albums that go above and beyond the call of duty

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

I was thinking of albums the other day that should be on a special rack above all others. Im talking about the albums you can put on and listen to the whole thing straight through, albums that have affected you in one way or another.

Here's mine

Stevie Wonder - Songs in The Key Of Life
Beatles - White Album
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Pulp - Different Class
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Jam - In The City
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 2
The Who - Quadrophenia
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Gontiti - Guitars
Jethro Tull - Aqualung and Thick As A Brick
Carl Verheyen - Improvisations
David Lee Roth - Eat 'em And Smile
Beatles - Where do I start? Can I just say "all of 'em"?
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Facing Future
Mother Love Bone
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Tom Lehrer - That Was the Year that Was

[cowtown]

Cake - Fashion Nugget and Comfort Eagle
Annie Lennox - Diva
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

[nostatic]

Carl Verheyen? I took a couple lessons from him back in the late 80's...great player.

Steely Dan - every studio album
Derek and the Dominos - Layla and other Assorted Love Songs
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (and Hejira)
Peter Gabriel - So
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Moe's Kitchen - Grooveprint
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (and others)

more later...

[makaio]

Anyting by Metalica
Anything from Van Halen, pre-OU812 album
Led Zeplin- How the West Was One disk 1
Anything from Dave Matthews
Staind- 14 Shades of gray
Anything from Burct Bacharach

More to come...

[BlueSkyJaunte]

You took lessons from Verheyen? Do tell! The man is unbelievable, incredible....I can't find the words.

Too Hectic - Viva Chez Slack (goofy but fun)
Beethoven - Symphony #9
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (I'm embarrassed to admit)
Norah Jones - whatever her album is called. First female artist I don't mind listening to!
Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction
White Zombie - Supersexy Swingin' Sounds (an Astro-Creep: 2000 remix; tons of fun)

[Rot 911]

Originally posted by nostatic
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Best blues album, ever!

[pwd72s]

Iron Butterfly: "In a ga-ga-da vida" (But only one side. )
The Band: "Big Pink"
Beatles: "The Beatles" (aka "white album")
Rolling Stones: "Through The Past, Darkly"
Pink Flloyd: "Dark Side Of The Moon"
Derek and the Dominos - "Layla and other Assorted Love Songs"
(Never would have made it without Clapton, tho...)
And.. somebody who was there early, and survived despite being covered by Pat Boone? Richard Penniman, aka Little Richard!
Guys, after years of Doris Day, Andy Williams, Dean Martin, & other krap...the first time I heard Rock, REAL Rock? I KNEW something was happening out there...oh yeah!!

[Dignan]

Jeff Buckley-Grace
Smashing Pumpkins - Meloncollie and Infinite Sadness
Weezer - blue album
Interpol - turn on the bright lights
radiohead - ok computer
DMB- live at red rocks
beck - odelay

[tabs]

Rolling Stones....Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, & Get yer YA YA's Out. You know the song I listen to when I write this stuff...& Gimme Shelter, "Memo from Turner".. "Cock Sucker Blues"

Get yer Ya ya's out is perhaps the best Live album ever recorded. It was from the tour that they were aclaimed as being "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band."

I would second The Who's 'Live at Leeds' Never has a band put out as much energy as they did. Just watch the movie "The Kids are Allright"

Also the second edition of Jimi Hendrix's "Band of Gypsys"...Machine Gun...On the "Isle of Wight" album he almost makes the guitar talk.

The Doors First album..."mother I want to fk you" from the song "The End"

U2's "Actung Baby"

The The's "Infected" album..."Twlight of Champions"...."I sold my soul today for my dinner...my stomachs getting fatter but my hearts getting thinner...I'm not failing...I'm falling"

Credence Clearwaters..."Willie and the Poor Boys" the bass riff on "Feelin Blue"

The Clash..."Radio Clash".... "This is Radio Clash...."

