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soupcan Feb 06 2008 06:22 PM

...albums you love, off the top of your head. They don't have be your favorites, not necessarily a 'Top Ten', just 10 really great ones. Albums where you know them back to front and love every song. Here's 10 from me: Rickie Lee Jones, Flying Cowboys Counting Crows - August & Everything After Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend Rolling Stones - Some Girls U2 - Unforgettable Fire The Police - Outlandos d'Amour Beatles - Rubber Soul OMD - Crush Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 Bad Company - Bad Company

metsguyinmichigan Feb 06 2008 06:45 PM

Rush, "Moving Pictures" and "Test for Echo" 10,000 Maniacs, "Our Time in Eden" ABC: "The Lexicon of Love" Audio Adrenaline, "Underdog" Billy Joel, "Glass Houses" Kiss, "Alive!" Mercyme, "Coming up to Breathe" Ramones, "Loco Live" Boston, "Boston" What a fun exercise. And most of these are older, from when I was a kid and didn't have too many LPs and would play them over and over. Now, with the iPod, I listen to music so much differently. I rearrange the order of the songs and make playlists of the ones I like best with other songs from other CDs. The consequence is that I just don't know them as intensely as I do the old LPs, which made it so hard to skip from song to song. I bet I could recite the songs in order from every LP I had until I went to college - but not ones I bought last year. Those aren't in order, though "Moving Pictures" was basically the soundtrack to my high school years. I even quoted "Tom Sawyer" lyrics in my campaign posters when I ran for class treasurer!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 06 2008 07:00 PM

I know it's "any 10" but this is difficult as I officially stopped buying "the album lie" a few years ago. I am 97% about songs today. Marshall Crenshaw Joe Jackson: I'm the Man Chris Isaak: San Fransisco Days The Proclaimers: Sunshine on Leith Cheap Trick: Heaven Tonight Springsteen: The Wild the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Damn the Torpedoes REM: Murmur Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth Jayhawks: Tomorrow the Green Grass

themetfairy Feb 06 2008 07:22 PM

Billy Joel - The Stranger Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees ELO - A New World's Record John Mayer - Room For Squares Jason Mraz - Tonight, Not Again Marc Broussard - Carencro Ari Hest - Story After Story Stellar Kart - We Can't Stand Sitting Down Joss Stone - Introducing Joss Stone The Fray - How To Save A Life I still buy CDs, and I listen to them top to bottom in my car, which is why a lot of newer releases are on my list. The first three albums, btw, are the only three that I have owned in vinyl, then on cassette, and now on CD.

Gwreck Feb 06 2008 08:19 PM

My top-10 of all time is somewhat different but some recent favorites: Out of Time, REM So, Peter Gabriel Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen Achtung Baby, U2 Kick, INXS 2001, Dr. Dre Greendale, Neil Young Cassadega, Bright Eyes 20,000 Streets Under the Sky, Marah Wildflowers, Tom Petty

AG/DC Feb 06 2008 08:25 PM

Elvis Costello King of America Dire Straits Making Movies The Waterboys Fisherman's Blues The Beatles Let It Be The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass Peter Case Flying Saucer Blues X Ain't Love Grand Roy Orbison Mystery Girl Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball Bob Fucking Dylan Oh, Mercy Daniel Lanois on the last two --- frequently accused of heavy-handed production, but they just. don't. miss. I didn't want my list to repeat 'Bucket's too much, but he's dead on with some of those. Try and sit through Damn the Torpedoes and dismiss the Heartbreakers as just the guys behind Petty or Petty as a goofball way out of his depth in the ladder challenge. You can't. So don't.

Fman99 Feb 06 2008 08:27 PM

The first 10 that come to mind: "Electric Ladyland," Jimi Hendrix Exp. "Abbey Road," Beatles "Stand Up," Jethro Tull "Thriller," Michael Jackson "The Chronic," Dr. Dre "Quadrophenia," The Who "Ready to Die," Notorious BIG "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs," Derek & the Dominos "5150," Van Halen "Circus," Lenny Kravitz

metirish Feb 06 2008 08:42 PM

Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Guns & Roses - Appetite for Destruction Metallica - Garage Inc. Oasis – [What’s The Story] Morning Glory Nirvana - Nevermind The Cure - Disintegration U2 - Achtung Baby The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Mendoza Line Feb 06 2008 09:09 PM

