What Records do you keep playing?
Posted by: trickytree on 22 August 2003
Forgive me if this topic has been done before, but are there any records that you just keep coming back to?
I dont meen a recent purchase with novelty value or a "HiFi test disc" , I meen an album that you just seem to play over and over again just because its so damn good.
I have 3 such records and have just finished listening to them tonight, hence this post.
1. Dire Straits...Love Over Gold. This was the first Straits album I bought and never tire of building the town on the Telegraph Road or doing a Red Robbo impresion during Industrial Disease!
2. Joe Cocker...Sheffield Steel. Why this was never a big hit is beond me. Sly and Robbie on rythem, Jimmy Cliff and Robert Palmer as vocalists and great songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Bill Withers and Steve Winwood make for a great album. And thats not even mentioning Cockers wonderfull voice. Great stuff.
3. Thomas Dolby...Aliens ate my Buick. Nuff said!!!
Paul Dimaline.
[This message was edited by trickytree on FRIDAY 22 August 2003 at 23:18.]
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Posted on: 23 August 2003 by count.d
Pink Floyd - Animals, WYWH, Wall,
Beatles Sgt. Pepper
The Who - Who's Next
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by kan man
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
The fourth LP I ever bought and still gets played regularly.
Honourable mentions also go to:
Rickie Lee Jones (1st album)
Zep 2 (and most other Zep)
Joe Jackson - Body and Soul
Michael Hedges - Ariel Boundaries
China Crisis - Flaunt The Imperfection
Steve
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by coredump
Lemonheads - Come on feel the Lemonheads
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Twin
Ride- Today Forever
Talk Talk - The Color of Spring
The Style Council - everything except "Cafe Bleu"
..from the top of my head, that is.
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by the other nickc
Some of my regulars...
Pour Down Like Silver - Richard and Linda Thompson
Gillian Welch - Time (the revelator)
Can - Future Days
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 1-3
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Beatles - Abbey Road
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Tom Waits - Raindogs
Divine Comedy - Promenade
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by HTK
Rush - Moving Pictures
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Robert Plant - Shaken 'n Stirred
Garbage - v2
Seal - Seal
Electronic - Twisted Tenderness
No accounting for taste....
Posted on: 23 August 2003 by ejl
Frank Zappa - various.
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Sonic Youth - Sister and Daydream Nation
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Pavement - various
Unwound - all their early albums; you'd think I'd get tired of the noise after 10 years but I don't.
Minutemen - Why does a Man Start Fires, Double Nickels ....
A lot of the things mentioned above get at least annual if not bi- or tri-annual play at my house too: Beatles (Abbey Road), Floyd's Animals, Most Led Zep, etc.
Oh an I almost forgot:
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette. This was a favorite from me teenage punk days and still gets regular play.
Posted on: 24 August 2003 by ErikL
Wilco- Mermaid Ave I
Belle & Sebastain- If You're Feeling Sinister
Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker
Those that collect dust are my old school rap CD's and any chillout compilations (which must go; I just hate them).
Posted on: 24 August 2003 by ErikL
Oops, add...
Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of... (Odd, since I'm not really a Top 40 fan. Somehow I've liked the super smashes like Purple Rain, Thriller, etc throughout my life.)
Posted on: 24 August 2003 by fred simon
These are the albums which, lately, I am spinning obsessively:
Whole New You - Shawn Colvin
Personal Mountains - Keith Jarrett
Lyle Mays - Lyle Mays
Anders Widmark featuring Sara Isaksson - Anders Widmark/Sara Isaksson
Posted on: 25 August 2003 by Pete
quote:
1. Dire Straits...Love Over Gold. This was the first Straits album I bought and never tire of building the town on the Telegraph Road or doing a Red Robbo impresion during Industrial Disease!
I listened to L/G for the first time in ages a week or so ago. And it struck me, to the point of almost starting a thread entitled "What is
that doing
there?", that Industrial Disease just doesn't fit on the album at all. The music and the lyrics all sound like they just got beamed in from the Twisting by the Pool EP by mistake, and I usually just bypass it and drop the needle straight down on the title track if side 2 is cued up.
Pete.
Posted on: 25 August 2003 by trickytree
Hi all
Pete.
quote:
I listened to L/G for the first time in ages a week or so ago. And it struck me, to the point of almost starting a thread entitled "What is that doing there?", that Industrial Disease just doesn't fit on the album at all.
Mmmm....never thought of it like that before, but you do have a point. Still a favourite though.
