The Incredible String Band: "5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion"
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So many have already been mentioned (possibly including some of these listed below), but a few off the top of my head and in no particular order include:
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Santana (First Album); also Abraxas [Note: Caravanseri is close, not quite a cigar] Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Duke Ellington - Indigos Joe Henry - Short Man's Room (backed up by The Jayhawks) Willie Nelson - Across the Borderline Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia Dire Straits - On Every Street
Broken Bells Mark Isham - Blue Sea Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy; also Can't Buy a Thrill; also Aja The Beatles - Abbey Road (and just about everything else) The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East Led Zeppelin - II (and just about everything else) Lou Reed - New York Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall Nat King Cole and George Shearing - Nat King Cole Sings and George Shearing Plays Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto BTW, thanks for the forum topic. We sometimes tend to be consumed by the gear and forget why we bought it.
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Comsat Angels - Chasing Shadows
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot; Turn of a Friendly Card; Eye in the Sky
Propaganda - 1234
Run Lola Run - movie soundtrack
Ambrosia - Somewhere I Never Travelled
Ultravox - Lament
Aimee Mann - Whatever; Last of the Dodos
Til Tuesday - Welcome Home; Everything's Different Now
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Since mostly rock albums are mentioned, I'll also skip the many great jazz and classical albums out there..
The following are in their SACD mastering which soud Way better than the redbook issues.
Allman Brothers live at the Fillmore East. or Beginnings..
Yessongs..
Dark Side Of The Moon..
****Redbook Cds**
Gabriel.. So..
Hornsby live Here Come The Noisemakers..
Robert Cray collection...
Climax Blues Band... Rich Man...
Gentle Giant live Playing The Fool and Octopus..
That oughta keep you busy for awhile..
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Pink Floyd dark side of the moon! :-) |
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Shoe, I always listen to entire albums. A new one I love all the way through is the new album from Lumineers called Cleopatra. It's sooo good . Every song and it flows together in a cohesive masterpiece.
its on Spotify so nothing to lose. I can recommend many more albums from the past five years as well.
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Exile On Main Street
Sticky Fingers
Let It Bleed
Their Satanic Majesty's Request
Beggars Banquet
(there's a trend here)
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I am old school and like many of the previous listings as I have a lot of these. However, my son recently was playing a newer artist whose music absolutely mesmerized me with their infectious melodies and pop hooks: Smith Westerns Soft Will. Highly recommended. |
Shellac - 'At Action Park'
Dysrhythmia - 'Psychic Maps'
Don Caballero - 'What Burns Never Returns'
Voivod - 'Killing Technology'
Scott Walker - 'Scott 3'
Herbie Hancock - 'Sextant'
Captain Beefheart - 'Doc At The Radar Station'
Jim O'Rourke - 'Insignificance'
Rapeman - 'Two Nuns & A Pack Mule'
U.S. Maple - 'Talker'
Animals As Leaders - 'The Joy Of Motion'
Too many to list...
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Huge list:
Any album by This Mortal Coil or Cockteau Twins
Benjamin Lew/Steven Brown -- Made To Measure
Fish for Fish -- self-titled
Wolfgang Hafner -- Shapes
Pat Metheny -- Secret Story, Offramp
Ginger Baker/Fela Kuti
Ginger Baker Airforce and Airforce 2.
Most of Frank Zappa albums because he was often making them as one continuous show
Frank Zappa "The Best Band You’ve Never Heard In Your Life"
Frank Zappa "YCDTOSA" series of live recordings never released.
Jethro Tull "Roots To Branches"
Mark Knophler "NottingHillbillies"
Ry Cooder "Jazz" and "Paris Texas" OST
Heifez -- Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Bernard Haitink -- Holst The Planets
Leonard Benstein -- Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue/American In Paris
Youn Sun Nah -- Same Girl
Stan Getz "Apasionado"
Ides of March -- Vehicle
Chase -- self-titled
Pete Sinfield -- Still
King Crimson -- Larks Tongues in Aspic
Can -- all of albums and their members solo albums all all all Can and more Can and never enough of Can -- easier than listing over 40 albums
David Sylvian, Japan, Ruichi Sakamoto -- all all all albums and songs non stop OK
Laurie Anderson -- same as Can and David sylvian
TALKING HEADS all all albums and songs all day long all weak long no problem including solo albums of David Byrne and of course Tom Tom Club
Depeche Mode -- all songs all albums non stop all day all week long no problem
KraftWerk -- Trans Europa Express
Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze -- all all albums all day all week long no problem
Jean Michelle Jare -- Equinox, ZooLook, Oxygene
Nina Hagen -- Nunsexmonkrock, Unbehagen, Revolution Ballroom
Sade -- all songs all albums
Lounge Lizards -- ALL OF THEM
Stanley Kubrik -- Clockwork Orange OST
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All of the ones I own - thank goodness for writable CDs. Some in their original state, if not enjoyed completely, I’ll delete tracks. If I need to delete too many I’ll purchase more from the same artist and put together a "best liked" compilation. I have a bunch like these, all pop/rock genre. So whenever I pull a CD to listen to, I can be assured of no clinkers looming. Still, most of my collection are entirely enjoyable from first to last track as originally released. Far too many to list.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival -the first five albums! |
Me too, Ghost. There are also photo albums ;-). |
Sorry, Shoe. I wasn't making a distinction between formats. I use "albums" to refer to a collection of songs as released by one band or artist regardless of whether on vinyl, CD, tape or digital download. The Standard & Nada Surf are both "contemporary" bands. |
how about CD's that you like to play all the way through...maybe some more modern recordings? |
Some great choices above .. Genesis selling england by the pound , the lamb etc .any early camel too
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A few:
Excitable Boy -Warren Zevon
Blood on the Tracks - Dylan
Sleeps With Angels - Neil Young
Graceland - Paul Simon
Court & Spark - Joni Mitchell
Trilogy - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Stand Up -Jethro Tull
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Any Dave Brubeck and T Monk (that I have.) Bella Fleck, etc.
