Author Topic: Favorite albums (Read 1181 times)

richbass939 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 20, 2006, 06:40:31 PM »

The short list would include:
Allman Bros. - Live at Fillmore East
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
RTF - Romantic Warrior
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
MANY others that I love as well, though.
Rich

fmm · « **Reply #31 on:** June 20, 2006, 09:03:15 PM »

Adam:

More info here:
http://www.starcastlemusic.com/

2400wattman · « **Reply #32 on:** June 21, 2006, 12:09:31 AM »

Thanks Michael

FC Bass · « **Reply #33 on:** June 21, 2006, 12:44:48 AM »

Here's my short, short list:

Queen - Queen II
Metallica - all albums between 1983-1988
Suicidal tendencies - How will I laugh tomorrow
Eagles - Hotel California
Fear factory - Demanufacture & Archetype
Obituary - World Demise,cause of death & Slowly we Rot
Iron Maiden - Killers
Paradise lost - Shades of god.

Absolute # 1:

Queen II

(Message edited by fc_spoiler on June 21, 2006)

grateful · « **Reply #34 on:** June 21, 2006, 03:50:21 AM »

Haven't seen these mentioned.

Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service
Reggaebilly - Peter Rowan
Days Like This - Van the Man
Mars Hotel - Grateful Dead
Blues for Allah - Grateful Dead

But best of all, live Grateful Dead from the Alembic PA era (73-74): Dick's Picks Volumes 1, 7, 12, 14 and 19 are in my CD player a lot!

Mark

jacko · « **Reply #35 on:** June 21, 2006, 05:21:46 AM »

Difficult thread to give a definitive answer to. My current listening includes..
just about all of James Taylors output but particularly sweet baby james.
All Kate Bush ;-)
Alot of G.D. - predomenantly the pigpen era.
Kate Rusby (you americans may not know her - Folk singer from yorkshire witht the voice of an Angel which brings me on to..)
Allison Krauss
Bonnie Raitt
Soul circus - victor wooten
The Beatles - red, white and Blue albums.
Lots of Miles
Jacos birthday concert
The two recent Jaco Pastorius Big band albums.
I also listen to a fair amount of classical music, current favourites being
Vivaldis 4 seasons recorded by The English Concert featuring simon standage and trevor pinnock and
Handels coronation anthems. i defy anyone not to get a lift when Zadoc the priest comes on;-)

Loads more on these lists. Like Bill says - I'm not 17 anymore so tend not to have favourites.
(disclaimer - my favourite colour for cars is red)

Graeme

bracheen · « **Reply #36 on:** June 21, 2006, 06:08:08 AM »

What an impossible list to make. Almost everything I own is a favorite from The Graham Bond Organization to JS Bach. I am surprised that Miles Davis' Kind of Blue hasn't been called out. There is an indie band in Colorado called Mama's Cookin' that is definetly worth checking out.

Sam

jacko · « **Reply #37 on:** June 21, 2006, 06:16:26 AM »

Sam.
Kind of Blue was in my list by default.

What's more to the point is, what media do you all prefer?
For speed and the ability to zap past tracks I like CD but for sheer listening pleasure I'd go with vinyl every time. I love the whole process of putting the LP on the turntable, cleaning it off, swinging the damping trough across(it's a townshend Rock TT) and carefully lowering the needle into position. Then relaxing onto my listening sofa with a nice cabernet sauvignon. To me, Vinyl will always be a better medium than CD! Can't be beat;-)

Graeme

grateful · « **Reply #38 on:** June 21, 2006, 07:37:06 AM »

I'm a CD man these days. The S/N ratio of CDs makes them more HiFi IMHO; it allows more dynamic recordings. You need a player with a decent DAC though. (My cheap DVD player makes my ears bleed after half an hour of music.)

Mark

tom_z · « **Reply #39 on:** June 21, 2006, 07:41:40 AM »

Sam - check my post for Kind of Blue - I could have mentioned Bitches Brew and Tutu also. While I'm at it let me add Fiyo on the Bayou - Neville Brothers and there are always some tunes spinning in my CD players by Bob Marley, Parliament Funkadelic, Frank Zappa, and Steve Kimock.

By the way my list above is different than how it might look for the old game of choosing 10 albums if you were stranded on a desert island - an exceedingly difficult game for me.
=)

bracheen · « **Reply #40 on:** June 21, 2006, 08:45:22 AM »

Oops, that's what I get for scanning.

olieoliver · « **Reply #41 on:** June 21, 2006, 09:09:34 AM »

How about we take this one step Further.
If you were stuck in a hotel room for a weekend and had but one album/(cd) to listen too, what would it be? Lets all be real here too.
My choice, Hotel California.

paulman · « **Reply #42 on:** June 21, 2006, 09:26:40 AM »

To be semantic, an Album could consist of more than one record/CD.

Album - Dick's Picks Vol 1 - Grateful Dead

One CD - Revolver - Beatles

I once spent an entire night into late morning at a rock quarry with some friends after a Dead show (hence the ultra awakeness) and the only thing we had was a tape player, and Revolver. 12-15 hours straight we listened to it. Those songs have been burned in the neural net ever since

FC Bass · « **Reply #43 on:** June 21, 2006, 12:55:44 PM »

Queen II, please lock me up for a week!
And another step further: Movie - Natural born killers.
(Can we take our Alembics?)

(Message edited by fc_spoiler on June 21, 2006)

olieoliver · « **Reply #44 on:** June 21, 2006, 01:13:42 PM »

Movie 'eh.... Easy Rider.
(The Mrs. can stay at home but the bass comes with me!)