Great idea... Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans - Suchamuch Son Volt - Okemah and the Melody of Riot Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot The Roches - The Roches Van Morrison - His Band and the Street Choir Gillian Welch - Time, the Revelator Cowboy Junkies - Pale Sun, Crescent Moon Joan Osborne - Relish Paul Cebar is the one unknown on this list - he's from Milwaukee (well, duh) and fairly popular in the region. He used to get a lot of airplay on WXRT in Chicago. Sort of a jazz/funk/rock sound. Guy deserves to be better known outside the upper Midwest. http://youtube.com/watch?v=djJrj2TAU One of my great regrets in life is not pulling five bucks out of my wallet to see Uncle Tupelo, precursor to both Son Volt and Wilco, when they were playing the local bar scene in St. Louis and I was a poor grad student (in both senses of the word) at Wash U. I liked Pale Sun, Crescent Moon so much that I bought the CD a year before I owned a CD player. I left it with a friend of mine (who taped it for me), and got it back after I finally upgraded to a stereo with CD. The Roches mingle with the crowd after their concerts. I was on my way out of the Community Theater in Morristown after their concert last year, and I turned around for a minute, and there was Maggie right behind me. Terre and Suzzy were behind the counter selling CD's.

Rockin' Doc Feb 06 2008 09:33 PM

Just going with what first comes to mind. Beatles - Abbey Road Freedy Johnston - This Perfect World Eagles - Hotel California Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers Beatles - Revolver Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon DC Talk - Jesus Freak Dire Straits - Dire Straits Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

TransMonk Feb 06 2008 10:18 PM

Spoon - A Series of Sneaks Fugazi - The Argument Tom Petty - Wildflowers Elvis Costello - This Year's Model AC/DC - High Voltage Radiohead - Hail to the Thief Pink Floyd - Animals Joe Jackson - Look Sharp Elliot Smith - Figure 8 The Replacements - Let It Be

sharpie Feb 07 2008 07:01 AM

Offa toppa my head: Armed Forces: Elvis Costello & the Attractions Talking Heads '77 Rubber Soul: Beatles Let It Bleed: Rolling Stones Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan Velvet Underground & Nico The Doors OK Computer: Radiohead Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: Wilco Car Wheels On a Gravel Road: Lucinda Williams

Frayed Knot Feb 07 2008 07:23 AM

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Johnny Cash - American Recordings Dire Straits - Making Movies Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Beaatles - Abbey Road Dan Bern - New American Language The Floating Men - Invoking Michaelangelo

seawolf17 Feb 07 2008 07:25 AM

Every song, start to finish, eh? Like everyone else, off the top of my head. Here we go: Aerosmith - Pump Thunder - Laughing on Judgment Day Green Day - American Idiot Counting Crows - August and Everything After GNR - Appetite For Destruction Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Barenaked Ladies - Maybe You Should Drive Coheed & Cambria - Burning Star IV Butch Walker - Left of Self-Centered and a bonus five from swinging through my mp3 player quickly: Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory Dream Theater - Images and Words Meat Puppets - Too High To Die Wildhearts - Must Be Destroyed That's more than ten, but I don't care.

soupcan Feb 07 2008 07:25 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 07 2008 07:35 AM

I agree with at least one (in several cases more) of the albums on each person's list. Luncbucket and AG/DC - I have the Jayhawks 'Rainy Day Music' which I love but since you two think so highly of 'Tomorrow the Green Grass', I'm gonna pick that up. Interesting how several albums made more than one list. ="Mendoza Line"]I liked Pale Sun, Crescent Moon so much that I bought the CD a year before I owned a CD player. I left it with a friend of mine (who taped it for me), and got it back after I finally upgraded to a stereo with CD. I did that exact same thing with U2's Rattle & Hum.

