10 albums I can't live without

[robfharris]

I determined it by albums I don't skip over any song... surprised me.

Prince-Sign O' The Times
Public Enemy- Takes a Nation of Millions
Goodie Mob- Soul Food
Jimi Hendrix- Axis:Bold as Love
Bob Marley-Exodus
Shuggie Otis-Inspiration Information
N.E.R.D.-In Search of...
Marvin Gaye-What's Going On
Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders
Nina Simone- Nina Simone & Piano ('Nobody's fault but mine' brings me to tears)

I had a toss up between several Nina Simone albums and Tribe beat out Common's Like Water for Chocalate... Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama held strong too. I was shocked I kicked Outkast, The Beatles, Stevie (Innervisions), Jay-Z, System of a Down, Pac, and Miles off. But that's mine... for the moment. It may change if D'Angelo ever releases another album.

[tamra]

robfharris,

wow, so hard to pick just a few because I love so many types, but I absolutely can't live w/out

Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key of Life

Marvin Gaye - Box Set have to have all of his available

Donny Hathaway - A Donny Hathaway Collection

Santana - Greatest Hits
Santana - Supernatural

Led Zeppelin - IV

Teena Marie - debut Irons In The Fire w/Young Love, You Make Love Like Springtime, - I can't believe this LP is over 20 years old and still looks new given how much it's played.

Journey - All of theirs, but esp. Infinity & Departure

Rickie Lee Jones - self titled debut

Doobie Brothers - Minute By Minute

Minnie Ripperton - The Best of Collection because it contains favorites of all the other albums (and an 8-track )

Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

The B-52's - self titled LP w/Rock Lobster, 52 Girls, Dance This Mess Around)

Willie Nelson - Greatest Hits because it combines favorites from all other LPs

Prince - Dirty Mind & Come

The Temptations

Tupac - Me Against The World & Makavelli

Mariah Carey - Debut CD, Daydream & Emotions

Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly - Live From New Orleans

Mary J Blige - What's The 411 & My Life

Bob Marley - Legend

Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross

Sam Cooke - Collection

The Rolling Stones - almost all of them, but esp. anyone w/Sympathy For The Devil, Waiting On A Friend, Fool To Cry, You Can't Always Get What You Want

Aretha Franklin - I have 2 of her greatest hits CDs which combine a great collection, but can't live w/out Rock Steady, Do Right Woman, Angel, Giving Him Something He Can Feel, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Ain't No Way and of course RESPECT

Al Green - Let's Stay Together LP

Smokey Robinson - Greatest Hits because I need Tears of a Clown, Shop Around, Cruisin' - one of the all time sexiest songs other than Marvin Gaye's I Want You

[bingolong]

robfharris,
Where do I start. I will just list albums that I obsessed over and had a hard time taking out the player(in no particular order):

(tie)Low End Theory and Midnite Marauders- A Tribe Called Quest
A Nation Of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
Off The Wall -Micheal Jackson
Long Live The Kane - Big Daddy Kane
Greatest Hits Collection(4 discs)- Stevie Wonder
Voodoo - D'Angelo
That Nigger's Crazy & Was It Something I Said? - TMIC
Fantastic Vol 2- Slum Village
One Day It Will All Make Sense/Like Water For Chocolate - Common
Atliens/Aquemini - Outkast


to name a few but this is just the first edit I know I will have more to add later after a while...


tamra.
Got the Minnie Ripperton collection and that is great....but somebody stole my "Songs in The Key of Life" out of my car and the way "Pastime Paradise" goes into "Summer Soft" on the CD is really missed.....


JTF,
Where you at?

[tamra]

bingolong,

oh that's so true, I was strictly thinking music, but when it comes to comedy, definitely That Nigga's Crazy and Chris Rock's Born Suspect.

also forgot to include Jill Scott's Who Is Jill Scott, Maxwell and India-Arie, Duke Ellington and Beethoven. all of these CD's I listed are all in a special area, and ready for a beatdown if somebody lingers around them too long.

the rest are all just stacked away and I get to them every now and then. but these, one of these is always in play rotation no matter what other CD's is in, and in a "my category" on IPOD.

somebody "stole" my D'Angelo Voodoo CD still have the blank case like that mofo will suddenly show up she said it fell out my case when I got out the car, but if it did, she would have been standing right there when it did. and then gone call me while it's playing

but ain't Inside My Love by Minnie an all time jam?
but Stevie's AS, that's it for me as well as Ebony Eyes and Love's in Need of Love Today. I can play those all day every day and never get tired. got both the original LP my family bought when I was just 8 or 9 as well as CD.

now 50 Cents' Candy Shop... did I mention after 5 minutes I'm done, don't need to hear it again

I also have the others you mentioned, and almost all from robfharris's list, except for Low End Theory, Big Daddy Kane, and Aquemini but only because my cousin and friend both wear those out so much.

but I will say The Roots, Yolanda Adams, Deniece Williams (Greatest Hits because of Black Butterfly, God Is Truly Amazing and That's What Friends Are For), Pink's Can't Take Me Home -- those along w/Mary J's My Life and What's the 411 kept me holding on for a while, don't know what I would have done w/out either.

[robfharris]

bingolong,
The funny thing is, "What's Going On" "Sign O' the Times" and "It Takes a Nation..." are the only albums on my list I would make strong arguements in the greatest albums of all time discussion.

"The Chronic" is a GREAT album, probably the most influential album in hip hop history. It came out 14 years ago and it still directly affects the sound of hip hop. But if a fire broke out and I grabbed it instead of "Midnight Marauders" or "Reasonable Doubt" I would be PISSED!

I think Aquemini is the second greatest Hip Hop album ever.
"Voodoo" is ground breaking, it's sitting in front of me right now because it's been in constant rotation in my life for exactly six years now. I sit up with my bass, try to play along as I wonder "How in the hell did D'Angelo, ?uestlove, and Pino Palladino come up with these bass lines?"

Thanks to my mother I have "Songs in the Key of Life" on vinyl, which I think is one of greatest albums ever made.

[bingolong]

robfharris and tamra,
Chris Rock's Born Suspect,Jill Scott's first one,Reasonable Doubt, Chronic and some DeLa's albums although not listed also stay in the ride and .

[Murphdogg]

bingolong, I won't even leave the house without blackfolk inc vol 1-86

[bingolong]

Murphdogg,
Man how in the hell did I for get those!!hahahaha!!:lol:

[tamra]

Murphdogg,

once again, like Duh-Da-Da-Man "who?"

j/k