RECOMMENDED LISTENING
Irene Trudel's
Top Recordings
(Artists that matter to me and my favorites of their albums)
American Music Club - "California", "Mercury",
"Engine"
Scott Appel - "Nine of Swords", "Parhelion"
Kevin Ayers - "Joy of a Toy"
The Beach Boys - "Pet Sounds", "Smiley Smile",
"Surf's Up"
The Beatles - everything, but especially "Rubber Soul",
"Revolver"
Blood, Sweat & Tears (w/ Al Kooper) - "Child is Father
to the Man"
Tim Buckley - "Goodbye and Hello", "Happy/Sad"
Caravan -"In the Land of Grey and Pink"
The Chills - "Kaleidoscope World", "Brave Words"
Cleaners from Venus/Martin Newell - "Living with Victoria
Grey", "In the Golden Autumn", "The Greatest
Living Englishman"
Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue", "Bitches Brew"
Ethos (Victor Lovera & R. Stevie Moore) - "The Eros Ethos"
East River Pipe - "Shining Hours in a Can", "Poor
Fricky", "Mel"
John Fahey - "Requia", "Days Have Gone By",
"America","Voice of the Turtle"
Fairport Convention - "What We Did On Our Holidays",
"Unhalfbrickling"
Goods (Victor Lovera, R. Stevie Moore & friends) - "Herald"
Roy Harper - "Folkjokeopus", "Come Out Fighting
Ghengis Smith", Stormcock", all of it!
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - "Striking it Rich","Where's the Money?",
"Shootin' Straight","Beatin' the Heat"
The Incredible String Band - "The 5000 Spirits or The Layers
of the Onion", "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter"
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - (You name it!)
Victor Lovera - "The Smashers",
Nick Lowe - "Pure Pop for Now People", "Labour
of Lust"
Gary Lucas - "Skeleton at the Feast", "Gods and
Monsters"
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Birds of Fire","The Inner Mounting Flame",
"The Millennium"
Thelonious Monk - (Anything and everything-- I couldn't decide)
R. Stevie Moore - "Purpose", "Glad Music"
The Mothers of Invention - "We're Only In It for the Money",
"Burnt Weenie Sandwich"
The Move - "Shazam"
Rick Neblung/Jim Price - "The Savage Songs of Neblung Price",
"Darker",
Oregon - "Winter Light"
Pearls Before Swine - "Balaklava"
Linda Perhacs - "Parallelograms"
Radiohead - "Kid A","Amnesiac"
Soft Machine - "The Soft Machine"
Richard Strauss - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Fritz Reiner+Chicago
Symphony, March 8, 1954)
Sun Ra - (way too many to choose the best)
Richard Thompson - "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight",
"Shoot Out the Lights", "Watching the Dark"
Steve Tibbetts - "Yr", "Steve Tibbets"
Scott Walker - "Scott (1, 2, 3, 4)"
XTC - "English Settlement", "Skylarking",
"Drums and Wires" (All of them really!)
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CAT-egories
Artists I recommend but couldn't get more specific
with
(Note: Artists listed are in alphabetical order, not order of
importance. For more information, send
me a note)
Guitarists
John Abercrombie, Al Anderson, Scott Appel, Carlos
Barbosa-Lima, Robbie Basho, Masaki Batoh, Keola Beamer, Pierre
Bensusan, Linda Cohen, Ry Cooder, John Fahey, Bill Frisell, Davey
Graham, Dave Gregory, Roy Harper, Robyn Hitchcock, Bert Jansch,
Ledward Kaapana, Ozzie Kotani, Leo Kottke, Gary Lucas, Pat Martino,
John McLaughlin, El McMeen, Roy Montgomery, Newman/Oltman Guitar
Duo, Cyril Pahinui, Les Paul, Django Reinhardt, John Renbourne,
Joseph Spence, Richard Thompson, Steve Tibbets, Ralph Towner,
Frank Zappa
Good'n'Jangly
American Music Club, Apples in Stereo, The Bats, Brian
Wilson/The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Bee Gees (early), Big
Star, Bubble, Buffalo Springfield, The Buzzcocks, The Byrds, Captain
Sensible, Cardinal, The Clean, The Chills, Continental Drifters,
Richard Davies, The dB's, Dots Will Echo, East River Pipe, Jason
Faulkner, The Greys, Guided By Voices, Juliana Hatfield, Robyn
Hitchcock & the Egyptians, Lida Husik, Jellyfish, The Kinks,
The La's, The Lilac Time, Love, Victor Lovera, The Monochrome
Set, R. Stevie Moore, The Move, Martin Newell (aka Cleaners from
Venus, Brotherhood of Lizards), NRBQ, The Posies, The Sneetches,
The Soft Boys, George Usher, The Verlaines, Wondermints, XTC,
Kenny Young & The Eggplants, Yum Yum, The Zombies,
Orchestral & "Soft Pop
The Association, Colin Blunstone, The Critters, Dave
Dee/Dozy/Beaky/Mick & Tich, The Divine Comedy, The Free Design,
The High Llamas, The Left Banke, The Lemon Pipers, Eric Matthews,
