis Dunaway is a bass immortal!
Alice Cooper-Killer and School's Out

 

[ThePresident777]

Stand Up - Jethro Tull
The Worst of Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane
The Best of Mountain - Mountain
Truth - Jeff Beck
Beck-Ola - Jeff Beck
Blow By Blow - Jeff Beck
Wired - Jeff Beck
Mojo - Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Who Hits 50! - The Who
The Motown Sound, The Complete Albums and More - Earl Van Dyke
Dose - Gov't Mule
Phenomena - UFO
Audio slave - Audio Slave
Clutch - Clutch
Black Sabbath - Black sabbath
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
13 - Black sabbath
Band of Gypsys - Band of Gypsys
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Begger's Banquet - The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Aenima - Tool
The Doors - The Doors
Gold - Cream

 

[madidus]

James Brown - Godfather
Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Greatest (and I'm not just talking about Hit me with your rhythm stick, Norman Watt-Roy is under-appreciated IMHO)
Uriah Heep - Wizards & Demons, Sweet Freedom
Rollins Band - Come in and Burn
Beatles - Revolver, Sgt Peppers, White Album, Abbey Road
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Cold Chisel - Circus Animals
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Tool - Aenima

And the most important essential bass guitar albums - anything by the Doors and White Stripes

 

[plav1959]

A few more I haven't seen posted yet:

Chris Squire - Fish out of Water
King Crimson - THRAK
XTC - Nonsuch

 

[Eyesee7]

Elvis Costello - "This Year's Model" .

Bruce Thomas gives a bass clinic.

 

[Billyzoom]

No WAR??!!

Let's start there...

War - The Anthology

Stax/Volt - The Complete Singles

Earth, Wind and Fire - That's the Way of The World, Gratitude, The Essential EWF

The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach

Aretha Franklin - The Age Of Aretha Franklin

Average White Band - The Essentials

BB King - Live at the Regal

The Blasters - American Music

Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration, Uprising, Legend, Catch a Fire

Boz Scaggs - Hits!

Commodores - Ultimate Collection

Culture - International Herb

D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

Dio - The Very Best of Dio

Donny Hathaway - Self titled, These Songs For You, A DH Collection

Ernestine Anderson - Great Moments with Ernestine Anderson

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Freddie King - Live at the Electric Ballroom

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Best of

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Essential

Jackson 5 - Gold

James Brown - Say It Live And Loud: Live in Dallas

Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott

Jimmy Herring - Lifeboat

Johnny Winter - Self-titled

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Living Colour - Time's Up

The Main Ingredient - The best of

Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

Ohio Players - The Millennium Collection

Parliament - Greatest Hits

Paul Simon - Live Rhymin', Graceland

Queen - Greatest Hits

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story

Rush - Moving Pictures

Screaming Headless Torsos - Live!

Sly and the Family Stone - The Essential

Steely Dan - Gold

Spinners - Very Best Of

Talking Heads - Best of

Tavares - Anthology

Tony Monaco - East to West

TOP - TOP, Bump City

Van Morrison - Moondance, His Band and the E Street Choir, Best of 1 & 2

Wilson Pickett - Very Best Of

X - Los Angeles, Wild Gift

 

[Jeffro3004]

Nearly all the albums I would suggest are already on the above posts but I would add

Totally Driven - Uriah Heep

A master class of rock bass playing by Trevor Bolder.

 

[stratovani]

I'm not going to read all these posts, since there are way too many excellent choices, but I'll just add a few of my somewhat lesser-known favorites.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs
Rory Gallagher - Live In Europe

 

[Yonni]

As relative newbie (6 months playing bass) who has hit a rut I was going to start a similar thread for some inspiration. Great to see a lot of my record collection mentioned so I guess I should just go back and start there. Surprised to see only 2 mentions for Brand X. Percy Jones is often overlooked but a phenomenal talent. Check out Moroccan Roll if you don't know them. Doesn't hurt that they have Phil Collins doing what he does best too.

 

[Art Damage]

A Wilhelm Scream - Career Suicide. The bass work on this album is phenomenal, and in a genre of music that likely most folks wouldn't consider a cornerstone of bass virtuosity (is that a word?) One of my favorite albums, favorite BASS albums, of all time and I believe it's worthy of being included.

 

[abotaun]

I will repeat some for sure, there are some great lists posted. Some albums where the bass is inspiring for one reason or another -
Elvis costello: this year's model
Primus: pork soda, sailing the seas of cheese
Morphine: cure for pain
Pixies: Doolittle
Breeders: last splash
Red hot chili peppers: bssm
Yes: fragile, close to the edge
Fugazi: the argument
Econochrist: trained to serve
King crimson: red
Death: individual thought patterns, sound of perseverance
Rush: permanent waves
Pinback: autumn of the seraphs
Dismemberment plan: change
Disappears: pre language
Smith's: strangeways here we come, hatful of hollow
Jaco: s/t
Talking heads: 77
Red sparowes: at the soundless Dawn
Broken social scene: you forget it in people

 

[flatwoundjohn]

1.Jefferson Airplane--Surrealistic Pillow
2.Vanilla Fudge-Renaissance
3.JET-Shine On
4.The Asteroids Galaxy Tour-Fruit
5.The Beatles-Magical Mystery Tour
6.The Beatles-Abbey Road
7.JET-Shaka Rock
8.The Fray-The Fray
9.Coldplay-Viva La Vida
10.Jefferson Airplane--Crown Of Creation

 

[Izzy Crosby]

Cross Country Tour - Ahmad Jamal

 

[PsychedelicJohn]

Mine Would Be

1.JET-Shine On,Shaka Rock
2.The Asteroid Galaxy Tour---Fruit,Out Of Frequency,Bring Us Together
3.The Beatles---Magical Mystery Tour,Abbey Road
4.Jefferson Airplane---After Bathing At Baxters,Crown Of Creations
5.Labyrinth, Sia And Diplo Present:LSD
6.Three Dog Night---Naturally
7.Jessica Hernandez And The Delta's---Secert Evil
8.Marit Larsen--The Chase,Under The Surface,Joni Was Right 1 &2,When The Morning Comes
9.Country Joe And The Fish--Electric Music For The Mind and Body,I Feel Like Im Fixin To Die
10.Magic Man---Before The Waves
11.The Ok Go---Ok Go
12.The Breakups---Eat Your Heart Out
13.The Donnas---Gold Medal
14.The Fray--How To Save A Life
15.Vanilla Fudge-- renaissance

 

[Billyzoom]

Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Cool and Steady and Easy

Screaming Headless Torsos - Live

Earth, Wind and Fire - That’s the way of the world, Gratitude

Dyke and the Blazers - The Funky Broadway

Keith Jarrett - Always Let Me Go

Average White Band - AWB and Cut the Cake

 

[LiptonJigglers]

Hunters and Collectors : Betty's Worry or the Slab...
Birthday Party 6 inch gold blade.

 

[almost human]

Not sure if it was mentioned, but "Eat 'Em And Smile" should probably be included. Billy was just insane on that one...