OT: Desert Island Music Hypothetical
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 6:47 AM PDT
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After reading this Fanshot, I thought this might be a fun thread. We've all heard the generic "If you could take 5 albums to a desert island to listen to for the rest of your life, which ones would you take?"
This might be a tired question, but it's still kinda fun to answer and I always enjoy seeing other peoples choices.
Rules:
1. Double albums count as (1) selection
2. No "Best Of" compilations
3. (5) total albums
4. No music dick waving! We all like different sounds.
What five albums would you take?
Mine:
1.
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
I'm a big fan of electronic music and this is one of my favorites and a classic. They don't make music like this any more, dense, moody, ambient, dancey at spots, kinda dreamy and rhythmic. Xtal and Tha are probably my favorite tracks. The rumor is that Richard D. James made portions of this album when he was 13 or 14 years old.
2.
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Another classic that changed the way people thought about IDM in the 90s. Instead of glitchy and hyperactive, Boards release an album that was warm, nostalgic, tonal, and inviting. Tons of samples spliced in among tones and textures, love it. I still can't get over how great this album is nearly 10 years later.
3.
Radiohead - OK Computer
This album probably changed the way I thought about music. I'd never heard an album before that drew such emotions out of me like OK Computer did. I was a big fan of Radiohead, discovering The Bends in the mid-90's, but OKC is an epic album. The production, song writing, music, and most of all, the emotion that is contained in this record is jaw-dropping. Favorite songs The Tourist, No Surprises, and Let Down.
4.
Dr. Octagon - Octagonecologyst
Kool Keith and Automater hook up for one of the most diverse sounding records ever. Automator's production is splendid and meshes with Keith's weird, space alien influenced, doo-doo obsessed, time traveling flows. Great hip-hop record.
5.
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
The greatest hip-hop record ever, in my opinion. It was tough to choose a final album, but I have so many good memories with this album that I had to include it. The album is almost 15-years-old and the production still strikes me as stark, unique, and creative. Then, add in maybe the most talented group of rappers ever and you've got the best hip-hop record ever recorded. Can't It All Be So Simple, C.R.E.A.M., and Shame on a Nigga are some of my favorites.
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Good Choices, Xanthan
I would go with
1. The Crane Wife- The Decemberists
favorites: Summersong, Crane Wife 1,2,3, Yankee Bayonet
2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
favorites: Heavy Metal Drummer, Kamera, Jesus, etc.
3. Sgt. Peppers – The Beatles
favorites: ALL of them
4. The Joshua Tree – U2
Favorites: With or Without You, Where The Streets Have no Name
5. Harvest – Neil Young
favorites: The Needle and The Damage Done, Heart of Gold, Old Man
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by rhys on Aug 21, 2008 7:12 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That Wilco album is great. I really need to listen to more Decemberists, I’ve heard very little of them.
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 7:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And I like the Beatles, but my Beatles knowledge is severely lacking. I think my favorite Beatles album is the White Album.
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 7:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
White Album...
not a bad choice.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
is there a bad Beatles album? Even their early pop stuff is fantastic. I love Abbey Road, Revolver, and Magical Mystery Tour equally, but how can you throw out Sgt. Peppers?
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eh...
Let it Be? Some great songs still but just doesn’t sound that good.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
but still not a bad album, just not in the rarified air of the other efforts.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
All true.
It is hard.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
fucking specter
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 21, 2008 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not really..
He was given crap to begin with and he made a respectable album out of it.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 22, 2008 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
he deleted some of mccartney's parts
and added all the schmaltzy strings.
you like the strings on Across the Universe?! Long and Winding Road?
fucking crazy, gun-toting, waitress murdering, beatle-record-ruining freakshow, if you ask me, which you didn’t.
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 22, 2008 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I've actually got...
The entire Let it Be sessions tapes…yes all 97+ hours of it. They are pretty horrible songs in fact. And I think the Long and Winding Road does sound better with a lot of strings on it than just a guitar chiming now and then in the background.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 23, 2008 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d recommend Revolver for those that want to look behind the poppy
curtain that keeps some people away from the Beatles. Their best IMO.
by bgunn on Aug 21, 2008 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Actually..
Antything I think Revolver and beyond gets away from the poppy ones. Really everything else they did was not of a specific nature.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Revolver is great, no doubt. That was when the Beatles truly hit their stride IMO.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Revolver’s my favorite (and #1 of all albums according to the Rolling Stone poll), but Rubber Soul is where they started to separate from the pack. Listen to “Run for Your Life” and think of it in the context of everything that came before it.
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by achiappanza on Aug 22, 2008 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
“Run for Your Life” is certainly different from what came before it – but it’s probably the last song I would use as an example of Revolver’s greatness.
Revolver and Abbey Road are my personal favorites, incidentally.
by jcb9 on Aug 22, 2008 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I meant Rubber Soul’s greatness, duh.
The Cowboy Junkies did a nicely creepy cove of that song, by the by.
by jcb9 on Aug 22, 2008 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Interesting Decemberists choice
I love all the other albums, but Crane Wife is probably my third favorite Decemberists album. I gather you dig the Yes-era keyboards.
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by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 8:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeahhhh
I gotta agree with you here. Crane wife is probably the worst of the albums. Picaresque is nearly perfect.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Aug 22, 2008 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Joshua Tree is a great album (with a damn fine title!), but I’ve always thought Achtung Baby was U2’s best by far.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
zooropa!
masterpiece
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 21, 2008 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If I can’t take The Best of Dick Waving, I’m not going.
by Evan on Aug 21, 2008 7:12 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
1. Dick Waving’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. Exile on Dick Street
3. Dick Never Sleeps
4. If You Want Dick (You’ve Got It)
5. It Takes a Nation of Dicks to Hold Us Back
by Evan on Aug 21, 2008 7:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don't forget
Appetite For Dick Waving, Dark Side Of Dick Waving, Are You Experienced (In Dick Waving)?, Jagged Little Dick and The Dick Who Sold The World.
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by Cookyman on Aug 21, 2008 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mine...
1. Harvest – Neil Young
Quite possibly one of the best albums ever written. The only song I don’t care for especially is “Man needs a Maid”, but it’s still an ok effort. The rest of the songs are straight gold (Good pick Rhys).
2. Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
If I’m stuck on a deserted island, I’m gonna be pretty pissed off. This is my pissed off music.
3. Hysteria – Muse
Many people have claimed that this is not Muse’s best album, but it’s my favorite. Great.
4. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie
In my opinion, this is the epitome of David Bowie, a fantastic showing from one of the century’s greatest artists/performers. I couldn’t live without my daily dose of Bowie.
5. Moving Pictues – Rush
After all the shit that’s gone down, you really think I would stand to lose my cred by not taking a Rush album (even though it’s fantastc)? Yea, right.
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by AngelintheInfield on Aug 21, 2008 7:31 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
harvest is so great.
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Aug 21, 2008 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
you mean Absolution?
I think it is Muse’s best. Great collection, though.
by boonitez on Aug 21, 2008 6:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, sorry.
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by AngelintheInfield on Aug 21, 2008 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
excellent call on the ziggy. love the DB.
Play Stonehenge!!!
by The Enchanter on Aug 22, 2008 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d have to go with:
1) The Wall – Pink Floyd
2) Back in Black – AC/DC
3) The Stranger – Billy Joel
4) Appitite for Destruction – Guns ’N Roses
5) Shotgun Willie – Willie Nelson
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 7:31 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Good pick with "The Stranger"
Angel Villalona: Rush Fan? Probably.
by AngelintheInfield on Aug 21, 2008 7:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Given that I absolutely hated hair metal at the time, the Guns’ N Roses was lost on me when it was released, because I imediatly dismissed it as another shallow record company production line band. However I have gone back and really started to appreciate it more and more as time goes on, it definitely was a fresh sound with the Izzy Stradlin/Slash updated guitar weaving ala Brian Jones(Mick Taylor)/Kieth Richards. And Axle Rose was a really good song writer and singer. Sweet Child of Mine is right up there on my list songs I would download illegally to put on my ipod. Nice choice.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 8:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was sick of hair metal as well, but there was something different about Guns. Totally agree with you on Sweet Child. That whole album is full of solid lyrics.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 8:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I've never...
Really gotten into The Wall. I dunno, I’m stuck on the early 70’s Floyd.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’ve always thought Dark Side of the Moon was a better album, but something about The Wall still speaks to my restless teeage self. Plus, the lyric “there is no pain you are receding….like distant ship’s smoke on the horizon” is my personal favortie. Talk about painting with words.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yea..
Wish You Were Here and then Dark Side of the Moon are 1a. and 1b.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
great stuff, all of it. Pink was amazing. Just realized of all the classic bands I really love, nearly all are British.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well that's the thing..
Nearly all of the classic bands from the 60s, 70s were British. Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, the big three hitters were all British.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Who, Queen, Pink Floyd,…quite a collection for a small, island nation
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ANIMALS
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.
by groug on Aug 21, 2008 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes.
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
by Cookyman on Aug 21, 2008 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
good call. also like roger waters’ pros and cons of hitch hiking.
Play Stonehenge!!!
by The Enchanter on Aug 22, 2008 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
1. Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek – Reflection Eternal
2. Bob Marley – Legend
3. Sublime – 40 oz to Freedom
4. The Beatles – (White Album)
5. Wave Twisters – Q-Bert & Invisibl Skratch Piklz
xanthan, I hope you got Octagonecologyst instrumental album. That disc made me appreciate the Dan the Automator a whole lot more.
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by SoFa King Mike on Aug 21, 2008 7:34 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
xanthan, I hope you got Octagonecologyst instrumental album. That disc made me appreciate the Dan the Automator a whole lot more.
I did and it did!
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 7:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
shit
- is a compilation. I’ll change that to:
2. Bob Marley – Live @ The Roxy
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by SoFa King Mike on Aug 21, 2008 7:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
stupid autoformatting
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by SoFa King Mike on Aug 21, 2008 7:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
But Legend is awesome
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by thehavenot on Aug 21, 2008 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There’s a lot of albums that I could listen to over and over, but off the top of my head . . .
1. Metallica- The Black Album
2. AC/DC- Back in Black
3. Sage Francis- Personal Journals
4. Atmosphere- Godlovesugly
5. Eric Johnson- Ah Via Musicom
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by Anticon23 on Aug 21, 2008 7:37 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I LOVE that Sage album, Crack Pipes is amazing.
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 7:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m also regretting that I couldn’t squeeze cLOUDDEAD’s S/T on my list now.
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 7:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
(1) Beethoven Syms. 5 & 7, Carlos Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic (1975)
Toss up for me between B’s 5th and 9th for his best symphony… If I take the 9th, however, you only get that. If I take the 5th, I can take this great recording by Kleiber which pairs it with the wonderful 7th.
(2) Sviatoslav Richter- Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 (Appassionata)
My favorite pianist. My favorite classical piece (the Brahms). And my favorite Beethoven piano sonata. Hard to pick so few pieces… or to pick another Beethoven over getting a pairing with another great composer. But I love this recording.
(3) Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Yea yea yea… it’s the Starbucks jazz album. But it is amazing, and it also gives me a three for one on getting my three favorite jazz musicians—Miles, Trane, and Bill Evans—all on one album. Trane’s A Love Supreme is strong competition, but the presence of all these great musicians on this legendary recording makes it the choice. I’m also tempted to take Bitches Brew since it is a double album.
(4) Radiohead, OK Computer
My favorite album by my favorite band. Every song at one point was my favorite song on the album. The amazing peak in Lucky; the vocal harmonies in Let Down; PARANOID ANDROID! A masterpiece. Suck it Radiohead haters!
(5) Beatles, The White Album
I probably like Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper’s better as albums, but I’ll take the White Album because it is a double album. It’s also tough to pick another rock album over something that would mix up the types of music I have on my island… like MF Doom’s Vaudeville Villain. I would have a tough time never hearing the Beatles again though.
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by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 7:50 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I stupidly left the Beatles off my list. I dont’ know if I could live without hearing Abbey Road or Magical Myster Tour for the rest of my life.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 7:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Love the Classical and Jazz selections, I’m a big fan of Thelonious Monk. Looking at your piano selections, do you care for Chopin? His Nocturnes are some of my favorite pieces of music on a piano, ever.
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 7:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
yea… I love Monk too. I’ve been listening to his “Alone in San Francisco” quite a bit lately.
I do like Chopin… basically all of his solo piano music is superb. In terms of the romantic piano virtuosos, Chopin >>>> Liszt (at least IMO). Lately I’ve really been loving Schubert’s piano music. I can be quite repetitive, but it is so playful and lovely. I especially like his last 4 piano sonatas and his Impromptus.