To every one else....good lists, but why do these albums move you? What is it that makes you want to listen over and over again, year after year. As Im writing this Im listening to Pink Floyds Relics. It was the first LP that I actualy bought with my own money and I used to play it on a blue and cream Dansette. I can remember my Mum saying how crap it was and I only bought it because my school mate told me to and that i'd wasted my money! Cant listen to it without thinking of the above.
Also, dont forget the original thread. These are abums you play over and over again and so I think anything less than 3 or 4 years old cant be considered yet. It doesnt have to be a "clasic album", just something that floats
your boat.
Paul
Posted on: 26 August 2003 by MichaelC
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam and Aja
Gong - Camembert Electrique (hidden within this are some superb harmonies, drum & bass lines.
Yes - The Yes Album
A few examples
Mike
Posted on: 27 August 2003 by Pictish
These ones are almost worn out:
Love - Forever Changes
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom & Blood & Chocolate
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
Boiled In Lead - From the Ladle to the Grave
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
and for some reason only after the pub (if someone hasnt hid them):
Jonathon Richman Goes Country
Ivor Cutler - Privilege
Mike
Posted on: 27 August 2003 by Minky
quote:
Originally posted by Pictish:
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Snap. I still play this 3 or 4 times a year
Posted on: 28 August 2003 by Pictish
quote:
Originally posted by Minky:
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Snap. I still play this 3 or 4 times a year
I bought my first copy of this about 20 years ago when I was a young lad - it's so laid-back and groovy at the same time - just perfect for seducing young ladies to.
Not that I'm suggesting thats what you're upto 3 or 4 times a year
Posted on: 28 August 2003 by domfjbrown
Love Over Gold/Communique (dIRE sTRAITS) - LoG especially is an awesome work - decent sound and decent music
Forever Changes - Love
Sun spot - Dark Soho
Loved up - Various
Contact - Cosmosis
B.P.Empire - Infected Mushroom
Kick Inside/The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Jackie Brown - OST
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
LA Woman/The soft parade - DOors
When the music's over turn out the lights
Posted on: 28 August 2003 by ken c
couperin - lecons de tenebres
konitz, mehldau, haden - alone together (fabulous)
bill evans trio - live at the vilage vanguard
schubert - impromptus (brendel)
enjoy
ken
Posted on: 28 August 2003 by Madrid
Ooh, I have to second the Mehldau, abeit vicariously (sistem is in storage while the workers tear up my house).
"Places" is both restless and meditative. Mehldau is really talented. He has the technique (as befits his classical training) yet his feisty, creative streak comes through.
Posted on: 28 August 2003 by greeny
Love over Gold is also one of my most regulars. I tend to just play Telegraph Road though, this track builds briliantly and the last couple of minuites where the piano arpegios bash through the mele is just fantastic.
Rush - A farewell to Kings, well just Xanadu really, love this track, the intro is a masterpiece.
Beatles - Abbey Road. Best album ever made and the side 2 medley gets a very regular outing. Side one is not played so much dispite being (mostly) brilliant.
Posted on: 28 August 2003 by man2wolf
My regulars include:
Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Crowded House - Together Alone
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Roxy Music - 1st Album
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Posted on: 28 August 2003 by Not For Me
My current regular most played is
Various Artists - Schaffelfieber 2
Shuffle Fever 2, Cologne techno shuffle tracks from Wighnomy Brothers, Superpitcher, Naum, SCSI-9 etc.
I think I have listed to this about 10 times in the last 2 months!
DS
Posted on: 30 August 2003 by custard
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Jam All Mod Cons
Bob Dylan Desire
Led Zep III
The Who Live At Leeds
Bowie Pin Ups
Posted on: 30 August 2003 by andy c
Ok I just did a system upgrade (CDX2) so have dug out stuff I play all the time to see(hear!)what the differances are, and went for my favourite cd's:
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Leftfield - the one with 'phat planet' on it as well as 'leftism'
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
REM - Automatic for the People
Nora Jones
Suzanne vega - most of her back catalogue...
amongst many others...
Posted on: 31 August 2003 by Chris Metcalfe
Manassas - (first CD on HDCD).
Aja.
My limited edition Japanese 'Smile' bootleg (1989).
Posted on: 01 September 2003 by dave brubeck
Perry Farrel - 'Rev'
Betty Carter - 'Betty Carter meets Ray Bryant'
Stereolab - anything by Stereolab
(anybody know what they are upto now since the accident?)
'The Girls From Ipanaema' 2 CD set
Dave Brubeck - 'Time In/ Out/ Further Out'
..now searching for a good 'Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen' CD, preferably remastered, without too much of Kenny singing on it.
