Essential albums

[Big 0]

“damn- you're old (So did I)”

You are definitely older than I am. As kids we use to call Janis the microphone eater because when she performed (on TV) that’s what it looked what she was doing to us, LOL.

 

[demlion]

The Band. All records.

 

[BBrown]

Sublime - Sublime
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
CCR - CCR, Bayou Country, Cosmo’s Factory, Willie and the Poor Boys, Green River
NWA - Straight Outta Compton

This is a tough choice...
But here goes...in no particular order cause thats just too hard.

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (the movie soundtrack)
Beatles: Revolver/Rubber Soul
Grateful Dead: Terrapin Station
Portis Head: Dummy
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
The Smiths: Strange Ways Here We Come
Beck: Mutations/Midnight Vultures

 

[Mik88]

Rush - 2112, Moving Pictures
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Shooting Star - Hang on For Your Life
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Deep Purple - Machine Head

 

[BOSCO2]

Saw Janis at Rec Hall

I apologize for the misspelling. It just didn't look right when I wrote it and I was too lazy to look it up.

 

[Connorpozlee]

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.

My “whatevs” was in response to your “OMG”. Just messing around.

 

[WestSideLion]

The Replacements - Tim and Pleased to Meet Me

Both are fantastic!

 

[nittany119]

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.

I have to disagree on the first albums. The self titled first album with Dreams, Trouble No More, Whipping Post is a great, great album and laid down the tracks for their live versions of these songs. Their second album wasn’t too shabby either.
Damn, I love and miss this band.

 

[nittany119]

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.

Part of Eat A Peach is from that same Fillmore Run. For example, One Way Out and Mountain Jam

 

[Nitt1300]

I have to disagree on the first albums. The self titled first album with Dreams, Trouble No More, Whipping Post is a great, great album and laid down the tracks for their live versions of these songs. Their second album wasn’t too shabby either.
Damn, I love and miss this band.

BTW, the famous solo on "Layla" wasn't Clapton, it was Duane Allman- playing slide

 

[nittany119]

BTW, the famous solo on "Layla" wasn't Clapton, it was Duane Allman- playing slide

Indeed. Have you ever heard the second Derek and the Dominoes album? It’s kind of hard to find, but quite good. How about either of the Duane anthology albums? His session work was brilliant. Taken from us way too soon.

 

[Nitt1300]

Indeed. Have you ever heard the second Derek and the Dominoes album? It’s kind of hard to find, but quite good. How about either of the Duane anthology albums? His session work was brilliant. Taken from us way too soon.

not for years- but I'm going to look to find them

 

[nittany119]

not for years- but I'm going to look to find them

Well worth your time to find and listen to. He played with so many different people, from different musical backgrounds. One can only imagine what other music he would have produced had he lived a full life.

 

[Nitt1300]

Well worth your time to find and listen to. He played with so many different people, from different musical backgrounds. One can only imagine what other music he would have produced had he lived a full life.

great slide players are kind of rare- Sonny Landreth is another

 

[fairfaxlion2]

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Clash - London Calling
Pearl Jam - Vs.

 

[BOSCO2]

If you're a fan of soul music, The Commitments

 

[HazletonLion]

Doobie Brothers - The Captain & Me
Humble Pie - Rock On
Beatles - Abbey Road
Stones - Sticky Fingers
Led Zeppelin - IV

 

[uhlerlion]

While the thread is about albums
forgot to add
Boston - Boston

If anyone gets the chance---- check out Rick Beatos breakdown of what makes this song great series

just great breakdown of various elements of the songs in their own unique way and just general musical history associated with the songs

Theremin isolated just awesome in Whole Lotta Love Track7 bleeding into Track 8 what ???? never knew that




Chris Cornell isloated awesome

 

[Gnat91]

Great choice... although I'm a bigger fan of
" Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death"

Pull my strings... Awesome stuff. Cesspools in eden probably my favorite DK song.

 

[Gnat91]

FEAR - The record





Sloppy Seconds - destroyed

 

[TheGLOV]

Allman brothers live at the Fillmore East

All Rolling Stones and RUSH albums.

 

[throw2oj]

Cheap thrills was Big Brother and the Holding Company, tho...

 

[BriarwoodBash]

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).

