Been reading what’s on everyone’s turntable tonight and got to wondering…what’s your top 5?
Here’s mine: Dire Straits-Dire Straits Fleetwood Mac-Tusk The Police-Ghost In The Machine Eric Clapton-Unplugged Tom Petty-Wildflowers And All the Rest
OP nice set list, love it…. Ignore like in real life is a good skill to have…
I think of it as more desert island discs… but IF we are limited to 5 so be it ( your thread.. )
LiL Feat - Waiting for Columbus Miles DAVIS - Blue or Sketches of Spain Allman Brothers - Fillmore Reiner / Chicago - Scheherazade Eva Cassidy- Nightbird
Roger Waters - Amused to Death (Analogue Prod) The Eagles - Unplugged 1994 (The Second Night) David Bowie - Legacy Radiohead - In Rainbows
Wilco - Schmilko
Santana Abraxas Freddy Fender Before the Next Teardrop Falls Ted Lucas s/t Derroll Adams - Portland Town Sonya Spence - In the Dark Sam Cooke live at the harlem square club Ash Ra Tempel - New Age of Earth Midori Takada - through the looking glass Willie Colon & Hector Lavoe - Lo Mato Townes van zandt live at the old quarter
You want me to pick 5 out of my about 2500 LPs, all of whom are parts of me, to greater and lesser degrees? I could never settle on 5. Also, are you asking about sonics, purely, or about emotion?
Off the top of my head and thinking sound quality…
Tracy Chapman self titled album Sting - The Dream of The Blue Turtle Pink Floyd - The Wall Dire Straits - (two of them…..included tracks “Money for Nothing” and “Fade to Black” Together, they’d have made a once per half-century double album, IMO. Supertramp - Breakfast in America
-In the land of grey and pink. -The raven that refuses to sing. -McDonald and Giles. -Anno domini. -Babbacombe Lee. All currently played multiple times both for music and sonics.
@gochurchgo cool picks. napalm death and pulse demon (!) im a Scum guy myself when it comes to ND but pulse demon would be my merzbow pick as well (w/caveat ive only heard like 15 merzbow releases out the 400 or whatever). love your list
How can you choose Industrial over 2 albums that influenced Industrial & are way better - self titled & Streetcleaner by the mighty Godflesh. But it's still refreshing to see your choices instead of the usual offerings...
The last several months seem to see several plays of... Donald Fagen- The NightflyRolling Stones- Exile on Main Street Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks Peter Kaukonen- Black Kangaroo Frank Zappa- Bongo Fury Next week it may be a different 5 that gets played to death for a few months.
Right now my two favorites are two recent acquisitions: 1. Leonard Cohen—“Live in London”, and 2. Moby—“Reprise”
That said, I’m just now rediscovering my vinyl collection after a 39-year hiatus to digital. And I add more every payday. So, I expect my list of five favorites will evolve indefinitely.
Gene Clark, White Light Jimmy Cliff, The Harder they Come Miles-Sketches of Spain or In a Silent Way Stones, Exile on Main Street Clash, London Calling
Very honorable mentions Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left Santana, Caravanserai Radiohead, Ok Computer
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme Wayne Shorter "Speak No Evil" Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed" Marvin Gaye "What’s Going On" Janis Joplin "Cheap Thrills" Emmylou Harris ""Wrecking Ball"
Okay, that’s six, but I couldn’t figure out which one to eliminate. Got Jazz, Blues, R&B, Rock and Roll, and Country in there anyway.
If I Could only Remember my Name David Crosby
The North Star Grassman and the Ravens Sandy Denny Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan
Sibelius The Symphonies Lahti
Symphony Orchestra/Vanska
Shut up and Play your Guitar Frank Zappa
roadwhorerecords That would be Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart!
Interesting. There is a propensity for artificial studio records although the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East is mentioned several times. Not the that the music isn't great. Perhaps we should divide this up into five favorite live albums and five favorite studio records. They are different artforms in a sense. They have to be both a great performance and a great recording.
Live; Tower of Power Direct on Sheffield Records. Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus The Dead - Skull and Roses Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light Roxy Music - The High Road
Studio; The Pixies - Surfa Rosa NIN - The Downward Spiral Haley Williams - Petals for Armor Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Roger Waters - Amused to Death
And, thousands of honorable mentions.
Clearthinker - most people have no idea who Sandy Denny was talking about tragic. My favorite work with her at the helm would be Liege and Lief. After about 1/2 hour of Shut Up my eyes start to cross. I guess I prefer Zappa's solos in the context of his songs. He gets so technical sometimes the sole is missing, the mirror image of Duane Allman. I do love Uncle Meat and Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Call Any Vegetable probably has his most famous guitar solo.
Will be hard to chose, so many great bands, singers and musicians with great albums Slayer- Show no mercy Metallica- Kill’em all Mercyful Fate- Don’t Break the Oath Exodus- Bonded by blood Iron Maiden- Iron Maiden
@roadwhorerecords Bongo Fury ha ha . When I read that I had to pull out my copy and give it a spin. She's not quite 200 years old and still sound great. Thanks.
- Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy (First vinyl purchase with my own money all those years ago.)
- Ramones - It’s Alive (Recorded New Years Eve 1977 @ The Rainbow London. Originally purchased as a Dutch import early 198(?). Not officially released stateside until 1996. Say what you will, imo the greatest live rock n’ roll performance ever recorded. Full show-27 minutes. It’s on Youtube.
- Various Readers Digest box sets late 70’s early 80’s. Direct RCA/Columbia masters. (Thrift store find @ $4.00 a box. Obvious I was the first to take them out of their sleeves. As pressed condition.)
