The One Music Survey To Rule Them All?

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It’s About The Music. Right?

Let’s say that commercially recorded music has been with us since the early 1900’s.
Obviously, how and what we listen to has changed over the years.

So, let’s see where you have been and where you are right now.

Below is a survey that you can copy to your reply.
Delete the notes below each question before posting your reply.

Have fun!

1. When you actually “sit and listen”, how do you listen, now?
Not an equipment list.
About the category:
Vinyl, Headphones, At Home.
Digital (SA)CD, Speakers, At home.
Digital File, Smart device, Earbuds,
Digital Stream, Smart Device, On Public Transit.
AM/FM Radio, Car Stereo, On The Road.
Also, compact cassette, 8-track, reel-to-reel, blu ray, and any other format that exists.

For the remaining album related questions, please, no greatest hits compilations.
Live albums are okay.

And, for each question, one album only per genre or subgenre.
You can list different albums for different subcategories: Like, Rock-Metal, Rock-Pop, Classical-Orchestra, Classical-Chamber, etc.

— Please list the artist, album title, genre, (subgenre), year of release. —

2. What is the one album that you cannot live without?
Not the best sounding or recorded album.
The one album that you would even listen to on a circa 1970’s single speaker, AM transistor radio and might even want to be buried with?

3. To your ears, what is the best sounding album you own?
Maybe not necessarily your favorite music, but, the one album that you always use to show off or appreciate your system?
Do say if you like the music too, or if it is just a show-off album.

4. What is the first album that you remember owning that got you started on your musical journey?
Not the nursery rhymes album that your Aunt Mabel got you for your 5th birthday - unless that is what you still listen to today? :astonished:
Maybe, the first album that you purchased with your own money?
That album that you can still hear in your head, today?

5. By decade, from the 1900’s, list your favorite album.
— As noted above, please list the artist, album title, genre, (subgenre), year of release. —

If you do not have a favorite for the specified decade, answer, N/A

1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
2020

6. Any other music related comments that you would like to make?
Honorary mentions?
Something not covered in the questions above.
Musical hopes for the future?

BTW. Other than being a customer and a hobbyist, I have no connection or affiliation to any music related industry company, organization or group.

Here for the fun and the music. :sunglasses:

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I’ll play…but cheating cause the 70’s were my decade

  1. When you actually “sit and listen”, how do you listen, now?
    Streaming speaker system 95%
    Streaming HP 5%

  2. What is the one album that you cannot live without?
    Yes: " Going for the One"

  3. To your ears, what is the best sounding album you own?
    Steven Wilson: “Raven That Refused to Sing and Other Stories”

  4. What is the first album that you remember owning that got you started on your musical journey?
    Cream: “Wheels of Fire” Given to me by my brother in law when I was 12 sparked the interest

  5. By decade, from the 1900’s, list your favorite album.
    — As noted above, please list the artist, album title, genre, (subgenre), year of release. —

If you do not have a favorite for the specified decade, answer, N/A

1900-1950 NA
1960: Cream “Wheels of Fire” 1968
1970: Journey “Infinity” 1978 Rock; YES “Going for the One” Prog 1977; Carol King “Tapestry” Folk; Pink Floyd “Meddle” Psych Rock, RUSH “2112”
1980: Bruce Horsby and the Range "The Way It Is Calling it Soft Rock so I can include U2 “The Joshua Tree” as Rock
1990:
2000: Nora Jones “Come Away with Me” 2002 Joe Bonamassa “Live at the Royal Albert Hall” Blues 2009
2010: Steven Wilson: “Raven That Refused to Sing and Other Stories” Prog 2013
2020:

6. Any other music related comments that you would like to make?
Albums I wore out: Journey “Infinity”; YES “Going For the One”

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1. When you actually “sit and listen”, how do you listen, now?

Digital (SA)CD, Speakers, At home.
Vinyl, Speakers, At home.

