Blood, Sweat & Tears' New Blood and No Sweat. Not only because of Jerry Fischer's vocal work, but Clayton-Thomas leaving changed their focus from blues & gospel, back to jazz and rock again. Georg Wadenius' guitar, Larry Willis on keys, Dave Bargeron's great solos, just wow. The two albums albums that defined the freshness of the '80s for The Manhattan Transfer: Extensions and Mecca For Moderns. You got two Singers Unlimited-esque a capella charts from Gene Puerling, contempo-retro rave-ups, politically-infused pop, all produced by Jay Graydon at the same time he was helping put Al Jarreau on the pop map. Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells & Hergest Ridge. One the more bombastic and compartmentalized, the other more contained and constrained, both set the stage for a decade's worth of Virgin's dominance of that section in the back od the record store that would come to be known as, "New Age" (or, "where the Virgin and Windham Hill albums are").
Well, the OP doesn't say specifically, even if the examples in that first post are from the same artists. With that in mind, is this close enough? The Jacksons - Destiny Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Songs from these two albums have actually been paired, both in concert, and on a single released in Canada: The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) / Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Black Sabbath: Paranoid / Master of Reality Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath / Sabotage Queen: Dreamboat Annie / Little Queen BOC: S/T / Tyranny & Mutation
I kinda thought it was cool to think about coupling albums by unrelated artists. That’s how I interpreted it! Same artist is fine too.
Court and Spark followed by Miles of aisles, the tour that supported the album But only only one song from C&S
It's actually harder to pick two from the same artist as that was my intent but if you want to mix them that's fine with me.
Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles & Maiden Voyage Piper At The Gates Of Dawn & Their Satanic Majesties Request Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones & Rain Dogs Bob Marley & The Wailers Soul Rebels & Soul Revolution
The Beatles 'The Beatles' aka 'The White Album' Elton John 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' The Rolling Stones 'Exile On Main Street' The Bee Gees 'Odessa' :--)
It is a single studio LP...plus a single live LP. Muswell Hillbillies is close to The Kinks best album, IMHO.
Good call. Also Small Change and Blue Valentine from TW. Not to mention Bone Machine and Mule Variations.
I always thought that Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot goes pretty well with Califone's Quicksand/Cradlesnakes, both of the same era and with similar Chicago roots... Wilco recommendations
califone one of the criminally unknown bands around these days. i saw them live in philly on the "stitches" tour. what an amazing show. who have seem tim rutili twice solo also both very good. i think he was a bit under the weather with the flu at one of them. and in case you don't know tim and craig ross made an amazing record last year called "ten seconds to collapse"
