I was reminded how some records make you stop what you are doing and listen to them!

gfong
gfong Posts: 1,079
edited March 2011 in Music & Movies
While I was making my supper I was listening to Black Sabbath "Paranoid" LP and realized that this record warranted my full attention!
Once I cleaned up the supper dishes, I re-cued the LP on the table, grabbed a Foldgers, sat back and was wowed again!

Excellent damn album!


What album does it for you?

You know, the album that makes you stop what you are doing and listen or the one that gets your undivided attention so that you can just listen?

There are probably a lot! Maybe we can name a few each and have a "top album" list for other members to investigate.

A couple of mine would be:

Carly Simon "Anticipation"
Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures"
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  • B Run
    B Run Posts: 1,888
    edited March 2011
    The Clash, London Calling... or (on blu ray) Dave Mathews & Tim Reynolds live at radio city music hall are my favorites.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited March 2011
    All of them that I put on.

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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited March 2011
    headrott wrote: »
    All of them that I put on.

    Greg

    +1

    Though the other night I had to sit down an dig k.d. lang all the way thru, both sides :smile:
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited March 2011
    Crosby Stills & Nash, by Crosby Stills & Nash is a landmark album IMO!:smile:

    Samples link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B000002J0P/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img
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  • miner
    miner Posts: 1,305
    edited March 2011
    My latest new find has been Peter Wolf "Midnight Souveniers". The duet with Shelby Lynn is mezmerising.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,655
    edited March 2011
    Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime" never can just listen to one song
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited March 2011
    B Run wrote: »
    The Clash, London Calling

    Absolutely.

    I'd also like to add Disintegration by The Cure.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited March 2011
    Elton John's "Madman Across the Water" did that to me the other week.

    Had the house to myself, so I put in my SACD version and turned up the volume - not too loud - just 'room filling' and then could...not...stop....listening.

    Lots of others do that - its the 'whole experience or nuthin' - which is why I probably will never be a 'playlist' type of guy...but that's just me :wink:

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  • thesurfer
    thesurfer Posts: 574
    edited March 2011
    Tom petty and the Heartbreakers, Damn the torpedos,
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  • On3s&Z3r0s
    On3s&Z3r0s Posts: 1,013
    edited March 2011
    stuwee wrote: »
    +1

    Though the other night I had to sit down an dig k.d. lang all the way thru, both sides :smile:

    That Bookman's price tag makes me homesick for Tucson... Go Cats!!!


    Er... back to the matter at hand, +1 for Operation Mindcrime, definitely Queensryche's best.
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  • Bababouey
    Bababouey Posts: 129
    edited March 2011
    Chris Thile Not All Who Wander Are Lost
    Patricia Barber Cafe Blue
    Steve Earle Townes
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  • gfong
    gfong Posts: 1,079
    edited March 2011
    Really nice list we got started.

    Have to agree with the not being a playlist type of guy as well. Love sitting down and taking the entire album in.
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  • Trev123
    Trev123 Posts: 28
    edited March 2011
    Vangelis 1492 Conquest Of Paradise.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    edited March 2011
    Tommy Bolin Private Eyes,Tommy Bolin Teaser,James Gang Miami (with Tommy Bolin not Joe Walsh) those are the albums my Disc washer fluid gets used on the most, not to metion the ol discwaher zero stat I've pulled the trigger on those albums many times,for a static free Tommy Bolin LP.
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  • Trev123
    Trev123 Posts: 28
    edited March 2011
    Whats vinyl ?!!!!
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited March 2011
    1967-1970 ~ The Beatles, yeah it's a greatest hits Lp, but it has a grip on me, must listen to side 1, then 2, then 3 &4!!
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  • gfong
    gfong Posts: 1,079
    edited March 2011
    stuwee wrote: »
    1967-1970 ~ The Beatles, yeah it's a greatest hits Lp, but it has a grip on me, must listen to side 1, then 2, then 3 &4!!

    I just picked up the Red and the Blue original Canadian LP releases but have not cleaned them yet. Looking forward to listening to all 8 sides! :biggrin:
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  • ROHfan
    ROHfan Posts: 1,014
    edited March 2011
    Rush--2112. Does it for me every time. Great album top to bottom.
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