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) :-)
In the order of most to least (but still alot!); Super Session, Kooper, Bloomfield and Stills; Riding With the King, BB King and Clapton; and Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon.
First, I will say that there is one symphony that I have listened to time and again. I never tire of it, am constantly refreshed by it and never cease to be deeply satisfied by it---Symphony No. 8 in G Major, opus 88, by Dvorak. Hard to imagine that, at the least, someone would not like this piece. I prefer the performances by Istvan Kertesz and Rafael Kubelik. It's easier to go with the Kubelik which, I feel, is not bettered by anyone else, but which is equalled by the Kertesz, only with the latter you have to purchase his complete set of the Dvorak Symphonies on London/Decca since his Eighth is not available individually as Kubelik's is on DG. Both interpretations brim with poetic expression. Good listening !
The Brandenburg Concertos. Karl Richter and the Bach Orchestra of Munich. So many of the Brandenburger recordings are "rehearse it once and record it"-and they sound like it. BOM was together long enough that they were a true ensemble.
Mozart Symphonies 35,39,40,and 41 George Szell-Cleveland Orchestra---still THE definitive Mozart symphony recordings.
Miles Davis Quintet,cd transcription of these four lps:Steamin',Cookin',Workin',and Relaxin'. In the fifties,John Coltrane was out of the army and Miles Davis had left Julliard(he left after two year--in good standing)and a rhythm section recorded the four albums mentioned above. The songs are standards;you probably know them all. These albums are seminal---you hear the germination of things to flower.
there are so many possibilities here - a few that cover ground stylistically:
jazz - duke ellington's small band: queen's suite rock - richard thompson: shoot out the lights zydeco - zachary richard: fatras (live in montreal) rock/mexifolk - los lobos: how will the wolf survive more rock - don dixon: romeo at julliard latin dance/pop - kid creole: fresh fruit in foreign places and..... marshall crenshaw, e, willie nelson, showmen, beatles, etc. etc. etc.
The Allman Brothers Band At The Fillmore East. I've worn out 2 lps, have it on CD, recorded it on cassette + CD, 200gram vinyl + SACD(even more incredible on these formats).
Brahms First Symphony, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, DGG 1963. This is available in CD and vinyl, with the CD transferred from the original '64 analog mastertapes, I believe. The sonic quality of this redbook CD is among the best, and the performance is wonderfully grand and autumnal. Von Karajan at his best. After all the major and minor inticacies of Brahms' orchestral palette have been expressed, when the melody of the 4th movement finally arrives, it is majestic and sweeping.
Nothing to do with sonics, just music that i like to listen to. Best on vinyl, but then again, most things are : ) Sean >
1) Pink Flag by Wire. My favourite band and my favourite album. Relatively stripped down garage-core punk combined with a small amount of pop and a hint of the twisted tone-poems to come in the not so distant future. If you want to check out Wire, you HAVE to listen to them in order of their releases i.e. Pink Flag, then Chairs Missing and then 154. Othewise, nothing makes sense.
2A) Singles Going Steady 2B) A Different Kind of Tension Both by The Buzzcocks and equally great in different ways. The originators of harmonious pop / punk. Punk enough for those that like to hang out in the streets, talk shit and drink beer and "pop" enough for those that like to sing along with the radio. The perfect example of "the commercial underground sound".
3) Reign in Blood by Slayer. For those who know, nothing more needs to be said. You'll understand. PS... If you like this one, check out Massacre's "Beyond Reality". Another jam that flows from tune to tune with a heavy Slayer influence.
Beatles, Abby Road for a long, long, longgg time, i have the mfsl collection comming, and i have not heard there lp of abby road, wish i still had the first lp i bought think it was the best, mike
Mike, If you're an Abbey Road nut, there are better copies than the MSFL available. 2 of my favorites are:
Abbey Road Pro Series, Apple EALF-97001
Abbey Road Japanese Release, Apple TOJP-7083 (This is my personal favorite of the 11 copies I own. Additionally, IMO the original UK release is better than the MSFL copy)
David Crosby, If I could only remember my name.His first solo effortin 1971. Has Joni Mitchell, Art Garfunkel,jerry garcia,grace slick, nash ,young and more. Allman Brothers "Live at Filmore East" Best "Stormy Monday" and Elizabeth Reed I have ever heard. Eva Cassidy "Live at Blues Alley". "What a wonderful world" and "Fields of Gold"are inspiring One more..Time Warp by the Cincinati Orchestra.
