What are your favorite Non-rock albums?

[CML207]

Rap:
The Chronic(1992) - Dr. Dre along with many other rappers like Snoop
Any Eminem album
Most Tupac albums

[Sayburr]

Blanche - Can't trust the Doctor. This is a bluegrass outfit with some really hardcore, dark lyrics. The song below is about not trusting the one you love.

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Bonepony - just good time music. Its unelectrified rock with instruments you might not expect. Here is "she's my religion" from the new album.

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Early and late Johnny Cash...

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[orange_black]

dont flame me.... Beastie Boys License to Ill....

and John Mayer's Continuum is a great bluesy album.

[WhiffleBallTony]

Femi Kuti-Shoki, Shoki
Robert Johnson's recordings
Stevie Wonder-Talking Book
Rodrigo y Gabriela-Rodrigo y Gabriela
Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Daft Punk-Discovery

[rockfresh126]

Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique (I've never figured out how to spell that damn word)

[Zildjian77]

Broadway: Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables

Rap: Doggystyle (Snoop), R U Still Down? (Tupac)

Jazz: Apple Juice (Tom Scott)

Country: Hank Williams Sr Greatest Hits

Classical: Handel's Messiah and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

[anya]

musical: sondheim's "into the woods" and brown's "the last 5 years"

jazz: anything by billie holiday

classical: tchaikovsky's "swan lake"

adult contemporary: loreena mckennit's "the visit"

[Jhail83]

Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim
Al Di Meola - Flesh on Flesh, Elegant Gypsy, Consequence of Chaos...Alot by him actually.
Jesca Hoop - Kismet
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch, Begin to Hope, 11:11, Songs
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire, Inner Mounting Flame
Weather Report - Heavy Weather, Mysterious Traveler, etc.
Return to Forever - Return to Forever, Romantic Warrior, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Where Have I Known You Before
Bill Bruford - One of a Kind, EarthWorks, Feels Good to Me

[OldFogey]

Well -- I have about 3x as many classical albums as rock, and about as much jazz as rock, then there's the assorted extras, so I don't think I can list it all.

I'll list some names:

jazz bandleaders -- Gil Evans, Charlie Haden, Art Blakey, Charlie Mingus, Gary Burton, Brubeck, Brian Blade
jazz pianists -- Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner, Oscar Peterson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Tete Montoliu, Herbie Han****, Chick Corea, Lyle Mays, Thelonius Monk...
jazz guitarists -- John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Mike Stern, Joe Pass, Kenny Burrell, Pat Martino, Wes Montgomery, Kirk Rosenwinkel, Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, John McLaughlin, Stanley Jordan
jazz bands -- the aforementioned Weather Report, Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra, Pat Metheny Group, Yellowjackets, Skyy
jazz sax -- Joe Lovano, Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seamus Blake, Dave Ellis, Charlie Parker,....
jazz trumpet -- Miles, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Oliver Nelson

Bluegrass: Bela Fleck, Nickel Creek, Strength in Numbers, Rickey Scaggs, Kentucky Colonels, Alison Kraus and Union Station, Thile/Marshall....

Comedy: love Cosby, Smothers Brothers, Beyond the Fringe, Cook/Moore, Python, PDQ Bach, Anne Russell

World: Gypsy Kings, Inti Illimani, Yo Yo Ma with Silk E, George Moustakis, and I'm forgetting a bunch....

Classical Grass (classical and bluegrass merged): Appalachian Journey, Short Trip Home, Fleck/Meyer, Meyer/Thile

Country -- Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, some Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles singing Country, Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, KD Lang, Rascal Flatts

R&B -- just about anything Motown, Anita Baker, Ray Charles, ....

Classical deserves its own separate note, but I'll probably just leave it at that.

Reserve right to update once senior moment has passed....

[darthluigi7]

Straight Outta Compton from N.W.A is always amazing. I like the **** Buttons a whole bunch Street Horrrsing is their latest... it's craaaazy. I saw them live like a week or two ago. Also Girl Talk stuff is exceptional.