Chart of the day (#2980): By PurpleHazel - Music

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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by PurpleHazel (View chart)

1. Presents Charles Mingus by Charles Mingus (1961)
2. Band Of Gypsys by Jimi Hendrix (1970)
3. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane (1965)
4. Fresh by Sly & The Family Stone (1973)
5. Miles Smiles by Miles Davis Quintet (1967)
6. Truth by The Jeff Beck Group (1968)
7. Still Bill by Bill Withers (1972)
8. Rain Dogs by Tom Waits (1985)
9. Mothership Connection by Parliament (1975)
10. Just The Facts And Pass The Bucket by Henry Threadgill Sextet (1983)
11. The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus (1963)
12. Solid Gold by James Brown (1977)
13. The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 by Miles Davis (2005)
14. Revolver by The Beatles (1966)
15. Live In Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 by Miles Davis Quintet (2013)
16. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (1969)
17. The Shape Of Jazz To Come by Ornette Coleman (1959)
18. Uncle Meat by The Mothers Of Invention (1969)
19. Soulville by Ben Webster (1957)
20. What's Going On by Marvin Gaye (1971)
21. The Velvet Underground And Nico by The Velvet Underground And Nico (1967)
22. Moanin' In The Moonlight by Howlin' Wolf (1959)
23. Every Picture Tells A Story by Rod Stewart (1971)
24. Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul by Otis Redding (1965)
25. Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones (1969)
26. Look-Ka Py Py by The Meters (1969)
27. Maggot Brain by Funkadelic (1971)
28. Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk (1957)
29. The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery by Wes Montgomery (1960)
30. The Best Of Muddy Waters by Muddy Waters (1958)
31. They Say I'm Different by Betty Davis (1974)
32. Innervisions by Stevie Wonder (1973)
33. Rubber Soul by The Beatles (1965)
34. Live At The Village Vanguard by John Coltrane (1962)
35. Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)
36. Stone Crazy! by Buddy Guy (1981)
37. Apostrophe (') by Frank Zappa (1974)
38. Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter (1966)
39. Who's Next by The Who (1971)
40. Gentleman by Fela Kuti & Africa 70 (1973)
41. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young With Crazy Horse (1969)
42. Escalator Over The Hill by Carla Bley / Paul Haines (1971)
43. Sign 'O' The Times by Prince (1987)
44. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars by David Bowie (1972)
45. Astral Weeks by Van Morrison (1968)
46. The Bridge by Sonny Rollins (1962)
47. Electric Warrior by T. Rex (1971)
48. Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin (1968)
49. Ege Bamyasi by Can (1972)
50. Freak Out! by The Mothers Of Invention (1966)
51. Call Me by Al Green (1973)
52. Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie (2005)
53. The Scene Of The Crime by Bettye LaVette (2007)
54. The Best Of Solomon Burke by Solomon Burke (1965)
55. Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1979)
56. Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck (1975)
57. Live In Tokyo by Weather Report (1972)
58. Superfly by Curtis Mayfield (1972)
59. The Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra (1971)
60. There's A Riot Goin' On by Sly & The Family Stone (1971)
61. Born Under A Bad Sign by Albert King (1967)
62. Rip, Rig & Panic by The Roland Kirk Quartet Featuring Elvin Jones (1965)
63. Evolution by Grachan Moncur III (1964)
64. The Meters by The Meters (1969)
65. Check Your Head by Beastie Boys (1992)
66. Nevermind by Nirvana (1991)
67. Unity by Larry Young (1966)
68. Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (1959)
69. Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell (1963)
70. Aja by Steely Dan (1977)
71. Straight Life by Freddie Hubbard (1971)
72. Expansions by McCoy Tyner (1968)
73. In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson (1969)
74. The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett (1975)
75. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin (1969)
76. Ellington Uptown by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra (1952)
77. Talkin' About by Grant Green (1964)
78. Unrest by Henry Cow (1974)
79. Brand Spankin' New by Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash (1998)
80. Abraxas by Santana (1970)
81. Karma by Pharoah Sanders (1969)
82. Music From Big Pink by The Band (1968)
83. Spiritual Unity by Albert Ayler Trio (1965)
84. Live by Bill Frisell / Kermit Driscoll / Joey Baron (1995)
85. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy (1988)
86. House Party by Jimmy Smith (1958)
87. Dub Housing by Pere Ubu (1978)
88. Dogon A.D. by Julius Hemphill (1972)
89. One Step Beyond by Jackie McLean (1963)
90. Animals by Pink Floyd (1977)
91. What Means Solid, Traveller? by David Torn (1996)
92. The Exciting New Organ Of Don Patterson by Don Patterson (1964)
93. Mandance by Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society (1982)
94. Spiderland by Slint (1991)
95. Sparks! by Melvin Sparks (1970)
96. Roy Buchanan by Roy Buchanan (1972)
97. Big Band Record by Ray Anderson (1994)
98. Disco Volante by Mr. Bungle (1995)
99. Lenox Avenue Breakdown by Arthur Blythe (1978)
100. Revue by World Saxophone Quartet (1982)

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Fischman
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Fantastic List!
In addition to some most excellent, but fairly standard choices (e.g. Love Supreme), there's lots of very cool less than obvious gems. I loved seeing these not-ofte (or never) listed items:

9. Mothership Connection by Parliament (1975)
10. Just The Facts And Pass The Bucket by Henry Threadgill Sextet (1983)
27. Maggot Brain by Funkadelic (1971)
36. Stone Crazy! by Buddy Guy (1981)
69. Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell (1963)
71. Straight Life by Freddie Hubbard (1971)
72. Expansions by McCoy Tyner (1968)
74. The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett (1975)
76. Ellington Uptown by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra (1952)
78. Unrest by Henry Cow (1974)
84. Live by Bill Frisell / Kermit Driscoll / Joey Baron (1995)
86. House Party by Jimmy Smith (1958)
89. One Step Beyond by Jackie McLean (1963)

I've reviewed a number of your jazz choices in my jazz diary and spotted a couple more that I'm adding to my future listening list for said diary.