AG/DC Feb 07 2008 07:34 AM

HIS MIND IS NOT FOR RENT TO ANY GOD OR GOVERNMENT Vote METS GUY IN MICHIGAN! Catch the Spirit! Catch the SPIT! it must have been the eighties, with that pink and green color scheme.

metsguyinmichigan Feb 07 2008 07:49 AM

AG/DC wrote: HIS MIND IS NOT FOR RENT TO ANY GOD OR GOVERNMENT Vote METS GUY IN MICHIGAN! Catch the Spirit! Catch the SPIT! it must have been the eighties, with that pink and green color scheme. That sure brought a smile to a dreary day! And you are damn close! I actually used: "Catch the mist, catch the myth Catch the mystery, catch the drift" Amazingly, I ended up coming in second in a three-person race. But I got to to serve half the year when the person who won left the school. Served with Alec Baldwin's sister. True!

HahnSolo Feb 07 2008 09:27 AM

Live - Throwing Copper Billy Joel - Glass Houses Queen - News of the World Foreigner - Records Led Zeppelin IV U2 - The Joshua Tree U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Rainbow - Bent Out of Shape Bryan Adams - Reckless Green Day - Dookie

Methead Feb 07 2008 10:48 AM

Most of these are my all-time favorite artists, so I could swap out most of these albums for others. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Beatles - Abbey Road Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation Phish - A Picture Of Nectar John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Led Zeppelin - II Pink Floyd - Animals Talking Heads - Remain In Light Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Ween - White Pepper

AG/DC Feb 07 2008 11:19 AM

I like the outliers. Let's play How did that get in there? (Not knocking nobody's taste here.) soupcan The list: Rickie Lee Jones, Flying Cowboys Counting Crows - August & Everything After Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend Rolling Stones - Some Girls U2 - Unforgettable Fire The Police - Outlandos d'Amour Beatles - Rubber Soul OMD - Crush Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 Bad Company - Bad Company [ Bad Company. Most of this list is folks who are deep, sensitive, or both. Then you finish it with a band that's big, dumb, and stupid. How'd that get in there? metsguyinmichigan Rush, "Moving Pictures" and "Test for Echo" 10,000 Maniacs, "Our Time in Eden" ABC: "The Lexicon of Love" Audio Adrenaline, "Underdog" Billy Joel, "Glass Houses" Kiss, "Alive!" Mercyme, "Coming up to Breathe" Ramones, "Loco Live" Boston, "Boston" ABC. I see big seventies mergining into progressive eighties before you get your rock back on with a Christian bent in the late ninties and early aughts, but synthetic British soul barely touches that arc. How'd that get in there? John Cougar Lunchbucket Marshall Crenshaw Joe Jackson: I'm the Man Chris Isaak: San Fransisco Days The Proclaimers: Sunshine on Leith Cheap Trick: Heaven Tonight Springsteen: The Wild the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Damn the Torpedoes REM: Murmur Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth Jayhawks: Tomorrow the Green Grass Cheap Trick. Each of these artists is charactrerized by well-regarded songcraft, well regarded studiocraft, or both. The Trick has moments of both, but stands out as a gimmick act with a much shallower bag than their listmates. How'd that get in there? themetfairy Billy Joel - The Stranger Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees ELO - A New World's Record John Mayer - Room For Squares Jason Mraz - Tonight, Not Again Marc Broussard - Carencro Ari Hest - Story After Story Stellar Kart - We Can't Stand Sitting Down Joss Stone - Introducing Joss Stone The Fray - How To Save A Life I can't find the outlier here. What's interesting is the two decades or more missing betweent the two subgroups. How'd 20+ years not get in there? Gwreck Out of Time, REM So, Peter Gabriel Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen Achtung Baby, U2 Kick, INXS 2001, Dr. Dre Greendale, Neil Young Cassadega, Bright Eyes 20,000 Streets Under the Sky, Marah Wildflowers, Tom Petty Dr. Dre but not Ed Lover? How'd that get in there? AG/DC This list is retarded. Fman99 "Electric Ladyland," Jimi Hendrix Exp. "Abbey Road," Beatles "Stand Up," Jethro Tull "Thriller," Michael Jackson "The Chronic," Dr. Dre "Quadrophenia," The Who "Ready to Die," Notorious BIG "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs," Derek & the Dominos "5150," Van Halen "Circus," Lenny Kravitz Thriller. It's graces are numerous, but does it have anything left to give a boy with mostly guitar bands up and down his list. metirish Pete Flynn — Head Groundskeeper, Assista Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Guns & Roses - Appetite for Destruction Metallica - Garage Inc. Oasis – [What’s The Story] Morning Glory Nirvana - Nevermind The Cure - Disintegration U2 - Achtung Baby The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Is Rage Against the Machine Irish? How'd that get in there? OK, back to work.

