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Also Beatles White album.
Beggars Banquet
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/03/record-sales-vinyl-hits-2…
Just got Aerosmiths 'Rocks' and Pink Floyd 'Wish You Were Here' in a few weeks ago.
Heres just a few favs:
The Shop
I missed putting a post in the other thread but ACDC Back in Black is at the top of best album ever for me.
Alice in chains - Dirt.
Megadeth - Countdown to extinction.
Karnivool - Sound awake.
Big Black- Songs about Fucking
TSOL- Change Today
The Clash- London Calling
To hard to pick just one....
And the Oasis album I mentioned above was barely matched by "What's the Story", but everything else, though good, didn't match up.
Ready to die by Biggie Smalls and Illmatic by Nas is pretty sick too, but more in the way that they have some really great songs, not all of them
Beasties were iconic. Their history is interesting, especially what they started out playing.
FYI, to all, I was being somewhat sarcastic about the album part. Just think its funny how things change, but stay the same. They'll always be albums to me.
Some of mine are in no particular order
Some that are more producer greats (and/or) new member('s) make it great.
A few where the bands were so young when they started and just needed some time to mature
Honorable Mentions
Tom Petty Damn The Torpedoes
Foreigner Double Vision
Doors Alive, She Cried
Elvis Costello Armed Forces
Rolling Stones Somegirls
A few more greats:
Pit Row
Silverchair. Werent they like 14 when they recorded that album?
Tool and The Clash. Enough said.
Joe Jackson Awesome
Mookie Blaylocks album 10, as mentioned by 71fish. Movement and decade defining.
Surprised no one has mentioned what some consider the best (not one of) album, of all time. Purple Rain.
Of course it's all relative but 10 was very far along time wise in the Seattle scene. So it's hard to argue that is changed anything. If we're talking lesser known albums this is tops from Seattle then.
Another good one from Seattle:
in answer to the original question,
In any music with a guitar in it, any genre, this is it.
End Thread.
OK Computer I was into as a young fellas, just couldn't do Kid A
I'm computer illiterate so can't do any of that fancy embed shit but here's my list.
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightening Strike
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The Shins - Chutes too Narrow, and Wincing the Night Away
Modest Mouse - Good News for People who love Bad News
Plenty more, I love music but those were just the few off the top of my head
Queen- A Night at the Opera
Yes-Drama
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Honorable mention- Kiss- Alive.
Yes it was a live album but it was one of my favorites from my childhood and it's success spawned a trend of double live albums from other bands in the 70s
While I love that LP, bought one when it first came out (with the original Bogey label) it really wasnt 'Live' at all once the final mix was crunched down to 2-track. Well excepting the drums. Most all of it was re-recorded in a stadium and dubbed in along with much of audience sound as well. (Kramer was a magician) Also, IMHO the LP 'Alive!' didnt really spawn anything, the whole live and double-live LP thing had been going on for many years with great success and Aucion/Bogart were both about to go broke. After the three attempts at studio work didnt result in any substantive success they figured they would jump on the live-album bandwagon as a hail-mary attempt at getting some money in before the Casablanca ship sank completely. That release truly was bonafide "all in" roll of the dice for everyone involved and it saved the label, manager and the band.
Artists and bands had been doing live stuff since the late 60s, Johnny Cash did very well with both his 'Prison' live LPs in the late 60s, the Stones did 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' in '70 along with Steppenwolf. The Allman Brothers scored HUGE with 'At Fillmore East' in summer of 1971, James Gang did a live LP then also. Elvis and a few other guys up the ante bigtime of the live-album success thing with 'Elvis -as recorded at- Madison Square Garden' that rolled out summer of '72 and Neil Diamond scored equally as huge with 'Hot August Night' a few months later in December, '72. Now those two LPs made waves! Folks who were around will certainly remember how big a deal both those were. (hell I still spin Hot August Night even now)
With those two making the record-label bosses filthy rich, the studios really started looking into getting all their signed acts/bands to do a Live or Double-Live LP. Elvis cranked out 'Aloha from Hawaii ~ Via Satellite' (which BTW was a very big deal for its time as it was the first time a single live performer was bounced around Earth live - showcasing the whole space/satellite cutting edge technology) And later 'Live in Memphis' in 1974. Bob Seger recorded his 'Live Bullet' at the same time that KISS were recording their 'Alive!' shows (summer '75), but took longer in post production and didnt release til April '76. Peter Frampton ( as we all know kicked everyones ass in the live LP department) recorded his shows the same summer as KISS and Seger, but waited til January '76 to release and sold more LPs than everyone before him combined.
If you are ever curious about the live LP trend of the early-to-late 70s (that KISS finally joined mid decade) check out these Wiki links, everyone from Sergis Mendez and Miles Davis to The Osmonds were doing it.
Just click the links for each year at the top of the page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1970_live_albums
FWIW, here is my copy of that LP ! Lotsa miles on this one.
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