As Los Angelinos, we have the privilege of listening to one of the world's finest radio stations, KCRW 89.9. KCRW is a listener supported broadcast out of Santa Monica College. It is an invaluable resource of well-known and not so well-known musicians. Their most popular show, Morning Becomes Eclectic, hosted by Nic Harcourt, airs from 9-12 noon weekdays. In the evenings, Jason Bentley hosts Metropolis from 7:30-10, the hypnotic pulse of modern city life, and Raul Campos hosts Nocturna from 10-12, a groovy look into late night vibes. There is a live online broadcast and all shows are archived on the KCRW website.
The following albums do not necessarily represent landmarks in the history of popular music, although some are, but a kind of musical autobiography of yours truly (definitive listening has been highlighted in red). For more detailed information regarding the musicians and albums listed below, see the incredibly rich online resource, All Music Guide. If you have any comments or recommendations, please feel free to email me at hauge@apu.edu.
God is still speaking.
Recent Listening:
Weezer The Red Album
Johanna Chase Azusa
Morgan Page Elevate
Adele Chasing Pavement
Neil Diamon Home Before Dark
Vintage Listening:
Ryan Adams Gold
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Cold Roses
Alice In Chains Dirt, Jar Of Flies
Alif Tree French Cuisine
Lily Allen Alright Still
The Allman Brothers Band Brothers & Sisters, Eat A Peach
Amadu Et Marian Dimache A Bamako
Tori Amos The Beekeeper, Little Earthquakes, Under The Pink
AmpLive Rainydayz Remixes
Louis Armstrong Hello Dolly!, What A Wonderful World
Joseph Arthur Nuclear Daydream, Our Shadows Will Remain, Redemption's Son
Atmosphere Lucy Ford, God Loves Ugly, You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Luis E. Aute & Silvio Rodriguez Mana A Mano
Badly Drawn Boy About A Boy, Born In The U.K., Have You Fed The Fish?
Erykah Badu Live
The Barenaked Lades Born On A Pirate Ship, Everything To Everyone, Gordon, Maroon, Rock Spectacle, Stunt
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beatles Abbey Road, Let It Be, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band, The White Album
Beastie Boys Hello Nasty, License to Ill, Paul's Boutique
Beck Sea Change
Bent Intercept!
Bjork Homogenic, Medulla
The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker, Southern Harmony And Musical
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Moanin'
Kurtis Blow Kurtis Blow Presents The History Of Rap
Blue Scolars Bayani, Blue Scholars
Boys II Men Cooleyhighharmony
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, Lifted or The Story Is In The Soil Keep Your Ear To The Ground
Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1
James Brown In The Jungle Groove, Live At The Apollo
Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out
Lindsey Buckingham Under The Skin
Jeff Buckley Grace
Jimmy Buffet Songs You Know By Heart
The Cardigans Long Gone Before Daylight
Brandi Carlile The Story
Tracy Chapman Crossroads, Matters Of The Heart, Tracy Chapman
The Chemical Brothers Push The Button, Singles 93-03
Citizen Cope Every Waking Moment
The Clash London Calling
Coldplay Parachutes, Live 2003, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, X&Y
John Coltrane A Love Supreme, Blue Train, The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions, First Meditations, Giant Steps, Impressions, My Favorite Things
Common Be, Finding Forever
Counting Crows August And Everything After, Across A Wire: Live In New York
The Cranberries Stars: The Best Of 1992-2002
The Darkness One Way Ticket To Hell
Alana Davis Blame It On Me
Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets, Crash, Live At Luther College, Live At Red Rocks, Remember Two Things, Under The Table And Dreaming
Miles Davis Cookin' With The Miles David Quintet, Kind of Blue
Dead Prez Let's Get Free, RBG: Revolutionary But Gangsta
Neil Diamond Hot August Night, 12 Songs
Ani DiFranco Ani DiFranco, Imperfectly, Little Plastic Castles, Living In Clip, Not A Pretty Girl, Out Of Range
DJ Mark Farina Mushroom Jazz Volume Five
D-Nice Call Me D-Nice
Nick Drake Bryter Layter, Five Leaves Left, Made To Love Magic, Pink Moon
Dramarama Cinema Verite
Drive-By Truckers A Blessing And A Curse, Brighter Than Creation's Dark, Decoration Day, Pizza Deliverance
Dwele G Rise, Subject
Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Live 1966
Steve Earle And The Del McCoury Band The Mountain
Earth, Wind & Fire The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire Volume 1
Everything But The Girl Back To Mine
Explosions In The Sky All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Fat Freddy's Drop Based On A True Story
Lupe Fiasco The Cool
Amp Fiddler Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly
David Ford I Sincerely Apologize For All The Trouble I've Caused
Foreign Exchange Connected
Michael Franti Everyone Deserves Music, Live At The Baobab, Songs From The Porch, Stay Human
Fugees The Score
Peter Gabriel Up, So
Marvin Gaye What's Going On
Sam Getz & Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto, Jazz Samba
Bebel Gilberto Tanto Tempo Remixes
The Grateful Dead American Beauty, Workingman's Dead
David Gray Life In Slow Motion, White Ladder
Keith Green Ultimate Collection
Groove Armada Goodbye Country
Guns 'N Roses Appetite For Destruction, Use Your Illusion I, Use Your Illusion II
Guy Guy
Ben Harper Both Sides Of The Gun, Diamonds On The Inside, Fight For Your Mind, Live From Mars, Welcome To The Cruel World
Coleman Hawkins Body And Soul
Missy Higgins The Sound Of White
Billie Holiday Blue Billie
Buddy Holly Greatest Hits