themetfairy Feb 07 2008 11:24 AM

]I can't find the outlier here. What's interesting is the two decades or more missing between the two subgroups. How'd 20+ years not get in there? Grad school, work and the first several years of child rearing didn't give me a whole lot of time for music. Gaps during that time period for me also include the Dallas Green years (which isn't such a horrible thing) and way too much time listening to Radio Disney.

metsguyinmichigan Feb 07 2008 08:35 PM

Explaining AG/DCs observation.... metsguyinmichigan Rush, "Moving Pictures" and "Test for Echo" 10,000 Maniacs, "Our Time in Eden" ABC: "The Lexicon of Love" Audio Adrenaline, "Underdog" Billy Joel, "Glass Houses" Kiss, "Alive!" Mercyme, "Coming up to Breathe" Ramones, "Loco Live" Boston, "Boston" ABC. I see big seventies mergining into progressive eighties before you get your rock back on with a Christian bent in the late ninties and early aughts, but synthetic British soul barely touches that arc. How'd that get in there? Brilliant deduction. And here's the story. I was into new wave in the 1980s, the real MTV synth stuff like Human League, Flock of Seagulls, Berlin, Duran Duran. But they were really singles bands. That first ABC album holds together as a unit and not just a collection. Plus, it's good to run to. So when I was at Mizzou and running six miles a day, I'd often play my ABC tape with that album and "How to be a Zillionaire" Since the question was albums you know from beginning to end, that was one that jumped to mind. Thinking about it later in the day, I realized I should have included UFOs "Strangers in the Night" which I had on a horrid 8-track. And it was horrid because several songs were divided into two different programs. When I hear it on CD today, I still think it's going to fade out in different parts....

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 07 2008 09:42 PM

]The Trick has moments of both, but stands out as a gimmick act with a much shallower bag than their listmates. How'd that get in there? That's a pretty harsh assessment of Cheap Trick. I mean, yeah, but any album that has "Surrender" on it is pretty much already a classic and it's only a matter of how bad the rest of it is, and the rest is pretty good.

AG/DC Feb 07 2008 11:20 PM

What can I say? I'm just surprised I couldn't find Opus X by Chilliwack on your list.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 08 2008 05:11 AM

This wasn't supposed to be top 10 ever, just 10 you liked. 3 chiliwhacks get on that list.

bmfc1 Feb 08 2008 06:50 AM

Billy Joel--Turnstiles Barenaked Ladies--Barenaked Ladies Are Me Bruce Springsteen--Magic The Beatles--A Hard Days Night (Soundtrack) Eric Carmen--Boats Against the Current The Proclaimers--Life With You REM--Automatic For The People Spinners--A One of a Kind Love Affair Squeeze--A Round and A Bout (Live) Warren Zevon--Stand In The Fire (Live)

AG/DC Feb 08 2008 06:53 AM

Inpressive. Two Spinners fans on the Crane Pool. If they knew, they'd be giving us private podcasts.

metirish Feb 08 2008 06:54 AM

Rage Against the Machine are in there because I saw them at the Féile Festival (also known as The Trip to Tipp) as a younster , blew me away...how come the Pogues are not on your list AG/DC?

AG/DC Feb 08 2008 06:59 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 08 2008 07:27 AM

Because I finally saw them and Shane is a depressing nightmare and there are enough yahoos encouraging him without my help. If I Should Fall from Grace with God, though, is an amazing achievement. I always found it head and shoulders above RS&tL and absolutely dwarfing the rest of their catalog.

metirish Feb 08 2008 07:25 AM

I hear you on Shane, when did you see him....I flip flop between those two records now and then but you are correct .

