iTunes Recommendations

[Sarahd84]

Like many others, I received an iTunes gift card this holiday season. I always feel overwhelmed when I buy music, or at least when I don't have specific album in mind. I was reading a lot of the threads on top albums of the year, and suprisingly felt even more overwhelmed when I saw lists of 20+ albums with a paragraph description of each. So here I am with two questions:

 

1. What is your most critical, must-have, cannot live with out album?

2. Any iTunes hidden gems out there (collections, podcasts, essentials, etc.)?

 

 

Thanks for any advice!

[anthony]

1. What is your most critical, must-have, cannot live with out album?

Here is my top ten (non-Wilco/UT, non-'classic rock') must own LPs - in no particular order:

 

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

2. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues

3. Gillian Welch - Soul Journey

4. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days

5. Old 97's - Drag It Up

6. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses

7. Sublime - 40 oz to Feedom

8. Reel Big Fish - Turn That Radio Off

9. Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun

10. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake Its Morning

 

Here is my top ten 'classic rock' must own LPs - in no particular order:

1. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

2. Beatles - White Album

3. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

4. Pink Floyd - Animals

5. Derek & The Dominoes - Layla

6. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

7. The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo

8. CSN - CSN

9. Grateful Dead - American Beauty

10. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

[Vacant Horizon]

Led Zeppelin-entire catalog

Neil Young-On The Beach, Tonight's The Night

CSN-Deja Vu, CSN, Crosby Stills And Nash

Gillian Welch-entire catalog

John Coltrane-Love Supreme

Pat Metheny-Anything

America-Homecoming

Jackson Browne-For Everyman

Dylan-Greatest Hits III

Bruce Springsteen-Nebraska, Devils And Dust, Ghost of Tom Joad

Grateful Dead-Without A Net, Dead Set, Reckoning

Joe Walsh-Everything

Magnolia Electric Co./Songs:Ohio-Anything

Poco-The Forgotten Trail

Cream-Anything

My Morning Jacket-It Still Moves

 

off the top of my head....

[tongue-tied]

i'd look for online only stuff, or even EPs in general. some 'iTunes Originals' are pretty good too.

[John Smith]

If you like Kings of Leon they have a couple of Live EP's out there.

[kathyp]

I'm still burning through a couple itunes gift certificates. I found Paul Westerberg's "Be bad For Me," a song that was on a compilation of some sort years ago. I never found the album, so grabbing the song off itunes was a treat.

 

If I want to buy an album, I buy the album. I still like having the hard copy. Mainly I just use itunes to get a song or two that I like from an album I wouldn't buy otherwise.

[Sarahd84]

I'm still burning through a couple itunes gift certificates. I found Paul Westerberg's "Be bad For Me," a song that was on a compilation of some sort years ago. I never found the album, so grabbing the song off itunes was a treat.

 

If I want to buy an album, I buy the album. I still like having the hard copy. Mainly I just use itunes to get a song or two that I like from an album I wouldn't buy otherwise.

That brings up a good question. How many people buy from iTunes and how many buy an actual album? I hate to admit that I buy a lot of stuff off of iTunes, mostly out of laziness. I hate to buy "just" songs, because I think songs should be kept with the album to get the "whole picture", and I'm a little anal, and when i see a lonely song in my libary it bugs me. But that is a really smart way to get a taste of bunch of different stuff.