Good Albums vs. Good Song (1 Viewer)

[mike_decock]

I could think of more. I'm such a music junkie....

WOW! What a variety, many of which I second. Rachael, YOU ARE A JUNKIE!!!

-Mike...

 

[Michael Gilliam]

Many nice ones already listed.

Counting Crows--Recovering the Satellites
Radiohead --The Bends
R.E.M. --Life's Rich Pageant
Rolling Stones--Out of Our Heads
Exile on Main Street
Goat Head Soup

 

[KeithH]

One of my favorite albums of all-time is Boston Boston. What a great debut album. Another great debut album is The Doors The Doors. Other great albums:
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
Rush Moving Pictures
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Faith No More The Real Thing
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Metallica Master of Puppets
Metallica And Justice for All
Metallica Metallica
The Doors L.A. Woman
The Doors Strange Days
That's just a few. There are others.

 

[mike_decock]

One of my favorite albums of all-time is Boston Boston. What a great debut album.

I listened to this album more than 600 times the first 6 months I had it... Literally! I still spin it a couple times a year... One of my all-time faves.

Thumbs up on "Puppets", too. The all-time pinnacle of Metal, IMHO.


-Mike...

 

[LawrenceK]

ooh and The Stooges - Funhouse

 

[John Watson]

Tom's remark about 4 crappy tracks rings a bell. Even favorite albums seem to have a few clinkers in the mix.
I often wish I was there to say, guys, don't put that one on the album, make it shorter but better. And rearrange the sequence of tracks this way....
Of course, tape and CD-R made it possible for us to become amateur producers

 

[Mike Broadman]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - FROM THE BEGINNING

They didn't have an album by that name. Perhaps you're thinking of "Trilogy," which had the song "From the Beginning."
But if I had to pick an ELP album, it would be Brain Salad Surgery.
Now, jazz, which is generally a song-by-song and improv style of music but there are some killer albums that work as a whole:
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew, ESP, Miles in the Sky, Agharta, Pangaea, Dark Magus
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme, Transition, Meditations, Ascension
Sonny Rollins- Way Out West, Sound of Sonny, Saxophone Colossus, The Bridge, Freedom Suite
Charles Mingus- Blues & Roots, Ah Um, Dynasty, Mingus * 5, Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Changes One, Changes Two, Let My Children Hear Music, The Clown, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus, etc and so forth and so on
Grant Green- Idle Moments
Some more rock honorable mentions:
Jethro Tull- Minstel in the Gallery, Heavy Horses
Rush- Permanent Waves, Hemispheres, Hold Your Fire, Vapor Trails, Moving Pictures
King Crimson- Lark's Tongue in Aspic, Discipline, In the Court of the Crimson King, Starless & Bible Black, Three of a Perfect Pair, Red, ConstruKtion of Light, all the live albums (really, is anyone surprised by this one? )
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast, Powerslave, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Yes- Fragile
Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
Radiohead- The Bends, OK Computer
Frank Zappa- Hot Rats, Absolutely Free, Roxy & Elsewhere, Lather, Overnite Sensation, One Size Fits All, Apostrophe, Zoot Allures, Them Or Us
so much music, must stop typing...

 

[KeithH]

Mike Broadman,

You named some great albums. I definitely agree with you on the Iron Maiden albums. ELP Brain Salad Surgery is a great one too.


mike_decock said:

I listened to this album more than 600 times the first 6 months I had it...

I hear you. I was only six when the album came out, so I got into it later on. However, when I bought the tape as a teenager, I played it constantly.

 

[Joel Fontenot]

Great lists so far.
Among the albums I like to listen to from beginning to end, I'd like to add:

• Bryan Ferry: Boys and Girls
• The Charlatans UK: Some Friendly
• Missing Persons: Spring Session M
• Juliana Hatfield: Become What You Are
• Inxs: The Swing
• Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona
• Simple Minds: New Gold Dream
• Curve: Come Clean
• Heart: Dreamboat Annie
• LeRoux: Louisiana's LeRoux - '78 first LP

That's enough for now.
Joel

 

[Rachael B]

