So no matter how much Elvis Costello might deny it, we all have our favorites and Elvis’ is Tom Waits even though musically it doesn’t often show its head. Only the end of the end of Costello infallibity, Mighty Like A Rose, owes him a huge debt. But, given his career, Waits get a healthy FIVE ALBUM PICKS. That’s more than Stevie Wonder. A risable conclusion by any standards.
Well, here is the end of Costello’s top 500 albums, and watch out for Neil Young as well. It’s a doozy.
- Tristan And Isolde (conductor: Wilhelm Furtwangler; 1952)
- Der Ring Des Nibelungen (conductor: George Solti; 1983)
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- The Right Combination: Burning The Midnight Oil(1972)
- Her And The Car And The Mobile Home
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- Swordfishtrombones(1983)
- 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six
- In The Neighborhood
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- Rain Dogs(1985)
- Jockey Full Of Bourbon
- Time
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- Bone Machine(1992)
- A Little Rain
- I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
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- Tilt(1995)
- Farmer In The City
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- The Windows Of The World(1968)
- Walk Little Dolly
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- More Real Folk Blues(1967)
- Too Young To Know
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- Complete Works (conductor: Pierre Boulez; 2000)
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- O Moon Of Alabama(1994)
- Lotte Lenya, “Wie Lange Noch?”
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- 40 Greatest Hits(1978)
- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
- I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
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- Lieder (soloist: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; 2000)
- Alles Endet, Was Entstehet
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- Talking Book(1972)
- I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
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- Innervisions(1973)
- Living For The City
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- Fulfillingness’ First Finale(1974)
- You Haven’t Done Nothin’
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- The Best Of Betty Wright(1992)
- Clean Up Woman
- The Baby Sitter
- The Secretary
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- Mid-Eighties(1993)
- Te Recuerdo Amanda
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- Ultimate Lester Young(1998)
- The Man I Love
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- After The Gold Rush(1970)
- Birds
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- Time Fades Away(1973)
- Don’t Be Denied
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- On The Beach(1974)
- Ambulance Blues
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Soundtracks
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- Betty Blue (Gabriel Yared; 1986)
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- Big Night(Louis Prima et al.; 1996)
- Claudio Villa, “Stomelli Amorisi”
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- Torn Curtain (Bernard Herrmann; 1978)
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- High Society(1999)
- Mystikal & Outkast, “Neck uv da Woods.”
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Various
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- The Alan Lomax Collection Sampler(1997)
- Genoese Longshoremen, “La Partenza”
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- Anthology Of American Folk Music(1997)
- Dock Boggs, “Country Blues”
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- The Birth Of The Third Stream (1957)
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- Chess Golden Decade: The Early Fifties, Volume 1(circa 1970)
- Willie Mabon, “I’m Mad”
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- Ethiopiques: Ethio Jazz And Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974, Vol. 4(1998)
- Mulatu Astatqé, “Yèkèrmo Sèw”
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- Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones (1996)
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- Mysteries Of The Sabbath: Classic Cantorial Recordings, 1907-47 (1994)
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- Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era: 1965 – 1968(1998)
- the Knickerbockers, “Lies”
- the Barbarians, “Moulty”
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- The Real Kansas City Of The ’20s, ’30s, & ’40s(1996)
- Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra, “Queer Notions”
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- The Secret Museum Of Mankind, Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48 (1995 – 1998)
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- There Will Be No Sweeter Sound: Columbia Okeh Post-War Gospel Story 1947-1962(1998)
- Mello-Tones, “Looking for That City Called Heaven”
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- Tougher Than Tough: The Story Of Jamaican Music(1993)
- Dave And Ansel Collins, “Double Barrel”
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Vanity Fair, November 2000
Elvis picks the 500 Greatest Albums Ever. |
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