Favorite LP's?

voltz

I love checking out the "What are you listening to thread!
but I am curious to know what are you top 10 Vinyl LP's and or CD's ?

Supertramp * Crime of the century *
Fleetwood Mac * Rumors
wishbone Ash * Argus
Dire Straights * Self titled
The Doors * Self titled
Van Morrison * Moondance
Steely Dan * AJA
Elton Johns * Goodbye yellow brick road
R.E.M. * Automatic for the people
Led Zepplin * Mothership * okay I know that was cheating...

MrBuhl

Man its so tough to pic so few! (and Mothership is cheating!)

Dire Straits - Making Movies
Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Genesis - Duke
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Paul Simon - Negotiations and Love Songs
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Pearl Jam - Ten
Yes - Close to the Edge
Sinatra - Reprise the Very Good Years

**LOL I just realized, Reprise and Negotiations are both cheating too!!

[Deleted User]

Well,
these are the core ones I come back to:

Beatles - Revolver
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue and BBrew
Dylan - Infidels & Oh Mercy
Hawkwind 'Warrior on the Edge of Time'
Icon - first CD
Gentle Giant - Power and the Glory
Love - forever changes (mofi and regular two CD set)
Pink Floyd - Animals (really any PF)
Rolling Stones - (anything with Mike Taylor)
RUSH
Thin Lizzy 'Vagabonds of the Western World' two CD set
Zombies - Odessy and Oracle

it's getting to hard to pick!

dromunds

Here's a few that had the biggest impact on me, and I still go back to, these are some that come to mind, tomorrow I could have lots of others.

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (or Electric Ladyland or Essential Jimi Hendrix)
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (or at least five others)
Dire Straits - ST (or various Knopfler solo)
Yes - CTTE
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Steakbone Slide Guitar
Lightning Hopkins - Everest Records Vol. II
U-Roy - Dread In A Babylon
Wailers - Burnin'
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory
MC5 - Back In The USA

Ok, I cheated.

MrBuhl

^^ I almost picked Are You Experienced as well Dromunds! ^^

mhardy6647

Specifically targeting licorice pizzas, I think my choices (off the top of my head) would be:

* Grateful Dead "American Beauty" (MoFi)
* Little Feat "Waiting for Columbus" (MoFi)
* The Who "Who's Next"
* Beatles "Abbey Road" (MoFi)
* Beatles "Revolver"
* Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
* Dvorak Symphony Nr. 9 ("New World") Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Sir Colin Davis, conductor (Philips)
* Beatles "White Album"
* The Who "Quadrophenia"
* Steely Dan "Can't Buy a Thrill"
* Rolling Stones "Let it Bleed"
* Elton John "Tumbleweed Connection"
* Elton John "Madman Across the Water"

Sorry it's a pretty uninspiring/uninspired list -- some of the stuff I really like today wasn't/isn't available on the large black vinyl discs, AFAIK.

dromunds

I forgot Led Zeppelin 1

dromunds

Roy Buchanan - Second Album has to go up there also. Lol.

hochpt21

These are not necessarily my favorite LP's of all time, but from my modest collection.

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Alice In Chains - Unplugged
John Coltrane - Love Supreme
Pearl Jam - Ten
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

voltz

as soon as I made a list I saw a lot I missed...
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Sticky Fingers...
doesn't DSOTM have to been in there some where

mhardy6647

voltz wrote: »

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doesn't DSOTM have to been in there some where

Not from my perspective, no.
"Wish You Were Here", maybe. That's the only Pink Floyd album I really ever play any more.

hochpt21

mhardy6647 wrote: »

voltz wrote: »

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doesn't DSOTM have to been in there some where

Not from my perspective, no.
"Wish You Were Here", maybe. That's the only Pink Floyd album I really ever play any more.

Booooooo...

Nightfall

mhardy6647 wrote: »

voltz wrote: »

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doesn't DSOTM have to been in there some where

Not from my perspective, no.
"Wish You Were Here", maybe. That's the only Pink Floyd album I really ever play any more.

BOOOOOO!!!

mhardy6647

Heh, I figured I could get a rise outta youse mugs attacking one of the shibboleths ;- )

I liked Dark Side a lot for a long time -- I still admire it, but I basically never feel like actually listening to it any more. Played to death.

That said, I am far more likely to listen to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" now than I ever was in the 'seventies. Not really sure why; maybe I just feel more sympathy and perhaps even empathy for Syd's sad demise.



EDIT: On the other hand, I've loved the Dead's third studio album, aoxomoxoa, since the first time I heard it. Listened to most of it tonight, in fact. In the seventies, I'd skip "What's Become of the Baby?" because it was just too weird. It still is (too weird); but nowadays I can actually tolerate it all the way through. If nothing else, it is interesting... and the original version, as found on the original 1969 mix of aoxomoxoa, is REALLY interesting. That (and the lyrics, which are an interesting riff on the Christ/Christmas story) gave me an appreciation, albeit it late in the game, for this truly bizarre track.

gce

This is almost impossible to just pick 10 but, if I was stranded on a desert island and only could take 10 albums.

