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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without

Thursday, 30 June 2022, 21:52 BFH Uncategorized 117

illustr8r found this. It’s a nice feature at Spin Magazine. They ask musical artists (and some non-musicians) which albums they just cannot live without.

I found a few songs I never heard of before, and they were good.

What 5 albums can you not live without?

117 Comments on 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without

  3. Alone Together, Dave Mason

    Layla, Derek and the Dominoes

    DSOM, The Pink Floyd

    Take Five, Dave Brubeck

    Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Joe Cocker

    Can I get 10 LPs I can’t live without?

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  8. I find that a lot of these “list” posts are just exercises in virtue signaling. Like when you are supposed to list your favorite book authors and you add Solzhenitsyn, Flaubert, Hemmingway, and Somerset Maugham, when in actuality you can’t get put down Danielle Steele or anything with Fifty Shades in the title.

    I can’t do albums but I can do musicians;

    Pat Methany
    The Rippingtons
    The Allman Brothers
    Bob Seeger
    Deep Purple/Moody Blues (can’t make up my mind).

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  9. 1. Florence Foster Jenkins….any of her albums. Can’t miss. Especially her covers of Gilbert & Sullivan.
    2. Soviet Sonic Experimentation with Gilbert & Sullivan, Vol I.
    3. Marlee Matlin sings Gilbert & Sullivan
    4. Gilbert & Sullivans H.M.S. Pinafore. London Philharmonic.
    5. Gilbert & Sullivan spoken word anthology of filthy Irish limericks.

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  10. 1. Johnny Winter – Still Alive and Well
    2. Robin Trower – Bridge of Sighs
    3. Frank Zappa – Apostrophe
    4. Southern Culture on the Skids – Dirt Track Date
    5. Johnny Cash – The essential Johnny Cash
    5.

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  11. While I loved Gilbert and Sullivan, my 5 are:

    James Brown, any greatest hits
    Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
    Yes – Fragile
    Led Zeppelin – In Through the Out Door
    Extreme – Pornografitti

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  13. Really? The Gilbert & Sullivan spoken word album of filthy Irish limericks is read by Marlee Maitlin, and recorded in Russia’s famous Florence Foster Jenkins memorial hall.

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  15. ‘Abbey Road’ ~ ’cause it was their last recording as a group
    ‘Beetoven’s 9th Symphony’ ~ ’cause Genius! that’s why … preferably conducted by Paavo Jarvi
    ‘Slow Turning’ ~ John Hiatt … man tells a great story in a song
    ‘At Fillmore East ~ Allman Brothers Band … back in the day, all the cool kids listened to the ABB. Today, they still do

    tough call on the last one. got 2 full bins of vinyl that I just can’t part with, but I think (at the moment) I’d pick ‘Earth, Wind & Fire’s Greatest Hits’ over ‘Revolver’ … spent a very special night getting back together w/ She Who Must Be Obeyed. we let that album play over & over, all night while sipping wine, smoking weed & put together an M.C. Escher puzzle … then made great toe-curling, eyes-rolling-back, get-back-together love
    wonderful night, wonderful memories
    https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1d/86/c9/1d86c921c01eaf879825e55c85f7a07b.jpg

    … & I left out at least a dozen others that I could’ve put in just as easily

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  20. Barney the Dinosaur covers Sir Mix-a-lot’s “I like big butts”
    Spongebobs’ psychedelic first album: “Contraceptive Spongebob”
    The Teletubbies do death metal
    Urkel: Straight outta Gila Bend
    Snoop Dog’s Polka Party featuring Martha Stewart

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  21. Yes – yessongs
    Pink floyd – Dark side of the moon
    Queen – night at the opera
    ELP -welcome back my friends (live album )
    Rick wakeman – six wives of henry viii

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  22. Come Deep by the Cock Gobblers
    Mega Thrust by the Rump Rangers
    I Kissed a Girl and Didn’t Like It by the Nancy Boys
    Make Me Squeal by the Turd Burglars
    Dumber Than a Box of Rocks by the Progs

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  23. Bridge of Sighs is excellent, and John Barleycorn, and Marshall Tucker, and Hendrix in the West (the original LP, not the current version) and, of course ABB At Fillmore East.

