Up The Drummer's Down Staircase: 50 Steps To Music Heaven (dow jones average)

Utterly embarrassed that i forgot to include Broken English in my list so going with that.

great list! Wanna Buy A Bridge? gets my vote

I went through a phase in the late '00s where I downloaded a bunch of compilations of then-contemporary '80s UK indie: this, C81 and C86, Pillows & Prayers 1 & 2, London Pavilion 1 & 2, etc. it seemed like a more authentic gateway to music of that era than retrospective comps (and I guess it kind of allowed me to LARP as a young person discovering that music organically back in the day). not sure why I've only rarely taken the same approach for other eras/genres. it's a little surprising that Wanna Buy A Bridge? has never been officially reissued, as I figured it was about as legendary as C86, which has spawned 50 billion spinoffs in recent years

xpost embarrassed that I left out the New York Dolls' Too Much Too Soon, but don't know what I would have dropped from this 50 make room---we can always do more of these---

ilxor Dan Selzer almost got an official WBAB? out, tells the story at end of this thread (which points out that playlists of the album are prob extant, although I haven't checked)
The Great Lost Albums

huh, very interesting (and crazy/sad timing wrt Nikki Sudden's death)

Voted Gato's Chapter One: Latin America, a Sunday kind of love on blast and songcloud jungle mountain night and day trek through beaded curtains.

voted Devotion as promised (as much for Larry Young's presence as anything)

Voting for Sun Ra singles

another vote for Wanna Buy A Bridge

Don't know all of these but went with the Gram Parsons/Emmylou. Happy to see that Tony Allen/Masakela album, I love that.

Tons of great stuff here! I'm going for Sir Douglas Quintet: The Complete Mercury Masters, which always leaves me thinking they were the Greatest American Rock n Roll Band

...which may or may not be the case, but they certainly belong in the conversation.

this is a great list! i had to go with BIPLY, i love that record so much

personal gateway Impulse Energy Essentials

My personal jazz gateway in high school was Impulsively!, a 2-record set ranging from Jarrett to Klemmer to Coltrane to Sun Ra, and containing an edited version of Barbieri's "La China..." Research shows me there was an even shorter 2:35 edit of "La China" released on an Impulse promo 45. Wonder where that ever got airplay?

Thanks all yall! Dan, never saw Impulsively!, will have to check. I see a listening for that 2:35 edit on a Gato collection, but no stream yet. Thanks for the tip!

Thinking of Brain Capers faves, can never skip the cover of this Dion folk-rocker (was Hunter also cutting back on the drugz like it says, or did he mainly dig the Dion-Dylanesque tune-groove)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1da4d7IapsU

Immediately followed and clobbered by this kinda proto-folk-metal adaptation of Jesse Colin Young's(!) "Darkness, Darkness" (still need to check more Youngbloods, also his early solo alb, Soul of a City Boy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjN7cPTPajQ

Butt got to give it up for their surging surgeon original "The Moon Upstairs":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps4sqm7WwJ4

Love to see Charlie Rich complete smash sessions. Incredible stuff. One of my all time favorite singers.

Amen. Not seeing a streaming link, but this has some pretty amazing sides as well:

Charlie Rich
Too Many Teadrops: The Complete Groove & RCA Recordings

The Silver Fox’s complete Groove and RCA recordings in one place for the first time, including several new-to-CD tracks and one previously unissued. A high-class fusion of R&B, Country, Pop, Jazz and Easy Listening, produced by Chet Atkins in Nashville 1963-1965.

Thanks for the list - quite a few I do not know and will dig into. Voted for GP - less country than I'd have expected from you

The list turned out more 20th Century than I'd hoped, and back then Grievous Angel, Phases and Stages and Out of Hand were almost all the country I owned, although at some point The Gilded Palace of Sin eased in, also K-Mart bargain bin turned me on to Bob Wills and Willie Nelson. The Willie was I think titled plain Country Music Concert, with him in madras sports jacket, skinny tie and penny loafers, also looking like son of Elmer Fudd and Les Paul---my friends laffed when they saw it, but not when they heard his masterful dramatic (and occasional lighter) turns, via voice, acoustic guitar, and Johnny Bush's drums (no cymbals), that's all he needed.
The bargain bin also got me into Sir Doug, who sometimes went country, as on this side (which I first heard on Paul Nelson's astutely collected Rough Edges. I used to think it was a tiny bit overwritten, but now I get it all, sorry for doubting ye, Tom T.! And the last verse always got me:
Sir Douglas Quintet: "The Homecoming":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7zaNfoqYbY

Oh wow---I got The Complete Mercury Masters as Amazon download a few years ago, and now it's on several streamers--for inst here:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bufKEMHk9mC5vj8uPCpD44iKbZTr8VSlwa0Zl2chQR98IpjE9bhMDNswM_g4LGwYKzrWBo4Wysz_nCI=w544-h544-l90-rjhttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?

list=OLAK5uy_knN9IxVwNIPmnlS06RJxNDrqlMC-N_fsM

sorry
http://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_knN9IxVwNIPmnlS06RJxNDrqlMC-N_fsM

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Number of albums heard: 15

Favourite: John Cale

Least-favourite: I'm a Velvets fan, but 1969 Live passes me by

Nicest surprise: Brain Capers

Unheard, but most want to hear: Devotion, Crisis, Impulse Energy Essentials

was Hunter also cutting back on the drugz like it says

I thought of "Your Own Backyard" as an anti-heroin song, which I've never heard Hunter was using (though it refers to AA).

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Crisis! sounds like it was recorded in an old school auditorium, kinda cavernous, but vibrating the walls often enough (& was great on Lebanese Blonde hash, I'm told). This version of "Song For Che," from Cnarlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, is a whole trip in itself/fits perfectly. Fine with me that Dad Ornette adds violin and trumpet, Don Cherry adds Indian flute, Dewey Redman adds clarinet, and (Ornette) Denardo Coleman rattles the drums his own way---he was still 12, I think as on Ornette At 12, on CD a few years ago w Crisis and also worth hearing--=this one is

All compositions by Ornette Coleman except as indicated
"Broken Shadows" – 5:59
"Comme Il Faut" – 14:26
"Song for Ché" (Charlie Haden) – 11:32
"Space Jungle" – 5:20
"Trouble in the East" – 6:39
Recorded at New York University in New York City on March 22, 1969.
Personnel
Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone, trumpet, violin
Don Cherry – cornet, Indian flute
Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone, clarinet
Charlie Haden – bass
Denardo Coleman – drums

Sorry for duplication!

Several versions of Devotion, with some CDs missing a track, others w the original sequence bassackwards; here it is as on 1970 LP, also that cover art (McLaughlin wrote that Jack Douglas mixed it badly, and some say he didn't like Douglas editing the jamz, but it was a critical success, and everybody I know who's heard it loves it---it still sounds pretty raw in space for a McL LP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTl4GY71xs

What happened with that link? Shouldn't be starting w "Marbles, " unless you want it to---anyway here's the same sequence as on my ancient LP (this has different cover art)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjtqpEQZko

Never listened to the Roches before, Hammond song just got me welling up. This is beautiful

Yeah, and WmC's got it here!
31 songs that make WmC turn the volume to 11, croak along embarrasingly, or otherwise melt down