The Beatles ‎– Abbey Road
Cat Stevens ‎– Teaser And The Firecat
Crosby, Stills & Nash ‎– Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dire Straits ‎– Brothers In Arms
Led Zeppelin ‎– Led Zeppelin IV
America ‎– America
Neil Young ‎– Harvest
Santana ‎– Santana
Van Morrison ‎– Moondance
Norah Jones ‎– Come Away With Me

afterburnt

Pink Floyd: Wish you were here
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Lady Land
The Allman Bros: Fillmore East
Steely Dan: Royal Scam
Weather Report: Black Market
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame
Traffic: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Genesis: Trick of the Tai
Jethro Tull: Aqualung
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions

just a quick look at what I listen to over through the years

mhardy6647

heh, heh, heh... listening to "Wish You Were Here" on licorice pizza even as I type this, thanks to this thread :-P

whgarrett1394

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Beck - Mutations
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
David Gray - White Ladder
Elton John - Madman Across The Water
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Radiohead - The Bends
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Ween - White Pepper

txcoastal1

Well then make it top 25

chumlie

txcoastal1 wrote: »

Well then make it top 25

Still not enough.

pumpkinman

1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. The Beatles - White Album
3. The Zombies - Oddesey and Oracle
4. The Moon - Without Earth and the Moon
5. Santana III
6. Dire Straights - Communiqué
7. McDonald and Giles - self titled
8. Roy Buchanan - Second
9. Spirit - self titled 1st album
10. The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow

If you ask me this again in another month you'll get a diff. answer.

miner

1. Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally
2. Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
3. Dire Straits - BIA
4. SRV - In Step
5. Van Morrison - A Night in SF
6. Allman Bros. - Live at the Fillmore
7. Doobie Bros. - Captain and Me
8. Beth Hart/Joe Bonamassa - Can't Explain
9. Beatles - Let It Be
10. Stone - Some Girls

MrBuhl

A couple here that many have mentioned I could have easily included - Beatles, Van Morrison, SRV.

It's interesting to me that Dire Straits is so often mentioned, I don't find a lot of my regular "day to day" acquaintances are as enamored as I, or apparently most of us, are.

dromunds

I have periods where I will play Knopfler's solo stuff exclusively and go through various albums and discover his music has extremely depth and subtlety. Kind of like Dylan. I wish there were more on SACD, I picked up a SACD copy of Shangri-La for less than $5 and it was the best investment in music I've made in a long time. Some Dire Straits the same thing, only I've heard that so much more over time, but the first album still holds up especially. I just watched a live Dire Strait concert blu-ray recently and was amazed at how much energy those guys had.

dromunds

Looking back through these posts, I would concur heartily with Norah Jones Come Away With Me, Tom Petty Wildflowers, Pearl Jam Ten (which renewed my faith in the youth of today), and C,S &N, but I'd add Y with Deja Vu.

MrBuhl

dromunds wrote: »

I have periods where I will play Knopfler's solo stuff exclusively and go through various albums and discover his music has extremely depth and subtlety. Kind of like Dylan. I wish there were more on SACD, I picked up a SACD copy of Shangri-La for less than $5 and it was the best investment in music I've made in a long time. Some Dire Straits the same thing, only I've heard that so much more over time, but the first album still holds up especially. I just watched a live Dire Strait concert blu-ray recently and was amazed at how much energy those guys had.

Totally agree - he's amazingly gifted, not just on the guitar, but arranging, lyrics, everything - just a very unique talent.

mhardy6647

MrBuhl wrote: »

A couple here that many have mentioned I could have easily included - Beatles, Van Morrison, SRV.

It's interesting to me that Dire Straits is so often mentioned, I don't find a lot of my regular "day to day" acquaintances are as enamored as I, or apparently most of us, are.

I really like their first (eponymous) album -- it was a profound breath of fresh air in the disco, arena-rock dinosaur and punk-encrusted late 1970s "pop/rock" music landscape.

Great, atmospheric - even cinematic - stuff. Listen to "Down to the Waterline" and "Walking in the Wild West End"; the images evoked by the lyrics are palpable.

Oh, and you have my permission to skip "Sultans of Swing" -- speaking of being played to death :-P

gfong

Rod Stewart ‎– Every Picture Tells A Story
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
The Cure - Disintegration
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Kim Mitchell ‎– Akimbo Alogo
Peter Gabriel - So
Prince - Purple Rain
Sinéad O'Connor ‎– I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

msg

I didn't feel qualified to post to this thread at first because I don't have enough LPs yet to have 10 "favorite" ones, and I missed the part in D's OP saying it also pertains to CDs. I'm gonna try to keep my list to LP's since I've been getting into the vinyl here lately, and this is what I've been listening to mostly so far.

Great lists above! Giving me some ideas for albums on vinyl!

Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Dean & Britta - L'Avventura
Def Leppard - Hysteria
The Verve - A Storm In Heaven
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream
The Head and The Heart - Let's Be Still
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

Fave lists are difficult!

Indeed, DSOTM will be in the collection at some point. And, speaking to the other notes about Pink Floyd - my first PF cd was The Delicate Sound of Thunder, so my intro other older Pink Floyd was that live album. Before this, all I ever heard from PF was Learning to Fly from that cool video on MTV in the late 80s. I remember trying to squeeze in as much MTV time as I could back in those days while getting ready for school! Later, I swiped a scratchy old DSOTM from my brother and can remember really enjoying it one winter evening as the sun was going down, finishing in darkness.

Nightfall

Specifically LPs or just top 10 albums? I really like Tool "Lateralus" but the LP is a noisy picture disc and I wouldn't put it on my list then.

voltz

Top ten of either vinyl or CD's or even top 20+ as I super curious what albums everyone has come to love and play the most.

The New Phil Collins "Face Value" sure climb the charts for me this week