Indigo Girls Become You, Despite Our Differences, All That We Let In, Indigo Girls, Rites Of Passage, Swamp Ophelia, 1200 Curfews
Iron & Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle, Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron And Wine & Calexico In The Reins
Chris Isaak Baja Sessions, Forever Blue
Michael Jackson Bad, Dangerous, Thriller
Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay
Jay-Z Unplugged, Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life
Jem Finally Woken
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea
Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales, In Between Dreams, On and On
Jack Johnson & Friends Curious George
Norah Jones Come Away With Me
Jurassic 5 EP, Feedback, Quality Control, Power In Numbers, Prehistorik Rarities
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Facing Future
Keane Hopes And Fears
The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society
K-Os Joyful Rebellion
Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express
Lenny Kravitz Let Love Rule
K's Choice Almost Happy, Cocoon Crash
Christopher Lawrence Trilogy
Led Zepplin III, IV
Amos Lee Amos Lee
Ottmar Liebert Luna Negra
The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
Aimee Mann Bachelor No. 2, Magnolia
Bob Marley Babylon by Bus, Exodus, Live At The Roxy, Rastaman Vibration, Songs Of Freedom
Damian Marley Welcome To Jamrock
Matisyahu Youth
Matt Pond PA Several Arrows Later
Maxwell Now, Unplugged
John Mayer Continuum, Room For Squares
Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Mirrorball, Surfacing
Natalie Merchant Ophelia
Method Man & Redman Blackout
George Michael Listen Without Prejudice
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um
Mississippi John Hurt Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings
Joni Mitchell Clouds, Ladies Of The Canyon
Moby 18, Play
Thelonius Monk Brilliant Corners, Thelonius Monk With John Coltrane
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill, Under Rug Swept
Mos Def Black On Both Sides, The New Danger
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree
Mr. Lif Mo' Mega
Alexi Murdoch Time Without Consequence
Murs The End Of The Beginning
Nada Surf Lucky
Yael Naim Yael Naim
Nas Illmatic
Meshell Ndegeocello Comfort Woman, Cookie
Willie Nelson One Hell Of A Ride, Spirit
Nerd In Search Of . . .
New Edition Heart Break, New Edition
Nightmares On Wax In A Space Outta Sound
Ocean Blue Beneath The Rhythm And Sound, Cerulean
Beth Orton Central Reservation, Daybreaker
Charlie Parker Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes
Pearl Jam Live On Two Legs, Rearviewmirror, Ten
Oscar Peterson Trio Last Call At The Blue Note
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
P.M. Dawn The Bliss Album . . . ?
The Polyphonic Spree The Beginning Stages Of . . ., Together We're Heavy
Bud Powell Jazz Giant
Prince Musicology, Purple Rain
Joshua Radin We Were Here
Radiohead Amnesiac, The Bends, Kid A, OK Computer
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers By The Way, Stadium Arcadium
The Reindeer Section Son Of Evil Reindeer
Damien Rice 9, O
Max Roach & Clifford Brown In Concert
Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus
The Roots Game Theory, Phrenology, Things Fall Apart, The Tipping Point
Josh Rouse 1972, Nashville, Subtitulo, Under Cold Blue Skies
Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell, Tougher Than Leather
Kate Rusby 10
Santogold Santogold
Jill Scott Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol. 2, Who Is Jill Scott?
Seal I, II
Ron Sexsmith Cobblestone Runway
DJ Shadow Entroducing, The Outsider, Private Press
Duncan Shiek Duncan Shiek, Phatom Moon
Sia Some People Have Real Problems
Sigur Rós Ágætis Byrjun, ( ), Takk
Paul Simon Graceland
Simon & Garfunkel Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, Sounds Of Silence
Nina Simone Anthology
Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours
Elliot Smith Either/Or, Figure 8, From A Basement On The Hill, Roman Candle, XO
Mindy Smith One Moment More
The Smiths Hatful Of Hollow, The Queen Is Dead, Singles
Social Distortion Somewhere Between Heaven & Hell
Cat Stevens Majikat: Earth Tour 1976, Tea For The Tillerman, Teaser And The Firecat
Sting The Soul Cages, Ten Summoner's Tales
Sufjan Stevens Illinois, Songs For Christmas
Sun Kil Moon April
Art Tatum Piano Starts Here
Maria Taylor 11:11
Telepopmusik Angel Milk
Rosie Thomas If Songs Could Be Held, Only With Laughter Can You Win, These Friends Of Mine, When We Were Small
Travis The Invisible Band, The Man Who
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders, The Love Movement, The Low End Theory
2Pac All Eyez On Me
U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind, The Joshua Tree
Van Morrison Astral Weeks, Moondance, Tupelo Honey
Townes Van Zandt Live At The Old Quarter
Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar
Various Artists Red Hot + Riot: The Music And Spirit of Fela Kuti
Sarah Vaughn Sarah Vaughn With Clifford Brown
Martha Wainwright Martha Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright Want One
Derek Webb Mockingbird
Bukka White The Complete Bukka White
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Winans Tomorrow And More
Denison Witmer Are You A Dreamer?, Live, Of Joy And Sorrow, Philadelphia Songs, Safe Away
Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness' First Finale, Songs In The Key Of Life, Talking Book
Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals
Pete Yorn Day I Forgot, Musicforthemorningafter
Neil Young Comes A Time, Harvest, Ragged Glory
Zero 7 The Garden, Simple Things, When It Falls
Zion I True & Livin'