OT: Favorite Album

[meyers7]

Yes - Fragile

One of the first albums I bought when I was young was Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Not Fragile".

 

[Beemer]

My all time favorite album is Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours". I've gone through at least a dozen copies whether vinyl, cassette or cd. Just a great rock classic.

 

[Ozimoto]

Two of the first albums I bought were the first "Boston" album and Heart's "Dreamboat Annie."

Wore the grooves down on the Who's "Tommy" as well.

 

[rvwsleep]

This could take awhile:
In no particular order
(I'm trying to avoid "Best of")
Beatles - Revolver, Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper
Who - Who's Next
CS&N - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Led Zeppelin - II, IV
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, The Wall
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Stones - Exile on Main St.
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Waters. (Earlier albums were equally great)
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Bob Marley - Legend
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Prince - Purple Rain
AC/DC - Back in Black
Special Mention:
The soundtrack to "The Harder They Come" (My intro to Reggae and my second "midnight movie")
Mozart Operas - The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni
Chet Baker - Very Best of Chet Baker
(For me, the ultimate mood music, along with Davis' Kind of Blue and Coltrane's My Favorite Things)

 

[Sifaka]

Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
John Handy- Monterrey Album

Drucker/Hambro/Mann recording of Bartok's Contrasts, on Bartok Records 1953?

Chicago- Chicago (II)
Jethro Tull- This Was

 

[Beemer]

Two of the first albums I bought were the first "Boston" album and Heart's "Dreamboat Annie."

Wore the grooves down on the Who's "Tommy" as well.

I love "Dreamboat Annie". I think it is their best by far.

 

[Bigboote]

title song???

There was no Making Movies on the album??

1. Tunnel of Love
2. Romeo and Juliett
3. Skateaway
4. Expresso Love
5. Hand in Hand
6. Solid Rock
7. Les Boys

The title of the album is taken from a line in "Skateaway":

She's making movies on location

It's a cool song about a girl roller skating through a city. As far as I can tell, she has an active imagination, and as she's listening to music through her headphones, she's imagining what's happening --

The music makes her want to be the story
And the story was whatever was the song

I am not great at interpreting things, so I may be way off base. But as I said, Mark Knopfler is a master at setting a mood, and this is one of his best.

 

[Bigboote]

For classical albums/sets:

von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic -- Beethoven symphonies (the 60's, not the 80's recordings)
Kertesz and the LSO -- Dvorak symphonies (geez, I wish he lived another few decades)
Trio Fontenay -- Ravel, Debussy, and Faure

 

[bbfanLA]

The first 3 albums/cassettes I bought with my own money were Born in the USA, Like a Virgin and Purple Rain, so those will always hold a special place for me.

 

[meyers7]

The title of the album is taken from a line in "Skateaway":

She's making movies on location

It's a cool song about a girl roller skating through a city. As far as I can tell, she has an active imagination, and as she's listening to music through her headphones, she's imagining what's happening --

The music makes her want to be the story
And the story was whatever was the song

I am not great at interpreting things, so I may be way off base. But as I said, Mark Knopfler is a master at setting a mood, and this is one of his best.

I know the song. Have it in my library. I've seen the video with Jayzike Azikiwe. Just wasn't sure what song you were talking about because you called it the title song (which would make it "Making Movies").

For anyone who hasn't seen it.

 

[chj001]

I hadn't considered classical albums when composing my list, but I would be remiss if I neglected to add the album that piqued my lifelong love of classical music at the age of 8 or 9---Van Cliburn, fresh off his triumph at the first Moscow Piano Competition, performing Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto with Kirill Kondrashin conducting. First ever classical album to go platinum. Also, Georg Solti's first stereo recording of the complete Ring Cycle.

