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maybe this is overkill at ~5 hours, but it still only gets us to 1963.
It's mostly chronological, and starts out with the sort of early-era developments from Louis Armstrong, WC Handy, and Jelly Roll Morton who synthesized the slave songs, ragtime, blues, and sprituals into what we'd now consider "jazz". From there we move into the more big-band compositions, with an emphasis on singers (esp. billie holiday tЯist♡n ) and I threw some Sinatra on there because he immensely influenced and popularized this sound. The Ella compositions are somewhat out of place, but her version of Mack the Knife from Berlin is superb and showcases her improvisational scat singing style when she forgets the words. As a sort of backlash to the big band sound jazz moved into the bebop era led by charlie parker and dizzy gillespie. this style is more virtuosic, lots of complex arrangements and chords and solos. I included a song on there from "the quintet" a super group of Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. from the Live at Massey Hall album, a masterclass in the bop sound. Contemporaneously, and somewhat in reaction to bebop, cool jazz/west coast jazz arose that was a little softer and slower. Interestingly, Miles Davis, a trumpet player who dropped out of school to learn from Gillespie put out the seminal Birth of the Cool typifies this sound, and Chet Baker is one of the foremost cool jazz guys. Dave Brubeck's Take 5 isn't really cool jazz per se, but his odd time signatures and more melodic sounds leaned more "west coast" than the bebop guys, and Etta James put out her seminal At Last around this time as well. In the 50's bebop moved more into the hard bop era, which incorporated more blues elements. There is a lot of Hard Bop on here, because it was pretty varied. It's interesting to note, for those not really familiar, that many of these albums and recordings feature many of the same musicians backing each other up. Miles Davis, Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Monk etc. all played with each other and influenced each other a lot, and Miles Davis in 1959 released what has become the best selling jazz record ever, Kind of Blue, featuring many of them and leading a departure from the Hard Bop style into modal jazz - a way of improvising around musical modes instead of chord changes. Coltrane spent a lot of the early 60's in this style and I included three selections from here on here. The last few tracks on here are non-modal, post-bop stuff, featuring some guitar work from grant green and wes montgomery, a soul/blues jazz on the hammond organ, and closed with a classic Oliver Nelson tune based around a 16-bar blues.
maybe i'll put together another one for stuff that came after this that covers when jazz got weird with guys like ornette coleman, eric dolphy, sun ra, free jazz and fusion, the funk, and more modern stuff.
edit: here's an abridged version that's only 2 hours.
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And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know you realize that life goes fast - It's hard to make the good things last-you realize the sun doesn't go down - It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
I always have to point out that people shouldn't even attempt to do dis tracks after Pac did "Hit Em Up". I mean Jesus Christ what a fucking banger.
first off,
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If anyone has been itching to get into Talking Heads, Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman ditched RHCP on their podcast and are doing TH instead. It promises to be an encyclopedic compendium of all things Talking Heads. They will surely discuss topics such as when they first heard of Talking Heads, band member names, and even a little bit about fine cinema, aka "films":
If anyone has been itching to get into Talking Heads, Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman ditched RHCP on their podcast and are doing TH instead. It promises to be an encyclopedic compendium of all things Talking Heads. They will surely discuss topics such as when they first heard of Talking Heads, band member names, and even a little bit about fine cinema, aka "films":
Yeah outside of the hits on songs for the deaf and the other songs I picked I’ve always liked that one. Not the most interesting musically song but it’s catchy enough and I kind of felt like that was fine for a primer playlist. Also I’m really upset they ditch the chili peppers. I was really looking forward to the uplift mofo episode
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know you realize that life goes fast - It's hard to make the good things last-you realize the sun doesn't go down - It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
alright Im sure theres a few posters here who are going to have some strong feelings towards this one but heres Black Sabbath. only did ozzy sabbath though
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know you realize that life goes fast - It's hard to make the good things last-you realize the sun doesn't go down - It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Did a Pearl Jam one. 2.5 hours, so a bit long, but I tried to pace it similar to one of their shows, including a cover, and I did hit every album. All versions are studio versions.
May hit Against Me! later this week if no one beats me to it.
i did put some thought into the order, but not opposed to shuffle listening. the playlist does give you a nice transition from joy division > the new order cover of the joy division song "ceremony" > new order "age of consent", which i always view as the first real New Order song, then the extended version of "bizarre love triangle" which is probably new order's best song.
i included nothing from new order's late career. there is a ton of good stuff on those albums, but i focused on the golden era to try and keep the time down. for those interested in later new order check out their most recent release "music complete" which is a damn good album.
just about every track on joy division's two studio albums and the collection "still" are essential, but this is just a primer, so i encourage anyone intrigued by these tracks to check out their other records.
concluded the playlist with "world in motion", which was new order's song for england in the 1990 FIFA world cup. it is their only #1 UK single. be forewarned there is a cheesy rap from a football player in it.
Did a Pearl Jam one. 2.5 hours, so a bit long, but I tried to pace it similar to one of their shows, including a cover, and I did hit every album. All versions are studio versions.
May hit Against Me! later this week if no one beats me to it.
I think the best thing about Pearl Jam is mine would probably be totally different.
Did a Pearl Jam one. 2.5 hours, so a bit long, but I tried to pace it similar to one of their shows, including a cover, and I did hit every album. All versions are studio versions.
May hit Against Me! later this week if no one beats me to it.
I think the best thing about Pearl Jam is mine would probably be totally different.
Yeah. I did it pretty quickly and probably should have had Even Flow and Go or Animal on it, but tried to not just have the hits. Outside of the big hits off the first three albums, I wouldn't expect anyone's Pearl Jam list to be the same.
I think I could also just point to Vs. and say that is a good primer. It ranges from hits (Daughter) to hard rock/punk (Leash, Blood) to down tempo songs (Indifference) to funk (Rats) to pop (Elderly Women) to political songs (Glorified G, W.M.A). Pretty much hits everything except the more recent love songs that have been towards the end of their recent albums.