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by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 8:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
For me,
Lizst >>>>>>>>>>>> Chopin.
Lizst wrote so much more than just “virtuoso” music. Try his Annees de Pelegrinage by Muza Rubackyte.
Schubert’s piano music is intentionally repetitive, that is the point. Try Richter playing D960 and D894.
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by rfloh on Aug 21, 2008 8:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I didn’t mean to indicate that Liszt was a virtuoso and nothing more. I just meant that they were the two composers who were especially renowned for their virtuosity, with their groopies and all. It’s just personal taste. I tend to prefer Chopin’s style to that of Liszt. They’re both great though.
Well, Schubert composed it that way, so yea… it was the point. I don’t think it was unintentional. It does, however, sometimes give me the feeling that his music is a bit “light.” I know that’s not true… more a result of his compositional style and the fact that he composed all those wonderfully memorable and lyrical melodies.
Thanks for the recommendations!
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by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Schubert's music is light?
During Richter’s student days, according to his teachers, they didn’t want him playing Schubert’s music because in their opinion it was “worthless. After listening to Schubert, you feel like throwing yourself into the river”. That’s not to say they Schubert’s music isn’t very melodic. It is. But that’s just one side of Schubert.
If you can, find the D960 piano sonata by Richter live in Prague, and the D894 one, aslo by Richter. They’re pretty dark.
Or if you do listen to classical vocal music, Wintereisse, Richter on piano, Peter Schrier tenor. That is REALLY dark.
As for Liszt, IMO, the problem is that most people ONLY associate Liszt with virtuosity: the 2 piano concertos for example. Or, because some bad pianists, the Chinese pianist Lang Lang is one example, play some of his music, like the Piano Sonata, in a “virtuoso” “bang bang” style, Liszt’s music is tarred and feathered as “virtuoso show off” music.
Liszt, the performer, was definitely famed for his virtuososity. He was also much more than that. After he retired from performing, besides teaching, he did a lot to help both young pianists and young composers, often donating / sending money to struggling young pianists and composers.
Liszt wrote a HUMONGOUS amount of music. Some of it is indeed pretty awful. But some of it is sublime, and so much more than just “virtuoso” music..
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by rfloh on Aug 21, 2008 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I didn’t mean light in terms of happy or sad, I meant light in terms of intellectual rigor. Again, I think that is totally missing the point of Schubert’s music and I don’t agree with that opinion. Nevertheless, it’s easy to get the impression that The Trout is a bit more pop than Brahms Piano Quintet. Again, I don’t mean this as a criticism of Schubert… he’s really in my top 5 in terms of favorite composers. I really do worship his music.
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by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm not disagreeing with you here.
I dislike the “rigourous” / “light” false dichotomy IMMENSELY.
It leads to one dimensional performances of music, especially of Bach. There is a very bad tendency among some performers to approach Bach’s music as either “Bach the professor”, or “Bach the priest”, leading to bad, uninspired performances. Bach’s music is certainly rigourous, but it is also joyful, beautiful: prayer and dance, mind and body. So too Beethoven. And Schubert.
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by rfloh on Aug 21, 2008 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Schubert is really great. I feel his stuff is sort of underrated because everyone assumes piano=Chopin. And Chopin’s not bad. Neither is Liszt.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 8:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The best complete set of Chopin's Nocturnes
I’ve heard are by Maria Joao Pires.
Of course, if you’re not referring to the complete set, there have been a whole host of the greatest pianists ever who’ve played some of them.
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by rfloh on Aug 21, 2008 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
when I was an RA in the Dorm, whoever was hanging out in the “Common Room” had to listen to what I listened to. The only thing I ever got complaints about was Thelonius Monk (and not, say, Suicidal Tendencies).
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Miles Davis is amazing.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 8:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Richter is your favourite pianist?
Mine too. Are you referring to his live Brahms 2 recording or the studio one?
My list:
1. Bach, Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould
2. Bach, Well Tempered Klavier, Sviatoslav Richter
3. Beethoven, 9th symphony, Wilhelm Furtwangler, 1954 live in Lucerne
4. Schubert, D960 Piano Sonata, Sviatoslav Richter, Prague
5. Beethoven, Late String quartets, opus 127, 130, 131, 132, 135. Especially 135, the Ess Muss Sein, Muss Ess sein quartet.
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by rfloh on Aug 21, 2008 8:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
5. by the Tokyo String Quartet.
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by rfloh on Aug 21, 2008 8:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have the TSQ playing the middle string quartets
but various quartets (Lindsays, Emersons) playing the late quartets.
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by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 8:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Italian quartet is pretty good in the late quartets too.
I love the Tokyo because they play with phenomenal technique, and also great feeling.
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by rfloh on Aug 21, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
great choices...
People often go with Beethoven’s Symphonies or Piano Sonatas as the greatest group of works, but I think I would go with his string quartets. The three periods of the quartets almost perfectly break up the three periods of Beethoven’s composing career. I think the original formulation of Op. 130 might be my favorite (especially the Andante con moto). Op. 135’s Es Muss Sein! movement might be my single favorite movement though… originally, since it was the last movement of his last opus (even if it wasn’t the final thing he composed), I thought that the label was about B dealing with his mortality (must it be? IT MUST BE!). Later, I learned that it probably was about having to pay the cleaning lady… this didn’t diminish my love of the movement though.
The Glenn Gould Goldberg Variations are divine.
I think I have the studio recording of the Brahms Bb:
http://www.amazon.com/Brahms-Concerto-Beethoven-Sonata-No-23/dp/B000003EUL
I don’t think I’ve heard the live recording, although it appears that it is very well liked.
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by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If you can, try to find the live version of
the Brahms 2 by Richter. To use a baseball analogy, the studio version is Barry Bonds. The live version is Barry Bonds 2001-2004.
Richter hated making studio recordings. He stopped doing so after either 1979 or 1980. He LOVED playing live, before a sympathetic audience, generally in a cosy venue. Richter in studio was a great pianist. Richter, live, was a phenomenon, the greatest pianist of the 20th century.
The Beethoven I love the most, are the late works. The late quartets, the piano sonatas, Hammerklavier, 109-111, the 10th violin sonata. The muss ess sein, ess muss sein quartet is my favourite, principally because for me, it best sums up / represents his whole career, both Beethoven the Classical composer and Beethoven the Romantic composer. The composer who knew the rules, and even followed them, and also the composer who pushed them far far forward, in directions no composer had done.
