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Orion Bailey said:
We have pretty similar tasters. You should check out some of my music, I bet you would find some stuff you like if you can get past the less than perfect engineering quality and production. :)
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Did you have a link somewhere? I think I made fun of you without listening to it. Getting old, hard to remember.
 
Minstrel said:
Yup. Though I think "Velocity Girl" is their finest single song.

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Certainly doesn't outstay its welcome. They managed to go through three distinct iterations. Phase 1 is Velocity Girl and It Happens - i.e., C86 jangly guitar Byrds-wannabes (and no worse for that). Then there was the greasy rock-out of Ivy Ivy Ivy. And then Phase 3 is the whole rock/trip hop hybrid of Loaded
 
ripcityboy said:
1. The Who - Who's Next
2. The Stooges - Fun House
3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4. Alice in Chains - Dirt
5. Captain Beefhesrt & The Magic Band - Clear Spot
6. Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage
7. Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
8. Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
9. Curtis Mayfield - Live!
10. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
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I concur with numbers 1,3,8,9,10. Check my list..
 
ripcityboy said:
Always thought that was overrated. I'm more into Goat's Head Soup. Dancing With Mr. D, 100 Years Ago, Heart Breaker, Angie, Starfucker.... For some reason it doesn't get the love it deserves.
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Starfucker You know about that SONG !!! We could have an entire thread on THE STONES.
 
theprunetang said:
I would add Electric Warrior and The Slider by T Rex. I can't believe I left The Slider off of my list!
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I won a bet once with T(yrannosaurus) Rex. I was in a record store with a friend and I bet him I could find the record with the longest title. I knew I would win with this:
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Of course that was in pre-Fiona Apple days.
 
riverman said:
1. Kind of Blue ...Miles Davis
2. Revolver....Beatles
3. East Bay Grease....Tower of Power
4. Best of Al Green....Al Green
5. Hot Dawg...David Grisman Quintet
6. Songs from the woods...Oregon
7. Temple of Low Men...Crowded House
8, Sparkle....Aretha Franklin
9. Bueno Vista Social Club....Ry Cooder and the Cuban Allstars
10. Rock the World....3rd World...(best reggae album ever recorded)
11. Any Beethoven concerto conducted by Anton Bruckner
12. Zuzu Man...Dr John
13. Rain Dogs...Tom Waits
14, Washington Square.....Steve Earle
15. Live in Volare.....Earth Wind and Fire
16. Apostrophe....Frank Zappa
17. Are you experienced...Jimi Hendrix
18. The Wall.....Pink Floyd
19. Blue....Joni Mitchell
20. Songs for Swingin' Lovers....Frank Sinatra
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MOST EXCELLENT YOU know about TOP!!!! Dr.John!! EWF!!!, ZAPPA!!!,JHENDRIX!!,PINK FLOYD!!! Of course...I'm excited........
 
stampedehero said:
Stones- Little Sister, Rock This Joint-Live!!!!! Route 66 LIVE!!! ALL of Shelter ALL of Green Tides which had 19th Nervous Breakdown/Can't Get No Satisfaction and more Fuckin Love the Stones................ Especially when they were before 50 years of age.
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You know, I never really got into the Stones. I was always a Zeppelin and Beatles guy.

bodyman5000 and 1 said:
Did you have a link somewhere? I think I made fun of you without listening to it. Getting old, hard to remember.
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Wait. It should be in my signature? Is that not visible? Maybe I have one of Denny's blasted security/privacy options set wrong. lol

www.reverbnation.com/swilnation is the band I am in (Most of the songs I write.)
www.reverbnation.com/orionbailey is my personal music (very rough mixes. Depending on the date, I ..I still dont know shit. lol)
www.reverbnation.com/hookmeisters is an old band I was in (Denial is a song I wrote for the band, the guitar player wrote most everything else)
 
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stampedehero said:
JOE WALSH!!
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I still listen to the Smoker you drink the player you get and Got any gum? Joe Walsh is a masterful record producer and engineer as well as a great parts player...the Eagles sound got a huge makeover when he joined the band....Pete Townsend said he's the best there is...Joe gave Pete advice on different guitar / amp combinations to get sounds..another guy who makes beautiful recordings is Jim Messina...all his Buffalo Springfield, Poco and Loggins and Messina records are beautifully done. Mother Lode is a really underrated record.
 
Everyone knows and agrees that The Stone Roses are amazing, I'm sure, so I'll toss out an album that's pretty exquisite by a group named after a Stone Roses song: The Seven Seas by Elephant Stone

 
Another couple I should add for the bluegrass fans would be Dolly Parton's The Grass is Blue and Old and in the Way with Peter Rowan, David Grisman and Jerry Garcia..
 
I'm getting gardening supplies currently so I don't have time to share right now, but I have a hilarious Black Francis/ Frank Black story I'll share later............
Hold your shorts.
 
Heres sime albums I like thst I think fly under the radar.

1. Rocker From The Crypt - Scream Deacuila Scream!
2. Gene Clark - White Light
3. Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly
4. Dr. Feelgood- Down By The Jerry
5. No FX - Punk In Drublic
6. Down - NOLA
7. King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
8. Fred Neil - Bleacher & McDougal
9. Death - The Sound of Peseverance
10. John Martyn - Glorius Fool
 
Rastapopoulos said:
It's funny: I can't get my teenager to like any of my "cooler" tastes. All he listens to is The Kinks and David Bowie.

