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AIM - Cold Water Music

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Masters at Work - To Be in Love

All just beautiful

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"At Last" - Etta James

"Imagine" - John Lennon

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Search and Destroy - Iggy and the stooges

IMO one of if not the best (punk)rock song ever written.

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- Roy Buchanan thankfully doesn't sing on this one but his guitar hits just about every note right in this version of Down By the River. The sick thing is this might be the second best version out there (I got another what may be better version from my brother's massive CD collection).

- Despite a downwardly spiraling career (although I highly recommend her first two solo albums) I still have great memories of Maria Mckee singing Shelter from her Lone Justice days in a mid-eighties Providence, Rhode Island show and in an acoustic set in a Hollywood semi-dive last year. More Maria in a electrifying live show from her Lone Justice days. Edited to add To Miss Someone from her first solo album.

- Cowboy Junkies have no hits but a consistent body of work stretching back 18 years or so. If I had to pick one song it might be Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning. Nah, can't pick one, so check out Midguided Angel from their consensus best album Trinity Sessions (recorded in one day in an empty church).

~ Rick

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War's Lowrider

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Some of these tracks are pretty standard posted here, I would feel very guilty if I wasted peoples time listening to them if thy were on their deathbed- here are a few tracks that give me chills and cant see other people disliking

I 3rd Lateralus (As it is the Pinnacle Of rock music)
And 3rd Hyperballad (The most flawless and universal track in a pretty difficult genre)
Hendrix- Little wing (this is pretty much as perfect as music gets)
Steve Vai- for the love of god (If people are only going to listen to 1 instrumental guitar track it should be this, amazing)
Radiohead- Street Spirit (Pure emotion, THE radiohead track, slightly tipping You and whose army)
Nancy Sinatra- Bang Bang (Beautiful)
Pink Floyd- Vera (There is just something about this track, pure emotion)

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What a cool thread. Much love for Umi Says. Others, picked b/c they don't seem to be well represented, either in genre or because they aren't as well known by popular artists.

Ishmael, Abdullah Ibrahim
Lakh Bi, Africando
Saor/Free/News From Nowhere, Afro Celt Soundsystem
Ai Du, Ali Farke Toure & Ry Cooder
La Marmotteuse, Barachois
Live At Carnegie Hall (Most of the Album), Bill Withers
Win, David Bowie
I Be Blowin, De La Soul & Maceo Parker
I Need You, Eurhythmics
The Sea & The Rhythm, Iron and Wine
Choctaw Bingo, James McMurtry
Cause We've Ended Up As Lovers, Jeff Beck & Eric Clapton (from The Secret Policeman's Other Ball)
Koln I & Endless, Keith Jarret
We Belong Together, Rickie Lee Jones
Let X=X, Laurie Anderson
Lead The Way, Lizz Wright
Rollin' By, Lyle Lovett
In A Silent Way & Sketches of Spain (Albums), Miles Davis
Maggot Brain, Funkadelic
Ghost Dance, Patti Smith
Sound of Water, Poi Dog Pondering
But On The Other Hand Baby & I Wish You Were Here Tonight, Ray Charles
Baby Its Cold Outside, Ray Charles & Betty Carter
Winter, Rolling Stones
Njosnavelin, Sigur Ros
Troy, Sinead O'Connor
Back 2 Life, Soul II Soul
Wayfarin' Stranger, Spearhead
As, Stevie Wonder
Meyango, Sweet Honey In The Rock
Edges of Happiness & The Ground, Tord Gustavsen Trio
Running To Stand Still, U2
I'll Be Your Lover Too, Van Morrison

Ick ... that got way too long way too fast.

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This thread is incredible.

A few quick picks:

Steve Vai - Bangkok/Fire Garden Suite
Squarepusher - Port Rhombus
Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint - Fast 1
Gustav Holst - The Planets Suite
Dizzy Gillespie - A Night in Tunisia
Iron & Wine - Naked as We Came
Tool - Forty six & two, The Pot
Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain
Aphex Twin - Flim, 4
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five

Thats enough for now...

I read a few pages, so I tried not to list anything already mentioned. Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings would definitely have been my #1 choice.

edit: Also, I recently discovered Jeff Buckley, and it saddens me that I only now found his music.

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All good tunes.

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muse - map of the problematique, I've heard this a million times and it still blows me away. I also liked this

muse - hysteria also.

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Map of the Problematique came to my mind immediatly. It doesnt matter how many times I hear it, it nearly brings tears to my eyes. Amazing song.

A couple of others.
Fast Car- Tracy Chapman
Sultans of Swing- Dire Striaghts
Man Who sold the World- Nirvana