No One Cares About Josefa's 50 Albums List

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I've tried to strip this list of anything canonical, which is not to say I don't love and appreciate that stuff too. My pledge to you is that I've listened to all of these albums many times and I expect to listen to them again.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
John Coltrane - Live in Seattle 6
Ray Barretto - Acid 5
Bobbie Gentry - The Delta Sweete 3
Bow Wow Wow - When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going 3
Lene Lovich - Flex 2
Ella Fitzgerald - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! 2
Sheila Jordan - Portrait of Sheila 2
Donna Summer - Four Seasons of Love 2
Deep Purple - Made in Japan 2
Exposé - Exposure 2
Connie Francis - Sings Italian Favorites 1
Astrud Gilberto - September 17, 1969 1
Jefferson Airplane - Bless Its Pointed Little Head 1
Cory Daye - Cory and Me 1
Nu Shooz - Poolside 1
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Love Child 1
La Lupe - The Queen Does Her Own Thing 1
The 5th Dimension - The Magic Garden 1
Tito Puente - Top Percussion 1
Les Baxter - Jewels of the Sea 1
Grace Jones - Portrait 1
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - s/t 1
Yma Sumac - Mambo 1
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity - Streetnoise 1
Encarnita Polo - Encarnita Polo y ¡Ole! 0
Voyage - Let's Fly Away 0
Milva - dedicato a Milva da Ennio Morricone 0
Elis Regina - Ela 0
Missing Persons - Spring Session M 0
Ornella Vanoni - Appuntamento con Ornella Vanoni 0
Nada - El Corazón es un Gitano 0
Eddie Palmieri & Cal Tjader - Bamboléate 0
Frank Sinatra - Where Are You? 0
Sweet Sensation - Take It While It's Hot 0
Teena Marie - It Must Be Magic 0
Pattie Brooks - Our Ms. Brooks 0
Vikki Carr - Intimate Excitement 0
June Christy - Something Cool 0
Bob Crewe & Charles Fox - Barbarella soundtrack 0
Dalida - Dalida (1969, Barclay label) 0
Lorez Alexandria - Alexandria the Great 0
Percy Faith - Malaguena 0
Festival / Boris Midney - Evita 0
Lena Horne - Lena on the Blue Side 0
Juan Calle & His Latin Lantzmen - Mazeltov, Mis Amigos 0
Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet 0
Peggy Lee - Latin ala Lee! 0
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force - s/t 0
Lydia Lunch - Queen of Siam 0
Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite 0


Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 04:41 (one year ago)

Gonna go with Cory, because that's the only solo album I know, not counting all her contributions to Dr. Buzzard's---and it's really good---while Sheila Jordan has several of her own, also the ones with Steve Kuhn, George Russell etc---but damn, sorry Sheila!

dow, Friday, 1 September 2023 04:53 (one year ago)

A Is For Acid

The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 September 2023 04:59 (one year ago)

The Grace Jones album is called PORTFOLIO not Portrait, goddamn it.

Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 05:34 (one year ago)

It’s either Sheila or June for me….will probably go with Sheila because she was genuinely nice and sweet to every fan who talked with her after her Blue Note show in NY back in March.

birdistheword, Friday, 1 September 2023 06:30 (one year ago)

It’s either Sheila or June for me….will probably go with Sheila because she was genuinely nice and sweet to every fan who talked with her after her Blue Note show in NY back in March.

birdistheword, Friday, 1 September 2023 06:30 (one year ago)

(Sorry about the double post, got a weird error and didn’t think the first one went through)

birdistheword, Friday, 1 September 2023 06:31 (one year ago)

Sheila is some kind of force of nature, such great energy, who always makes me think "I'll have what she's having."

The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 September 2023 11:31 (one year ago)

Sinatra takes this one - perfect album from start to finish, fantastic heavy/dreamy atmosphere, best enjoyed just after sunset with a generous tumbler of scotch.

atonar, Friday, 1 September 2023 12:47 (one year ago)

i care

budo jeru, Friday, 1 September 2023 13:44 (one year ago)

i voted for Ray Barretto

budo jeru, Friday, 1 September 2023 13:45 (one year ago)

thank you

Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 13:52 (one year ago)

Voted La Lupe!!

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 1 September 2023 13:52 (one year ago)

I can't resist giving love to La YIYIYI

Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 1 September 2023 13:53 (one year ago)

great list josefa. love all the latin jazz, freestyle, brazilian music, 80s r&b. and missing persons!

prob gonna pick sergio mendes, perfect album

is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 September 2023 14:04 (one year ago)

Great looking list although I will admit to not having heard most of it. Voted Yma Sumac over Deep Purple and Lydia Lunch of the ones I do know.

