5 Albums I Can’t Live Without
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Pat Metheny
Name Pat Metheny. Best known for Musician. Current city New York City. Really want to be in Any place at all is fine with me…just glad to be here. Excited about Learning more about music. I feel like in the last few years I have started to make a new kind of progress. My current music collection has a lot of Music that has good notes with equal amounts of soul, spirit and creativity. And a little bit of Music with maybe not quite as many good notes, but lots of enthusiasm. Don’t judge me for I stand proudly with music and musicians. Dealing with music at almost any level is challenging and a noble way to spend your time. So, no ironic-for-their-not-hipness choices for me. Preferred Format I have had a radio station from outer space blasting into my head since I was five or so, so that is m...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: RZA
Name RZA Best known for The Fatal Flying Guillotine Carrier. Current city Los Angeles. Really want to be The holy city of Mecca. Excited about My new album “Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater” with DJ Scratch, which will be dropping later this summer. My current music collection has a lot of Frank Sinatra and Playboi Carti. And a little bit of Curtis Mayfield and meditation music. Don’t judge me for All of the music from The Benny Hill Show. Preferred format Anyway to listen to music, I love and enjoy, but I’m home back east at the Wu Mansion, I like to listen to music on vinyl. The slight variation of speed, there’s something about the ebb and flow of it that makes me always feel alive. [embedded content] 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without 1 A Donny Hathaway CollectionDonny Hathaway The Donny ...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Neil Finn
Name Neil Finn Best known for Having a full head of hair and spectacular calf muscles. Current city Auckland, NZ. Really want to be On a balcony in my pajamas on a Greek Island with freshly baked bread, olive oil, local honey and espresso or on the top of Mount Everest having not had to climb it. Excited about Dreamers Are Waiting coming out June 4. My current music collection has a lot of World music. And a little bit of Holiday (it is a genre). Don’t judge me for String Theory by The Kallafas Quartet. Preferred format Vinyl by a long shot because it’s the best. Then my 8-track Tascam 1/4” tape recorder for my demos because it’s romantic and there is no screen. CREDIT: Steve Dykes 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without 1 Hunky DoryDavid Bowie It’s an essential songwriters record. So many cho...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson
Name Tom Petersson Best known for Cheap Trick, 12-string bass guitarist. Current city Nashville, TN. Really want to be in London, England. I would wander the streets aimlessly for the rest of my life. Excited about I’m always excited about recording and releasing new albums. My current music collection has a lot of I love the diverse music they play on NPR and love hearing music I would never think to listen to. I like surprises! Don’t judge me for Nothing to report about embarrassing records I like – but I probably wouldn’t mention it if I did! Preferred format CD – easier to transport. Vinyl – for reading credits. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: 1 The Beatles (White Album)The Beatles CREDIT: Capitol Since I was a teenager in the 1960s, I heard and loved all the Beatles records in real-tim...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Juliana Hatfield
Name Juliana Hatfield Best known for alternawaifdom. Current city Cambridge, MA. Really want to be in In one fantasy of mine I move to Helsinki to work as a textile designer for Marimekko. Or else just work in the factory. Excited about I might be joining a landscaping team! My current music collection has a lot of Nothing (I own almost no music—and I don’t stream). And a little bit of Trashy pop. Don’t judge me for Maybe Marie Osmond’s This Is the Way That I Feel, but then again I love it and I’m not embarrassed, dammit! Rock snobs can suck it! Preferred format Non-commercial genre-less terrestrial radio (WJIB is always on in my car). 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: 1 PretendersPretenders It is immaculate and untouchable! It has tons of attitude but also subtlety. Chrissie Hynde’s voice is...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Alaska Thunderfuck 5000
Name Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 Best known for Being from outer space, beauty, glamour, fashion, nails, naturally platinum blonde hair, a body that defies the laws of physics. Current city Los Angeles, CA. Really want to be in Right here, right now. Or maybe in a bar in Pittsburgh. Excited about My upcoming Extra Special Comedy Special [which premiered] April 15 on Out TV USA and coming to a city near you post-pandemic. My current music collection has a lot of Patti LaBelle… Aqua. And a little bit of ‘60s doo-wop and songs where the guys are baritones but they sing really high. Don’t judge me for I’m not ashamed of any of my music because all music is beautiful and lovely. But I am not ashamed to say that I waited about six months for my clear vinyl Lady Gaga Chromatica album to arrive in the...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Soulwax
