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Great Albums.

Too many to mention but I will mention one. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys.
Ok, one more Fireball, Deep Purple
 
Very short only 6 songs on the US version but hard to not listen to it all at once.

Therapy -Hats Off to the Insane
 
Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

Led Zep IV

The Replacements - Tim

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge if Town

But with streaming (amazon, Pandora, and Spotify) I listen to so much more, just not entire albums. :dunno
 
TylerW said:
Damn, I forgot to add Pink Floyd's Animals to my list.
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I keep trying to make my list for this to participate, but it's the same thing, I keep remembering others.

I'll throw in a few that I can think of easily.

Revolver
Rubber Soul
Dark Side of the Moon
Disraeli Gears
The Doors Light My Fire
Giant Step/De Olde Folks at Home
Bob Dylan Greatest Hits 1967
Music in the Time of Cervantes, Ensemble Hesperion
Brandenburgs, the version with Christopher Hogwood I think,
Even tho its corny, I loved Tomita's Debussy synthesizer album
Pictures at an Exhibition Emerson Lake and Palmer. Actually Tomita did one of these too..
Editing in: And of course now I have to add in Santana Abraxas.
Platters: Encore of Golden Hits
Missing an Elvis album because I can't remember if there was one single album that had the faves.

These are albums that I played the hell out of and the tunes have stayed with me to this day. We listened to Miracles From The Beginning a lot but it doesn;'t have all the tunes I loved.

I wanted to do a Stones one, but they have great songs, but not everything on the album is as good as the highlight songs. You need a Greatest Hit compilation for them. Jimi is sort of the same way, if you took best tunes of Axis and Are You Experienced. Thing is, as a guitar player, I am just astounded always by how he managed to always play solo and rhythm at the same time. I can always get something out of anything he ever did....

PS. The funniest thing to me is that the OP of this, I only know the band Nirvana but don't know any of those albums whatsover, okay Boomer.
 
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tuxumino said:
Blue Oyster Cult "Secret Treaties".
The first side is a little disjointed but the last 3 songs on the 2nd side all run together. "Harvester of Eyes", "Flaming Telepaths" and "Astronomy" are basically one song.
Their 2nd to last album "imaginos" Ties together Sandy Perlman's lovecraftion vision.

One of the things you have realize is that the vinyl record with approximately 50 minutes of music with a first side and a 2nd side lent itself to a different view of albums then the streaming/CD world we live in. A lot of the albums made in the 70's and 80's were created in that medium and that was often a consideration in the producing, formatting and engineering of those albums. Look at the concept albums from the seventies.
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Some of my favorite albums include those with very distinct sides, and you're so right in that the concept doesn't really translate well to CD or other forms.

Rush - Caress of Steel (B Side is 1 song, The Fountain of Lamneth) Yes, I actually like this album!

Rush - 2112 (A Side is 1 song, 2112)

Rush - Hemispheres (A Side is 1 song, Cygnus X1 Book II: Hemispheres)

Charles R said:
I'm far more of a shuffle play guy, with large variety of genres in my queue. But these were the albums that I played pretty much nonstop, in their entirety, for months on end when I first heard them.

Tool- Aenima
Vast- Music for the people
Pink Floyd- A Momentary Lapse of reason, Division Bell
Beastie boys- License to Ill
Venus Hum- Big Beautiful Sky
Carpenters- Now and Then (back when I was in grade school. Still love her voice)
Metallica- And Justice For All, Ride The Lightning

My sis had the two Michael Jackson albums mentioned, and yeah those are really good.
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berth said:
That's the point of the thread, check out some of the other stuff.



I, too, prefer the Gilmour Pink Floyd. Saw both of these tours. Division Bell was extraordinary.
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I, too, saw the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. Saw it with my boyfriend. Ended up leaving him and moving out of the home we'd shared for years. It broke my heart to do it, and still hurts to this day almost 34 years later. Anyway, the day after I moved out I stopped off at Circuit City in Hayward and purchased a yellow Sony Discman CD player, the best earphones I could find that fit in my helmet, and a Momentary Lapse of Reason CD. I continued on and rode out to Mines, over Mt Hamilton, and all backroads (Calaveras, Palomares, Redwood, etc) back to Oakland, all with that one CD on "repeat." I never hear a song off of it nowadays without thinking of that blisteringly painful yet cathartic day. Thank you Charles R and berth for reminding me of it. It's still one of my favorites.
 
lizard said:
“Best of” albums should not be considered.
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Not that I'm the adjudicator of this list, nor should I be, but I'll accept a live album that is a recording of one single performance - not the best cuts of a particular tour, but a single performance, warts and all.
 
