Allman Brothers "Live at the Filmore East" It's very difficult to top this album in ANY catagory in which it fits....Blues/Jazz,Blues Rock,Pop,Live Album etc. |
Here's mine:
1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John 2. Rubber Soul-Beatles 3. AJA-Steely Dan 4. Dire Straits-Dire Straits 5. Hotel California-Eagles |
Good choices, Lokie! I agree with all of them.
My all time favorite: The Velvet Underground & Nico -- IMHO, considering the time it was made, the most audacious & innovative rock album. I still listen often.
I'd also add:
Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles Get Your Ya-Yas Out, Rolling Stones Beggar's Banquet, Rolling Stones Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan Are You Experienced?, Jimi Hendrix L.A. Woman, The Doors Harvest, Neil Young Layla, Derek and the Dominos Europe '72, Grateful Dead Led Zeppelin I & II Blind Faith Every Picture Tells A Story, Rod Stewart
I could go on . . . |
Abbey Road Dark Side of the Moon Electric Ladyland After the Gold Rush Aja Let it Bleed Fragile Lamb Lies Down on Broadway The Wheel Highway 61 Brain Salad Surgery Blood on the Tracks Crown of Creation Zeppelin 3 Alone Together Nantucket Sleighride A Night at the Opera Automatic For the People Heart Like a Wheel Hellbound Train Desperado Graceland Who's Next Thick as a Brick Joshua Tree Harvest |
(in no particular order...) I could listen to any one of these indefintely...
1. Pink Floyd - The Wall 2. Kate Bush -Hounds of Love 3. LZ -Physical Graffiti 4. Peter Gabriel - So 5. Deep Purple - Fireball |
Here are my top 5:
Supertramp Crime of the Century Steely Dan Pretzel Logic Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road The Beatles Please Please Me Honorable Mention: Weather Report Heavy Weather |
Richard Thompson "More Guitar" or "Shoot out the Lights" Sam Cooke "Night Beat" Jackie Leven "Shining Brother Shining Sister" John Hiatt "Bring the Family" Subdudes "Annunciation" Tom Waits "Nighthawks at the Diner" or "Closing Time" Nick Drake "Bryter Layter" Boz Scaggs "Boz Scaggs" or "My Time" Not might be ususally classified pop/rock |
4. What's Going On- Marvin Gaye
I have never quite understood the appeal of this album. I see it consistently rated as being influential - that's a different ranking, and one it may deserve.
On a personal level, what is it about this album that appeals to you? It never crossed my radar.
Regards, |
Pet Sounds White Album Fog on the Tyne (Lindisfarne) Pipedream (Alan Hull) Exile on Main Street John Wesley Harding Mars Hotel American Beauty Ziggy Stardust Axis Bold as Love Benefit Meddle Muswell Hillbillies Europe 72 Quah (Jorma) Eat a Peach
I'll stop there. |
Sinatra at the sands Sinatra September song Ella sings cole porter Belefonte sings the blues Lena Horne at the copa the doors strange days Blodwyn pig a head rings out Humble Pie rock on Savoy brown Raw sienna Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland Led zeppelin stairway to heaven Mountain Nantucket Sleighride Savoy brown looking in from the outside Moody blues days of the future past Rolling stones high tide and green grass Rolling stones santanic majestic request Rolling stones sticky fingers Derek and the Dominos layla Ray Charles country western on ABC Judy Garland at carnegie B.B King live at the regal Tull Aqualung Tull Benefit |
I had made a list a while back. I think these top x lists are not worth all that much if there's no explanation given. With that said...