O, thanks for the correction on Rock n Rolla. Did not know that! Remember hearing a DJ on WZZO saying they were the new Deep Purple, comparing Halford to Ian Gillian. Right On with Golden Earing Moontsn. Saw them in Hershey back in the day an they were incredible! Loved Vanilla Queen live as I recall.

 

[LVCThirty]

Boston Boston

 

[Relayer]

 

[91Joe95]

Lots of great albums listed so far. I'm only going to add a few I haven't seen listed.

U2 - Achtung Baby
Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
The Cult - Sonic Temple
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles, Renegades, Evil Empire
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll
Oasis - Definitely Maybe, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Weezer - Blue Album
Hole - Celebrity Skin

 

[fairfaxlion2]

Hole - Celebrity Skin

Not trying to be rude, but are you freaking serious?

 

[wentzel25]

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

 

[91Joe95]

Not trying to be rude, but are you freaking serious?

Your results may vary, but I I think it holds up very well. Courtney Love has a voice that can really let loose. In fact Hole's Live Through This holds up great too, but for some reason I never collected it, and I am long past collecting albums. Oh, and I forgot to add Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits, a collection of covers from various artists, so I'm not sure it really qualifies.

 

[Tri-Power65]

great slide players are kind of rare- Sonny Landreth is another

And David Lindley.

 

[McCloudersportLion]

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to the fight
They leave that all to the poor

 

[SLion]

Beck - Odelay
Phish - Picture of Nectar

 

[Cosmos]

Neil Young: Tonight’s The Night; After The Goldrush; On The Beach

Steely Dan: All albums

Led Zeppelin: All albums

Who: Who’s Next; Who Are You

Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed; Beggar’s Banquet; Sticky Fingers; Exile on Main St.

ELP Brain Salad Surgery, Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced, U2 War, Led Zep III, The Beatles Abbey Road
U2: War; Joshua Tree; Achtung Baby

Elton John: Honky Chateau; Madman Across The Water; Goodbye Yellowbrick Road

 

[sluggo72]

Essential Alibums?
Guy Clark-Essential Guy Clark

 

[Gnat91]

Your results may vary, but I I think it holds up very well. Courtney Love has a voice that can really let loose. In fact Hole's Live Through This holds up great too, but for some reason I never collected it, and I am long past collecting albums. Oh, and I forgot to add Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits, a collection of covers from various artists, so I'm not sure it really qualifies.

Was that the one with speed racer and the banana splits covers? If so I remember I had that cd a long time ago . It was pretty good.

 

[BBrown]

Lots of great albums listed so far. I'm only going to add a few I haven't seen listed.

U2 - Achtung Baby
Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
The Cult - Sonic Temple
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles, Renegades, Evil Empire
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll
Oasis - Definitely Maybe, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Weezer - Blue Album
Hole - Celebrity Skin

Like that, good list.
Weezer is a completely underrated band. I cant think of any band that changes their styles around so much and is so good doing it. Beck is another artist that I think does a masterful job of that.

 

[Big 0]

O, thanks for the correction on Rock n Rolla. Did not know that! Remember hearing a DJ on WZZO saying they were the new Deep Purple, comparing Halford to Ian Gillian. Right On with Golden Earing Moontsn. Saw them in Hershey back in the day an they were incredible! Loved Vanilla Queen love as I recall.

I didn’t realize it was you that posted about Priest. I should have known since conversations with your bandmates back in the day revealed we all listened pretty much to the same music. Judas Priest, UFO, early Scorpions, Budgie, AC/DC, etc. I still remember Conspiracy playing AC/DC’s you’ve got “The Jack.”

Another album in my top ten, which is not in many people’s is Lucifer’s Friend self titled album. As one DJ from WMMS in Cleveland put it, they sound like a mix of Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Their “Ride The Sky” video from that album is on YouTube.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Radiohead - OK Computer, The Bends
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral
Tool - Aenima
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Nas - Illmatic
Green Day - Dookie
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Kanye West - Late Registration, The College Dropout, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The White Stripes - Elephant

 

[Nitt1300]

Mark Knopfler- Sailing to Philadelphia (if you can't have ALL of his albums, which you should)

 

[AvgUser]

Rolling Stones: Some Girls

I kept only one of my vinyls. This album with the original cover