What is Your Most Favorite Album?

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  • SWFalken
    SWFalken Posts: 136
    edited March 2010
    7 Worlds Collide: Neil Finn and Friends Live At The St. James. Neil and Tim Finn, Johnny Marr, Lisa Germano, Eddie Vedder, Phil Selway, Sebastian Steinberg and Ed O'brien. Definitely one of the best live albums ever.

    Starfish: The Church. Just a really good album, if I just walk by and pick up my guitar the first thing I play is Under The Milky Way.

    Meat Is Murder: The Smiths. Brilliant Pop-craft.

    The Joshua Tree: U2. Very well written, very well played and very powerful.
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited March 2010
    I don't know if I could pick just one. Maybe Rush-2112, or something by Steely Dan...

    I think a better question would be....If one was to be stranded on an island (with electric and all the audio equipment one could want)...What would be the 3 groups you would take with you? You can have everything said group ever did, but only 3.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited March 2010
    SWFalken wrote: »
    Starfish: The Church. Just a really good album, if I just walk by and pick up my guitar the first thing I play is Under The Milky Way.

    Under The Milky Way is probably one of my top three favorite songs. Absolutely beautiful.

    For The Smiths, I would probably opt for The Queen is Dead. But then again, I'm a sucker for Cemetry Gates.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited March 2010
    POIDOG wrote: »
    Yes that's a good one, have the extended version :eek::cool:

    My fav, "Notorious Byrd Brothers" :)

    Extended version? Never knew there was one. If Ya like the Byrd Bros, you'll probably like the Flying Burrito Bros too.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited March 2010
    Hot Rats
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited March 2010
    Roxy Music "For Your Pleasure"

    and

    "The Best of Richard and Linda Thompson"
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,046
    edited March 2010
    Clash - Sandanista
    Zappa - Apostrophe
    Zappa - Chunga's Revenge
    Talking Heads - Speaking in Tounges
    Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
    Pixies - Bossanova
    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

    (Funny that 2 of the above I cannot locate at this time....)
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited March 2010
    Muse - Showbiz
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Spirit - "The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus"

    [IMG][/img]SpiritTwelveDreams_big.jpg
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,727
    edited March 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Spirit - "The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus"

    SpiritTwelveDreams_big.jpg

    I've got a copy of this album in the basement and have never listened to it... guess I need to do something about that, eh?
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I've got a copy of this album in the basement and have never listened to it... guess I need to do something about that, eh?

    Yes sir. It's one of the best theme albums I've ever heard and is recorded very, very well. At least my copy is. Plus it is one of the records I restored from the flood that took almost 1000 records from my collection with mold.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited March 2010
    Thanks for the Spirit!
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    Thanks for the Spirit!

    You wouldn't have that on R2R would ya Ken?
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited March 2010
    No, I'm afraid I don't. I have everything they've done on vinyl, big fan. I think Sunshine Records has reissued some of them.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    No, I'm afraid I don't. I have everything they've done on vinyl, big fan. I think Sunshine Records has reissued some of them.

    Bummer, I bet they would sound glorious recorded on R2R.

    I'll have to check out the reissues as I love Spirit and my LPs are getting worn out from years of playing especially when I first purchased them and played them on lower end tables although I years ago I used a Shure V15 Type V cartridge. Boy I wish I still had that cartridge. It would be a nice change to try out with what I currently own.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited March 2010
    U2 - The Joshua Tree
    Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
    Pink Floyd - Animals
    Yes - Fragile
    The Tragically Hip - Road Apples
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited March 2010
    SHAGGS: "Philosophy Of The World"

    Frank Zappa said it was the best album ever made.

    (Listen with extreme care).
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited March 2010
    Wow, some other Spirit fans. Nature's Way and all. Bet Y'all like It's a Beautiful Day too. Another great album from that time was Savoy Brown's "Lookin In".
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,727
    edited March 2010
    I do like It's a Beautiful Day but the only album I have is a greatest hits compliation from Europe. White Bird is just a ****' of a song...
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  • Zitro
    Zitro Posts: 864
    edited March 2010
    It's a close one between:

    Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here

    and

    Supertramp- Crime of the Century.

    I really like listening to Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park just to bring back the memories of the good old days when I was a wee lad lol.
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  • POIDOG
    POIDOG Posts: 391
    edited March 2010
    skipf wrote: »
    Extended version? Never knew there was one. If Ya like the Byrd Bros, you'll probably like the Flying Burrito Bros too.

