Vinyl Me Please Classics

Previous Classics:

C01 - Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
C02 - John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right To Suffer
C03 - Ollie & The Nightingales - Ollie & The Nightingales
C04 - Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders - Journey in Satchidananda
C05 - Carla Thomas - Comfort Me
C06 - Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
C07 - Little Milton - Waiting For Little Milton
C08 - Max Roach - Percussion Bittersweet
C09 - Koko Taylor - I Got What It Takes
C10 - Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: Paris, March 21, 1960
C11 - William Bell - The Soul of the Bell
C12 - The Lightmen Plus One - Energy Control Centre
C13 - Darrell Banks - Here to Stay
C14 - Lafayette Afro-Rock Band - Soul Makossa
C15 - James Booker - The Lost Paramount Tapes
C16 - Sara Webster Fabio - Juju / Alchemy of the Blues
C17 - Donald Byrd - Fancy Free
C18 - Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
C19 - Muddy Waters - Fathers and Sons
C20 - Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie
C21 - Buddy Guy - Left My Blues in San Francisco
C22 - Lloyd Miller - Oriental Jazz
C23 - Nat Turner Rebellion - Laugh to Keep From Crying
C24 - Al Green - Call Me
C25 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gospel Train
C26 - Willie Bobo - Uno, Dos, Tres 1-2-3
C27 - The Isley Brothers - Go For Your Guns
C28 - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Freedom Rider
C29 - Johnny Pacheco and Celia Cruz - Celia & Johnny
C30 - The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions of Japan
C31 - BB King - Lucille
C32 - Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
C33 - Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
C34 - Patrice Rushen - Straight From the Heart
C35 - Otis Redding - The Immortal Otis Redding
C36 - Erroll Garner - Magician
C37 - Albert King - King, Does The King's Things
C38 - McCoy Tyner - Sahara
C39 - The Bar-Kays - Money Talks
C40 - Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
C41 - Gabór Szabó - Dreams
C42 - Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies High
C43 - Donny Hathaway - Everything is Everything
C44 - Isaac Hayes - Tough Guys
C45 - Frederick Knight - I've Been Lonely For So Long
C46 - Leon Ware - Musical Massage
C47 - Charlie Musselwhite Blues Band - Tennessee Woman
C48 - King Curtis - Live at Fillmore West
C49 - Dorthy Ashby - The Rubályát of Dorthy Ashby
C50 - Abbey Lincoln - It's Magic
C51 - Bill Withers - +justments!
C52 - Lee Morgan - Take Twelve
C53 - Teddy Pendergrass - Life is a Song Worth Singing
C54 - Freddie King - My Feeling for the Blues
C55 - Roberta Flack - Quiet Fire
C56 - Barbara Lea - Lea in Love
C57 - Sylvester - Step II
C58 - Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Strikes
C59 - Boogaloo Joe Jones - No Way!
C60 - Phineas Newborn - Here is Phineas
C61 - Johnnie Taylor - Wanted: One Soul Singer
C62 - John Coltrane - Sun Ship
C63 - Dinah Washington -
C64 - Dizzy Gillespie - Afro
C65 - Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
C66 - Miles Davis - Star People
C67 - Yusef Lateef - The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef
C68 - Dave Von Ronk - Folk Singer
C69 -
C70 -
 
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Current Month's Guess Thread: June

Hints: Gospel / Female / Demolished Baseball Stadium / 1956

Front Runner: Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gospel Train


Trying to remember what compelled me to guess that... I think I was just searching some list of well-known gospel artists and saw her, made the VMP connection from the exclusive last year, and found the most likely album.
 
Previous Classics:

C01 - Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
C02 - John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right To Suffer
C03 - Ollie & The Nightingales - Ollie & The Nightingales
C04 - Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders - Journey in Satchidananda
C05 - Carla Thomas - Comfort Me
C06 - Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
C07 - Little Milton - Waiting For Little Milton
C08 - Max Roach - Percussion Bittersweet
C09 - Koko Taylor - I Got What It Takes
C10 - Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: Paris, March 21, 1960
C11 - William Bell - The Soul of the Bell
C12 - The Lightmen Plus One - Energy Control Centre
C13 - Darrell Banks - Here to Stay
C14 - Lafayette Afro-Rock Band - Soul Makossa
C15 - James Booker - The Lost Paramount Tapes
C16 - Sara Webster Fabio - Juju / Alchemy of the Blues
C17 - Donald Byrd - Fancy Free
C18 - Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
C19 - Muddy Waters - Fathers and Sons
C20 - Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie
C21 - Buddy Guy - Left My Blues in San Francisco
C22 - Lloyd Miller - Oriental Jazz
C23 - Nat Turner Rebellion - Laugh to Keep From Crying
C24 - Al Green - Call Me
C25 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gospel Train
C26 - Blockbuster Jazz Album
Rank ‘em
 
I already know this opinion isn't welcome, after getting virtually yelled at a few years ago when I argued against the idea of VMP doing any Christmas exclusives/having a Christmas-focused December store, but... I'll be Incredibly disappointed if that's the artist & album. I'm well-aware of her being an early influence on R&R, and if she'd ever done an album of just blues, I'd be more okay with that.