Turns out Yma's real name was Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, I love her even more now.

do I really have to quote bowling for soup at you? (Matt #2), Friday, 1 September 2023 14:22 (one year ago)

some good records here, i voted acid as well

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 1 September 2023 14:41 (one year ago)

Acid for me too. It’s canonical imho tho.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 1 September 2023 17:29 (one year ago)

lol another vote for acid, lots of interesting stuff to check for here for sure. I'm sure that Milva must be lush.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 1 September 2023 17:31 (one year ago)

There's an awful lot here that I'm not familiar with, but gonna go with Exposé because I've been bumping that one a lot lately.

peace, man, Friday, 1 September 2023 18:31 (one year ago)

I'm glad people aren't finding the list too alienating. Certainly with the Italian stuff - Milva, Ornella Vanoni, and Nada (although her album here is sung in Spanish) - it's been difficult to find anyone who's familiar with it, unless they are literal Italians. Some Italian restaurants might play this kind of material, e.g. Emilio's Ballato on Houston St. in NYC plays it on a constant loop.

The Juan Calle, the Percy Faith, and the Peggy Lee were all thrift store finds from many years ago that have just stuck with me.

Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:10 (one year ago)

Ornella Vanoni is partially well known through the use of l’appuntamento on one of the oceans eleven movies.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 1 September 2023 19:29 (one year ago)

Ocean’s 12 according to google.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 1 September 2023 19:30 (one year ago)

I knew this list would be interesting. There is a lot here I have never heard..

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 September 2023 19:33 (one year ago)

Little known fact (unless you’re well versed in Brazilian music): that song is actually a cover of “sentado a beira do caminho” by Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos.

I actually like that version better, but Ornella’s version is quite gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2prF3jC6H9M

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 1 September 2023 19:34 (one year ago)

Roberto Carlos, there's a blast from the past.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 September 2023 19:36 (one year ago)

Ah, didn't know about Ornella in Ocean's 12.

White Lotus featured some old Italian records too, but I forget which except for the Raffaella Carrà song they used in the opening credits.

Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:37 (one year ago)

The Brazilian - Italian connection is interesting. One of the Ennio Morricone compositions that Milva sings on her album - "Metti, una sera a cena" - is very Bossa nova sounding.

Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:41 (one year ago)

70’s (even 60’s) onwards there’s a lot of crossover hits between Italy, Brazil and Spanish speaking countries (mostly Mexico). It’s not uncommon to have say Italian artists re-recording their songs in Spanish and making them bigger hits (Eros Ramazotti, Laura Pausini, Gianluca Grignani… some examples) or idk Mexican artists having their biggest hit be a cover of an italian song (Mercurio’s “vuela vuela” top of my mind)… I guess the 3 languages are similar enough that lyrics can be switched without losing the original intention or sounding awkward.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 1 September 2023 19:54 (one year ago)

metta, una sera a cena is one of his classics... you know about the record he did with chico buarque, right?

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 1 September 2023 19:56 (one year ago)

Oh yeah Ana Carolina also covered the popular Ginaluca Grignani song so that one was actually a hit in portuguese, italian and spanish.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 1 September 2023 20:00 (one year ago)

There’s hundreds of examples of this crossover hit thing between italy, brazil and latinamerica but I don’t want to invade the thread with them.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 1 September 2023 20:01 (one year ago)

actually I don't know the Buarque/Morricone record

Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:01 (one year ago)

xp Just because it's on this list, I will mention that the Nada album is exactly what you're talking about, an Italian singer rerecording her hits in Spanish - and they were hits again in that form

Josefa, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:03 (one year ago)

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! - cos I love crying a river while listening to the murmur of a brook at eventide!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 1 September 2023 20:11 (one year ago)

Another factor to consider in the Italy-Brazil connection is that Italian immigration to the country was pretty huge - second biggest white swttler group after the Portuguese if I'm not mistaken, so the roots run deep.

I watched a few musicarelli - 60's Italian musicals meant to showcase contemporary teen pop sensations - this Summer. They vary from endearing to absolutely rotten. But anyway if you look them up on letterboxd often all the reviews will be from Brazilian users.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:31 (one year ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:01 (one year ago)

Missed Bow Wow Wow the first time I scanned the list, which is surprising given the lengthy title, but I might have voted for that over Exposé. Might.

Started the Teena Marie album and while I haven't finished listening to it yet, that title track rules so hard.

Had never listened to the Nu Shooz album all the way through and that was a good time.

I haven't listened to that Lydia Lunch in a long time - will have to revisit.

peace, man, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:17 (one year ago)

"Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet"

glad I checked this one out, it's a delightful live compilation I'd never heard before.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:59 (one year ago)

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

System, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:01 (one year ago)

The Sinatra and especially the June Christy albums are masterpieces - the Lee Konitz album may be great too but he’s made so many it’s hard for me to keep track which is which.

birdistheword, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:06 (one year ago)

I have an indelible memory of listening to Live in Seattle in my apartment in Florida in 1992 while Hurricane Andrew was raging outside my window,. It was absolutely the perfect soundtrack, just beautiful.

Josefa, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:06 (one year ago)

And yes, I’ve noticed that the Konitz/Mulligan material has been repackaged in many permutations, leading me to wonder which exact one I have (strangely can’t locate it right now)

Josefa, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:11 (one year ago)

missed this. would have been tough to choose from Yma Sumac, Les Baxter, Ray Baretto & Lydia Lunch.

stirmonster, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:15 (one year ago)

The title track of Acid has one of the greatest bass lines of all time, which is a pretty crowded field to be in.

The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 September 2023 00:59 (one year ago)


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