Live Cream "Wheels of Fire"...If I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have no luck at all....nuff precision to clear the sinus's

Eric Burdon and War & Black mans Burdon..."Spill the Wine".... "A long haired leaping known..the star of a Hollywood movie"

Bowies..."Alladin Sane"...."Panic in Detroit"

Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited"...."Ballad of a Thinman"...."You don't know what happening ...do you Mr. Jones"

Leon Russels song"Shootout on the Plantation"...."All the Oklahoma cowboys are turned on to tinsle town"

Tom Waits.....song "Heart Attack and Vine"....Theres no Devil...just God whens he's drunk"

Humble Pie's live rendition of "30 Days in the Hole" ..... "With a greasy whore on a rollin dance floor"

Edgar Winters "White Trash"....."Tobacco Road"

AND..............

[bell]

wow......this is going to be pretty eclectic

they might be giants......dial-a-song... 2 disc
weezer......blue album
talking heads.....sand in the vasaline
beastie boys......pauls boutique
mathew sweet.......altered beast.....not embarassed to admit LOL
radiohead.......ok computer
live.......throwing copper
janes addiction........janes addiction
clash....london calling
doors.......complete studio recordings
presidents of the united states of america.......self title

plus throw in some hendrix and more

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by pwd72s
Iron Butterfly: "In a ga-ga-da vida" (But only one side. )

I was going to say exactly the same thing but wanted to stay with full albums. I don't think I've ever listened to side B!

[Z-man]

Here's my list:

Police - Message in a Box ( the complete compilation)
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
New Order - Substance - disk 1
Tangerine Dream - Optical Race
Jesus Jones - Perverse
Enigma - MCMXC a.D.
Dario G - Sunmachine
Michael W. Smith - Lamu
George Winston - Autumn (Piano Solos)
Phil Keaggy - Beyond Nature (Guitar Solos)
Grieg - Peer Gynt (Classical Baroque)

[wckrause]

Elvis Costello -- My Aim is True and This Years Model
Rolling Stones -- Some Girls
The Who - Tommy
Talking Heads -- 77
Graham Parker -- Hotel Chamber Maid
Jayhawks -- Tomorrow the Green Grass
Counting Crows -- Recovering the Satelites

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Originally posted by tabs



Humble Pie's live rendition of "30 Days in the Hole" ..... "With a greasy whore on a rollin dance floor"

Nice!

Humble Pie, HELL YEAH!

I must also add the following

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Black Flag - Damaged
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Queen - A Night at the Opera
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Pixies - Surfer Rosa

[911SC Pilot]

Here`s My list.

MetallicA - MOP
MetallicA - RTL
MetallicA - IJFA
Anthrax - Among the Living
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Metal Church - Metal Church
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Slayer Hell Awaits
Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Part I & II
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman / Blizzard of Oz / Bark at the Moon
Iron Maiden - Powerslave / Seventh Son of the Seventh Son
Chimaria - Impossibily of Reason
Simon and Garfunkle - Greatist Hits
Eagles - Hotel California
SRV - Sky is Crying / Texas Flood
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Beethovens Last Night / Xmas Eve
Smashing Pumpkins - Meloncollie and Infinite Sadness

I could go on .,..,.,.,.,.,.,.,maybe later

[RickM]

Do greatest hits count?

If so:

Eagles
Marshall Tucker
Tommy James & the Shondells

If not:

Rush / 2112
Pat Metheny / Off Ramp /One quiet night
Yes / Fragile
David Sanborn / Promise Me the Moon

[Burnin' oil]

Ted Nugent - Free for All

[Jeff]

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Beatles - Abbey Road
Peter Gabriel - So
Nirvana - Nevermind
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't stand the weather
Talking Heads - Stop making sense
Jimi Hendrix - Experiance Hendrix
STP - Core
Paul Simon - Graceland
Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Just off the top of my head

[Schrup]

Beattles-Greatest Hits All of them
AC/DC-High Voltage
The Police-Outlandos d'Amour
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Black Sabath-We Sold Our Soul For Rock'N'Roll
Motley Crue-Shout at the devil
The Cure-Disintegration
Guns & Roses-Appetite for Destruction
Nirvanna-Nevermind
Alice in Chains-Facelift
White Zombie-La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol 1
Korn
NIN- Fragile
Maryln Manson-The Golden Age of Grotesque