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Hogan11
05-14-2008, 07:08 PM
Proof positive that I'm bored, here's a listing of my personal favorite albums. Keep in mind this is no best of all time list or anything like that, these are just releases by artists of all genres that have stuck to me either by the greatness of the release itself or my association of it to a moment in time that was important to me. It's not a ranking of any kind, it's listed in alphabetical order only because it was easier for me to do so.

Hope you find it to be of some interest.

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - If You Want Blood...You Got It!
AC/DC - Bonfire box set
Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Afghan Whigs - 1965
Anti-Nowhere League - We Are....The League
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Bachman Turner Overdrive II
Beatles - Help!
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles - The White Album
Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding A Mosaic
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino/Twang Bar King
Bettie Serveert - Dust Bunnies
Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Keys - Magic Potion
Black Randy And The Metro Squad - Pass The Dust, I think I'm Bowie
Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Bobby "Blue" Bland - The Best Of Bobby "Blue" Bland
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyrrany And Mutation
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin
Blur - Leisure
Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art Of Surfacing
Boston - Boston
David Bowie - Station To Station
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
David Bowie - Changesbowie
B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Box Set
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart/ Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hit(s)
R.L. Burnside - Bad Luck City
R.L. Burnside - Ass Pocket Of Whiskey
R.L. Burnside - Mr. Wizard
R.L. Burnside - Mississippi Blues
Butthole Surfers - Another Man's Sac
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn
Cars - The Cars
Cars - Candy-O
James Chance - Buy Contortions
Ray Charles - The Birth Of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 1952-1959 Box Set
Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Cheap Trick - Sex, America, Cheap Trick Box Set
Chesterfield Kings - Stop!
Chicago - Chocago Transit Authority
Chicago - Chicago II
Chocolate Watchband - The Best Of The Chocolate Watchband
Church - Of Skins And Heart
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Clash - London Calling
Clash - Sandinista!
Paul Collins Beat - The Kids Are The Same
Alice Cooper - Killer
Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits
Bill Cosby - Revenge
Elvis Costello - 2 1/2 Years box set
Elvis Costello - Trust
Cramps - Sons The Lord Taught Us
Dick Dale - Unknown Territory
Damned - Play It At Your Sister Box Set
Damned - Machine Gun Ettiquette
Damned - The Black Album
Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?, A: We Are Devo!
Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
D.O.A. - Bloodied But Unbowed
Dr. John - Gris Gris
Doors - The Doors
Doors - Strange Days
Doors - L.A. Woman
Doors - In Concert
Doors - The Doors Box Set
Doors - Live At The Aquarius Theatre: The Second Performance
Doors - Live In Detroit
Dreams So Real - Father's House
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Volume II
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Eleventh Dream Day - El Moodio
English Beat - What Is Beat?
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby
Fear - The Record
Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf.....Hand Me The Pliers
Flipper - Album
Four Tops - Anthology
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Genesis - Abacab
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk (Red Album)
Al Green - Greatest Hits
Vince Guaraldi - Greatest Hits
Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Buddy Guy - This Is Buddy Guy

I ran out of time, so I'll post the rest at a later date.

Northman
05-14-2008, 07:16 PM
I was wondering when you would get around to talking music in here. :)

Slick
05-14-2008, 08:05 PM
Wow, I'm impressed. A solid variety of music on that list, some of which I own as well.

aberdien
05-14-2008, 09:18 PM
Looks good to me.

Sassy
05-14-2008, 09:44 PM
Proof positive that I'm bored, here's a listing of my personal favorite albums. Keep in mind this is no best of all time list or anything like that, these are just releases by artists of all genres that have stuck to me either by the greatness of the release itself or my association of it to a moment in time that was important to me. It's not a ranking of any kind, it's listed in alphabetical order only because it was easier for me to do so.

Hope you find it to be of some interest.

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - If You Want Blood...You Got It!
AC/DC - Bonfire box set
Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Afghan Whigs - 1965
Anti-Nowhere League - We Are....The League
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Bachman Turner Overdrive II
Beatles - Help!
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles - The White Album
Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding A Mosaic
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino/Twang Bar King
Bettie Serveert - Dust Bunnies
Big Brother And The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Keys - Magic Potion
Black Randy And The Metro Squad - Pass The Dust, I think I'm Bowie
Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Bobby "Blue" Bland - The Best Of Bobby "Blue" Bland
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyrrany And Mutation
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin
Blur - Leisure
Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art Of Surfacing
Boston - Boston
David Bowie - Station To Station
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
David Bowie - Changesbowie
B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Box Set
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart/ Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hit(s)
R.L. Burnside - Bad Luck City
R.L. Burnside - Ass Pocket Of Whiskey
R.L. Burnside - Mr. Wizard
R.L. Burnside - Mississippi Blues
Butthole Surfers - Another Man's Sac
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn
Cars - The Cars
Cars - Candy-O
James Chance - Buy Contortions
Ray Charles - The Birth Of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 1952-1959 Box Set
Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Cheap Trick - Sex, America, Cheap Trick Box Set
Chesterfield Kings - Stop!
Chicago - Chocago Transit Authority
Chicago - Chicago II
Chocolate Watchband - The Best Of The Chocolate Watchband
Church - Of Skins And Heart
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Clash - London Calling
Clash - Sandinista!
Paul Collins Beat - The Kids Are The Same
Alice Cooper - Killer
Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits
Bill Cosby - Revenge
Elvis Costello - 2 1/2 Years box set
Elvis Costello - Trust
Cramps - Sons The Lord Taught Us
Dick Dale - Unknown Territory
Damned - Play It At Your Sister Box Set
Damned - Machine Gun Ettiquette
Damned - The Black Album
Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?, A: We Are Devo!
Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
D.O.A. - Bloodied But Unbowed
Dr. John - Gris Gris
Doors - The Doors
Doors - Strange Days
Doors - L.A. Woman
Doors - In Concert
Doors - The Doors Box Set
Doors - Live At The Aquarius Theatre: The Second Performance
Doors - Live In Detroit
Dreams So Real - Father's House
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Volume II
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Eleventh Dream Day - El Moodio
English Beat - What Is Beat?
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby
Fear - The Record
Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf.....Hand Me The Pliers
Flipper - Album
Four Tops - Anthology
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Genesis - Abacab
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk (Red Album)
Al Green - Greatest Hits
Vince Guaraldi - Greatest Hits
Gun Club - Fire Of Love
Buddy Guy - This Is Buddy Guy

I ran out of time, so I'll post the rest at a later date.

So when are you burning CD's for me? :D

shank
05-14-2008, 11:30 PM
i hate AC/DC :behindsofa:

Hogan11
05-14-2008, 11:33 PM
i hate AC/DC :behindsofa:

Actually, from everything after "Back In Black" on I tend to agree with you.

The band lost something when it lost Bon Scott IMHO.

Hogan11
05-14-2008, 11:34 PM
So when are you burning CD's for me? :D

I'm only scratching the surface....wait till I post H thru Z :D

Sassy
05-14-2008, 11:45 PM
I'm only scratching the surface....wait till I post H thru Z :D

Alrighty H...can't wait!:cool:

3090
05-15-2008, 01:20 AM
There is a lot of Doors...not enough Dr John.

