I preface this request with an explanation. For about 6 years I have been compiling a day-by-day chart of record releases. It begins with wax cylinders in 1907 and continues to yesterday, Tuesday being the main US release day. This is for a project in which I am attempting to apply the archaeological method to music history. Basically using typology to look at trends progressing through time.

OK. Now that I've given background I would like for anyone to submit a list of what their top 15 releases are in numerical order. I will add all responses to a database I have been compiling for about 4 years. Each number will have a corresponding worth in a statistical formula that I will use at a later date.

I limit the list to only original releases. No greatest hits or live albums allowed. Your list can contain any genre from Classical to Industrial.

If I get a good response there will be a following request for a list of what you consider the most "important" releases. But, for now your top5 favorites please. Thank you in advance.

I preface this request with an explanation. For about 6 years I have been compiling a day-by-day chart of record releases. It begins with wax cylinders in 1907 and continues to yesterday, Tuesday being the main US release day. This is for a project in which I am attempting to apply the archaeological method to music history. Basically using typology to look at trends progressing through time.

OK. Now that I've given background I would like for anyone to submit a list of what their top 15 releases are in numerical order. I will add all responses to a database I have been compiling for about 4 years. Each number will have a corresponding worth in a statistical formula that I will use at a later date.

I limit the list to only original releases. No greatest hits or live albums allowed. Your list can contain any genre from Classical to Industrial.

If I get a good response there will be a following request for a list of what you consider the most "important" releases. But, for now your top5 favorites please. Thank you in advance.



huh?

Your numbers are all over the place.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?



I think the conflicting numbers is the problem. At first, it is stated to list 15 favorites and towards the end you stated 5 favorites. Maybe there was a typo.

You are correct sir. DOH! Sorry, I'm disabled and typing is quite a chore. Took me 15 minutes to type that short passage. I then apparently made a huge scholarly error and did not reread it correctly. The list is for 15 in numerical order. Hope it goes well from here.

You also said you were compling for 6 years then later 4 years. And it doesn't help me drinking bourbon.

I'll try and come up with 15.

Cheers.

The project of a discography of releases began 6 years ago. I began asking for the list of 15 albums 4 years ago. The project takes the concept of how levels in an archaeological dig show progressions in technology, etc. Breaking releases into years, months and days can be used in the same way.

Cool...sounds like a very interesting project. Are you going to publish the results?

It will be my Doctoral Dissertation. I began as an archaeologist and my disability will not allow me to continue with what I was working on when I graduated. My mind works my hands not so much. Since I was a DJ, worked in independant music stores and ran a studio I have tried to find a way to combine the two.

1. Sgt. Peppers -The Beatles
2. Elvis Presley-Self titled
3 Are you Experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience
4. Were Only In it For the Money - The Mothers of invention
5. Dem old folks at Home\Giant Step- Taj Mahal
6. Rubber Soul- The Beatles
7. The White Album - The Beatles
8. Disreali Gears - Cream
9. Free Wheeling- Bob Dylan
10. Wow- Moby Grape
11 After bathing at Baxters - Jefferson Airplane
12. Funkadelic-Self Titled
13. The Memphis Record- Elvis
14. The American Recordings- Johnny Cash
15. Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix

Thank you. It's a good one too. From my lists of 4 years The Beatles are so far ahead of any other artist it's not even close.

I hope you don't end the thread too soon. I want to submit a list, but it'll take a fair amount of thinking to choose my 15 favourites and have it meaningful, not just what I've been listening to recently. I'm sad to say that I'll probably continue another trend that you have probably noticed, one of many people who do not go much deeper into recorded music than the '50s, although that isn't by choice so much as circumstance.

The thread can stay for a long time. My final writing will not be for another couple of years.

When you ask for "top" 15 releases, does this mean favorites from a personal viewpoint or the most influential to recording?

Interesting question, very difficult to answer. I tried to consider in my mind points of time and the music that had the most profound effect on my my life at that point in time, so, I ended up with a more-or-less chronological, emotional, list of importance. I don't think I can compile a list any other way, since music is so inexplicably attached to specific moments in my life, both good and bad.

Here goes, please excuse any spelling errors:

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Led Zeppelin - ZOSO (#4)
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
4. America - America
5. YES - Close To The Edge
6. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
7. YES - Relayer
8. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
9. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
10. The Who - Quaprophenia
11. Deep Purple - Burn
12. Rush - 2112
13. Robert Plant - Manic Nirvana
14. Paul Simon - Graceland
15. Disturbed - Believe

Good Luck with your dissertation. :thmbsp:

When you ask for "top" 15 releases, does this mean favorites from a personal viewpoint or the most influential to recording?

This one is your personal favorites. I will ask for historically important recordings at a later date because I feel they are very different lists.

1. After Bathing at Baxter's: Jefferson Airplane
2. Liege and Lief, Fairport Convention
3. Waltz for Debbie: Bill Evans
4. Passio, Arvo Part, Hilliard Ensemble
5. The Lark Ascending: Ralph Vaughn Williams/LSO/Hugh Beam
6. The Alamo, Dmitri Tiomkin
7. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd
8. Dreams and All That Stuff, Leo Kottke
9. J.S. Bach, Orgel Musik, Karl Richter
10: J.S. Bach, Suites for Solo Cello, Fornier
11. Beethoven, Sym. No. 7, Pierre Boulez
12. The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt, Townes Van Zandt
13. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
14. A Feather on the Breath of God, Hildegaard van Bingen, Emma Kirkby
15. Lubbock on Everything, Terry Allen