What’s your all time can’t live without recording?

[Hardbopjazz]

Do you have a recording that you wouldn’t want to live without? One that touches your soul when you listen to it?

What is it?

I tried to think of mine but couldn't come up with one. I have recordings, that through the years, I raised above the rest, but it always seems to change after awhile.

Edited May 20, 2004 by Hardbopjazz

[BruceH]

"Surfin' Bird" --by The Trashmen

[GA Russell]

Soul Message by Richard "Groove" Holmes. It's a combination of the music itself and the nostalgia.

[wesbed]

Steely Dan's Aja. Hands down.

Edited May 24, 2004 by wesbed

[mikeweil]

Lester Young's trio sides with Nat Cole, especially I Can't Get Started and Body and Soul.

[BruceH]

There's A Riot Goin' On---Sly and the Family Stone

[Rooster_Ties]

Maybe this...

[kulu se mama]

"into the music" by van morrison.

that and "a love supreme" are probably the only 2 recordings that i have memorized every sound.

[marcoliv]

Sign O' The Times

[ghost of miles]

R.E.M.'s MURMUR, although in recent years Elliott Smith's EITHER/OR has given it a run for its money.

Jazz-wise, along with the usual suspects--KOB and ALS--Bud Powell's early Verve sides, which I once had as a 2-LP set (and now have as Disc 1 of the Verve box) are essential for my listening habits. I still listen to those sides every six months or so, 10 years after hearing them for the first time.