Mos Scocious.

dogfish
05-15-2008, 02:05 AM
i've gotta give some props to anyone who's got miles, brian eno and the surfers all on their list. . .

Northman
05-15-2008, 02:17 AM
Actually, from everything after "Back In Black" on I tend to agree with you.

The band lost something when it lost Bon Scott IMHO.

Although i do enjoy a lot of Scott's work with the band i always dug Johnson more.

Hogan11
05-15-2008, 02:41 AM
There is a lot of Doors...not enough Dr John.

Mos Scocious.

..Which I have, along with "The Ultimate Dr. John" and "Gumbo"...."Gris Gris" has long been one of my fave albums however and my fave out of the Dr. John catalog. Easily one of the weirdest albums ever released, the whole psychedelic voodoo thing was never as successfully done as it was on this one.

I love The Doors and I collect all the live shows I can find from the Morrison era, so the whole Bright Midnight Archives thing has been a godsend to me. The Doors self titled first album is quite possibly my favorite album of all time, One that I've always been totally obsessed with. Steeped in an echoy production, the release has a dark, hypnotic menace to it from start to finish that I have always found to be thrilling since hearing the record for the first time as a young child. I remember reading somewhere a discription of the record as "music that had an ugly momentum to it....as if it were trying to catch up with the people who made it" I totally agree with that sentiment. Ever see the original "Break On Through" video? That clip kinda sums up the whole feeling of the album as a whole, check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tah0OnS3nBU

The only other release I can think of off the cuff that has the same dark, echoy, hurdling toward the abyss type of production, momentum and sound is Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures"....an album that will certainly show up when I get around to listing titles H thru Z.

Hogan11
05-15-2008, 02:48 AM
Although i do enjoy a lot of Scott's work with the band i always dug Johnson more.

I dunno, I always thought Johnson was trying too hard. He also lacked the obnoxious persona that Scott had that put over and made the early stuff so enjoyable to me (I could never visualize Johnson doing a gig done up in Dutchgirl drag, for example). Scott also had a hand in the writing of "Back In Black", which kinda explains the dropoff in songwriting quality from that to "For Those About To Rock" and on down the line. I think his loss hurt the band much more than people realized.

Northman
05-15-2008, 02:52 AM
I dunno, I always thought Johnson was trying too hard. He also lacked the obnoxious persona that Scott had that put over and made the early stuff so enjoyable to me (I could never visualize Johnson doing a gig done up in Dutchgirl drag, for example). Scott also had a hand in the writing of "Back In Black", which kinda explains the dropoff in songwriting quality from that to "For Those About To Rock" and on down the line. I think his loss hurt the band much more than people realized.


True.

3090
05-15-2008, 02:59 AM
..Which I have, along with "The Ultimate Dr. John" and "Gumbo"...."Gris Gris" has long been one of my fave albums however and my fave out of the Dr. John catalog. Easily one of the weirdest albums ever released, the whole psychedelic voodoo thing was never as successfully done as it was on this one.



Fair enough. Gris Gris is as unique today as it was when it was produced. One of my favorite 'albums'.

From an anthology perspective, Mos Scocious show the breath and brilliance of the artist over decades.

Micro versus macro perspective I guess...both with merit.

Not sure if you like this type of music (bossa nova).....but no Stan Getz? His Getz Plays Jobim album is one that I always come back to. As timeless as Davis's Kind of Blue.

Hogan11
05-15-2008, 03:21 AM
Fair enough. Gris Gris is as unique today as it was when it was produced. One of my favorite 'albums'.

From an anthology perspective, Mos Scocious show the breath and brilliance of the artist over decades.

Micro versus macro perspective I guess...both with merit.

Not sure if you like this type of music (bossa nova).....but no Stan Getz? His Getz Plays Jobim album is one that I always come back to. As timeless as Davis's Kind of Blue.

I like Getz, don't get me wrong, but I'm not as big on him as I am Adderley, Evans or Miles. Kinda like The Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five"..yes I own it, I like it and I know it's a classic and all that, but I can't honestly say it's a personal favorite of mine or the first thing I reach for when it comes to me needing my jazz fix.

3090
05-15-2008, 03:28 AM
I like Getz, don't get me wrong, but I'm not as big on him as I am Adderley, Evans or Miles. Kinda like The Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five"..yes I own it, I like it and I know it's a classic and all that, but I can't honestly say it's a personal favorite of mine or the first thing I reach for when it comes to me needing my jazz fix.

Northern NY infidel! :D

Hogan11
05-15-2008, 03:31 AM
Northern NY infidel! :D

That'd be Western NY infidel :lol:

BCJ
05-15-2008, 04:52 AM
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Afghan Whigs - 1965

Some of the best music in the mid 90s. Never got the love that they should have. I rarely hear them now. What was his name Greg Dooley or something. Great talent. Always loved Cheap Trick Live at Budukon (have tape in my glove box that i picked up for $.10). Gin Blossoms are still a fav with me and see them probably every 16 months. Arctic Monkeys put out great music. If you have not heard of this Canadian band and are not the one into death metal, check them out.