    I’d have to add Steinberg, Boston Symphony Orchestra – The Planets – Deutsche Grammophon. A Masterpiece.

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  25. Bob Marley & The Wailers-Babylon By Bus

    ZZ Top-Fandango

    Steel Pulse-True Democracy

    Compilation Album-The Guitars That Destroyed The World

    The English Beat-I Just Can’t Stop It

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  29. damn! … didn’t mention ‘Led Zepplin II’ … or ‘IV’, or ‘Houses of The Holy’, or ‘Physical Graffiti’, or ….
    (I’m still picking grains & seeds out of some of those album covers … heh)

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  30. My top 5 are, 1 The God of Life by John Michael Talbot, this album is essential to me because it always puts me into God’s presence listening to it 2 The Ancient Faith, a double album by Michael Card, my favorite song is Job Suite, (His story, His lament, His God, His response), great song about the sufferings of Job 3 Will The Circle Be Unbroken by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, one of the greatest collections of old time bluegrass and country songs ever recorded 4 The Chieftains, Down the old plank road, the Nashville sessions and 5 Hank Williams, Gold and many, many others. Number 6 would be John Prine’s debut album from 1971 which includes Sam Stone, Hello in there, But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore, Illegal smile, Paradise and other great songs. And add a single by Kris Kristofferson Why me Lord. I love music of all kinds except for rap and hip hop. And just for any of you old farts who might remember them, the first 5 albums by Mason Proffit (John and Terry Talbot) from the early 70’s with the still message song of the that era Two Hangman.

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  35. Dan Fogelberg Netherlands
    Little Feat Time as loves a hero
    Willie Nelson Stardust
    Danny O’Keeffe Danny O’Keeffe (Good time Charlie got the blues)
    Niel Young Harvest

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  41. The trouble with this is that I could pick 5 today and tomorrow 4 of them would be different. Loan me a Dime usually makes the cut. Gimme Shelter also. There’s a lot of good ones!

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  43. I live for our Lord and Creator, the God of Abraham, as a gentile saved thru Christ. Stop making idols of musicians & bands. You can live without all of them.

    That said, my favorites: Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, Led Zep, Metallica up to and including S&M, everything AC/DC thru ’00, pretty much all of Steely Dan, and a few grunge groups too. But it’s all comfort music. People going thru the same trials I am. I don’t elevate them above me, and certainly not above our Lord.

    KR

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  50. I don’t really care about albums because I rarely like entire albums.
    Right now I have Big Butter and Egg Man in my head.
    “I’m gettin’ tired of workin’ all day” 😂

  51. Bola Sete at the Monterey Jazz Festival — Bola Sete
    O Descobrimento do Brasil — Zildo Gaboto
    The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) — Nigel Kennedy, violin
    Adventures For 12 String, 6 String And Banjo — Dick Rosmini
    Planet Paprika — Shantel

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  52. @D.S. – Appreciate your work too, but… Where’s the line when it’s framed as “cannot live without”? It’s the same hyperbole the left invokes for “$topic_of_the_day”. Food for thought.

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  55. El Magnifico. G/S scooter JUNE 30, 2022 AT 11:05 PM

    Even a teas maid.

    Good grief Sir, one ought to know that the machine to which you refer is one, not two, words. Teasmade!

    Carry on.

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  56. Why would I know?

    I can’t stand tea.

    I drink agave juice boiled over a fire flavored with gunpowder for my morning libation.

    Until 11am.

    Then it’s straight scotch till sundown.

