Your Greatest Albums....

[Guest ***nsut***jr]

 

Great album, great cover. And the zipper really worked. How cool was that.

A classic Stones album with the great guitar work of Mick Taylor.

 

 

Side one

No. Title Length

1. "Brown Sugar" 3:48

2. "Sway" 3:50

3. "Wild Horses" 5:42

4. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" 7:14

5. "You Gotta Move" (Fred McDowell/Gary Davis) 2:32

Side two

No. Title Length

6. "Bitch" 3:38

7. "I Got the Blues" 3:54

8. "Sister Morphine" (Jagger/Richards/Marianne Faithfull) 5:31

9. "Dead Flowers" 4:03

10. "Moonlight Mile"

[Old Dog 179138]

The year was 1976. In retrospect it was a great year for music.... the Eagles released Hotel California, Boston their debut, Rush had 2112, Kiss released Destroyer, Led Zeppelin had the Song Remains the Same, Kansas had Leftoverture, ELO released A New World Record, Frampton came ALIVE, Blue Oyster Cult released Don't Fear the Reaper on their Agents of Fortune Album and the Stones had Black and Blue....

 

... but this album was released in September 1976... and charted at NUMBER ONE for 15 straight weeks in Canada and the United States.

 

Stevie Wonder released "Songs in the Key of Life." It was incredible. It was embraced by all, and just kept producing hit after hit.

 

Stevie Wonder

Songs in the Key of Life

 

 

 

1. "Love's in Need of Love Today" Stevie Wonder 7:06

2. "Have a Talk with God" Wonder, Calvin Hardaway 2:42

3. "Village Ghetto Land" Wonder, Gary Byrd 3:25

4. "Contusion" Wonder 3:46

5. "Sir Duke" Wonder 3:54

6. "I Wish" Wonder 4:12

7. "Knocks Me Off My Feet" Wonder 3:36

8. "Pastime Paradise" Wonder 3:28

9. "Summer Soft" Wonder 4:14

10. "Ordinary Pain" Wonder 6:23

11. "Isn't She Lovely?" Wonder 6:34

12. "Joy Inside My Tears" Wonder 6:30

13. "Black Man" Wonder, Byrd 8:30

14. "Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing" Wonder 3:49

15. "If It's Magic" Wonder 3:12

16. "As" Wonder 7:08

17. "Another Star" Wonder 8:28

[stevecurious 42059]

A couple that shaped my musical tastes:

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest W***ledi*Time]

This one evokes long school-bus rides on 1969 mornings, the driver chewing on his toothpick and keeping his 8-track cranked-up so he didn't have to listen to the unruly kids making a ruckus in the back of the bus ...

 

 

"Green River"/"Commotion"/"Tombstone Shadow"/"Wrote a Song for Everyone"

"Bad Moon Rising"/"Lodi"/"Cross-Tie Walker"/"Sinister Purpose"/"The Night Time Is the Right Time"

[Andee 220524]

"Firsts for Me"

The first album I ever owned because I won it at Tween Dance.

 

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Released in 1971

 

 

 

The first album I ever bought myself:

 

Alice Cooper - School's Out

Released 1972

 

 

The first album that was given to me (by my cousin who decided she didn't like hard rock anymore (like wtf?)

Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild

Released 1968

 

[stevecurious 42059]

My first (but not last) Skynyrd album!

 

[bewlayb 7480]

It's difficult to pick a definitive best album for an artist of Dylan's stature. The most you can hope for is to identify a group of albums that are among his best. hfxandy already identified one (Blonde on Blonde). Here's another:

 

 

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)

[bewlayb 7480]

 

If I was only allowed to take one Beatles album to a desert island - and God knows I would fight you tooth and nail over that restriction - I would take Revolver.

 

Sgt Pepper may have been the culmination of their creative collaboration and studio wizardry, but Revolver is where they broke through to the other side, transforming themselves from "mere" Pop idols to the artists and musical geniuses we know them as today. There were glimpses of their new identity on the album Rubber Soul (Revolver's predecessor), but it was here that the new band truly emerged for the first time. Aptly, from an innovation and creativity standpoint, the closing track - Tomorrow Never Knows - debuts the studio magic that Sgt Pepper perfects and takes to dizzying new heights.

[Dorinda Bloom 44036]

 

 

 

 

*Just a sampling of some of my all time faves!

[Old Dog 179138]

In 1983, a small Irish band released its third album. The first two, Boy and October were critical successes but failed to make massive market impact. That was about to change.

 

U2 wrote about things happening in the world with passion... and of course the raw power of Bono's lyrics (although at the time he was known as Bono Vox) and the virtuosity of guitarist, The Edge.

 

 

U2 - WAR

 

Ohhh... the boy on the cover? Peter Rowan... he was the boy on War, Boy, Three. Best of 1980 to 1990 and Early Demos. Now 36, he is one guy that will always have a copy of his childhood pics hanging around.

