Members Ernest Buckley Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 Been ripping lots of CDs into my iTunes lately and was wondering if anyone else does this... I seem to listen to the same records over and over and over again. I mean, I have lots of CDs and love lots of different genres but I continue to return to certain records or songs from certain artists... Heres a list of some records I turn to constantly... U2, The Joshua Tree, U2, No Line on The Horizon (at first I didn`t like it but it has grown on me)U2, Achtung BabyShawn Colvin, A Few Small Repairs and Whole New YouSeal, SystemAudioslave and Rage Against the Machine (same instrumentalists, something about their sound...)Marc Cohn, (John Leventhal produced albums only)Mat Kearney, Nothing Left To Lose and City of Black and WhiteJosh Rouse, most of his stuffMadonna, Confessions on a Dance FloorColdplay, as much as they get a bad rap, I have a tremendous amount of respect for them, each record of theirs is completely differentDef Lepperd, Hysteria, I think I`m still shocked that this record sold as much as it did... still trying to figure out the secret of itABBA, I know I`m going to get killed for this but I find their productions to be top notch and the melodies are friggin` catchy...Pink Floyd, Dark Side... Another record that just grabs me each time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted February 11, 2010 Moderators Share Posted February 11, 2010 ZZ Top - Tres HombresDeep Purple - Machine HeadElvis Costello - My Aim Is True through Get HappyGraham Parker - Squeezing Out the SparksCrowded House - the 1st 3Miles Davis - Kind of BlueGlenn Gould - Goldberg Variations (1st one)Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate ManagersSimon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled WatersXTC - Black Sea and Oranges and LemonsWillian Orbit - Strange Cargo IIIOrbital - Snivilization Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 "OK Computer" by Radiohead, a lot of Zeppelin stuff, Javanese gamelan CDs on Smithsonian-Folkways, Emmylou Harris "Wrecking Ball", Ted Hawkins, R.E.M. "Murmur", Brian Eno, Sade "Rocks", Black Sabbath, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters, and much more. I haven't mentioned more recent stuff because the question is "what do you keep going back to?" implying that it's older stuff that you keep returning to, not recent stuff that you really love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lukenskywalker Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 For starters,,, complete catalogs of the Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Elvis , Gene Vincent, Bill Doggett, Duane Eddy, Don Gibson, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Jerry Lee Lewis, Link Wray, even Ricky Nelson, well, not so much him but his butt-kickin' back-up band...(the best his dad Ozzie could buy) Music I was introduced to by my older brother, and learned to play guitar to by listening to the 45's over and over playing my acoustc Stella guitar. 60's British Invasion next.... my Halcyon Days:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pbognar Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 Hmmmm.... off the top of my head Abbey RoadLet it Be NakedJazz Rocket Science (among others) - Adam HolzmanRomantic Warrior - RTFmost Weather Report albumsGolden Age of Wireless - T DolbyDark Blue Dream - Steve WeingartBest of ELPAjathe first ZZ Top best ofOne of a Kind - BrufordInside Out - Corea Elektric BandWired - J Beck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 More...Djivan Gasparyan, Hamza El Din, Lhasa's first album "La Llorona" (R.I.P, Lhasa), Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Scientist, Bob Marley... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted February 11, 2010 Members Share Posted February 11, 2010 Stuff I always go back to.... I love the Rhino HAVE A NICE DAY: SUPER HITS OF THE SEVENTIES anthology. It's no secret here on SSS that I am a big fan of the "perfect three minute single". It's like, can you make three minutes of pure ear-candy... where every note and every voice has to function correctly within its little tightly-knit web of entertainment.... Hooks-within-hooks.... almost like the equivalent of a short-story, when nothing must be superfluous... no room at all for self-indulgence, vacant posturing or eternal, navel-gazing soloes. Nice vocal harmonies, innocent lyrics, clever beats/grooves, engaging melodies, old-school dipping and swooping string parts..... arrangements that have a beginning, a middle, and an end.... This series covers not your great big acts, but rather your one-hit wonders and lower-charting gems, from the period in American radio when one AM station would play an eclectic mix of pop, novelty, country, bubblegum, psychedelia, Brit-pop, Eurovision, ballads, R&B, Funk, Disco, Broadway-derived hits, and so forth. Included here, surely, are some "songs you love to hate and songs you hate to love" ("I Like Dreamin'" by Kenny Nolan, anybody?) but whose recordmaking finesse is undeniable. Another alltime fave album of mine is BELEZA TROPICAL, an anthology of Brazilian pop hits, compiled lovingly by David Byrne, in the "Tropicalismo" style (circa 1969--1980). What Brazilian pop evolved into after the Bossa Nova movement and the rise of Rock and American R&B sensibilities. Hits by Chico Buarque, Maria Bethania, the wonderfully appealing voice of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Lo