Hogan11
05-15-2008, 09:35 AM
Hackamore Brick - One Kiss Leads To Another
Hawkwind - Space Ritual Live
Heart - Greatest Hits/Live
Richard Hell And The Voidoids - Blank Generation
Jimi Hendrix - The Experience Collection box set
Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Plays Monterey
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
Jimi Hendrix - Stages 1967 -1970 box set
Jimi Hendrix - Blues
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set
Buddy Holly - From the Original Master Tapes
John Lee Hooker - The Hook
Howlin Wolf - Moanin' In The Moonlight
Ian Hunter - Live/Welcome To The Club
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs And Stories
J.B. Hutto & His Hawks - Hawk Squat
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls - Rites Of Passage
J. Geils Band - Full House
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
Joe Jackson - Body And Soul
Joe Jackson - Volume 4
Joe Jackson - Afterlife
Jam - Direction, Reaction, Creation box set
Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying: The History Of Elmore James
Jerky Boys - Jerky Boys
Jerky Boys - Jerky Boys 2
Jesus And Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
Jesus And Mary Chain - 21 Singles 1984-1998
Beau Jocque & His Zydeco High Rollers - Gonna Take You Downtown
Beau Jocque & His Zydeco High Rollers - Check It Out, Lock It In, Crank It Up!
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division - Closer
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Kilkenny Cats - Hammer
Junior Kimbrough - Sad Days, Lonely Nights
Junior Kimbrough - Most Things Haven't Worked Out
B.B. King - Live At The Cook County Jail
B.B. King -Live At The Regal
King Crimson - Red
King Crimson - Frame By Frame box set
Sam Kinison - Louder Than Hell
Kinks - Give The People What They Want
Knack - Get The Knack
Al Kooper - Soul Of A Man: Al Kooper Live box set
Little Steven And The Disciples Of Soul - Men Without Women
Love - Love Story box set
Lyle Lovette And His Large Band - Lyle Lovette And His Large Band
Lush - Spooky
Madness - One Step Beyond
Magazine - After The Fact
Magic Sam - West Side Soul
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams!
MC5 - Back In The USA
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - A Jackknife To A Swan
Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits '72 - '78
Mission Of Burma - Mission Of Burma
Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Mustard Plug - Evildoers Beware!
New York Dolls - In Too Much Too Soon
Nirvana - In Utero
Operation Ivy - Operation Ivy
Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind
Graham Parker - Heat Treatment
Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
Paris - Paris
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pearl Jam - 10
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Pietasters - Awesome Tape Mix #6
Pietasters - Turbo
Pietasters - All Day
Pink Floyd - More
Pink Floyd - Relics
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pixies - Surfa Rosa
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Police - Message In A Box, The Complete Recordings box set
Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions CD
Pretenders - Pretenders
Pretenders - Pretenders II
Pretty Things - Get The Picture?
Priests - Tall Tales
Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition
Quitters - 1982
Rainy Day Saints - Saturday's Haze
Ramones - All The Stuff (And More) Volume 1
Ramones - All The Stuff (And More) Volume 2
Rascals - Collections
Rascals - Groovin'
Otis Redding - The Ultimate Otis Redding
Lou Reed - Rock 'N' Roll Animal
Lou Reed - Live Take No Prisioners
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Lou Reed - New York
Lou Reed - Perfect Night -Live In London
R.E.M. - Murmor
R.E.M. - Reckoning
R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction
Rhinos - Year Of The Rhinos
Keith Richards - Main Offender
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Rolling Stones - Get Your Ya - Ya's Out
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Henry Rollins - Think Tank
Rollins Band - Lifetime
Rollins Band - Get Some Go Again
Romantics - Romantics
Todd Rungren/Utopia - Adventures In Utopia
Todd Rungren/Utopia - Anthology 1974 -1985
Rush - The Spirit Of The Radio- Greatest Hits 1974 - 1987
Saints - All Times Through Paradise box set
Sam & Dave - The Best of Sam & Dave
Santana - Santana
Santana - Abraxas
Scorpions - In Trance
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bullocks....Here's The Sex Pistols
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Savvy Show Stoppers
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Sport Fishin'
Paul Simon - Greatest Hits, Etc.
Paul Simon - Graceland
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain
Smithereens - Green Thoughts
Specials - Specials
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
Squeeze - East Side Story
Squeeze - 45's And Under
Steely Dan - Citizen Steely Dan 1972-1980 box set
Stiff Little Fingers - All The Best
Stone Roses - The Complete Stone Roses
Stooges - Fun House
Stooges - Raw Power
Strokes - Is This It?
Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods
Swamp Rats - Disco Still Sucks!
Matthew Sweet - Time Capsule: The Best Of Matthew Sweet 1990-2000
Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
Hound Dog Taylor - Hound Dog Taylor And The Houserockers
Hound Dog Taylor - Natural Boogie
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britian
Television - Marquee Moon
Johnny Thunders - Born To Loose – The Best Of Johnny Thunders
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear
Tubes - The Tubes
Tubes - What Do You Want From Live
Turtles - 20 Greatest Hits
Van Halen - Van Halen II
Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge
Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly And See box set
Vibrators - Pure Mania
Wax - What Else Can We Do?
Wedding Present - Hit Parade 1
Wedding Present - Watusi
Wedding Present - Saturnalia
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues
Who - Sing My Generation
Who - Happy Jack
Who - Live At Leeds
Who - Who's Next
Who - The Kids Are Alright
Who - Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970
Sonny Boy Williamson - His Best
Woggles - Get Tough!
Link Wray - Rumble! The Best Of Link Wray
Link Wray - Shadowman
XTC - Black Sea
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Close To The Edge
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Yo La Tengo - I’m Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is

I've decided not to include various artists compilations or soundtracks, sue me.

haroldthebarrel
05-15-2008, 10:10 AM
no sonic youth??
no einsturzende neubauten?

and I also thought you would be cool with me and have "Nursery crime" by Genesis.:)

MOtorboat
05-15-2008, 10:43 AM
Good list.

Requiem / The Dagda
05-15-2008, 11:01 AM
Seeing Dinosaur Jr. on there just makes me smile, and I enjoy a lot of the other records as well; especially King Crimson. I'm not a huge fan of the Talking Heads. . . but hey Hogan -- to each his own. :]

Sassy
05-15-2008, 06:45 PM
Yo La Tengo - I’m Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

My personal fav so far :D

dogfish
05-15-2008, 06:48 PM
excellent call on meddle! i know some consider it sacrilege, but IMO that's their best album-- gimme meddle over the wall any day, or even dark side. . .


i'm a little surprised that the pixies' album doolittle didn't make your list, though. . .

Hogan11
05-16-2008, 08:29 PM
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Afghan Whigs - 1965

Some of the best music in the mid 90s. Never got the love that they should have. I rarely hear them now. What was his name Greg Dooley or something. Great talent. Always loved Cheap Trick Live at Budukon (have tape in my glove box that i picked up for $.10). Gin Blossoms are still a fav with me and see them probably every 16 months. Arctic Monkeys put out great music. If you have not heard of this Canadian band and are not the one into death metal, check them out.

Gentlemen & Black Love were a couple of the very few concept albums that worked. Yup, Greg Dulli knows the ins and outs of broken relationships...great voice as well. I had the chance to see them in Syracuse for the 1965 tour but was scared off by a snowstorm...never got the chance to see them again. I kick myself for whimping out to this day. Great stuff.

Hogan11
05-16-2008, 08:32 PM
no sonic youth??
no einsturzende neubauten?

and I also thought you would be cool with me and have "Nursery crime" by Genesis.:)

Remember Harold that these are just my faves, they don't even make up 1/3 of my total collection nor do they represent some sorta best of list.

That said, I was never much of a Sonic Youth or Einsturzende Neubauten fan. Nursery Crime is okay, just not one of my faves.

aberdien
05-17-2008, 01:04 AM
No Radiohead?


Great list though...lots of good ones on there.

Hogan11
05-17-2008, 11:06 AM
No Radiohead?


Great list though...lots of good ones on there.

You know, I've never been that big on Radiohead either. There are just some bands that I never took to that are loved by many in the alternative field and they are one of them. Wilco is another. Not saying I have an issue with either of them or anything, I'm just not beholden to them like most are is all.

I went thru the same thing in the 80's with The Replacements and in the 90's with Rage Against The Machine and Soundgarden..although, to be honest, I really did hate Soundgarden but that has to do primarily with the ultra annoying Chris Cornell than just about anything else.

Hogan11
05-17-2008, 11:11 AM
excellent call on meddle! i know some consider it sacrilege, but IMO that's their best album-- gimme meddle over the wall any day, or even dark side. . .


i'm a little surprised that the pixies' album doolittle didn't make your list, though. . .

