Where is that 5 star records thread?

kekale

I tried to find that thread for about half an hour today... I remember there has been a "classified" 5 star records thread here. so where is that?Thanks.

Guzzo

there were 2 of these. One I started well over a year ago and another one from about 6 months back (I forget who did that one). Bot hcarried the same list and debated & updated the original list

I think its time we give it another revamp

GenePontecorvo

I think this is v. 2.0

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=crates&Number=559762&fpart=1&PHPSESSID=

drewnice

SoulStrut 5 Star Rated LPs Version 1.0

drewnice

Those threads were done almost exactly a year apart.

Let's wait and do a re-re-visit in January.

batmon

You also need the album this single came off of.

Fatback

How about updating the top-100 "must have" lp's as defined by Soulstrut as a whole? Or: what's the current strut canon?

Allow me to kick things off.
* = undisputed classic
# = time to move on


*Al Green "Let's Stay Together" (Hi)
Al Jarreau - Lonely Town
*Albert Ayler - "Spiritual Unity"
Alice Clark "S/T" (Mainstream)
Aposento Alto - goodbye old friends
*Baby Huey "Living Legend" (Curtom)
#Ballin??Jack - Same
Barbara and Ernie-"Prelude to..." (Cotillion)
*Bill Withers "Still Bill" (Sussex)
Black Caesar OST (Polydor)
Black Sabbath. "S/T"
#Bob Marley & the Wailers - "Exodus"
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (Blue Note)
Bohannon - "Stop & Go" (Dakar)
CAN - "Ege Bamyasi"
Certain Lions and Tigers - Soul Condor
Charles Mingus--The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
*Curtis Mayfield "Curtis" (Curtom)
#Cymande "S/T" (Janus)
Cymande "Promised Heights" (Janus)
Demon Fuzz - Afreka! (Janus)
Donald Byrd - "Places and Spaces" (Blue Note)
Donny Hathaway "Everything is Everything" (Atco)
*Donny Hathaway "LIVE"
Earth Wind and Fire - S/T (Warner Brothers)
*Eddie Fisher - Next 100 Years (Cadet)
*Eddie Kendricks "People...Hold On" (Tamla)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
*ESG "S/T" (99)
Funkadelic "America Eats Its Young"
*Funkadelic "Maggot Brain" (Westbound)
*Gal Costa-s/t (naoo identificado)
Gary Wilson - "You Think You Really Know Me"
Hank Mobley -"Soul Station" (Blue Note)
*Harlem River Drive "S/T" (Roulette)
Hell's Belles OST
Herbie Hancock "Maiden Voyage" (Blue Note)
Herbie Hancock "Headhunters"
Impressions "Young Mod's Forgotten Story" (Curtom)
Jackson 5 - abc (Motown)
Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow"
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love (Reprise)
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced?" (Reprise)
#Jimmy Castor Bunch - It??s just begun (Polydor)
Joe Bataan - Gypsy Woman (Fania)
Joe Bataan - Subway Joe (Fania)
John Coltrane "Giant Steps"
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme "
Jorge Ben - A T??bua de Esmeralda
Jorge Ben - For??a Bruta"
Jorge Ben - "Samba Esquema Novo"
Kool and the Gang - S/T (De-Lite)
Larry Young - Unity (Blue Note)
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti" (Atlantic)
Lonnie Smith - Drives (Blue Note)
Lou Courtney "I'm in Need of Love" (Epic)
Love-Forever Changes (Elektra)
Mandrill "Just Outside of Town" (Polydor)
Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On" (Tamla)
Marvin Gaye "I Want You" (Tamla)
Marvin Gaye "Whats Going On" (Tamla)
Michael Jackson. "Off the Wall" (Epic)
*Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue" (Columbia)
Miles Davis "Sketches in Spain" and "In a Silent Way"
Minnie Ripperton "Come to My Garden" (Janus)
Muddy Waters "Electric Mud" (Cadet Concept)
Ohio Players Pain (Westbound)
Ohio Players "Pleasure" (Westbound)
OST - Willie Dynamite
Parliament - "Osmium" (Invictus)
*PE - nation of millions
Pink Floyd - More ost, Dark Side of the Moon
Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son
Rene & Angela "Wall to Wall" (Capitol)
Roy Ayers - He's Coming (Polydor)
S.O.U.L. - What Is It
#Senor Soul - It's Your Thing
#Sonic Youth - "EVOL"
Stairsteps- "2nd Resurrection" (Dark Horse)
Stark Reality - "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop"
Steely Dan "Aja"
#Stevie Wonder - "Talking Book" (Tamla)
Stevie Wonder Innervisions (Tamla)
Stevie Wonder "Songs In the Key of Life (Tamla)
Stooges - "S/T" (Elektra)
Superfly OST (Curtom)
Sweet Inspriations "Estelle, Myna, & Sylvia" (Stax)
Syl Johnson - Dresses Too Short (Twinight)
*Syl Johnson "Is It Because I'm Back" (Twilight)
*Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (Cadet)
The Coup - Kill My Landlord, (Wild Pitch)
The Coup - "Genocide & Juice" (Wild Pitch)
*The Meters "S/T" (Josie)
The Meters "Struttin" (Josie)
Thelonious Monk--Brilliant Corners (Riverside)
Turner Brothers - "Act 1"
*Van Morrison "Astral Weeks" (warner Brothers)
Whispers - "shhh" (Solar)

