OT - Revisiting Old Albums

[imno1]

That Muscle Shoals documentary is worth watching.

I would recommend the one on the Wrecking Crew as well

 

[beerfan]

The Stone Roses
Hooker and Heat
Johnny Lee Hooker - Chill out

 

[Doginaus]

You may want to try giving some of these a try;

Old School

* Allman Brothers-The Fillmore Concerts
* Gregg Allman- Low Country Blues
* Junior Brown- Long Way Back
* Genesis- 3 Sides Live
* Donald Fagan- The Nightfly
* ELO- Discovery
* Jerry Garcia Band- How Sweet it is
* Joe Jackson- Night and Day
* Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the moon
* Santana- Caravanserai
* Paul Simon- There goes Rhymin Simon
* Alan Parson Project- The Turn of a Friendly Card
* Midnight Oil- Diesel and Dust
* Chris Rea- The Blue Cafe (pretty much anything by Chris Rea is good stuff)
* ZZ Top- Tres Hombres
* The Traveling Wilbury's- Vol.1
* Steve Winwood- Back in the High Life
* Tears for Fears- Songs from the Big Chair
* Yes- 90125
* Robert Cray- Strong Persuader
* CCR- The Concert
* CSN&Y- Deja vu

New Stuff

* The Bag Raiders- Bag Raiders (this is their first release, Aussie band)
* RAC- Strangers
* Empire of the Sun- Walking on a Dream
* Avicii- True
* Daft Punk- Random Access Memories
* John Newman- Tribute
* Cold Play- A Head Full of Dreams
* Maroon 5- V

Just a few CD's that I listen to at work, from one end of the spectrum to the other.

 

[Deepster]

I crack up at the mentions of "Dark Side of the Moon". Give it a try? Hasn't it been on the Billboard Top 100 for like 25 years?

 

[mauconnfan]

Allman Bros - Eat A Peach
Led Zeppelin - (almost any) Houses of the Holy
J Geils - Full House (what kid didn't like "...I can't do my homework - anymore..") or (...Reputa the Beauta..)
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstacy
Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes
Grand Funk - Closer to Home, Shinin' On
Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are, Burn
Whitesnake - Greatest Hits
Rainbow - Richie Blackmor's Rainbow

 

[ktuck911]

If it's R&B/Jazz/Soul/NeoSoul's your thing

Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits
Sade's Greatest Hits
Luther Vandross Greatest Hits
Maxwell,
Jill Scott
Mary J Blige

 

[James]

Bitches Brew is probably the best purchase of any kind I've made. Gotten a lot of mileage out of that one for long trips.

I'll throw Mingus' black saint and the sinner lady out there, really a journey in its own to listen to that record .

Anybody else dig jazz but with a modern/hip hop/funk twist (well 2003) I would suggest grabbing shades of blue by madlib. Great album

 

[James]

Television -Marquee Moon

Dumptruck- D is for Dumptruck (A Boston indy my buddy was friends with, wore out the cassette back in the day).

Blur-Parklife

One of the more underrated albums ever is blurs think tank imo

 

[UC313]

Lightnin Hopkins - The Very Best of Lightnin Hopkins

 

[UC313]

Lightnin Hopkins - The Very Best of Lightnin Hopkins

 

[WhiteDressWes]

Spellbinder by Gabor Szabo. When Carlos Santana first heard it, he had a blues band.



4 LPs by Malo, with Carlos' brother Jorge including Suavecito
Tower of Power: East Bay Grease with Sparkling in the Sand
Shuggie Otis: Freedom Flight with original of strawberry letter 23

 

[TheRealKBuks]

I'm going to assume that "Old Albums" means > 10 years so if anyone likes progressive/hard rock Coheed and Cambria "Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Vol 1 From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness" is a near masterpiece. Probably the best rock album of that decade (2000-2009).

 

[alexd]

Allman Bros - Eat A Peach
Led Zeppelin - (almost any) Houses of the Holy
J Geils - Full House (what kid didn't like "...I can't do my homework - anymore..") or (...Reputa the Beauta..)
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstacy
Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes
Grand Funk - Closer to Home, Shinin' On
Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are, Burn
Whitesnake - Greatest Hits
Rainbow - Richie Blackmor's Rainbow

Great list....BTW....the "Reputa the beauta" was on the Geils :Blow your face out" live LP....
I saw Grand Funk last fall (original drummer and bassist) - they still rock. They've got former Kiss axe man Bruce Kulick and former .38 special member Max Carl.

