Your favourite recordings that everyone else hates

Tgi: I guessed that age bracket as that is the age that many "ex-hippies" are close to nowadays. I was basing that "guesstimate" on the fact that both of my parents liked those performers and ... Well, you can put 2+2 together : ) For the record, i'm coming up on 40 this year, so we aren't that far apart in age. While you've listed some specific Shawn Phillips discs, what Jean Luc* discs are worth checking out?

Iasi: I think that Rammstein is a "luv it or hate it" kind of band. Some of the music is somewhat repetitive, but as a general rule, i love it : ) Sean
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* Jean Luc, as in Ponty, NOT Picard. I can see how some might confuse the "spaced out" sounds and names though : )

Albert Ayler - Live at the Village Vanguard - One of my absolute favorites that never fails to clear the room.

Frederica von Stade, "Song Recital" (Purcell, Debussy Hall, Canteloube Dowland, Liszt). (1978)

Björk Gudmundsdottir, "Post." (1995)

Man Jumping, "World Service." (1988)

Hank Williams, "Hank Williams' Greatest Hits" (1961)

American Prayer, "The Doors" (1978)

Eminem  "Eminem Show" (explicit version 2002)

Some of these offend my older friends, some offend my 18 year old son. I like all of these on the right occasion.

Albert: You and I are about the only members of Audiogon that like Hank. However, the world still likes him enough that he still sells worldwide between 100,000 and 200,000
recordings a year. That is not bad considering he has been dead for over 50 years and the recordings are in dreadful shape. It is a shame that nobody really can appreciate a song like "Weary Blues From Waitin'" like you and I. Unlike other songwriters who stuck within a single genre, Hank was master of the music he loved: country gospel, slow tempo honky tonk, uptempo honky tonk, country hokum blues,and the recitation/morality songs under the "Luke the Drifter" pseudonym. He could not do uptown pop no matter what his producer Fred Rose said, no conviction from ol' Hank on that count. But everbody covered Hank for the pop charts, even Tony Bennett had a #1 hit on the pop charts with "Cold,Cold Heart". Yeah Albert I cannot understand why everyone else hates him. But the really good news: Jett Williams and Hank,Jr won the rights to the "lost" radio songs from 1949-50, about 150 of them. I heard there is a killer version of Hank and his guitar doing "On Top of Old Smokey". Will be out in 2005. Cannot wait!

The McGarrigle sisters DANCER WITH BRUISED KNEES gets the most consistant bashing by my friends. I love this recording, even with all the add distortion of sighs,moans, and out and out protest.