AG/DC Feb 08 2008 07:50 AM

Well, I'm certain I posted about their show, but I can't find anything in the archives anymore.

metirish Feb 08 2008 07:54 AM

Yeah it was in the last two years you saw him IIRC, as did I in NYC.....he was hammered with a broken knee that confided him to a wheelchair. You saw him at the 950 Club?

soupcan Feb 08 2008 08:17 AM

Bad Co. is a love letter to my middle aged self from my juinor high school self. I listen to it, sing along and am transported back to getting high with Andrew Mottola and his big brother David in their apartment and falling down onto Andrew's drum set and breaking it. Coupla comments: John Cougar Lunchbucket The Proclaimers: Sunshine on Leith - Love this record. themetfairy ELO - A New World Record - I was late in my musical coming of age but I take pride in the fact that I was way into ELO and remained so before anybody knew who they were or thought they were cool. And they are cool. Gwreck REM - Out of Time - Two words: Kate Pearson. Fman99 Lenny Kravitz - Circus - Love Lenny. Good choice. Mendoza Line Cowboy Junkies - Pale Sun, Crescent Moon - I have this but don't really know it well. Based on your comments though, I'm gonna give it some listenin'

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 08 2008 08:27 AM

Making up a new list of 10 entirely from other people's lists without using any more than one from each person: Girlfriend (soupcan) Boston (Michigan) Silk Degrees (Fairy) Making Movies (AG & FK) Quadrophenia (Fman) Exciteable Boy (Mendoza) Perfect World (Rockin Doc) Look Sharp (TransMonk) Armed Forces (Sharpie) Paul's Boutique (Meathead)

Gwreck Feb 08 2008 11:16 AM

The Unforgettable Fire (Soupcan) Our Time in Eden (metsguyinmichigan) Damn the Torpedos (J.C. Lunchbucket) Mystery Girl (AG/DC) Let It Bleed (Sharpie) Let It Be (Transmonk) Magic (bfmc1) Appetite for Destruction (Seawolf) Blood on the Tracks (Frayed Knot) Remain in Light (Methead)

AG/DC Feb 08 2008 11:25 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 08 2008 12:01 PM

Off the top of your head, name the songs in order for the first album on your list.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 08 2008 11:30 AM

Marshall Crenshaw There She Goes Again Someday, Soneway Girls T H W A C K !

metirish Feb 08 2008 11:36 AM

Lizzy Jailbreak Emerald Southbound Rosalie Dancing in the Moonlight Still in Love With You Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed Cowboy Song into the Boys are back inTown opens side two...'Warriors' and 'Don't believe a word' are there as is 'Are you Ready' just don't remember the order....The Rocker closes the thing though. I've listened to that CD I would say several hundred times...more maybe.

metsguyinmichigan Feb 08 2008 11:48 AM

AG/DC wrote: Off the op of your head, name the songs in order for the first album on your list. Tom Sawyer Red Barchetta YYZ Limelight The Camera Eye Witch Hunt Vital Signs That album is damn near perfect!

Willets Point Feb 08 2008 11:52 AM

I've avoided looking at the rest of this thread to avoid coloring my results: 1. Various artists, "This Are Two Tone" 2. Peter Gabriel, "So" 3. Paul Simon, "Graceland" 4. Pixies, "Doolittle" 5. Soundtrack, "Trainspotting" 6. Erin McKeown, "Distillation" 7. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, " Tanglewood Tree" 8. Dimitri from Paris, "Sacrebleu" 9. Billy Bragg & Wilco, "Mermaid Avenue" 10. Johnny Clegg & Savuka, "Cruel, Crazy Beautiful World"

metsguyinmichigan Feb 08 2008 11:58 AM

="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Making up a new list of 10 entirely from other people's lists without using any more than one from each person: Cheap Trick: Heaven Tonight (Cougar) Billy Joel - The Stranger (Met Fairy) Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen (Gwreck) Dire Straits Making Movies (AG/DC) “Abbey Road," Beatles (Fman99) U2 - Achtung Baby (Metirish) DC Talk - Jesus Freak (Rockin’ Doc) (I could have matched 8 of his 10) The Doors (Sharpie) Live - Throwing Copper (Han Solo) Led Zeppelin - II (Methead)

seawolf17 Feb 08 2008 12:05 PM

Gwreck wrote: The Unforgettable Fire (Soupcan) Our Time in Eden (metsguyinmichigan) Damn the Torpedos (J.C. Lunchbucket) Mystery Girl (AG/DC) Let It Bleed (Sharpie) Let It Be (Transmonk) Magic (bfmc1) Appetite for Destruction (Seawolf) Blood on the Tracks (Frayed Knot) Remain in Light (Methead) Hey! Someone picked one of mine! Cool. ="AG/DC"]Off the top of your head, name the songs in order for the first album on your list. Young Lust FINE Love in an Elevator Monkey On My Back Janie's Got A Gun The Other Side My Girl Don't Get Mad, Get Even Voodoo Medicine Man What It Takes