Yeah, but doesn't just about everyone have "Legend", the Best of Bob Marley?

The album sold almost 30 million copies world-wide and is pretty much "reggae for beginners".
 
TylerW said:
Not that I'm the adjudicator of this list, nor should I be, but I'll accept a live album that is a recording of one single performance - not the best cuts of a particular tour, but a single performance, warts and all.
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I know it's already been said that listening to a vinyl album is a different experience than streaming in various ways.

One is that one didn't really want to go over and pickup the stylus when it got to a track that was less desirable. But if you lived then, you knew those wincy or annoying moments of suffering through a track. That's why I didn't put White Album on my list, because it needed editing. I really, really hate the song "Why Don't We Do IT in the Road" for example. I just thought it was stupid but I let it play back in those days. If I had it on a CD, I'd just walk over and click it through. Not with vinyl because I'd be afraid of scratching the damn thing.

So, being honest about it, sometimes it takes a Greatest Hits record to say that you could listen from beginning to end in a state of enjoyment. There wasn't an early ground rule about some kind of artistic purity of intent in a given project. In fact, albums reflected at least a part of the concept of a "B side" of a single, which was often acknowledged as a lesser version of whatever was on the A. This penetrated into albums as well, I think. This has probably changed in the digital age.
 
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Johndicezx9 said:
Yeah, but doesn't just about everyone have "Legend", the Best of Bob Marley?

The album sold almost 30 million copies world-wide and is pretty much "reggae for beginners".
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I never developed a taste for raggae, so that one missed me.

I think I have the punk rock version of that one, which is Operation Ivy's self-titled album. For reasons I can't really justify, my copy of that album has been within an arm's reach of my home computer for something like 25 years.

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the Amazonian (Babylonian? Byzantine?) internet Music recommended this one for me one day, I didn't know it "existed".. I'm thinking "great albums" would apply!!!

Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By Explicit Lyrics
Lovage Joni James Format: Audio CD
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R3DS!X said:
"Nevermind" By Nirvana
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^ yeah, that's a good entry. Over and over.

R3DS!X said:
"White People" by The Handsome Boy Modeling School.
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hmm let me try listening to this one
 
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Speaking of live albums.

Here is my fav since I was at Winterland in 1977 when it was recorded.

Frank's Redhouse version is better than Jimi's IMO.
That was an awesome show.
 

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lizard said:
I almost listed PS - the album that inspired lennon and mc to write Sgt. P
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Yeh, ditto cubed. I think that record is appreciated way more now than when it came out. I remember a common reaction was that it was weird compared to what people were used to from the group.

Something I don't often seen written was that there were some inner emotional dillemmas within the country regarding US R and B soul - Brit invasion - surf music. I think a fair amount of fans, especially black people, had a decidedly mixed reaction to Beatles doing Chuck Berry and such; and this just a few years after having Elvis do covers essentially which penetrated the race barrier but co-opted the originals, a sort of cultural appropriation before anybody called it that.. The thing about Elvis was that he was so frickin talented a singer that the quality was undeniable, even if he was lifting tunes by others.

For real young and teens likely mostly whites, I think there was a moment too where we were really into the Beach Boys and along came the Beatles and there was this obviously superficial but nevertheless real sense of having to make a choice. I remember thinking it when was a little kid because I loved the Beach Boys, and even still have some 45s around as well as all their albums. The Brits had this "difference" quotient that made them appealing. Personally, I like the more George Martin type of songs rather than soul covers; but they did a good job with Twist and Shout, turning it into something else.

All that said, the early 60s had this incredibly wide-open feel to genres because of various reasons. People were listening to above as well as Bossa Nova, some non-Brit Euros, even Japanese pop had a song in there (Sukiyaki) in those days. I read a book about the Beach Boys years ago that talked about the phenom of the wide open flourishing capitalist society, still possessing some innocence and eagerness, leading to openings for many artists, one-hits or better. The song "Downtown" kind of encapsulated the feeling. I truly miss that feeling. Just a few radio stations, a top 40 with a huge mixture of genres and popular enthusiasm and crazes for the latest thing.
 
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Radiohead, The Bends (Pablo Honey is great too!)
Jamiroquai, Emergency on Planet Earth
Morphine, Cure for Pain

and many others!
 
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