Whether the Ess Muss Sein thing was about the cleaning lady is unknown.
Opus 130 gets a lot of debate. Some people prefer the original version with the Gross Fugue, others prefer the revised version. I love both, but prefer the revised version.
He composed both the quartets and the piano sonatas throughout his life, so IMO, they best represent his career.
I’m not all that surprise that people choose the Beethoven symphonies or piano sonatas. Among general listeners, they’re the most famous.
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by rfloh on Aug 21, 2008 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
kind of blue is excellant
Bitches Brew is good, too. Miles is never uncool.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
WHOA
awesome list
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by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know the true classical enthusiast will probably scoff at this but I greatly enjoy hearing Borden’s Unfinished symphony. It not just the piece its self but because it was unfinished how the performers decide to interrupt it.
Ivan Ochoa - Heir to the legacy of Rob Andrews & Rikkert Faneyte!
by daveinexile on Aug 21, 2008 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
1. Who’s Next – IMHO the best Rock and Roll Album hands down. Won’t Get Fooled Again is my favorite Rock and Roll song ever, and My Wife is just funny. However, Baba O’ Reilly, Behind Blue Eyes, Getting in Tune and Mobile are also classics.
2. Any recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. He beats that thing black and blue.
3. Beethoven’s 9th. The Chorus in the 4th movement still gives me chills, even though I know its coming.
4. Get Your Ya Ya’s Out – The Rolling Stones. Do live albums count as compilations?
5. 10 – Pearl Jam. If I had to pick only one grunge album. Does anyone else besides me give huge kudos to Kurt Cobain for ending the 80’s?
That is MY five, but I have to say that I really would have like to take Van Halen (self titled first album), Back in Black, the White Album, Physical Graffiti, and some Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and Ray Charles, and I am just beginning to get into Jazz too, but apparently my bag wasn’t big enough.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 8:12 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
insanely love Ten from PJ. Great album. Ther cover of Last Kiss is my favorite cover ever, as well.
Good choice on Who’s Next. It always bugged me that JT Snow used Won’t Get Fooled Again as his walk-up music.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 8:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was a close choice between 10 and Nevermind for that slot.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 8:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Forgot Stone Temple Pilots on my list as well. Man, I need a longer list.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 8:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d have to agree with taking 10 over Nevermind. But I just like Pearl Jam a lot more than Nirvana as well.
by chilibean_3 on Aug 21, 2008 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was unavoidably out of the country in 1991 due to some geo political issues in the Persian Gulf region, but when I returned and found “Smells Like Teen Spirit” all over the radio and I was ecstatic! I mean the entire music scene had changed in the 6 months I was away with that album. So I find it hard to put it away, but I think 10 is more to my taste.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who's Next and Pearl Jam
Well-played
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by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think...
Going Mobile was a source of heated discussion on another one of these music threads.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
What was the debate? I might have missed it.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was surprised to see number 4.
I was considering Get Your Ya-yas for my own list and thought I would be the only one with it. Great album.
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by marklar on Aug 21, 2008 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Keeps you rockin from beginning to end, and the voices from the crowd during and after Midnight Rambler are awesome.
You have great taste in classic Stones my friend.
by toofruss on Aug 22, 2008 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Paint it Black
you devil.
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by marklar on Aug 22, 2008 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
assuming you're on a desert island WITH ELECTRICITY
and a cd/or record player
1. 
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5. 
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 21, 2008 8:14 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Brubeck! The only white jazz musician worth adamn.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bill Evans shoots up some heroine in disappointment!
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that's true
Bill Laswell’s good too. It’s a bit of hyperbole, I suppose.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mose Allison?
Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.
by kennv on Aug 21, 2008 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes.
Also Gerry Mulligan.
Like Barry Zito, I'm mildly half-OK.
by EliminateMe on Aug 21, 2008 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and Chet Baker
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by Takimoto on Aug 23, 2008 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Interesting Faith No More choice
Do you like Mr. Bungle, by any chance?
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by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 9:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
yes, but not as much as FNM.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 21, 2008 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Peeping Tom and collaborations with Odd Nosdam are interesting too
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by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know everyone says that Angel Dust is better, and they’re probably right, but that album is my fav, probably for more personal reasons.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 21, 2008 9:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
John Coltrane – My Favorite Things. Everyone says Giant Steps is his best and I agree, but I love MFT because it was his debut as a soprano saxophonist, an instrument that is really underrated and underappreciated. As a wee musician I started out on tenor sax and switched to soprano, in part because I wanted to emulate Coltrane. The album only has four tracks, but three of them are over 9 minutes long. The title track is my favorite but also the version of Summertime from Porgy and Bess, aces.
Any recording of The Nutcracker. I loved the ballet since the first time I saw it, and I’ve loved the music since we played a very simplified version of the suite in seventh grade band.
Any recording of the opera Carmen. Another that’s really fun to play as well as wonderful to listen to.
I have a CD that is comprised solely of Vivaldi’s bassoon concertos. I hated Vivaldi growing up because the only times we ever played his work or anytime I heard it in concert, it was The Seasons. God what an overdone piece of music. So when my bassoon instructor handed me the CD and said “listen to this” I forgave Vivaldi for his sins. So yeah I’d take this on the desert island with me.
I also have a CD that has a mishmash of compositions from George Gershwin. I bought it for Rhapsody in Blue, my absolute favorite piece of all time. There’s other good stuff on there too: Rumba (aka Cuban Overture), An American in Paris, and Walking the Dog. So that CD comes too.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 8:20 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Sadly, Rhapsody In Blue has been forever ruined for me by Gene Hackman and United Airlines.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 8:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah UA can kiss my butt.
The reason I still unconditonally love Rhapsody in Blue is because it’s basically me personified in a piece of music. It’s throwing together stuff that normally doesn’t go together, is maligned, or is unexpected and therefore misunderstood. And in the end it keeps kicking ass.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Totally agree, great piece of music. I just hate that is was used in those ads. Same way with Led Zeppin’s “Rock and Roll”. Now every time I hear that song I wanna blow up a Cadillac.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t know this for a fact, but I am %99.99 sure that John Bonham would agree with you.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 8:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Talking about advertising killing a song, I cringe every time I hear or see a KFC commercial and they’re playing Sweet Home Alabama.
Ugh.
Same thing with Best Buy, I like the Cars, but I won’t be able to listen to “Just what I needed” for a few years.
