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

[Shenandoah]

Easy one. The greatest Live album ever recorded: Live at the Fillmore East

 

[Ozimoto]

Good songs, too

Quite so.

 

[Scud49]

Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow - This album is an incredible gem from start to finish:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

K- Kenney Loggins Danger Zone

 

[RockyMTblue2]

L Loggins & Messena At The Whiskey

 

[RockyMTblue2]

M Don McLean Vincent (Starry Starry Night)



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[Scud49]

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:

 

[DaddyChoc]

 

[Pinhead]

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and the Dominos and Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Jumping Into the Scrum/Dog Pile

One of my favs from my man Bob Seger as a youth, now and older Bob sings with another pretty good singer and yes he's still [Running] Against The Wind

 

[rvwsleep]

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:

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]

Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow - This album is an incredible gem from start to finish:

Side 1 especially

 

[Scud49]

Side 1 especially

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.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I know the rules; nonetheless, I think there is a K in there somewhere.

 

[Scud49]

I know the rules; nonetheless, I think there is a K in there somewhere.

I think thats the other thread you are referring to.

 

[Twolf]

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.

 

[Bigboote]

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.

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!

 

[Steelerone]

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.

There are several outstanding country and folk singers - then there is Emmy Lou.

 

[Steelerone]

"Wanted-The Outlaws. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, TomPall and the Glaser Brothers, and Jessie Colter. Doesn't get much better in country.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

S -Still to busy to be clever , so this is for me in an upcoming knee surgery!

 

[RockyMTblue2]

"Wanted-The Outlaws. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, TomPall and the Glaser Brothers, and Jessie Colter. Doesn't get much better in country.

Thanks for making it easy to post Sheryl's song!!

 

[Scud49]

There are several outstanding country and folk singers - then there is Emmy Lou.

She just got major props - and deservedly so - the other night on Ken Burns PBS special about the history of country music.

 

[Ozimoto]

This is my favorite 10,000 Maniac's Album.

 

[JordyG]

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.

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.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

She just got major props - and deservedly so - the other night on Ken Burns PBS special about the history of country music.