Frankie Knuckles: House Masters by Various Artists
Fuuuuck I totally forgot this came out. Listening immediately. Rumor has it it might rival the Greatest Hits from Trax comp
Upon listening to this and watching an excellent interview with the late Frankie Knuckles (linked below), I feel this is the new yardstick to which I compare any of the other house albums I listen to. It's that good. I would highly recommend it.
Here's another record I own that I like way more than any "real" album I've heard.
I think someone went through the effort to find the best recordings (not the most "polished" ones either) that captures Billie's voice and sass.
I'm redoing my 50's decade chart and now that I've listened to these records, I'd totally rather listen to the best of... not that the records below aren't any good, it's just not as enjoyable of an experience. And I think it better fits her... I don't think she's an album writer, but all about the songs.
Lady Sings the Blues
Lady In Satin
All Or Nothing At All
Stay With Me
Songs For Distingué Lovers
Billie Holiday Sings
Call me shallow, but that's my opinion. What's funny is the Essence of Billie Holiday doesn't have as many smooth recordings, and while some of the tracks are on the recordings above, I feel these more crass poor recordings capture her sass better.
^ I've not heard that particular Billie collection but it definitely sounds worth checking out
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Frankie Knuckles: House Masters by Various Artists
Fuuuuck I totally forgot this came out. Listening immediately. Rumor has it it might rival the Greatest Hits from Trax comp
Upon listening to this and watching an excellent interview with the late Frankie Knuckles (linked below), I feel this is the new yardstick to which I compare any of the other house albums I listen to. It's that good. I would highly recommend it.
This was about as good as I expected it to be, and being a Frankie Knuckles hopeless fanboy that means it was AMAZING and in all honestly might even be a more cohesive comp that the legendary Trax Records hits album. Man's a true legend in every sense of the word. RIP
Btw have you heard the DJ set he did Live @ Ministry of Sound 1991? It's not technically an album or a comp or anything as far as I know but it's honestly some of my favorite recorded music in existence
Of course regular albums are to be preferred and that's why my regular top lists per year, decade etc usually don't contain compilations but I do have a custom,list with best best ofs. This list mainly consists artists from whom I don't know the regular albums or which are mainly singles bands; in the past I bought my CDs so I owned some compilations but now that I have Apple Music, I'm gradually substituting them with the regular albums so this list should get smaller.
But there are some examples in which the compilations do give an extra value:
- Compilations with special mixes: Here the quintessential example is Substance by New Order: the individual albums of New Order are not that good, but Substance with the long remixes is just fantastic
- some compilations chosen by the artist himself with additional comments and with a good mix of the artists' musical Career sometimes do give a surplus value: the best example here is Between Thoughts and Expressions by Lou Reed
- sometimes a compilation of two or three albums of a certainly era of an artist can be very good with typical example The Asylum Years by Tom Waits
- and finally sometimes a compilation of outtakes or b-sides can be very good like Besides from Sugar.
Here's another record I own that I like way more than any "real" album I've heard.
I was actually gonna use Billie as an example (but with Lady Day instead). Billie's studio albums were all recorded later in her career, when her voice had declined from her early recordings and she mostly stuck to strings, so to get a taste of her (imo superior) jazzier recordings you kinda need comps. _________________
Here's another record I own that I like way more than any "real" album I've heard.
I was actually gonna use Billie as an example (but with Lady Day instead). Billie's studio albums were all recorded later in her career, when her voice had declined from her early recordings and she mostly stuck to strings, so to get a taste of her (imo superior) jazzier recordings you kinda need comps.
Agreed.
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
Of course regular albums are to be preferred and that's why my regular top lists per year, decade etc usually don't contain compilations but I do have a custom,list with best best ofs. This list mainly consists artists from whom I don't know the regular albums or which are mainly singles bands; in the past I bought my CDs so I owned some compilations but now that I have Apple Music, I'm gradually substituting them with the regular albums so this list should get smaller.
But there are some examples in which the compilations do give an extra value:
- Compilations with special mixes: Here the quintessential example is Substance by New Order: the individual albums of New Order are not that good, but Substance with the long remixes is just fantastic
- some compilations chosen by the artist himself with additional comments and with a good mix of the artists' musical Career sometimes do give a surplus value: the best example here is Between Thoughts and Expressions by Lou Reed
- sometimes a compilation of two or three albums of a certainly era of an artist can be very good with typical example The Asylum Years by Tom Waits
- and finally sometimes a compilation of outtakes or b-sides can be very good like Besides from Sugar.
Agreed. It reminds me of this best of, which has a second cd of B-sides I enjoyed listening to. A great B sides... no that would be the other album below, but decent, sure.
So the other part of this problem is I want to put best of compilations for say the crew cuts on my 50s chart because they (according to wikipedia) didn't really have an album, and try finding one... But I do feel like their style was really important to 50s doo-wop. Can't do that on this site... it's a best of from the 90s or something lame.
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