Top 6 albums of all time. Criteria -Nearly every track needs to be good. These must be discs you can put on and listen to start-to-finish or at least the first 7 or 8 tracks. -Discs I still listen to several times a year -Didn’t walk over the CDs and look at them trying to decide. 1) Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Rattlesnakes (1984). This was their first album. It’s a perfect mixture of romantic reminisces, great melodies, memorable metaphors (“her heart’s like crazy paving, upside down and back to front”), and Neil Clark’s guitar. These songs conjure evocative places and times. Places you might have been. 2) Paul Weller – As Is Now (2005). A surprise. He has a large body of very good work and has changed his style several times over the decades. Of course, he was a founding member of The Jam, then did the Style Council for a couple of discs in the 80s and has about 5 solo albums since the early 90s. If it had been 6 months ago I would have said his second album “Wildwood” was easily his best. But his new album is quite good. I don’t know where this guy’s creative well comes from but this album is contemporary (As is now!) and more importantly still rocks. You can hear the maturity in his lyrics and stuff obvious influenced by midlife and the times, e.g. kids, war, relationship things. Just so happens I can relate to that. 3) Bryan Ferry – Bete Noire (1987). Perfect in every way. Production, lyrics, music. Amazing job in the studio. Some would say over-produced but this is studio perfection. He wrote this after his break up with Jerry Hall. Unfortunately, he’s been happily married since then and has really only turned out one good album since – a disc of covers (Taxi) with Robin Trower in the early 90s. Of course his work with Roxy Music is great as well but only one title per artist. 4) Greg Allman – Just Before the Bullets Fly (1988). I’ve always preferred Greg’s solo stuff to the Allman Brothers. Dickey Betts is a great guitarist but somebody needed to rein him in a bit more. All that noodling gets tedious after a while. Greg has the best musicians on JBTBF, especially guitarist Dan Toler. Guitarist and production again excellent. “… a spark of life brought down from an angel, to raise a stranger from the dead.” Can you dig it? 5) Steeley Dan – The Royal Scam (1976). Tough choice. Just about any of their albums could be on the top 10 list. I picked Royal Scam because they reached a perfect balance between the rawer early albums and later overproduced ones. Interesting songs, great music, go! 6) Frank Zappa – Shiek Yerbouti (1979). Perfect album for the times. Makes fun of everything – something offensive for everyone. Also as a bonus has the greatest guitar solo of all time on Yo Mama. Band included Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons), Andrian Belew (King Crimson, Talking Heads).
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Could not forget: Odyssey and Oracle (Zombies) The Yes Album Forever Changes Tommy In Search of the Lost Chord Selling England by the Pound Zep III
So many others. |
Metralla,
First of all, I love soul music and "What's going on" is by far the most profoundly introspective music of that genre. Wrapped in a package of sweet soulful melodies he delivers a message of geo political, environmental, racial and personal injustices in a way that is completely accessible by anyone. This is nothing short of genius and is the best of what music and art has to offer society. There are also parallels with society in the early seventies as Marvin became a serious man, outgrowing the parental chains of Motown and deciding that there were important things to ponder. The beauty and fun of the music was still there but there was imminently more depth in the lyrics. |
In no order...all of these most have got played at least 1,000,000,000,000 times way back when.
Styx (The Grand Illusion) Pink Floyd (The Wall) Supertramp (Crime of the century) U2 (Joshua Tree) Van Halen (Van Halen) CSN&Y (Deja Vu) Rush (2112) Nazareth (Hair of the Dog) Iron Butterfly (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida) Led Zeppelin (1-2-3-4) Pink Floyd (Dark side of the moon)
Dave |
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Abbey Road -- The Beatles Pink Floyd -- The Wall Document -- REM Blue -- Joni Mitchell Blonde on Blonde -- Bob Dylan The Bends -- Radiohead
All timeless. I'll probably listen to them regularly ten years from now. How can this be limited to five. |
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy The Beatles - Abbey Road The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street Dave Matthews - Under the Table Dreaming Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club |
Derek and the Dominos, Santana (first) Beatles- Sgt. Peppers Dr. John- Gumbo Music Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed |
Aja Crisis, What Crisis? Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Elton John's Greatest Hits Close to the Edge
only 5?? I gots so much more |
Oh god, you all are easily entertained. How about some really obscure stuff ? |
