While we're on this kick of pukin' songs and beautiful songs... what entire albums do you consider to be truly great? Here's a small starter for me. I might think of some more later.

NOTE: Again, I'm trying to limit mine to ones that I consider MAGNIFICENT records, not just ones I really like a lot.

Abbey Road, The Beatles (hard for me to not say EVERY Beatles album)
Unplugged, Eric Clapton
Harvest, Neil Young

Genesis-Selling England by the Pound
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young-Deja Vu
Marillion-Afraid of Sunlight

Hey LiveMusic
Hard one... but here goes...

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Live In Texas - Thin Lizzy
Frontiers - Journey

Just for starters!!

TTFN
Simon

Geez...

Beatles...Abbey Road
Allman Brothers...Live at Fillmore East
Todd Rundgren...either "Todd" or "A Wizard, A True Star"
Who...Who's Next
Johnny Winter...The Progressive Blues Experiment
Elton John...Tumbleweed Connection (before he got over-commercial)

Just a random smattering, but the list goes on forever.

Damn... if we're talking about the ones that I wore out copies of them from listening to them so much (and I won't cheat and count any "Greatest Hits" packages:

Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, Exile On Main Street, Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, and Some Girls
Beatles - Revolver, Rubber Soul, A Hard Days Night, Abbey Road
The Who - Who's Next
Led Zep - Houses of the Holy
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Long After Dark
The Animals - Animalization
Richard & Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan

Others that deserve honorable mention:

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
REM - Life's Rich Pageant, Reckoning
Roger McGuinn - Back From Rio
Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
Emmylou Harris - Luxury Liner
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Bob Marley - Catch a Fire, Exodus
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
"The Harder They Come" soundtrack
Lynton Kwesei Johnson - LKJ in Dub
Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited

Too damn many to mention really...

--Lee

Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare
Eros Ramazzotti - Eros
Extreme - Pornographiti, Three Sides Of Every Story, Waiting For The Punch Line
Andrew Lloyd Weber - Jesus Christ Superstar
McLughlin, di Meola, de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
Tina Turner - Live in Europe
Bon Jovi - Cross Road
Guns n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Aerosmith - Pump
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Metallica - pre Load era
Man, I can go on and on... I wasn't mentioning any of music from my country because you're not familiar with it but there are some great stuff...

AJA - Steely Dan
Nursey Cryme - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
The Hurting - Tears For Fears
Running In The Family - Level 42
Blood Sugar Sex Magic - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Houses Of The Holy - Led Zep


This message has been edited by Blue Bear Sound on 04-15-2001 at 06:24 AM

>>Man, I can go on and on... I wasn't mentioning any of music from my country because you're not familiar with it but there are some great stuff...

Actually, Mile, would like to hear some music from your country. Great music knows no boundaries...

Tedster wrote:
>>Actually, Mile, would like to hear some music from your country. Great music knows no boundaries...>>

Me too Mile.... No good hiding your proverbial light under a bushell ya know... The more we learn from all cultures the more we grow!!

Simon

Hendrix : Electric Ladyland, Axis Bold as Love
Rush : Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Power Windows
The Doors : L.A. Woman
Steely Dan : Katy Lied, Pretzel Logic
Yes : Yessongs
Genesis : Trespass, Selling England By the Pound
Eric Johnson : Ah Via Musicom, Tones
The Beatles : Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, White Album
King Crimson : Beat, Discipline, Three of a Perfect Pair
Sting : The Soul Cages
SRV : Texas Flood, Couldn't Stand the Weather, In Step

Dark Side of the Moon is as close to perfect as I think humans can get: sounds near perfect, not one note not needed, not one note I would want to change - and for me *that* is a ridiculous accomplishment...

Many Beatles records are "great" to me, as are Hendrix (Axis), but there's always that one tune or so that's kind of... iffy. _Dark Side of the Moon_ covers soooo much ground in so many unique ways and does it so well - the flow of the record is impeccable, the timbre of the sounds, the dynamics, the lyrics - it's sublime.

I've worn out many records:

Queen - A Night at the Opera, Live Killers
Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Meddle
Hendrix - Axis, Electric Ladyland
Jeff Beck - There and Back, Wired, Live with Jan Hammer
Beatles - Revolver, Abbey Road
Van Halen - Fair Warning, VH II
Allan Holdsworth - Road Games, IOU

... but as much as I love those recordings, DSotM reigns supreme.

