If you could only own 10 albums the rest of your life...

[DutchHart]

Why do you guys have to make me decide..

Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore (HM to Eat a Peach)
The Band - The Last Waltz
Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Zeppelin - BBC Sessions
Metallica - ...And Justice for All (HM to S&M)
The Eels - Hits
Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
Flogging Molly - Live at the Greek
Pearl Jam - Ten

Too many options to take it to ten...

[darnedsox]

This is kinda cool.....although I can think of 100 that shoulda been there as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiC__...layer_embedded
bill

[starzero]

Just an observation … as an idiom, Jazz does not seem to get much mention among Adirondack enthusiasts. By my count the Miles Davis album– Kind of Blue - is the only Jazz album to make a list.

[snav3]

Originally Posted by starzero

Just an observation … as an idiom, Jazz does not seem to get much mention among Adirondack enthusiasts. By my count the Miles Davis album– Kind of Blue - is the only Jazz album to make a list.

Pat Metheny and Frank Zappa are on my lists. I'd consider those Jazz, certainly are played on Rochester's jazz station.
I see Joni Mitchell out there too, she definitely has a lot of jazz influence in her music.
Diana Krall's "Live in Paris" came close to making my top ten.

[dundee]

Not in any order:

The Who: Tommy
Who's Next
Live At Leeds

Beatles: Abbey Rd
Sgt. Pepper

Beethoven: 5th symphony
9th symphony

Derek & Dominoes: Layla

Allman Bros: Live At Fillmore or Eat A Peach (they're equal to me)

Cream: Live vol. 2

Lots & lots of HMs

[Jackson]

In no particular order either:

Jimmy Buffett: Boats, Beaches, Bars, & Ballads
Bob Marley: Legend
Steve Miller: Greatest Hits
Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
Jackson Browne: Runnin on empty
Robert Hazard: Blue Mountain (OR- 7th Lake)
Tom Larsen Blues Band: Boogie Chillun'
Steve Ray Vaughn: Texas Flood
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonelt Hearts Club Band

[Ordin Aryguy]

Originally Posted by Ordin Aryguy

Jane's Addiction: Ritual de lo Habitual (Stephen Perkins is my favorite drummer ever and Perry Ferrell is insane in a good way)

Ordin

Last night I did the impulsive, impetuous, not-economically-sound thing and went to the Jane's Addiction show. Given my age, and theirs, this was probably the only chance I'll ever realistically get to see them.

My original statements about them are positively validated. Perry Ferrell is truly insane, in all the right ways. He had the audience eating out of his musical hands. If the Pied Piper were ever incarnate, he'd be Perry Ferrell.

Watching and listening to the wild man that is Stephen Perkins was a nothing short of pure joy. His stutter-stepped playing style, dropping in notes in places that you don't expect, and holding back on notes in the places you would expect, brings my ears to very, very happy places. Watching it happen live, man, what a thrill!


Ordin

[Neil]

Pretty tough to start including jazz due to the sheer immensity of the repertoire.

However, Kind of Blue is an easy one to point out, perhaps the greatest jazz album ever.

Maybe it would be easier to start a new topic on the 10 best jazz musicians ever.

People like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Stéphane Grappeli, Benny Goodman, Billy Holiday, Ella, Stan Getz and of course, Birdman.

[bigleobets]

Okay so here are mine:
1. Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast
2. The Beatles- The White Album
3. Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power
4. Anthrax- Worship Music
5. Phish- Hoist
6. Pearl Jam- 10
7. Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
8. The Beatles- Abbey Road
9. Machinehead- The Burning Red
10. Blind Melon- Blind Melon

Of course I can think of many more...
Lots of metal in my music collection...

[vtflyfish]

Originally Posted by Neil

Pretty tough to start including jazz due to the sheer immensity of the repertoire.

However, Kind of Blue is an easy one to point out, perhaps the greatest jazz album ever.

Maybe it would be easier to start a new topic on the 10 best jazz musicians ever.

People like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Stéphane Grappeli, Benny Goodman, Billy Holiday, Ella, Stan Getz and of course, Birdman.

What about Fats Waller???? Not only was he the greatest jazz/blues piano player ever, his lyrics were incredibly clever.

[vtflyfish]

Originally Posted by redhawk

I had a toss up between Blood on the Tracks and Biograph. But the best track off the album, "Tangled Up In Blue" is on Biograph. Also love "Simple Twist of Fate", "Shelter from the Storm", and "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts".

