Essential albums
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GNR-Appetite for Destruction
BUSH- Sixteen Stone
3rd Bass- Cactus Album
Beastie Boys-- Pauls Boutique, Check your Head
Nirvana- Nevermind
Soundgarden- Superunknown
GNR-Appetite for Destruction
BUSH- Sixteen Stone
3rd Bass- Cactus Album
Beastie Boys-- Pauls Boutique, Check your Head
Nirvana- Nevermind
Soundgarden- Superunknown
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Indeed. "Mama's Boy" and "Three Point One Four" alone are worth the price of admission; add The Bad Touch, Mope, Right Turn Clyde, and Take The Long Way Home and you have a very worthy collection of songs.
In the vein of essential "fun albums," I would add Ween's Chocolate and Cheese and The Mollusk.
Conventional choices:
Steely Dan - Aja, Can't Buy A Thrill, Gaucho
Billy Joel - The Stranger, 52nd Street, Glass Houses, Songs In The Attic, honorable mention to Nylon Curtain
Springsteen - The River (especially side 2), Born In The USA
The Stones - Some Girls, Undercover, Tattoo You, Forty Licks
ELO - Out Of The Blue, Discovery, Time, Balance Of Power
Debbie Harry - KooKoo
The above are albums that I can pretty much listen to all the way through without wanting to skip songs.
You are correct. I am s little tired from being on the road all day.
My son’s bedroom is classic rock themed. He has about 30 of my old vinyls mounted on his walls. One of them is Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” album that has no “The Wall” lettering on it, just the brick wall. No text at all.
I’m assuming it’s an early press of the vinyl...wondering if it’s worth anything.
I’m assuming it’s an early press of the vinyl...wondering if it’s worth anything.
I have to add Live Alchemy by Dire Straits. Didn't see it listed yet. Best version of Telegraph Road. Big Dan Fan so anything by them. If you're into country at all Waylon's Always Been Crazy. Good call for Billy Joel's 52 St. Very underrated and hits all the check-blocks for Billy's stuff. Many hits off that album but a lot of sleepers too. I would add Harry Chapin's Greatest Stories Live.
A bit off the wall but judging by these awesome posts, you will love or at least appreciate these:
Wishbone Ash- There’s the Rub
Judas Preist-Sad Wings of Destiny (first album and Rob Halford at his absolute best)
UFO -Force It
Bowie-Ziggy Stardust
My brother is 15 years older than I. He bequeathed to me his album collection in the 1980’s. Unfortunately, he did not take very good care of his vinyl whereas I am a vinyl NAZI! Luckily, his Cream-Disraeli Gears (and Jimmy Hendrix Experience) albums are still in great condition today and exceptions to his normal vinyl care ethos!
I feel lucky to own them.
Great choice... although I'm a bigger fan of
" Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death"
PE - Fear of a Black Planet
Wore both of these out at PSU (as did every other student I knew):
That’s a whole lot of posts without Music from Big Pink. Shame.
Waiting for Columbus, beggars banquet and John barleycorn must die are up there too.
Also, somewhere between heaven and helll, built to spill ‘live’ And nick cave ‘let love in.’
Wild the innocent for Bruce and blood on the tracks for Dylan.
Waiting for Columbus, beggars banquet and John barleycorn must die are up there too.
Also, somewhere between heaven and helll, built to spill ‘live’ And nick cave ‘let love in.’
Wild the innocent for Bruce and blood on the tracks for Dylan.
I’m not typically much a fan of recorded live music. Could somebody explain to me the reason the Allman Brothers Fillmore East is such a classic? Is it markedly better than a collection of their studio recorded work?
On this recording, the jams and interaction between band members, especially between Duane and Dickie is not limited to a three or four minute studio recording. So they can stretch it out and explore musically much more than in the studio. The guitar playing here is amongst some of the best ever recorded. For those of us that like jamming, this album is the gold standard. This album has been out for decades. Recently released are the recordings they made around the same time at A and R studios. This too is outstanding. For me, Fillmore East is my desert island disc, and I wouldn’t care if I didn’t have any other music to listen to. I was blown away the first time I heard it, and I still am.
