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Great Albums
With all this talk about about different genres of music and now we have the Sally Caster album to look forward to hearing it made start thinking about albums again. Digital downloads of singles of singles have become the norm.
The critics always put Sargent Pepper at the top of the list and The Wall and Tommy are considered to be great concept albums. I was wondering what people what they thought their favorite or most influential album of all time is. What I mean is writing a collection of songs that complement each other not a greatest hits.
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Along with the critics' favorites I would throw in "The Walking" by Jane Siberry. That's my two cents worth.
@NoiseHorse Just stared listening to it. Great. I'm making a playlist and putting all of the albums listed here.
King Crimson: "Lark's tongues in aspic"
Here's the link to the playlist:
Listen to Best Albums Audiobus Forum by mkell424 on @AppleMusic.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/best-albums-audiobus-forum/idpl.83186c32d64042649ad9661695e36de5
Oooof. Another hard question. And hard to separate it from the time you heard something, the girl you wanted, the drive you were making, and on and on. I think I might need a ten album exemption for (to me) the classics and then somewhere between Number Eleven and Number Fifteen I might recognize The One.
goes off to make tea and have a think/feel
Good point Johnny. I changed the name of the list to Great albums. People try to limit what you post to being the best. And also like to Jonny's point WHY it is a good album. Everthything is open just try to keep it to 3 or 4 per post. You could post themes or moods, political statements, subjects, etc.
Also multiple post are incouraged. Just try to box the post into one thought.
Reminds me, I wanted to build a smart playlist on iTunes that only listed albums that I had given 100% five star ratings. Never worked out if it could be done.
Anyway, I'll vote for "Sing to God, parts I and II" by Cardiacs.
Nice series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums
Yeah, impossible.
Perfect Prescription - Spacemen 3.
Ruby Sessions - Rebecca Gates.
The Velvet Underground & Nico - s/t.
It Takes a Nation of Millions - Public Enemy.
Loveless - MBV.
Violator - Depeche Mode.
Stone Roses - S/T.
Music For Airports - Beano.
Illmatic - Nas.
...spring to mind for me personally.
I think In Rainbows has yet to get it's due. Been on repeat lately.
I think for me the most influential album was not the three Sparks albums that were the first LPs I ever bought, and not the first Kraftwerk album I bought and got hit by a car while running back to the record shop to pay for it (Autobahn), and not Ralf and Florian which I used to listen to over and over and over and over and over while I was out in Papua New Guinea as a teenager. It was the one I bought after that when I went down to Melbourne — Radio Activity by Kraftwerk. I don’t think I’d encountered a fully coherent album that had one main message and everything on it supported it. It’s probably the most influential Kraftwerk one for me, and probably the most influential album I’ve owned, by anyone (although I really also want to say that Sparks / Propaganda would be a close contender).
A partial album I never had was quite influential because I used to play it over and over. I had an accidental recording on a cassette of something else given to me by a friend before I went out to Papua New Guinea for a few years. You see, it was originally his older brothers tape. I didn’t know what the other remnant music on there was for quite a while. It turned out to be Karelia Suite and the rest of side B of The Nice / Five Bridges.
The Band, "Big Pink" or "The Band".
Jimi, "Are You Experienced" or even "Axis:Bold as Love".
The trouble with 'In Rainbows' is 'Reckoner'. Too good. Just everything I can hear and feel but not do or say.
Indeed but Weird Fishes - Arpeggi is the one I can't bear lately. Kills me.
I think "There There" remains the song to sort of sum up their career* but on the whole, In Rainbows is finally beating out The Bends and OK Computer for me.
* Had I written and actualized that song the way they did, I'd probably just stop making music because... all done.
In Rainbows is my favorite Radiohead album. My wife had it before we met and she told me she never played it. I said, "Oh no, play it two more times, and sit down and listen to it." That was all it took for her to get into it. We spin it all the time at my house. Watching them play the songs live (and TKOL, as well) on the BBC special really helps you appreciate them too.
Forgot about Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On. It's so absurdly stupidly GTFO'dly good. I hated it the first 20 times I heard it (an ex loved it) because of Doug's nasally voice. Then, one day, I noticed the line "No one wants to hear what you've dreamt about unless you dreamt about them" and started forgiving the voice and completely falling in love the music. It's epic and beautiful and powerful and purposeful. There's a good/sad story about the record that helps to explain why it seems like every single note is perfect:
I can't imagine being Phil Ek as they tried to play the tapes in Boise. "Um, sorry?"
