Music

see audio, syncopated music, music sharing, musical instrument, live performance, etc.

20+ albums that changed me, by the year I heard them (cf Greatest Books)

• 1976 Maynard Ferguson: Chameleon
• 1977: Weather Report: Heavy Weather; Horace Silver: Song for my Father
• 1978 The Crusaders: Rainbow Seeker; Pat Metheny Group: Pat Metheny Group; Gil Scott-Heron: Secrets
• 1979: Oregon: Out of the Woods; Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon; James Galway Plays Rodrigo
• 1981 GoGos: Beauty and the Beat; The B-52s: The B-52s
• 1983 Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This); Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues
• 1986 Timbuk3 Greetings from Timbuk3; Paul Simon: Graceland; Stewart Copeland: Rhythmatist
• 1988 Frank Zappa Guitar
• 1989 Microscopic Septet: Beauty Based on Science
• 1991 Negativland: U2
• 1992 US-3: Hand on the Torch
• 1993 kd lang: Ingenue
• 1997 Return of the DJ
• 1998: Three Baritone Saxophone Band Plays Mulligan; Psychefunkajazzadelic, 2nd Edition; United Future Organization: No Sound is Too Taboo; Brooklyn Funk Essentials: Cool and Steady and Easy
• 2003: Verve Remixed 2
• 2005: Fast N Bulbous: Pork Chop Blue Around The Rind
• 2006: Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
• 2008: Kleptones: From Detroit to J.A.
• 2010: Lounge Lizards: Get Shorty soundtrack;
• 2011: AKACOD: Happiness; Morphine: Cure for Pain; Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travelers; 2cellos
• 2013: Janelle Monae
• 2014: Lounge Lizards: Voice of Chunk