I'm much more fascinated with the Floyd output that hasn't been pounded into the ground than I am with the standbys (Wish You Were Here being the lone exception)....unbelievabily, one album I forgot to put on the list is my fave Pink Floyd album of them all, More. I'll get on that and correct it ASAP.

Doolittle is okay, I just like and perfer the two Pixies albums I listed over the rest of their catalog. It probably should be noted that while I included Surfa Rosa, I actually mean the version that includes the Come On Pilgrim EP.

haroldthebarrel
05-17-2008, 03:27 PM
Remember Harold that these are just my faves, they don't even make up 1/3 of my total collection nor do they represent some sorta best of list.

That said, I was never much of a Sonic Youth or Einsturzende Neubauten fan. Nursery Crime is okay, just not one of my faves.

I know. goes to show how different and at the same alike our taste of music is.
Sonic Youth is my favorite band and Tabula Rasa and Ende Neu by neubauten are two of my favorite records ever.

Broncospsycho77
05-17-2008, 05:41 PM
Really interesting list. I have a lot of respect (and patronage) for the overwhelming majority of the stuff on your list. Good stuff.
Routine questions:
-No Chili Peppers? They seem right in that list...
-Why Nirvana's In Utero over its higher selling Nevermind, or was Nvm too commercial/poppy for standard Nirvana?
-You mentioned that Rage isn't on your list. Was it just their style? I have a similar thing with Alice in Chains, so it's easy to see where you're coming from.

Hogan11
05-17-2008, 10:45 PM
Really interesting list. I have a lot of respect (and patronage) for the overwhelming majority of the stuff on your list. Good stuff.
Routine questions:
-No Chili Peppers? They seem right in that list...
-Why Nirvana's In Utero over its higher selling Nevermind, or was Nvm too commercial/poppy for standard Nirvana?
-You mentioned that Rage isn't on your list. Was it just their style? I have a similar thing with Alice in Chains, so it's easy to see where you're coming from.

I'm okay with the Chili Peppers, own a couple of releases..none of them have been totally solid IMHO though...Blood Sugar Sex Majik came the closest, but it still had some filler on it, if they'd had trimmed some of the fat off from it, it'd really would've lived up to the reputation that it has.

Why In Utero? Thank Steve Albini. Really, I love the sound of that album, from the opening thud to the last chorus of All Apologies, it's a really ugly release. I like the songs better than what was on NVM as well. I know most people won't agree with me when I say it was the band's artistic highpoint, but that's okay. NVM was a bit too glossy for my liking, but I still like it, just don't listen to it much anymore because it had been pounded into the ground for so many years......Both Utero & Incesticide get more plays at my house.

Rage? Yeah, never cared for them..didn't mind the politics, just didn't like their sound as I've never been one for rap/metal/thrash acts that they seemed to have pioneered.

aberdien
05-17-2008, 11:16 PM
i hate AC/DC :behindsofa:

I don't really HATE them, but they are EXTREMELY overrated. They're one of those bands that get way too many t-shirts made of them and you see them all over being worn by people who don't even know any songs of theirs (KISS, Pink Floyd [sadly], Rolling Stones).

But they are really repetitive. Solid songs, but they all sound the same...can't tell the difference between alot of them until the chorus comes in.

But Kiss sucks.

Northman
05-17-2008, 11:38 PM
I'm okay with the Chili Peppers, own a couple of releases..none of them have been totally solid IMHO though...Blood Sugar Sex Majik came the closest,

Definitely.

Hogan11
05-18-2008, 10:20 AM
I don't really HATE them, but they are EXTREMELY overrated. They're one of those bands that get way too many t-shirts made of them and you see them all over being worn by people who don't even know any songs of theirs (KISS, Pink Floyd [sadly], Rolling Stones).

But they are really repetitive. Solid songs, but they all sound the same...can't tell the difference between alot of them until the chorus comes in.

But Kiss sucks.

The thing I always liked about AC/DC, especially early AC/DC, was it's simplicity and directness. The songs were mostly three chords, they avoided fantasy lyrics (which is a HUGE knock on hard rock/heavy metal acts for me) and tried to be as offensive as possible....all of which brings them a bit closer to a 1977 punk act than a hard rock one that was typical of that time. The overall attitude changed and the material dropped off after Scott died IMHO.
It was probably for those very reasons it took the band so long to catch on in the USA...I do remember from my junior high school days that pre Back In Black AC/DC was not held in as high esteem as Led Zep, Bad Company, Black Sabbath, BOC et. al. were....a little too simple, a little too fast in tempo for the pre-thrash metal crowd.....eh, that's just my theory on it anyways.

All that makes the success of Kiss that much harder to explain musically, then again Kiss was all about the show....Glam's longest lasting and biggest hurrah. Ask people how a Kiss show was and the first thing they'll tell you about 99% of the time is about the lights, stage props, etc. The music itself was always a bit of a second fiddle to the big stage production and the overall marketing strategy....the effect of which scored very big till it was finally all worn down by the effects of disco & new wave on the casual listening populace and just by plain old obsolescence on everyone else by 1983.

What continues to amaze me about Kiss is how they continue to be snubbed by "classic rock" radio stations. Anyone who lived through the 1970's can tell you that Kiss was beyond huge....and yet, now that the same crowd depicted in films like Detroit Rock City has entered middle age, they seem to refuse to celebrate the music of their youth (when it comes to Kiss anyways). Ignoring it almost admits to being embarrassed by it, don't you think? Hmmmm.

Broncospsycho77
05-18-2008, 12:43 PM
I actually really like AC/DC. Their songs were simple, brash, and adrenaline-fused;they took rock to its most basic state, and thrived on it.

Now, there are definitely a lot of similarities within their songs (for example, I can never tell when the song "Heatseeker" is on until the refrain), but what really won me over were the solos of Angus Young. He really brought them home... every song had its own little spot which became huge, for example the rising solo in "TNT" and the instrumental feature near the end of "Shoot to Thrill", etc. etc... actually, my favorite song from them is "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" because it was simple, powerful, and had a kick-ass solo...

There was definitely a drop in popularity after Scott's death and Back in Black, but Johnson's vocals added to the hard rock-esque nature of their songs, as his vocals were all but larnyx-tearing. When you just want to listen to music for the sake of listening to music, AC/DC is where it's at.

Hogan11
05-18-2008, 07:31 PM
There was definitely a drop in popularity after Scott's death and Back in Black, but Johnson's vocals added to the hard rock-esque nature of their songs, as his vocals were all but larnyx-tearing. When you just want to listen to music for the sake of listening to music, AC/DC is where it's at.

Gotta disagree with this. While Highway To Hell made some inroads, the gains made when Back In Black broke the band in the USA overshadowed it (and the entire Scott era catalog) by far.

Requiem / The Dagda
05-18-2008, 07:35 PM
Hogan, how do you feel about Mudhoney? That's just a band I really, really enjoy for a lot of reasons and would love to hear what you think about them.