Roy Orbison - Mystery girl New Order - Republic Divine Comedy - Promenade & liberation Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous george Archive - Londinium Slowdive - Pygmalion
etc.
Most of these I listened to a lot ages ago. Don't seem to stay with any one album now. Hop around a lot more. A lot of that I think is I no longer listen to a tape over and over on my walkman.
Threads like this one make Audiogon worth visiting regularly. Beatles, Abbey Road. Van Morrison, Moondance -- still gives me chills after all these years. Joni Mitchell, Blue -- I remember when this came out, riding around with my buddies and one of them said, "You goota hear this album." Never thought I'd be listening to it 35 years later.
1. Alison Krauss and the Cox Family, "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow"
2. Cooder/Lindley Family Live at the Vienna Opera House (2 cd package you can buy from David Lindley at his website)
3. Ry Cooder, "Chavez Ravine" (this may be cheating because it hasn't been out 5 years, but I've already played it more often than anything else I've owned in the last 50 years)
Keith Jarrett Arbor Zena (not nearly his most popular, but probably my favorite piece of music, and it's on vinyl); Debussy Trois Nocturnes, and a tie between Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits/Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions.
The three limit is tough... probably would have a different answer in a few minutes: Frank Zappa/ Hot Rats Kraan/ Live 1974 Eberhard Weber/ The Following Morning
By far Led Zeppelin II ever since its release in 1969. This is closely followed by Abbey Road.
Other top ten rotations over the past 38 years include:
Tommy White Album Who's Next Led Zeppelin I Crime of the Century Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Trilogy A Question of Balance Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here
the band music from big pink the white album wynton marsalis black codes from the underground elliott smith either/or doors 1st bill evans sunday at the village vanguard lps from the riverside box set dylan the times they are a changin' dylan freewheelin' coltrane giant steps radiohead ok computer
I'll list one that really stands out, I listened to it for 2 months straight and nothing else. MOZART's The Abduction From The seraglio. Conducted by Karl Bohm
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness and Innervisions Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl Led Zeppelin IV Joe Jackson - everything through Night and Day Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom R.E.M. - Murmur and Reckoning Nick Lowe - Pure Pop For Now People Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Beatles - 1962-66 and 1967-70 Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel and, of course Helen Reddy - Long Hard Climb and Carpenters - Singles 1969-73 and A Song For You
Well the one recording I keep going back to year after year is the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East. I don't know how time I've bought this recording over the years but it's definely one recording I cannot be without.
Over The Rhine albums 'Til We Have Faces and Good Dog Bad Dog. Van Morrisons - Common One. I seem to be drawn to these as comfort records. They are magic in almost every mood and every time of day or year.
Dylan Self-Protriat Christine McVie Self-titled INXS Listen Like Thieves John Klemmer Touch MoFi Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman MoFi Eric Clapton Me And Mr.Johnson Who Quadronphenia Sanborn & James Double Vision Sade Greatest Hits Robert Cray Stong Persuader Mark Knopfler Brother in Arms & Making Movies Suzanne Vega Solitude Standing Shawn Colvin Steady On Sarah McLachlan Surfacing Cowboy Junkies Black-Eyed Man
Counting adolescence and childhood, college and adult years, I would say one of the following (impossible to really know, of course).
1. Pharoah Sanders "Live at the east" 2. Jimi Hendrix "Band of gypsies" 3. Arvo Part "Tabula rasa" 4. John Coltrane "A love supreme" 5. Rev Robert Wilkins (complete works 1927-1930)
Seventh Sojourn - Moody Blues Foxtrot - Genesis Mix Up - Patrick O'Hearn Jack the Toad - Savoy Brown Guitar Noir - Steve Hackett Stationary Traveler - Camel
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