What Albums Have A Special Place In your Heart?
Posted by: Gale 401 on 30 November 2011
I have a few, that over the years have played a big part in my life.
Getting me through hard times and Good times.
This is one.
many before and after but this one is very special. It has helped me through many tough times.
A couple of albums that got me through a lonely time and on to my "now" situation, many others but these are the stand outs. BOOH not so much but Hemispheres started me down the Rush path, which still continues today:-
This album made a big impression on me when I first heard it and remains very important. Totally unique. Had I not by chance stumbled on an early recording by Shirley Collins made with guitar man Davy Graham, Folk Roots New Roots, then I doubt I would have started on this hobby.
Subject to a diet of Frank Sinatra and the like during for formative years, I had decided music was very dull and irrelevant. Then I stumbled on
and my outlook changed. I still can't stand FS or crooners in general, which is always a good tip for people to know if they wish me to depart from their vicinity in double quick time - just put on the Sinatra (I'm gone already). 
(With apologies to all Frank fans on the forum).
It could have been Rimsky-Korsakov or Mussorgsky, but Peter and the Wolf and The Young Persons Guide were the early building blocks in my childhood that steered me to a love of classical music
First came the Clash, a toss up between this and Give 'em enough rope - London Calling led in a roundabout way to Joe Ely who was route one to Guy Clark - albums I can't be without. Special times, places and people
I resisted, I didn't want to like RT but this album just wore me down and is probably my favorite of his. Monk. Well, I just didn't get it. People I respected raved and I just didn't get it. Then one evening in the late 80s, via an original Riverside pressing over and LP12, a Nait 1 and Heybrook HB2s it all clicked and that pressing is the one I'd still try and rescue from the proverbial burning house
If I can only take one then this one goes with me to the desert island. Every song evokes emotions and memories.
Neil Young - Decade (1977)
I've got 2 very special albums:
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed. My first pocket money album.
I payed the extra for the stereo version (cost an extra 2/6)
My late wife bought this mono version vinyl lp for my 21st in 1969 the year before we were married.
If only Eva Cassidy was still alive - a material talent taken from us far too soon.
Not blues as such...just energy in spades and wonderful articulation.
Sheff,
I have the original Mono and Stereo vinyl albums of this,
and all the others from when you could still get them in mono and stereo..
Seen John play live a few times over the years with diff people in his band
The albums were Left to me by a good friend that died in my arms from lung cancer in my hallway.
A lung cancer bleed out is something one never forgets.
It was his vinyl albums that got me back into buying something to play vinyl on..
Dick lives on through his music collection.
Stu.
Barry White's Greatest Hits. Not sure why,.. but the first time I heard it, I nearly cried. It just sounded so beautiful..
Great topic, btw.
Bro
.. an early recording by Shirley Collins made with guitar man Davy Graham, Folk Roots New Roots, ....
Heterographic Keratitis - Pun Blindness.
Inflammation of the Cornier - from prolonged and excessive exposure to brilliant puns.
These two albums hold a special place for me.
They are both in my top five of all time.
Stu.
I like to grab a beer, dim the lights and turn up the volume..it rocks.
This was my introduction to Shawn and whilst many don't seem to rate it, there are some cracking lyrics on this and I've used this numerous times when demo-ing kit. I never tire of listening to it.