MOtorboat
05-18-2008, 07:41 PM
The thing I always liked about AC/DC, especially early AC/DC, was it's simplicity and directness. The songs were mostly three chords, they avoided fantasy lyrics (which is a HUGE knock on hard rock/heavy metal acts for me) and tried to be as offensive as possible....all of which brings them a bit closer to a 1977 punk act than a hard rock one that was typical of that time. The overall attitude changed and the material dropped off after Scott died IMHO.
It was probably for those very reasons it took the band so long to catch on in the USA...I do remember from my junior high school days that pre Back In Black AC/DC was not held in as high esteem as Led Zep, Bad Company, Black Sabbath, BOC et. al. were....a little too simple, a little too fast in tempo for the pre-thrash metal crowd.....eh, that's just my theory on it anyways.

I think we're talking about a situation like, say, a Van Gogh, who didn't sell a painting at all (or was it one) during his lifetime, yet he is remembered as one of the great painters in all of the history.

As far as rock music goes, I think AC/DC may have that type of effect. I think, to an extent, the Beatles later music has had that same effect. Many people going back to it...without the context of the times...and listening to the music, saying, "you know what...that was some good shit..."

I think the retro fad that we've seen in the last 5-10 years with bands like The White Stripes, The Hives, The Killers, Jet (Especially Jet, since they are Australian)...show us that people are looking at that raw, garage-band style of a music and the bravado that the band delivers its music and saying, "hey, that was good shit...let's play some of it."

I think that early AC/DC has influenced a lot of the music I just referenced, with its rawness. Likewise, AC/DC was just taking the rawness of bands like the Rolling Stones and other early rock musicians, imitating it to a certain degree, turning the volume to 12 and letting loose with the lyrics...

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 07:45 PM
5 of my all time favorites

Rush -2112
Def Leppard - High and Dry
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Queen - Day at the races
Queensryche - All of them!!

MOtorboat
05-18-2008, 09:27 PM
Just listening to a little Jet this evening, and I think a technical analysis is also valid to that same argument of AC/DC.

It was typical for bands to record vocals and the guitar on the right track, and the rhythm and bass tracks on the left track, likewise, I've noticed that practice with Jet, as we did with many of the early bands. They've seemed to take the old approach to creating music as the idea of their music as well. During the digital era, bands are recording everything on the same track and feeding it through both speakers. Just an observation I had listening to Jet on my computer with the two speakers.

Northman
05-18-2008, 09:32 PM
5 of my all time favorites

Queensryche - All of them!!


They pretty much lost their iconic sound after Promised land in my opinion. Not too mention Degarmo's departure really left a major hole in their song writing. But everything up to PL was pretty damn good.

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:35 PM
I'm a huge 80's rock person. I Went to Rocklahoma last year and saw 32 bands in 4 days. It was A huge success and just shows that 80's glam, rock, etc., is still very popular and people like me hang on to it and will forever. It was an awesome time to grow up in.

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:35 PM
They pretty much lost their iconic sound after Promised land in my opinion. Not too mention Degarmo's departure really left a major hole in their song writing. But everything up to PL was pretty damn good.

They put on a hell of a show at Rocklahoma last summer. One of the best of the 4 days.

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:37 PM
I have some great pics in the Rocklahome thread if you can find it.

Northman
05-18-2008, 09:37 PM
I'm a huge 80's rock person. I Went to Rocklahoma last year and saw 32 bands in 4 days. It was A huger success and just shows that 80's glam, rock, etc., is still very popular and people like me hang on to it and will forever. It was an awesome time to grow up in.

No doubt. Although i am far more into extreme music these days i grew up on all the hard/glam rock of the 80's. Ratt, Poison, Van Halen, and Motley were some of my favorites during that time. I still listen to a lot of Ratt even today so much so my wife has finally caved in and admitted they are good. :lol:

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:38 PM
It was unfortunate but Ratt didn't perform very well. The vocals were horrible and they just went through the motions. I was really disappointed with them and the show.

Northman
05-18-2008, 09:40 PM
It was unfortunate but Ratt didn't perform very well. The vocals were horrible and they just went through the motions. I was really disappointed with them and the show.

Yea, you know ive seen them twice in my lifetime both in 88' and in 00' and neither show was that stellar. I dont know if they just dont sound well in a live enviroment or just a bad night on both occasions but i never saw a good live show of them. I did happen to see Poison in 00' as well and they were fantastic.

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:41 PM
Here's the line up, missing Thursday from Rocklahoma.

Rocklahoma 2007

FRIDAY, JULY 13TH 2007 ROCKLAHOMA LINEUP!

* POISON, 11:30 PM
* RATT, 10:00 PM
* QUIET RIOT, 8:30 PM
* SLAUGHTER, 7:00 PM
* Y & T, 5:30 PM
* WHITE LION, 4:15 PM
* DIRTY PENNY, 3:00 PM
* GREG LEON INVASION, 1:45 PM
* ZENDOZER, 12:45 PM

SATURDAY, JULY 14TH 2007 ROCKLAHOMA LINEUP!

* VINCE NEIL, 11:30 PM
* DOKKEN, 10:00 PM
* WINGER, 8:30 PM
* SKID ROW, 7:00 PM
* WARRANT, 5:30 PM
* FIREHOUSE, 4:15 PM
* ENUFF Z NUFF, 3:10 PM
* FASTER PUSSYCAT, 2:05 PM
* BULLET BOYS, 1:00 PM
* BANG TANGO, 11:55 AM
* DOWN FOR FIVE, 11:05 AM
* 36 INCHES, 10:00 AM

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

* TWISTED SISTER, 9:00 PM
* QUEENSRYCHE, 7:15 PM
* JACKYL, 5:45 PM
* GREAT WHITE, 4:15 PM
* LA GUNS, 2:45 PM
* STEELHEART, 1:30 PM
* BRITNY FOX, 12:20 PM
* RHINO BUCKET, 11:20 PM
* PEDAL POINT, 10:30 PM
* SOULRIDER, 9:30 AM

MOtorboat
05-18-2008, 09:42 PM
Did you drive your Iroq there too?

:D

Northman
05-18-2008, 09:44 PM
Did you drive your Iroq there too?

:D

:lol::lol:

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:44 PM
Jackyl put on one of the best stage performance that truly blew my mind believe it or not. They were incredible with the show and vocals. I had never seen them and really wasn't all that excited about seeing them, but them and Quiet Riot had the best shows, performance wise. Too bad about Kevin Dubrow...

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:45 PM
Did you drive your Iroq there too?

:D

I drove my Hummer H3!! :D

Northman
05-18-2008, 09:49 PM
My favorite show from the 80's hard rock bands had to be the Hysteria tour with Def Leppard and Tesla in 88'. Here are some of the concerts i have attended the last few years.

