| By far, one of the best gifts to give for | | | | - Red Hot Chilli Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" |
| Christmas is recorded music. It can be a tough | | | | - The Beatles "Revolver" or "Abby Road" |
| thing to buy for someone else as music tastes | | | | - Sting "Ten Summoners Tales" |
| are very subjective and you never know what | | | | - Leonard Cohen "The Future" |
| the receiver already owns. For this reason I enjoy | | | | - Elvis "Greatest Hits" |
| broadening the minds of the people on my | | | | - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong "Best of..." |
| Christmas list with new music I'm pretty darn | | | | For the Baby Boomer who missed the bus to |
| sure they will enjoy. | | | | Woodstock, or can't even recollect if they were |
| The following list of music recommendations has | | | | there??: |
| been carefully compiled from my large and | | | | - Jefferson Airplane "Surrealistic Pillow" |
| diverse personal collection. I know there is so | | | | - Jimmie Hendryx "The Ultimate Experience" |
| much more fantastic music I left out, but this list | | | | - Janice Joplin "Greatest Hits" |
| is a darn good start. | | | | - Creedence Clearwater Revival "Greatet Hits" |
| For the hard rocker who thinks classical music is | | | | - (Other Great 1960's albums include anything by |
| for wimps: | | | | the Beatles) |
| - Dvorak "Symphony #9" | | | | For the poor sod who works graveyard shift: |
| - Holst "The Planets" | | | | - Propellerheads Decks and Drums and Rock-n-Roll |
| - Beethoven Symphonies 3 "Eroica," 5, 7 and 9. | | | | - Soundtrack from "The Matrix" |
| Also the "Moonlight" and "Pathetique" Piano | | | | - Rush "Moving Pictures" |
| Sonatas | | | | - Bjork "Post" |
| - Rimsky-Korsakov "Scheherazade" | | | | - Led Zeppelin "III" and "Zoso" |
| - Prokoviev "Classical Symphony" | | | | - Infected Mushroom "Classical Mushroom" |
| - Schubert "Unfinished Symphony, #8" | | | | Safe bets for a "Secret Santa Gift Exchange": |
| For the passionate listener who only has music by | | | | - Mozart Symphony 41 "Jupiter" |
| dead guys with wigs: | | | | - Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" |
| - Queen "A Night at the Opera" | | | | - Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
| - Led Zeppelin "Physical Grafitti" | | | | - Supertramp "Breakfast in America" |
| - Beatles "Abby Road" | | | | - Vivaldi "Four Seasons" |
| - Yes "Fragile" | | | | - Michael Jackson "Thriller" |
| - Radiohead "OK Computer" | | | | For the violinist in the family (we all have one): |
| - Alanis Morissette "Jagged Little Pill" | | | | - Mark O'Connor "The New Nashville Cats" |
| For the high-strung boss who can take a little | | | | - Itzhak Perlman "Sarsate: Carmen Fantasy" |
| mellowing: | | | | - Eileen Ivers "Wild Blue" |
| - Bach "Brandenburg Concertos 1-6" | | | | - Leahy "Leahy" Ma, O'Connor & Meyer "Appalacia |
| - Simon & Garfunkle "Greatest Hits" | | | | Waltz" |
| - Antonio Carlos Jobim "The Man from Ipanema" | | | | - Anything featuring Jascha Heifetz, Pinchas |
| - Portishead "Portishead" | | | | Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman and/or Stephan |
| - Debussy "Le Mer" | | | | Grappelli |
| - Any piano works by Chopin | | | | For the music buff who has everything: |
| For the tough guy who needs to get in touch | | | | - Corky Siegel "Chamber Blues" |
| with his feminine side: | | | | - John Scofield "Uberjam" or "Handjive" |
| - Heart "Dreamboat Annie" | | | | - The Baronics "Get Bach" |
| - Madonna "Immaculate Collection" | | | | - Soundtrack from the Motion Picture "Amelie" |
| - Sheryl Crow "Sheryl Crow" | | | | - Afro Celt Sound System "Volume 1: Sound |
| - Sarah McLaughlin "Surfacing" | | | | Magic" |
| - Alanis Morissette "Under Rug Swept" | | | | - Poe "Haunted" |
| - Ani DiFranco "Revelling/Reckoning" | | | | - Soundtrack from That 70's Show "Jammin' |
| - kd lang "Ingenue" | | | | Album" |
| For a lonely lady seeking male companionship: | | | | - Horace X "Strategy" or "Sackbutt" |
| - Billy Joel "The Stranger" and "52nd Street" | | | | And when all else fails... |