sharpie Feb 08 2008 12:10 PM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: ]Making up a new list of 10 entirely from other people's lists without using any more than one from each person: I'm the Man (Lunchbucket) Let It Be (AGDC) Stand Up (fman) Rain Dogs (Irish) Excitable Boy (Mendoza) This Perfect World (Doc) Blood On the Tracks (Frayed Knot) Overnite Sensation (Methead) Graceland (Willets) This Years Model (Transmonk)

Centerfield Feb 08 2008 12:23 PM

If I'm being honest, rather than picking obscure albums to make me look more knowledgeable about music than I actually am, my list would look like this: Led Zeppelin IV Guns N Roses – Appetite for Destruction Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Eric Clapton – Unplugged Pearl Jam – Ten Michael Jackson – Thriller Jackson Browne – Running on Empty Van Halen – 5150 Aerosmith – Pump U2 – The Joshua Tree

soupcan Feb 08 2008 12:34 PM

AG/DC wrote: Off the top of your head, name the songs in order for the first album on your list. Horses Just my Baby Ghetto Of My Mind Rodeo Girl Ghost Train Don't Let The Sun Catch you Crying ...? Satellites...? Aaaah...fuck you.

Gwreck Feb 08 2008 12:58 PM

AG/DC wrote: Off the top of your head, name the songs in order for the first album on your list. Radio Song Losing My Religion Low Near Wild Heaven Belong Half a World Away Shiny Happy People Texarkana Country Feedback Me in Honey Crap. Think I'm missing one. And the order might be slightly screwy.

RealityChuck Feb 08 2008 01:16 PM Re: Gimme 10...

soupcan wrote: ...albums you love, off the top of your head. Spirit -- The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus Bonzo Dog Band -- Tadpoles The Who Live at Leeds The Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore West Beatles -- The Beatles Blood Sweat and Tears -- Child is Father to the Man Soft Machine -- Third Pink Floyd -- Atom Heart Mother A Chorus Line (original cast album) Flash and the Pan

HahnSolo Feb 08 2008 01:21 PM

Tracks in order, boy I can't remember all of them The Dam at Otter Creek Selling the Drama I Alone Iris Lightning Crashes Dammit! All Over You Sh*t Towne

metirish Feb 08 2008 01:27 PM

Love that Live CD a whole lot.

seawolf17 Feb 08 2008 02:01 PM

Forgot "White, Discussion," which we played the crap out of on my college radio station, and "Waitress," which my band rocked the hell out of. Actually, we played a bunch of songs off that disc -- I Alone, All Over You, Shit Towne... great album.

Willets Point Feb 08 2008 02:10 PM

="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Making up a new list of 10 entirely from other people's lists without using any more than one from each person: Beatles - Rubber Soul (soupcan) Billy Joel, "Glass Houses" (metsguyinmichigan & HahnSolo) "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs," Derek & the Dominos (Fman99) The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (metirish) The Roches - The Roches (Mendoza Line) Beatles - Revolver (Rockin Doc) Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (TransMonk) The Doors (sharpie) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Methead) The Beatles - Abbey Road (tons of people) I can never figure out what my favorite Beatles album is but those are the top 3 followed by the Let it be, the white album, and Beatles for Sale. I don't know how I forgot the Pogues. I'm glad that someone with the hip music credentials of TransMonk also likes Hail to the Thief. A lot of the 'experts' criticize it. Similarly I'm glad two Cranepoolers like Glass Houses which is also critically panned. That was the first LP I ever owned that wasn't a children's record so it has sentimental value. Plus I like it when Billy Joel rocks out.

