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Arpig -> Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 8:03:14 PM)

I am sitting here listening to a seriously good Grateful dead album (Truckin on up to Buffalo) and it made me think....what albums do you all consider just fucking top drawer, not specific songs but entire albums that you listen to in their entirety again and again and they never go stale?
Here's a short list of mine.

801 ~ 801 Live
Laurie Anderson ~ Home of the Brave
The Band ~ Music from Big Pink, Rock of Ages
Be Good Tanyas ~ Chinatown
Bob Dylan & The Band ~ Before the Flood
David Bowie ~ Heroes
Byrne & Eno ~ My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Captain Beefheart ~ Trout Mask Replica
Tracy Chapman ~ Tracy Chapman
The Clash ~ London Calling
Billy Bragg ~ The Internationale
Leonard Cohen ~ Field Commander Cohen (well all of them actually, but if I had to pick one)
Cowboy Junkies ~ The Caution Horses
Bob Dylan ~ Desire
Steve Earle ~ Copperhead Road, Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator
Brian Eno ~ Here Come the Warm Jets
Marianne Faithful ~ Broken English
Flogging Molly ~ Alive Behind the Green Door
Grateful Dead ~ Europe 72, Reckoning, Uncle John's Band, & of course Truckin Up to Bufallo
Jethro Tull ~ Minstrel in the Gallery
Jim Carroll Band ~ Catholic Boy
King Crimson ~ Lark's Tongue in Aspic
Alanis Morissette ~ Jagged Little Pill
Nash the Slash ~ Blind Windows
Tom Petty ~ Wildflowers
Pink Floyd ~ Ummagumma, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall
The Pogues ~ Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Rolling Stones ~ Exile on Main Street, Beggar's Banquet
Paul Simon ~ Graceland
Talking Heads ~ Fear of Music
Richard Thompson ~ An Acoustic Evening
Velvet Underground & Nico
Waterboys ~ Fisherman's Blues
Willie Nelson ~ Stardust
Roger Waters ~ Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking

I am sure I have left some out, but that will do for now




OrpheusAgonistes -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 8:37:20 PM)

Some excellent choices.  Mine would include:

X Ray Spex--Germ Free Adolescents
Dylan--Blood on the Tracks
Bowie--Heroes
Pavement--Wowee Zowee
Pavement--Slanted and Enchanted
V.U--Velvet Underground and Nico
Thomas Dolby--The Flat Earth
Nas--Illmatic
Public Enemy--It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
The Raincoats--Odyshape
The Wipers--Youth of America
Pulp--A Different Class
Refused--The Shape of Punk to Come
The Feelies--Crazy Rhythms
Jawbreaker--24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Bowie--Scary Monsters (and Supercreeps)
Smart Went Crazy--Now We're Even
Uncle Tupelo--No Depression
Sonic Youth--Evol
Sonic Youth--Daydream Nation
Dead Kennedys--Fresh Fruits for Rotting Vegetables
Silkworm--Developer
Silkworm--Blueblood
Roxy Music--Country Life
Blur--Modern Life is Rubbish
Blondie--Blondie
Blondie--Plastic Letters
Devo--Q:  Are We not Men?  A:  We Are Devo
Echo and the Bunnymen--Crocodile
Wire--Pink Flag
REM--Murmur
Of Montreal--Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?

(I have to stop somewhere)




Termyn8or -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 8:44:38 PM)

TRUMP !

Pink Floyd - Animals. Period.

T




Arpig -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 8:46:44 PM)

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DomMeinCT -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 8:50:37 PM)

Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

Yes - Fragile

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush




camille65 -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 8:51:24 PM)

Buddy Guy 'Sweet Tea'




ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 9:20:31 PM)

Bob Dylan - "Blood On The Tracks," "Blonde on Blonde"
Beatles - "Sgt. Pepper," "White Album," "Revolver"
Natalie Merchant - "Ophelia"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
Nanci Griffith - "Other Voices, Other Rooms"
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti," "Led Zeppelin I"
Steve Earle - "El Corazon"
Jimi Hendrix - "Axis: Bold As Love"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run," "Born In The USA," "Darkness On  The Edge Of Town"
Ali Farka Toure - "Talkin' Timbuktu"
U2 - "Joshua Tree," "Achtung Baby"
Neil Young - "Harvest," "After The Gold Rush"
Joan Osborne - "Breakfast in Bed"
King Crimson - "Court Of The Crimson King"
Townes van Zandt - "My Mother The Mountain"
John Mayall - "Bluesbreakers, with Eric Clapton"
Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner"




subtee -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 9:24:25 PM)

I feel planets aligning, Arpig, except!

Queen. Fer reelz.




LadyAngelika -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 9:35:19 PM)

quote:

Of Montreal--Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?

