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OT: Your favorite album (or cd, or download, etc.)

Scud49 said:
This is my fav Beatles album of all time - and I think it's the greatest album by any group, ever. These 2 guys have a fun time reviewing it, it was "new" to them:
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Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour were all released within a 2 year span of each other. If there was a more productive, higher quality period of popular music produced in that short of span, I'm not aware of it.
 
Waquoit said:
Side 1 especially
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Yea, I agree - side 1 is incredible, right up there with anyone's else's "best sides ever" I would say. Today and Comin Back to Me are 2 gorgeous and poignant tracks that are not well known. I see it's ranked at #146 on Rolling Stone's top 500 albums of all time.
 
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For me it was Jackson Browne’s “Late For the Sky”. Listened to this before almost every college game. I was always haunted by the lyrics in “For a Dancer”, and the reality of the lyrics in “The Late Show”- “maybe people ask you how you’re doing because it’s easier than letting on how little they could care”. Great singer-songwriter.


 
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rvwsleep said:
Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour were all released within a 2 year span of each other. If there was a more productive, higher quality period of popular music produced in that short of span, I'm not aware of it.
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Creedence actually had a similar run. Bayou Country, Green River, Willie and the Poor Boys, and Cosmo's Factory were released in the span of about 18 months. (Their first album came out just 25 months before their fifth.) They all went multi-platinum and all except for the first spawned multiple singles, and they were very influential. Creedence actually outsold the Beatles in 1969, but were washed up just a couple of years later.

You've motivated me to listen to their first five, and I'm about halfway through them. For that I thank you!
 
Hope said:
Wrecking Ball, by Emmy Lou Harris.
I like many of the songs on the record. But my favorite would have to be her cover of the title track, which is a Neil Young song. When I first heard the lyrics, "I'll wear something pretty and white," I tried to imagine a past that was simpler, and when courtship was something special.

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There are several outstanding country and folk singers - then there is Emmy Lou.
 
Steelerone said:
"Wanted-The Outlaws. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, TomPall and the Glaser Brothers, and Jessie Colter. Doesn't get much better in country.
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Thanks for making it easy to post Sheryl's song!!
 
Steelerone said:
There are several outstanding country and folk singers - then there is Emmy Lou.
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She just got major props - and deservedly so - the other night on Ken Burns PBS special about the history of country music.
 
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Bigboote said:
I will give a one-album answer to a slightly different question: If there is a "perfect" album, it's Kind of Blue. I've been listening to it for 45 years, and to this day I can't find a fault with it. I wouldn't change a single note. I'm not sure I can say that about another album. (I'm about a month late wishing it a happy 60th birthday).

Another thing I love about it is that it's kind of the antithesis of the modern pop album that involves months of writing, months in the studio, months of mixing, another month in the studio, more mixing, and a month of promotion before it ever comes out. From Miles (and possibly Bill Evans) sketching out the tunes to wrapping recording was only a few days according to Evans's liner notes.

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Honestly, I like Kind Of Blue, and it remains a big audiophile favorite. But I prefer to listen to almost any of his Prestige albums of standards like "Miles", "Relaxin' ", "Workin' ", "Steamin' ", etc. I also prefer listening to his great quintet albums such as "Sorcerer", "ESP", "Miles Smiles" etc. But good Miles is good anytime.
 
rvwsleep said:
Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour were all released within a 2 year span of each other. If there was a more productive, higher quality period of popular music produced in that short of span, I'm not aware of it.
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Make it three years and add Abbey Road to that list. Remarkable.
 
Just thinkin' about this thread again...which I ignored expecting many favs would be named by others...and because it's tough to pick one favorite in such a broad category. Seeing it's still active, I decided Dylan should at least get a mention, in that many old folks like me have some/many of his many albums (probably still on original vinyl). Even then, there are a few of his I'd be happy to choose... such as Blood on the Tracks, Highway 61 Revisited, and others.

So I settled for Blonde on Blonde because it's a double album, and if marooned on an island with a turntable I could listen to more music. ;)
 
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Bigboote said:
Creedence actually had a similar run. Bayou Country, Green River, Willie and the Poor Boys, and Cosmo's Factory were released in the span of about 18 months. (Their first album came out just 25 months before their fifth.) They all went multi-platinum and all except for the first spawned multiple singles, and they were very influential. Creedence actually outsold the Beatles in 1969, but were washed up just a couple of years later.

You've motivated me to listen to their first five, and I'm about halfway through them. For that I thank you!
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Love CCR
 
In no particular order:

Stones: Aftermath & Exile on Main Street

Beatles: Abbey Road & Revolver

BoDeans: Outside Looking In (not a bad track on the entire disc)

Miles: Kind of Blue
 
Beemer said:
I've gone through I don't know how many copies of "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac and "Back In The High Life" by Steve Winwood.
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Fleetwood Mac 's "Rumours" is also my #1 choice

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