scottsy

Yes indeed... a few sentences at least to explain why you chose / prefer these albums would be greatly appreciated, and help readers understand your musical point of view...

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scottsy

Ummmm...

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jtwilliams

This list will probably change but as of right now here it goes:

1: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (THE album that sparked my musical curiosity)
2: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged (This one is extremely beautiful to me in everyway)
3: Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (This album really opened me up to new types of music that aren't just rock. But that still kick @$$)
4: Rory Gallagher - Tattoo (Underappreciated musical genius in my eyes, love all his work)
5: Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (This album made me a Warren junkie lol)
6: Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (Simple, beautiful & amazing)
7: Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales (This album got me into simplistic music that is heartfelt and good)
8: Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Lifeline (Beautiful & Amazing from start to finish)
9: Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (Most people I know don't like this band, but I love them. I think they are a grower band. I didn't used to like them either but they are one of my favorites now because of this album)
10: Blind Melon - S/T (Loved this band when I was little, forgot about them for years and got to rediscover them with this album, that's and incredible feeling.)

There you have it, for now at least.

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Unknown Soldier

Great choices on the Hendrix album and the Little Feat gem "Dixie Chicken".

jtwilliams

Thanks! Little Feat's S/T is pretty good too, I have both. But Dixie Chicken is amazing!

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Unknown Soldier

The first three albums were the best they ever put out! Things went downhill after this, when Lowell George let the others in on the creative side of things, and the group started to indulge too much in the jazz noodling thing that was big at the time.

jtwilliams

Ill have to get the 3rd of the 3. Those two I listed are the only I've heard thus far. Lowell was a genius!

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Unknown Soldier

"Sailin Shoes" the second album is highly recommended.

jtwilliams

I will definitely get my hands on it, I love the other two thanks

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Flyingpig437

1. Pink Floyd-Dark side
2. Beatles-Sgt.Pepper
3. Beatles-Revolver
4. Air-Moon safari
5. Bowie-Hunk dory
6. Smiths-Queen is dead
7. The orb-Adventures beyond...
8. Jimi Hendrix experience-Are you experienced
9. Kate Bush-Lionheart
10- Pixies-Doolittle

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The Floyd,Beatles, Bowie and Jimi Hendrix besides being great albums with almost 100% brilliant songs on them are the ones that I read about in a book called 100 greatest albums, before such lists were all over the place. Sgt. Pepper was #1. Revolver #17. Dark side about 16 Hunky dory about 29 and Hendrix strangely about 87, I think. This was in 1987 and I'd not taken any intrest in older music from 60's and 70's before. These albums opened my mind to listenting to anything...even if it wasn't in the charts!!!That was a revolution for me.

Air is an album that I love 'cause it's nothing like anything else i'd been listening to when i first heard a song from it. I got it and all the other songs were as good as that one. It made me realise how much i'd been stuck in my ways listening to guitar based bands. So, this is a perfect little deviation from my usual tastes.

I first heard the Orb in the 90's but didn't listen to it much. I got a copy again around 2003. Why is it important to me? Err...I just like it and value it for being so good and so different.


The Smiths were the band that broadened my musical tastes away from old stuff as aforementioned and all the chart **** in the late 80's. Although they'd split a year before i got into them. I'd heard a few of the song on this album before I got it and remember the first time i got it and went home and put it on and never felt more confident that what i was about to hear was going to be brilliant. The richness and quality of these songs is astounding. It's the only Smiths album I still care about because it's got so much tragi-com in it whereas the other albums just seem too dour. Johnny Marr's guitar work is the best I've ever heard. It'd be higher but the variety of instrumentation isn't up there with the albums above it so it's a bit one dimensional by comparison.



Kate Bush-I love most of Kate Bush's stuff but this is the one that made the list 'cause the critics brainwashed me into thinking HOunds of love is the best but for all the highlights of that album this one is more moving to me and showcases her amazing vocal talents in more wild and crazy and moving ways. So, picking this is because I love it and it reminds me to free myself from the conventional critical thinking on what artists albums are their best.


The Pixies Doolittle is there 'cause it was the first...and last stone cold classic that i still love that I bought contemporaneously with it's release. It sounded so fresh and effervescent and a bit silly but still full of energy and power. NOthing like it.