The Contrarians Presents: Top 5 Non-Rock Albums

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  • @thecontrarians2438
    @thecontrarians2438  Рік тому +3

    What are your top 5 non-rock albums? Let us know!
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  • @willfitzpatrick1107
    @willfitzpatrick1107 Рік тому +3

    1. Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
    2. Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
    3. Pat Metheny - Offramp
    4. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
    5. Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
    HM- George Carlin- Class Clown

  • @wernermoritz882
    @wernermoritz882 Рік тому +3

    Curtis Mayfield - Curtis (1970)
    Air - Talkie Walkie (2004)
    Shirley Bassey - The Greatest Hits: This Is My Life (2000)
    Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968)
    Marvin Gaye - What‘s going on (1971)

  • @AverageJoeDoh
    @AverageJoeDoh Рік тому +2

    My Top 5 Non-Rock Genre with example albums: 1. Classical - "Concerto for Orchestra" - Bela Bartok, 2. Jazz - "Nefertiti" - Miles Davis, 3. Tango - Barenboim - Mi Buenos Aires, 4. Blues - Blind Willie McTell box set, 5. Film music - "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" soundtrack.

  • @noheamike5036
    @noheamike5036 Рік тому +2

    1) Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers - Ramble in Music City, 2) Greg Hawkes - The Beatles Uke, 3) George Kahumoku, Jr. - Drenched by Music, 4) Brian Eno - APOLLO Atmospheres and Soundtracks, 5) Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Live Art

  • @bmboldt
    @bmboldt Рік тому +4

    Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
    Hank Williams - any best of
    Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream or Going Places
    Patrick O'Hearn - Between Two Worlds
    Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers

  • @SuperStrik9
    @SuperStrik9 Рік тому +4

    Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
    Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco de Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco
    Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration
    Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
    Paganini - 24 Caprices For Solo Violin

  • @brunoooots
    @brunoooots Рік тому +4

    1. The KLF - Chill Out
    2. Jon Hassell - The Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restores Dead Things By The Power Of Sound
    3. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
    4. Haruomi Hosono - Mercuric Dance
    5. David Van Tieghem - These Things Happen

  • @carloslopes4853
    @carloslopes4853 Рік тому +4

    1. Dead Can Dance "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun", 2. Project Pitchfork "Entities", 3. Niyaz "Niyaz", 4. In the Nursery "Duality", 5. "Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack" by Basil Poledoris. Now, some of these could be considered rock if we really extend the notion far enough (Dead Can Dance and Project Pitchfork), but I think there would not be many people to defend that position, since guitars are not very present in these particular albums, the first one being a gothic neo-classic folk type of very dark music, the second german electro-dark from the 90's at it's best.

  • @petebrown3715
    @petebrown3715 Рік тому +4

    Here are some of my top five favorite non rock albums in no particular order ( and they do change):
    1. Merile Haggard - Portrait of Merile Haggard.
    2. The Miles Davis Quientent - Working.
    3. Frank Sinatra- The Capital Years.
    4. Devo- Are We Not Men.
    5. Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live.
    And countless others such as Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Frank Gambale, Chic Coria, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Earth,Wind and Fire, Count Baise,The Commadores, Parlorment/ Funkadelic, Ice-T, Jay Z, Public Enemy, Eminem, LL Cool J, Any thing by Vivaldi, Django Reinhardt etc. 😊

  • @shyshift
    @shyshift Рік тому +4

    Honorable Mention:Rite of Spring:Igor Stravinsky

  • @JosephFrancisBurton
    @JosephFrancisBurton Рік тому +3

    Here are a few of my favorites off the top of my head:
    non-western:
    Munojot Yoʻlchiyev and Shavkat Mirzaev Ensemble - Uzbekistan: A Haunting Voice
    Truly unearthly singing - nothing resembling anything from the west. I love this.
    Oumou Sangaré - Ko Sira. Easily the best album from the Diva of Mali.
    jazz
    Milestones - Miles Davis sextet - Hard Bop just constrained enough under Miles Davis’ direction to be both exciting and accessible. Any fan of Prog Rock will love this masterful playing.
    Country
    Vince Gill and Paul Franklin - Bakersfield. A tribute by two country masters of a forgotten genre of American music. I am not ashamed to say I bought this at The Cracker Barrell..!!
    Ambient:
    Enya - Watermark - probably more for sentimental reasons, but god help me I love this.
    Electronic:
    Yello - Stella. Oh Yeah popped up in ‘80s movies and commercials, but the whole album is wildly inventive, seductive and cinematic.
    I don’t know what you call this:
    Robert Fripp - The Gates of Paradise. Fripp’s audio explorations of Heaven and Hell is the best and most ‘composed’ of Fripp’s 90’s soundscape albums.