This list is not very good. I could dispute some of the selections on here. And some honestly...well, I don't have them. But I'll just add a few titles to see what ya'll think. Maybe these could replace some?

Duke Ellington--The Far East Suite
Sonny Rollins--at the Village Vanguard
are two obvious missing jazz pieces

and for someone "who turned their back on hip hop" years ago, i'm wondering about the lack of rap rakords. obviously,

Illmatic
36 Chambers
Low End Theory

batmon

CRITICAL BEATDOWN[/b] > Illmatic

IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK[/b] > 36 Chambers

STRAIGHT OUT THE JUNGLE[/b] > Low End Theory

Fatback

CRITICAL BEATDOWN[/b] > Illmatic NO!

IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK[/b] > 36 Chambers Um, try again. The PE record is on the list

STRAIGHT OUT THE JUNGLE[/b] > Low End Theory I might go with this. I typed SOTJ, but went with LET becuase I think it had a great impact.

batmon

CRITICAL BEATDOWN[/b] > Illmatic NO!

Will save this for January.

Dont get me started on ILLMATIC.

Fatback

CRITICAL BEATDOWN[/b] > Illmatic NO!

Will save this for January.

Dont get me started on ILLMATIC.

I have no qualms including Critical Beatdown, but not in place of Illmatic. In fact, I see the two as entirely different artistic statements. There's just no equivalence here. I don't get it. Other that some personal thing you have with Illmatic. But plaese to spare us Archiac_Canal why I hate Kind of Blue type shit.

deej

CRITICAL BEATDOWN[/b] > Illmatic

IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK[/b] > 36 Chambers

STRAIGHT OUT THE JUNGLE[/b] > Low End Theory

"Forget those other overrated records from the rap canon...these overrated records from the rap canon are way better!"

Reynaldo

BLOCK MUSIC[/b] > Illmatic

batmon

CRITICAL BEATDOWN[/b] > Illmatic NO!

Will save this for January.

Dont get me started on ILLMATIC.

There's just no equivalence here.

Exactly.

deej

BLOCK MUSIC[/b] > Illmatic

Yeah I really wish people would stop talking about block music. Totally overrated.

Reynaldo

BLOCK MUSIC[/b] > Illmatic

Yeah I really wish people would stop talking about block music. Totally overrated.

BLOCK MUSIC >[/b] deej

deej

But back on topic, I'd say that the list, while certainly full of great albums, is crazily narrow in scope.

How did ppl come to these conclusions? How was the list compiled?

Guzzo

But back on topic, I'd say that the list, while certainly full of great albums, is crazily narrow in scope.

How did ppl come to these conclusions? How was the list compiled?

read up on your read-ups

there are 2 very long and detasiled threads about how such lists were made and debated

deej

good read, andI did find this gem:

shut the fuck up, reynaldo.

ok i'll stay out of this for now then.

magnetic

But back on topic, I'd say that the list, while certainly full of great albums, is crazily narrow in scope.

How did ppl come to these conclusions? How was the list compiled?

You haven't amassed the post count to ask such questions.