What Are The Current Top 15 CDs On Your "Amazon Recommends"?

1. Kompakt - Total Vol.2
2. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx [EXPLICIT LYRICS] ~ Raekwon The Chef
3. Tical ~ Method Man
4. Kompakt Total 4
5. Illmatic ~ Nas
6. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) ~ Wu Tang Clan
7. Koln Kompakt ~ Various Artists
8. Ironman ~ Ghostface Killah
9. Wu Tang Forever ~ Wu Tang Clan
10. Lawrence ~ Lawrence
11. Textstar 12" Collection Star Box ~ Farben
12. Return to the 36 Chambers [EXPLICIT LYRICS] ~ Ol' Dirty Bastard
13. In Moll ~ Markus Guentner
14. Bobby Digital in Stereo ~ RZA
15. Immer ~ Various Artists

what the hell? why so much wu tang?

1-The Flaming Lips:Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
2-The Coral:The Coral
3-Electric Soft Parade:Holes In The Wall
4-Doves:The Last Brosdcast
5-Tom Waits:Alice
6-Ghostface Killah:Supreme Clientele
7-Method Man:Tical
8-The Vines:Highly Evolved
9-The Hives:Your New Favourite Band
10-Bonnie Prince Billy:Master & Everything
11-Jay-Z:Reasonable Doubt
12-Tom Waits:Blood Money
13-Avril Lavigne:Let Go
14-Pattern:Real Feelness
15-Melanie C:Reason

Amazon clearly thinks I'm a Corny Indie Motherfucker, and besides, I already own those Tom Waits albums. I'd say my Melanie C recommendation trumphs Dom's Avril.

1) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco (Yecchhh!)
2) In Your Bright Ray - Grant McLennan
3) Watershed - Grant McLennan
4) Bloodshot Eyes - Wynonie Harris
5) Bob Dylan Live 1975
6) 89/93 - Uncle Tupelo
7) The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 - Dylan
8) The Captain ? Kasey Chambers
9) Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express - Go-Betweens
10) Heavenly Vs. Satan - Heavenly
11) White Blood Cells - White Stripes
12) Rockin' the Blues - Wynonie Harris
13) Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch
14) Bad Boy - Larry Williams
15) The Blanton-Webster Band - Duke Ellington

1. Please Please Me ~ The Beatles
2. Phantomsmasher ~ Phantomsmasher
3. Happy Sad ~ Tim Buckley
4. Turn It Over ~ The Tony Williams Lifetime
5. Oceanic ~ Isis
6. III ~ Moistboyz
7. Second Nature ~ Young Gods
8. Tim Buckley ~ Tim Buckley
9. Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps ~ Olivier Messiaen
10. Obtainium ~ Skeleton Key
11. Réveil Des Oiseaux/Trois Petites Liturgies De La Présence Divine ~ Olivier Messiaen
12. Hercules ~ Georg Frideric Handel
13. The Mother of Us All ~ Virgil Thomson
14. From Filthy Tongue of Gods & Griots ~ Dalek
15. Dream Letter ~ Tim Buckley

1. Turn On the Bright Lights ~ Interpol
2. Oh, Inverted World ~ The Shins
3. Source Tags & Codes ~ And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
4. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ~ The Flaming Lips
5. Metal Circus ~ Hüsker Dü
6. Let It Be ~ Replacements
7. ( ) ~ Sigur Rós
8. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ~ Wilco
9. 154 ~ Wire
10. Super Ae ~ The Boredoms
11. Murray Street ~ Sonic Youth
12. Read & Burn 1 ~ Wire
13. Meat Puppets II ~ Meat Puppets
14. London Calling ~ Clash
15. Finally We Are No One ~ Mum

I guess I bought a Mekons record once. Truth be told, not bad.

1. Vs. ~ Mission of Burma

2. Rock 'N' Roll ~ Mekons

3. OOOH! (Out of Our Heads) ~ The Mekons, Mekons

4. 89/93 ~ Uncle Tupelo

5. Avalon Blues ~ Mississippi John Hurt

6. The Complete Plantation Recordings ~ Muddy Waters

7. Alan Lomax Collection Sampler ~ Various Artists

8. Girls Can Tell ~ Spoon

9. The Edge of the World ~ The Mekons

10. Murray Street ~ Sonic Youth

11. Blue Ridge Legacy - The Alan Lomax Portait Series ~ Hobart Smith
12. Complete Recorded Works (1928-1929) ~ Thomas "Snake" Johnson
13. Double Nickels on the Dime ~ Minutemen
14. This Nation's Saving Grace ~ The Fall
15. My Way ~ Akufen

