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Originally Posted by gualbert
Let's say , your top 5.
Or your top 200 if you can't help making lists.
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1) The Grateful Dead "Views from the Vault Box Set"
This collection of several bad ass fucking dead shows from the late 80s and early 90s are beyond essential, in fact, it is one of the finest collections of music since the Smithosian blues recordings from the Delta...
This material reveals how the Grateful Dead are the finest performing band in the history of music. I said it, so there!
2) Ethiopiques Volume 8 "Swingin Addis: 1968-1974"
Ethiopian blues, jazz and dance music was the Emperor Selassie I's last and final gift to the people of Ethiopia, and if it weren't for the decade of terror and civil war the followed, it would have continued further up to this day.
though
Alemayehu Eshete and
Getachew Merkurya are still around today.
3) Trojan Records Roots Box Set One:
This is thee collection of essential studio one rhythms and a taste of the crucial roots artists of the early 1970s, though it is farely limited in scope being only the "trojan" cuts, and not having the majority of the scene which were not affiliated. Still, there are some significant artists on this mix, it is a must have for roots rock reggae.
4) Jimi Hendrex Box Set
Yes, you simply must have this. it is the perfect mix of live tunes, alternate studio mixes, limited b-sides, and unreleased studio material. Get it get it get it, it is the essential compliment to a collection of Hendrix albums.
5) The Makaveli Bootlegs
These studio remixes and b-sides from Tupacs massive studio work between 1994 and 1996 are a significant contribution to west coast hip hop, however, as with all underground, you have to be here to know. You have to have these to understand, and they are not always available, and many folks have not heard of them, though there are sixteen to be sure! and EVERYBODY is rappin on these tapes, it is truly a complition of crucial early 1990s rap and hip hop in this regard.