My LISTS.I have a few text files in my Desktop where I keep lists of audio records (LPs and CDs) I should listen to. (this means either buy or find and download "flac lossless" thru torrent. I've posted the LPs listed in another thread..
I've typed this into my CD list...
I was dumbfounded when I first heard Norah Jones with her "come away with me."
However, i was flabbergasted when I first heard, Carole Kidd's “When I Dream”.
The only disc you need to test vocal. This is an absolute must. If you are not touched at all by Carol’s angelic voice, the audio system that you are testing cannot involve you. Try another system instead. The track is in All My tomorrows album. However, I believe it is also in the one of the Audiophile Voices CD.
But I just copy my List from other list in the WEB.Have you guys read
Stereophile's 40 Essential Albums?
by Robert Baird, Richard Lehnert and Robert Levine, November, 2002
stereophile.com/features/710/ After listing the Essential 40 albums, the writer lists the Honorable Mentions.
Sidebar: Honorable Mentions
The Allman Bros. Band: At Fillmore East
Bad Brains: Rock for Light
Bad Company: Bad Company
The Band: Music from Big Pink
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Benson: Breezin'
Big Star: #1 Record
Art Blakey: Free for All
The Blasters: American Music
Blood, Sweat & Tears: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Boston: Boston
James Brown: Live at the Apollo
Jackson Browne: The Pretender
Tim Buckley: Happy Sad
Jimmy Buffet: Volcano
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
The Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Carpenters: The Carpenters
James Carter: The Real Quietstorm
Johnny Cash: Live at Folsom Prison
Ray Charles: Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Clifton Chenier: Bogalusa Boogie
The Clash: London Calling
Albert Collins: Showdown!
Deep Purple: Machine Head
Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
The Doors: The Doors
Kenny Dorham: Trompeta Toccata
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left
Bill Evans: Blue in Green
Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace
Al Green: Gets Next to You
Green Day: Dookie
Guns 'n' Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Herbie Hanthingy: Sextant
Tom Harrell: Stories
Emmylou Harris: Pieces of the Sky
Howlin' Wolf: Evil
George Jones: I Am What I Am
Janis Joplin: Pearl
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
B.B. King: Live at the Regal
KISS: Alive
King Crimson: Discipline
Kraftwerk: Autobahn
Lightnin' Hopkins: Texas Blues
Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Los Lobos: Kiko
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping
Madonna: Madonna
Magic Sam: Black Magic
Wynton Marsalis: Black Codes from the Underground
Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
The Neville Brothers: Fiyo on the Bayou
Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
Van Morrison:Moondance
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
Gram Parsons: GP
The Pixies: Dolittle
Iggy Pop: Raw Power
Elvis Presley: From Elvis in Memphis
Prince: Purple Rain
Professor Longhair: Crawfish Fiesta
The Ramones: The Ramones
Jimmy Reed: Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall
Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me
Sonny Rollins: The Bridge
Santana: Santana
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back
Sly & The Family Stone: Stand!
The Smiths: "No Smiths!"—JA
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Steely Dan: Can't Buy a Thrill
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman
The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
Sun Ra: Outer Spaceways Incorporated
Talking Heads: Fear of Music
Television: Marquee Moon
Three Dog Night: Seven Separate Fools
Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die
A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory
McCoy Tyner: Enlightenment
U2: Unforgettable Fire
Townes Van Zandt: The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Flood
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico
Muddy Waters: Hard Again
Ben Webster: See You at the Fair
The Who: Live At Leeds
Lucinda Williams: Lucinda Williams
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
stereophile.com/features/710/index5.htmlp.s. Stereophile also have an annual Records To Die for list. The aforementioned article is for 40 years of recordings.
Annual Records to Die for link
www.stereophile.com/records2die4/