Anyway, here's mine. Boy, buy a couple of Latin rock albums and CanOx and see what you get:

Bersuit Vergabarat, De la Cabeza Con Bersuit
Aesop Rock, Labor Days
El-P, Fantastic Damage
Paul Westerberg, Stereo
Illya Kuryaki & Valderamas, Leche
Elvis Costello, Armed Forces
La Mosca Tsé Tsé, Vispera de Carnaval
Aterciopelados, Gozo Poderoso
La Ley, Uno
King Chango, s/t
Los Amigos Invisibles, The new sound of the Venezuelan gozadera
Sergent Garcia, Un Poquito Quema’o
Bersuit, Bersuit Vergabarat y Punto
Jedi Mind Tricks, Violent by Design
Various Artists, Amores Perros soundtrack

[but I already have six of these, so they nailed me]

1. ( ) ~ Sigur Ros
2. Drukqs ~ Aphex Twin
3. Turn On the Bright Lights ~ Interpol
4. Twoism ~ Boards of Canada
5. Glow, Pt. 2 ~ The Microphones
6. Incunabula ~ Autechre
7. Double Figure ~ Plaid
8. Feed Me Weird Things ~ Squarepusher
9. Simple Things ~ Zero 7
10. Kill the Moonlight ~ Spoon
11. The Last Broadcast ~ Doves
12. Porgy & Bess ~ Miles Davis
13. Entain ~ Vladislav Delay
14. Live at Jittery Joe's ~ Jeff Mangum
15. Yanqui U.X.O. ~ Godspeed You Black Emperor, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

I will own all of them soon I'm sure except for "Directions...", Hancock's jam band project, and Shorter's "Footprints...", which will have to wait in line behind all of the classic 60s Blue Note releases that I dont own yet. Also, I could survive without Brubeck!

I could go on to 105, but that seems pointless and insensitive. Also, I can easily picture Ned and Dan shaking their heads in anguish over the huge holes in my Cure, JD and DM discographies!

My recommendations:

1. Townes Van Zandt, Our Mother the Mountain
   
2. The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
   
3. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
   
4. The Flaming Lips, Clouds Taste Metallic
   
5. The Shins, Oh Inverted World
   
6. Shirley and Dolly Collins, Anthems in Eden
   
7. Shirley Collins and Davey Graham, Folk Routes New Roots
   
8. Circulatory System, Circulatory System
   
9. Townes Van Zandt, For the Sake of the Song
   
10. Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Yanqui UXO
    
11. Townes Van Zandt, Live at the Old Quarter
    
12. John Langstaff, Christmas Day in the Morning
    
13. Townes Van Zandt, No Deeper Blue
    
14. Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head
    
15. Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights

1. Elliott Smith, Either/Or
2. Elliott Smith, Elliott Smith
3. Elliott Smith, XO
4. Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left
5. Belle and Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister
6. Elliott Smith, Roman Candle
7. Big Star, #1 Record/Radio City (really?)
8. Sparklehorse, It's a Wonderful Life
9. Peter Case, Six-Pack of Love
10. John Martyn, Solid Air
11. The Shins, Oh, Inverted World
12. Robyn Hitchcock, I Often Dream of Trains
13. Nick Drake, Bryter Layter
14. The Pixies, Surfer Rosa (awesome!)
15. Neil Halstead, Sleeping on Roads (natch)

Hey, does Amazon accept money to "recommend" a certain record often? I see "Source Tags.." and The Shins so often, Amazon must be their pimp.

Does this prove/disprove any DeRo theories?

I have _The Mirror Conspiracy_, which I've played several times and liked but haven't gotten back to.

Currently,

1. Pavement "Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe"
2. Magnetic Fields "Holiday"
3. Future Bible Heroes "Memories of Love"
4. Clinic "Walking With Thee"
5. Sonic Youth "Murray Street"
6. Sigur Ros "( )"
7. Beulah "The Coast is Never Clear"
8. Elvis Costello "When I Was Cruel"
9. Velvet Underground "Velvet Underground"
10. French Kicks "One Time Bells"
11. Caitlin Cary "While You Were'nt Looking"
12. Nico "Chelsea Girl"
13. John Martyn "Solid Air"
14. Linda Thompson "Fashionably Late"
15. Husker Du "Flip Your Wig"

So, basically it's all either disco or metal.... Interesting.

(cough) Norah Jones.

1. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
2. Bic Runga - Drive
3. Moby - 18
4. Gene Clark - Echoes
5. The Buckinghams - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
6. Sahara Hotnights - C'mon Let's Pretend
7. Gene Clark - Gypsy Angel
8. Division of Laura Lee - Black City
9. Gene Clark - Roadmaster
10. Various Artists - American Song-Poem Anthology
11. Gene Clark - White Light
12. Joe Meek & Blue Men - I Hear A New World
13. Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
14. Gene Clark - Flying High
15. Mum - Finally We Are No One

My last Amazon purchase was a Dillard & Clark re-issue. Still, I think they've gone a bit overboard on the Gene Clark recommendations. I have no idea how Moby got in there.

I have been stuffing the backcatalogue recently bcz new music all suxxorz, thus:

1. Dewdrops in the Garden
~ Deee-Lite
2. Whammy!
~ The B-52's
3. Party Mix/Mesopotamia
~ The B-52's
4. Bouncing Off the Satellites
~ The B-52's
5. Pop Tatari
~ The Boredoms
6. The Best of New Order
~ New Order
7. Sampladelic Relics & Dancefloor Oddities
~ Deee-Lite
8. Wired
~ Jeff Beck
9. Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi
~ Thievery Corporation
10. Lost Horizons
~ Lemon Jelly
11. Emc2
~ Giorgio Moroder
12. 100th Window
~ Massive Attack
13. New Wave Dance Hits
~ Various Artists
14. New Wave Dance Hits
~ Adam Ant, et al
15. New Wave Dance Hits
~ Various Artists

1. The Shins: Oh, Inverted World
2. Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights
3. ELO: On the Third Day
4. Moody Blues: Octave
5. ELO: Zoom
6. Moody Blues: The Present
7. ELO: ELO II
8. ELO: ELO
9. Moody Blues: Keys Of The Kingdom
10.Kansas: The Best Of Kansas
11.Moody Blues: The Other Side Of Life
12.Justin Hayward & John Lodge: Blue Jays
13.John Lennon: Mind Games
14.Stereophonics: Just Enough Education To Perform
15.Yes: Talk

Which kind of shows the problem about this one: It has a tendency to recommend obvious below-par albums by acts that have a very obvious heyday period. Moody Blues is an excellent example of this - I mean, I love all of their 1967-72 output, but I wouldn't dream of purchasing the obviously below-par albums they did during their later AOR period.

1. leaders of the free world - elbow
2. employment - kaiser chiefs
3. demon days - gorillaz
4. everything ecstatic - four tet
5. we are monster - isolee
6. less than human - the juan maclean
7. the syliphone years - bembeya jazz national
8. the bravery - the bravery
9. introducing daby balde - daby balde
10. howl - black rebel motorcycle club
11. vertigo mixed - various, mixed by andy votel
12. l'enfant assasin des mouches - jean-claude vannier
13. strange geometry - the clientele
14. the lake EP - antony & the johnsons
15. road to rouen - supergrass

Hmm. But then 16-30 get more interesting.

16. dim lit - seb rochford's polar bear
17. kokanto sata - kokanto sata
18. tomara - ballake sissoko
19. push the button - chemical brothers
20. haveli - mukta
21. the secret migration - mercury rev
22. le fil - camille
23. last chance disco - acoustic ladyland
24. cripple crow - devendra banhart
25. congo: the rough guide to congolese soukous - various
26. original block party edits - various
27. oceans apart - the go-betweens
28. outside closer - hood
29. music for crocodiles - susheela raman
30. patrick the survivor - lucky luke.

QUESTION: Which of the above 30 should I buy, and why?

Can you tell I bought some funk, some Fela and some jazz recently and remembered to rate it?

Your views welcomed on the Whitey and Andy Votel CDs. Also, a bit further down the list is a couple of Kitsune CDs - any good?

silver jews - tanglewood numbers (that's from my wishlist, stupid)

arcade fire - funeral (oh no)

ornette coleman - shape of jazz to come (recently i got free jazz. i found it boring and rather uninspired)

jackson - smash (don't know him)

miles davis - miles in the sky (i think i have enough md cds)

go-betweens - 16 lovers lane (got that already, amazon doesn't know)

fripp/eno - the equatorial stars (ditto)

bright eyes - i'm wide awake this morning (not so much into self-pity these days)

tord gustavsen - the ground (but i bought that at amazon!)

broken social scene - bss (i think i don't like the voice, should maybe give them another chance)

yat-kha/kuvez - re-covers (throatsinging classics, great, goes directly into my wishlist)

decemberists - picaresque (don't know anything by them)

john coltrane - giant steps (yes i am on a kind of coltrane spree recently. but meditations and his last one will be first)

afx - hangable auto bulb (electronic?)

bright eyes - digital ash in a digital urn (not again)

It's almost as if Amazon is saying "OK, Chris, I get it... You like old school hip-hop."

okay that realtime update feature I was on about has now changed back to the old sucky version. I guess they have glitches to sort out.

