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Daniel I'm glad none of those are there.
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Well, I want to point to the 5 albums that were on my Top 100 (the one I've sent to Jacek) and are not in AM lists:
CAMARÓN “La leyenda del tiempo” (1979), #35 on my list.
Camarón was simultaneously the last of the classic “cantaores” (flamenco singers) and the main innovator of this ancient style. “La leyenda del tiempo” (“The Legend of Time”) has been hailed often as the Sgt. Pepper’s of flamenco, a breaking point in flamenco evolution. Camarón stopped at the time his long term professional relationship with Paco de Lucía (another ground-breaking flamenco guitarist) and began a productive association with other flamenco innovators like producer Ricardo Pachón, guitar player Tomatito and most significantly Raimundo Amador and Kiko Veneno from Veneno. Based in poems of Federico García Lorca, the sounds in this album interact with total naturalness and freedom the flamenco tradition with such diverse elements as jazz-rock (“La leyenda del tiempo”), Caribbean music (“Volando voy”) and Hindu music (“Nana del caballo grande”).
JACQUES BREL “Olympia 64” (1964), #51 on my list.
I’ve chosen a live album from one of the best live performers ever. He was not only the main figure of French “chanson”, the composer of immortal songs (like “Amsterdam”, “Jef” or “Mathilde” here in this album) and an amazing singer, but also he lived his lyrics, he acted his stories. He was a total artist, and in his performances the movements of his hands and his mouth and the expressions on his face were almost as important as the lyrics or the singing. Scott Walker or David Bowie have learned a lot of these theatrical kind of performances, but the Belgian singer remain unsurpassed in my opinion.
VINÍCIUS DE MORAES “Grabado en Buenos Aires con Maria Creuza y Toquinho” (1970), #66 on my list.
Vinícius de Moraes was a poet and the main lyricist of the MPB (“música popular brasileira”) along with such fine composers like Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carlos Lyra or Baden Powell. In 1970, when he was 57 years old, he decided to deliver himself his own songs (he had done it previously very occasionally) and teamed with young musicians Toquinho and Maria Creuza for some shows in La Fusa in Buenos Aires. The success of these shows promoted the recording of this album in Argentina, one of the best Brazilian albums ever, with inspired and stripped performances of immortal songs like “Garota de Ipanema”, “Berimbau” or “Samba em preludio”.
GORAN BREGOVIC “Underground - Soundtrack” (1995), #79 on my list.
Goran Bregovic is the living proof of a possible peaceful ethnic synthesis. He was born in Sarajevo, son of a catholic Croatian and an orthodox Bosnian, with Jewish background and married to a Muslim Bosnian. During the 70s and 80s he played with a rock band, Bijelo Dugme, but at the end of the 80s he teamed with filmmaker Emir Kusturica in order to make amazing soundtracks like this one. His music is a fresh mixture of traditional Balkan music, gypsy styles, classical music, pop and even electronica. He used an orchestra with strings and choir but replaced the main voices by traditional Bulgarian or Macedonian singers, the brass section by gypsy musicians (the great Wedding and Funeral Band) and the percussion section by programmed digital sequences. I’ve seen them playing live just a month ago, and it was nice to meet other 5000 people dancing madly to the “boom, boom, boom” rhythm of “Kalasnjikov”.
PATA NEGRA “Blues de la frontera” (1988), #80 on my list.
Flamenco and blues are two styles with many similarities. Both are the way of expression of a ethnic minority (black people in USA and Gypsies in Spain), both are styles founded in suffering and injustice. The particular way of singing the flamenco is called the “quejío” (moan) with a meaning similar of the “blues”, and the style is called “cante jondo” (it could be translated as “singing deeply”). The Amador brothers formed Pata Negra after the breaking of Veneno (the real pioneers), fusing blues and flamenco so freely and easily creating a refreshing new style very influential in Spanish musicians. “Blues de la frontera” (“Blues of the Border”) is their best album, with such gems as “Bodas de sangre”, “Pasa la vida” or “Camarón” (its tribute to the singer).
Other interesting albums not in AM:
MILTON NASCIMENTO “Clube da esquina” (1972)
PENGUIN CAFÉ ORCHESTRA “Music From the Penguin Café” (1976)
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN “Devotional Songs” (1992)
You MUST hear these albums, believe me. I want to make a proposition to all the people in AM forum. In a new thread I will post the name of 5 songs from this 5 albums and the English translation of the lyrics to make the whole thing more enjoyable. Please download these songs, I'm sure you will enjoy them.
But I will start the new thread after the weekend. In less than an hour I will go to the F.I.B. (Festival Internacional de Benicassim). Tonight I’m going to see playing live such great bands like The Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Strokes (and many more). Tomorrow it’s the turn of Morrissey, Mojave 3, Rufus Wainwright and Franz Ferdinand. And unfortunately I could’nt get tickets for Sunday, so I will miss Depeche Mode or Madness.
Sorry if I cause you some envy with that! 
* art bears: the world as it is today
* the auteurs: after murder park
* boredoms: onanie bomb meets the sex pistols
* camper van beethoven: telephone free landslide victory
* james chance/contortions: buy
* clinic: clinic (3 ep's)
* codeine: frigid stars lp
* the db's: stands for decibels
* galaxie 500: today
* half japanese: loud
* j.k. & co.: suddenly one summer
* liars: they were wrong, so we drowned
* lilys: better can't make your life better
* low: the curtain hits the cast
* the mandrake memorial: puzzle
* melt banana: cell-scape
* mercury rev: see you on the other side
* os mutantes: a divina comédia ou ando meio desligado
* nation of ulysses: 13-point program to destroy america
* neutral milk hotel: on avery island
* nurse with wound: chance meeting on a dissecting table......
* the olivia tremor control: black foliage
* the pale fountains: pacific street
* plasticland: color appreciation
* the pop group: how much longer do we tolerate mass murder
* pussy galore: right now
* the rain parade: emergency third rail power trip
* royal trux: twin infinitives
* scraping foetus off the wheel: nail
* this heat: this heat
* throbbing gristle: 1st annual report
* walker brothers: nite flights
* ween: god ween satan - the oneness
* white noise: an electric storm
* robert wyatt: ruth is stranger than richard
* xtc: white music
* bergen white: for women only
* brian wilson: pacific ocean blue
* yellow magic orchestra: technodelic
eitherway... what about an 'am so pleasantly surprised to spot that record on the list'-posting slot, just to keep the balance right... so many gems get their well deserved spotlight in here, it even makes the rubbish listed next to them shinier than one can imagine
ohhh... just another little addition with due respect to daniel b., who brought the childhood memory into play:
* john williams/london symphony orchestra: empire strikes back (ost)
that's it for me//
so long...
The Stone Roses - "Second coming" = a great underrated album, far better than their minor and overrated first record.
Eh eh, I know by saying this that English people is gonna hate me ! Sorry I'm confused...