  • @gwts1171
    @gwts1171 Рік тому +4

    I like a ton of non-rock stuff. Here are a few:
    5) Sergei Rachmaninoff - Isle Of The Dead, op. 29 (Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel, conductor) (Classical)
    4) Anita Baker - Rapture (R&B)
    3) De La Soul - Three Feet High & Rising (Hip-Hop)
    2) Cuture - Two Sevens Clash (Reggae)
    1) Willie Nelson - Red-Headed Stranger (one of the best albums in ANY genre) (Country)
    Thanks for the video, guys!! All great picks from the gang.

    • @mkendra29
      @mkendra29 Рік тому

      Red Headed Stranger is my favorite Willie album too! Though Stardust, AoMM, Spirit, and the Songs of Cindy Walker would be nipping at its heels.

  • @yamishogun6501
    @yamishogun6501 Рік тому +1

    Right now, Olivia Newton -John Have You Never Been Mellow, Rush Moving Pictures and Dream Theater Images and Words are my top three

  • @Jamie.Laszlo
    @Jamie.Laszlo Рік тому +9

    I don't know if this is my very top five. But they're the five that came to my mind first.
    1. Mary Chapin Carpenter- State of the Heart
    2. Madonna- Like a Prayer
    3. Miles Davis- A Tribute to Jack Johnson
    4. Bram Stoker's Dracula- Original Soundtrack
    5. Janet Jackson- Janet
    I was hesitant to include Madonna and Janet because, to me, that sort of pop and R&B is still a form of rock. Hell, Mary Chapin Carpenter can rock sometimes too.

  • @chrisdelisle3954
    @chrisdelisle3954 Рік тому +1

    John Coltrane - Sun Ship
    Charles Mingus - Town Hall Concert (1964)
    Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
    Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk And John Coltrane
    Art Tatum - Solo Masterpieces (7-disc box set...or any of the separate volumes, it really doesn't matter)
    Non-jazz-related Honorable Mention:
    Peter Gabriel - Passion: Soundtrack to the Last Temptation of Christ

  • @tjsststsjsjyksjgksjysjs7633
    @tjsststsjsjyksjgksjysjs7633 Рік тому +2

    Great show guys! Since I almost don't listen to any other styles of music than hard rock and heavy metal, this episode was very interesting and educational to me, I've made a couple of notes and going to check those albums some time.

  • @truckerkevthepaidtourist
    @truckerkevthepaidtourist Рік тому +3

    Top 5 full Non Rock/ I'll include pop too for me
    1. Miles Davis kind of Blue
    2. Sade stronger than pride
    3. Waylon Jennings honky tonk heroes
    4. Curtis Mayfield Superfly soundtrack
    5. Gipsy Kings Bomboleo

  • @Vimana
    @Vimana Рік тому +4

    Now that I've watched the video I have to say that the choices were very interesting. I love the variation. My own choices were mostly from the early 1980s when I was a kid. I was pleasantly surprised to see another Jean-Michel Jarre mention there by bicyclelegs. I've really enjoyed the "bicyclelegs Discovers Rush" videos that he's made. Take care and enjoy your weekend.

  • @sspbrazil
    @sspbrazil Рік тому +2

    I’m very fond of African Music and other music from various countries.
    1. Farafina - Faso Denou
    2. Papa Wemba - Le Voyageur
    3. Nusrat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt
    4. Jon Hassell & Farafina - Flash Of The Spirit
    5. Angélique Kidjo - Logozo

  • @jonrhythm3686
    @jonrhythm3686 Рік тому +4

    Cool topic. My picks:
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
    Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
    Origional Soundtrack to the Omen
    Bob Dylan - Freewheelin
    Beethovens 5th Symphony

  • @purpletemple1
    @purpletemple1 Рік тому +2

    My Top 5: Enesco-Oedipe (featuring José Van Dam) (Classical), Mylène Farmer-L' Autre (French Pop), Julius Hemphill-Raw Materials and Residuals (Jazz), Nik Kershaw-Human Racing (synth Pop), Camille Claudel (Classical, Soundtrack). Very very special mention: Deep Purple-Concerto for Group and Orchestra (somehow Rock, but somehow not...)
    Cheers.

