Best Album { LP } ever

Of course she's not country! She's pop. She used country music to get famous.

 

I have to admit I like listening to Country now.It's really be Bop and Boogie Woogie.
Still the cryin' in beer and fishing pole while doin' shots and gettin' back at old
girlfriends.But it's got Rhythm and a good beat.That's what I want in music.
I could care less about Lyrics.Unless it's like part of the title.
Like Great songs - Paint It Black - and - I can't get No Satisfaction -.

 

Joe Diffie is my favorite growing up

 

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Boston: Don't Look Back

The second studio album by American rock band Boston, released in 1978.

 

No one 'best' album, but here's my list, in no certain order.

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

Captain Beyond: 1st album & Sufficiently Breathless (highly recommended)

Eric Burdon and The Animals: Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted

Yes: Relayer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Welcome Back My Friends, To The Show That Never Ends ... (fantastic live show triple album)

Joan Osborne: Relish

John Lee Hooker: Face to Face

Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick

Blue Oyster Cult: Tyranny and Mutation

Ten Years After: Shhhh..

The Black Crowes: Amorica

Led Zeppelin: 1

 

Who is Captain Beyond.?
Tull's - Thick as a Brick - was one Song on bother sides of the LP.
I saw Jethro Tull do - Thick as a Brick - In Cleveland. And yes Ian Anderson
crooked his one leg the entire set.However what I didn't know is that he
used a chair to lean against.Coulda Fooled me.
But that's what I researched.

 

I was an early - Blue Oyster Cult - fan. I had given to me a an LP that
was a Radio DJ's Demo copy.Had plastered all over ... NOT FOR SALE.
Their First album was very good.Great music for Stoners.
I hung around Stoners my soph year in College as I was a Hippe by then.
There was one family of Stoners,like something out of Crumb's Freak Brothers comics.
There were 3 of them.,They lived together in off campus housing and Lived to
get stoned.They also acted like they needed to study.I never understood that.
It is Virtually Impossible.To study after getting stoned.I went over to their
off campus house whenever I wanted a Free Buzz. Then I needed a drink.
Alcohol being my first Love/craving. I couldn't stand the thought of getting stoned and
not having a drink.I lived by that rule all 4 years in college.

 

Captain Beyond was formed from the 2 guitarists from Iron Butterfly, with Deep Purple's original vocalist and Bobby Caldwell from Johnny Winter's And on drums.

That lineup only lasted for 1 album but, man, what an album!! Hard, spacey rock with crazy time signatures on the drums. Nothing like it and ahead of its time (1972). Saw them live at my first concert. Check them out on YouTube.

They changed gears for the second album, with Caldwell leaving and the addition of a latin rhythm section. Totally different flavor than the first album, but very tasty. Sufficiently Breathless has probably aged better than the first album, but both are great.

Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick tour was my second concert, followed closely by Yes with the Close To The Edge show. Saw them all at New Orleans Municipal Auditorium. 1972 was a helluva year for music.

 

Should have put this on my list. Outstanding album from someone most haven't heard of.

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I was also the first kid in my town to Dig or have an Elvis Costello LP.
Same thing with Bruce Springstein.Probably because I was an audiophile
and had a really great stereo.So that meant LP's. I remember the first time
I broke down and got a Betamax { Pre VHS- recorder }.They were big units.
The size of a small microwave.Or a toaster oven.
I swore I wasn't interested until the price dropped under $ 1,ooo.
Well it finally did.$ 950 with a $ 50 dollar mail-in rebate.
I don't even remember using it.It was so long ago.I still have somewhere in my
junk room closet some Betamax tapes.Now you can't even buy VHS tapes.
Well Wal* mart carries them in 10 packs,but you have to look really hard to
spot them.

 

I was buying Old LP's at a place that had all kinds of stuff like old LP's
and VHS tales and DVD's and comic books.It was also a head shop.
Fancy blue lights.Well Barnes & Noble now has Brand new LP's some
at 180 gr.I don't like spending money unless it has a benefit.
Most of those Old LP's I bought I checked out real good { Inspected } before
I bought.I got some really good stuff.It's pretty easy to learn how to clean old
LP's.
I bought an Iron Butterfly album and just can't seem to play.I used to love
- In A Gadda Da Vida -.But I can't get myself to play.Like I don't wanna
hear it.maybe because my buddy in high school who also had a nice stereo
played the crap out of it.I musta heard - In A Gadda Da Vida - close to
500 hundred times as a High schooler.

 

I got into an album buying jag a few years back, mostly to replace some old must-have titles that had gotten ruined in storage. The albums were still fine, but I wanted good covers, too. We had a used record store that had some really good stuff, but it's closed down now.

I like some of the newer cd remasters released in the last few years. The sound is finally approaching album quality (in some cases better) and the bonus tracks and alternate versions can be pretty cool.

I know what you mean about just not wanting to hear some things anymore. For me, it's Stairway to Heaven. I could live out my days without ever hearing it again. BTW, Captain Beyond doesn't sound like Iron Butterfly.

 

Generally as a rule an LP { most any } has better sound reproduction than a
CD.The worst CD's are ones that are a Best Hits. Definitely better Stereo
separation on an LP.Also more music inside those groves.But then you need a
good Turntable with high quality Phono-amp stage. A Moving Magnet {MM} Cartridge
is plenty good but a Moving Coil {MC} is best but quite costly.
With an LP there is definitely more Frequency response.Higher highs and
lower lows.

 

Most genius's are.

 

My favorite of all time is Marshal Matters LP

 

Impossible question.

Way too many.

Even published lists have varied widely.

 

Raw Power by the Stooges.

 

A few of my favs:
Boston by Boston
..Ziggy Stardust.. by Bowie
90125 by Yes
Breakfast in America by Supertramp

You can't stop at one or two... always a few to speak of.

 

The story of Boston is pretty inspiring. Here's a great interview with Tom Scholz.

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Best Albums by year:
1965 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
1966 Beatles Rubber Soul
1967 Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Expericenced?
1968 Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet
1969 Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica
1970 Stooges Fun House
1971 T-Rex Electric Warrior
1972 Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
1973 Stooges Raw Power
1974 Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
1975 Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
1976 Augustus Pablo King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
1977 The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks
1978 Buzzcocks Another Music in a different Kitchen
1979 Wire 154
1980 Talking Heads Remain in Light
1981 The Wipers Youth of America
1982 Siouxie and the Banshees A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
1983 The Wipers Over the Edge
1984 The Smiths The Smiths
1985 The Fall The Nations Saving Grace
1986 Slayer Reign in Blood
1987 REM Document
1988 Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
1989 Pixies Dolittle
1990 Fugazi Repeater
1991 My Bloody Valentine Loveless
1992 PJ Harvey Dry
1993 PJ Harvey Rid of Me
1994 Disco Inferno DI Go Pop
1995 PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love
1996 Sleater Kinney Call the Doctor
1997 Bjork Homogenic
1998 PJ Harvey Is this Desire
1999 Colour Haze Periscope
2000 Electric Wizard Dopethrone
2001 Bjork Vespertine
2002 Boris Heavy Rocks
2003 Four Tet Rounds
2004 TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
2005 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
2006 The Knife Silent Shout
2007 Burial Untrue
2008 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig Lazarus Dig
2009 Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz
2010 Ufomammut Eve
2011 Elder Dead Roots Stirring
2012 Christian Mistress Possesion
2013 My Bloody Valentine MBV
2014 Goatess Goatess
2015 Marriages Salome

 

What influence me would be a better question...

I can go from ABBA to Zappa...