Tangled up in Blue is the story of me and my ex... Dylan's best album by far

[vtflyfish]

Late to the party here but what a great topic!!! So where to go with it. I was in Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love and spent way too many nights at the Filmore. is it worth re-visiting? Maybe, maybe not. Tough choices!!! Here goes:

Greatful Dead: Workingman's Dead
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
The Beautiful South: Carry on up the Charts or Solid Bronze (for those who haven't heard them they sold more records in the UK than the Beatles)
The Holmes Brothers: Simple Truths
Paul Simon: Graceland
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Stan Rogers: Home in Halifax
Taj Mahal: De Old Folks at Home
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
The Beatles: Rubber Soul

Right, wrong or indifferent, I wouldn't give up these albums!!!

[marshmallow]

My 10 albums would have to be.......

Triumph-Stages
AC/DC- Back in Black
Judas Priest- Defenders of the Faith
Motley Crue- Too Fast for Love
Flaming Lips- War of the Mystics
Ozzy- Tribute
Van Morrison- Moondance
Run DMC- Greatest Hits
Joan Jett and the Black Hearts- Greatest Hits
Bruce Springsteen- The River

[forest dweller]

1) Gorillaz - Demon Days

2) U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

3) Radiohead - In Rainbows

4) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

5) Doves - The Last Broadcast

6) The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come

7) The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

8) Broken Bells (self titled)

9) Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

10) Big Audio Dynamite - Planet BAD: Greatest Hits


LOVE that Broken Bells CD, but I think I'm going to have to replace it with The Clash - London Calling or The Clash - Sandinista...now that I have finally gotten around to buying London Calling...and realize what an ass I have been for waiting to purchase an album that so many people said was amazing...and is!

[MaximusFunk24]

Bob Marley-Legend

The Postal Service-Give Up

Miami Nights 1984-Early Summer

Infected Mushroom-Classical Mushroom

Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and the Infinate Sadness

Queen Latifah-Black Reign

Nujabes-Samurai Champloo sountrack

Queen-Greatest Hits

The Greatful Dead-American Beauty

Aphex Twin-drukQs

[bluequill]

Allman Bros...........Fillmore East

Velvet Underground w/ Nico..........(the Andy Warhol banana album)

Patti Griffin..........1000 Kisses

Moby Grape..........Moby Grape

Cry,Cry,Cry ........Cry,Cry,Cry(Richard Shindel, Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky)

Kathleen Edwards......Back to Me

Dave Van Ronk.......Ballads, Blues, Spiritual

Hot Tuna.............Burgers

Beatles...........White Album (and all the others too)

Floyd.............Meddle (also Dark Side)

These are all on my IPod as well as others. Maybe we should do the top 100? My top 10 list is always in rotation.

[l'oiseau]

In no order, and those quoted are shared favs:

Originally Posted by Ordin Aryguy

Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger

Originally Posted by daxs

Led Zeppelin I

Originally Posted by teclo

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Originally Posted by dundee

Allman Bros: Live At Fillmore or Eat A Peach (they're equal to me)

Primus: Green Naugahyde

Bob Dylan: Best of Bob Dylan Vol 1 & 2 (I count this as one )

Metallica: Kill 'em All

Jethro Tull: Aqualung

Eric Clapton: The Cream of Clapton

Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings

I should have added Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast because this is my 666th post... but... it just doesn't cut the mustard for my top 10.

[bluequill]

Originally Posted by stripperguy

Neil Young -Decade (I know, it's kind of cheating...)
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
U2 - Boy (gave up on them after War)
The Cure - Disintegration
Bob Mould - Workbook
Beth Orton - Concrete Sky
Concrete Blonde - Concrete Blonde
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid
Adele - 21

You maybe can tell, I prefer singer-songwriters that can bare it all...and I like the early, raw stuff, before everyone gets too complacent or turns into a parody of themselves.

SG,
Have you ever listened to the syndicated radio show "Live at the World Café" with David Dye? It has featured many singer songwriters including, Phair, Costello, Orton and Mann.

[stripperguy]

Originally Posted by bluequill

SG,
Have you ever listened to the syndicated radio show "Live at the World Café" with David Dye? It has featured many singer songwriters including, Phair, Costello, Orton and Mann.

bluequill,

I have not...yet.
I'm a sucker for those singer/songwriters that have something to say.
Recently discovered how great Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are!!

I should add that I have been a faithful listener of WEQX since it began, and before that I listened to the fantastic WQBK when Lin Brehmer and Ellen McKinnen were driving the local music scene.

[bluequill]

Originally Posted by stripperguy

bluequill,

I have not...yet.
I'm a sucker for those singer/songwriters that have something to say.
Recently discovered how great Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are!!

I should add that I have been a faithful listener of WEQX since it began, and before that I listened to the fantastic WQBK when Lin Brehmer and Ellen McKinnen were driving the local music scene.

Google WXPN and go through the site. This is the station where the World Café is recorded at. Living close to Philly, I am fortunate to be able to enjoy all this station has to offer......especially the free at noon concerts every Friday. A couple of weeks ago I saw James Cotton, this Friday is Johnny Lang.