Favorite All Time Albums

[ai698]

To go along with the sweet and sour posting, what are your favorite, not classical or soudtracks, albums. Being a teenager during the '70's , album rock ruled (sorry Disco fans). It was great to listen to a whole album without skipping songs or wasting $10-15 for an entire album that only had one or two good songs on it.

Some of my favorites-

Supertramp- Breakfast in America
Moody Blues- Days of Future Past
Mangione- Children of Sanchez
Beatles- White Album and Abbey Road
Meatloaf- Bat Out of Hell
The Who- Tommy (not the soundtrack)
Klaatu- all albums
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery, Works-Vol 1
Queen- Night at the Opera
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
Enya- Most of her stuff (I'm a closet Enya fan)
Mannheim Steamroller- All

[windshieldbug]

Road Tested, Bonnie Raitt

[KevinMadden]

Pink Floyd, they can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned.

Normally when I'm stressed I play tuba, when its my tuba thats stressing me out, I listen to Dark Side.. so good

[Mark]

Meatloaf- Bat Out of Hell

Yes.

Road Tested, Bonnie Raitt

Yes.

Also, early Joni Mitchell.

[Chuck Jackson]

Trick of the Tail-Genesis
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway-Genesis
Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
The Wall-Pink Floyd
6 Fat Dutchmen play 10 Great Hits-6 Fat Dutchmen
Aqualung-Jethro Tull
Van Halen-Van Halen (the rest, IMHO, suck)
Anything by Metallica
Anything by Rage Against The Machine
Stardust-Willi Nelson
Anything by Peter Gabriel
10 Wheel Drive- Asleep at the Wheel
Everything REM has recorded
Everything by the Doors, Guess Who, Who, and BTO.
Billion Dollar Babies- Alice Cooper
Brother to Brother- Gino Vanelli
Live at the Filmore- Allman Brothers Band
Heart Attack City- Jack Mack and the Heart Attack Band
Anything by Cherrie Poppin' Daddies except "Zoot Suit Riot"
Everything by Stevie Ray Vaughn

I'm sure there are more. Classical is in a league of its own. Of the 4000 or so cd's that I own, 3000 are classical and not one is by the LA Phil with Zubin Mehta. Lots of LA Phil with Andre Previn (best Prokofiev on disc). I guess all my taste must be in my feet.

Chuck

[TMurphy]

Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here

Red Hot Chili Peppers--Blood Sugar Sex Magic and Californication

The Beatles--I like most all of their stuff, but Abbey Road really stands out.

Jethro Tull--Aqualung, and Thick as a Brick

Frank Zappa--One Size Fits All, Apostrophe ('), Grand Wazoo, Hot Rats, Live at Fillmore East, Zappa in New York....I could keep going....\


There's a bunch more, but that's what comes off the top of my head right now.

[SplatterTone]

You need some shapenote singin' in your life. If you have never listen to this kind of music, It'll git you. I guarantee it.

Three of the great ones.

Full blown down home and bucolic.
The Word of Mouth Chorus


Balance between refined and bucolic.
The Tudor Choir


"Proper" choral singing, but retains strong rhythmic drive,
and it's all William Billings!
Paul Hillier with His Majestie's Clerkes

[Mark]

10 Wheel Drive- Asleep at the Wheel

Yes, but I like their Swing Time album better.

[Chuck Jackson]

While I really enjoy everything Asleep at the Wheel has done, 10 Wheel Drive has a special place only because after losing it 15 years agao, I finally found it on a real record a year ago. Gotta love their cover of "God Bless the Child".

I was quasi-baiting Joe with the whole Mehta/LAPO thing. I think they are some of the poorest examples of orchestral ensemble playing ever commited to record, but for sheer audacity of brass playing they are pretty entertaining. Haven't heard much from him since his exit from the NYPO, which is probably a good thing for music as a whole.

In the realm of string teaching it is very hard to find good "schule-musik" for younger high school kids. Shirl Jae Atwell has written some real gems, the best of the bunch being "American Gaelic" a setting of the old shape note melody "Star of Columbia". It has a section where the entire string orchestra has the tune in shape note sing-a-long style that is a lesson in counterpoint and ensemble balance. There recordings mentioned earlier were relevatory for my kids for grasping the style. While not for everyone, shape note or Fa-So-La singing (can sound like a cacophony of drunks in a midnight choir) is a national treasure that still lives on in those great "sing ins" in the south. If you haven't experienced one, by all means do as they can be as awe-inspiring as they are confusing. There was a time in the American South where no household of any economic distinction was without two books: The Bible and a copy of Southern Harmony.

Sorry for the discourse.