Borges. Every cut on this album is a stunner.... jaw-dropping arrangements tinged with African urgency, fascinating unpredictable melodies and chord-progressions, gorgeous harmonies, infectious, intoxicating jungley rhythms... Yet everything has that tightly-knit "three minute gem" quality I so admire and aspire to. Brazilian recordmakers had a freedom of expressive possibility that their American counterparts didn't dare. Mercury Records GROWIN' UP TOO FAST. Anthology of lesser-known girl group hits from the period approximately 1962--1966. Perfect, sweet American three-minute pop, written by great Brill Building and Philly composers. Their records that woulda-shoulda-coulda. When rock 'n' roll songwriting still was tinged with the lofty imprimatur of Tin Pan Alley. It's all aural Prozac. Impossibly catchy, infectious little grooves and melodies. Sometimes the lyrics are simplistic, even ludicrous or banal, but that's part of the fun. FRENCH SIXTIES. A great album of French pop from the period 1961--1969. The "Yeh Yeh" style is presented, as well as the anthemic songs that graced San Remo and Eurovision of the day. and A number of covers of American hits, in the French language. Much charm, much integrity, much beauty. Not as hard-polished as American discs of the period, a certain "roughness" there, but redeemed by emotional sincerity, is very winning.SONGS THAT WON THE WAR. Series. Vocal pop hits with Big Band/orchestral accompaniments from the WWII era: Dinah Shore, The Ink Spots, Buddy Clark, Vaughan Monroe, a young Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, The Andrews Sisters. Precious, often heartstring-tugging ballads and ditties with an uber-patriotic American zeal. "When America was America", you might say.... Sensuous, sophisticated, dazzlingly authoritative string and horn arrangements when nothing but the best would do. Flawless lyric-writing, Bebop influences, "hep harmony" tight choirs. These are records I just never tire of. I do like Various Artist collections because I like to get a feel for the larger styles that swept a country during any given decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gearmike Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Black Love The Afghan WhigsBlackberry Belle Twilight SingersMirrorball Live Sarah Mclachlan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Oscar Peterson Trio - play West Side StoryDave Brubeck Quartet - live at Carnegie HallPaul and Linda McCartney - RAM.Quincy Jone - Smackwater Jack.Swingle Singers sing Bach.Michel Columbier - Wings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Botch Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 I tend to go back to artists, rather than albums. I'm finishing up a 6-week re-immersion of Hall & Oates, to be replaced now with a Sade fest, thanks to their decade-too-long dry spell. Before that, it was Zappa, a long dose of Zack Claxton, and I think it was Donald Fagen before that (discovered a DVD-A in 5.1 to play on my new system!).Other artists I keep going back to: Chicago, EW&F, FoW, Bryan Ferry, BT, Steely Dan, Basia, Joni, etc. Just seem to go thru all the albums over a period of weeks before going on to the next (except Zappa, it'd take me 14 months to go thru them all again at once). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sailorman Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson never forget the first time I heard itall Beatles.Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland - Jimi HendrixStandup - Jethro TullFumbling Towards Ecstacy - Sarah McLaughlanHeavy Weather - Weather ReportAllman Bros. first album and Idlewild SouthELP 1st albumUmmagumma, Echos, Dark Side - Pink FloydConcerto for Orchestra - Chicago Symphony, Seiji OzawaA Step Forward - Savoy BrownHome - Procol HarumPhantasmagoria - Curved AirAlone Together - Dave MasonOctopus - Gentle GiantNursery Cryme/Foxtrot - GenesisElectric Outlet - John ScofieldTurning Point - John MayallThe Doors 1stThe Yes Album - Yes many more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lukenskywalker Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 How could I forget the late great Buddy Holly?...it was this month...you know the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AwayEam Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 How could I forget the late great Buddy Holly?...it was this month...you know the rest. +1 BRO I still wish it had been Kevin Federline in that plane instead of Buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bp Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Many by -XTCDavid SylvianNeil Finn (bands and solo)Kit WatkinsBill WithersLed ZeppelinDavid SanciousJeff BeckEnoSqueezeMiles Davis (older)Trilok GurtuBrand XKate Bush801Bill NelsonKing CrimsonPeter Gabriel (solo and Genesis)many more...... albums I stay away from -let's start with Return To Forever - Musicmagic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Sorry to be "complicated" about this....BUT!!!! I go back to some albums for many many repeat listens as a kind of audible comfort food: Faure: Pelleas et Melisande and Complete Music for CelloRavel: Le Tombeau de CouperinBeethoven piano sonatas Nos. 6, 8, 9, 14, 15, 30Chopin Piano PreludesDebussy: La MerThe Album Leaf - In A Safe PlaceBeck - Sea ChangeRobert Rich & Lustmord - StalkerBiosphere - SubstrataThe Blue Nile - HatsSpacetime Continuum - Sea BiscuitCharlie Haden Quartet - Haunted HeartPat Metheny - Secret