 

[Replicant]

Grateful dead - Europe '72
Kenny Loggins - Night Watch
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Gregg Allmän - Laid Back

 

[CajunHusky]

In College: Its a Beautiful Day
Post College: Rumors, Linda Ronstadt and Nelson Riddle, Linda Ronstadt Mariachi Album
Second Childhood: Ace of Base

and then just to be mentioned as go to music:
any of Abba;s albums, Allanis Morisette first album, George Thorogood (a road trip just went that much quicker listening to Highway 49), and Trio (Dolly Parton Emmylou Harris and - drumroll - Linda Ronstadt)

 

[CajunHusky]

In College: Its a Beautiful Day
Post College: Rumors, Linda Ronstadt and Nelson Riddle, Linda Ronstadt Mariachi Album
Second Childhood: Ace of Base

and then just to be mentioned as go to music:
any of Abba;s albums, Allanis Morisette first album, George Thorogood (a road trip just went that much quicker listening to Highway 49), and Trio (Dolly Parton Emmylou Harris and - drumroll - Linda Ronstadt)

oh ... and I have a boxed set of 6 or 7 LPs from Columbia or something titled Country Music each LP music from one artist ..... Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash were terrific.

 

[Vowelguy]

• Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
• Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
• Bruno Mars - Doo Wops & Hooligans
• Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to ...
• Paula Cole - Harbinger
• Michael Jackson - Thriller
• Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
• George Michael - Listen without Prejudice, Vol. 1
• Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
• Basia - Time and Tide
• Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
• Carole King - Tapestry

 

[Beemer]

In College: Its a Beautiful Day
Post College: Rumors, Linda Ronstadt and Nelson Riddle, Linda Ronstadt Mariachi Album
Second Childhood: Ace of Base

and then just to be mentioned as go to music:
any of Abba;s albums, Allanis Morisette first album, George Thorogood (a road trip just went that much quicker listening to Highway 49), and Trio (Dolly Parton Emmylou Harris and - drumroll - Linda Ronstadt)

"Trio" is a great album, it is too bad they never made another one together.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Fav none-album cut 33 M views, but just listen:

 

[Bigboote]

"Trio" is a great album, it is too bad they never made another one together.

They did; believe it or not, it's called "Trio II". It came out about ten years after the first. IIRC, they had planned to release a second album two years or so after the first, but they weren't able to schedule much studio time together. So the album is a mish mash of those sessions, maybe a couple more songs they recorded together years later, and some duos. It wasn't nearly as good as the first.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman

 

[Shenandoah]

Might be showing my age here (and hopefully wasn't already posted) but...what is your favorite Album (vinyl), 8 Track, Cassette or CD? You know, the one that you sing along with every song.
Mine: besides every Beatles' album, Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell.

Allman Brothers Band: Live at the Fillmore East. Arguably the greatest live album ever made...

 

[Bigboote]

One that I'm surprised that I hadn't thought of is one of the earliest albums: Masterpieces by Ellington, issued in about 1950. It has three familiar pieces Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, and Solitude, and one that I don't think had been recorded before, the Tattooed Bride. The first two had vocals by Yvonne (I think her last name was something like Lauzanne?).

The cool thing about this album is that my father had 78's of Ellington, which we listened to when we still had a record player that would do 78's. When I was about 10-12 I got him a double album that had probably 25 or so of the original recordings from the 20's and 30's. So I was used to 2-3 minute Ellington recordings. This album was one of the first, if not the first time a jazz big band was able to do "concert" arrangements of 10-15 minutes. Here's Mood Indigo with Yvonne:

 

[CajunHusky]

and don't forget Allan Sherman .... I think my wife has his My Son the Nut album.

 

[Beemer]

Allman Brothers Band: Live at the Fillmore East. Arguably the greatest live album ever made...

Another great live album- The Who "Live At Leeds"

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Even some greatest hits packages have some songs that make you ask "when was this a hit?"

I've also noticed the opposite to be true where there are glaring omissions. I thought "In the City" and "Those Shoes" were missing from the Eagles Greatest Hits (Vol II I assume). Bad Company's 10 from 6 was missing "Silver, Blue and Gold" and I think 1 other song that escapes me right now.