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  57. Frank Sinatra: The Capital Years
    Dire Straits: Alchemy Live!
    Dusty Springfield: Going Back: Very Best of Dusty Springfield
    Ella Fitzgerald: The Best of the Songbook
    Marvin Gaye: The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

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  58. El Magnifico. ….could I topple the British……thing..you know…the thing…. JULY 1, 2022 AT 12:35 AM

    I can’t stand tea.

    I detect the problem Sir! Standing in one’s tea makes it taste somewhat a tad too fragrent.

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  60. Deep Purple – Machine Head
    Mountain – Climbing
    Yes – Close to the Edge
    Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
    Norah Jones – Come Away With Me

    There really should be a Beatles album in there somewhere.

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  61. Emerson Lake and Palmer, Take A Pebble and Fanfare for The Common Man and Rodeo, Thick as a brick, Jethro Tull, anything by Al Stewart or Donovan and Renaissance, one of my favorite English bands of the 70’s. And the Moody Blues, my best friend and I played them to death back in the day, except for On the threshold of a dream, I can’t stand sitar music.

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  62. Elton John-Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

    Sinatra at The Sands (live album)

    Acoustic-Simple Minds

    Deep-Peter Murphy

    Songs from the Big Chair- Tears for Fears

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  63. A Foot Up the Bum – Karl “Big” Peters

    Takin It From Both Ends – The Reamers

    Let Me Take You Round the World – Tung and Lipps

    Slap Me Till I’m Blue – Mark de Sade

    Naked Children – Eric Satie

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  65. @Diogenes Sarcastica:

    Waiting for Columbus – Little Feat

    Wonderful group, wonderful album! If this had been a “10 albums ICLW” that would’ve been about my #7 or so, and a Ry Cooder…

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  67. Dark Side of the Moon PF
    Zep II
    Are You Experienced Hendrix
    White Album Beatles
    On Every Street Dire Straits
    Who Are You Who
    Abraxas Santana
    Eugene Crazy Joe and the Variable Speed Band
    Watt Ten Years After
    CLAPTON IS GOD!

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  70. 1.Out of the Blue ELO.
    2.Nat King Coles Greatest hits.
    3.Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons Greatest hits.
    4.Johnny Cash Greatest hits.
    5.Queen Greatest Hits.

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  71. Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus
    The Who: Quadrophina
    Grateful Dead: Europe 72
    Beethoven: The 9th
    Allman Brothers: Live at the Fimore
    Beethoven and Mozart prove the superiority of Western Civilization

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  76. in no particular order
    anita baker – giving you the best that i got
    who – quadrophenia
    tina turner – simply the best
    santana – moonflower
    rod stewart – unplugged

  77. Your lists are more proof that Civilization peaked in the 1970s. (not one Justin Bieber or BeNancy album listed)

    That, or you guys are just cranky old coots!

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  79. Quadrophenia-The Who
    Hot Rocks-The Rolling Stones
    Who’s Next-The Who
    Look Sharp-Joe Jackson
    Led Zepellin 4-Led Zepellin

    So many more I’d like to list…Deep Purple, Aerosmith, The Clash, Eagles

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  81. I have listened to a lot of music posted today and yesterday on this thread, and all I’ve got to say is that I love you all!
    Awsome Post, BFH!, Awsome thread!

  90. It’s pretty damn good. Reminds me a bit of Quicksilver Messenger Service.

    I’m a musi-can, too, but I gave up the live acts due to Harpy band wives and fellow guitarists who sucked hind tit.

    I think the true end of it was when someone who listened to my songs on some song sharing site asked for the number of my bassist.

    “That bassist is stellar! What’s his name? How do we not know him?”

    Well, I did all the instruments, so the bass dude was me.

    At the time I was completely pissed off… but I should have shaved my moustache, wore a different tie, and taken the job.

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  93. We should collaborate. Lay down a bass line. Send it through the internet to me…I dunno’, roll up the sheet music really tight….

    I’ll stick it in this tascam 4 track digital doohickey and lay down something and send it back.