 

Here he is now:

 

 

Side one

No. Title Length

1. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" 4:38

2. "Seconds" 3:09

3. "New Year's Day" 5:38

4. "Like a Song..." 4:48

5. "Drowning Man" 4:12

 

Side two

No. Title Length

1. "The Refugee" (produced by Bill Whelan) 3:40

2. "Two Hearts Beat as One" 4:00

3. "Red Light" 3:46

4. "Surrender" 5:34

5. ""40"" 2:36

 

Total length:

42:03

[LeeRichards 177238]

In 1983, a small Irish band released its third album. The first two, Boy and October were critical successes but failed to make massive market impact. That was about to change.

 

U2 wrote about things happening in the world with passion... and of course the raw power of Bono's lyrics (although at the time he was known as Bono Vox) and the virtuosity of guitarist, The Edge.

 

 

U2 - WAR

 

Ohhh... the boy on the cover? Peter Rowan... he was the boy on War, Boy, Three. Best of 1980 to 1990 and Early Demos. Now 36, he is one guy that will always have a copy of his childhood pics hanging around.

 

Here he is now:

 

 

Side one

No. Title Length

1. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" 4:38

2. "Seconds" 3:09

3. "New Year's Day" 5:38

4. "Like a Song..." 4:48

5. "Drowning Man" 4:12

 

Side two

No. Title Length

1. "The Refugee" (produced by Bill Whelan) 3:40

2. "Two Hearts Beat as One" 4:00

3. "Red Light" 3:46

4. "Surrender" 5:34

5. ""40"" 2:36

 

Total length:

42:03

 

 

Awesome OD !! As a full blood Irish lad I set out to post this exact album last night but didnt' get the time....

 

Not on this album but always one of my faves

 

Pride (In the Name of Love) 1984

 

[Old Dog 179138]

Awesome OD !! As a full blood Irish lad I set out to post this exact album last night but didnt' get the time....

 

Not on this album but always one of my faves

 

Pride (In the Name of Love) 1984

 

 

It was a toss up for me.... War was more accessible but the first album, Boy, was a real prize. Slowly I will get my vinyl back... slowly.....

[Jazzitup 5652]

Lenny Breau was an innovator and technical wizard. He could comp and play the improvised lead line at the same time so he sounded like 2 giuitars. He is always in the top 100 guitarist of all time. He struglled with drugs and died way too early.

 

 

Guitar Sounds Of Lenny Breau CD Track List

 

 

The Guitar Sounds of Lenny Breau

1. King Of The Road

2. Taranta

3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

4. A Hard Day's Night

5. Georgia On My Mind

6. Monday, Monday

7. My Funny Valentine

8. Freight Train

9. Cold, Cold Heart

10. Music To Watch Girls By

11. Call Me

 

Lenny Breau is the craziest piano player ever to not play the piano.

[ajd20000 655]

Lot's of great stuff above. Here's one that I return to again and again:

 

 

Sort of a debut, but Van had already made his mark with "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Gloria".

 

I like how Rolling Stone describes it (#19 on their top 500 album list):

This is music of such enigmatic beauty that, thirty-five years after its release,

Astral Weeks

still defies easy, admiring description.

[Surf_Nazis_Must_Die 8958]

AWESOME THREAD!!

 

Music is pretty much my "raison d'etre" and there's so many albums that shaped my life. I apologize in advance, this post is gonna be a long one!

 

I figure i'll group the albums somewhat chronologically by phases, or "chunks" of my life.

 

Younger years:

 

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

 

 

An album I used to play a bunch of Nintendo to. I'm pretty sure this had a BIG influence on my future love of metal. Still my favorite grunge era band.

 

 

Weird Al - Alapalooza

 

 

This album helped to instill an off the wall sense of humor in me. As well, taught me the value of not taking yourself too seriously!

 

 

Teenage Years:

 

These can all just be lumped into a giant love affair with punk with a healthy dose of life lessons and self discovery. All set to a backdrop of slam dancing and beer

 

Pennywise - About Time

 

 

 

Various artists - Short Music For Short People

 

 

 

Dead Kennedys - Give me Convenience Or Give Me Death

 

 

 

Death By Stereo - Day Of The Death

 

 

 

The Metal years:

 

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

 

This album completely changed my perception of music. It didn't leave my car's tape deck once the summer I found it, it will forever blow my tiny little mind

 

 

DRI - Thrash Zone

 

 

with this album I discovered that somebody had found a way to combine my 2 biggest loves into one volatile combination! Long live Crossover!

 

 

Slayer - Reign In Blood

 

 

About as perfect as an album can get in terms of pushing early metal envelopes. It's just pummeling from start to finish. An unrelenting monster of an album.

 

 

Dio - Holy Diver

 

 

For me, Ronnie James Dio will forever remain the best vocalist in heavy music. This album really helped me reconcile my somewhat hidden inner nerdiness with my beer swilling, gregarious headbanger exterior. The man had so much positivity and hope in his music. I love DIO

[Guest jake_cdn]

One the best albums that I have heard in the last ten years....The Black Crowes with Jimmy Page do such a great job on the Zepphlin stuff like some of it better than the original.

