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I hereby challenge all readers to put out their personal list of the 20 Greatest albums of all time.
Top 15 /10 is also appreciated.
Use the comments section in this post or check out our Facebook page.
The poll will be open till Tuesday’ish.
The rules:
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Again: Don’t take theses lists so seriously ! It’s meant to be FUN.
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It was a great poll to host, and we got lists in from 52 musicologists.
notes:
| # | Album | Artist | votes |
| 1 | Highway 61 Revisited (1965) | Bob Dylan | 29 |
| 2 | Blood On The Tracks (1975) | Bob Dylan | 26 |
| 3 | Blonde On Blonde (1966) | Bob Dylan | 25 |
| 4 | Revolver (1966) | The Beatles | 18 |
| 5 | Exile On Main St. (1972) | The Rolling Stones | 17 |
| 6 | Astral Weeks (1968) | Van Morrison | 15 |
| 7 | Rubber Soul (1965) | The Beatles | 14 |
| 8 | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) | The Beatles | 13 |
| 8 | White Album (1968) | The Beatles | 13 |
| 10 | Abbey Road (1969) | The Beatles | 12 |
| 10 | Let It Bleed (1969) | The Rolling Stones | 12 |
| 10 | Who’s Next (1971) | The Who | 12 |
| 13 | Kind Of Blue (1959) | Miles Davis | 11 |
| 14 | John Wesley Harding (1967) | Bob Dylan | 10 |
| 14 | The Band (1969) | The Band | 10 |
| 16 | Bringing It All Back Home (1965) | Bob Dylan | 8 |
| 16 | Dark Side Of The Moon | Pink Floyd | 8 |
| 16 | Music From Big Pink (1968) | The Band | 8 |
| 16 | Beggar’s Banquet (1968) | The Rolling Stones | 8 |
| 16 | Sticky Fingers (1971) | The Rolling Stones | 8 |
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My list – 20 favorite albums:
Continue reading These are the 20 Greatest albums of all time according to the JV community
The Beatles were such a prolific album act that it’s sometimes hard to abstract their later singles; here, they ride their roots as a bar band in Liverpool and Hamburg to a new kind of glory.
~Dave Marsh (The Heart of Rock & Soul)The opening circular riff, played on 12-string guitar by George Harrison, was a signpost for the folk-rock wave that would ride through rock music itself in 1965.
~Richie Unterberger (allmusic.com)
| Released | 9 April 1965 |
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| Recorded | 15 February 1965, EMI Studios, London |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 3:10 |
| Label | Parlophone |
| Writer | Lennon–McCartney |
| Producer | George Martin |
John Lennon: double-tracked lead vocals and rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney: vocals, bass and lead guitar
George Harrison: rhythm guitar
Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine and handclaps
“Ticket to Ride” is a song by the Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15 February 1965 and released two months later. In 2004, this song was ranked number 394 on Rolling Stone‘s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.
They say this was one of John’s personal favorites, probably because it has his most soulful vocal ever. But “Ticket to Ride” is intricate and interesting all the way through, with Paul playing mean lead guitar and Ringo dispelling all doubt about his prowess as a drummer: The groove comes straight out of his pure backbeat.
~Dave Marsh (The Heart of Rock & Soul)Ticket To Ride was slightly a new sound at the time. It was pretty fucking heavy for then, if you go and look in the charts for what other music people were making. You hear it now and it doesn’t sound too bad; but it’d make me cringe. If you give me the A track and I remix it, I’ll show you what it is really, but you can hear it there. It’s a heavy record and the drums are heavy too. That’s why I like it.
– John Lennon (Anthology)
Ticket To Ride (Video-Mix 1965) HD 0815007:
Continue reading The Beatles 40 best songs: at 18 Ticket To Ride
Hank Thompson was perhaps the most popular Western swing musician of the ’50s and ’60s, keeping the style alive with a top-notch band, tremendous showmanship, and a versatility that allowed him to expand his repertoire into romantic ballads and hardcore honky tonk numbers.
~Steve Huey (allmusic.com)The glamour of the gay night life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Where you wait to be anybody’s baby
And forget the truest love you’ll ever know
~Hank Thompson – “The Wild Side of Life”
The Wild Side of Life:
Continue reading September 3: The late Hank Thompson was born in 1925
Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe, relax, and uplift the mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.
~Horace Silver“We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.”
~Horace Silver
Horace Silver died of natural causes this summer (June 18, 2014)
Song For My Father – Live – Denmark TV 1968:
Continue reading September 2: The late great Jazz legend Horace Silver was born in 1928