Albums you are truly obsessed with!

Hendrix "Band of Gypsys"
Miles Davis "Bitches Brew"
Duke Ellington "Indigos"
Thelonious Monk -- all the Blue Note sides.

 

Hejira - Joni Mitchell. My latest obsession.

 

Agree with that!

Currently:
Band of Skulls - Himalayan
Garbage - Strange Little Birds
Metric - Art of Doubt
The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth

 

Finally got around to buying John Foxx' Metamatic box set. The extra disc is surprisingly worthy of repeat listens.

That said, I've the original Vinyl, the first CD, the 2-disc CD, and not the 3-CD version.

The new set is good. The box is nice, and the music great. Sadly though, the booklet is style over substance. I'd of loved to have had some historical information in there, or actually anything with Foxx talking about the album. Instead it's essentially lyrics only...... Oh well, I guess that's for the next edition.

 

Two disparate obsessions:
10cc - How Dare You!
Joe Jackson - Body and Soul

 

I agree. I am obsessed with this album as well. The US Sterling TJ vinyl sounds incredible (as do the non-Sterling copies). One of my local stores usually sells original copies for $3-$4 so I pick up clean copies just for fun. With the new Police box I am apparently up to 15

 

Ellington Indigos! I never get tired of it, my favorite Ellington. The sound quality is amazing.

 

ZZ Top Tejas (I'm 50, I first listened to this as a child when it came out at my Uncle's home)

Robin Trower Bridge

 

I've been so obsessed with Paul McCartney's RAM and Todd Rundgren's A Wizard A True Star that I even look for albums by other artists/bands that have similar sound/style/atmosphere.

Gonna end up recording albums like these two myself.

 

Chicago I and II
Home Free , Captured Angel and The Wild Places - Fogelberg
Mother Lode - Loggins and Messina
Home at Last - Wayne Berry

 

• Johnny Winter And- Live at the Fillmore East
• Allman Brothers- Fillmore East Concerts
• Deep Purple- Made in Japan complete
• Savoy Brown- Hellbound Train Live 1969-1972
• Rolling Stones- Get Yer Ya Ya's Out Deluxe

 

In my definition of obsessed - there are three that come to mind.

Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
James Gang Rides Again
Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua

 

It's Better To Travel is wonderful for an '80s record. Maybe a bit over-crisp and slightly has that "pinched" mid-'80s EQ, but it's also got a nice warm bottom (no snickering, you perverts!), no shrillness, and a nice blend of acoustic and electronic instruments. The reverb is nice as well - not too dry, no gimmicky '80s wackiness, either. And the synths for the most part aren't overwhelmed by that gauzy, low-bitrate, low-sample rate haze that can be so grating on many records from that era. You get a bit of them, but they're nicely offset by warmer acoustics and so instead of being a sonic assault, provide for interesting layering of different kinds of sounds instead.

 

Fast becoming my favourite box set of Dylans
If I had heard this when it was recorded probably would not have liked it at all
But the singing is as impassioned as anything Bob’s ever done
Songs take on a life of their own despite a lot of suss writing
Great band as well

 

Many in a variety of genres. Right now; and for a while... William Bell's: This Is Where I Live.

 

Excellent list overall. And not necessarily "the best" of the bunch... but the one that that always gets my blood percolating is Sam Live at The Harlem Square Club.

 

Chris Isaak: Forever Blue
U2: Achtung Baby, Joshua Tree
David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World
R.E.M. : Life's Rich Pageant
Led Zeppelin II
Wilco: Being There, Summer Teeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

there are lots more......

 

Right now: Three Friends by Gentle Giant.

 

I'm obsessed with Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley present Paris in the Spring. It's forced me to listen to around 100 hours of similar music ... and I've only scratched the surface.

 

That was the loudest concert I ever seen. Good too

 

Agree. That Lucky Old Sun is a masterpiece. After I heard "Rio Grande" from Brian's first solo album, I wondered what a whole album of that stuff would sound like. I always thought he might have what it took to pull off another Smile or another Pet Sounds. That Lucky Old Sun is about the closest he's come to a combination of the two.

 

I've always loved Minstrel, War Child & Songs. Kind of a Trilogy for me.

And we are the berries on the holly tree.
Oh, the mistlethrush is coming.
Jack, put out the light.

Peace

 

2 albums I often come back to but neither the sort of sounds I usually go for-

The Drum is Everything by Carmel

Journies by DJ Coldcut