Welcome to The Daily Disc!
Welcome to The Daily Disc! Whether you prefer your music black and shiny, silver and reflective, or gray with a white, clickable center, the important thing is to find something that keeps you coming back for more. Here at The Daily Disc, I hope to give you a daily dose of music medicine, propelling your sonic love from fond to frenzied!
Everyday (except new release Tuesdays), I feature a new post highlighting a top notch record from years past. Each new addition boasts album artwork, an embedded imeem player containing all album tracks, and original (though often minimal) written content. Please read, look, listen, comment (I love to hear from you!), and, most importantly, share with your music loving friends!
Now, for a little bit about me…
I currently live in San Francisco, California. My serious listening/collecting began about 9 years ago as a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley and has continued through 1 library, 3 record store, and 1 previous dot-com job. Currently, I work for imeem.com.
For the past 4 years, my aural flame has burned most brightly for Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, the perfect intersection of 20th century Western music (a 1969 country record by a folk- and rock- singing blues and jazz fanatic). This is really just the beginning, however. While I do trend toward the classic American and British popular music genres, I never rule anything out or stray from overturning any musical stone.
Other bedrocks of my life-long pursuit include (limited to 5 per genre in roughly chronological order):
Blues Discs:
‘Mississippi’ John Hurt - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKEH Recordings
Skip James - The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James
Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland - Two Steps From the Blues
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues
Magic Sam - West Side Soul
Country Discs:
Carter Family - In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Tom T Hall - Ballad of Forty Dollars
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
Folk Discs:
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
Ralph McTell - You Well-Meaning Brought Me Here
Karen Dalton - In My Own Time
Plainsong - In Search of Amelia Earhart
Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
Jazz Discs:
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Stan Getz/João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Rap/Hip-Hop Discs:
Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Nas - Illmatic
Black Star - Black Star
Roots - Things Fall Apart
Reggae, Rocksteady, Ska Discs:
Desmond Dekkar - Rudy Got Soul: 1963-1968, The Early Beverly’s Sessions
Alton Ellis - Be True To Yourself: Anthology 1965-1973
Jimmy Cliff - Jimmy Cliff
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Toots And The Maytals - In the Dark
Soul/R&B Discs:
Don Covay - Mercy!
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Marvin Gaye - What’s Goin’ On
’50s Rock Discs:
Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Buddy Holly and The Crickets - The “Chirping” Crickets
Carl Perkins - Dance Album
Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is on Top
’60s Rock Discs:
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
The Kinks - The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
The Band - The Band
’70s Rock Discs:
Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
’80s Rock Discs:
Roxy Music - Avalon
The Replacements - Tim
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
’90s Rock Discs:
The Orchids - Unholy Soul
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
The Lemonheads - It’s a Shame About Ray
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
’00s Rock Discs:
Comet Gain - Realistes
Beck - Sea Change
Band of Bees - Free the Bees
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Every Night
Richard Hawley - Cole’s Corner
If you made it this far, thanks and enjoy The Daily Disc!
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