Soulstrut 5-star albums ** 2006 revision

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(Thanks to Drewn for the idea)How about updating the top-100 "must have" lp's as defined by Soulstrut as a whole? Or: what's the current strut canon? Allow me to kick things off. * = undisputed classic# = time to move on
*Al Green "Let's Stay Together" (Hi) Al Jarreau - Lonely Town *Albert Ayler - "Spiritual Unity" Alice Clark "S/T" (Mainstream) Aposento Alto - goodbye old friends *Baby Huey "Living Legend" (Curtom) #Ballin??Jack - Same Barbara and Ernie-"Prelude to..." (Cotillion) *Bill Withers "Still Bill" (Sussex) Black Caesar OST (Polydor) Black Sabbath. "S/T" #Bob Marley & the Wailers - "Exodus" Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (Blue Note) Bohannon - "Stop & Go" (Dakar) CAN - "Ege Bamyasi" Certain Lions and Tigers - Soul Condor Charles Mingus--The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady *Curtis Mayfield "Curtis" (Curtom) #Cymande "S/T" (Janus) Cymande "Promised Heights" (Janus) Demon Fuzz - Afreka! (Janus) Donald Byrd - "Places and Spaces" (Blue Note) Donny Hathaway "Everything is Everything" (Atco) *Donny Hathaway "LIVE" Earth Wind and Fire - S/T (Warner Brothers) *Eddie Fisher - Next 100 Years (Cadet) *Eddie Kendricks "People...Hold On" (Tamla) Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch *ESG "S/T" (99) Funkadelic "America Eats Its Young" *Funkadelic "Maggot Brain" (Westbound) *Gal Costa-s/t (naoo identificado) Gary Wilson - "You Think You Really Know Me" Hank Mobley -"Soul Station" (Blue Note) *Harlem River Drive "S/T" (Roulette) Hell's Belles OST Herbie Hancock "Maiden Voyage" (Blue Note) Herbie Hancock "Headhunters" Impressions "Young Mod's Forgotten Story" (Curtom) Jackson 5 - abc (Motown) Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow" Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love (Reprise) Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced?" (Reprise) #Jimmy Castor Bunch - It??s just begun (Polydor) Joe Bataan - Gypsy Woman (Fania) Joe Bataan - Subway Joe (Fania) John Coltrane "Giant Steps" John Coltrane "A Love Supreme " Jorge Ben - A T??bua de Esmeralda Jorge Ben - For??a Bruta" Jorge Ben - "Samba Esquema Novo" Kool and the Gang - S/T (De-Lite) Larry Young - Unity (Blue Note) Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti" (Atlantic) Lonnie Smith - Drives (Blue Note) Lou Courtney "I'm in Need of Love" (Epic) Love-Forever Changes (Elektra) Mandrill "Just Outside of Town" (Polydor) Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On" (Tamla) Marvin Gaye "I Want You" (Tamla) Marvin Gaye "Whats Going On" (Tamla) Michael Jackson. "Off the Wall" (Epic) *Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue" (Columbia) Miles Davis "Sketches in Spain" and "In a Silent Way" Minnie Ripperton "Come to My Garden" (Janus) Muddy Waters "Electric Mud" (Cadet Concept) Ohio Players Pain (Westbound) Ohio Players "Pleasure" (Westbound) OST - Willie Dynamite Parliament - "Osmium" (Invictus) *PE - nation of millions Pink Floyd - More ost, Dark Side of the Moon Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son Rene & Angela "Wall to Wall" (Capitol) Roy Ayers - He's Coming (Polydor) S.O.U.L. - What Is It #Senor Soul - It's Your Thing #Sonic Youth - "EVOL" Stairsteps- "2nd Resurrection" (Dark Horse) Stark Reality - "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop" Steely Dan "Aja" #Stevie Wonder - "Talking Book" (Tamla) Stevie Wonder Innervisions (Tamla) Stevie Wonder "Songs In the Key of Life (Tamla) Stooges - "S/T" (Elektra) Superfly OST (Curtom) Sweet Inspriations "Estelle, Myna, & Sylvia" (Stax) Syl Johnson - Dresses Too Short (Twinight) *Syl Johnson "Is It Because I'm Back" (Twilight) *Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (Cadet) The Coup - Kill My Landlord, (Wild Pitch) The Coup - "Genocide & Juice" (Wild Pitch) *The Meters "S/T" (Josie) The Meters "Struttin" (Josie) Thelonious Monk--Brilliant Corners (Riverside) Turner Brothers - "Act 1" *Van Morrison "Astral Weeks" (warner Brothers) Whispers - "shhh" (Solar)
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The Coup - Kill My Landlord, (Wild Pitch)
The Coup - "Genocide & Juice" (Wild Pitch)