The Millennium, Montage, Rotary Connection, Saggitarius, The Seekers,
Spanky & Our Gang, Dusty Springfield, Scott Walker, We Five,
Pop-Psyche/Prog
After Dinner, Älgarnas Trädgård, Ant
Bee, Appletree Theatre, Kevin Ayers, Blacklight Braille, Syd Barret,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Caravan, Chrysalis, Cryan
Shames, Curved Air, Colours, The David, Fallen Angels, Friendsound,
Genesis (pre-Gabriel departure), Gentle Giant, Ghost, Grapefruit,
Hollins & Starr, The Human Beinz, The Idle Race, Jade Warrior,
Jessamine, Kak, Moonflowers, The Mothers of Invention, The Music
Machine, The Nice, Perfume Tree, Pearls Before Swine, Pink Floyd
(pre-Dark Side...), Richard Sinclair, Silver Apples, Small Faces,
Bob Smith, Soft Machine, Spirit, Stackridge, The Strawbs, Trees,
The United States of America, Robert Wyatt,
Folk
Peter Blegvad, The Boys of the Lough, Tim Buckley,
Shirley Collins, Dando Shaft, Donovan, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention,
Forest, John Gorka, Tim Hardin, Harmonium, Richie Havens, The
Horse Flies, Ian & Sylvia, Michael Hurley, The Incredible
String Band, Bert Jansch, Jim & Jean, Rickie Lee Jones, J.P.P.,
Leadbelly, Annbjørg Lien, Magna Carta, John Martyn, Susan
McKeown & The Chanting House, Ralph McTell, Muzsikás
and Márta Sebestyén, Phil Ochs, Odetta, Pentangle,
Linda Perhacs, Tom Rapp (Pearls Before Swine), Knut Riersrud,
Peter Stampfel, Steeleye Span, Dr. Strangely Strange, Richard
Thompson, Troka, Loudon Wainwright III,
Singer/Songwriters
Leonard Cohen, Bob Dorough, Mark Eitzel, George &
Ira Gershwin, Joni Mitchell, Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro, Emitt
Rhodes, Biff Rose, Jane Sibberry, Scott Walker, Fats Waller,
Modern Sound & Melancholia
Iva Bittova, Cat Power, Cibo Matto, Codeine, Earwig,
The Fall, The Fibonaccis, The For Carnation, Giant Sand, Randy
Greif, Ida, Lambchop, Liquorice, Low, Mazzy Starr, Mission of
Burma, The Mommyheads, Mountain Goats, My Dad is Dead, Nico, The
Ophelias, Public Image, Rachel's, Rasputina, Red House Painters,
Refuseniks, Salem 66, Kendra Smith, Stereolab, Trio Lligo, Uncle
Wiggly, Jah Wobble,
Instrumentalists
Balanescu Quartet, The Beau Hunks, Birdsongs of the
Mesozoic, Brodsky Quartet, Die Knödel, Entourage Theatre
and Music Ensemble, Zusaan Kali Fasteau, John Hollenbeck's Cuartet
Lucy & Claudia Quintet, Lights in a Fat City, Mecca Bodega,
Roger Miller (ex-Mission of Burma), Modern Mandolin Quartet, Moondog,
Newband (performing on insrtruments of Harry Partch), Oregon,
Harry Partch, Raymond Scott, String Trio of NY, Third Ear Band,
Trance Mission, Turtle Island String Quartet, Glen Velez,
Jazz
Mose Allison, Carla Bley, Paul Bley, Kenny Burrell,
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Ex-Caminos, Joel
Forrester & People Like Us, Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart,
Gateway Trio, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Billie Holiday, Dave
Holland, Abdullah Ibrahim, Ahmad Jamal, Phillip Johnston's Big
Trouble & Transparent Quartet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jeanne
Lee & Ran Blake, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Karen Mantler,
McCoy Tyner, John McLaughlin, Microscopic Septet, Charles Mingus,
Ben Monder Trio, Thelonious Monk, Milton Nascimento, Ken Nordine,
The Quintet of the Hot Club of France (Django Reinhardt, Stephane
Grappelli), Sun Ra & His(...)Arkestra, The Refuseniks, Sonny
Rollins, The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, Wayne Shorter, Nina Simone,
Dinah Washington, Joe Zawinul,
Classical
Béla Bartók, Frederic Chopin, Aaron Copeland,
Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Antonín Dvorák, Henryk
Górecki, Ferde Grofé, Scott Joplin, Felix Mendelssohn,
Darius Milhaud, Michael Nyman, Francis Poulenc (esp. piano music),
Serge Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Franz Schubert (string quartets,
solo piano), Dimitri Shostakovich (esp. String Quartet No.2 in
A Major), Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, John Taverner, Heitor
Villa-Lobos,
Everything Else
Theo Bleckmann, The Bonzo Dog Band, Vinicius Cantuária,
Sheila Chandra, Dama (Madagascar guitarist), Brian Dewan, Mitch
Friedman, Udi Hrandt, Huun-Huur-Tu, Florence Foster Jenkins, The
Klezmatics, David Krakauer, Elodie Lauten, Loren Mazzacane Connors
& Suzanne Langille, Najma, R. Carlos Nakai, Nino Rota, Simon
Shaheen, Andy Statman, Ulali, Xumantra