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I hate that even more because it’s Kentucky Fried Chicken and they’re playing a song about Alabama…it’s just stupid…AAARRGGGHHH!!!!
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 8:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I find it interesting that KFC chose that band with which to associate their brand. Although that is one of the only riffs I ever learned on guitar, because I love it so much. My inner redneck sometimes comes out and I listen to Skynard.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
there’s a Dunkin Donuts commercial trying to spoil They Might Be Giants for me.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
iI usaully don’t have a problem if a band I like is being used for a commercial. I really like it if it’s a relativley unknown band. It just want it to be a decent commerical.
by chilibean_3 on Aug 21, 2008 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
tmbg
doesn’t need any help from Dunkin Donuts to suck
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 21, 2008 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Queen’s “I Want It All” used in the Best Buy? Circuit city? commercials. [Real effective guys, I don’t even remember the advertiser] just makes me want to throttle someone everytime I see it, I’m sure that’s what Freddy had in mind.
by Merope on Aug 21, 2008 9:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pepsi I think.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes to everything everyone said about using music in advertisements. It’s the fastest way to murder an enjoyable tune.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Aside from all of the technical descriptions you mention here, it is just fantastically pretty music.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That too. :)
I could write a paper on the piece…in fact I did, sort of. For my senior project in high school I did a report on the history of woodwinds and I included a section on Rhapsody in Blue and why I consider it one of the most important orchestral pieces for woodwinds ever.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I took a music class a few years back, and for the same reasons you mention here regarding Rhapsody in Blue, I feel as strongly for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. I went to the SF Symphony to see it performed and was just amazed by the performance. The violinist was Joshua Bell. I also got an A on that paper.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ooh yes, that one is fantastic. I need to get a recording of that posthaste.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Coltrane
>>Everyone says Giant Steps is his best
They do? What’s “A Love Supreme”, chopped liver?
I think it’s impossible to give any Coltrane LP a “best” tag. His work is so varied, so constantly shifting. Try this: Get really mellow, either with the help of foreign substances or otherwise, turn out the lights, lie on the floor, clean out your ear wax, and play the title track of “Ole.” It could change your life.
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by leftymalo on Aug 21, 2008 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn near everything Coltrane did was groundbreaking, exceptional, influential. A Love Supreme is absolutely wonderful. I also love Blue Train. Those two along with My Favorite Things are my favorite albums that he has done.
Another primarily tenor saxophonist that I feel gets no love is Coleman Hawkins. I love his recording of April in Paris.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Coleman Hawkins is double super awesome
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by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here's your underappreciation.
Sadao Watanabe , “Selected”
Yeah , it’s a compilation , piss up a rope.
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by victor frankenstein on Aug 21, 2008 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Baron
I’m a big Vivaldi fan. We played his A-minor violin concerto in high school, and it’s one of my favorite classical pieces ever. We also played Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite, and that was my introduction to Bizet.
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by Lyle on Aug 21, 2008 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOVE Bizet. Love love love. I regret that I could not bring any Ravel with me on this fictional trip to my doom, too.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 22, 2008 8:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Arrgh! I hate this game
I like too much music to narrow it down to 10, much less 5! But anyhoo, here are my fave 5 fo this mo’nin’.
1. The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead
Strangeways probably has some better songs, but TQID has Morrissey and Marr consistently at their best. Faves: Seriously, all of it.
2. The Clash, London Calling
This is a perfect island to be stranded with, cuz it has something for every mood. Favorites: All the Joe songs. ;-)
3. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
The greatest cover band of all time at their raw, smoking best. Fave: How Many More Times (duh).
4. Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions…
The album that changed it all, really. Favorites: BLack Steel in the Hour of Chaos, She Watch Channel Zero, Night of the Living Baseheads…. OK, pretty much the whole record.
5. Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground and Nico
The album that launched a thousand bands! Favorites: Venus in Furs, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Heroin
Ask me tomorrow for 5 totally different answers. :-)
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 8:45 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
All winners. I used to dislike The Smiths, but my appreciation for them has grown considerably.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Do you dig any of Lou’s solo stuff? Transformer is an awesome record.
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes and no
I like (?) Metal Machine Music and Transformer, but I wouldn’t call myself a huge solo Lou fan. I think he needs Cale to keep his ginormous ego in check. :)
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t understand how anyone could seriously like MMM.
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by groug on Aug 21, 2008 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wasn’t that album recorded only to piss off his record label, or is that just an urban legend?
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It was
He was under contract to record one, and they were under contract to put it out. After he was forced into recording it, he forced them into giving it a huge release.
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by groug on Aug 21, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
hence the (?)
“like” is more like “appreciate” rather than “enjoy listening to.”
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I appreciate the concept of doing it like I describe above to jcb, though not the album itself.
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by groug on Aug 21, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love Berlin, crazy depressing as it is.
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by groug on Aug 21, 2008 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Led Zeppelin, great choice. I’m really struggling to decide which Zeppelin to include. Or whether to buck trends and go with 2 of an artist.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Any of the first 6 Led Zep albums are great, I would pick Graffiti just for the amount of content. Also cause it has Ian Stewart playing piano, and I am a Stones fan from way back.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I prefer II-IV over Led Zeppelin, mainly because Jimmy’s guitar just doesn’t sound as good on I. Too much Reverb and I don’t like Telecasters. The lack of original content also kind of bothers me. There’s only three truly original songs on the album – the very similar Good Times Bad Times and Communication Breakdown, and Your Time Is Gonna Come, probably the weakest track on the album.
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
by Cookyman on Aug 21, 2008 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Original content is inversely related to quality on Led Zeppelin albums.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 7:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well what bothers me (even though maybe it shouldn’t) is all those songs they pretty much stole from other musicians without giving them any credit (Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, Black Mountain Side, How Many More Times). And anyway, I just think II and IV sound better.
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by Cookyman on Aug 21, 2008 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
II is pretty great
If I never heard IV again, I’d be perfectly OK. Except for When the Levee Breaks (another cover!)
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When the Levee Breaks is my favorite from IV. Which I guess kinda makes me a hypocrite. But I agree that II is better. For me it’s:
II
IV
I, III
HOTH
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by Cookyman on Aug 21, 2008 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd disagree with the "lack of original content"
It’s true that they were covers but they’re about as original as you can get for covers. Dazed and Confused is a new song basically, and Whole Lotta Love and Babe I’m Gonna Leave You are totally changed as well.
