Cut Copy - It's Australian techno pop.

Anything by Dusty Springfield from "In Memphis" and earlier.

Do I lose credibility for suggesting Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar"?

Matisyahu - hasidic jewish reggae.

Do I lose credibility for suggesting Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar"?

That's a great album.

For Smooth Jazz, anything by The Rippingtons.

There's a bunch of good stuff here, if you like 60s-style psychedelic pop as played by (mostly) a bunch of scruffy southerners.

Art Tatum would be worth your time. As would Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, "Cannonball" Adderley, Wayne Shorter, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, George Shearing, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Bud Powell, John Lewis, Ramsey Lewis, Billy Taylor, Keith Jarrett, Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis, Joe Pass, Les Paul, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Anita O'Day, Lena Horne, Blossom Dearie, Joe Williams, Milt Jackson, Gary Burton, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Arturo Sandoval, Tito Puente, and Wynton Marsalis, for starters.

I recently got this disc of Kurt Weill's symphonic music as a promo and it's quite good.

No music collection is complete without a copy of The Bonzo Dog Band's Keynsham. Gorilla and The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (which appears to be currently unobtainable for some godforsaken reason) are also very good, but Keynsham is very special for me. I consider it good luck to own a copy.

I love everything Royal Trux did. If I had to recommend a single album it would be either their self titled third or Cats and Dogs, but I love their whole catalog.

The Residents' Duck Stab is out of print? DUCK STAB IS OUT OF PRINT?!? HOW THE HELL CAN THIS BE? Get this album. It's probably easily obtainable in P2P land.

Okay this is my night to get depressed: Mary Margaret O'Hara's Miss America is a fantastic album. I know this one had been OP for awhile, but I was hoping that had changed.

(Cripes, my music collection is worth a lot of money. Pity it's all stuff that I absolutely want to keep.)

John Zorn's The Bribe is probably my favorite album by the man (of the ones I have from his enormous catalog). It's accessible while giving you a good sense of what his music is about.

I was also going to recommend some Carla Bley, but again all her best stuff is OP and overpriced. Oh wait, Dinner Music is still in print. Get that. And thirty-three bucks ain't bad for the two disc Escalator Over the Hill, though that's one of the few albums that I do consider better on vinyl, if for no other reason than it ends with a locking groove that can't be recreated on a CD as far as I know.

Bill Monroe, Buck Owens, Ladytron, The Young Gods (Len, they do a great album of Kurt Weill covers) and Secret Chiefs 3

I forgot one: this disc of orchestral works by Milhaud, Poulenc, and Ibert is wonderful. The Milhaud pieces are especially good. Many recordings of Milhaud, including Leonard Bernstein's, are soullessly concentrated on getting the rhythms right while ignoring the brilliant spirit of his work. Totelier does both well.

Dolly Parton - Shattered Image (song) - it's probably my favorite Dolly Parton song and quite possibly my most favorite song EVAR. (There's a bluegrassy version and a poppy version and I love them both. I unfortunately love them so much that I have DRM'd versions or I'd share them.)

Ivana Santilli - I personally prefer her debut disc Brown over her sophomore effort Corduroy Boogie, both of which I have.

Jacksoul - I bought Resurrected based solely on the first single "Still Believe in Love" and it proved to be a solid disc that was in heavy rotation for awhile.

I love the Hotel Costes compilations, as well as St Germain Des Pres Cafe.

Among female jazz vocalists, there's Stacey Kent, Renee Olstead, Holly Cole, Diana Krall, and my favourite, Ella Fitzgerald, whom paulsc has already mentioned.

Male r'n'b vocalists include Craig David, John Legend, Jon B and Brian McKnight.

Lately, I've been really enjoying Blue Note jazz from the mid-60s, when there were all these tensions between post-bop and free jazz. And, as always, I like a rhythm section. Folks like Andrew Bird, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson and Tony Williams did some of their best work in the early-to-mid-'60s.

DUCK STAB IS OUT OF PRINT?!?

No, man, relax. Emusic has it.

As far as music goes, you need to run out right now and buy afew CAN albums fast as you can. Don't worry, it'll be alright. Ege Bamyasi, Tago Mago, and Future Days. You'll be fine.

My musical tastes cross all genres, from the cheese (I love Ray Stevens' version of 'Misty') to the even cheeesier (yes, I was a 70s disco babe, and we had our very own British Disco Queen too).

I love Americana, classical (especially piano music and choral), some opera, some rock, some pop, just about anything really - except that really hardcore rap stuff which I can't get into. But I suppose my number one all-time favourite album has to be Decoration Day by the Drive-by Truckers. Not a dud track on it. And even now, after repeat listenings, it touches me deeply.

Gravitar has been rocking my world. Along with Dr. John and Patti Smith. And the Butthole Surfers. Also, Mazinga. And The High Strung. And Bantam Rooster.

No, man, relax. Emusic has it.

I'm too young to feel this old.