Any early CHICAGO.
Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One.
If you somehow got stuck in a situation (lol) and had to spend the rest of your life completely by yourself, all alone, on a desert island ... and, as part of your situation you only got to choose one album to spend the entire rest of your life with.
Let’s say, some weird circumstance, and you also had at your complete disposal the system of your dreams, that you had assembled thru the years. And thank goodness you were a prepper and you thought ahead to install a solar power system, so power would never be a problem either.
Kind of like Tom Hanks on that island, except instead of a just a soccer ball, you had your dream stereo setup and one album only.
One album and that’s it. Got to pick one. Not necesssarily your all time favorite album, just one you could live with for the rest of your life.
Is there any album that just completely does it for ya, on that level?
I’ll kick things off by sharing mine: Steely Dan, Aja
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Ya, this one, because it must be @jasonbourne71 ...HOT!
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I can’t even come close to picking only 1 album; even 10 would be impossible. I listen to 3 major genres, and quite a few subgenres within each genre. And within each genre and subgenre, there is music that I rate just as highly as in any other choice in the other genres and subgenres. Jazz - post-bop, fusion, chamber-jazz, avant-garde Prog - avant-prog, Canterbury, Zeuhl, classic prog, prog-metal Classical - avant-garde, atonal, spectralism, serial, 12 tone, I guess if someone were holding a gun to my head, and forced me to name 1, it would be Yes - Close to the Edge (since it was such a game changer in my listening history). But seriously, there are many albums by Magma, Thinking Plague, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, PFM, Banco, Anglagard, within prog. Mahavishnu Orchestra, John Coltrane, Allan Holdsworth, Anthony Braxton, Return to Forever, Miles, Oregon, within jazz. And Elliott Carter, Alban Berg, Charles Wuorinen, Bruno Maderna, Joan Tower, Stefan Wolpe, within classical, that I consider the equal of any other recording I would chose. |
Not even you ... 😉 It was not about our favorite album... If it was this thread would have not much interest nor any originality ... The question is about one or two album for LIFE ... It is amazing that most people dont realize that the repetition of the same EACH DAY will kill any love by routine listening of a content emptied of any depth by repetition ; most musical albums will not last than a few days, weeks, months ... So beautiful they could be an album to resist destruction by repetition must have a detph musical content impossible to perceive easily and impossible to exhaust by our melodical immediate knowledge of it ... For life only Bach did it for me ... It is the single one music i listened all my life at almost each sessions ...I am 72 years old ...😉 Beethoven set of quartet can do it too ....But it is more than one hour ...
The art of the fugue is a diamond and nobody is fatigued to see a complex luminescent diamond one time a day, especially if the diamond cutter cut it with an insurpassable craftmanship ....
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@dekay - 🤣 'America drinks and goes home!'.... |
@retiredfarmer freaking hilarious ! Styx - Come Sail Away - the 45 on repeat….. Hopefully Sol Gabetta - Prayer is on the “ B” side……. |
Wow, only one of you chose dead guys from a coupla/three of centuries ago, and the rest have chosen LP's featuring more "recently" dead people. I'm comforted that no one chose an opera. I just got here. I wouldn't want to have to get confrontational so soon. The White Album is a two-fer title, and, like johnto wrote, it's almost a rock and roll compendium. If It can't be a dbl LP, then definitely, Vincebus Eruptum. |
This explains a lot @jasonbourne71 😀. I like the Captain, but limited doses. At least you did not pick Trout Mask Replica. |
@noromance For me, these packages like the Rhino 5 disc TOP are just a very cheap way to fill holes in my library. At $30 (?) Its so easy. Ive never had any issues with the sound quality. |
Most everyone’s tastes are different. Many suggested albums I couldn’t play through one time. Or are already tired of. I am glad they work for someone. I could live with West Side Story OST 1961. My first entry in a favorite complete album list. Latest entry is The Nightly Live. Love The Magic Garden but it deserved a better recording. |
Some info on Steve Hoffman forums on the Rhino series.
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Ah...another Steely Dan Fan! So sad that Walter is no longer with us. Depends on the time of the year....the season. I have different favorites depending on the time of the year. I can listen to Steely Dan really most anytime and be happy. Pink Floyd & Alan Parsons in the winter months. I have the girl/women groups/singers all grouped together in the front of my collection and lean on them in the spring. The CD player is currently stacked full of Xmas Music, mostly Mannheim Steamroller.. Bob James type music in the late summer/fall. On bluetooth, with Pandora, at the pool in the hot summer, I like to listen to the Steely Dan channel, which is well rounded with a lot of similar artists....At the end of the day not one specific band or group or album is my absolute favorite. You'll wind up with quite a few different likes from responding folks, I'm sure....Good post though! |
@whipsaw I still play my original LPs, and recently picked up a little collection of CDs called TOP Original Album Series. Put out by Rhino, who are pretty reliable, but there is no information as to any remastering that may have been done. Will I look for the Japanese issues? Begs the question, What is Hip? 🤣 |
Thanks @bigtwin I'm sure that TOP sounds terrific on your system. Do you own any of the Japanese CD remasters of their early albums? Well worth the extra bucks, in my experience. |
@whipsaw +1 for TOP. The first few tracks on We Came To Play are also among my favourites. |
Bach ,variations Goldberg ... for strings trio version Sitkovetsky Bach, art of the fugue .. Neville Marriner version What else? We cannot listen to something without a deep complex content this amount of time ... Few pop tunes will make us becoming mas everyday ... Then taste is not enough ... There is much more other music i loved too but nothing compared to these 2 pieces in deep inextinguishable meanings ... The other possibility are all Beethoven quartets ...Talich version ... Nothing simplistic melodically or rythmically and harmonically ... All Scriabin pianos will do too ...😊 |