StoryDave Mason - Alone TogetherFleet Foxes - self titled first albumWeather Report albums about the 3rd through the 8th or soJack Dangers - Loudness ClarifiesMedeski, Martin & Wood - ShackmanJoe Henderson - Double RainbowJohn Abercrombie - NovemberJohn Lennon - Plastic Ono BandKenny Burrell - Moon and SandKiln - AmpdayThe Orb - Orblivion, The DreamPatrick O'Hearn - Metaphor this is ridiculous - I could list 100 more......that'll have to do And the OTHER category are albums that I return to only rarely because they so blow my mind I don't want to dull the experience with too much exposure....but they are definitely "repeaters" of the most exalted kind. Here's just a few before I get carried away again.. Mozart String Quintet in G minor K.516Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes - Question and AnswerMiles Davis - Kind of BluePat Metheny Group - The Way UpPeter Gabriel - PassionSteve Roach - The Magnificent VoidBach Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites and too many more....must stop..... nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lonotes Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Exile On Main Street - StonesAja - Steely DanFull House "Live" - J. Geils Band (best R&R live album ever)Blow By Blow - Jeff BeckJaco Pastorius - Jaco PastoriusThanks, I'll Eat It Here - Lowell GeorgeWaiting For Columbus - Little Feat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted February 12, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 How could I forget the late great Buddy Holly?...it was this month...you know the rest. now now... lets not forget his ex. Also would help if most of the Clear Channel big wigs were aboard... the day music got its hope back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 those old albums I loved whilst growing up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Robert Hood- Minimal NationDerrick May- Innovator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Richard King Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Too many in my collection to pick. I'm gradually converting my vinyl to digital and when I listen I normally have playback in random mode. I guess a related question is "If you were stuck on an uninhabited island with nothing more than all the food you could eat for the rest of your life and a great sound system what record would you select to accompany you?" I would select a record by a formally local Minneapolis band, the first album, self titled, (I'm cheating because it's a double) by the band Gypsy. I pick this because it's a great album (er, pair of albums) and it brings back nice memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Richard King Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 +1 BRO I still wish it had been Kevin Federline in that plane instead of Buddy. Or at least one of his parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Abbey Road - I just love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kurdy Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 These days, that list gets shorter and shorter. When I was younger--I had musical tastes that some might call, er...questionable. Lets just say I was a big adult contemporary fan. There were a ton of albums I kept going back to, by Celine Dion, Michael Bolton (yeah I know), old school Mariah Carey, Luther Vandross, Whitney, etc.. I was much into the production and musical arrangements, rather than the artists themselves, who I think were often interchangeable. My heroes were people like David Foster, Walter A., Babyface, Narada Michael Walden, etc. Now, I can only take that music in small doses, or I start getting a toothache. But whether you like that music or not, there's no question the musical arrangements and production were top-notch, and I feel that I learned a lot musically by listening to them. Nowadays, it seems the only thing I've consistenly gone back to is classic Elton John. I love the sound of Tumbleweed Connection, Madman, Honky Chateau, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. You can't beat that early to mid '70s string of albums he put out. Everything else I sort of go through phases with. Some exceptional stuff I've listened to recently is John Mayer-Continuum, Arcade Fire-Neon Bible, Wilco's latest one, Regina Spektor-Begin To Hope. There's one I'm currently planning on purchasing and that's the one from the guy who calls himself Owl City. From what I've heard so far, the guys a darn good songwriter. So that CD should keep me entertained for a few months. And then I'll probably move on to something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hush Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Joni Mitchell - Hijira, Court and Spark, Hissing of Summer Lawns and Don Juan'sPink Floyd - DSoTM, Wish You Were Here, AnimalsKing Crimson - Discipline and BeatBeatles - Rubber Soul through Let It BeThe Who - Quadrophenia, Who's Next, Who Are You, By NumbersUS - Achtung Baby, War, Joshua TreeJohn Coltrane - Love SupremeMiles Davis - Kinda BlueLed Zep - Been on a Zep kick lately and have been going back listening to all of them.Allman Bros - The Allman Brothers Band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members coyote-1 Posted February 12, 2010 Members Share Posted February 12, 2010 Anytime I need a jolt of psychic energy, Deep Purple's Made in Japan will do the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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