I'm a Classics completionist, and have all of them to this point, but I really have no use/interest for any gospel. While I'm more accepting of instrumental Classical music that goes in this direction (e.g., *not* Handel's Messiah), I really don't want any overt Christian music. They're already the dominant religion & dominate politics to an unwelcome degree. They can fuck right off getting exposure this way, too.
 
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Rank ‘em
TCell's Classics' Rankings (as of December 2020):
  1. Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: Paris, March 21, 1960
  2. Al Green - Call Me
  3. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Freedom Rider
  4. Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
  5. Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders - Journey in Satchidananda
  6. Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie
  7. Gabór Szabó - Dreams
  8. John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right to Suffer
  9. William Bell - The Soul of the Bell
  10. Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
  11. Otis Redding - The Immortal Otis Redding
  12. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions of Japan
  13. Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
  14. Koko Taylor - I Got What It Takes
  15. Max Roach - Percussion Bittersweet
  16. James Booker - The Lost Paramount Tapes
  17. Johnny Pacheco and Celia Cruz - Celia & Johnny
  18. McCoy Tyner - Sahara
  19. Muddy Waters - Fathers and Sons
  20. Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
  21. Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
  22. The Isley Brothers - Go For Your Guns
  23. Donny Hathaway - Everything is Everything
  24. Buddy Guy - Left My Blues in San Francisco
  25. Donald Byrd - Fancy Free
  26. BB King - Lucille
  27. Little Milton - Waiting For Little Milton
  28. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gospel Train
  29. Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies High
  30. Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
  31. Ollie & The Nightingales - Ollie & The Nightingales
  32. Darrell Banks - Here to Stay
  33. Lafayette Afro-Rock Band - Soul Makossa
  34. Erroll Garner - Magician
  35. Nat Turner Rebellion - Laugh to Keep From Crying
  36. Sara Webster Fabio - Juju / Alchemy of the Blues
  37. Willie Bobo - Uno, Dos, Tres 1-2-3
  38. The Lightmen Plus One - Energy Control Centre
  39. Albert King - King, Does The King's Things
  40. The Bar-Kays - Money Talks
  41. Carla Thomas - Comfort Me
  42. Patrice Rushen - Straight From the Heart
  43. Lloyd Miller - Oriental Jazz
 
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I thought it would be a Blue Note title by either Shorter or Hancock, but back on the Red Keep forum, Storf said Blue Note wasn't until later in the year, but confirmed that July was a blockbuster jazz title.
Storf said it wasn’t Hancock. I’d link to his reply but, well... you know.
No Herbie, no BN... hmmm... maybe a Mingus title on Impulse? There's a couple coming out with those Verve reissues though, so maybe not.

Maybe a well-known Columbia title, like something by Brubeck or Monk?
 
I already know this opinion isn't welcome, after getting virtually yelled at a few years ago when I argued against the idea of VMP doing any Christmas exclusives/having a Christmas-focused December store, but... I'll be Incredibly disappointed if that's the artist & album. I'm well-aware of her being an early influence on R&R, and if she'd ever done an album of just blues, I'd be more okay with that.

I'm a Classics completionist, and have all of them to this point, but I really have no use/interest for any gospel. While I'm more accepting of instrumental Classical music that goes in this direction (e.g., *not* Handel's Messiah), I really, don't want any overt Christian music. They're already the dominant religion & dominate politics to an unwelcome degree. They can fuck right off getting exposure this way, too.

That album has religious ties, certainly, but it doesn't really feel that religious either. Amazing Grace by Aretha feels 10x more religious than Gospel Train.
 
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Thanks for setting this up @TCell!

I was starting to get nervous sweats from not being able to check the guesses!!

On the old site the Classic guess threads didn't get too long so I thought I'd just put the current month's clues and valid guesses in that 2nd post and we could just discuss it as it goes rather than a separate guess thread every month, but if someone else wanted to set up a separate guess thread that's cool too.
 
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