Mike B, you're sharp! If I make a mistake you always catch me.:b
Mike D, you obviously have good tastes in music! The record companies wish there were more addicts like me!
John T, if you think Gary Wright's DREAM WEAVER album is good...have you heard his album EXTRACTION? It's dynamite! I don't think it's ever been on CD though. I have a flawless vinyl copy and I put it on MD just this week. EXTRACTION is from the early 70's before Wright gained so much fame.
I don't know how I forgot to put 2 of my favourite albums by Free on my list.
FIRE AND WATER is terrific from beginning to end. TONS OF SOBS features what may have been their best track SWEET TOOTH. Paul Rodgers went on to lead Bad Company but his work with Free holds more charm for me.
Also, how could I forget the two albums that Dr. John made with The Meters as his backing band...IN THE RIGHT PLACE which features the awesome title track and SUCH A NIGHT. DESITIVELY BONNAROO is every bit as good an album too but doesn't feature any mega hits.
Joel, I remember Le Roux. That was a great LP. They just never achieved much fame. Such is the music biz.... Best wishes guyz!

 

[Bill cc]

Portishead - Dummy
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
MC5 - Kick out the Jams
Bob Dylan - Live 1966
Unwound - Fake Train
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
The Who - Sells Out
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Nation of Ulysses - 13 Point Program To Destroy America





Plus many excellent choices already listed

 

[StevenW]

TOOL - Aenima
TOOL - Lateralus

 

[MichaelGH]

I definitely agree with many of the albums posted (although quite a few I've not listened to either, have to check some of them out). My suggestions:

Portishead : Live at Roseland NYC (I just cannot stop listening to this album. It's beautiful).
Tool: Opiate, Undertow, Aenima (Undertow may have been enormously popular but it's a damn good album. Lateralus is ok but it hasn't grown on me like the first three albums did.)
Roland Orzabal : Tomcats Screaming Outside (I'm really pushing this album I discovered recently. By the lead singer of Tears for Fears. I can listen to it from beginning to end over and over again. It could have been made in the 80's, 90's or today.)
Brian May : Live at Brixton Academy (Freddy may be gone but Brian keeps the torch alive in this great live set. One of the best guitarists ever, not a bad singer in his own right.)
Marillion : Anaraknophobia, Afraid of Sunlight, This Strange Engine, Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood (Marillion is more than just Fish. The first three albums on my list are absolutely gorgeous in my opinion. Even if Fish was the better lyricist, I think the music became more lush after he left. All great though!)
Kansas : Leftoverture, Somewhere to Elsewhere, Two for the show
Dream Theater : Awake, Once In a Livetime, Six Degrees of Separation.
The Who : Who's Next, Quadrophenia
Live : Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper, The Distance To Here
Boa : Twilight (gorgeous album, especially the track "duvet", perhaps the best pop song ever written. Anyone who's seen the anime lain knows this one by heart).
Pet Shop Boys : Very (not a bad track on this album, absolutely their highlight album).
Depeche Mode : Songs of faith and devotion, ultra (Most of their albums are great, but these are two very personal favorites of mine, great albums through and through)

Well I'll take a break now as I'm tired of typing.

Michael

 

[Thomas Newton]

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - White Album
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Capitol Steps - Sheik, Rattle, & Roll
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Tish Hinojosa - Culture Swing
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Alison Krauss and the Cox Family - I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
Van Morrison - Hymns to the Silence
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Professor Longhair - Rock 'N' Roll Gumbo
Silly Wizard - Kiss the Tears Away
Silly Wizard - Wild and Beautiful
Paul Simon - Graceland
Paul Simon - The Rhythm of the Saints
Spinners - Pick of the Litter
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Andy M. Stewart, Manus Lunny - Dublin Lady
Andy M. Stewart, Phil Cunningham, Manus Lunny - Fire in the Glen
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot out the Lights
Doc Watson - Docabilly
Doc Watson - On Praying Ground
Doc Watson - Riding the Midnight Train
Doc & Merle Watson - Down South
Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1
Traveling Wilburys, Volume 3

 

[Rob P S]

Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Coldplay - Parachutes
Old 97's - Too Far to Care
Ben Folds Five - debut
The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Wilco - A.M.
Son Volt - Trace
Steve Earle - Train a Comin'

 

[Al B. C]

"The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" - Bowie

Whoa! What a concept.