We all have favourites and we all keep going back to them every now and then. Some maybe permanently lying next to our systems and have been for years.
Is there an album or two or three at the most which gets most of your attention and is played on your system most often? Not necessarily the best sounding but the one which you are emotionally attached to.
I thought I would ask for a single album but to make it easier for all you may name three of them.
If you have have had the album for more than five years, it qualifies for inclusion here.
The reason I decided to post this message is because I am interested in buying something interesting and if there are only ten people responding it means 30 albums for me to be on the lookout for.
Thanks a lot for your input (if you have read this far I know you will post your three albums also) :-)
Jerry Garcia: Bay Area 78 (never understood why some folks were JGB over the dead, til i heard this release. CD2--wow).
honorable mention: Band of Bees: Sunshine Hit Me Sam Cooke: Aint that Good News Flotation Toy Warning: Bluffers Guide to the Flight Deck (absolutely incredible)
The new and current winner is Renee Olstead...left it all all day, the day I bought it. WOW, for anyone who hasn't heard this girl--go buy the album, she's magic.
Buffalo Springfield- Buffalo Springfield The Doors- The Doors Gustav Mahler- Das Lied Von Der Erde/ Bruno Walter (try to limit listening though as it's so damn sad). Jean Sibelius- 5th Symphony/ Colin Davis. (needed to include as balance to G.M.)
There is one CD that still rings my bell ... Chris Potter's "Follow the Red Line" ... there's an awful lot of fine music out there, but with this CD I always wonder why I wasted my life doing what I do ... for the effort/music on that CD are spellbinding.
Classical MHS cd of Neville Mariner conducting Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K364.
Rock - I can't narrow this list down because they have all gotten heavy play over the years to single out any three
Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective Santana - Abraxas Creme - Disrali Gears REO Speedwagon 2 - (Great version of "Little Queenie" with Boots Randolph on sax, it rocks!) Year of the Cat - Al Stewart Led Zepplin - ALL their albums have gotten heavy rotation Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green to Bob Welsh to Buckingham/Nicks era. Leon Russell and the Shelter People Beach Boys - Surfs Up, Carl and the Passions, Holland Beatles - Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt. Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road Poco - Poco (2nd Album) and From the Inside, Bonnie Raitt - Her 1st album, always a heavy favorite Peter Frampton - Framptom Comes Alive not much in recent years but in the 70's God knows how many times!
Jazz in heavy rotation over the years
Ry Cooder - Jazz, Buena Vista Social Club Al Dimeola - Splendido Hotel Louis Armstrong - Hot Five and Hot Seven Compliation CD's John Colltrane - Dear Old Stockholm Dave Brubeck Quartet - Timeout
Forget Motown- All of it from the early 60's - 1970.
Mrdecibel, Have you caught Jimmy Fallon's Neil Young impersonation? He does a good job--AND his show is possibly the best thing to happen to Late Night TV USA, since a young Johhny Carson took over in 1962.
As to music I've listened to most? Without a doubt, the most talented singer (female) in the world today...Renee Olstead--she's remarkable.
Kbarkamian, going to my friend's house after school in junior high to play Frogger on the Commodore 64 while listening to "Ride the Lightning" quickly went from routine to tradition. The album is hardly ever mentioned, it seems, and "Fade to Black" always takes a fourth seat to subsequent slow jams. It ain't right.
Larry, I have not seen his NY impersonation, and honestly have not watched his program. I might check it out sometime. I will definitely "Groove Shark" Renee Olstead, because with your music recommendation, I have to. FYI, since my NY post, I have been listening to recordings by Miles Davis and Roy Hargrove. Always good to hear from you....MrD
Larry, listened to some Renee Olstead, and, I can see (hear) what you like about her. Listen to some older Linda Ronstadt tunes of her doing Nelson Riddle.
Lately, the "environments" (syntonic research) nature sounds records. The absolute BEST pure analog LPs of rain, oceans, carribean lagoons, cornfields, birds, etc. No digital trickery... on a good system these will amaze you with the realism. Good enough to use as a test record-- bring one along to demo high-end tables.