Any Steely Dan LP will do. They are at the OAKDALE in April.....but Steve Winwood doesn't join the tour until May sometime.

 

[Dove]

Get your reggae on:

Steel Pulse: 1. Earth Crisis 2.True Democracy 3. Handswoth Revolution
Black Uhuru: 1. Anthem 2. Ultimate Collection
The Green: 1. The Green 2. Ways and Means 3. Hawaii 13
Bob Marley: 1. Legend 2. Exodus 3. Kaya
UB40: 1. Rat in Mi Kitchen 2. Promises and Lies
Gregory Isaacs: Ultimate Collection
Soja: 1. Amid The Noise and Haste 2. Born in Babylon

 

[alexd]

Get your reggae on:

Steel Pulse: 1. Earth Crisis 2.True Democracy 3. Handswoth Revolution
Black Uhuru: 1. Anthem 2. Ultimate Collection
The Green: 1. The Green 2. Ways and Means 3. Hawaii 13
Bob Marley: 1. Legend 2. Exodus 3. Kaya
UB40: 1. Rat in Mi Kitchen 2. Promises and Lies
Gregory Isaacs: Ultimate Collection
Soja: 1. Amid The Noise and Haste 2. Born in Babylon

Hey Dove....UB40 is at College St. Music hall in Aug.

 

[Dove]

Hey Dove....UB40 is at College St. Music hall in Aug.

Yep. That band (all of them) is a trainwreck as they had a rift. Original singer took 2 others and split off. Touring as UB40. The rest of band is touring as UB40 also. I might buy tix in July if available.

 

[David 76]

Spellbinder by Gabor Szabo. When Carlos Santana first heard it, he had a blues band.



4 LPs by Malo, with Carlos' brother Jorge including Suavecito
Tower of Power: East Bay Grease with Sparkling in the Sand
Shuggie Otis: Freedom Flight with original of strawberry letter 23

I went to see Malo in the early 70s I believe at the University of New have. Arrived to learn they weren't making it (illness?) and they brought in some other band. I was pissed! Who the hell is Fleetwood Mac?!

 

[Mike75]

Lots of good suggestions. Some other ones, in no particular order:

The Clash - London Calling
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
The Cars - The Cars
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Sugar - Copper Blue
Pixies - Doolittle
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Nas - Illmatic
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Operation Ivy - Energy
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Ramones - Leave Home
Pogues - Red Roses for Me
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Sublime - Sublime
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
311 - Transistor
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays the Blues
Van Halen - Van Halen
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Jerry Garcia Band - Live

 

[sledog]

Murry the K - Submarine Race Watchers - Vol 1.

 

[Phorcys]

Get your reggae on:

Steel Pulse: 1. Earth Crisis 2.True Democracy 3. Handswoth Revolution
Black Uhuru: 1. Anthem 2. Ultimate Collection
The Green: 1. The Green 2. Ways and Means 3. Hawaii 13
Bob Marley: 1. Legend 2. Exodus 3. Kaya
UB40: 1. Rat in Mi Kitchen 2. Promises and Lies
Gregory Isaacs: Ultimate Collection
Soja: 1. Amid The Noise and Haste 2. Born in Babylon

I and I like your post, mon.

But Ras Tafari, Haile Selassie, the lion of Zion would have probably preferred Black Uhuru’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner over the two albums you listed.

 

[Dove]

I and I like your post, mon.

But Ras Tafari, Haile Selassie, the lion of Zion would have probably preferred Black Uhuru’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner over the two albums you listed.

I read ya, mon. As long as Michael Rose is singing and not Junior Reed.

 

[bobbygt]

Anyone else get into the Sparks? I don't have any of their albums, but my wife has a bunch of their songs on her computer.

Here's one:

 

[Waquoit]

I went to see Malo in the early 70s.

Malo is what made realize the power of Google. We were trying to figure out who sang that song, "Never....I never met a girl like you...." I seemed to recall it had something to do with Santana's brother. So I entered " Santana's brother" and Malo was one of the first entries.

 

[Waquoit]

If we are adding in under appreciated bands:

Gong-Angel's Egg and You

FWIW, I started out with Gong. That's the type of thing I was looking for, something way off my radar screen. I never heard of them and I'm almost through their Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy of which Egg and You are a part. It's been fun, I hear some Zappa and Traffic in there. I'm going with Sparks next and perhaps Coheed and Cambria after that.

 

[mauconnfan]

Low Spark of High Heeled Boys = Classic