The Doors - Self Titled Debut U2 - Achtung Baby Van Halen -Self Titled Debut The Lords Of The New Church - Self Titled Debut King Joke - Self Titled 2003 album Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
That is so cool that you put this amazing album on your desert island list of albums. As you know from last year, I had a role in getting John Klein's one of a kind Christmas album remastered for CD, along with his splendid second album, Let's Ring the Bells All Around the Christmas Tree as twofer CD. A Christmas Sound Spectacular featured the largest carillon in the world with almost 1500 perfectly tuned bronze bells, along with an amazing orchestra behind that gorgeous instrument as well. The only other holiday albums I would ever even consider as an "island record" would be Johnny Mathis's Merry Christmas or Percy Faith's Music Of Christmas albums. I highly recommend picking up the Real Gone Music CD of A Christmas Sound Spectacular this year, because you never know how long those holiday rarities will stay in production these days and be available for a reasonable price.
Meet The Beatles Meet The Rolling Stones Meet The Animals Meet The Kinks Meet The Pretty Things Meet The Yardbirds Meet The Who Meet The Zombies Meet The Hollies Meet The Small Faces 11. Meet Them
Abbey Road - The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles London Calling - The Clash Pure Pop for Now People - Nick Lowe This Year’s Model - Elvis Costello Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells Willy and the Poor Boys - Creedence Clearwater Revival Kind of Blue - Miles Davis Parallel Lines - Blondie
Plastic Ono Band (John Lennon) Exile On Main St. (Rolling Stones) Rubber Soul (U.S. or UK) (Beatles) King Creole (Elvis Presley) Who's Next (The Who) Led Zeppelin II (Led Zeppelin) Band On The Run (Paul McCartney) Listen Without Prejudice (George Michael) Pyromania (Def Leppard) Achtung Baby (U2)
This was my 10 when I lasted posted it... Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Tori Amos - Boys For Pele David Bowie - Scary Monsters & Super Creeps Neil Young - Time Fades Away Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Absolutely Free Slayer - Reign In Blood Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral ...right now I might change The Downward Spiral for The Fragile...and replace Mr. Bungle's debut with Disco Volante...but that's about it. I don't listen to Public Enemy much these days either...so Blackwater Park, which I heard for the first time this year, might be close...and I'm not sure why I don't have Sgt Pepper in there...
Kenneth Higney - No Heavy Trucking Beau Nasty - Dirty, But Well Dressed Corey Feldman - Former Child Actor The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair Shark Island - Law Of The Order Crispin Hellion Glover - THE BIG PROBLEM ≠ the solution. The Solution = LET IT BE The Gerogerigegege - Tokyo Anal Dynamite Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella Piledriver - Metal Inquisition Lou Bega - A Little Bit Of Mambo
In no order: - The Beach Boys: Surfer Girl - The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night (UK) - The Beatles: Yesterday & Today - The Beatles: Rubber Soul (UK) - Phil Collins: No Jacket Required - Tom Petty: Full Moon Fever - U2: The Joshua Tree - U2: Achtung Baby - U2: Zooropa - The Who: Who's Next
Today: Beach Boys | Pet Sounds Bruce Springsteen | The River Van Morrison | Veedon Fleece Bob Dylan | Blonde On Blonde Gram Parsons | Grievous Angel Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Damn the Torpedoes drivin' n' cryin' | Mystery Road Van Morrison | Poetic Champions Compose Bob Dylan | Modern Times Bruce Springsteen | Darkness On the Edge of Town
Nat King Cole - Love Is The Thing Frank Sinatra - Sings Only For The Lonely Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back! Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl Adele - 21 Michael Bublé - Call Me Irresponsible Carrie Underwood - Blown Away Adele - 25
today: in no particular order: CSNY - deja vu CSN - couch CSN - boat crosby - if i could only remember my name beatles - pepper neil young - goldrush/harvest/on the beach - can't separate david & david - boomtown jackson browne - i'm alive glass harp - s/t stones - complete singles
Perhaps I can make a go of it when the sediment of years begins to harden; though like most here, my last report before crossing the Finishing Line would be the only one to stand unchanged in this world. Still, mention of these titles on the conventional peripheral that are dear to me raised a smile: - Amazing: Wipers & DBs on the same list! We should lunch - A deft perception of subtle tides that resulted in significant changes in the shoreline.