Cannot believe that this thread I posted more than 7 years ago and it is still getting great responses! I come back to it whenever someone posts to check out the albums.
Reading the comments above, I'm reminded and or realizing that Audiogon, undoubtedly has some of the most gentle, tuned in souls in the universe in attendence. It's almost like being in Vegas, showing wares, meeting new people who share the love of music, AND have a 'jones' for the look, feel and smell of audio gear.
"Reading the comments above, I'm reminded and or realizing that Audiogon, undoubtedly has some of the most gentle, tuned in souls in the universe in attendence."
Boy, you said a mouthful and you are so right about that, I agree 100% that the group of people on A'gon have to be some of the most like-minded folks gathered in one place.
. Easily the most listened to album in my collection of over 4,000 albums is 'One Flight Up' by Dexter Gordon. Every song on it is a winner. I bought it in 1975 when I was in college and it's still going strong. I recorded it on my reel to reel back then for easy access, I made myself a cassette tape to listen in my car and when cd's came out, I bought the cd. Now I listen to it on Rhapsody at least once a month. .
An album that I can't recommend highly enough: Stacy Kent's "Raconte-Moi". The title is French and means simply, Tell Me. I don't speak French...barely get by with English, with a little pig latin thrown in. But...BUT, this album will melt your soul.
Her French, is seemingly perfect...OK, OK, after the 'I don't speak French'...admission how would I know? Sorry...but it's just so beautiful. That, and the production quality...WONDERFUL...just WONDERFUL. She's been on repeat for several days now...I wake up to her, go to sleep to her. Funny...she's not sexy, buxom like Renee Olstead...but there's this quality about her voice that drives a man to distraction. Her husband, Tenor man, Jim Tomlinson did the producers job and wow, just wow.
If you haven't heard it, you can youtube jardin D'hiver (?) OK showin' my ignorance here...it means 'something garden'...but if you youtube, pick the one that shows a stylus about to descend on a piece of vinyl...it's wonderful.
Hope you all enjoy...and breaking with Audiogon's no contact rule...if any of you would ever like to contact me...it's:
See lots listed I play often, so will list a few I don't see:
Roxy Music - Avalon - Great 80s ear candy. Karla Bonoff self titled first album- from my 70s college days. Played it one night a while back and my wife liked it so it's often in rotation again. Shelby Lynne - Just a little lovin - her tribute to Dusty Springfield
Mine is simple. Freddie Hubbard "First Light." Freddie said this was the album that he was the most proud of. CTI label is one of my favorites. Give this one a try...
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby (probably not uncommon in these circles, but I've been listening to this one since before I actually formed lasting memories).
NTSU One O'Clock Lab Band - Lab '75 (The Grammy album composed by pre-Pat Metheny Group Lyle Mays. My favorite album from my alma mater).
The Latin Pimps - El Borracho (This is Afro-Cuban/Latin Jazz made by the guys who taught me. It definitely has sentimental value. I don't know where you can find a hard copy, but it's still available on iTunes).
There may be other recording I listen to more often lately, but they all have meaning to me, and two are not often on the typical audiophile's list.
massive attack - mezzanine nirvana - unplugged tom waits - franks wild years pantera - great southern trendkill nick cave - let love in slayer - seasons in the abyss black keys - thickfreakness cypress hill - temples of boom pink floyd - live at pompeii miles davis - ascenseour pour lechafaud mark lanegan - ill take care for you chopin stefanovski i tadić - live in belgrade machine head - burn my eyes it could be said that this are some albums(artists) whitch i have greater tendention to play them but list is 2 long...i live for music...
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. How many listenings? The number is legion. The sparse drumbeats are to die for. Odd conversations seem to come and go in the mix. It's a timeless blending of desire and despair.
The Beatles, White Album. Could you get more diversity on a rock album? It seems to cover every mood of the twentieth century. Wimsical at times, spooky at times, lovely and satirical too. This set has it all.
Spirit, The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. It does play like a journey through a madman's mind. Lucid at times, and hypnotically deranged in some passages, this one doesn't let up. Recorded (somehat roughly) in 1970, this may be the swan song of acid music.
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