Interesting topic. I’ve literally never given this question any thought, but I believe it’s… Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell / Mob Rules Scorpions - In Trance Townes Van Zandt’s S/T King Crimson - Red Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast Neil Yoong - On The Beach
Hard to say but, probably, the one album I have recommended more often than than any others would be Dinosaur Jr, Farm: That or The Dream Syndicate, How Did I Find Myself Here:
Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue is the only album I’ve recommended to all that many people. I think of it as an accessible introduction to that era. Nanci Griffith Flyer might be 2nd place among my most common recommendations.
When people say that they haven't heard a good rock and roll band since...I try and push "FIRE" by the Electric Six onto them. It's a regular Appetite For Destruction (every song is a killer) that album, but nobody ever gets into it.
For people just getting interested in jazz: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue. For people dipping their toe into Joni Mitchell's catalog after listening to Court and Spark: Hejira. For a great 80's album that does not sound like an 80's album: Joe Jackson - Night and Day Videos to help rock fans connect with jazz musicians:. Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light, Sting - Bring on the Night. Best Rolling Stones album - Exile on Mainstreet on 1 cd, played in the car on a road trip.
David Crosby - If I could Only Remember My Name. Before vinyl got stupid expensive I would buy copies when I saw it to distribute to friends and like minded people. A gift.
Exactly. I don't recommend albums until someone asks. People who push albums often can't read the room.
It is very likely to have been one of these four : Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet ℗1959 Coronet [NZ]–KLP 835 ℗1959 Columbia [US]–CL 1397 Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday ℗1956 Verve–MG V-8099 Songs for Distingué Lovers - Billie Holiday ℗1958 Verve–MG V-8257 Impressions of a Patch of Blue - Walt Dickerson Quartet ℗1964 MGM Records–E4358
Indeed! I misread the question. I thought it as the albums I'd recommend the most and not the album that I'd recommend the most. That's an impossible question to answer anyway, right? I might recommend Philip Glass The Photographer to Sister Marie-Thérèse and The Shaggs Philosophy of The World to my 22-year-old nephew in college and Pastor TL Barrett Just Like A Ship to someone who is distraught and down on his or her luck. What anyone would recommend the most to anyone depends on his/her projection of how the person may receive the recommendation in the first place. A far more interesting question is why someone would recommend that single album and to whom? That type of question would yield richer detail. But you are correct. I should not have responded so profusely. My response belonged in a different thread.
It was still appreciated! An interesting & varied list with quite a few on there that I'd also recommend depending on what the person has shown an interest in, and whether or not it's likely that person has come across it previously.