(I have to stop somewhere)


Great place to stop! That's one of my favourites too.

Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
The Killers – Hot Fuss
Metric – Old World Underground and Live It Out
Ladytron – Light & Magic
CSS – Cansei de Ser Sexy
Santigold – Santogold
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Blonde Redhead – Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
David Bowie – Heroes
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Air – Moon Safari
Goldfrapp – Black Cherry
Placebo – Once More with Feeling
Pulp – A Different Class
Depeche Mode – Violator
The Cure – Standing on a Beach
The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs
The Clash – Combat Rock
The Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Sonic Youth – Dirty

... just of the top of my head :-)

- LA




Arpig -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 9:40:12 PM)

I forgot all about Queen subtee, mostly because I never got around to replacing my old vinyl copies when I I had to leave behind all my old albums years ago.   More tunes I must track down....so much good tunage and so little time!!




subtee -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 9:44:20 PM)

You have excellent taste in awesome tuneage. And we're both low on time. [;)]





GreedyTop -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/24/2010 10:24:40 PM)

Artists that anything theyve done applies:

Pink Floyd
Queen
Rush
Peter Gabriel
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
David Bowie
Led Zeppelin

Select albums (multiple, by artist)
Savatage: Everything from Gutter Ballet (1989) onward
Genesis: the Peter Gabriel years
Fates Warning: Night on Brocken (1984) through A Pleasant Shade of Grey (1997)
The Who: Tommy (both original and soundtrack), Quadrophenia
The Beatles: Rubber Soul, White Album, Let it Be
Aerosmith: ALMOST everything from their first until Pump.  There was in the middle there that I didnt care for but I cant remember the name.
many others, but that's good for now..
Van Halen: teh first 3

Single albums:

Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway and film versions)
FIddler on the ROof (film)
Godspell (stage version)
I, Mother Earth: Dig
Tool: Aenima

loads more.. but I'm tired of typing this list just now ;)





Level -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/25/2010 3:39:27 AM)

Rush - 2112
Sonic Youth - Dirty (winks at LA)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
The Beatles - White Album
Pearl Jam - Ten
Boston - Boston
Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
Faith No More - Epic




subrob1967 -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/25/2010 3:59:43 AM)

Van Halen Van Halen, Van Halen II, OU812
Iron Maiden Live After Death
The Scorpions World Wide Live
Krokus Stayed Awake All Night
Black Sabbath Live Evil
Raven Live At The Inferno
The Blues Brothers Essentials
David Lee Roth Skyscraper, A Lil Ain't Enough, & Your Filthy Little Mouth
King Diamond Abigail
Metallica Master Of Puppets
Judas Priest Stained Class
Queensryche Operation Mindcrime





LadyAngelika -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/25/2010 5:11:59 AM)

quote:

Sonic Youth - Dirty (winks at LA)


Really? Wow, you just got a little cooler, Level ;-)

Ok, and don't tell this to anyone, but I actually like a Boston song.

- LA




DomImus -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/25/2010 6:13:00 AM)

Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Foghat - Rock And Roll Outlaws
Johnny Winter - Captured Live
Eagles - One Of These Nights
The Who -Who's Next
AC/DC - Back In Black
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Boston - Boston
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet
Rick Derringer - All American Boy







Wolf2Bear -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/25/2010 6:14:11 AM)

Don't forget:

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Styx - Conerstone, Grand Illusion
Rush - 2112
Judas Priest - Screamin for Vengeance
Manowar - Fighting The World




Level -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/25/2010 4:23:13 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: LadyAngelika

quote:

Sonic Youth - Dirty (winks at LA)


Really? Wow, you just got a little cooler, Level ;-)

Ok, and don't tell this to anyone, but I actually like a Boston song.

- LA



Yep, I've been a huge fan of SY since I heard "Titanium Expose", on the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack; and Dirty is brilliant, I nevah, evah get tired of it.




LadyAngelika -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/25/2010 4:33:45 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Level


quote:

ORIGINAL: LadyAngelika

quote:

Sonic Youth - Dirty (winks at LA)


Really? Wow, you just got a little cooler, Level ;-)

Ok, and don't tell this to anyone, but I actually like a Boston song.

- LA



Yep, I've been a huge fan of SY since I heard "Titanium Expose", on the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack; and Dirty is brilliant, I nevah, evah get tired of it.


Have you heard their other stuff? I hesitated between Dirty and Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. OA seems to focus on their older stuff which of course is also wonderful. It is hard to choose with SY as they have done so much. I guess I like Goo quite a bit too.

- LA




DCWoody -> RE: Seriously good albums (5/25/2010 4:37:44 PM)

Rumours, The Score, Performance & Cocktails, The Bends, So Tonight That I Might See?




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