3. Unity ~ Larry Young

4. Fakebook ~ Yo La Tengo

5. Super-Sonic Jazz ~ Sun Ra

6. Black Fire ~ Andrew Hill

7. Sung Tongs ~ Animal Collective

8. Song for My Father ~ Horace Silver

9. The Magic City ~ Sun Ra

10. Transa ~ Caetano Veloso

12. Shivering King and Others ~ Dead Meadow

13. Eighth ~ Eleventh Dream Day

14. Silent Alarm ~ Bloc Party

15. Change of the Century ~ Ornette Coleman

The Beatles ~ Please Please Me
The Beatles ~ Anthology 1
Autechre ~ Untilted

1. British Sea Power - "Open Season" [already own it]
2. Eels - Blinking Lights & Other Revelations [already own it]
3. Sigur Ros - Takk [already own it]
4. Clor - Clor [have vague interest in hearing this]
5. The Rakes - Capture/Release [no idea what this is]
6. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger [no desire to listen to this]
7. Pixies - Complete B Sides [already own it]
8. Explosions in the Sky - How Strange Innocence [would be interested in hearing this]
9. E - A Man Called E [will definitely buy this at some point]
10. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider [already own it]
11. Pixies - Purple Tapes [will definitely buy this at some point]
12. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place [already own it]
13. A Silver Mount Zion - He Has Left Us Alone... [already own it]
14. Arcade Fire - Funeral [have no strong feelings about this]
15. Mogwai - Ten Rapid [already own it]

If I tell Amazon what I already own/am not interested in, it becomes:

1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Explosions in the Sky - How Strange Innocence
3. Clor - Clor
4. The Rakes - Capture/Release
5. E - A Man Called E
6. Pixies - Purple Tapes
7. Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
8. A Silver Mount Zion - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards
9. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
10. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
11. Mogwai - Government Commisions
12. Sons & Daughters - The Repulsion Box
13. Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
14. A Silver Mount Zion - Horses in the Sky
15. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Which is another list of things I mostly already own or am not interested in. At this point I became bored.

Synopsis of Amazon's recommendation mechanism: "You bought an album by this band, surely you would like to hear every other record they made" / "The Arctic Monkeys album is well hyped, why not give it some more sales?"

I've already said I'm 'not interested' in quite a lot of stuff over quite a long time so that isn't a bad list.

Amazon really wants me to love Terry Riley. It's like one of those friends that saw me listening to him once, and now wants to be my best friend by showing me how knowledgable he is about it. He's always asking me about Terry Riley everytime I see him, even though we really don't know each other at all, and I find him kind of annoying, a little pathetic. But I don't say anything. After, I do like Terry Riley, and I don't want to hurt his feelings.

1. The Edge ~ David Axelrod at Capitol Records 1966-1970 (got what I need already)
2. Funeral ~ Arcade Fire (i keep forgetting to sell this crap)
3. Histoire de Melody Nelson ~ Serge Gainsbourg (got what i need already)
4. Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever ~ Explosions in the Sky (not interested)
5. Just Another Diamond Day ~ Vashti Bunyan (got it)
6. An Electric Storm ~ White Noise (this one i might buy)
7. I am a Bird Now ~ Antony and the Johnsons (got it)
8. Sung Tongs ~ Animal Collective (got it)
9. Space Ritual ~ Hawkwind (this is the best album ever)
10. I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology ~ Roky Erickson (every roky album i've bought has disappointed)
11. Circles ~ William Fischer (never heard of this guy)
12. Super-Sonic Jazz ~ Sun Ra (got it)
13. Pine Cone Temples ~ Thuja (i never listen to ghost plants, the only one i have by them)
14. Also Rising ~ SubArachnoid Space (i'm curious about this)
15. Bill Fay ~ Bill Fay (i'm curious about this one, too)