Good stuff there!

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Fischman nails it.
Killer list with originality.

mianfei

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Although there are a few points of interest regarding the earliest recordings on this list, I cannot agree that Mothership Connection, Maggot Brain, and even Unrest are “very cool” or “less than obvious” or “not-ofte (or never-) listed items”.

I do have both those artists (I count Parliament and Funkadelic as one artist because the personnel are related) in my own chart, and have known of them from Joe S. Harrington, David Keenan and Piero Scaruffi (respectively) for many years now.

Aside from that, there are some interesting selections with which I am unfamiliar even up the artist level, like Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket, Soulville, Stone Crazy!, Evolution, Talking About, House Party, Dogon A.D. and four of the five from #96 to #100. It is also interesting to see The Meters in an all-time best-of as I have never done so before.

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mianfei wrote:

Although there are a few points of interest regarding the earliest recordings on this list, I cannot agree that Mothership Connection, Maggot Brain, and even Unrest are “very cool” or “less than obvious” or “not-ofte (or never-) listed items”.

I do have both those artists (I count Parliament and Funkadelic as one artist because the personnel are related) in my own chart, and have known of them from Joe S. Harrington, David Keenan and Piero Scaruffi (respectively) for many years now.

Aside from that, there are some interesting selections with which I am unfamiliar even up the artist level, like Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket, Soulville, Stone Crazy!, Evolution, Talking About, House Party, Dogon A.D. and four of the five from #96 to #100. It is also interesting to see The Meters in an all-time best-of as I have never done so before.

Not everyone reads Scaruffi. Unrest isn't even in the top 7k here, so I'd say that definitely counts as less obvious.

Why wouldn't you agree that those albums are very cool?? George Clinton is cool as hell.

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Anyway, great chart! It would be perfect if it had more twenty-first century albums (I see only one).
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Fischman
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mianfei wrote:

Although there are a few points of interest regarding the earliest recordings on this list, I cannot agree that Mothership Connection, Maggot Brain, and even Unrest are “very cool” or “less than obvious” or “not-ofte (or never-) listed items”.

I do have both those artists (I count Parliament and Funkadelic as one artist because the personnel are related) in my own chart, and have known of them from Joe S. Harrington, David Keenan and Piero Scaruffi (respectively) for many years now.

Aside from that, there are some interesting selections with which I am unfamiliar even up the artist level, like Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket, Soulville, Stone Crazy!, Evolution, Talking About, House Party, Dogon A.D. and four of the five from #96 to #100. It is also interesting to see The Meters in an all-time best-of as I have never done so before.

Mothership Connection is fairly well known, but not many folks would put it all the way up in the top 10, especially in an overall chart. Henry Cow is pretty much unknown outside devotees of art rock or prog. Even on this site, he may show up on 35 charts, but they're almost all year or decade charts... very few overall charts.

Meanwhile, Evolution is widely considered one if the all time great seminal groundbreaking jazz albums. It may not be on a lot of charts on this site, but in the bigger world, it is a frequent lister that gets plenty of rep.

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So this is why I dig PurpleHazel.

mianfei

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Fischman wrote:

Mothership Connection is fairly well known, but not many folks would put it all the way up in the top 10, especially in an overall chart. Henry Cow is pretty much unknown outside devotees of art rock or prog. Even on this site, he may show up on 35 charts, but they're almost all year or decade charts... very few overall charts.

Meanwhile, Evolution is widely considered one if the all time great seminal groundbreaking jazz albums. It may not be on a lot of charts on this site, but in the bigger world, it is a frequent lister that gets plenty of rep.

As regarding the first point, Mothership Connection was #6 in ‘Joe S. Harrington’s Top 100 Albums’ on the webzine Blastitude back in 2003, so the idea of it being an all-time Top 10 album is less novel to me than even the albums in the Best Ever Albums or Rate Your Music or Acclaimed Music all-time Top 10s which I wholly ignore when looking at what album I should listen to.

I had a look and did find two other member all-time charts with Mothership Connection in the top ten, so finding it there is not that odd compared to other personal charts with which I have been familiar for the past decade and a half. Maggot Brain – of which I substantially agree with Harrington’s opinion that it is “marred by aimless jams” – is no different.

I will agree that Henry Cow is not well known outside of those who have read Scaruffi or devotees of art rock or prog. I saw Unrest on only two other all-time charts on this site, so I should be cautious about any album primarily known to those reading Scaruffi. I might go so far as for it to be a piece of blindness on my part given two later albums by them and the Art Bears on my own chart – and two is all I allow for bands as related as those.