Only 3 hip hop albums on that list and these are 2 of them ???
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*Al Green "Let's Stay Together" I'm Still In Love With You (Hi)
Al Jarreau - Lonely Town
*Albert Ayler - "Spiritual Unity"
Alice Clark "S/T" (Mainstream)
Aposento Alto - goodbye old friends
*Baby Huey "Living Legend" (Curtom)
#Ballin??Jack - Same
Barbara and Ernie-"Prelude to..." (Cotillion)
*Bill Withers "Still Bill" (Sussex)
Black Caesar OST (Polydor)
Black Sabbath. "S/T"
#Bob Marley & the Wailers - "Exodus"
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (Blue Note)
Bohannon - "Stop & Go" (Dakar)
CAN - "Ege Bamyasi"
Certain Lions and Tigers - Soul Condor
Charles Mingus--The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Blues And Roots
*Curtis Mayfield "Curtis" (Curtom)
#Cymande "S/T" (Janus)
Cymande "Promised Heights" (Janus)
Demon Fuzz - Afreka! (Janus)
Donald Byrd - "Places and Spaces" (Blue Note)
Donny Hathaway "Everything is Everything" Extensions Of A Man (Atco)
*Donny Hathaway "LIVE"
Earth Wind and Fire - S/T (Warner Brothers)
*Eddie Fisher - Next 100 Years (Cadet)
*Eddie Kendricks "People...Hold On" (Tamla)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
*ESG "S/T" (99)
Funkadelic "America Eats Its Young"
*Funkadelic "Maggot Brain" (Westbound)
*Gal Costa-s/t (naoo identificado)
Gary Wilson - "You Think You Really Know Me"
Hank Mobley -"Soul Station" (Blue Note)
*Harlem River Drive "S/T" (Roulette)
Hell's Belles OST
Herbie Hancock "Maiden Voyage" (Blue Note)
Herbie Hancock "Headhunters"
Impressions "Young Mod's Forgotten Story" (Curtom)
Jackson 5 - abc (Motown)
Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow"
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love (Reprise)
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced?" (Reprise)
#Jimmy Castor Bunch - It??s just begun (Polydor)
Joe Bataan - Gypsy Woman (Fania)
Joe Bataan - Subway Joe (Fania)
John Coltrane "Giant Steps"
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme "
Jorge Ben - A T??bua de Esmeralda
Jorge Ben - For??a Bruta"
Jorge Ben - "Samba Esquema Novo"
Kool and the Gang - S/T (De-Lite)
Larry Young - Unity (Blue Note)
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti" (Atlantic) I-IV
Lonnie Smith - Drives (Blue Note)
Lou Courtney "I'm in Need of Love" (Epic)
Love-Forever Changes (Elektra)
Mandrill "Just Outside of Town" (Polydor)
Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On" (Tamla)
Marvin Gaye "I Want You" (Tamla)
Marvin Gaye "Whats Going On" (Tamla)
Michael Jackson. "Off the Wall" (Epic)
*Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue" (Columbia)
Miles Davis "Sketches in Spain" and "In a Silent Way"
Minnie Ripperton "Come to My Garden" (Janus)
Muddy Waters "Electric Mud" (Cadet Concept)
Ohio Players Pain (Westbound)
Ohio Players "Pleasure" (Westbound) Ecstacy & Funky Worm 45
OST - Willie Dynamite
Parliament - "Osmium" (Invictus) Mothership Connection
*PE - nation of millions
Pink Floyd - More ost, Dark Side of the Moon
Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son
Rene & Angela "Wall to Wall" (Capitol)
Roy Ayers - He's Coming (Polydor)
S.O.U.L. - What Is It
#Senor Soul - It's Your Thing
#Sonic Youth - "EVOL"
5 Stairsteps- "2nd Resurrection" (Dark Horse) S/T on Windy C
Stark Reality - "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop"
Steely Dan "Aja"
#Stevie Wonder - "Talking Book" (Tamla)
Stevie Wonder Innervisions (Tamla)
Stevie Wonder "Songs In the Key of Life (Tamla)
Stooges - "S/T" (Elektra) Raw Power
Superfly OST (Curtom)
Sweet Inspriations "Estelle, Myna, & Sylvia" (Stax)
Syl Johnson - Dresses Too Short (Twinight)
*Syl Johnson "Is It Because I'm Back" (Twilight)
*Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (Cadet)
The Coup - Kill My Landlord, (Wild Pitch)
The Coup - "Genocide & Juice" (Wild Pitch)
*The Meters "S/T" (Josie)
The Meters "Struttin" (Josie)
Thelonious Monk--Brilliant Corners (Riverside) There are several titles which to me would rate higher
Turner Brothers - "Act 1"
*Van Morrison "Astral Weeks" (warner Brothers)
Whispers - "shhh" (Solar)
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Lots of great albums, but essential? From whose perspective?
 