However, thanks to him I have discovered two Kinks classics of which I was completely unaware (and that confirm that Ray Davies could crap out songs that other artists would sell their right arms to write):



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Here is a deep cut just too show that Dave could be great too.
 
Orion Bailey said:
Simply and easy, though maybe not so easy to answer, but the question is easy. :)

What is your top ten albums of all time to listen to. Can you even put such a list together?
After quick thought, mine would be the list below, but Im sure I am missing something somewhere that might bump the list down...

1) Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age
2) Nothing Shocking by Janes Addiction
3) The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel
4) AudioSlave by AudioSlave
5) ZeppelinII by Led Zeppelin
6) Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen
7) Teenage Dream by Katy Perry (I'm sure I'll feel the heat on this one, lol)
8) XOXO by Elliott Smith
9) Ten by Pearl Jam
10) Chronic by Dr. Dre

Your turn!
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It depends on my mood. Today I've been listening to classical music and movie soundtracks. These are not in any particular order.

1. Maurice Jarre - Witness Soundtrack

2. Hans Zimmer - Inception Soundtrack

3. Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Cantata BWV 147 – Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 – Air on the G String
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

4. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Für Elise
Moonlight Sonata
Symphony No. 9

5. Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major

6. Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, and Suite No. 2, Op. 55
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

7. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite
Swan Lake Suite
Sleeping Beauty Suite

8. Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

9. José Luis Merlin - Suite del Recuerdo
 
The soundtrack recording from the movie "Frida" is beautiful....so is "A Putumayo Blend, Music from the coffee countries"..
 
Hobbesarable said:
It depends on my mood. Today I've been listening to classical music and movie soundtracks. These are not in any particular order.

1. Maurice Jarre - Witness Soundtrack

2. Hans Zimmer - Inception Soundtrack

3. Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Cantata BWV 147 – Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 – Air on the G String
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

4. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
Für Elise
Moonlight Sonata
Symphony No. 9

5. Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major

6. Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, and Suite No. 2, Op. 55
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

7. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite
Swan Lake Suite
Sleeping Beauty Suite

8. Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

9. José Luis Merlin - Suite del Recuerdo
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Good stuff. I go through phases on classical music. Usually in the fall. I tend to go for Alexander Sciabin and Claude Debussy. Although i did pick up a vinyl of classical music played on a Moog synthesizer the other day. It is fantastic.....haha.
Here is Carmen. Bolero by Ravel is great as well. Recorded in 68 i believe.
 
little feat - waiting for Columbus
Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole - facing future
the Chieftains pick one?
U2 - Joshua tree
REM - automatic for the people
The band - before the flood
the stones - its only rock and roll
Dire straits - dire straits
police - ghost in the machine
stick figure - set in stone
grateful dead - working man is dead
 
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Rastapopoulos said:
I owned that album! I believe that was even pre-Fairport Convention. Do you have this album of covers? The REM and Blind Boys covers are awesome.


My sister's first boyfriend was a huge John Martyn (RIP) fan. Saw him in concert. I love One World.
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I went to see Thompson a while ago at the Aladdin Theater. He serenaded the crowd with a bunch of selections from that album. Sadly, I've I can see him retiring soon. He's been at the mast for close to 50 years. So that's probably enough.

Martyn was such a talent as well. But he was quite literally bonkers. I'm amazed he lived as long as he did. But that voice could convey the feeling of love like an Scottish folk Don Williams. The alcohol finally ended him.
 
lawai'a said:
little feat - waiting for Columbus
Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole - facing future
the Chieftains pick one?
U2 - Joshua tree
REM - automatic for the people
The band - before the flood
the stones - its only rock and roll
Dire straits - dire straits
police - ghost in the machine
stick figure - set in stone
grateful dead - working man is dead
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Great album. I have the orifinal pressing on double vinyl.
 
theprunetang said:
Good stuff. I go through phases on classical music. Usually in the fall. I tend to go for Alexander Sciabin and Claude Debussy. Although i did pick up a vinyl of classical music played on a Moog synthesizer the other day. It is fantastic.....haha.
Here is Carmen. Bolero by Ravel is great as well. Recorded in 68 i believe.
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That's tight. Ravel's Bolero is another great one as you mentioned. Here's a remix of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. I heard it during a Christmas party several years ago and recently found it again. Enjoy!



And here's a Moonlight Sonata techno



And a little Vivaldi trance

 
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I don't listen to records, but I do have 4 boxes of records which were my fathers. He loved his vinyl and was a diehard Yes fan (I'm named after Jon Anderson) and liked a lot of non-mainstream stuff like Amon Duul II.


For me I'll just say that NAS - Illmatic is one of the best rap albums ever released. Outkasts album "Atliens" is probably in the top ten. Pete Rock and CL Smooths debut album "Mecca and the Soul Brother" is probably the best hip hop album ever released. "The Low End Theory" by A Tribe Called Quest is also one of the best hip hop albums ever released.
 
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