Stryper/Loudness/Tnt- 1987
Def Leppard/Tesla- 1988
Ratt/Britney Fox/Kix- 1988
Great White/Tesla/Kix- 1989
Testament/Annihilator- 1990
Exodus/Suicidal Tendencies/Pantera- 1990
Death Angel/Forbidden/Sanctuary- 1990
Judas Priest/Megadeth- 1990
Clash of the Titans feat. Slayer/Anthrax/Megadeth/Alice in Chains- 1991
Lollapalooza feat. Red Hot Chillipeppers/Soundgarden/Pearl Jam, etc- 1992
W.A.S.P- 1992
Megadeth/Suicidal Tendencies- 1992
Sepultura/Clutch/Fudge Tunnel/Fear Factory- 1994
Pantera/Biohazard/Sepultura- 1994
Napalm Death/Carcass/Brutal Truth/Cathedral- 1994
Queensryche/Type O Negative- 1995
King Diamond- 1998
Ozzfest 99
Poison/Ratt/Great White/L.A Guns- 1999
HFS Festival feat. Limp Bizkit- 1999
Korn/Staind- 2000
Testament- 2000
Ozzfest 2000
Tattoo the Earth feat. Slayer/Slipknot- 2000
Nile/Arch Enemy- 2002
Korn/Disturbed- 2002
Nile/Napalm Death/Dark Tranquillity/Strapping Young Lad- 2003
Lacuna Coil/Tapping the Vein/Brave- 2003
Gotham Road- 2003
Ozzfest 2003
Shadows Fall/Chimaira- 2003
Symphony X/Devin Townsend- 2003
Lacuna Coil- 2004
Ozzfest 2004
Fear Factory/Mastodon- 2004
Dimmu Borgir/Cannibal Corpse/The Haunted/Lamb of God
Strapping Young Lad- 2005
Judas Priest/Queensryche- 2005
Devildriver/Napalm Death- 2008

MOtorboat
05-18-2008, 09:50 PM
I know you're a hard rock guy, Anubis, but you really need to go to a Dave show...it's an incredible time...

Northman
05-18-2008, 09:52 PM
I know you're a hard rock guy, Anubis, but you really need to go to a Dave show...it's an incredible time...

Dave show?

MOtorboat
05-18-2008, 09:53 PM
Dave show?

Dave Matthews Band

Northman
05-18-2008, 09:54 PM
Dave Matthews Band

Oh hell yea, i would dig that. Ive seen some of his live stuff on TV and i have most of his albums. I would love to see them live.

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:54 PM
Nice list. My first ever concert was Kiss/Rush in 1976. I was a concert Junkie growing up.

Best live show I saw was Queen. Freddie Mercury had so much talent and the stage show was awesome. Too bad his lifestyle was fatal. I miss the old Queen. I wasn't much into them after they went to that "bubble gum" rock like most 80's bands. but I loved the early stuff, like Aerosmith with Trains Kept a Rolliing and Sweet Emotion. I never understood the changes some of the good bands made. It was pretty sad.

Northman
05-18-2008, 09:55 PM
Nice list. My first ever concert was Kiss/Rush in 1976. I was a concert Junkie growing up.

Best live show I saw was Queen. Freddie Mercury had so much talent and the stage show was awesome. Too bad his lifestyle was fatal. I miss the old Queen. I wasn't much into them after they went to that "bubble gum" rock like most 80's bands. but I loved the early stuff, like Aerosmith with Trains Kept a Rolliing and Sweet Emotion. I never understood the changes some of the good bands made. It was pretty sad.

I do wish i would have seen Queen back then at some point but they were on the downward spiral when i got to be of age to go to concerts. I was supposed to go to Van Halen for the first time last week but something came up and i had to give my tickets away. :mad:

Bronco9798
05-18-2008, 09:59 PM
I do wish i would have seen Queen back then at some point but they were on the downward spiral when i got to be of age to go to concerts. I was supposed to go to Van Halen for the first time last week but something came up and i had to give my tickets away. :mad:

I saw Van Halen numerous times with David Lee Roth, Eddie, Alex, and Michael Anthony. Roth made Van Halen early on. Great show!!

Hogan11
05-19-2008, 07:32 AM
Hogan, how do you feel about Mudhoney? That's just a band I really, really enjoy for a lot of reasons and would love to hear what you think about them.

Honestly, I always thought the albums were rather stiff and the material was inconsistant. I'm seeing them for the very first time June 3rd in Buffalo with The Cynics, so I'm hoping it's gonna be a case where the band's material comes alive after you see them perform.

That's pretty common really, there have been many bands over the years that would release a new offering and you'd listen to it and go "eh" and then you'd see them perform the material and the performance makes it work. The live show shows you the intention of the artist where that may have been lost or changed in the studio.

Hogan11
05-19-2008, 07:45 AM
I think we're talking about a situation like, say, a Van Gogh, who didn't sell a painting at all (or was it one) during his lifetime, yet he is remembered as one of the great painters in all of the history....

Known by me as "The Velvet Underground Syndrome"


As far as rock music goes, I think AC/DC may have that type of effect. I think, to an extent, the Beatles later music has had that same effect. Many people going back to it...without the context of the times...and listening to the music, saying, "you know what...that was some good shit"

I think the retro fad that we've seen in the last 5-10 years with bands like The White Stripes, The Hives, The Killers, Jet (Especially Jet, since they are Australian)...show us that people are looking at that raw, garage-band style of a music and the bravado that the band delivers its music and saying, "hey, that was good shit...let's play some of it."

I think that early AC/DC has influenced a lot of the music I just referenced, with its rawness. Likewise, AC/DC was just taking the rawness of bands like the Rolling Stones and other early rock musicians, imitating it to a certain degree, turning the volume to 12 and letting loose with the lyrics...

Well maybe...I've never heard of AC/DC being sigted as an influence by any of the bands you mentioned, but it may have been an indirect one....hell, the style is so old now that it's hard to attribute it to just a few bands anymore anyways.

Hogan11
05-19-2008, 08:03 AM
Just listening to a little Jet this evening, and I think a technical analysis is also valid to that same argument of AC/DC.

It was typical for bands to record vocals and the guitar on the right track, and the rhythm and bass tracks on the left track, likewise, I've noticed that practice with Jet, as we did with many of the early bands. They've seemed to take the old approach to creating music as the idea of their music as well. During the digital era, bands are recording everything on the same track and feeding it through both speakers. Just an observation I had listening to Jet on my computer with the two speakers.

Nah, the digital era had nothing to do with this. Most producers abandoned the recording approach you're talking about by 1970. Throughout the 60's, it was quite common for things to be "mixed" by seperation (Guitar and vocals on the right channel, bass & drums on the left). Nowadays, the only time things are not mixed down into one track is when an artist is deliberatly taking a stab at nostalgia (which I can understand in the case of Jet).
Bottom line is, it's in the mix down, not the actual recording that this occurs...digital or analog, it doesn't matter. I'm sure that was what you really ment by your post.

