Top Ten Herbie Hancock Albums

"Just Around The Corner"off of Mr. Hands used to be a favorite song of mine for a long time. It's so funky. And yea, Shiftless Shuffle is the original Headhunters lineup (with Harvey Mason on drums). 4Am if excellent, Jaco shines. It's almost like a long-lost track off of the Jaco s/t. Actually, each song is like a long-lost tune from different Herbie albums.

^ Yeah - it's the Head Hunters line-up isn't it? (on 'Shiftless') Great album

Edited by dreadpirateroberts - 13 Jun 2012 at 10:27pm

Mr Hands was a big surprise seeing as how much of what he had put out prior was pretty bad, I wrote a real positive review for it, some songs on there really smoke.

Kazuhiro wrote: Or "Third Plane" is good, too. The album is an album in the name of Ron Carter, but may get the atmosphere like VSOP and the HH trio.

darkshade wrote: I don't know, aside from a tune here and there, I'm not really into his trio of 80s electronic albums like Future Shock, Sound-System, Perfect Machine. Very dated. There's good ideas, but he only needed to make one album. All 3 albums sound like they're part of the same album. Don't even get me started on albums like Magic Windows or Lite Me Up. I even listened to Sunlight the other night, and it was pretty awful. I don't think I finished one song, except the last song which is a blazing post-bop/fusion tune with Tony Williams. He did something right with Dis Is Da Drum. I can listen to that album any time.

Edited by Sean Trane - 13 Jun 2012 at 3:09am

Well, I like Rock-it, I mean who doesn't? The rest of the album is good too, just very 80s-sounding. But that's all you need, the following two 80s electronic albums are just parts 2 and 3 of Future Shock (in other words, they all sound alike).

I don't know, aside from a tune here and there, I'm not really into his trio of 80s electronic albums like Future Shock, Sound-System, Perfect Machine. Very dated. There's good ideas, but he only needed to make one album. All 3 albums sound like they're part of the same album.

Don't even get me started on albums like Magic Windows or Lite Me Up. I even listened to Sunlight the other night, and it was pretty awful. I don't think I finished one song, except the last song which is a blazing post-bop/fusion tune with Tony Williams.

He did something right with Dis Is Da Drum. I can listen to that album any time.


Edited by darkshade - 12 Jun 2012 at 9:00pm

The electronic HH album seems to be popular now. I think that Speak Like A Child and VSOP are good personally. The "Live Under The Sky" album that VSOP in particular went. Or the trio album which was derived from the formation. I recommend trio of 77 than trio of 81.

Maiden Voyage

my favourite is 'Crossings'