My pick: Miles Davis' 1969 initial exploration into electric music, In A Silent Way. So I quickly flipped from thinking about my favorite album to identifying one with staying power and depth, one that would fend off boredom and take at least a month's worth of plays to fully understand. This is not a set of "desert island discs" - this is one album that you have to wake up to every day until the great screenwriter in the sky changes the plot. It took me a moment to put myself in the place of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
Jesse Menendez, Vocalo Host and Producer, WBEZ The music is still as fresh as it was in 1993 and the subject matter no less significant.
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Through the years, Midnight Marauders has made its way from my Walkman to my portable CD player to my iPod. The album introduced sounds that were alien to me and struggles I hadn't known about. Tribe masterfully combined jazz, funk, rock and blues to create a soulful boom-bap aesthetic that would typify the golden era of hip-hop. (Oh, the irony.) ATCQ sampled Jack Wilkins, Weldon Irvine, Ramsey Lewis, Ronnie Foster and other musicians who contributed to America's cultural identity, making it difficult not to acknowledge the new genre's artistry. Hip-hop's creators were in a constant struggle with mainstream America to be seen as a legitimate artists. While hip-hop culture had been incubating in New York since the late '60s, part of the country was hearing its musical manifestation for the first time. In 1993, A Tribe Called Quest released its third album, Midnight Marauders. If I could only listen to one album from here on out, I'd choose the one that made me believe that anything was possible. It's an album that changed my life and pushed me into adolescence and all the possibilities that came with it. But Marc Bolan spoke to me about girls and sexual ambiguity, sang about wizards and unicorns and wrapped it all up in perfect, shimmering pop-rock. Up until then, I'd never really personally identified with an artist or their music. I was a 13-year-old in England when it was released, and it was the first album that I came of age with. That said, if I'm playing along, I would have to pick the T.Rex album Electric Warrior.
It took me years to be able to listen to that album again. We only had one cassette with us: Dire Straits' Making Movies, which was played endlessly throughout the two-day trip. Many years ago, I was with about seven other people on a bus from Istanbul, Turkey, to Den Haag in the Netherlands. So, first of all, the idea of only listening to one album for the rest of my life scares me to death.
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