I happen to love Your Time Is Gonna Come.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 22, 2008 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like YTIGC, I just think it’s the weakest track on the album. I get your point about Dazed and Confused and Babe I’m Gonna Leave You (Whole Lotta Love is on II), but…I dunno…I just like II and IV more. Don’t get me wrong – I still think it’s a fantastic album – definitely on my top 50, just not Zeppelin’s best.
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by Cookyman on Aug 22, 2008 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When I was a sophomore in High School I traded in “It Takes a Nation of Millions…” along with 4 other cds for Jerky Boys II. What can I say, teenagers do stupid things.
Speed, defense... and an almost fanatical devotion to getting picked off.
by SF Pete on Aug 21, 2008 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Favorites: All the Joe songs. ;-)
I was always more of a Mick guy. (I love his stuff with B.A.D. as well.)
Zooperstars, they quack me up!
by Goofus on Aug 21, 2008 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Have you heard Carbon/Silicon? It’s pretty good stuff.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
More Mick than Joe
I saw Carbon/Silicon in concert a few months ago. They’re really good and Mick looked like he was actually enjoying himself (except when they played their one “hit” single, The News, probably the Should I Stay/Go phenomenon).
As an album The Clash (UK) is probably my favorite although Sandinista! really doesn’t get the respect it deserves.
Do they know to win the game a team has to actually score at least once?
by noahthek on Aug 21, 2008 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If Sandinista were boiled down to two sides instead of 6, it would probably be the greatest Clash album.
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I mixed a comp of UB40 b - sides ("DUB") and "Sandinista" cuts.
It worked.
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by victor frankenstein on Aug 21, 2008 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that was a killer show
and practically noboby was there
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 21, 2008 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
nobody, that is
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 21, 2008 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I saw Zeppelin
years ago when they were touring in support of that first album. They were the opening act for The Who, and they just happen to be debuting “Tommy”. One of the best shows I ever saw.
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by marklar on Aug 22, 2008 5:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
*bows in front of marklar*
that rules so hard
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by delorean on Aug 22, 2008 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
at this moment
Gillian Welch: Revival
Iron & Wine: the Creek Drank the Cradle
the Beatles: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
the Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 21, 2008 8:46 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
another island:
stewart copeland: the rythmatist
calexico: the black light
elvis costello: blood and chocolate
beck: mellow gold
elton john: honkey chateau
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 21, 2008 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
1. The Pixies – Surfer Rosa: I wouldn’t want to go the rest of my life without hearing the beginning bass line on “Bone Machine” or “River Euphrates.”
2. Tom Waits – Rain Dogs: Got to have at least one TW album and this one just beats out Heart of Saturday Night, Mule Variations and Frank’s Wild Years. “Gun Street Girl” and “Tango til They’re Sore” are the sweet spot.
3. This is Jazz – Duke Ellington: Its against the rules but it really is the best of the best from one of America’s best composers.
4. Gillian Welch – Revelator: Another album that’s first among equals with Hell Among the Yearlings and Revival. The title track makes me homesick if I’m not in California.
5. Jurrassic 5 – Power in Numbers: Still one of the best hip-hop albums ever.
Just misses: Bad Religion – Stranger than Fiction, Miles Davis and Bill Laswell – Panthelessa, The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic, Modest Mouse- The Moon, The Sun and Antartica, The Clash – London Calling, Portishead – Dummy and Sleatter-Kinney – The Woods.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:47 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yay, Mass Romantic!
Boo, The Woods! (I swear I’m the only person in the world who doesn’t love that album. I’d take All Hands on the Bad One every day and twice on Sunday)
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 8:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Really?
Call The Doctor would be my #2 from S-K. I like the song All Hands on the Bad One, but that album has a doo-wop feel to it that grates on me.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Call the Doctor great as well
I guess it’s the production of The Woods (which many people rave about) that makes me mental.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 8:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ah. I don’t really know anything about production. Just seems like they do a much better version of melodramatic 70’s cock rock than the 70’s itself did.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
For me, the Sleater-Kinney debate comes down to All Hands on the Bad One vs. One Beat.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
this!
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
One Beat is good.
I can’t imagine prefering All Hands on the Bad One to Call the Doctor, but . . .
/shrugs
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm afraid to listen to the new J-5 album
it has dave Mathews on it.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ooh i forgot MM, THTSAA from my list… I often forget about Modest Mouse.
Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.
by kennv on Aug 21, 2008 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
New Romatics
On my honorable mention list as well. They are playing the Slow Food Festival
at Fort Mason later this month. They’re on the bill with Ozomotli, Gnarls Barkley,
and MMWood. Check them out.
by bgunn on Aug 21, 2008 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
MMWood is still around? I loved their take on “Ionization”
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ozomotli
Loved them until I found out that they are die hard Dodgers fans.
Adopted brother of the AnVil / GIANTSPACE™ returns!
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 21, 2008 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
take Los Lobos out of your playlist then
Honestly, the only group that I know that are Giants fans are Huey Lewis and the News.
/barfs.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 7:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Journey
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s an acceptable band.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Adopted brother of the AnVil / GIANTSPACE™ returns!
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 21, 2008 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i used to see chris isaak’s drummer at games
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Aug 22, 2008 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
One I forgot that is totally out of LF is “Songs in the Key of Springfield” which was a compilation of Simpons’ songs from the first 10 seasons or so. Brilliant.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 9:00 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
THinking about TMBG upthread made me realize that song for song, They Might be Giants is one of my favorite bands, yet they just don’t have that one knockout album that would go on to a desert island list. Some bands just aren’t “album bands.”
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 9:02 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Flood?
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 9:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
trudat
¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco? Harper's Bizarre!
by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
it’s a good album, but I wouldn’t desert Island it. Mink Car gets the closest IMO.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Really?
Mink Car is probably the one album of theirs I listen to the least.
Flood is probably the closest to islandworthy for me, or maybe John Henry. Or Apollo 18.
Like Barry Zito, I'm mildly half-OK.
by EliminateMe on Aug 21, 2008 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s the thing: doesn’t seem like their good songs are sprinkled pretty evenly through all of those albums?
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
“Severe Tire Damage” is a concert album with a lot of their best stuff on it.
by Merope on Aug 21, 2008 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
my 2 year old just loves their theme to “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse”, and god help me I acually find myself humming it from time to time.
