Essential cd's

My picks as essentials for a well rounded music library. I admit, I dont' care that much for bootlegs, all the weird variations of a band's songs, I want it to sound like I first loved it on the radio, so included here are a lot of best of albums, something many purists detest, but which I like cause you do get the best of a group, without the filler...(note, I have the group, and then the title after...)

ROCKGuns n Roses- Greatest Hits (not a bad song on it...)
Led Zeppelin: Early days, and Latter days
Pink Floyd- EchoesThe Doors: Legacy, the very best of
Lynryrd Skynyrd- Gold and Platinum
Jimi Hendrix: Experience Hendrix, the best of
Bad Company - Bad Company
George Thorogood and the Destroyers-30 years of Rock!
Motely Crue Greatest HitsKiss-the very best of
Scorpions-Bad for good, the best of
The Who- the very best of
Frampton comes aliveCCR-20 greatest hits
Tom Petty greatest hits
Steely Dan - A decade of
Steve Miller Band- Complete greatest hits
Eagles, the box set
Eagles, the very best of (if to cheap to buy the box set of one of the best bands ever...)
Rolling Stones- 40 licks
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young- Deja Vu
Beatle's #1's
Springsteen-Born in the USA
Lenny Kravitz-Greatest hits
Queen - Greatest hits. (Also the band that does 'our song', as Jack puts it, Fat bottomed girls..
Aerosmith-Oh Yeah, Ultimate hits)
Alice Cooper- The best of Alice Cooper, Mascara and Monsters
Joan Jett - Fit to be Tied
Ted Nugent - Great Gonzo
Black Sabbath - Greatest Hits 1970-1978
Jet -Get Born
Jet - Shine On
The Donnas
Poppa Roach
Meat Loaf- The Hits
The Offspring - Greatest HitsBowling For Soup
Jimmy Eats World
Green Day
Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoades Tribute
Velvet Revolver

POP
Time Life 70s collection

EASY LISTENING/STANDARDS
Nat King Cole- the world ofJ
im Croce- Photographs and memories (sigh!)
Carly Simon- The best of
Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra (amazing cd)
Sade-the best of (this one goes with me when I travel...)
Sade-love songs
Getz/Gilberto (they did the original Girl from Ipanema song...this one travels with me too.)Queen Latifa: The Dana Owens project (an amazing voice, and she does all the standard classics...)
George Michael- the best of (especially disc one)
Elton Johns Greatest hits (again, especially disc 1)
Loreena McKennet- The Book of Secrets
Jimmy Buffet- Meet me in Margaritavill
Chicago - Chicago IX
Carpenters - Carpenters Gold
America - Complete greatest hitsBread-Greatest Hits
Linda Ronstadt- Greatest Hits

BIG BAND/SWING/JAZZ/R&B/Sou

lWynton Marsalis- Standard time v.2, Intimacy calling
Wynton Marsalis- Standard time v. 3, Resolution of love
Grover Washington, Jr.- Winelight
Count Basie- Basie Big Band
Duke Ellington- Great London Concerts
Brian Setzer Orchestra- VavoomHipsters- the 90s swingers
Big Bad Voodoo DaddyCherry Poppin Daddies
En Vogue- the very best of
Etta James- the best o
fAretha Franklin - Greatest Hits
Al Green - The Definitive Greatest Hits
Corinne Bailey Rae

HAWAIIANA
great source for many Hawaiian music scene cds is the Mountain Apple Company, and they are online
Iz- Facing Future (you may not recognize the name, but his music has been in Tons of movies and tv shows...His full name was Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, which is why he was called Iz, an amazing voice). This is my favorite Iz cd, but hard to go wrong with any of his.
Cecilio and Kapano- Journey through the years
Peter Moon Band
Hapa
Pure Heart (ever heard an electric ukelele? This was a sorta local boy band,but could they play! I think every girl in the islands was in love with these guys...)
Na Leo
Willie K
John Cruz

BLUES/BLUES ROCK/ROADHOUSE ROCK

Stevie Ray Vaughn- Greatest Hits v. 1 and 2
Eric Clapton- The Cream of Clapton
Eric Clapton and BB King- Riding with the King
Eric Clapton- Me and Mr. Johnson
Eric Clapton- Chronicle
ZZ Top - One Foot in the Blues (this one travels with me...)

LATINO

Santana- best of
Santana- Supernatural
Santana- Shaman
Santana- All that I am
Los Lonely Boys (NOT a boy band, some stuff sounds like Stevie Ray Vaughn, some like Santana, some their own...3 brothers, do all their own stuff...)
Gloria Estefan- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me

COUNTRY
Gretchen Wilson- Here for the party
Gretchen Wilson- All Jacked up
Toby Keith-Shock'n Y'all
Toby Keith- Unleashed
Toby Keith- Honky Tonk U
Alabama-The essential
Alison Krause- New Favorite
Alison Krause- Lonely Runs Both Ways

REGGAE

Bob Marley- Legend


Angie