1. Please Please Me ~ The Beatles
2. Sun Song ~ Sun Ra
3. Holiday for Soul Dance ~ Sun Ra and the Astro Infinity Arkestra
4. Anthology 1 ~ The Beatles
5. Live MCMXCIII ~ The Velvet Underground
6. Atom Heart Mother ~ Pink Floyd
7. Obscured By Clouds ~ Pink Floyd
8. Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: The Quine Tapes ~ The Velvet Underground
9. Live in the World ~ David S. Ware
10. Not in Our Name ~ Charlie Haden
11. I Have the Room Above Her ~ Paul Motian
12. Dead Ringer ~ Rjd2
13. The Royal Tenenbaums (Collector's Edition) ~ Various Artists
14. Unit Structures ~ Cecil Taylor
15. Let It Be... Naked ~ The Beatles

This was funny. Every regular Beatle album I don't own makes the top 15, not to mention two Stones albums I have the old versions of. I'll probably end up getting Tigermilk, End of the Century, and the Dillard & Clark twofer sometime soon.

1. Just Another Diamond Day
~ Vashti Bunyan
2. Folk Blues and Beyond
~ Davy Graham
3. Ruby Blue
~ Roisin Murphy
4. Alligator
~ The National
5. A Camp
~ A Camp
6. I Need Some Fine Wine and You You Need to Be Nicer [Single]
~ Cardigans
7. Illinoise
~ Sufjan Stevens
8. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme [the Shelagh Mcdonald Collection]
~ Shelagh McDonald
9. Funeral
~ Arcade Fire
10. Love Death and the Lady
~ Shirley Collins
11. Lowedges
~ Richard Hawley
12. Ok Cowboy
~ Vitalic
13. Trip, the [Created By St. Etienne]
~ St. Etienne, mixed by St Etienne
14. Chemistry
~ Girls Aloud
15. X
~ Liberty X

1. Warsaw "Warsaw"
2. Joy Division "Les Bains Douches"
3. Gang of Four "Return the Gift"
4. The Rolling Stones "Some Girls"
5. Belle and Sebastian "i'm a Cuckoo"
6. Gang of Four "Shrinkwrapped"
7. Sufjan Stevens "Greetings From Michigan"
8. New Order "Movement"
9. Iron and Wine "The Sea and Rhythm"
10. Doves "Some Cities"
11. Joy Division "Heart and Soul"
12. Eels "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations"
13. The Rolling Stones "Get Your Ya Yas Out"
14. The Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request"
15. Suicide "Suicide (2nd Album)

I had been hoping for a little less repetition (with the Warsaw, Joy Division, New Order and the trio of Rolling Stones recommendations) but Amazon knows best. I have now ordered all 15 of my top recommendations and wait patiently for my life to become that much better.

i own or have owned all of these but 4 and 15.

1. Tago Mago - Can
2. A Bugged Out Mix ~ Various Artists, mixed by Erol Alkan
3. Tiefschwarz Mix Album: Misch Masch ~ Various Artists
4. Ege Bamyasi - Can
5. s/t - Theoretical Girls
6. Tilt - Scott Walker
7. A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing - Black Sheep
8. Pawn Hearts [Remastered] - Van Der Graaf Generator
9. Less Than Human ~ The Juan Maclean
10. Earth Vol.2 - Earth
11. DJ Kicks ~ Various Artists, mixed by The Glimmers
12. Houdini - The Melvins
13. Eat Books - Tiefschwarz
14. Early - Scritti Politti
15. Bless the Weather [Remastered & Expanded] - John Martyn

1. Funeral - Arcade Fire
2. Loveless - MBV (got it long before you even existed, Amazon!)
3. Movement - New Order (got it)
4. Waiting for the Siren's Call - New Order (got it)
5. Murray Street - Sonic Youth (got it)
6. In the Flat Field (Bauhaus)
7. Down in Albion - Babyshambles
8. Last Splash - the Breeders (got it long ago)
9. Congotronics 2 - Various (could be tempting)
10. In the Heart of the Moon - Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate (ditto)
11. Pixies - The Pixies (maybe)
12. Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens (got it, I think via Amazon!?)
13. Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta
14. Best of Pixies - the Pixies (Come on, I have got almost everything by them except the B-Sides and the newish album)
15. The Back Room - Editors

I think that means that my purchases outside of Amazon basically fit with those at Amazon. What an amazing insight! Most of the other stuff on there I would never consider for a purchase though.

The Place You're In~ Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Look Sharp!~ Joe Jackson
No. 4~ Stone Temple Pilots
Live Texas Tornado~ The Sir Douglas Quintet
On An Island~ David Gilmour
Flashpoint~ The Rolling Stones
Another Green World~ Eno
Dance Hall at Louse Point~ John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey
Live Bootleg~ Aerosmith
Crown of Creation~ Jefferson Airplane
Things We Do~ Indigenous
Watch Your Back~ Guitar Shorty
The #1's~ Diana Ross & the Supremes
Silent Alarm~ Bloc Party
Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age~ Public Enemy

Weird.