Chuck "who tried to decide what his favorite classical cd's were and gave up somewhere around Bach's St. Matthew Passion" Jackson

[Chuck Jackson]

Death Metal? Interesting, but not unusual, that with so much ugliness already in the world that this would be a force in music. Although I admire Cannibal Corpses' chops, the guy singing sounds like like a bullroarer with bad pitch. As for the song titles like "Meathook Sodomy", well I'll leave it to the Freak Jury to comment on that. This just mirrors societies spiral into a musical decline that can only be called musical pornography. We already have it in the movies, what with the "Saw" movies and "The Hills have Eyes" whcih is nothing more than the pornography of violence gone over the top. But as a stalwart defender of the consititution, I support anyone's right to listen to whatever the hell they please. Me, I deal with ugliness everyday (I teach High School) and I choose to try something a little gentler. Have Peace.

[SplatterTone]

I'm ashamed to say I almost forgot this one. Many classical music experts consider "6 & 12 String Guitar Music" to be superior to Bach's Mass in B Minor.

[Chuck Jackson]

What experts? As much as I admire the album you tout, I can't even remotely compare it to the Bach. Interested to know your sources.

Chuck

[SplatterTone]

Well, Rosie O'Donnell for one. They don't come any bigger or more expert than that.

[tubafatness]

Here's a sampling of some of my favorite albums:
"Rain Dogs"-Tom Waits
"Mule Variations"-Tom Waits
"California"-Mr. Bungle
"New E***tions" -the Locust, (thought I'd be nice and censor that title a bit.)
"Suspended Animation"-Fantomas
"Early Music"-Kronos Quartet
"The Shape of Punk to Come"-The Refused
"Charms of the Night Sky"-Dave Douglas
"Kid A"-Radiohead
"Panthalassa"-Bill Laswell
"Reign In Blood"-Slayer
"Spy vs. Spy"-John Zorn
"Double Time"-Leon Redbone
"Nostalgia in Times Square"-Mingus Big Band
"Alef"-Masada
"What, Because!"-Ray Anderson
"Destroy, Erase, Improve"-Meshuggah
"Delusion of the Fury"-Harry Partch
"Irony is a Dead Scene"-Dillinger Escape Plan w/Mike Patton
"Sailing the Seas of Cheese"-Primus
"Spiritual Unity"-Albert Ayler
"Blood Mountain"-Mastodon
"Midnite Vultures"-Beck
"Ghost Town"-Bill Frisell
"Vespertine"-Bjork

[fpoon]

Beatles - Abbey Road, and Love (that new re-released one, sounds awesome)
U2 - The Joshua Tree
BB King/Eric Clapton - Riding With The King
Bruce Hornsby - Greatest Radio Hits
Police - Greatest Hits
James Taylor - Greatest Hits, New Moon Shine (best album overall)
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded, Live at Folsom
Desert Rose Band - True Love
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
Green Day - Nimrod, American Idiot
Hottie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View Window
Jackson 5 - Greatest Hits
Jimmy Buffet - Songs you know by heart
Beach Boys - Made in the USA
Queen - Greatest Hits 1 and 2
John Williams and the Boston Pops - Space-Taculars
Paul McCartney - Back in the USA - Live 2002
REM - Up
Rod Stewart - Vagabond Heart
Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life
Victor Wooten - Yin-Yang

Soundtracks - Jurassic Park, Rent, Chicago, Newsies

[fpoon]

An aside - I know its cheap to use greatest hit collections, but I think the way an album flows is so crucial to its enjoyment and how you really react to it, so for a lot of us that are younger the greatest hits were what we were exposed to - in my case cause thats most of what my parent bought when CD's started coming out, and in most other cases cause those collections where the best way to really get exposed to a particular singer/band.

[NickJones]

Superunknown - Soundgarden
Pearl Jam - Ten
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Queen - Night at the Opera
Led Zeppelin- Everything they have done
The Verve Pipe - Villains
Ole Edvard Antonsen - Tour de Force
Eirik the Viking -Eirik Gjerdevik
Family Portrait - Point of Ayr Band

[Mark]

Hottie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View Window

Hmmm. Typo or Freudian slip?

[fpoon]

Hmmm. Typo or Freudian slip?

Typo. I hope.

[Brucom]

This just mirrors societies spiral into a musical decline that can only be called musical pornography. We already have it in the movies, what with the "Saw" movies and "The Hills have Eyes" whcih is nothing more than the pornography of violence gone over the top.

When Josef Stalin criticized Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, he called it "pornophony."

Some of my favorites:
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
k. d. lang - Absolute Torch & Twang
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Buddy Guy - Damn Right I Got the Blues
Jimmy Buffet - Songs You Know by Heart
Mark Knopfler - The Rag Picker's Dream
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