Flood is a terrific album.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 9:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I teach 4’s and 5’s… and I’ll find myself standing in line at the store humming such blockbusters as “Baby Beluga” and “Little Bunny Foo-Foo.”
by Merope on Aug 21, 2008 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
1. The Who- Who’s Next
2. Maurice Ravel- Bolero
3. Built to Spill- Perfect from now on
4. Pink Floyd- Meddle
5. The Notwist- Shrink
Between these five albums, I’ve got my jazz, psychedelic, guitar solo, fusion, epic building classical, and most other needs covered. I could go to sleep to “Echoes”, and wake up to “Your Signs” (the Notwist). Honorable mentions: Pearl Jam- Ten, NIN- Pretty Hate Machine, Supergrass- Life on Other Planets, Bob Marley- Best of, Neil Young- Rust Never Sleeps
¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco? Harper's Bizarre!
by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 9:04 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I freaking love LOOP
great (almost) pick!
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by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
best driving music ever
well, except for maybe kraftwerk’s greatest hits
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by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m glad you picked Meddle as your Floyd selection, I think it’s really underrated.
by xanthan on Aug 21, 2008 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
great album
but i have to confess- 90% of the reason I picked it is Echoes. The other songs are wonderful in the context of the album, but Echoes has haunted me from the first time I heard it, like, 20-something years ago.
¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco? Harper's Bizarre!
by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
<3 Ravel
Bolero kicks ten kinds of ass.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Meddle..
next album to pick up for me.
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"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Aw, shit. So hard. But I’ll try, with three favorite songs from each:
1) The Beatles, Abbey Road (“Something,” “Oh! Darling,” “Carry That Weight”)
2) Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (“Margaret vs. Pauline,” “Hold On, Hold On,” “Dirty Knife”)
3) Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison (“Cocaine Blues,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Greystone Chapel”)
4) R.E.M., Automatic for the People (“Find the River,” “Man on the Moon,” “Try Not to Breathe”)
5) The Clash, London Calling (“London Calling,” “Lost in the Supermarket,” “Spanish Bombs”)
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:05 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And if triple albums count as one, I’d be tempted to get 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields in there somewhere.
None of these are the albums I listen to the most, but they’re the albums I think I would miss the most if I couldn’t listen to them at all.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
69 Love Songs is the only thing the Magnetic Fields has done that I like.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Their most recent album is pretty good, and I also like some of the stuff done as Future Bible Heroes and The 6ths, but 69 Love Songs definitely stands alone.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I tried out i and really wasn’t impressed. 69 Love Songs is really good to me because of its cynical and unflinching depiction of how awful and desolate romantic relationships can be.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
“I Don’t Want to Get Over You” is one of the best pop songs ever.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
To me 100,000 Fireflies and All the Umbrellas in London are the best sad/depressing songs on the albums. The Night You Can’t Remember is sweet, though.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good call on Automatic for the People
There isn’t a bad moment on that album.
¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco? Harper's Bizarre!
by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 9:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I also like Green
53-72
Adopted Giant: Daryl Maday - Just got promoted to CT, and is now sporting a gleaming 8.35 ERA.
by rhys on Aug 21, 2008 9:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Green has some great moments, but as a full album, it’s near the bottom for me as far as pre-Monster R.E.M. albums go. For me, the holy trinity is Fables of the Reconstruction, Automatic for the People, and Life’s Rich Pageant.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like “John Saw that Number”
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, that’s one of my all-time favorite covers.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No Dylan
Shame on you people – neither Blood on the Tracks or Highway 61?
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
by Aadik on Aug 21, 2008 9:13 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
As far as old men who can’t sing but write great songs go, I’m more a Leonard Cohen man than a Dylan man.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bravo
I love Cohen. What are your favorites?
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by rhys on Aug 21, 2008 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mine
Tower of Song, Hallelujah, Everybody Knows, Chelsea Hotel No. 2, I Can’t Forget
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by rhys on Aug 21, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We used to play the Rufus Wainwright version of Hallelujah in my coffee shop, and we’d get complaints about playing an explicitly Christian song.
But I would tell them that it was a Jewish song, and then they would feel guilty for complaining.
I don’t know how true that was but I liked the song (all versions of it have their own charm) and didn’t want to listen to complaints about it.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jeff Buckley version FTW!!!
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
by shikantaza on Aug 21, 2008 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love pretty much everything on his first Best Of Collection, but especially “Chelsea Hotel No. 2,” “Bird on a Wire,” and “Suzanne.” The Future is also a really good album.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If I could only pick one Dylan, it would be “Love and Theft.”
by Evan on Aug 21, 2008 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like a lot of Dylan, but don’t really have a favorite album.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Blood on the Tracks should be in here. No doubt.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There should be another thread for singles. Say 20 singles you can put on your ipod. Then I would add some Dylan mostly because I never had a Dylan album. But I love It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, Lay Lady Lay, Like a Rolling Stone, Along The Watchtower, and Positively 4th Street.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Tangled Up In Blue woudl have to be on my iPod (actually it is!)
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I knew there would be at least one I missed.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hadn’t posted yet, dammit
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.
by groug on Aug 21, 2008 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Winner
of the “bitching about other people’s taste without posting his own damn list” award.
Like Barry Zito, I'm mildly half-OK.
by EliminateMe on Aug 21, 2008 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
aw crap
this is such a difficult exercise
forgot…
flaming lips- the soft bulletin
elliot smith- either/or
alice in chains- jar of flies
tricky- maxinque
the cure- disintegration
¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco? Harper's Bizarre!
by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 9:17 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
WU TANG
+100000
The production on that album is so simple in raw it becomes beautiful. It’s like there is a group of dudes rapping in the back seat of your car.
Totally in line with my purist predilections ;)
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Aug 21, 2008 9:24 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
This list will not be defeated!
Sublime-40 0z. to Freedom
Bob Marley-Exodus
Tool-Lateralus
Tool-Opiate
Andre Nickatina-Conversation with a devil
"Forget it Donny, you're out of you're element"-Walter Sobchak
by icanplaythird on Aug 21, 2008 9:28 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I hungout w/ Andre Nickatina once
Fairly cool dude.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
by FairweatherFan on Aug 21, 2008 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m sure we have something in common, (like a love for the Big Lebowski and the Giants) but those top 3 are on my bottom ten albums.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Whoa Buddy
Top 3 as Sublime, Bob, Tool or Tool, Tool, Nickatina?
"Forget it Donny, you're out of you're element"-Walter Sobchak
by icanplaythird on Aug 21, 2008 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sublime, Marley and Tool.