And as long as I'm thinking about 90s 'Merican indie rock, Low's The Curtain Hits the Cast blew me away on first listen (live, actually) and remains one of my favorites to this day.
I'm listening to The Magnetic Fields "69 Love Songs" right now. That album is ... uh, well, something else.
One of the crazy things to me about In Rainbows is that Radiohead is old (ancient in rock-years) and should be, by all accounts, completely irrelevant at this point. In Rainbows came out 15 years after Pablo Honey! History says most rock bands, even smashingly great ones at a time, should absolutely stop making music before that mark. Instead, it's one of the best records they've ever made.
In Rainbows... Was so unexpected and brilliant and shows what Thom can do when he wants to do it.
@syrupcore, yep. That's why I'm eager to hear their next album (and I even check up on news about it now and then), when generally I haven't waited around for ANYONE's albums since Neil Young's crazy "who knows what is coming next" stage.
QOTSA's self titled debut
Deftones White Pony
Kool Keith Sex Style
@syrupcore
However, these tapes were destroyed by heat when Ek was driving from Seattle to Boise
I spend far too much time looking out for perfect first lines for stories I will probably never write. My work might be done now.
I could make a long list, but it evolves. My tastes are pretty eclectic. Yes, Close to the Edge, I still play. Steve Howe and Chris Squire influenced my playing, and the arrangements of songs is something I feel deeply. Christopher Parkening plays Bach, the perfection of a single acoustic instrument. Then recently I found the US prog band Kamelot a little while ago, and I heard the album Black Halo. The production values and music are amazing.
And I discovered Bluegrass - Bela Fleck, Tony Rice. Fusion jazz - Return to Forever. So much good music, so many different styles.
Off the top of my head and in no particular order:
I cheated on the two greatest hits albums, the compilation and the ramones live LP because they flow so well they should have been together as an album.
Probably have a different list in half an hour...
Using the list by Jocphone as inspiration I'll nominate Stand! by Sly and the Family Stone.
The songs on Forever Changes by Love work better together as an album than they do as separate songs.
My favorite album from this summer is Don't Weigh Down the Light by Meg Baird. So far I've played the whole thing through every time. She's also the drummer for Heron Oblivion. I hope that they put out an album soon.
The The - Infected
Kid A is my favourite Radiohead album, and very inspiring for me. But in no particular order:
Hounds of love - Kate Bush
Fall heads roll - The Fall
The Isness/Otherness - Amorphous Androgynous
The white album - Beatles
The Faust tapes - Faust
Green - Steve Hillage
The space ritual - Hawkwind
Camembert Electrique - Gong
Bluebell Knoll - Cocteau Twins
Travelogue - Human League
Stock, Hausen & Walkman - Giving Up
Yoshimi/robots thing - Flaming Lips
Etc.
And if you are a fan of OK Computer, you owe it to yourself to find and listen to RadioDread by Easy Star All Stars. A reggae/ska reimagining of the album. The brass playing on Paranoid Android will make the hairs on your neck stand on end.
I've never been that keen on Sgt Pepper's. I don't see how an album that has "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid" on it can be considered the greatest of all time. My favourite Beatles album is Abbey Road, because I love the B-side medley, even though John Lennon thought it was garbage. Of course even Abbey Rd is cursed with a terrible McCartney song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". McCartney gets a bad rap sometimes, but he did occasionally write these awful songs, that Lennon dubbed "Paul's granny music". McCartney did write most of the Abbey Rd Medley though, which is one of my favourite pieces of music ever.
I'll do it by era, 3 per decade:
1960s:
The Beatles, Abbey Rd
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Pink Floyd, Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1970s:
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On
Curtis Mayfield, Super Fly
Neil Young, After the Goldrush
1980s:
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
Galaxie 500, On Fire
Pixies, Surfer Rosa
1990s:
Radiohead, The Bends
Air, Moon Safari
Elliott Smith, Either/Or
2000s
Iron and Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days
Sparklehorse, It's a Wonderful Life
The Decemberists, Picaresque
2010s
Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
Sky Sailing, An Airplane Carried me to Bed
The Shins, Port of Morrow