Devo - Something for Everybody
The National - High Violet
Broken Bells - s/t
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
The Black Keys - Brothers
MIA - /\/\ /\ Y /\
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Crystal Castles - s/t
The New Pornographers - Together
The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble - Miles Away
Guilty Simpson - OJ Simpson
The xx - xx

Own the stuff in bold; curious to hear those in italics; the rest = laaaame.

Michael Jackson - Blood on the Dance Floor
Cannonball Adderley - Something Else
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris
Charles Sextet Mingus - Cornell 1964
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Art Blakey - Moanin
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Madonna - American Life Maxi Single
Madonna - You Can Dance

I have only ever purchased two CDs from Amazon, so my recommendations were every CD by Nine Inch Nails except Pretty Hate Machine and every children's CD by They Might Be Giants except for Here Comes Science.

They added the Repo Man soundtrack because I bought a DVD of Repo Man and two CDs by Paul Mauriat who I must have added to my wishlist after reading about on ILM one day but have no intention of ever buying.

oh, 15:

11. Bill Evans - The Paris Concert V1
12. Madonna - Hard Candy
13. Metallica - And Justice for All
14. Ike Quebec - Blue And Sentimental
15. Herbie Hancock - Takin Off

My top 15 is just a ton of Velvet Underground and Orb albums.

Lots of terrible pitchforkiness and a bunch of Fairport.

All Dentists, Pixies, and Air, I guess because I don't buy that much of my music from Amazon and those three bands are among the ones I've purchased there.

The one item in my top 15 that is not a Dentists album, a Pixies album, or an Air album is the comp CD86

http://www.amazon.com/CD86-Various-Artists/dp/B000HT3KO2/ref=pd_ys_ir_m_3

which actually sounds kind of good, but too steep at $39.

every CD by Nine Inch Nails except Pretty Hate Machine and every children's CD by They Might Be Giants except for Here Comes Science.

This would be ace on shuffle.

Pixies – Doolittle
Temple of The Dog – s/t
Slint – Spiderland
Elbow – Seldom Seen Kid
Superchunk – No Pocky For Kitty
Portishead – Dummy
The Amps – Pacer
Spoon – Transference
Massive Attack – Heligoland
Devo – Are We Not Men
The Breeders – Do You Love Me Now
The Breeders – Last Splash
Atlas Sound – Logos
The Big Pink – A Brief History Of Love
Hole – Nobodys Daughter

Fourteen different Rolling Stones albums (seems a tad excessive)
Four Disco Discharge compilations
Five Pet Shop Boys albums
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
The Cure - Pornography
Giorgio Moroder - E = MC2
Phil Spector - The Early Productions
Sly Stone - Precious Stone: In the Studio
Randy Newman - Bless You California
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
Double Cookin': Classic Northern Soul Instrumentals
12" 80s Grooves
12" 80s Dance
The Gladiators - Trenchtown Mix Up
Donna Summer - The Dance Collection

Let The Music Play (Audio CD) ~ Shannon
Go Insane (Audio CD) ~ Lindsey Buckingham
LCD Soundsystem (Audio CD) ~ LCD Soundsystem
Prelude's Greatest Hits Vol. 4 (Audio CD)
Poo-Say (Audio CD) ~ Poussez
Safe & Sound (Audio CD) ~ DJ Quik
Underground Kingz (Audio CD) ~ UGK
Through the Devil Softly (Audio CD) ~ Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions
Disco Discharge: Euro Disco (Audio CD) ~ Various Artists
Rare Preludes, Vol. 2 (Audio CD) ~ Various Artists
Reasonable Doubt (Audio CD) ~ Jay-Z
Tusk (Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD) ~ Fleetwood Mac
Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty (Audio CD) ~ Big Boi
Grand 12 Inches Vol. 5 (Audio CD) ~ Various Artists
12 Inch Collection Vol.2 (Audio CD) ~ MEGATONE's 12"" Vol.2

interested in everything here i don't own except hope sandoval + why does amazon keep trying to get me to buy lcd soundsystem?

