Things you could spend your life listening to and nothing else

Monday 5/13/24

The Beatles' BBC sessions.

The versions of the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star."

Billie Holiday's sides with Teddy Wilson.

The Basie line-up with Young and Evans.

Beethoven's string quartets.

Bob Dylan's studio sessions 1965-66.

Elvis Presley's Sun sessions.

Robert Johnson's collected output.

The Stone Roses' spring 1989 tour.

Every preciously delicate note made by Nick Drake.

Handel's Messiah.

Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens.

Bob Wills' Tiffany Transcriptions.

Harry Smith's An Anthology of American Folk Music.

Josquin's Masses.

Miles Davis at the Plugged Nickel, December 1965.

Mozart's operas.

Jimi Hendrix's October 1968 Winterland reels.

Sam Cooke's complete Speciality sessions with the Soul Stirrers.

Judy Garland's Decca masters.

(NB: I could have put the Grateful Dead multiple times here. Their shows from 1968. 1969. The Boston shows from 1969. 1970. 1971. 1972. The 1972 European tour. The Wall of Sound era. May 1977.)