#Cymande "S/T" (Janus)
Time to move on
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a matter of taste. some of these albums need to move over.. to make room for Horace Silver, Pharoah Sanders, Burning Spear and more I see where you coming from. S'all good, homeboy.
 
#Cymande "S/T" (Janus)
Time to move on
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And here we go???

I think this whole idea of rating cornerstones has to be web-organized something like:

1. The peepl submit titles
2. The peepl vote for titles
3. The top xx titles are divided into hit lists based on genres.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 continually.

This would create lists of rated items that would change dynamically according to the current constituency and taste of the peepl.

This thread is just going to turn into a 10-page mess of subjective opinions that will lead into a polemic abyss of e-squabble.

I would love to say I could step up and technically create the democratic foundation for this, but alas I don't have the www-skills for it.

Just sayin'???
 
#Cymande "S/T" (Janus)
Time to move on
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And here we go???

I think this whole idea of rating cornerstones has to be web-organized something like:

1. The peepl submit titles
2. The peepl vote for titles
3. The top xx titles are divided into hit lists based on genres.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 continually.

This would create lists of rated items that would change dynamically according to the current constituency and taste of the peepl.

This thread is just going to turn into a 10-page mess of subjective opinions that will lead into a polemic abyss of e-squabble.

I would love to say I could step up and technically create the democratic foundation for this, but alas I don't have the www-skills for it.

Just sayin'???
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This is why I'm a leave this thread alone. Time to go see the dentist!!

Later.
 
This thread is just going to turn into a 10-page mess of subjective opinions that will lead into a polemic abyss of e-squabble.
That's sort of the whole point!
 
I would love to say I could step up and technically create the democratic foundation for this, but alas I don't have the www-skills for it.

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Yes that would be one way, but still - it's 2006. There must be smarter ways to do this. There's got to be some SS databass nerds out there who's got the tech knowledge. But if someone is willing to sift through the mire of suggestions and do it the ballpoint'n'math way, that's great.
 
(Thanks to Drewn for the idea)


How about updating the top-100 "must have" lp's as defined by Soulstrut as a whole? Or: what's the current strut canon?