I tend to get tired of songs with lyrics played over and over, but not instrumental jazz.
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Wow, lots of my favorites already mentioned, and I'll try to avoid duplication:
Workingman's Dead--Grateful Dead
Phases and Stages--Willie Nelson
We're Only in it for the Money--Zappa/Mothers
After the Gold Rush--Neil Young
Who Knows Where the Time Goes--Judy Collins
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Giant Steps--John Coltrane
The Inner Mounting Flame--Mahavishnu Orchestra
Aurora--Jean-luc Ponty
The Yes Album
Live in New York--Nirvana
Crosby, Stills & Nash (1st LP)
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As marty has already said, "Many, many"...
Speaking categorically for myself, anything by Steely Dan.
Reaching back a little: Electric Ladyland; Fragile; Close to the Edge; YesSongs; "Zuma".
Some albums from two bands I'd like to see get more "love":
"Wire Post to Wire"; "Swimmer"; "Albatross" - The Standard.
"The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy"; "You Know Who You Are" - Nada Surf.
"Music for the Divine"; "The Way It Is" - Glenn Hughes.
Playing now: "Transitive Verses" - Brookhaven
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radfrad, I agree totally!! I love Robin Trower especially the albums with Jack Bruce. Also, Anything by Little Charlie and the Nightcats (Alligator Records) awesome rock the house Blues! Eric Clapton's "Unplugged", "From the Cradle". There are way to many to list...like Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis "Blue Rabbit"
Im stopping only because I dont want to sit here and type 100 more at least.
Matt M P.S. JJ Cale's-Five is another one that comes to mind.
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Big Star - #1 Record
Big Star - Radio City
Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born To Lose You
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Traffic - John Barleycorn
Jethro Tull - Passion Play
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Who - Quadrophenia
Who - Who's Next
Who - Tommy
Beatles - any
ELP - any
Yes - any up through Going For The One
Rush - any
Dream Theatre - any
The Mars Volta - any
Genesis - any up through Duke
Miles Davis - any
Thelonius Monk - any
Pat Metheny - any
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Some great lists above. I'll add two:
The List -- Rosanne Cash (I wish she'd do "The List II")
Tomorrow is My Turn -- Rihanna Giddens (which I found based on a recommendation from someone on this site!) |
Dire Straights Brothers in Arms (coincidentally that's playing through now)
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There are many, many that qualify for me, but two that I listened to straight through in my car the other day:
Drums Along The Hudson - The Bongos
Set To Pop - Bill Lloyd |
My Mini List
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Neil Diamond - Serenade
Tom Caufield - Tales From The Wine Dark Sea
Neil Diamond - J.L.Seagull
Sade - Promise
Roxy Music - Avalon
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bdp24 ... excellent list. I know who I can trade albums with!
There are just so many to choose from ... feel the same way today about these albums as I feel today ... only choosing albums from the 70's and earlier ...
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Chicago - II
CSN&Y - 4 Way Street
Derek & the Dominoes - Layla
Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Elvis - From Elvis in Memphis
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Paul Simon - Live Rhymin'
Procol Harum - Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Stills - First Album
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Zombies - Odyssey & the Oracle
and of course, one Sinatra ...
Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Rich
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A favorite subject of mine. Just off the top of my head: The Band (big surprise ;-): Music From Big Pink; S/T (the brown album) Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited; Blonde On Blonde; John Wesley Harding; Nashville Skyline. And that’s just in the 60’s! John Hiatt: Bring The Family; Slow Turning Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid Kevin Gordon: Down To The Well Lucinda Williams: S/T (Rough Trade) Iris Dement: every damn one Buddy Miller: ditto Loudon Wainwright III: Last Man On Earth Randy Newman: S/T; 12 Songs; Good Old Boys Van Dyke Parks: Song Cycle The Johnny Staats Project: Wires & Wood The Kinks: S/T; Face To Face; Something Else By; Are The Village Green Preservation Society Weezer: S/T (the blue album) AC/DC: Back In Black The Flamin’ Groovies: Shake Some Action Dave Edmunds: Get It Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure Carlene Carter: Musical Shapes The Traveling Wilbury’s: both That’s (more than?) enough outta me. |