    I’ll even compromise and play blues or whatever. It…um….it has to be really, really, dope. Like this.

    See? Not complicated…..but arraigned like a damn Angel on High.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY5s8K3Bloc

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  94. I love Blues, but I’m not beholden to it. I discovered long ago that blues could be major or minor, or both… then I was like a dog with two dicks.

    I love that shit where Mike Bloomfield kicks down the front door, sets the place on fire, and keeps going out the back door.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r2WD0EKhGY

    Sound quality is ass, but…

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  96. Sound quality?

    I’m still pondering this two dicked dog deal you mentioned….

    Any way to make that a more family friendly band name?

    Let’s just move on….Bloomfield. At the 4 minute mark he collides two scales….repeatedly…. a result of improvisational experimentation. Fine by me, but the final recording has to be clean and tight. All the melodies and their extrapolations stripped down to their core. Basically I’m saying I’m not down with 45 minute drum solos and guitar leads that inevitably wind up in Brer’ Rabbits tar patch of ear splitting discordance.

    Pretty sure the drums get recorded first….it’s basically a fat click track that can get discarded later.

    You have a drum set and a mike?

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  97. I can’t play drums. Too many feet, and too many hands.

    The studio version of that track is correct for the LP. It’s subdued from that live version, and is excellent in its own right, but the dissonances are, of course, on purpose. The slight dissonances tell their own story. They aren’t the dissonances, the flagrant dissonant shit, of the later generations.

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  98. No problem. I gots a pearl jazz set up in the barn. I can score or buy a mike for that.

    Probably should pick a tune….or at least a genre…

    Wanna’ do a cover? I can 3/4 and mariachi this one into a sarcastic lament of an outlaw dealing with old timey frontier justice.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fR8vNDuHto&list=PLx6SJvoqDzUY_2rtno7o0aVVeu44r9uTQ&index=3

    Also….really good idea that we’re not in the same room. I can drive any guitarist into mouth frothing rage by twisting any tune they play into a similar sounding TV theme or annoying pop song.

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  99. Another reason I got out of music was too many covers.

    You how many times I did Wonderful Tonight? Fuck. And that other Clapton song about his child. What was that called? Tears in Heaven.

    Blow my brains out.

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  100. Not that they were terrible songs… but fucks sake… they eventually become terrible.

    “It’s late in the evening… I’m looking for someone to kill me…”

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  103. I see you weren’t kidding about your avoision of drums.

    Anyway, never heard of the guy. He’s good. But that bassist…damn. If he could play the Inspector Gadget theme I’d snap him up.

    O.K. so we’re doin’ an Erik MacNeil cover.

    I’m goin’ with all you got. The whole first four minute guitar into I can arrange for horns.

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  105. C’mon. I wouldn’t bust your ballz if I didn’t like you.

    And I’ve listened to that tune 20 times already. I can work with it.

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  107. Did you even listen to Enricos music?

    Also, Mesikins don’t eat mac and dirt. It’s mac n’ cheese same as errybody else.

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  108. Back to work.

    Structurally it’s very similar to little wing. At only a minute long I need to come up with a bridge to extend it into 2:53 territory.

    The major chords of the first 13 seconds would make for an excellent multihorn horn line that establishes the main elements of the song. That way when you go all Stevie there’s a logical beginning middle and end. Chicago did that all the time. Sounded fat.

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  110. I listened to all of them repeatedly. I picked the instrumental intro because….fudge….I dunno’. Reminded me of little wing. Felt like fudging around with it.

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  111. The one with the Wes Montgomery octaves? That’s the intro to All That I get. Same chords, just slower. I never could get that dead air out of the halves of the song. LOL! That old digital 256 track wouldn’t allow me to move the later tracks en masse.

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  114. I wonder why I didn’t take the dead air out on the master. Probably because I was sick to death of fucking with it. It was two tempos, so it couldn’t be snapped to the grid.

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