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Elvis Costello's Top 500 Albums Reaches It's End W-X-Y-Z

Tom waits for no one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Richard Wagner

Tristan And Isolde (conductor: Wilhelm Furtwangler; 1952)
Der Ring Des Nibelungen (conductor: George Solti; 1983)

Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton

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The Right Combination: Burning The Midnight Oil(1972)

Her And The Car And The Mobile Home

 

Tom Waits

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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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Frank’s Wild Years(1987)

Innocent When You Dream
Hang On St. Christopher
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Bone Machine(1992)

A Little Rain
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
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Mule Variations(1999)

Take It With Me
Georgia Rae
Filipino Box-Spring Hog

 

Scott Walker

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Tilt(1995)

Farmer In The City

 

Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick The Windows Of The World album cover.jpg
The Windows Of The World(1968)

Walk Little Dolly

 

Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters More Real Folk Blues album cover.jpg
More Real Folk Blues(1967)

Too Young To Know

 

Doc Watson

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The Essential Doc Watson(1973)

Tom Dooley

 

Anton Webern

Complete Works (conductor: Pierre Boulez; 2000)

Kurt Weill

Kurt Weill O Moon Of Alabama album cover.jpg
O Moon Of Alabama(1994)

Lotte Lenya, “Wie Lange Noch?”

 

Kenny Wheeler with Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Dave Holland

Kenny Wheeler with Lee Konitz Bill Frisell and Dave Holland Angel Song album cover.jpg
Angel Song (1997)

 

The Who

The Who My Generation album cover.jpg
My Generation(1965)

The Kids Are Alright
The Who Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy album cover.jpg
Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy(1971)

Substitute

 

Hank Williams

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40 Greatest Hits(1978)

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive

 

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road album cover.jpg
Car Wheels On A Gravel Road(1998)

Drunken Angel

 

Sonny Boy Williamson

Sonny Boy Williamson The Best Of Sonny Boy Williamson album cover.jpg
The Best Of Sonny Boy Williamson(1986)

Your Funeral My Trial
Help Me

 

Jesse Winchester

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Jesse Winchester(1970)

Quiet About It
Black Dog
Payday

 

Wings

Wings Band On The Run album cover.jpg
Band On The Run(1973)

Let Me Roll It

 

Hugo Wolf

Lieder (soloist: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; 2000)

Alles Endet, Was Entstehet

Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack The Best Of Bobby Womack album cover.jpg
The Best Of Bobby Womack(1992)

Harry Hippie

 

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder Talking Book album cover.jpg
Talking Book(1972)

I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
Stevie Wonder Innervisions album cover.jpg
Innervisions(1973)

Living For The City
Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness' First Finale album cover.jpg
Fulfillingness’ First Finale(1974)

You Haven’t Done Nothin’

 

Betty Wright

Betty Wright The Best Of Betty Wright album cover.jpg
The Best Of Betty Wright(1992)

Clean Up Woman
The Baby Sitter
The Secretary

 

Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt Mid-Eighties album cover.jpg
Mid-Eighties(1993)

Te Recuerdo Amanda

 

Lester Young

Lester Young Ultimate Lester Young album cover.jpg
Ultimate Lester Young(1998)

The Man I Love

 

Neil Young

Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere album cover.jpg
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere(1969)

Down By The River
Neil Young After The Goldrush album cover.jpg
After The Gold Rush(1970)

Birds
Neil Young Time Fades Away album cover.jpg
Time Fades Away(1973)

Don’t Be Denied
Neil Young On The Beach album cover.jpg
On The Beach(1974)

Ambulance Blues
Neil Young Freedom album cover.jpg
Freedom(1989)

The Ways Of Love
Neil Young Ragged Glory album cover.jpg
Ragged Glory(1990)

Fuckin’ Up

 

Zamballarana

Zamballarana Zamballarana album cover.jpg
Zamballarana(1997)

Ventu

 

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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The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff; 1972)

Many Rivers To Cross
High Society album cover.jpg
High Society (Cole Porter; 1956)

Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, “Well Did You Evah?”
One From The Heart album cover.jpg
One From The Heart (Tom Waits; 1982)
Torn Curtain album cover.jpg
Torn Curtain (Bernard Herrmann; 1978)
The Wood album cover.jpg
High Society(1999)

Mystikal & Outkast, “Neck uv da Woods.”

 

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”
The Birth Of The Third Stream album cover.jpg
The Birth Of The Third Stream (1957)
Chess Golden Decade The Early Fifties Volume 1 album cover.jpg
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”
Gravikords Whirlies & Pyrophones album cover.jpg
Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones (1996)
Mysteries Of The Sabbath album cover.jpg
Mysteries Of The Sabbath: Classic Cantorial Recordings, 1907-47 (1994)
Nuggets album cover.jpg
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era: 1965 – 1968(1998)

the Knickerbockers, “Lies”
the Barbarians, “Moulty”
The Real Kansas City album cover.jpg
The Real Kansas City Of The ’20s, ’30s, & ’40s(1996)

Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra, “Queer Notions”
The Secret Museum Of Mankind album cover.jpg
The Secret Museum Of Mankind, Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48 (1995 – 1998)
There Will Be No Sweeter Sound album cover.jpg
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”
Vanity Fair, November 2000


Elvis picks the 500 Greatest Albums Ever.

Images


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Cover.

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Illustration.

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Gatefold.

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Artwork.

 


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