Miles turns 100 tomorrow and on balance this is the one I'd like played at my funeral. Almost the last time with J.C. 22 March 1960, Konserthuset, Stockholm. m.youtube.com/watch?v=R7La... #miles100 #milesdavis #jazz Wynton on this. A couple more to follow, one tomorrow and one the day after.

Clearly one of our #5debutalbums9599. If you say otherwise -- I disagree! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq_3... Lauryn Hill, 'Lost Ones', from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

Probably the greatest rock n roll record ever: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbgj...

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Anyone talks about the greatest 7" of all time this should be in there: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1F...

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Another huge album. Ce-Lo announcing himself. #5debutalbums9599 Goodie Mob, 'Dirty South' from Soul Food (1995) m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFYh...

Absolutely top-notch hip hop album this, among so many good 'uns from the era. #5debutalbums9599 m.youtube.com/watch?v=eeTn... Black Star, feat. Common, 'Respiration', from Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star (1998)

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Hardly in the top drawer intellectually among #5debutalbums9599 hip-hop albums but it does contain some incredible bangers: m.youtube.com/watch?v=pptL... Busta Rhymes, 'Abandon Ship' (feat. Rampage the Last Boy Scout) from The Coming (1996)

Top 2 or 3 in #5debutalbums9599 for me. m.youtube.com/watch?v=skAq... Huge #lowfi #hip-hop record. MF DOOM, 'Operation: Greenbacks' from Operation: Doomsday (1999) Ahead of all the Wu-Tang solo ones for me, much as I love those, because DD truly went out there with this one.

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Kicking it off here in #5DebutAlbums9599. Best rapper of all time for my money: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgva... Dr. Octagon, '3000', from Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996).

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Youth Against Fascism - Sonic Youth Fight the Power - Public Enemy Sons of Pioneers - Japan I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles Promised Land - Chuck Berry Need Your Love So Bad - Little Willie John I Don't Believe You - Kool Keith Wild Is the Wind - Nina Simone Otha Fish - Pharcyde Heroes - Bowie

Great stuff and not just for fusion purists. Jones and Collins are an insane rhythm section -- Karn and Jansen of Japan surely heard this. Couple be my fave Phil album. #5debutalbums7579 Brand X, 'Born Ugly' from Unorthodox Behaviour (1976) m.youtube.com/watch?v=TALW...

Massively influential debut from Rodgers, Edwards and Co -- the 1980s are being invented in front of our very eyes. Musically it's sheer class -- a bit more jazz-funk than later Chic. #5debutalbums7579 m.youtube.com/watch?v=faiw... Chic, 'Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)' (1977)

This deserves to be in the hunt for #5debutalbums7579. The tune right here is an oft-sampled delight while the whole album drives the #phonk very hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb-Q... Bootsy's Rubber Band, 'I'd Rather Be With You' from Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band (1976)

I defy you to argue with this. Pure, basic rock and roll at its finest. #5debutalbums7579 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf4R... Dr Feelgood, 'Twenty Yards Behind' from Down by the Jetty (1975)

Out of the gates in #5debutalbums7579 with Cheap Trick's thunderously good debut -- Beatles, Big Star, hard rock licks, Midwest style. All the way from Rockford, IL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Js5... Cheap Trick, 'Taxman Mr. Thief', from Cheap Trick

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Massively influential production by Ced-Gee, and Kool Keith is one of the greats on the mic. #5debutalbums8589 m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPNd... Ultramagnetic MCs, 'Watch Me Now' from Critical Beatdown (1988)

No mucking around here -- 100% #hip-hop Golden Age. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_24... #5debutalbums8589 EPMD, 'I'm Housin'', from Strictly Business (1988)

Bob Mazzer spent two decades commuting to work and back on the tube. As he travelled, he used his Leica M4 to capture images from of the London Underground in the 1970s and 80s.

People go on about Rakim Allah and here's why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnl6... #5debutalbums8589 Talk about pioneering. It would be good if Eric B. actually were president. Eric B. & Rakim, 'My Melody' from Paid in Full (1987)

Not such an indie kid as I was in the late 80s but this one from '86/'87 holds up brilliantly. youtu.be/PdwvwGlAnz0?... #5debutalbums8589 Happy Mondays, 'Weekend S' from Squirrel and G Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) (1987) Check Paul Ryder's bass work🙏

Many of the heavy hitters in #5debutalbums8589 have paled for me thanks to over-listening so I'm going to seek out some I've not heard before. Like this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=faZR... Stetsasonic, 'My Rhyme' from On Fire (1986). Knew of them in the late '80s but never really heard their stuff.