Slade - Slayed? The Residents - Not Available Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions Spike Jones And His City Slickers - Thank You, Music Lovers The Legendary Pink Dots – The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law Oren Ambarchi - Sleepwalker’s Conviction Johnny Gunn, Don Ralke – Introspection IV
While I've had a Living Stereo LP of A Christmas Sound Spectacular for ages, I picked up the CD you were involved with the other day and it sounds fantastic. And so nice to finally get Let's Ring The Bells on disc.
That is so cool to hear that you picked up the CD of A Christmas Sound Spectacular. Yes indeed, I grew up listening to the vinyl version of that album as a kid. I was just blown away by Mike Piacentini's remastering at Sony's Battery Studios in New York. He told me how the Sony archive team retrieved the original master tapes from their vaults for him to do his fine work. The second of Klein's holiday albums on RCA, Let's Ring the Bells All Around the Christmas Tree, had already been digitized on a file for him to work with, so his challenge was more on balancing the sound for the two separate albums, and I think he did a great job. Both albums were ultimately remastered from original tape sources, but I think there was just something totally magical about the sound and arrangements on A Christmas Sound Spectacular. If my father were still alive today, he would be delighted and shocked that his son got this album back out to the public in CD forum. Ironically, Mike Piacentini also remastered Johnny Mathis' Merry Christmas album, which was my father's other go to Christmas album around this time of year.
Nice suggestion on Al Green, TBA is my 3rd preferred AG record, I have always dug Al's acoustic guitar & production on that record
Sex Packets - Digital Underground Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park Deefheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Harry Belefonte - Live At Carnegie Hall PJ Harvey - Dry The Langley School Music Project June Christy - This Time of Year Magic Sam - West Side Soul Hank Williams - Luke The Drifter Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots Sorry for being so redundant. These lists seem copied from a book or something.
As of this minute: The Flying Burrito Bros.- Gilded Palace of Sin My Bloody Valentine- Loveless Miles Davis- Miles Smiles Radiohead- Kid A The Beatles- White Album (stereo) The Beach Boys- Sunflower Laura Nyro- New York Tendaberry Neil Young- After The Gold Rush Joni Mitchell- Court And Spark Duke Ellington- Money Jungle
The sad thing about this list is it hasn't changed since about 1998. 1. Parallel Lines - Blondie 2. Come Clean - Curve 3. Wish List - The Falling Joys 4. The Scream - Siouxsie & The Banshees 5. Penny Century - The Clouds 6. Blondie - Blondie 7. Roxy Music - Roxy Music 8. The End Of Silence - Rollins Band 9. Q: Are We Not Men? - Devo 10. Doppelganger - Curve
Zombies - Odessey and Oracle Beatles - Abbey Road Eels - Beautiful Freak Beatles - The Beatles (White Album) Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin Radiohead - OK Computer Jack Drag - Soft Songs LP: Aviating Love - Forever Changes Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Top 10 Albums 1. Yes - "Close to the Edge" 2. Yes - "Tales From Topographic Oceans" 3. Yes - "Relayer" 4. Genesis - "Foxtrot" 5. Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" 6. Paul McCartney - "Ram" 7. Jethro Tull - "A Passion Play" 8. Stevie Wonder - "Talking Book" 9. Cat Stevens - "Footsteps In The Dark" 10. Wigwam - "Being"
This thread again? LOL, just kidding. I almost always do these lists, especially when it's been a while because my list changes over time. So, as of 12/3/19 my top 10 favorites are: Sandy Bull: E Pluribus Unum Larry Coryell: Lady Coryell Dinosaur Jr: Farm Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? Taj Mahal: The Natch'l Blues Harvey Mandel: Games Guitars Play J Mascis: Tied to a Star The Replacements: Let it Be Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps For most of these artists, there are alternate choices that could just as easily be plugged in here. Always a difficult choice!
King Crimson, Red Joe Jackson, Night and Day Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden Kate Bush, The Sensual World Genesis, A Trick of the Tail Joe Jackson, Big World Cousteau, Cousteau The Dears, No Cities Left Roxy Music, Avalon Love, Forever Changes