Vic Sage Feb 08 2008 02:14 PM

Meatloaf: "Bat out of Hell" Cat Stevens: "Tea for the Tillerman" Who: "Who's Next" Pink Floyd: "The Wall" Dylan: "Blood on the Tracks" Springsteen: "Born to Run" Peter Gabriel: "Security" Beatles: "Sgt Pepper" The Monkees: "Headquarters" Suzanne Vega: "Suzanne Vega" Broadway show scores: 1776 Assassins Chess Hair Jesus Christ, Superstar Les Miz Man of La Mancha Ragtime Rocky Horror Sweeney Todd

themetfairy Feb 08 2008 04:59 PM

For those of you who are fans of Coltrane's A Love Supreme - [url=http://dixhills.com/]this is where he wrote it[/url]. I have never heard my hometown described in such glowing terms as it is on this website.

Rockin' Doc Feb 08 2008 05:57 PM

AG/DC -"Off the top of your head, name the songs in order for the first album on your list." Come Together Something Maxwell's Silver Hammer ...uh...oh...I think we're in trouble now.

cooby Mar 04 2008 05:25 PM

working on mine, maybe somebody else would like to answer belatedly too, so I bumped it

cooby Mar 06 2008 06:29 PM

My favorite album ever. I wouldn't normally say a greatest hits album should be a favorite, but there is a lot to love about this record. A whole lot. The rest of my list in no particular order: Double Fantasy ( the Lennon part) I Like It Like That! (Tito Nieves) Magician’s Birthday (Uriah Heep) Saturday Night Fever Jesus Christ Superstar Soundtrack What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye) Thriller (Michael Jackson) Experience Hendrix In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)

cooby Mar 25 2008 05:22 PM

I was rummaging around in my car for something different to listen to today and realized an awful lot of my favorite singers are dead. I am still half in love with John Lennon though

AG/DC Mar 25 2008 06:57 PM

The best Cat Stevens record is the one they never released, the soundtrack to Harold and Maude.

Number 6 Mar 28 2008 12:10 PM

I missed this thread... it's not too late to get on the train, is it? 1. Radiohead - OK Computer 2. M. Ward - Transistor Radio 3. Beck - Sea Change 4. Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 5. Nick Drake - Pink Moon 6. Sufjan Stevens - Come on, Feel the Illinoise! 7. Cake - Pressure Chief 8. Ween - White Pepper 9. Bjork - Homogenic 10. Stereolab - Sound-Dust

Willets Point Mar 28 2008 06:01 PM

Number 6 joins my people with great taste in music club.

TransMonk Mar 28 2008 07:36 PM

Willets Point wrote: Number 6 joins my people with great taste in music club. Ditto for me...I like that this is the second Nick Drake reference this week.

Fman99 Mar 28 2008 08:24 PM

="TransMonk"] ="Willets Point"]Number 6 joins my people with great taste in music club. Ditto for me...I like that this is the second Nick Drake reference this week. Pink Moon is a tremendous record.

OlerudOwned Mar 29 2008 03:16 PM

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea The Replacements - Let It Be The New Pornographers - Electric Version Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

OlerudOwned Mar 29 2008 03:21 PM

Number 6 joins my list of people who are great for picking Pressure Chief as the best Cake record. Also, "Off the top of your head, name the songs in order for the first album on your list." The King of Carrot Flowers, Part 1 The King of Carrot Flowers, Parts 2 & 3 In The Aeroplane Over the Sea Two Headed Boy Fool Holland, 1945 Untitled Communist Daughter Oh Comely Two Headed Boy, Part 2 Actual: # The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One" – 2:00 # "The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two & Three" (Jeremy Barnes, Julian Koster, Jeff Mangum, Scott Spillane) – 3:06 # "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" – 3:22 # "Two-Headed Boy" – 4:26 # "The Fool" (Spillane) – 1:53 # "Holland, 1945" – 3:12 # "Communist Daughter" – 1:57 # "Oh Comely" – 8:18 # "Ghost" – 4:08 # "Untitled" – 2:16 # "Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two" – 5:13 So, I beefed it after Holland, 1945. Which happens to be my favorite song on the album.

OlerudOwned Mar 29 2008 08:29 PM

To finish playing catch up, it's My Ten from Your Ten. The Beatles - Rubber Soul Cake - Pressure Chief Radiohead - OK Computer Talking Heads - '77 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Spoon - A Series of Sneaks Talking Heads - Remain in Light Pixies - Doolittle Nirvana - Nevermind And it'd be cheap to use the Mat's Let It Be again, but I feel obliged to take something from Monk's list because my tastes seem to match his closest. Thing is, I've never heard The Argument (I have Repeater) or Figure 8 (I have Either/Or and XO). So lets count those as one.