That mixing style, IMHO, really hurt a lot of material in the 60's. I'll use The Beach Boys as an example. Vocals almost always came out of one speaker, while the music came out of the other...if you panned your balance dial over to the side where all you heard was the music, you'd hear a backing track that was usually damaged by too many overdubs (especially with the hailed calssic "Pet Sounds") The vocal harmonies would then be mixed higher on the opposite channel so they dominated the sound and made the imperfections on the backing track barely noticable. Just as anyone who ever owned a cassette TASCAM 4-track recorder back in the day could tell you....if you mixed the 4 tracks down to one and then tried to record more stuff on the other three tracks after that, the bounce would fail and the result would sound like if you left the cassette tape on your car dashboard on a 90 degree day with the windows up.....the dreaded wind effect.

Hogan11
05-19-2008, 08:13 AM
I do wish i would have seen Queen back then at some point but they were on the downward spiral when i got to be of age to go to concerts. I was supposed to go to Van Halen for the first time last week but something came up and i had to give my tickets away. :mad:

Evidently, Queen was still servicable in concert up to the very end....I seem to remember their performance at "Live Aid" shocking those who had written the band off, it was one of the highlights of the entire event.

Surprisingly, I have a lot of Queen in my collection. That's because (IMO) each album has one or two tracks on it that are great and most of them are non-hits of course, so no one compilation is going to foot the bill and give me all I need. Unless I burn it up myself and sell off the albums that is.....and since I'm a collector, that just isn't an option.

Northman
05-19-2008, 10:14 AM
Evidently, Queen was still servicable in concert up to the very end....I seem to remember their performance at "Live Aid" shocking those who had written the band off, it was one of the highlights of the entire event.

Surprisingly, I have a lot of Queen in my collection. That's because (IMO) each album has one or two tracks on it that are great and most of them are non-hits of course, so no one compilation is going to foot the bill and give me all I need. Unless I burn it up myself and sell off the albums that is.....and since I'm a collector, that just isn't an option.


Agreed. Although one of my alltime favorites is the actual song Innuendo. Man, that it some great work there. :D

Broncospsycho77
05-19-2008, 03:50 PM
Queen's one of those bands that transcends all genres. The overwhelming majority of people I know like Queen, and I've only met one person in my entire life that says they hate Queen (one of my friend's loser girlfriends who listens to hip hop). Surely, Wayne's World and pop culture have to do with a lot of it, especially the "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Another One Bites the Dust", "Somebody to Love" songs... but thrashers, metalheads, and casual listeners all seem to really enjoy the almost overzealous, hyper-energetic nature of Queen. Love their stuff.

Bronco9798
05-19-2008, 06:58 PM
Queen's one of those bands that transcends all genres. The overwhelming majority of people I know like Queen, and I've only met one person in my entire life that says they hate Queen (one of my friend's loser girlfriends who listens to hip hop). Surely, Wayne's World and pop culture have to do with a lot of it, especially the "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Another One Bites the Dust", "Somebody to Love" songs... but thrashers, metalheads, and casual listeners all seem to really enjoy the almost overzealous, hyper-energetic nature of Queen. Love their stuff.

One of the few 80's bands that had real talent. Freddie Mercury was one of the most talented vocal guys of the era. Dude had amazing talent and to think he lived that alternative lifestyle and paid the price for it.

Bronco9798
05-19-2008, 06:59 PM
Agreed. Although one of my alltime favorites is the actual song Innuendo. Man, that it some great work there. :D

That is a good song. That last album/CD was a tribute to Freddie. Listen to all those songs and they tell a story of his last days. Great CD. I still listen to it quite often.

MOtorboat
05-19-2008, 07:24 PM
That is a good song. That last album/CD was a tribute to Freddie. Listen to all those songs and they tell a story of his last days. Great CD. I still listen to it quite often, when I'm cruising in my vintage Iroq, pimped out with a new MP3 player, of course...and rockin' the doo rag.

:wave:

aberdien
05-19-2008, 09:29 PM
Love of my Life is an amazing song by Queen. One of my favorites and really touching performance when played live (judging from youtube).


http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xwCkhmies

Hogan11
05-20-2008, 10:48 AM
Queen's one of those bands that transcends all genres. The overwhelming majority of people I know like Queen, and I've only met one person in my entire life that says they hate Queen (one of my friend's loser girlfriends who listens to hip hop). Surely, Wayne's World and pop culture have to do with a lot of it, especially the "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Another One Bites the Dust", "Somebody to Love" songs... but thrashers, metalheads, and casual listeners all seem to really enjoy the almost overzealous, hyper-energetic nature of Queen. Love their stuff.

That's odd because I know quite a few people who have no use for Queen whatsoever. The general reasoning is that it's far too campy, it's wayyy over the top and the material in general is pretty weak (which, when tracks like "Killer Queen", "Bicycle Race" and "Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon" are presented, is pretty hard to refute)...strangely enough, the very same arguements that the very same people present against other 70's glam rock performers like David Bowie and Lou Reed (I suppose there's an element of homophobia in there as well, though they would never admit to it).

Now as I stated before, I like Queen and do own quite a bit of it ( 8 releases out of the entire catalog to be exact) but I'd be lying if I didn't say I don't think the stuff has aged particularly well and that weakness in the songwriting wasn't a very valid point...."Bohemian Rhapsody", for example, is nothing but one big overblown ball of nonsense (talk about some dismal lyrics, that opera part is just dreadful) existing for nothing else but Freddie's multi-tracked opera vocal showcase. That said, that doesn't mean Queen didn't score dead on on some tracks (examples that come to mind without thinking too much about it are: "Liar", "Fat Bottom Girls", "39", "Tie Your Mother Down", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Love Of My Life" and my own personal fave from the entire catalog "Need Your Loving Tonight" et. al.).

Bottom line is , I always thought of Queen as the very definition of an aquired taste. If you didn't outright love it, then a little of it went a very long way. Just MO mind you, but that's how I see it.

dogfish
05-20-2008, 06:04 PM
alright, i'm gonna put up a list as well-- not to hijack your thread, but i don't really see the point in starting a separate thread for it. . . we had a top ten albums thread, but trying to narrow it down that far is a bad joke. . . so, if ya don't mind i'll just add on here. . . don't expect me to alphabetize, though! :D