A few rock/pop that I would play If I had to before many many others that I Used to listen In moons past but no longer listen to. In no particular disorder; Powerslave- Iron Maiden The Wall- The floydmasters 6 Wives of Henry the large- Wick Wakeman, Blue for you-Status Quo Made In Japan- Deep Poiple Back In Black-AC/DC Welcome to the Pleasuredome-Frankie Goes to Hollywood The Future-Mr Leonard Cohen Physical Graff- Led Zepnee Blazing Away-Marianne Faithful Sunshine On Leigh- The Proclaimers |
Most of my first string has been cited, but here are a few interesting candidates not yet mentioned:
Patti Smith ""Horses" Kid Creole "Kiss Me Before The Light Changes" (also my "Best Album Title") Todd Rundgren "Hermit of Mink Hollow" and "Something/Anything" Richard Thompson "Rumor & Sigh" E " Broken Toy Shop" and "Man Called E" Graham Parker "Squeezing Out Sparks" Steven Stills "Steven Stills" Replacements "All Shook Down" Clash "London Calling" Stevie Wonder "Inner Visions" Marti Jones "Used Guitars"
Marty
Wireless - "Rattlesnakes" is a great record - might not be in my top 5, but close and I'll certainly give it top 5 least appreciated. |
UFO - no heavy petting Robin Trower- live! Thomas Dolby- the flat earth Loggins & Messina- sittin in Kings X- Gretchen goes to Nebraska Gov't Mule- Dose Cheap Trick- in color |
Led Zeppelin II Dust - Hard Attack Capt. Beefheart - Spotlight Kid Silver Apples Fred McDowell - I Do Not Play No Rock 'n Roll |
Nazareth - Hair of the dog Led Zep - Physical graffitti Yes - Fragile Queen - Sheer heart attack Deep Purple - Machine head |
if there were only one...spooky tooth-spooky two....for me, this record delivers on many levels, and i never get tired of it. |
Neutral Milk Hotel-In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Faith No More-The Real Thing The Frogs-It's Only Right And Natural Kraftwerk-Trans-Europe Express Depeche Mode-Violator Built To Spill-Keep It Like A Secret Nick Drake-Pink Moon Pixies-Surfer Rosa The Shaggs-Philosophy Of The World Otis Redding-Otis Blue:Otis Redding Sings Soul The Beatles-Abbey Road My 11...tried to pick some stuff that hasn't been mentioned. |
Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain Flowerhead - Ka Bloom Tenderloin - Let It Leak The Henry Rollins Band - The End of Silence The Jesus Lizard - Show The Jon Spencer Blues Explosin - Now I Got Worry Jeff Beck - Beck Bogart and Appice Blue Rodeo - Lost Together Melvins - Houdini Swervedriver - Mezcal Head Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
And so many more. |
Tsugury, nice call with Gretchen goes to Nebraska that one and Out of the silent planet are masterpeice's. |
And now for something completely current: Radiohead "In Rainbows" Arcade Fire "Neon Bible" Ryan Adams "Easy Tiger" Klaxons "Myths of the Near Future" Stephen Stills "Just roll tape" |
Led Zeppelin - 3 Neil Young - Hawks and Doves Frank Zappa and Mothers: Waka Jawkaka Santana: Abraxas Allman Bros: Live at the Fillmore East Grateful Dead: American Beauty Grateful Dead: WOrkingman's Dead Rolling Stones: Let it Bleed Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street James Gang: James Gang Rides again |
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Electric Ladyland" |
A few off the top of the head;
Ian Dury-New Boots and panties. Status Quo -Blue for you. Supertramp-Breakfast in America The Sugercubes-Life's to good Iron Maiden-Powerslave Lez dep-Phys graff Floyd- The Wall Radiohead-the bends (indie) ELP-Brain salid Surgery Wick Wakeman-6 wives of henry the phat man Bon Jovi-Keep the faith Rock Follies-sound track Marianne Faithful-Broken English The Cure-Disintegration Bowie-Ziggy Stardust Placebo-Placebo The Who-Who's next The Sex Pistols-Never mind the bollox..... MJ-Bad Bad Co-Bad Co Roxy Music-For your Pleasure Devo-Are we not men? Jethro Tull-Aqualung Meatloaf-Bat outta Hell! |
Can't resist chiming in. Here are some of my faves:
Yes - Fragile Yes - Close to the Edge Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow Genesis - Selling England by the Pound CSN&Y - Deja Vu Steely Dan - Aja |
Born to Run CSN (first record) For Everyman (Jackson Browne) After the Goldrush Idelwild South |
Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin II
Core - Stone Temple Pilots
Proimse - Sade
Dark Side of the Moon
Who's Next
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Zenyota Mondata |
Absolutely EVERY (Bon Scott) AC/DC album Cheap Trick- Cheap Trick, the first one Cheap Trich- Heaven Tonight Norah Jones- Come Away With Me Elton John- Yellow Brick Road Aerosmith-Rocks John Mellenkamp-Scarecrow Nazareth-Close Enough For Rock and Roll Lyle Lovette- Pontiac Bruce Springsteen- The Rising Billy Squire- Don't Say No |
Here are a few from some female headed bands- Pat Benatar- In the Heat of the Night Heart- Dreamboat Annie Dido- No Angel |
Macdactexas.... I think we have similar taste. |
Some of my favorites are; Pink Floyd- The Wall Rush- Moving Pictures Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime Journey- Infinity The Who- Who's Next AC/DC- Back in Black Yes- 90125 Steely Dan- Aja Roxy Music- Avalon Beatles- any of them Michael Stanley Band- Heartland |
John Hiatt- Bring the Family, The Housemartins-The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death, The Grateful Dead-Anything from the '77 tour, Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited, Buddy Holly- Best Of, Little Richard-This is Little Richard, Otis Redding-Live in Europe |