Too $hort - Get Off The Stage
Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
Hope Sandoval - Through The Devil Softly
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Toru Takemitsu - Chamber Music
DMX - And Then There Was X
Kool G Rap and DJ Polo - Live And Let Die
Nirvana - Nevermind
2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack
Rakim - The Seventh Seal
Leaders Of The New School - A Future Without A Past
Gyorgy Ligeti - The Ligeti Project II
Louis Armstrong - Plays WC Handy
Garbage - V. 2.0
Onyx - Bacdafucup

Weird

My recommendations are nearly all Underworld albums and Kraftwerk albums.

Apparently apart from 3 Underworld CDs and 2 Kraftwerk CDs I've only bought one CD per artist from Amazon, so it assumes they are my favourite artists ever. (Not wrong on the Kraftwerk, I guess, but I have the others it suggests.)

Mine is 10 Harry Nilsson albums and 4 Randy Newman albums and "If Paradise was Half As Nice - The Immediate Anthology" by Amen Corner, don't know how they came up with the latter. Haven't bought anything from Amazon in about 10 years. The one recommendation on the list I had never heard of was the a self-titled album by one Bobby Charles.

Apparently apart from 3 Underworld CDs and 2 Kraftwerk CDs I've only bought one CD per artist from Amazon, so it assumes they are my favourite artists ever. (Not wrong on the Kraftwerk, I guess, but I have the others it suggests.)

It's the same with me on Vangelis, I've bought three Vangelis albums on Amazon and this my recommendation list:

Vangelis - Spiral
Vangelis - Odes
Vangelis - China
Organized Konfusion - s/t
Vangelis - Antarctica
The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon
Prince - Batman OST
The Coup - Party Music
Jon & Vangelis - Short Stories
M People - Northern Soul
Vangelis - Chariots of Fire OST
Vangelis - L'Apocalypse Des Animaux OST
M People - Fresco
Flora Purim - 500 Miles High
Vangelis - Soil Festivities

Weirdly enough there's only one Prince recommendation, even though I've bought at least 6 Prince singles and maxis via Amazon during the last couple of years. Maybe Amazon doesn't count singles?

In between works by Obrecht, Josquin, Talllis and Schubert, it's all Traffic and the Allman Brothers.

Most of them are books that aren't music related, but:

Plastic Crimewave Sound - No Wonderland
Guided By Voices - The Electrifying Conclusion (DVD)

...are the 2 musical ones.

Here is my current Amazon UK top 15. Which is the best of the Lil' Kims?

1. The Archandroid ~ Janelle Monáe
2. Swim ~ Caribou
3. Deutsche Elektronische Musik [DOUBLE CD] ~ Various Artists
4. Remaster Of The Universe [DOUBLE CD] ~ Todd Terje
5. The Music of ITC (OST) ~ Various
6. Later: Compiled & Mixed By Faze Action ~ Faze Action
7. Into the Great Wide Yonder ~ Trentemøller
8. Odyssey/Native New Yorker [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] ~ Odyssey
9. The Naked Truth: Parental Advisory ~ Lil' Kim
10. Ill Na Na ~ Foxy Brown
11. Jungle Music ~ Walter Gibbons
12. The Notorious Kim [EXPLICIT LYRICS] ~ Lil' Kim
13. Hardcore ~ Lil' Kim
14. DJ Kicks ~ Juan Maclean
15. La Bella Mafia Starring Lil' Kim [EXPLICIT LYRICS] ~ Lil' Kim

Amazon.com is all-female: teenpop/country/koganbait... plus one Christmas record.
Amazon.de is a buncha techno/minimal albums and DJ mixes (Kompakt, bpitch and similar); the Trentemøller's there again, at #1 this time.
Amazon.fr is much the same but with a spattering of chanteuses I've never heard of too, as I put the new Alizee on a "liste cadeaux".

1) Argus-Wishbone Ash
2) Gods of the Earth-Sword
3) Static Tensions-Kysela
4) Fireball-Deep Purple
5) R-QUOTSA
6) Dawn Explosion-Captain Beyond
7)Demons and Wizards-Uriah Heep
8)Death Walks Behind You-Atomic Rooster
9)Growers of Mushroom-Leaf Hound
10Brave New World-Iron Maiden
11) Dark Ages-Bison BC
12) God is Good-Om
13) Sleep's Holy Mountain
14) Pretties for You-Alice Cooper
15) 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus-Spirit