AG/DC Mar 29 2008 08:57 PM

Did Soupy ever buy Tomorrow the Green Grass?

soupcan Mar 30 2008 08:47 AM

Not yet. On my to-do-list.

Methead Mar 30 2008 09:05 AM

"Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2" Great call. From start to finish. The ending of Pygmy Twylyte might be my favorite guitar solo ever.

OlerudOwned Mar 30 2008 09:07 AM

Jayhawks seem to get a lot of play on the local [url=http://wbjb.org]community college public radio[/url] by me.

AG/DC Mar 30 2008 11:51 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 01 2008 05:28 AM

Not to oversell Tomorrow the Green Grass, but by Rainy Day Music, the Jayhawks had devolved into a single-frontman format after Mark Olson left. On Tomorrow, he and Gary Louris are giving you double the goodness. Also a strong suit from that era is the keyboards (mostly piano) of Karen Grotberg, who gave the group something of the feel Christine McVie brought to Fleetwood Mac... before they sucked. They toured the hell out of Tomorrow, but it didn't bring the US sales hoped for. (Nobody except Pearl Jam could figure out the rock marketplace in the nineties.) The band became unsustainable. One of Olson's tracks from the album, "Miss Williams' Guitar," was about then-girlfriend Victoria Williams. He left when they married to start a band with her. That band (the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers) didn't fly too far, the Jayhawks were hurt and nearly done for, and they stopped performing songs Olsson had written (but not his collaborations with Louris). Rainy Day Music was a potential swan song for the band, and it's cool that it worked out. ("Save It for a Rainy Day" is probably still in heavy rotation at a Caribou Coffee near you.) Drummer Tim O'Regan, who they picked up for the Tomorrow the Green Grass Tour, has become the secondary songwriter and the primary harmony singer, with Louris taking all the lead vocals. With Olsson and Williams now splitsville, Olsson last seen playing Borders stores, and Louris working on film scores, I say the time is right to reintegrate the old 'Hawks.

TransMonk Mar 30 2008 12:00 PM

="OlerudOwned"] And it'd be cheap to use the Mat's Let It Be again, but I feel obliged to take something from Monk's list because my tastes seem to match his closest. Thing is, I've never heard The Argument (I have Repeater) or Figure 8 (I have Either/Or and XO). I take that as a compliment OO, since I think your musical tastes are pretty dead on. Elliot Smith albums are all good, Figure 8 is just the one that I played the shit out of back in the day. The Argument is in my Top 10 albums of all time. It sounds like the album Pearl Jam has always wished they were cool enough to make. It's melodic and dissident and dynamic and is one of the best sounding albums (production-wise) I've ever heard. In the answer-ask thread a couple of weeks ago, Willets asked: "If baseball didn't exist, what other activity would bring together all us CPF'ers in our alternate reality?" It was answered, "Scrabble," by JCL. But I truly believe it would be our similar tastes in what I consider good music.

Number 6 Mar 31 2008 11:21 PM

="Methead"]"Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2" Great call. From start to finish. The ending of Pygmy Twylyte might be my favorite guitar solo ever. I went through a period where I listened to this album constantly. When I could sing along to the absurd instrumental sections in the Village of the Sun medley I knew I had to put it aside for awhile. I love Pygmy Twylyte... I personally favor the Inca Roads solo. It's probably my favorite Zappa track, and that solo is perfection. And BTW, good to see you at the Pool after many years; I do remember your great taste in both music and beer! OlerudOwned, I picked up the Neutral Milk Hotel album recently after reading some reviews online. I love the title track, but I just don't get the fascination with that album. I lot of people I really respect are wild about it... I suppose I just have to put it on the list of great stuff that I just don't understand. But yeah, Pressure Chief is Cake's most consistently catchy, well-crafted and fun album, IMO. Cake at their most Cakey.

Methead Apr 01 2008 07:14 AM

"I do remember your great taste in both music and beer" Ah, Number 6... Now I know who you are... surprised I didn't make the connection. Nice to see you too.