GP was the first solo album by Gram Parsons, former member of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and, is probably the best realized expression of his musical personality. Allmusic 5/5

What does a bass player do when he’s recording an album as a leader? Surely not an hour’s worth of bass solos! Ray Brown solved the bass player’s dilemma with a series of recordings under the Some of My Best Friends Are… heading. This 1998 release is the third in the series, following the earlier Some of My Best Friends Are…Piano Players and Some of My Best Friends Are…Sax Players, and it’s a gem. Featuring a sextet of fine vocalists, ranging from the well-established to the unknown, this CD is a class act from beginning to end.

Die in ihrer Entstehungszeit sehr beliebte “Brockes-Passion” besticht in ihrer dramatischen Anlage besonders durch die cantablen, dabey doch noblen Melodien, aber auch durch die Verwendung ungewöhnlicher Instrumente wie Dudelsack und Carillon (Tastenglockenspiel).
Namhafte Solisten konnten für diesen Livemitschnitt gewonnen werden.

This combination of the Tubes' first couple of albums really does feel like two distinct releases slapped together -- and it's the Grand Canyon-sized gap in quality that makes the demarcation about as subtle as a farting elephant hanging from a chandelier. The innovative San Francisco band's 1975 eponymous debut was, and is, a masterpiece. Creative, intelligent, sardonic, theatrical. By contrast, 1976's Young & Rich was, for the most part, uninspired, insipid, short on ideas, and lacking in color. However, it does contain the more-cheese-please, boy-girl-melodrama hit "Don't Touch Me There" -- a great track in any critic's language. And that's the good, the bad, and the ugly of it. You get one superb (remastered) re-release featuring such camp/spoof classics as "Mondo Bondage," "What Do You Want From Life," and the deliciously over-the-top title track, plus one "bonus" hit and little else. Unless you're an obsessive-completist collector, there are better ways to approach the Tubes catalog than getting weighed down with all this filler. But one way or another, you have to have the first album.

Tuxedomoon - Ship Of Fools (1986)
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Tuxedomoon - Ship Of Fools (1986)

The 1986 Tuxedomoon LP Ship of Fools marked the appearance of Ivan Georgiev into the line-up, but actual recordings and tours slowed down as members spent more time pursuing individual projects.