Recommendations: Musicians' Favorite Albums

Submitted by dgeiser13 on Wed, 03/23/2005 - 05:36
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    Tom Waits
     
    Tom Waits' 28 Favorite Albums (circa March 2005)
  1. In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra (Capitol) 1955
  2. Solo Monk by Thelonious Monk (Columbia) 1964
  3. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart (Straight) 1969
  4. Exile On Main St. by Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones Records) 1972
  5. The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars (Point Music) 1975
  6. The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan (Columbia) 1975
  7. Lounge Lizards by Lounge Lizards (EG) 1980
  8. Rum Sodomy and the Lash by The Pogues (Stiff) 1985
  9. I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen (Columbia) 1988
  10. The Specialty Sessions by Little Richard (Specialty Records) 1989
  11. Startime by James Brown (Polydor) 1991
  12. Bohemian-Moravian Bands by Texas-Czech (Folk Lyric) 1993
  13. The Yellow Shark by Frank Zappa (Barking Pumpkin) 1993
  14. Passion for Opera Aria (EMI Classics) 1994
  15. Rant in E Minor by Bill Hicks (Rykodisc) 1997
  16. Prison Songs: Murderous Home Alan Lomax Collection (Rounder Select) 1997
  17. Cubanos Postizos by Marc Ribot (Atlantic) 1998
  18. Houndog by Houndog (Sony) 1999
  19. Purple Onion by Les Claypool (Prawn Song) 2002
  20. The Delivery Man by Elvis Costello (Mercury) 2004
  21. Martinis & Bikinis by Sam Phillips (Virgin) 1994
  22. Shakin’ the Rafters by The Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir (Sony) 1960
  23. Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues by 'The Masked Marvel' Charley Patton (Revonant) 2001
  24. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles (ABC Paramount) 1962
  25. Harry Partch Collection Vol 1 (New World Records) 2004
  26. Let The Buyer Beware by Lenny Bruce (Shout! Factory) 2004
  27. Last Sessions by Leadbelly (Smithsonian Folkways) 1994
  28. Ompa Til du Dør by Kaizers Orchestra (Broiler Farm) 2001
AJDaGreat03/23/2005

Oh damn, I saw this list of Michael Stipe's top 10 albums once, but now I can't find it. I'm pretty sure it had Patti Smith's Horses, Gang of Four's Entertainment!, and Wire's Pink Flag. Other than that, I can't remember. Did anyone else see this?

timshack05/08/2005

Perhaps you are talking about this brief article in the March 2004 Spin magazine:
http://www.spin.com/features/magazine/2004/03/life_music_michael_stipe/

They are:
1. Patti Smith - Horses
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. Wire - Pink Flag
4. Velvet Undergound - The Velvet Underground & Nico
5. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
6. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
7. Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants
8. Suicide (first album)
9. Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
10. Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy

/timshack

AJDaGreat05/08/2005

Exactly! Thank you!