Allow me to kick things off.
* = undisputed classic
# = time to move on



*Al Green "Let's Stay Together" (Hi)
Al Jarreau - Lonely Town
*Albert Ayler - "Spiritual Unity"
Alice Clark "S/T" (Mainstream)
Aposento Alto - goodbye old friends
*Baby Huey "Living Legend" (Curtom)
#Ballin??Jack - Same
Barbara and Ernie-"Prelude to..." (Cotillion)
*Bill Withers "Still Bill" (Sussex)
Black Caesar OST (Polydor)
Black Sabbath. "S/T"
#Bob Marley & the Wailers - "Exodus"
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (Blue Note)
Bohannon - "Stop & Go" (Dakar)
CAN - "Ege Bamyasi"
Certain Lions and Tigers - Soul Condor
Charles Mingus--The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
*Curtis Mayfield "Curtis" (Curtom)
#Cymande "S/T" (Janus)
Cymande "Promised Heights" (Janus)
Demon Fuzz - Afreka! (Janus)
Donald Byrd - "Places and Spaces" (Blue Note)
Donny Hathaway "Everything is Everything" (Atco)
*Donny Hathaway "LIVE"
Earth Wind and Fire - S/T (Warner Brothers)
*Eddie Fisher - Next 100 Years (Cadet)
*Eddie Kendricks "People...Hold On" (Tamla)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
*ESG "S/T" (99)
Funkadelic "America Eats Its Young"
*Funkadelic "Maggot Brain" (Westbound)
*Gal Costa-s/t (naoo identificado)
Gary Wilson - "You Think You Really Know Me"
Hank Mobley -"Soul Station" (Blue Note)
*Harlem River Drive "S/T" (Roulette)
Hell's Belles OST
Herbie Hancock "Maiden Voyage" (Blue Note)
Herbie Hancock "Headhunters"
Impressions "Young Mod's Forgotten Story" (Curtom)
Jackson 5 - abc (Motown)
Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow"
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love (Reprise)
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced?" (Reprise)
#Jimmy Castor Bunch - It??s just begun (Polydor)
Joe Bataan - Gypsy Woman (Fania)
Joe Bataan - Subway Joe (Fania)
John Coltrane "Giant Steps"
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme "
Jorge Ben - A T??bua de Esmeralda
Jorge Ben - For??a Bruta"
Jorge Ben - "Samba Esquema Novo"
Kool and the Gang - S/T (De-Lite)
Larry Young - Unity (Blue Note)
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti" (Atlantic)
Lonnie Smith - Drives (Blue Note)
Lou Courtney "I'm in Need of Love" (Epic)
Love-Forever Changes (Elektra)
Mandrill "Just Outside of Town" (Polydor)
Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On" (Tamla)
Marvin Gaye "I Want You" (Tamla)
Marvin Gaye "Whats Going On" (Tamla)
Michael Jackson. "Off the Wall" (Epic)
*Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue" (Columbia)
Miles Davis "Sketches in Spain" and "In a Silent Way"
Minnie Ripperton "Come to My Garden" (Janus)
Muddy Waters "Electric Mud" (Cadet Concept)
Ohio Players Pain (Westbound)
Ohio Players "Pleasure" (Westbound)
OST - Willie Dynamite
Parliament - "Osmium" (Invictus)
*PE - nation of millions
Pink Floyd - More ost, Dark Side of the Moon
Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son
Rene & Angela "Wall to Wall" (Capitol)
Roy Ayers - He's Coming (Polydor)
S.O.U.L. - What Is It
#Senor Soul - It's Your Thing
#Sonic Youth - "EVOL"
Stairsteps- "2nd Resurrection" (Dark Horse)
Stark Reality - "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop"
Steely Dan "Aja"
#Stevie Wonder - "Talking Book" (Tamla)
Stevie Wonder Innervisions (Tamla)
Stevie Wonder "Songs In the Key of Life (Tamla)
Stooges - "S/T" (Elektra)
Superfly OST (Curtom)
Sweet Inspriations "Estelle, Myna, & Sylvia" (Stax)
Syl Johnson - Dresses Too Short (Twinight)
*Syl Johnson "Is It Because I'm Back" (Twilight)
*Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (Cadet)
The Coup - Kill My Landlord, (Wild Pitch)
The Coup - "Genocide & Juice" (Wild Pitch)
*The Meters "S/T" (Josie)
The Meters "Struttin" (Josie)
Thelonious Monk--Brilliant Corners (Riverside)
Turner Brothers - "Act 1"
*Van Morrison "Astral Weeks" (warner Brothers)
Whispers - "shhh" (Solar)
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Whoa, you're telling me we need to move on from "Talking Book," but we can let "Demon Fuzz," "Come To My Garden" and "You Think You Really Know Me" stay on there. Not saying those aren't good albums, but "Talking Book" is an essential.

Also, and I know I'll get flack for this, but Superfly needs to go. I love Curtis, but there are a lot of albums I'd put above that (many by Curtis himself).

I think "Let It Bleed" is pretty essential as well...
 

Not saying it should replace "Let's Stay Together"...but AG's "I'm Still in Love with You" has to be considered. Such a strong album from end to end. The only semi-weak track is "Pretty Woman".
 
Whoa, you're telling me we need to move on from "Talking Book," but we can let "Demon Fuzz," "Come To My Garden" and "You Think You Really Know Me" stay on there. Not saying those aren't good albums, but "Talking Book" is an essential.





Also, and I know I'll get flack for this, but Superfly needs to go. I love Curtis, but there are a lot of albums I'd put above that (many by Curtis himself).





I think "Let It Bleed" is pretty essential as well...




This thread is about 5 Star Albums, not necessarily essential records.





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I'll give you:


Demon Fuzz -
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Albert Ayler - "Spiritual Unity"


Black Sabbath- "S/T"


Can - "Ege Bamyasi"


Donny Hathaway -"LIVE"


Funkadelic- "S/T"


Jefferson Airplane - "Crown of Creation"


John Coltrane -"A Love Supreme"


Love-Forever Changes (Elektra)


PE - Nation of millions


Sonic Youth - "Sister"


The Meters "S/T" (Josie)




And Al Green is five stars only if you've run out of Ambien.


 
Albert Ayler - "Spiritual Unity"
Black Sabbath- "S/T"
Can - "Ege Bamyasi"
Donny Hathaway -"LIVE"
Funkadelic- "America Eats Its Young"
Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow"
John Coltrane -"A Love Supreme"
Love-Forever Changes (Elektra)
PE - Nation of millions
Sonic Youth - "Sister"
The Meters "S/T" (Josie)
And Al Green is five stars only if you've run out of Ambien.

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respectfully disagree.....

Anyone else prefer "Tago Mago" to "Ege Bamyasi"??? Shit, I listen to "Future Days" more than any of 'em...more sleepy-time music I guess.