  • @jpaleologos1
    @jpaleologos1 Рік тому +1

    I have a lot, but here are some:
    Walter Wanderley - Rainforest
    The Art of Noise - In Visible Silence
    Hair - Original Broadway Cast Recording
    Masayoshi Takanaka - Alone
    Saturday Night Fever original motion picture soundtrack

  • @aldebaran4154
    @aldebaran4154 Рік тому +1

    When I started the video the first album I thought of was Ella & Louis, so when Steve mentioned it I whooped.
    1) Mahler Symphony No.2 (Otto Klemperer)
    2) Getz/Gilberto
    3) Ella & Louis
    4) Nat King Cole - Love is the Thing
    5) Emerson String Quartet - Beethoven The Late String Quartets

  • @JohntheMusicNut
    @JohntheMusicNut Рік тому +3

    This is a wonderful episode and it was great to see everyone's diverse musical tastes.
    Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - The First Minute of a New Day
    Miles Davis - Filles de Kiliminjaro
    A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
    John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
    Dee-Lite - World Clique

    • @thecontrarians2438
      @thecontrarians2438  Рік тому +1

      cool I’m familiar with Gil scott Heron angel dust is a badass song

    • @domielakrabi3276
      @domielakrabi3276 Рік тому +1

      Thumbs up for Gil Scott-Heron! A very important musician! Love his entire catalog.

    • @JohntheMusicNut
      @JohntheMusicNut Рік тому

      @@thecontrarians2438 It certainly is! "Angel Dust" was ahead of its time and one of so many fantastic songs. I am more partial to his more jazzier albums with Brian Jackson from the mid-70's but his whole catalog is worth investigating and he was so thoughtful and intelligent. A forefather in the rap genre even though his body of work was so much more than that. Cheers!

    • @JohntheMusicNut
      @JohntheMusicNut Рік тому

      @@domielakrabi3276 Thank you! I am more partial to his work with Brian Jackson but all of it is worth checking out! Cheers!

  • @LeatherRebel75
    @LeatherRebel75 Рік тому +2

    Some of my favorites:
    Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (Possibly the greatest country album. It's an essential album no matter what genre)
    Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend: The Best Of (If you're new to Marley or Reggae, start here. All killer, no filler)
    Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue (Almost picked "Tribute to Jack Johnson" but "A Kind of Blue" is just the perfect entry point for Miles)
    Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (This album has elements of rock, but it also has pop, R&B, funk, and electronic elements)
    Lords of Acid - Lust (kinky electronic dance music that's perfect for a party, rave, or dungeon)
    John Williams - any of his Star Wars scores, even the crappy Disney sequel trilogy has great music
    Michael Jackson - Thriller (my brother had this on vinyl when we were kids. I listened to it more than he did.)
    Outkast - Stankonia (Dre and Big Boi at the peak of their powers)

    • @czarevich
      @czarevich Рік тому

      Legend is such a good choice! I forgot about it but it is definitely in my non rock top 10....Nick S Squire.

  • @inmyhouse11
    @inmyhouse11 Рік тому +1

    Alabina- S/ T
    Welcome To Jamrock- Damian Marley
    Barrio Fino- Daddy Yankee
    In The Garden of Venus-Modern Talking
    Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
    HM: Paid In Full- Eric B & Rakim
    Scars Of Love- TKA
    Tribute- Yanni

  • @ykmgeedee
    @ykmgeedee Рік тому +5

    5)Kid A -Radiohead A Love Supreme -John Coltrane Catch a Fire -The Wailers Paul's Boutique -Beastie Boys 1)Astral Weeks -Van Morrison. Hat-tip to Casey Kasem, Tom Lasorda & all those who embarked on epic curse-a-thons. Nice Car Wheels Gravel Road, Phaedra, Agharta, Headhunters!

  • @domielakrabi3276
    @domielakrabi3276 Рік тому +1

    I listen to a lot of "non-rock" music, so this is a real tough task.
    I'll pick one record for each genre: John Coltrane: Love Supreme, Funkadelic sftd., Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved a Man ..., Gustav Mahler: 5th symphony and Peter Tosh: Mystic Man

  • @mottahead6464
    @mottahead6464 Рік тому +3

    The Skatalites' Platinum Ska.

  • @arnaudb.7669
    @arnaudb.7669 Рік тому +2

    Great show.
    Keep up the good work!

  • @mottahead6464
    @mottahead6464 Рік тому +3

    Stevie Wonder's Songs in the key of life.

  • @bmboldt
    @bmboldt Рік тому +1

    Hey Reed. I have actually seen Dave Hole live in a BBQ restaurant/bar. I have a couple of his albuns.