2. What is the one album that you cannot liThe one album that you wove without?

Miles Davis, “Bitches Brew” 1969 Jazz/Miles Davis New Directions in Music

3. To your ears, what is the best sounding album you own?

Duke Ellington “Ellington Indigos” 1958 Columbia stereo LP. Jazz. I love this music!

4. What is the first album that you remember owning that got you started on your musical journey?

Leo Wright, “Blues Shout” 1960 Atlantic mono LP

5. By decade, from the 1900’s, list your favorite album.
— As noted above, please list the artist, album title, genre, (subgenre), year of release. —

If you do not have a favorite for the specified decade, answer, N/A

1900 NA
1910. NA
1920 Ellington '78s
1930 Ellington '78s
1940 Louis Armstrong '78s
1954 Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy Jazz 1954
1967 Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, Jazz 1967
1972 Charles Mingus, Let my Children Hear Music, Jazz 1972
1983 Miles Davis, Star People, Jazz 1983
1991 Wynton Marsalis, Thick in the South, Jazz 1991
2006 Andrew Hill, Time Lines, Jazz 2006
2015 Jose James, Yesterday I Had the Blues–The Music of Billie Holiday, Jazz 2015
2022 Joel Ross, The Parable of the Poet, Jazz 2022

6. Any other music related comments that you would like to make?

I love vinyl but hate vinyl snobbery.

I hope Mosaic Records remains a steady supplier of fantastic jazz reissue box sets.

I hope excellent cd reissues and new releases continue if only in Japan.

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Thanks very much to
@allan.thunes
and
@lonson
for getting the ball rolling!
I will post my list as well. Trying to sort out the decades section for myself…

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Is Mosaic back in business?

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It never stopped–though it was not as healthy as they would have liked to be for a spell I believe. The recent death of Michael Cuscuna will be impacting their future.

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I have not purchased from Mosaic for more than 30 years, but their website shows a handful of offerings still available. The Sonny Clark 6-CD, Bobby Hutcherson 7-CD, and Joe Henderson 5 -CD box sets are easily recommended. Considering the success of Blue Note’s Tone Poet series, Craft Records Contemporary series, and the passing of Michael Cuscuna it is likely there may be no additional Mosaic offerings.

Mosaic Records

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That’s absolutely untrue that there may be no additional Mosaics. I have been asked to not reveal titles but there are three sets beyond the one (Bobby Hutcherson) now available for pre-order that are in development for this year and next, and more in consideration for production after those. Mosaic intends to continue on. There will be no further LP sets (pressing quality and returns did that option in, just not sustainable for an operation their size) but cd sets will be continuing.

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Okay. Here we go:

1. When you actually “sit and listen”, how do you listen, now?
Digital File, Streaming, Speakers, At home.
Streaming, Crappy Headphones, At work

2. What is the one album that you cannot live without?
Bruce Springsteen Born To Run, 1975

3. To your ears, what is the best sounding album you own?
Ben Webster Live In Copenhagen, DSD 128, 1965

4. What is the first album that you remember owning that got you started on your musical journey?
Burton Cummings first solo album.
Didn’t own it at the time. But vividly remember sitting in the public school library (grade 3 or 4?) listening on an industrial turntable through even more industrial headphones.
But, was hooked into this rock and roll thing.

5. By decade, from the 1900’s, list your favorite album.
1900 - ???
1910 - ???
1920 The two albums I found here (are there more?):
Greatest Albums of the 1920s | Colin's Review
1. Mississippi John Hurt, Avalon Blues.
2. Louis Armstrong, Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions.
1930 Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers (recorded).
1940 Charlie Parker, Bird Blows The Blues
1950 Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
1960 The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night
1970 Supertramp, Crime of the Century
1980 U2, The Joshua Tree
1990 Joshua Redman, Freedom In The Groove
2000 Green Day, American Idiot
2010 Lisa Jacobs, The String Soloists, Locatelli Violin Concertos
2020 Judith Jáuregui, Kaspar Zehnder, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Homeland

6. Any other music related comments that you would like to make?
So much music. So little time…

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