Name David and Stephen Dawaele, a.k.a. Soulwax, a.k.a. 2manyDJS Best known for Playing records that people dance to. Or maybe better known for making music. Not sure. Current city Ghent, Belgium. Really want to be in TOKYO. Excited about Being able to travel to Japan when that is a thing again. Also, new label compilation Foundations (out May 7). My current music collection has a lot of Japanese music. And a little bit of Non-Japanese music. Don’t judge me for Listening to “UFO” by Pink Lady. Preferred format They’re all great and annoying for different reasons, but at least with vinyl and CD, a better part of the money goes to the artist. [embedded content] 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without 1 Station to StationDavid Bowie Disclaimer: These records are not the result of a clever deep dive...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys
Name Ken Casey Best known for Holding all Massachusetts high school truancy records and then going on to fake my way through a 25-year-and-counting music career. Current City Boston, Massachusetts. Really Want to Be In Sydney, Australia because it’s the balls. Excited about New Dropkick’s album Turn Up That Dial. My current music collection has a lot of Rock ‘n Roll. And a little bit of Soul. Don’t judge me for Donna Summer’s Bad Girls. Actually, fuck that I’m not ashamed. Preferred Format Vinyl, of course. [embedded content] 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: 1 The Streets Of San FranciscoSwingin’ Utters I never thought a record would come along in the ‘90s that moved me like my favorite records from the ‘80s. This record renewed my faith in music. 2 London CallingThe Clash Amazing, tim...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Emilio Castillo
Name Emilio Castillo Best known for Bandleader for Tower of Power. Saved & Sober! Current city Scottsdale, Arizona Really want to be in Athens, Greece. I’d be eating Greek food and taking in the tremendous sights! Excited about Tower of Power’s new DVD which was released in March: Tower of Power 50th Anniversary: 50 Years of Funk & Soul. My current music collection has a lot of Soul, great singers, and great songs: Fred Hammond, Alison Krauss, Smokie Norful, Yolanda Adams, Howard Tate, The Impressions, The Four Tops, James Brown. And a little bit of Soft, relaxing music: Morgana King’s It’s A Quiet Thing. Don’t judge me for Ambrosia. Preferred format These days I mostly download, but I love the sound of vinyl! [embedded content] 1 Taylored In SilkJohnnie Taylor I think Johnnie was ...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Ann Wilson
Name Ann Wilson Best known for Striding the stage as a “Raven-haired, Rock and Roll Banshee.” Current city Tukwila, Washington. Really want to be in Montreal. It would be snowing and I would be wrapped in real fur eating soupe a l’oignon on the sidewalk….listening to music pouring out of the doorways. Excited about A whole bunch of new songs written during quarantine I am recording now. Planning new tours and gigs in 2021-2022.My husband.My dogs. My current music collection has a lot of Meditational/World, Todd Norian, Benjy Wertheimer, Djivan Gasparyan. And a little bit of Vintage soul. Classic Rock. Don’t judge me for Antoine Dodson —“Bed Intruder Song.” Preferred format I like vinyl, of course. It sounds best! [embedded content] 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: 1 BlackstarDavid Bowie I lo...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Benny Sings
Name Benny Sings Best known for Happy sad music. Current City Amsterdam. Really want to be in New York with my wife and kids chilling on our Manhattan rooftop park/forest/coastal-themed garden. Excited about The release of the new album Music and the upcoming album release livestream which will be from a Planetarium here in Amsterdam [on April 9]. Obviously, hope to be back on the road by the end of the year…fingers crossed. My current music collection has a lot of Black music, from M.O.P. to Billy Preston. Soft indie, from Andy Shauf to Metronomy. And a little bit of Classical. Don’t judge me for Bad taste doesn’t exist anymore (unfortunately). My taste used to be considered bad. (Phil Collins, Lionel Richie.) Preferred format Streaming! The availability of my music to so many people worl...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Robyn Hitchcock
Name Robyn Hitchcock Best known for Being obscure. Current city Nashville and London. Really want to be in New York and Sydney. They’re all great cities—I just haven’t spent enough time in the last two yet. Excited about A book of my song lyrics that features my own pen-and-ink drawings, and a new album recorded at home in Nashville, with overdubs from musician friends around the world. My current music collection has a lot of Old people. And a little bit of Newer people. Don’t judge me for I don’t own any records that I’m embarrassed by. Preferred format I play vinyl, cassettes and CDs. If I stream a song, it’s on YouTube so I can learn it—mostly my own material that I can’t remember clearly. I stopped listening to music on my travels about 20 years ago—stimulus overload, probably. [embed...