If CD's could be worn out Jeff Buckley's _Grace_ would have to be replaced; _Super Unknown_, Bad Motor Finger_ by SG; Cocteau Twins _Blue Bell Knoll_; k.d. lang's _Ingenue_; Sarah McLachlan's _Fumbling Towards Ecstasy_....

http://www.mp3.com/chipmcdonald

beatles - the white album
dylan - blonde on blonde, the basement tapes, time out of mind
doc & merle watson - pickin the blues
jerry douglas & peter rowan - yonder
van morrison - astral weeks
joni mitchel - hejira, don juan's reckless drughter, mingus
ry cooder - chicken skin music
brian eno & david byrne - my life in the bush of ghosts

Seems like you guys have already hit most of the ones I would have put on my list. Here's a few more great ones (in no particular order) I haven't seen mentioned yet...

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Boston - first album
Yes - 90125
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk (totally awesome, a modern classic)

Let's see, today I'd say:

Who's Next - The Who
The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Heavy Weather & Night Passage - Weather Report
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
Abbey Road - Beatles
Castalia - Mark Isham
English Settlement & Oranges and Lemons - XTC
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Wheels of Fire - Cream
You Had It Coming - Jeff Beck
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Thrak - King Crimson

OK, back to work...

-AlChuck

Bob Mould - Workbook
HUM - Downward is Heavenward
Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy Live
Bob Mould - Last Dog and Pony Show
Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
any Nick Drake album

Ooops, how could I have forgotten

Sol Negro -- Virginia Rodriguez
Native Dancer - Wayne Shorter

Allman Bro's-Live at Fillmore
Beatles-Abbey Rd. Don Mclain-Don Mclain
Dan Fogelberg-Netherlands
JT-Mudslide Slim
Turrentine-Stanley Turrentine
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Zep- Houses of the Holy
Zappa-Nearly all inclusive
And last but not least,Tedster,NRG, Kahn help me out on the grey matter thang. A young male vocalist out of the motor city recorded this album in L.A. The tune that will probubly bring back your memory was called Get on top of my Woman, or was it Heavy Breather. Circa 72 or so? The kid was like a male Janis, awesome expressions.....

Here it goes again..

1) "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" E.J.
2) " Boston" Boston
3) "Bad Company" Bad Company
4) " Bluesbreakers" Eric Clapton w/ John Mayall
5) "Powerslave" Iron Maiden
6) "Back in Black" AC/DC

Again, in no particular order, a few of many.....

Tedster, Simon... Well first of all thanks for your enthusiasm. Here it goes:
Bijelo Dugme - Anything from them. The guitar player was Goran Bregovic (Ring any bells???)
Indexi - Anything from them as well (they were way before their time. Nice music)
Shank Rock - Live. That album awoke guitar player in me.
Divlje Jagode - Older albums. I like work of their guitar player Zele Lipovaca. He recorded lot of guitar parts for other musicians...
And there are some known groups like Prljavo kazaliste and Parni valjak, Plavi orkestar, Crvena jabuka (just the old stuff). Always wondered what happened with group named Alisa??? That's it for now... I hope I gave you some insight...

Hey, Mile, let us know where we can order a couple of these CDs...I'd love to check some of them out. If they're online, all the better. I don't mind listening to lyrics in another language...that's one thing that pisses me off...the rest of the world has to "Anglicize" their records, but we (us English speakers) whine and cry if something isn't in English. Hell, we listen to Brazilian music that's in Portuguese or something and we don't complain. Thanks!

That's why other versions of Fragile by Sting are better
Anyway I found site of Croatia Records distributor for U.S. and Canada...

http://www.crodisk.com/dance_pop_rock.htm

You can find most of the stuff I wrote (or some other stuff). First try Greatest hits or concerts...
Cheers

Oh, I forgot to tell you that you can type the names into cddb database... Everything is there...

This message has been edited by Mile on 04-18-2001 at 02:31 AM

As the classics have already been well-covered in this thread, I'll just mention a CD I got several months ago which hasn't been out of my (5-disc) player since: "Talking to Myself" by 7-string guitarist Matt Mitchell.

I think I was primed to instantly appreciate Matt's playing by the many hours I've spent listening to Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian and Django.

You can hear cuts from the CD here:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/207/matt_mitchell.html

Lee...after hearing your faves....I suppose a proposal of marriage is in order!!!! : )

Uhhh!

Phil Keaggy, Phlp Side
The Doobie Brothers, What were once Vices are now Habits
Petra, No Doubt