Build your music collection – vintage edition #2
The second in an occasional series – some suggestions to build up your music collection, but not the new shiny stuff. These suggestions focus on the outskirts, building up your back catalogue to find some gems. Don’t take my word for it – click the links to get to the Amazon pages for these artistes.
- New Order – one of the most influential groups of the last 30 years, I can’t remember a time of enjoying electronic music without New Order being a part of it. From the mammoth Blue Monday through to my personal favourite Technique, New Order have never failed to deliver.
- Frank Sinatra – Every man needs a little Sinatra in their collection – over 50 years in the business gave us some of the most iconic songs by arguably one of the best voices of the 20th century. I love the loucheness of Sinatra at the Sands, and Songs for Swinging Lovers is one my all time favourite albums.
- Stevie Wonder – Long before becoming an American institution Stevie Wonder was tearing up the charts with Motown hits, but leaving the Detroit label allowed him to produce two of the most essential albums of all time – Innervisions and Sons in the Key of Life, both massive albums of the 70’s and demanding a place in your collection.
What classics have you discovered for your collection?
Oct 21, 2009 @ 10:43:42
totally with you on New Order there Matt.
Republic is such a great album with Regret in my top 5 songs and some other killers on the back end such as Special.
lovin the new blog focus!
Oct 22, 2009 @ 02:28:59
Completely concur – I don’t think any music collection is complete without some New Order… Republic is also a huge album. I think technique just edges it for me – with Vanishing Point being one of the peaks of their career.
Cheers for the feedback!
Oct 22, 2009 @ 17:17:26
I have to say that I am in agreement with Sinatra and Stevie, but I’ll have to ponder New Order. I actually have a Stevie AND a Sinatra station on Pandora. Wonder if New Order will be next?
Oct 22, 2009 @ 19:33:20
Cheri – two out of three aren’t bad!
New Order might not be to everyones’ taste – but if you have any interest into British electronic or dance music, then these guys were clear influencers.
I’m now thinking that maybe I should checkout Pandora… I use last.fm for music recommendations at the moment.
Oct 23, 2009 @ 00:52:30
I do enjoy Pandora a great deal. Here is one to make you laugh – another one of my stations is “Charlie Brown/Vince Guaraldi”. I love listening to that music around Thanksgiving and Christmas. I listen to music every chance I get. It is part of my soul.