Now under Recommendations - Music

1 Keith Jarrett - La Fenice (no interest, firstly I have enough Jarrett albums and secondly this is not very exciting anyway)
2 Cat Power - Wanderer (have been thinking about it, title song is nice but over-all this does in no way reach the highs of her first 3-4 albums)
3 John Surman - Invisible Threads (I never got into Surman, maybe I should give him another chance)
4 Various - Magic Moments 11-In the Spirit of Jazz (a jazz sampler, you must be joking!)
5 The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Merrie Land (have been thinking about it, sounded ok)
6 Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth (I don't like big bands anyway and somehow I find Kamasi's sound too polished)
7 Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Other Side (haven't checked it yet but I very much like Tord's piano tone)
8 Wolfgang Muthspiel - Where the River Goes (never heard of him, no clue)
9 Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Wiliams - Vanished Gardens (I like Lloyd on his own & I like Williams on her own, I listened to the first few tracks of this and was underwhelmed)
10 J Mascis - Elastic Days (to be checked)
11 Villagers - The Art of Pretending to Swim (never heard of)
12 Kurt Vile - Bottle It in (I think I already have my quota of Vile albums)
13 Elvis & the Imposters - Look Now (sounds interesting...)
14 Charlie Haden - Long Ago and Far Away (I have loved the Last Dance album with Keith Jarrett)
15 Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference (see above)

This prompted me to go look at mine and. . . wow, they have no clue.

Yeah, same here. Not listing..

Is the recommendations thing still working for other people. MIne changed layout a few months ago. USed to scroll through the long lists for suggestions.
NOw only getting 20 odd under different categories.
Assumed they just changed the format and I thought they might pick up some impulse buys from what turned up the old way.

Haven't checked this in forever---25 pages, though I just recently started back buying CDs: Cowboy, Boyer & Talton [Expanded Edition], Jerry Garcia, Before The Dead, George Jones and the Jones Boys, Live in Texas 1965, then advance Santa money for several by Sir Doug and Charlie Rich.
So, a bunch from 60s pantheon, but new or recent releases/prev, unreleased: the former from Van Morrison, the latter Neil Young's Songs For Judy (not that interested in solo acoustic Neil) Dylan's More Blood More Tracks (on here twice) (but I'k fine w the original LP), also a few I'd consider, like Neil's Tonight's The Night Live at the Roxy
Marianne Faithfull, Come And Stay With Me: The UK 45s 1964-69
Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland, 50th Anniversary Deluxe (esp. since never heard the orig, all the way through)
Jackie DeShannon, Stone Cold Soul--The Complete Capitol Recordings

lmao I guess I haven't bought that much music off Amazon so it's really weighting that post-Cornell's death cheap copy of Badmotorfinger that I ordered

thanks Amazon will definitely check out these musical artists!!

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
Bob Dylan - More Blood More Tracks (I think I ordered one of the Bootleg series once?)
John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Soundgarden - Louder than Love
Audioslave - S/T
Temple of the Dog - S/T
Soundgarden - Ultramega OK
Soundgarden - King Animal
Audioslave - Revelations
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - S/T

Not giving me any music recommendations, in list form or otherwise…

Oh wait that's good.

A few more (making my own Top Fifteen of their recs, ones that I'd actually consider/wonder about getting)
Various Artists: The Beginning Of The End - The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music 1956-1972
Import What is this?? Not much info on Amazon

Billy F Gibbons: The Big Bad Blues with a big band, right?

Various Artists: Cover Me - The Eddie Hinton Songbook
Import
1. Breakfast in Bed - Dusty Springfield
2. Down in Texas - Oscar Toney JR
3. Cover Me - Jackie Moore
4. A Little Bit Salty - Bobby Womack
5. Sure As Sin - Candi Staton
6. 300 Pounds of Hongry - Tony Joe White
7. Masquerade - Don Varner
8. Always David - the Sweet Inspirations
9. Poor Mary Has Drowned - Brick Wall
10. It's All Wrong But It's Alright - Eddie Hinton
11. Help Me Make It (Power of a Woman's Love) - Mink Deville
12. Save the Children - Cher
13. Every Natural Thing - Aretha Franklin
14. If I Had Let You in - the Box Tops
15. Satisfaction Guaranteed - Judy White
16. Standing on the Mountain - Percy Sledge
17. I Got the Feeling - the Amazing Rhythm Aces
18. Home for the Summer - the Hour Glass Featuring Greg and Duane Allman
19. Lay It on Me - Gwen McCrae
20. People in Love - Lou Johnson
21. Where You Come from - Bonnie Bramlett
22. Seventeen Year Old Girl - Mickey Buckins & the New Breed
23. Love Waits for No Man - Al Johnson
24. Where's Eddie - Lulu

Mott The Hoople: Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971
Box Set, Import