    That be a fact for me :D:cool:



    http://www.amazon.com/New-Riders-Purple-Sage/dp/B00008QSA7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1269632042&sr=1-1

    3 live cuts added at the end, nice version of "The Weight"
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited March 2010
    Still sticking with Dark Side Of The Moon....
    Testing
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    skipf wrote: »
    Wow, some other Spirit fans. Nature's Way and all. Bet Y'all like It's a Beautiful Day too. Another great album from that time was Savoy Brown's "Lookin In".

    Now there's a blast from the past.:cool:
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Zitro wrote: »
    It's a close one between:

    Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here

    and

    Supertramp- Crime of the Century.

    I really like listening to Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park just to bring back the memories of the good old days when I was a wee lad lol.

    I have an original pressing (1974) of this LP that I bought when I was 19. It is still one of the best recorded records ever! The SQ is absolutely superb even though it's 26 years old.

    I recently bought the 200 gm virgin vinyl remaster which is awesome too.
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    I have an original pressing (1974) of this LP that I bought when I was 19. It is still one of the best recorded records ever! The SQ is absolutely superb even though it's 26 years old.

    I recently bought the 200 gm virgin vinyl remaster which is awesome too.

    This is awesome! How did you preserve it? We used to take two plays of the album of great interest to avoid static build up. The first was to clean out any "dirt" from the original pressing. The second to put onto tape. Then the vinyl was put away for archival purposes.

    What did you do?
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  • doctorcilantro
    doctorcilantro Posts: 2,028
    edited March 2010
    Neil Young - Harvest
    Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
    Bob Dylan - New Morning
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  • doctorcilantro
    doctorcilantro Posts: 2,028
    edited March 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    I have an original pressing (1974) of this LP that I bought when I was 19. It is still one of the best recorded records ever! The SQ is absolutely superb even though it's 26 years old.

    I recently bought the 200 gm virgin vinyl remaster which is awesome too.

    I have an Australian SQ which I believe is quite different from the UK. Meaning to archive this very soon.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Hillbilly61 wrote: »
    This is awesome! How did you preserve it? We used to take two plays of the album of great interest to avoid static build up. The first was to clean out any "dirt" from the original pressing. The second to put onto tape. Then the vinyl was put away for archival purposes.

    What did you do?

    I simply kept it clean and stored it rice paper inner sleeves and outer sleeves that were supposed to let the cardboard covers "breathe" that I had purchased from MFSL when they made them available and stored them in an environmentally controled setting.

    It was one of the albums that didn't get damaged by a flood we had in our basement in 2002. That one time I had to put my LP collection in the basement due to the fact that we were having some work done in the room that I usually kept them in. It was only in the basement for two weeks on top of shelves and old furniture.

    My little brother had decided he wanted to restore the old furniture and placed the crates of LPs setting on the furniture on the floor never bothering to place it back on top of something off the floor and it just so happened we had a unusually bad storm that lasted a couple days that caused the basement to flood out thus getting about about a thousand LPs moist in some degree or another.:mad: Thus far I've been able to restore about 500 LPs and had to ditch about 250 as they were beyond repair. I'm still working or the rest which I can tell you is a grueling, dirty, moldy task. :(

    Steve (Shack) turned me on to Vinyl-Zyme Gold about four years ago which has been a life saver for the moldy LPs. I now use it regularly when prepping used LPs.

    I took meticulous care of my LPs even as a teenager. BTW I played that copy of Crime of the Century for quite a few friends here, mostly notably Billy (LibertyC) and he was floored at the signal quality and condition of the LP. There is an occasional tick or pop here and there but overall, especially taking into consideration the archaic cleaning methods I had to use at the time, it is in great shape.
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    Beyond Cool, Hearingimpared.

    Crime of the Century is one of my faves, so are many of the others LPs/CDs listed by others as well. I could have well posted many of the LPs that have been mentioned by the folk in this thread in my OP. Beyond the fondness of and interest in Polk speakers, it is evident that many of us within this forum has a commonality of the same music most greatly enjoyed!
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  • WastelandWand'r
    WastelandWand'r Posts: 466
    edited March 2010
    David & David 'Boomtown'

    CD's had just come out. College, for me was the predominant theme, and MTV actually had music videos. Those were the days.

    Have the vinyl version, just need a tt to play it on. Someday.

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