Have you seen this BBC doc on Coltrane?
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Miles Davisâ âIn A Silent Wayâ - amazing album + mix of musicians + all done in three hours, so plenty of time for a beer afterwards.
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Second BAD album for the Strummer and Jones reunion factor.
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Good shout. A Kind of Blue too - although I think they stretched to nine hours for that. Amazing to nail it in that time!
Ella and Louis Again 1957. I donât know how it was recorded but the sonics on this are the best on any record I own. Just incredible. The version of Autumn in New York is amazing
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this is a great documentary. Really well put together.
Dr Dre - 2001. This album is Dre at his sampling best, the lyrics are starting to out date themselves but it is a fine example of Gangster Rap. There is a 70âs Jazz funk sound right next to orchestral bombastic beats.
The Theâs Soul Mining, both the abortive new york sessions (i get to follow matt johnson around, not just be stuck in the studio):
Johnson had gone from being unemployed to receiving a rumoured ÂŁ80,000 advance from CBS. With his new-found wealth Johnson was keen to experience what New York had to offer, disappearing from the studio to explore the Lower East Side and take drugs, which left him in an unfit state to record.
And the successful London sessions:
Throughout May 1983 the The held a weekly residence of concerts at the Marquee club in central London, featuring many of Johnsonâs musician friends from the British post-punk scene. Johnson used these concerts to decide which musicians he wanted to contribute to the forthcoming the The album. These included Orange Juice drummer Zeke Manyika, do-it-yourself synthesizer pioneer Thomas Leer, and the experimental Australian musician Jim Thirlwell, credited on the album as one of his early aliases âFrank Wantâ
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yep, itâs nice but I donât go too much for the âsaintâ angle - itâs a bit too much and I wish people wouldnât try to deify the guy. The cool thing to me is that he was human.
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Bit of a prick Matt Johnson allegedly. Remember Julian Cope was fairly disparaging about him. Although thatâs hardly saying much, Cope rarely had a good word to say about anyone!
100% agree. It was a toss up between the two!
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From a muso angle Talk Talk âThe Colour Of Springâ. Sonically and musically itâs a masterpiece (stating the obvious). From a fly on the wall perspective âYes Pleaseâ one hundred percent. The stories from there are mental.
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I love The Colour Of Spring, it gets overlooked a bit by critics who seem to prefer Spirit Of Eden, as for Yes Please, only Factory Records could send a band that they were desperately trying to keep on the straight & narrow to âcrack centralâ as Tony Wilson described it 
Think i need to read Chris Frantzâs book
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Probably one of the Can albums with the Damo Suzuki lineup, Ege Bam Yasi, Future Days or Tago Mago. Love the idea of extended jam sessions in a German castle with old soldiersâ mattresses nailed to the walls, I think I read about this in a book, possibly Ocean of Sound, but might have dreamt it!
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Maybe Catch a Fire, or something from a 70âs California Laurel Canyon vibe or just go for something Mötley CrĂŒe for shits and giggles. But yeah Catch a fire I recon.
Basically everything that was made at Compass Point. Or as mentioned earlier a Stones/South of France chateau / total rock decadence type vibe wouldâve been fun.
For an album that always moves me it would have to be Verve/Northern Soul though.
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Compass Point absolutely 
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for me, probably âghost in the machineâ.
firstly because of AIR montserrat (what a location!) and then on because the musicianship was top notch. also, loads of oberheims and sequentials. finally, how fun would it have been to watch these guys fight?
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I listen to a lot of different genres but production wise Rhythm & Sound Carrier would be my choice. This is production/mixing/mastering near perfection.