The Mamas and the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears ĩ3. Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip ĩ4. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today ĩ6. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies ĩ8. The Gerald Wilson Orchestra - Live and Swinging ġ00. Chicano Batman - Cycles of Existential Rhyme ġ02. Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself ġ08. There are no Eagles albums on here because The Dude was right (we know the truth). If you don’t like it, make your own list, or take the culinary advice that Snoop gave at the start of “Lodi Dodi.” But as he continued on that masterpiece from Eastside Long Beach by way of Slick Rick: “for those who with, sing that shit… it goes a little something like this.” - Jeff Weissġ10. This is theLAnd, not Soft Rock and Crystals Quarterly. All apologies to James Taylor and Carole King, but, honestly, no apologies to James Taylor and Carol King. Of course, some essential stuff got cut for space. Our sensibilities were primarily shaped by punk, jazz, psychedelic rock, and hip-hop, so the list reflects that. We aspired towards inclusion but not at the expense of impairing a specific vision. The early Beastie Boys are inextricable from New York, but Check Your Head marked a transformative shift, unmistakably shaped by their new home, and one that kickstarted a generation of rock and rap hybridization. (and the mental hospital in Camarillo) irrevocably influenced both genre and region with some of the most remarkable modal levitations ever recorded. Charlie Parker was from Kansas City and made his name in New York, but his fleeting sojourn in L.A. doesn’t count): the formative music that shaped regional scenes, blasted out of local clubs and cars, the sounds that are indigenous to L.A. We heavily slanted this list towards art cradled in the turf between Long Beach and Topanga (no, the O.C. The point that most frequently bears repeating is that this is all totally arbitrary and subjective.
once incubated (although we included Coleman’s debut, cut before he headed east). Their classics were almost all universally recorded there, and bear little evidence of the cool jazz that L.A. nurtured some of the world’s supreme visionaries - Charlie Mingus, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy, and Ornette Coleman - but they all were forced to move to New York to prosper. When it comes to jazz, the inverse is true. for a decade-plus, it was produced by Quincy Jones, and featured locally based session musicians but it was clearly an international pop blockbuster, not something that the city could rightfully claim. You can even make the case that Thriller counts, considering Michael Jackson had lived in L.A.
in the early ’70s which led to many of its most immortal late-period releases being laid down in Hollywood, but no matter where Marvin Gaye recorded, he’ll always belong to Washington D.C. The very sound itself has to be “L.A.” So even though Sam Cooke and Bobby Womack created their most iconic compositions while living and recording here, their vision was unquestionably one of Midwestern and Southern soul.
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album has to reflect something of the city itself: its shifty moods and pulmonary rhythms, its eccentric cultural pockets and beautiful but slightly cracked reflection.
has long been a premier recording option for visiting musicians hoping to soak up sunshine and waves, high-caliber narcotics, and all the other indulgences that define the Hollywood cliché.īut just being within the city limits doesn’t remotely get you close to the essence. From the iconic Sunset Sound (Led Zeppelin, Prince, and the Rolling Stones), to Electro-Vox Studios (Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra), to the old RCA headquarters, L.A.
album?” As a music industry capitol and locus for transplants, you can make the case that practically anything qualifies. albums,” you’re forced to confront the ontological question of “what makes an L.A. Listen to a playlist featuring 224 songs from this list.īefore you can rank the “greatest L.A.
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