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Peter Himmelman: This Father's Day
Astrid Williamson: Pulse
Yes: Yesshows (2011 Friday Music)
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Of Natural History
Chet Atkins: Picks On The Beatles
John Williams: Schindler's List - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA Ultimate Masterdisc Gold)
McGuinn, Hillman, Clark: 3 Byrds In London (BBC)
Herbie Hancock: Blow-Up - Original Soundtrack (w/The Yardbirds "Stroll On")
Rita Lee: Boss'n Beatles
Lou Reed: Lou Reed (1972 debut)
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (2001 JP)
Miles Davis: Miles Davis Quartet (Record Store Day 1954 10" reissue)
Rush: Sector 2 (5CD+DVD-A box)
moondancer: Moondancer
Black Sabbath: Past Lives (2CD)
Devastations: Coal (Rowland S. Howard was a huge admirer of these guys but I wasn't all that impressed with the previous release I picked up....)
The Rolling Stones: Remastered (2002 promo SACD comp)
UFO: Lights Out In Tokyo (DVD-Audio)
Various artists: Totally '80s (2CD Razor&Tie)
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I Will Be by Dum Dum Girls
So Beautiful or So What by Paul Simon
Cherish The Light Years by Cold Cave

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Listened to A Toot And A Snore In '74 which is a bootleg recording of Paul McCartney and a coked-up John Lennon goofing in the studio with Stevie Wonder and others. Only worth listening to for historical purposes. The music is just plain bad.
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Gloss Drop by Battles
The King of Limbs by Radiohead
Space Is Only Noise by Nicolas Jaar
Indestructible by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
No Color by The Dodos
The Head and The Heart by The Head And The Heart
Love Notes/Letter Bombs by The Submarines

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Greatest Musicians by Countries (147 Countries)

Greatest Films by Countries

350.Guns N'Roses-United States of America
351.Alice Cooper-United States of America
352.Patsy Cline-United States of America
353.The Everly Brothers-United States of America
354.Bill Monroe-United States of America
355.Louis Jordan-United States of America
356.Dave Brubeck-United States of America
357.Orlando Gibbons-England
358.Paul Hindemith-Germany
359.Wings-England
360.Boards of Canada-Scotland
361.Vladimir Horowitz-Ukraine
362.Derek And The Dominoes-United States of America
363.Michael Nyman-England
364.Benjamin Britten-England
365.Mississippi John Hurt-United States of America
366.Pablo Casals-Spain
367.Caetano Veloso-Brazil
368.Red Hot Chili Peppers-United States of America
369.Nancy Sinatra-United States of America
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around april 2010, jazz really clicked for me and i got kinda obsessive about it. so far i've even bought about half a dozen books i'm still working my way through... i'm really glad though and look forward to delving even deeper into all kinds of jazz.

here's an interesting rundown of jazz musicians in my top 100 of all time (almost 6 years in total):
22 Miles Davis
39 John Coltrane
65 Thelonious Monk
88 Ahmad Jamal
and then a few more:
145 Charlie Parker
152 Herbie Hancock
211 Charles Mingus

and here's a list of the jazz musicians in my top 100 of just the past year:
2 Miles Davis
7 Thelonious Monk
10 John Coltrane
14 Ahmad Jamal
33 Charlie Parker
65 Eric Dolphy
70 Charles Mingus
71 Ornette Coleman
83 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
96 Sun Ra

i went from zero jazz musicians in the top 20 overall to four in last year's top 15! that's a pretty big jump

to be fair, Herbie Hancock would probably be higher, but his songs are too long so they don't tally up as frequently.
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Alice Coltrane: Eternity
The Modern Jazz Quartet: Django (SACD hybrid)
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
Dusty Springfield: Dusty In London
The Kinks: One For The Road (SACD hybrid)
Parliament: Tear The Roof Off 1974-1980 (2CD)
The Beatles: Help! (2DVD)
Eric Dolphy: Iron Man
Brian Eno & David Byrne: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage (2DVD)
Ravel: Piano Works
Hanson Conducts Moore, Carpenter, Rogers & Phillips (Mercury Living Presence)
The Damned: The Radio One Sessions
Jandek: Chair Beside A Window (Original LP! My second Jandek LP! And it's an early one! HIs fourth album and first of three releases for 1982. I admit, I'm a HUGE Nancy fan and this of course features her first appearance on a Jandek recording, the unenigmatically titled "Nancy Sings." I really wish she had recorded more, released stuff on her own, anything.)
The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (2002 SACD hybrid)
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IZIA, Wu-Tang Clan, Suprême NTM, Assassin, Nirvana, IAM, Bob Marley & The Wailers, La Spirale, Django Reinhardt, Squarepusher, The Prodigy, Necro, Ill Bill, Cypress Hill, Craig Armstrong, Heather Nova, La Coka Nostra, Scala & Kolacny Brothers, Keny Arkana, Bérurier Noir, Birdy Nam Nam, System of a Down, dead prez, Le Peuple de l'Herbe, Beastie Boys, Busta Rhymes, Alpha & Omega, House of Pain, Seth Gueko, Aphex Twin, Profecy, DJ Krush, Prefuse 73, R.A. the Rugged Man, Rage Against the Machine, Laurent Garnier, Dead Can Dance, Kool Keith, High Tone, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Erik Truffaz, Portishead, Wax Poetic, Johnny Cash, Foreign Beggars, Lady Sovereign, Sinéad O'Connor, Vitalic, Radikal Dub Kolektiv, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jan Garbarek, Svinkels, Love Spirals Downwards, KRS-One, Dave Clarke, DJ Cam, The Doors, Clint Mansell, Lisa Gerrard, Fat Jon, Les Gourmets, The Beatles, Johannes Heil, KoЯn, Sleater-Kinney, Wax Tailor, B-Real…

Ce qui devait être au départ un top 100 précis est en vérité une agrégation de chansons qu'il me plaît d'écouter, avec un vague ordre plus ou moins précis. L'opération est d'ailleurs compliquée par le fait que pour certaines chansons, j'ai choisi des versions bien précises qui perdent de tout leur charme interprétées d'une autre façon voire par un autre artiste.
Enfin bref, enjoy !

100ème : Funky Blue Note - Madlib
99ème : Soleil d'Ork - Magma
98ème : Vein - Cannibal Ox
97ème : Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley
96ème : Contort Yourself (first version) - James Whites and the Blacks
95ème : All of You - Miles Davis
94ème : So long, Marianne - Leonard Cohen
93ème : Nodamnbrakes - Manes
92ème : Don't Call Me Nigga, Whitey - Sly and the Family Stone
91ème : You Really Got Me - The 13th Floor Elevators
90ème : Eléanor - The Gathering
89ème : I'm a Man - The Yardbirds
88ème : The Modern Bass Guitar - Squarepusher
87ème : Love Buzz - Nirvana (sic)
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