The list is endless... but a few songs CLASSICAL Boccherini String quartet C major G324 V:Powerful strings and guitar Schubert: Schöne Müllerin Fritz Wunderlich. Mozart: String quartet n14 G Major K387 Bach:Lorraine Hunt BWV 82 Ich Habe Genug Haëndel Messiah Ev´ry valley JAZZ: Art Blakey: Moanin´ Paul Gonsalves meet Earl Hines: Over the rainbow Count Basie: KC3 Sandman Ralph Sutton :Partners in crime Swing that music Joe Muranyi: Big Joe Jazz Swing that music Zoot Sims You and Me: Improvisations for unaccompanied saxos VOCAL JAZZ Rosemary Clooney Show Tunes: Everything I´ve got (magic drums) June Christy: The intimate Miss Christy: Fly me to the moon Dinah Washington: I could write a book .....
Wow, lots of good stuff being proposed! Going to have to re-visit a few of those...
For a combination of Audio Quality, Content and Recent Frequency of Play:
Sally Oldfield - Water Bearer Dead Can Dance - Dionysus Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring The Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe Massive Attack - Heligoland
Bonus Pick... George Crumb - Lux Aterna / Dream Sequence / Four Nocturnes
@infection These are what I'm spinning most right now. Anyone who knows me knows G O D F L E S H is mightiest of all and 1 of 2 all time faves of all time. Ever. With Industrial back on vinyl my thoroughly destroyed, decades old cd an now be retired. Its barely left the 'table since I got it.
These are what I'm spinning most right now. Anyone who knows me knows G O D F L E S H is mightiest of all and 1 of 2 all time faves of all time. Ever. With Industrial back on vinyl my thoroughly destroyed, decades old cd an now be retired. Its barely left the 'table since I got it.
Got ya, I misconstrued. I first heard Godflesh when they released Streetcleaner & it floored me...changed my life! So what is your other all time favourite?
@infection 100% agreed.It gets spun very often. Over the decades its as potent now as it ever was. I saw them with Danzig and Type O in like 94? 95? We were behind the stage when Godflesh came on and it was absolutely crushing, the opening to Spite, and when the guitar came in it sounded like it was the size of a school bus. Justin is a good guy too. As for my other favorite band of all time, its The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Poor OP is “out” after 5 months and 3 posts. Can’t take it anymore. He didn’t even get dumped on by MC for being a cultural Marxist and he’s still leaving.
dweller - thanks for your input. Very informative.
actually, its why I'm considering dumping this forum...too many dwellers here.
Supertramp - Crime of the Century. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. Boston - Boston (Defender). Led Zepplin - ALL Alan Parsons Project - I Robot. ** Bonus LP** - Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells.
Clearthinker - most people have no idea who Sandy Denny was talking about tragic. My favorite work with her at the helm would be Liege and Lief. After about 1/2 hour of Shut Up my eyes start to cross. I guess I prefer Zappa's solos in the context of his songs. He gets so technical sometimes the sole is missing, the mirror image of Duane Allman. I do love Uncle Meat and Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Call Any Vegetable probably has his most famous guitar solo.
Thanks for the response @Mijo
Here in the UK Sandy was far bigger than stateside. She was born in Wimbledon where I grew up, just a couple of years older than I. Her brother was at my school. I agree about Liege and Lief. I listen to it often. It is Fairport's masterpiece and perhaps the centrepiece of folk-rock because it retains the folk idiom in a way that, say, Mr Tambourine Man does not. It would be in my next 5 if OP had permitted. But listen to Grassman again - it showcases her wonderful voice in a way L+L cannot, as well as some wonderful quiet introspective songs.
Zappa is surely by far the most under-rated rock guitarist of all time, tragically taken as he was about to break further into the world of serious orchestral music, financed by his rock career. I take it you have heard the orchestral releases?
Clearthinker, all of them. I have everything Frank ever recorded and released. Certainly, The Yellow Shark is SPECIAL. The fact that he got those guys to play G-Spot Tornado blows my mind.
Why Fairport and Sandy did not make it in the States is beyond me. Richard Thompson has a huge following here now. Anyway, Sandy threw herself down the stairs one to many times and Who Knows Where the Time Goes has been recorded and attributed to just about everyone else:-(
Impossible to narrow it down to a top five. At least it is for me. But, is the question about sonic qualities or simply great music. Some great music doesn't sound very good and some sonically superb recordings is just flat boring music. I keep getting sonically wonderful recordings of great music almost weekly, hence why it is so difficult for me to chose a top five.
Hi mijo Another thing about Yellow Shark is the brilliantly tight sound quality on a stock CD. Utter pleasure to listen.
Those guys played because they were paid. But I do hope they enjoyed the sessions.
Frank's orchestral music was modern but it is far more approachable than almost all the 'modern' 'classical'. Strange isn't it that all his orchestral recordings are instantly identifiable as Zappa. No-one else could have written or arranged them.
Yes Richard Thompson is big everywhere now but his golden years ended with Fairport.
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin IV Houses of the Holy Physical Graffiti Presence In Through the Out Door Coda The Song Remains the Same How the West Was Won BBC Sessions Celebration Day And all my bootlegs.
clearthinker, I think you are being a little rough on Richard. Hand of Kindness and Daring Adventures are really great records. I do think he has gone soft in the last ten years or so but hey, everyone's entitled to get old. I forgot to mention Shoot Out The Lights with Linda. There are a lot of people who think that was his best album.
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