... and this was the second. I'm sure this was the album I listened to most in 2005, the year I moved to #Turku and lived in Y.O.Kylä. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9k3C... Art Brut, 'Stand Down' from Bang Bang Rock & Roll

Listened to two top-notch 2005 albums for #5debutalbums0509 today. This was the first: m.youtube.com/watch?v=LvI6... Danger Doom, 'Sofa King' from The Mouse and the Mask

Well this ain't missing my #5debutalbums0509: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwp... Experimental / political UK hip-hop M.I.A., 'Bingo' from Arular (2005)

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The first Fairport album isn't like their later ones. It's more to my taste -- I've had it on repeat the last couple of days while fighting through the rains of E18. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdmR... #5debutalbums50s60s Fairport Convention, 'M.1 Breakdown' from Fairport Convention (1968)

Happy heavenly 91st to the great Johnny Guitar Watson 🎸

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This song was a big hit when I was in the sixth form and it takes me back to those days, in the late '80s. The whole album is fantastic: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xooD... #5debutalbums50s60s Nina Simone, 'My Baby Just Cares for Me' from Little Girl Blue (1959)

So everyone on Team MAGA has ended up on Team Genocide & Team Paedophile. Hard to fit all that on a baseball cap…

I won't be posting many long-haired late 60s rockers in #5debutalbums50s60s because they'll get most of the votes anyway but this album is always worth another listen. Something new everytime -- what talents. youtu.be/N6NeEQCSnwQ?... Soft Machine, 'A Certain Kind' from The Soft Machine (1968)

It would be easy (well, easy for me) to pick five piano trio albums in #5debutalbums50s60s (don't worry, I won't). My grandad was a pianist in 1930s-40s dance bands and sometimes when I listen to Bud I hear him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvCp... Bud Powell, 'April in Paris' from Jazz Giant (1950)

Probably the one in #5debutalbums50s60s that I've listened to the most over the past 15 years. A sinister masterpiece with some of the best arrangements in blues history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7hu... I went to Rampart and Dumaine in #nola when there last year -- site of the J&M recording studio 1/

Impeccable @bluenoterecords.bsky.social debut that's on my list for #5debutalbums50s60s and is my Day 27 offering in #JazzinJanuary m.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9z... Joe Henderson plus Kenny Dorham and 'Etc' (= the real McCoy himself, on loan from Impulse! Records), 'Recorda Me' from Page One (1963)

Ranked best album of the 1950s by @uncutmagazine.bsky.social last year, and surely the greatest pure rock 'n' roll disc ever made: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP3w... #5debutalbums50s60s Little Richard, 'Slippin and Slidin' from Here's Little Richard (1957)

#5debutalbums50s60s Well, @richards7370.bsky.social has lain down the gauntlet with this one and no mistake. Let's start here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=njJt... Thelonious Monk, 'Off Minor' from Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1. Recorded 24 October 1947. Art Blakey on drums.

Missed the moment two days ago when this wonderful album reached its half-century but perhaps now will do to remember it. Bowie and the boys with a masterly version of the song that Nina Simone earlier aced. Check George Murray's bass. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4A... #bowie #stationtostation

@coinneachrooney.bsky.social @brucegeob.bsky.social @deborann.bsky.social @paulakeenan.bsky.social @marksmusic1977.bsky.social Before we sat goodbye to #5debutalbums9094 here's another I found that way for my #JazzinJanuary Day 25 entry: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUUx... Don Byron, 'Next Love' (1992)

#JazzinJanuary and Day 24. Over in #5debutalbums9094 we've been ranking stuff. @aejhumm.bsky.social suggested this -- it's brilliant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KKh... @paulakeenan.bsky.social @deborann.bsky.social @coinneachrooney.bsky.social @brucegeob.bsky.social @marksmusic1977.bsky.social

Classy debut from the Trenton, NJ Five-Percenters. Love the Eddie Kendricks sample on this one. #5debutalbums9094 m.youtube.com/watch?v=uq1Y... Poor Righteous Teachers, 'Styles Dropped / Lessons Learned' from Holy Intellect (1990)

@coinneachrooney.bsky.social @deborann.bsky.social @brucegeob.bsky.social @paulakeenan.bsky.social @marksmusic1977.bsky.social Thought you guys could do with a standard on Day 21 so here goes -- amazing live album, this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=q_07... #JazzinJanuary Monk Quartet Plus Two (1960)