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Loads of essentials above.
I don’t remember seeing
Peter Gabriel, So
Michael Jackson, Thriller
Smiths, Smiths
Fugees, the Score
Paul Simon, Graceland
I don’t remember seeing
Peter Gabriel, So
Michael Jackson, Thriller
Smiths, Smiths
Fugees, the Score
Paul Simon, Graceland
Yessss!!! 3rd bass. What an album.
Chillin’ like Gilligan out on an island
Fishing with my string and bamboo
Caught something in a see through nightie
A 300 pound white girl!
No one to see this, Boom I drop my fluid like a chemist.
She’s contained and I’m a lame brain. We’re doin the wild thing. Kick that fat thing off my swing - larger than Jim Backus, it’s the Cactus.
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I have debated having Prime Minister Pete Nice as my avatar
The sklar brothers had Pete nice on one episode of cheap seats. It wasn’t the holiday bowl episode, but they all were worth watching...
The Wall writing was actually a clear sticker. The jackets were all plain, at least all of the first wave of presses. Check the deadwax blank vinyl near the label it should have a stamp on all 4 sides that says "TML-(either M, S, X depending on the lathe)", that means it's a first pressing mastered at The Mastering Lab and will sound great. In excellent condition could be worth between $20-$50 depending on where you're selling it. Having both the inner sleeves helps the value as well. I sold one for about $40 a few months ago.
The Allman Brothers Band's music lends itself to live performance and the ability to stretch out the arrangements really improves many of the songs. One of their best attributes is their ability to improvise.
Also, like many bands their early recordings leave something to be desired and they probably were rushed in the studio. I have their early albums but you just always go for the live one instead.
On top of that the recording is superb and the original pink label Capricorn vinyl mastered by George Piros is one of the better sounding records of the era. The 5.1 SACDs and Blu-rays are also awesome. Hell I even have a strange surround-sound encoded CD of the QUAD mix from the 70's and that thing is wild. Duane in one speaker, Dickey in the other sparring with each other across the living room.
Rory Gallagher- Irish Tour 1974
Fleetwood Mac- Then Play On (not the pop lineup, the original band with Peter Green)
Fleetwood Mac- Then Play On (not the pop lineup, the original band with Peter Green)
Yes - Fragile
Supertramp - Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America, Even in the Quietest Moments
Kansas - Leftoverture
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Supertramp - Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America, Even in the Quietest Moments
Kansas - Leftoverture
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
I totally forgot about some of the albums from my college days such as Sad Wings of Destiny (Judas Priest) and the Sex Pistols album. A poster above stated that Sad Wings was Priest’s first album, but it wasn’t as Rock n Rolla was their first. The band was not happy with how that one came out because the producers really toned down their sound on that one, but they had plenty of material, which they had been playing for years on the pub circuit so Sad Wings was the result of the other songs they could have recorded for Rock n Rolla. If their first album would have been recorded and produced like Sad Wings, they likely would have achieved greater notoriety earlier.
Other albums from that time that are great include Styx Grand Illusion, Kansas Leftoverture, UFO Lights Out and Strangers In The Night, Foreigner, Alan Parsons I Robot and Golden Earring Moontan (brilliant but underrated album).
Other albums from that time that are great include Styx Grand Illusion, Kansas Leftoverture, UFO Lights Out and Strangers In The Night, Foreigner, Alan Parsons I Robot and Golden Earring Moontan (brilliant but underrated album).
As my kids would say, OMG! Have you ever heard anything from that album? Just brilliant playing. Whipping Post, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, etc.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to come out snarky or disrespectful to you and your post. The ABB live album is pretty much what a live album should be like (as was UFO’s Strangers) where it is the actual live performance very well recorded without much if any studio overdubs, and even to this day listening to the album brings joy and wonderment to me with regard to ho good it is. This is opposed to Kiss Alive which is mostly a studio album meant to sound like a live performance.
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