Album you have recommended most to people

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Diorama, Nov 17, 2022.

  1. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

    Location:
    Central PA
    Paul Winter's Common Ground. Not even my favorite album, but one I've shared with
    the most friends, on account of the effect it had on me as a musician.

    Winter and his Consort hole-up in the woods, not just to write and record an album
    focused on nature, but the Pauls (Winter and McCandless) expand on melodies and
    song sung to them by eagles, wolves and whales...and the royalties are shared by groups
    that care for them as species.

    Discovering this album led to me realizing I didn't have anything worth contributing
    to the world with my own saxophone voice, after 19 years of thinking I might.

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    (And believe me, for many who both appreciated how this album made me feel about my own
    music - and those who have heard me play! - this was indeed a gift to the world in itself! :D )
     
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  2. mbennet

    mbennet Forum Resident

    Location:
    Bethesda, MD
    The Soundtrack of our Lives (Behind the Music). It seems like it should appeal to fans of classic rock as well as music omnivores. The album has elements of Who, Stones, Beatles, Floyd, and Love. Still can't understand how this band never made it big outside of Sweden.

     
  3. fuse999

    fuse999 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Texas
    To the average Joe - Ro Sham Bo by The Grays
    To a higher level musically - In Absentia by Porcupine Tree
     
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  4. simonux

    simonux Custom Title

    Location:
    France
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  5. Bnk

    Bnk Forum Resident

    Location:
    Birmingham
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  6. MilesTrane

    MilesTrane Forum Resident

    Location:
    Moon PA USA
    To people who “hate” Bob Dylan: Oh Mercy.
     
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  7. john lennonist

    john lennonist There ONCE was a NOTE, PURE and EASY...

  8. RobNeil

    RobNeil Forum Resident

    Location:
    Midlands, UK
    Probably something like Selling England By The Pound, which usually falls on deaf ears.
     
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  9. davebush

    davebush New Test Leper

    Location:
    Fonthill, ON
    I did a small web-related job for Paul many years ago. I'm a huge fan of his Prayer for the Wild Things album.
     
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  10. paulisme

    paulisme I’m being sarcastic

    Location:
    Charleston SC
    Living with Ghosts by Patty Griffin. I would buy the CD for people because I thought it was the most amazing album I’d ever heard. I don’t think I converted a single person to a fan.
     
  11. slovell

    slovell Retired Mudshark

    Location:
    Chesnee, SC, USA
    Donald Fagen - The Nightfly, Kamakiriad
    Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
    Klaatu - 8:47 E.S.T., Hope
    Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
    Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
    Sonny Landreth - Live on Grant Street
    Pink Floyd - Meddle
    Alan Parsons Project - On Air
    Planet P Project - Planet P Project, Pink World
    Joyce Cooling - Third Wish, This Girl's Gotta Play
    Jeff Lorber Fusion - Prototype, Space-Time
     
  12. jamesthegator

    jamesthegator Forum Resident

    Location:
    Boston, MA
    Getz & Gilberto - bar none. Most none music people of never heard of this album, or even this type of music. But I've found that it's almost universally loved and understood/appreciated.
     
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  13. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

    Location:
    Central PA
    I've always thought the Bossa Nova influence was one of the best things to happen in America at that time. Between The Day The Music Died and The Day Walter Cronkite Cried, we were in this malaise of sugary pop music that slowed our progress as a culture down somewhat. The highly-accessible rhythms and multiculturalism of Brazilian music was something fresh that the Neo-Suburban could latch onto, if the Tiki craze wasn't making any headway. A soothing balm it didn't take a major re-calibration to absorb. Almost the "anti-folk", folk movement.
     
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  14. JKCanuck

    JKCanuck Forum Resident

    Location:
    Ottawa
    Sugar: Copper Blue
     
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  15. PsychGuy

    PsychGuy Forum Resident

    Location:
    Albuquerque
    Chick Corea, "Return to Forever"
     
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  16. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

    Location:
    Gilbert Arizona
    Over the years I would think it would have been one of the Nick Drake albums. More recently I have been recommending Israeli bassist, Adam Ben Ezra
     
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  17. Mullin

    Mullin Forum Resident

    Location:
    Massachusetts
    Songs Of Yesterday Box Set- Free
     
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  18. beenieman

    beenieman Senior Member

    Location:
    New Zealand
    Lee Oskar - Before The Rain.

    He was the harmonica player with War. This is not like most of my collection but I've recommended it to several people and they've all taken to it.

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  19. EgaBog

    EgaBog The Dreadful Great

    Location:
    Brazil
    Pet Sounds. By far.

    I know I went over the line when I was drunk outside a MacMenamin's in Corvallis, OR talking to a Romanian girl and two friends of hers about how damn great Pet Sounds is. I have no idea who they were.
     
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  20. idleracer

    idleracer Forum Resident

    Location:
    California
    :kilroy: Before I recommend anything to anybody, I always ask them to first give me an example of an album they love and an album they hate. If they're into stuff like Pet Sounds and Rubber Soul, I always tell them to check out Harry Nilsson's first three RCA albums, preferably with a good set of headphones.
     
  21. recap200

    recap200 Forum Resident

    Location:
    nowhere land
    John Prine—Fair & Square
    Buddy Guy—Sweet Tea
    Martha Argerich/Michel Béroff /London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado—Ravel: Piano Concertos
    Willie Nelson—You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
    Luna—Penthouse
    Emmylou HarrisWrecking Ball
     
  22. breakingglass

    breakingglass Forum Resident

    Location:
    Atlanta
    On the off-chance there are any forum members not familiar with one of the handful of greatest live albums ever, please enjoy Danny Gatton’s - The Humbler, perhaps starting around the 1:25 mark

    https://youtu.be/XB9XJKL4WmA
     
  23. TerpStation

    TerpStation "Music's not for everyone."

    Location:
    Maryland
    Black Flag -- Damaged
     
  24. Shurdaddy

    Shurdaddy Forum Resident

    Location:
    Minnesota
    Jason Isbell - Southeastern
     
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  25. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

    Location:
    Central PA
    Surprising the number of people I didn't recommend Nick Drake to, on the basis that I felt they just wouldn't get it.
     
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