  • @elbib2446
    @elbib2446 Рік тому +2

    alice coltrane journey to satchidananda,paco de lucia fuente y cuadal,scientist rids the world of the curse of the evil vampires,shakti handful of beauty,joe claussell language

  • @utvf68
    @utvf68 5 місяців тому

    1. The Stranger - Billy Joel
    2. Talking Book - Stevie Wonder
    3. Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
    4. Nothing Like The Sun - Sting
    5. Rio - Duran Duran
    HM
    Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
    Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
    Stardust - Willie Nelson
    I Am What I Am - Merle Haggard
    Off the Wall - Michael Jackson

  • @grumqa
    @grumqa 9 місяців тому

    Soul Jazz: Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda
    Ska: Skatalites - Greetings From Skamania
    Ambient: Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
    Dancehall Reggae: Yellowman - Galong Galong Galong
    Reggae/Dub: UB40 - Signing Off

  • @reckia
    @reckia Рік тому +4

    This would have been tough for me, since I have been listening to a lot of electronic ambient music. I guess my top five would be..
    1. Fripp & Eno/ Evening Star
    2. Tangerine Dream/ Rubycon
    3. Vangelis/ China
    4. Tangerine Dream/ Phaedra
    5. Anthony Phillips/ Private Parts and Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars

  • @chrisdelisle3954
    @chrisdelisle3954 Рік тому

    Excellent choice of Aretha Franklin's "I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You." If you haven't heard it, yet, you gotta pick up "Lady Soul" from a year later.

  • @gamleskalle1
    @gamleskalle1 Рік тому +1

    A- ha, Beach Boys, Britney Spears, Elvis' gospel albums lots of classical albuns, movie soundtrack. Forgot Michael Jackson, George Michael, Bee Gees and lots more.

  • @beetlebum7760
    @beetlebum7760 Рік тому +2

    1. RANDY NEWMAN - Sail Away
    2. SCOTT WALKER - Scott 4
    3. THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
    4. TOWNES VAN ZANDT - Flyin' Shoes
    5. JOHN PRINE - John Prine
    6. SCOTT WALKER - Scott 3
    7. SCOTT WALKER - Scott 2
    8. SCOTT WALKER - Scott
    9. GENE CLARK - No Other
    10. MARVIN GAYE - What’s Going On
    11. VAN MORRISON - Astral Weeks
    12. KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
    13. PORTISHEAD - Portishead
    14. LEONARD COHEN - Songs Of Love And Hate
    15. GUY CLARK - Old No.1
    16. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty In Memphis
    17. MILES DAVIS - Kind Of Blue
    18. RANDY NEWMAN - Good Old Boys
    19. TOWNES VAN ZANDT - Our Mother The Mountain
    20. BLACK BOX RECORDER - England Made Me
    21. PLANXTY - Planxty
    22. BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN - Out Of Season
    23. GEOFF & MARIA MULDAUR - Pottery Pie
    24. MARTY ROBBINS - Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
    25. RANDY NEWMAN - Creates Something New Under The Sun

  • @mottahead6464
    @mottahead6464 Рік тому +2

    The Meters (1969).

  • @nelsonmaud1
    @nelsonmaud1 Рік тому +1

    I love 90 percent of mowtown everly brothers greatest frank sanatra grew up on musicals from my mom i liked south pacific not gonna lie like bee gees and watching th swing music musicals loved in the 90s en vogue 70s pointer sisters im rock
    mainly myself but this i kinda dig doing no rock too

  • @lucasnavajas4166
    @lucasnavajas4166 Рік тому

    M, New York London,Paris, Munich- squirrel nut zippers best of- squeeze best- diesel, watts in the tank- Devo, freedom of choice

  • @danielvysocky2716
    @danielvysocky2716 Рік тому +2

    1) "Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music" - Ray Charles
    2) "Phases and Stages" - Willie Nelson
    3) "Post" - Bjork
    4) "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" - Public Enemy
    5) "The Harder They Come Soundtrack" - Jimmy Cliff and various

  • @mottahead6464
    @mottahead6464 Рік тому

    My favourite non-rock album is Cal Tjader's Latin Kick.

  • @Vimana
    @Vimana Рік тому +2

    I haven't even watched the video yet but I accepted the challenge. I try to be quick, which is very rare to me. These are not in any particular order:
    Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygène (1976) or Équinoxe (1978) - It's impossible to choose...
    Duran Duran - Rio (1982) - You could almost call them a rock band. It seems to me that Europeans and people from the USA see the band differently.
    ABC - The Lexicon of Love (1982)
    Alphaville - Forever Young (1984)
    Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (1984)
    There are many others I could've mentioned but these were the ones off the top of my head. Maybe I've listened to these albums the most. I still have to mention at least the first three Kate Bush albums. Well, some of her songs might still be in the category of rock, art rock, progressive rock etc.
    Anyway, these were just some quick choices by a Finnish musician who has mostly been into progressive rock, hard rock and metal. Take care and I hope you're having a great day.

  • @mottahead6464
    @mottahead6464 Рік тому

    The Best of Bread (1973).

  • @rick6582CNCMedicalParts
    @rick6582CNCMedicalParts Рік тому +1

    George Carlin Albums

  • @frankuber4363
    @frankuber4363 Рік тому

    Rupert wilson