Nickatina I don’t know.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We'll always have Lebowski
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by icanplaythird on Aug 21, 2008 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
"I hate the fucking Eagles"
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
"Who the fuck are the Knudsons"
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by icanplaythird on Aug 21, 2008 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Of course, now I feel the need to list a bunch of bands/musicians I really wish I could’ve included in my list, but couldn’t because ONLY FIVE ARGH:
- Sleater-Kinney
- Joni Mitchell
- The New Pornographers
- The Arcade Fire
- The Cure
- Kate Bush
- PJ Harvey
- Nirvana
- Kristin Hersh/Throwing Muses
- Emm Gryner
- Public Enemy
- The various guises of Bob Mould
I could go on…
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:30 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And the Jenny Lewis solo album. Love that.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And the first Traveling Wilburys album. Get me thinking about favorite albums and I CAN’T FUCKING STOP.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, shit, how could I forget Rocket to Russia? Damn this game!
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Traveling Wilburys..
Just picked up both of them again. Vol. 1 is great but short. Vol. 3 is good but longer.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
They’re almost the exact same length, actually.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmm..
Seems longer? I dunno Vol. 1 just seems so short when you listen to it. Like 15 minutes long short.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
by WalrusMan on Aug 23, 2008 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
OT: Would you take the same five albums to a desert island, as you would to a lonely spaceship?
I realize that the idea is to pick 5 albums to listen to over and over, but for me where I am has something to do with the music I want to listen too over and over. For instance: 5 albums to drive cross country to; 5 albums for being in prison, etc.
Anyways my five for desert island.
1. Beck – Mutations – some slow jams from one of my favs
2. Pixies – Come on Pilgrim – just beating out Doolittle
3. The Who – Quadrophenia – Just to be different from the Who’s Next crowd
4. The Fall – Early Fall – okay its a collection of singles, but it was the first Fall I got and I fell in love. Just ahead of This Nation’s Saving Grace
5. Belle & Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strao – just beating out some Delgados… maybe “Hate”.
Tool, Metallica or Rush might make it onto the list for driving, prison or space. Not an island though. And of course there are probably tons more I would put on the list if I thought about it too long.
Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.
by kennv on Aug 21, 2008 9:31 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Exactly. If we’re listing our top 5 favorite albums ever, that’s totally different. I went with orchestral/jazz stuff because after a while I can’t listen to music with words. It’s just the same stuff over and over and over. When I listen to my favorite instrumental stuff the experience is limitless.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 21, 2008 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Interesting. I can never get into instrumental music. As background music, sure, but to really pull me in, there have to be vocals. Otherwise my attention starts drifting.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
there is a Playboy, pictures/articles crack here somewhere.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quadrophenia..
2nd next album to get? Just heard exerpts from it.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
See my comments in my post, plus:
This is an album you need to listen to beginning to end.
One of rocks masterpieces IMO.
by bgunn on Aug 21, 2008 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There are albums you just have to listen to.
Most of Pink Floyd’s stuff you do and the Who as well.
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by WalrusMan on Aug 21, 2008 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Man, I hope we all end up on the same island, cause I forgot my Floyd.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
you’re right, toofus, we need to all be stranded togeather so we can swap music. We’ll also need the Professor from Gilligan’s Island to make cocnut batteries to power all the iPods and speakers…
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe you two can share a sleeping bag, too
Zooperstars, they quack me up!
by Goofus on Aug 21, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m sensing a short stay on the island for Goofus.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don’t Be Cruel, goofus. If you are, I’ll throw your ass off the island.
by tyrannoman on Aug 21, 2008 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m a HUUUGE Who fan and think Quadrophenia is their best work. I love “Who’s Next”, but it’s a close 2nd
Zooperstars, they quack me up!
by Goofus on Aug 21, 2008 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
After I made my post, I thought about Beck.
There are limitations to this 5 album concept for sure.
by toofruss on Aug 21, 2008 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I forgot about Beck, too. I think he’s gotten progressively better over the years.
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ahh, was hoping there was another B&S fan. The no-compilations rule sucks, because my fave B&S is largely the EPs, all compiled on Push Barman… But if I had to pick an LP, TBWTAS wins out.
by txgiant on Aug 21, 2008 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like B&S (and I recently picked up the post-B&S album Isobel Campbell did with Mark Lanegan – good stuff!), but not enough for a top 5 list.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
oddly
I think my fave might be the one Trevor Horn produced, what, 2 albums ago? With Piazza, New York Catcher on it.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” was quite good, IMO.
And I take back my comment about “Push Barman…”. It counts. It’s a compilation, but not a “best of”…
by txgiant on Aug 21, 2008 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like "Stay Loose"
The guitar riff that keeps on giving
¿Julio is tourist in San Francisco? Harper's Bizarre!
by hairball on Aug 21, 2008 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
great song
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
“San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay
We hung about the Tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest book you ever read, it always makes you cry
The statue’s crying too and well he may”
Topical!
by txgiant on Aug 21, 2008 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh I also forgot Fugazi
Five I missed that I haven’t seen yet on the lists (forgive me if I skipped yours over):
Fugazi
Blood Brothers
Black eyes (DC)
Ton Steine Scherben
Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.
by kennv on Aug 21, 2008 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pending a “no triples” ruling from the Desert Island Music Czar, I’m going for volume.
1. Sandinista!
2. 69 Love Songs
3. Miles, Dark Magus
4. Monk, Brilliant Corners
5. Double Nickels on the Dime
by Evan on Aug 21, 2008 9:31 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Funny how two of your volume-based picks are punk albums, when punk is supposed to be all about brevity!
Warehouse or Zen Arcade by Husker Du would work there too.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d have to go with New Day Rising in that case, even though it’s shorter.
by Evan on Aug 21, 2008 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Tough call
I might even be tempted to pick Candy Apple Grey, just to be contrarian.
Warehouse, ugh.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 21, 2008 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know the cool kids don’t like Warehouse, but dammit, it has some damn good songs.
by jcb9 on Aug 21, 2008 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
damnity damn damn
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by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2008 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dude, you’re going to listen to “Too Far Down” and “Hardly Getting Over It” every day on a desert island? Too bleak for me.
by Evan on Aug 21, 2008 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
So good
I could almost trade my list for this one and be just as happy. And I haven’t even heard Dark Magus, but since I own Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, On the Corner, Get Up with It, and Aghartha, I think I have a pretty good idea.
by taliesin on Aug 21, 2008 12:48 PM PDT</