 

Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes Live at the Greek

 

[Andee 220524]

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Featuring Vocalist Ronnie James Dio

Released 1975

 

 

Who could forget "Man on the Silver Mountain"?

 

 

Loverboy - Get Lucky

Released

 

[Guest W***ledi*Time]

After one of my nieces insisted in 1983 that I buy this album, it didn't take long for me to develop a permanent secret crush on The Girl With the Van Gogh Shoes:

 

 

"Money Changes Everything"/"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"/"When You Were Mine"/"Time After Time"/"She Bop"

 

"All Through The Night"/"Witness"/"I'll Kiss You"/"He's So Unusual"/"Yeah Yeah"

 

[Rodster 476]

Steve Winwood's Back In the Highlife

 

Phenomenal sound and arrangements.

 

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[AndyofHalifax 15339]

Anyone paying close attention to my albums on here, will notice that I have an affinity for live albums and double albums, so it may come as no surprise that I am a big fan of this next album, especially if you have noticed what album has been on my profile here on CERB for the past few months.

 

The Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East

 

 

This is one of my favourite driving albums. When Whipping Post comes on, you'll be in a different city by the time it ends. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed provides a perfect soundtrack to the miles flying by through the windshield. And the interaction between the band and the crowd is perfection, each driving the other to new heights.

[loopie 15358]

 

GRACELAND by Paul Simon

 

This is one of those perfect albums were every track is solid, each track is a bit different from the others, and each track flows into the next. If I put this ablum on, I don't want to stop it.

 

 

BACK TO BLACK by Amy Winehouse

 

This is probably my fave album of the last 20 years or so. Every track is absolutely great. I never thought she was going to make another album this perfect, but it's a shame she didn't get to make another album at all.

 

 

THIS IS HARDCORE by Pulp

 

This a cool rock album. Jarvis Cocker's lyrics and delivery are a good mix of dark humour and sensitivity.

 

 

LA ROUX by La Roux

 

This is a great current pop album. I really like Jackson's choir boy voice, it has so much drama to it. And the lyrics are sensitive too.

[conquistador 18487]

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a few more of my all-time favs.

 

[Andee 220524]

Some more greats from my old collection:

 

Styx: Pieces of Eight

Released 1978

 

Peter Frampton Comes Alive

Top Selling Album of 1976!

 

 

AC/DC Highway to Hell

Released 1979

 

[Old Dog 179138]

 

The White Album, or simply "The Beatles" is one of those albums that hits you from a thousand different angles....

 

The first Apple album, the first album after the death of their manager Brian Epstein and the first after their return from India, it marked the point at which they started to go their own ways.... but magnificent ways they were.

 

George's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Paul's "Back in the USSR", "Helter Skelter" and "Blackbird", John's "Dear Prudence" and "I'm So Tired", highlighted this 30 song masterpiece.

 

 

Side one

No. Title Lead vocals[45] Length

1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." McCartney 2:43

2. "Dear Prudence" Lennon 3:56

3. "Glass Onion" Lennon 2:17

4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" McCartney 3:08

5. "Wild Honey Pie" McCartney 0:52

6. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" Lennon with Yoko Ono 3:14

7. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (George Harrison) Harrison 4:45

8. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Lennon 2:43

 

Side two

No. Title Lead vocals Length

1. "Martha My Dear" McCartney 2:28

2. "I'm So Tired" Lennon 2:03

3. "Blackbird" McCartney 2:18

4. "Piggies" (Harrison) Harrison 2:04

5. "Rocky Raccoon" McCartney 3:33

6. "Don't Pass Me By" (Richard Starkey) Starr 3:51

7. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" McCartney 1:41

8. "I Will" McCartney 1:46

9. "Julia" Lennon 2:54

 

Side three

No. Title Lead vocals Length

1. "Birthday" McCartney with Lennon 2:42

2. "Yer Blues" Lennon 4:01

3. "Mother Nature's Son" McCartney 2:48

4. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" Lennon 2:24

5. "Sexy Sadie" Lennon 3:15

6. "Helter Skelter" McCartney 4:29

7. "Long, Long, Long" (Harrison) Harrison 3:04

 

Side four

No. Title Lead vocals Length

1. "Revolution 1" Lennon 4:15

2. "Honey Pie" McCartney 2:41

3. "Savoy Truffle" (Harrison) Harrison 2:54

4. "Cry Baby Cry" Lennon, with McCartney 3:02

5. "Revolution 9" Speaking from Lennon, Harrison, George Martin and Yoko Ono 8:22

6. "Good Night" Starr 3:11

[castle 38816]

Albums which make me nearly piss myself laughing

 

 

 

With such classics as

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With such classics as

and Coffee and

 

 

 

With such classics as Respect and What The Hell Happened To Me?

 

 

 

With such classics as At A Medium Pace

 

 

 

With such classics as Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny and I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks