Oh wow. I am SUCH a music junkie.

Lately I have been getting loads of new music, and I have found that I have a weakness for soundtracks. tribute albums and compilations!

For these three forms of releases there are SO many different forms of putting together an album!

Soundtracks like Il Bagne Turco and Le Grand Blue are original music, but compilation soundtracks like the first Crooklyn albums are great too.

Then tribute albums like the Curtis Mayfield one are great too! It might have horrid introductions,like Whitney's, but Eric Clapton and Lenny Kravitz's contributions make it worth it.

And then compilations. I love greatest hits to find out if an artist's voice is to your liking or not. Especially box sets. Sets by Miles Davis, james Brown, Aretha Franklin are all amazing. Woohooooo!

Give me samples of each one of the three categories and tell me why you love 'm! Let's share!

Some from my collection;

Red Hot + Cool, with the likes of Herbie Hancock, paired with Meshell NdegéOcello. Lovely comp.

Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures vol 1,amazing not often heard soul songs!

not necessariliy my all time favourite ones, but some I've had on spin a lot recently, so those immediately came to mind:





for a soundtrack well... I almost went for Xanadu or Shaft ...however, the one I've been listening to the most in the last few weeks was Little Shop Of Horrors... always loved the movie, Levi Stubbs has such an outstanding voice and I really dig the songs on there






Jesus... there are sooooo many tribute albums out there, and many of them have quite some fillers on it and tracks I tend to skip... however, here's one that works for me as a whole

A Jazz Tribute to Stevie Wonder

1: living for the city - ramsey lewis
2: don't you worry 'bout a thing - roy ayers
3: pastime paradise - ray barretto
4: my cherie amour - mongo santamaria
5: isn't she lovely - monty alexander trio
6: overjoyed - grover washington, jr.
7: you are the sunshine of my life - joe pass
8: i wish - tuck & patti
9: as - gene harris
10: sir duke - stanley turrentine
11: superwoman - ronnie foster
12: visions/joy inside my tears - marcus miller
13: superstition - ahmad jamal






the Phat Trax compilation series is a permament guest to my car stereo, mainly cause I'm much to lazy to transfer and compile all those old Funk gems from vinyl to CD-R



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I've turned you into a total completist and I love it!

"Songs of West Side Story" - This was a fun album, really liked Trisha Yearwood's remake of I Have A Love

"Juice" & "Above The Rim" Soundtracks - Bad movies, great soundtracks. Hoochies Need Love Too cracks me up. Al B Sure's cover of Still In Love With You is really good.

"E.T." Soundtrack- I was hooked on this soundtrack as a kid. I had the picture disc LP, and would sit there watching ETs head spin on the turntable, in a daze.

Everyone should hear Henry Mancini`s main theme from "The great mouse detective" it`s so beautiful

A few of my favorites:

Thelonious Monk -- Genius of Modern Music, Vols. I and II (Blue Note)

Charlie Parker -- Bird's Best Bop on Verve (Verve)

Miles Davis -- Vol. I (Blue Note)

Peter Gabriel -- Passion: Soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ

Various -- A Motown Christmas

Mark Farina -- Mushroom Jazz Vol. 4 (Om Records)

Steely Dan -- A Decade of Steely Dan

namepeace said:

There is also the compilation The Best of... The Blue Note Years and it is excellent


And this other was released last year:

I just got Billie Holiday's Complete Columbie Recordings...

Dayum.

GangstaFam said:

Hehehe.

Search for b-sides; check.
Search for remixes; check.
Stay up all night catologueing; check.
Look haggard; check.
Overdose on coffee in the morning; check.

GangstaFam said:

You should see my playlists of my Windows Media Player expand.

Right now I am working on two playlists; one of Prince songs he recorded (studio or live) of other artists, the other of the original artist's versions. Lotta fun!

dammme said:

Good selections. The first one features much of what is on the ones I cited.

The second one is likely the best album released in 2005 and ranks up there with Ellington at Newport '56 or "The Quintet" live at Massey Hall in 1953.