Allegri, Miserere - The Tallis Scholars
Those rare albums that are great on first listen.
You know the ones. They blow your mind and make you glad you're an audiophile.
Share your favorites.
For me it’s usually some style or vibe I haven’t heard before. My list so far is around 20, but I’ll keep it to my top 5. Feel free to share as many as you like.
!. Poe ‘Haunted’
2. Spirit “Twelve dreams of Dr. Sardonicus’
3. Midlake ‘The Trials of Van Occupanther’
4.Tori Amos ‘Little Earthquakes’
5. Skindive ‘Skindive’
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@mahgister I have seen them perform it twice. Both times in old churches necessary for the correct performance. |
Marvellous experience then... I cannot forgot the Allegri Miserere piece nor the Spem in Alium of Thomas Tallis first listening... I was and are always stunned.. 😊
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Placebo 'Meds'. My daughter and I loved the line 'Let's follow the cops back home Death Cab for Cutie 'Plans'. Includes a song that'll make your spirit soar. Western States Motel. There's just something about this chill indie band I love. Neil Young 'Harvest' Uriah Heep. My and my buddies loved all of their albums. Blasting on the way to school in my '55 Ford wagon.
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Not for me. My entire music listening history is rife with: bands, musicians, composers, genres and subgenres of music, that took time and work to get into. Many, if not most of my favorites, did not immediately make sense to me, until I gave them multiple listens, in order to be able to wrap my mind around what they were doing. My first example of this, would be the prog band, Gentle Giant. They were recommended to me because I was already listening to quite a bit of prog at the time (Yes, Genesis, Camel, King Crimson, etc), but I was not ready for what these guys were doing: the dissonance, the unique harmonies, the stop/start rhythms, etc. A year later, after listening to a bunch of other prog, and I decided to take their LP’s off my shelf and give them another try. It was like a light went off in my head. What was I thinking?! They quickly became one of my favorite bands, and have more longevity than a lot of other bands of their time. Same thing happened again with the entire subgenre of avant-prog. These bands use even more dissonance than GG, also use atonality, extremely complex and unpredictable song arrangements, free improv, complex time signatures, etc. Again, it tool me months to wrap my head around avant-prog, but the subgenre is my favorite prog subgenre. Happened again very recently with post 1950’s (up through the current era) atonal, serial, avant-garde, experimental, classical music. Now, I can’t get enough. So, for me, much of the music that takes time and "work" to get into, seems to have the most longevity, has emotional depth, and holds up to repeat listenings better. |
Just thought of a couple more from Joe Sample and Oscar Peterson. Great music throughout and all well recorded… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7wwUW-k_SGERpk2z3yTyW3tyj-iuAowg&si=FWJyw97Ue4_7qqEu |
Thanks soix very good choices for me ...😊 I did not have them ...
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Marjorie Fair - Self Help Serenade I was mesmerized during that first listen. Each successive note and song seemed like it could not be more perfect...like the whole thing was unfolding according to some cosmic plan. Yeah, well, whatever. If you weren't right there you wouldn't know, would you. (Thanks to Pokey77 for turning me on to that one.
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Some Albums I have always liked from the first time I heard them. There are a lot more if I took more time to think about it... Surrealistic Pillow, The Jefferson Airplane Truth, Jeff Beck The Pretender, Jackson Browne Rumours, Fleetwood Mac Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones Surfer Girl, The Beach Boys Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Allen Sherman The Monster Mash, Bobby Boris Pickett The Seeds, The Seeds The Flying Purple People Eater, Sheb Wooley Aftermath, The Rolling Stones Rubber Soul, The Beatles Heart Like a Wheel, Linda Ronstadt Music for the Mind and Body, Country Joe and the Fish High Tide and Green Grass, The Rolling Stones Kind of Blue, Miles Davis Santana, Santana Unchained Melody: Very Best of the Righteous Brothers The Best of the Animals, The Animals CS&N, CS&N Dire Straits, Dire Straits Runaround Sue, Dion The Best of Ray Charles, Ray Charles The Doors, The Doors East West, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel Boston, Boston Bitches Brew, Miles Davis The Koln Concert, Keith Jarrett Blue, Cassandra Wilson Sarah Vaughn, Sarah Vaughn Bright Size Life, Pat Methany Sunday at the Village Vanguard, Bill Evans
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