Time for everbodys Top Ten list.....

This list changes constantly depending on my mood, who is listening with me, and time of day (or night).

This moment it is:

Alison Krauss, " New Favorite" ('01)
Bjork "Debut" ('93)
Red Hot Chili Peppers "By The Way" ('02)
Crosby Stills and Nash, "Crosby Stills and Nash" ('69)
Steve Tibbetts, "YR" ('80)
Radiohead, "OK Computer" ('97)
Radiohead, "Kid A" ('00)
Elvis Costello, "Imperial Bedroom" ('82)
Fleetwood Mac, "Original Fleetwood Mac" ('67)
Johnny Cash, "American recordings" ('94)
Jimmy Giuffre, "Mosaic Box Set" ('00) Rec'd '54-'58
Carmen McRae, "Carmen Sings Monk" ('88)
Red Garland, "Stepping Out" ('79)
Charlie Hayden, "Closeness-Duets" ('76)
Dead Can Dance, "Aion" ('90)
Lightin' Hopkins, "Mosaic Box Set" ('99)
Roger Waters, "Amused To Death" ('92)

Polyphonic Spree
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Curve - Perish single
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Bjork - Post
Cure - Head in the Door
Headcase - mushi mushi
The Velvet Underground

In the to-be-sold bin:
U2 - All that...
Shins - i forget the album

I have been home recovering from spine fusion surgery for the last 7 weeks ... so the audio equipment has been getting a work-out. Currently in rotation:

Robert Plant, "Dreamland"
Nanci Griffith, "Winter Marquee"
Various, "This is Americana"
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, "Ella & Louis Again"
George Harrison, "Brainwashed"
Elvis Presley "From Elvis in Memphis"
Doves, "Lost Souls"
Stairsailor, "Love Is Here'
Bob Dylan, "Live 1975"
Otis Spann, "Good Morning Mr. Blues"

In random order:

1. Glenn Gould (piano): The complete goldberg variations 1955 & 1981; for those who like to listen to performer interpretations...

2. Erich Kunzel/Cincinnatti Pops/King's Singers perform the BEATLES - Fun, Fun, Fun recording - try the octopus garden

3. Windborne - the Dallas Brass playing Jazz. Yumm if you are a brass junkie like me.

4. I am not a Barabara Streisand fan, but "Classical Barbara" is a favorite of mine. I have had the LP since 1982, recently bought the CD. Warning: you need a REALLY good CDP in order to enjoy it. Quite wonderful, and not typical Streisand by any stretch of the imagination.

5. Getz/Gilberto - one of the desert island discs. Not new, but it has sent me on a quest to find the world's greatest recording of "the girl from ipanema".

6. Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - try the Tahiti Trot (tea for two), or better yet, the Piano Concerto no 1 in C-minor for piano trumpet and strings. Wierd name for a Jazz piece, nonetheless, jazz it is.

7. Bela Fleck: Perpetual Motion. He plays a banjo, he can't read music, nonetheless this is all CLASSICAL music Bach to Paganini played with accompanying and contrapuntal violin, cello, piano, guitar, mandolin, marimba. This is a Grammy Winner, and well deserved.

8. Essential Guitar: 33 guitar masterpieces. Compilation. Can't say enough good about these 2 disks.

9. Have been listening to Respighi alot lately - pines/fountains of rome. Good disk for assessing system performance on instruments that are naturally on the bright side. What should bright sound like?

10. And finally, guess I need some pop-rock in here. How about Surfer Girl, by the beach boys. Have been walking down rockandroll/folk memory lane recently. Given the present, the past is the best place to listen carefree.