jimi hendrix - are you experienced?
jimi hendrix - electric ladyland
jimi hendrix - axis: bold as love
the beatles - magical mystery tour
the beatles - sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band
the beatles - the white album
the beatles - revolver
the beatles - abby road
the beatles - help
the beatles - let it be
led zeppelin box set - discs 1-3
pink floyd - meddle
pink floyd - wish you were here
pink floyd - animals
neil young - rust never sleeps
creedence clearwater revival - chronicle vol. 1
tom petty - full moon fever
santana - abraxis
steve miller band - greatest hits
belly - star
butthole surfers - psychic. . . powerless. . . another man's sac
the pixies - surfer rosa
the pixies - doolittle
the pixies - trompe le monde
jane's addiction - self-titled album
jane's addiction - nothing's shocking
jane's addiction - ritual de lo habitual
pear jam - ten
pearl jam - vs.
nirvana - unplugged in new york
tori amos - little earthquakes
dead can dance - a passage in time
peter gabriel - us
live - throwing copper
david byrne - feelings
soul coughing - ruby vroom
sublime - 40 oz. to freedom
the best of the doors
van morrison - greatest hits
sky cries mary - return to the inner experience
van halen - 1984
miles davis - bitches brew
miles davis - birth of the cool
miles davis - agharta
louis armstrong - all-time greatest hits
ornette coleman - free jazz
herbie hancock - headhunters
funkadelic - maggotbrain
funkadelic - cosmic slop
funkadelic - free your mind and your ass will follow
funkadelic - standing on the verge of gettin' it on
james brown - dead on the heavy funk discs 1-3
sly and the family stone - anthology
the very best of marvin gaye
stevie wonder - greatest hits vol. 1-2
stevie wonder - original musiquarium vol. 1-2
the four tops - 50th anniversary anthology
the supremes - box set discs 1-4
wilson pickett - greatest hits
alpha blondy - the best of alpha blondy
alpha blondy - masada
alpha blondy - merci
bob marley - songs of freedom box set discs 1-4
bob marley - anything and everything!
peter tosh - legalize it
peter tosh - equal rights
peter tosh - wanted dread and alive
peter tosh - mama africa
burning spear - hail H.I.M.
burning spear - jah kingdom
burning spear 100th anniversary: marcus garvey and garvey's ghost
black uhuru - guess who's coming to dinner?
black uhuru - the positive dub
culture - nuff crisis
culture - R.A.S. portraits
jimmy cliff - the harder they come
jimmy cliff - ultimate collection
mikey dread - best sellers vol. 1
prince far I - dubwise
sizzla - the real live thing
the meditations - greatest hits
the very best of toots and the maytals
a tribe called quest - beats, rhymes and life
black-eyed peas - behind the front
black-eyed peas - bridging the gap
blackalicious - blazing arrow
cypress hill - black sunday
de la soul - stakes is high
de la soul - the grind date
eric b. and rakim - paid in full
ice cube - the predator
ice cube - lethal injection
ice-T - original gangster
jungle brothers - done by the forces of nature
jurassic five - quality control
jurassic five - power in numbers
KRS-one - return of the boom bap
KRS-one - self-titled album
KRS-one - i got next
public enemy - fear of a black planet
public enemy - apocalypse '91
talib kweli and dj hi-tek - reflection eternal
notorious B.I.G. - life after death discs 1-2
the roots - illadelph half-life
the roots - things fall apart
the pharcyde - bizarre ride II the pharcyde
digable planets - reachin' (a new refutation of time and space)
this is acid jazz. . . afterhours (compilation)
dj krush - code 4109
dj krush - stepping stones: the self-remixed best (lyricism)
kruder and dorfmeister - the K+D sessions discs 1-2
mark farina - mushroom jazz vols. 1-4
excursions in ambience - the second orbit (compilation)
excursions in ambince - the third dimension (compilation)
from here to tranquility vol. 2 (compilation)
seefeel - polyfusia
seefeel - quique
serenity dub 4.1 (compilation)
single cell orchestra - self-titled album
sounds from the ground - kin
spacetime continuum - seabiscuit
the orb - U.F.Orb
the orb - the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld
future sound of london - lifeforms EP
material - hallucination engine
deee-lite - world clique
deee-lite - dewdrops in the garden

CoachChaz
05-21-2008, 07:15 AM
I think putting any Beatles albums on a list is completely redundant. Can we just agree that the Beatles work was brilliant and assume most of us love it.

Hogan11
05-21-2008, 08:41 AM
I think putting any Beatles albums on a list is completely redundant. Can we just agree that the Beatles work was brilliant and assume most of us love it.

Nope, because, if one looks at the catalog objectively and outside of the legend, one finds that not everything the band did was brilliant. There are a handful of spotty Beatles albums, believe it or not (especially if you include the US releases) and there are a couple in there that have legendary status based purely on rep alone (like Sgt. Peppers, which once you get past the studio trickery that wowed everyone in 1967..is a pretty flimsy concept album at best).

All the great ones dropped a bomb now and then, The Beatles were no exception.

MOtorboat
05-21-2008, 02:01 PM
Nope, because, if one looks at the catalog objectively and outside of the legend, one finds that not everything the band did was brilliant. There are a handful of spotty Beatles albums, believe it or not (especially if you include the US releases) and there are a couple in there that have legendary status based purely on rep alone (like Sgt. Peppers, which once you get past the studio trickery that wowed everyone in 1967..is a pretty flimsy concept album at best).

All the great ones dropped a bomb now and then, The Beatles were no exception.

It's hard to follow what was on and what wasn't on U.S. vs. U.K. releases of their early albums...I can't rattle it off the top of my head to you by any means. I think, in the long term, that that did kind of hurt the band. Certain songs, which came to be hidden gems, may not have been on the U.S. releases.

I'm sure this was a typical practice in those days...but, I obviously wasn't alive...and the only real reading I've done during that time period is on the Beatles.

CoachChaz
05-21-2008, 02:30 PM
I guess my point is that anyone will most likely have Beatles records on their list...and typically the same ones. Not saying EVERYTHING they did was a masterpiece, but the better ones are likely loved by all.

BCJ
05-21-2008, 06:20 PM
Gentlemen & Black Love were a couple of the very few concept albums that worked. Yup, Greg Dulli knows the ins and outs of broken relationships...great voice as well. I had the chance to see them in Syracuse for the 1965 tour but was scared off by a snowstorm...never got the chance to see them again. I kick myself for whimping out to this day. Great stuff.

Dont kick yourself Hogan. Chargers fans will be doing that possibly for years for wimping out on a little rain for their first home playoff win in 13 years. They might be waiting a little longer too.

Here is an album that is so mysterious to why just one and then vanish. Trying to find info on Google is tough. Band is Reacharound with their big hit "Big Chair". Damn good harmonica too. I always like Stabbing Westward. NIN or Ministry style.

Hogan11
05-23-2008, 08:52 AM
Dont kick yourself Hogan. Chargers fans will be doing that possibly for years for wimping out on a little rain for their first home playoff win in 13 years. They might be waiting a little longer too.

Here is an album that is so mysterious to why just one and then vanish. Trying to find info on Google is tough. Band is Reacharound with their big hit "Big Chair". Damn good harmonica too. I always like Stabbing Westward. NIN or Ministry style.

I've never heard of Reacharound. I'll have to check into that.

Maybe the Whigs will reunite someday and tour. If they do and it comes anywhere near me, I'll definitely make the rtip to check it out...the old footage on you tube is impressive to say the least.

CrazyHorse
05-30-2008, 03:09 PM
Nope, because, if one looks at the catalog objectively and outside of the legend, one finds that not everything the band did was brilliant. There are a handful of spotty Beatles albums, believe it or not (especially if you include the US releases) and there are a couple in there that have legendary status based purely on rep alone (like Sgt. Peppers, which once you get past the studio trickery that wowed everyone in 1967..is a pretty flimsy concept album at best).

All the great ones dropped a bomb now and then, The Beatles were no exception.

Yeah mariah Carey may end up having more #1 hits than the Beatles

No Styx or Foreigner?