Albums You Can Play Over And Over?

[David Meek]

This is similar to Bammer's "Goose Bumps" thread, in that I'm interested in the albums that you can listen to again and again. Some of mine:

Boney James - Seduction
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Evanescence - Fallen
Genesis - And Then There Were Three
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Queensryche - Promised Land
Styx - Grand Illusion

Soundtrack - Bladerunner
Soundtrack - City Of Angels
Soundtrack - Gladiator

[George Bellefontaine]

MARK KNOPFLER Golden Heart
JIMMY BUFFET the one with Margaritaville
FRANK SINATRA since I have just about everything he has recorded, there are few I haven't played and replayed a hundred times or more.
ANNE MURRAY Croonin'
LOUIS ARMSTRONG Pure Louis
NORAH JONES Come Away With Me
DIANA KRALL The Look Of Love
A FIEDLER CONCERT The Boston Pops ( boxed lp set)
LINDA RONSTADT Prisoner In Disguise
THE EAGLES Hotel California
CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Several ( I have them all )

These are just a few to get things rolling.

[rotel&energy]

good thread! here are some of mine:

Credence Clearwater Revival - Greatest Hits
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Beck - Mutations
Beck - Sea Change
Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
Led Zepplin - Box Set
Radiohead - all of their discs, except maybe Pablo Honey
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Counting Crows - August And Everything After
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Neil Young - Harvest
The New Pornographers - The Electric Version
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

chris

[Bam!]

Good thread David!

For me....like you...Dire Straits...Brothers in arms

[dave]

For me it's,
Dire Straits-Love Over Gold
The Who- Who's Next
Spirit-Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
Ten Years After- A Space In Time
Nektar- A Tab In The Ocean "1976 US Mix"
Moody Blues- A Question Of Balance
Pink Floyd- Division Bell
The JayHawks- Rainy Day Music
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Dave Brubeck-Time Out
The Doobie Brothers-What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
The Beach Boys- Holland
Camel- Dust And Dreams
The Allman Brothers- Eat A Peach & Live At Fillmore East

Excellent Topic David :T :T

[David Meek]

Oh lordy, I forgot the Doobie Brothers!!!! :E ops:

The Captain And Me
Toulouse Street
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

[theMaximus]

To name a few...

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Norah Jones: Come Away with Me
Dave Brubeck: Time Out
Sarah McLachlan: Surfacing
Enya: A Day without Rain
Nina Simone: Anthology
Harry Connick Jr.: We are in Love
Guns N' Roses: App. for Destruction

[JOY DIVISION]

Led Zeppelin-IV
Special EFX-All
Dido-No Angel
U2-All
Grand Funk-All
Uriah Heep-All
Rippingtons-All
Norah Jones
Basia
Lotus Eaters
Suicidal Tendencies
Social Distortion
The The
Tears for Fears
Bread
BTO
AFOS
GNR
Dream Theater-Pink Floyd like concert,awesome!!
Frankie Goes to Hollywood-one of the 1st to have a digital recording in the 80's
Bee Gees and of course Rolling Stones!!!

[David Meek]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood-one of the 1st to have a digital recording in the 80's

Fred, I've got this album on vinyl (a double-record set) and it sounds sweet - especially the first album.

[Samkuzma]

Norah Jones - either one
Eva Cassidy - any of them (particularly "Songbird")
David Gray - White Ladder (but New Day at Midnight is very good also)
Son Volt - Trace
Beck - Sea Change
Beatles - Abbey Road (although I would probably argue any of them)
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Van Morrison - Moondance, Greatest Hits (any of them?)
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday

[jimmyp58]

Chicago - Chicago II was a biggie for me.

[JOY DIVISION]

Fred, I've got this album on vinyl (a double-record set) and it sounds sweet - especially the first album.

Dave, it's the "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome" album, I knew for sure they had it on vinyl too.

[Burke Strickland]

Albums You Can Play Over And Over?

Actually I can play ANY of my albums over and over by hitting the "Repeat" button on the player. Long list to follow. :>)

Burke

[David Meek]

Dave, it's the "Welcome to the Pleasure Dome" album, I knew for sure they had it on vinyl too.

I knew that. . . I was just testing. ops: Trying to juggle too many things at one time. Thanks for correcting me. Actually, here's a little blurb I'd done on it a while back:

Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

[Gene Simmons]

I just got one of my fav albums of all time today. Sealed and brand new on VINYL, Guns 'n Roses Appetite for Destruction. I am beyond thrilled!!

One of the few COMPLETE albums around (for moi anyways.)

[Gordon Moore]

Gene.....what? no KISS :E

[Gene Simmons]

You don't even wanna know how much $$$$ I've blasted on KISS albums!

Good news, got two more sealed LP's that will go round and round over and over and..

REM - Out of Time
REM - Monster

[TTA89]

I just got one of my fav albums of all time today. Sealed and brand new on VINYL, Guns 'n Roses Appetite for Destruction. I am beyond thrilled!!

One of the few COMPLETE albums around (for moi anyways.)

By far and away the Best Album of All Time!!!! Ever Single Song Rules! :T

I can also listen to Pearl Jam - Ten around and around. The rest of there stuff is so-so.

[Kemp]

Mike, i have to agree with Pearl Jam - Ten. Vs. is also moderately good. Their earlier music was better than the latest stuff. I've been listening to Ten the last 3 weeks or so quite often again.

Other albums:

Seether - Disclaimer
Nirvana - Nevermind

[Andrew Pratt]

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Credence Clearwater Revival - Greatest Hits
Jesse Cook - Any
Sarah Brightman - La Lune
Queen - Various Greatest Hits
Bond - Born, Classified & Remixed
U2 - The Joshua Tree (My favorite bar none!)

[David Meek]

Thanks Andrew! I'd missed Ms. Brightman and La Luna.

[TTA89]

Nirvana - Nevermind

Thats another great album!

I found my Alice Cooper - Trash CD. Hehe.. 80s Cheese Rock Rules ;b> ;b>

[Gene Simmons]

Ohhh.. Alice Cooper Constrictor was his best! And Raise Your Fist and Yell is a close second.
"I'm a teenage frankenstein, local freak with a twisted mind" Brilliant lyricist.

Just got The Cars Greatest Hits brand new on vynyl. Awesome album!

[hired goon]

G'day,

A short list of albums that I never get tired of listening to:

Jazz:
Miles Davis - "Kind Of Blue" (1959, Columbia)
Miles Davis - "In A Silent Way" (1969, Columbia)
-- no explanation necessary

The Necks - "Drive By" (2003, Fish Of Milk)
-- 60min minimilist piece by Aussie trio. See also "Sex" (1989), "Aquatic" (1994), for similar excursions

Dexter Gordon - "One Flight Up" (1964, Blue Note)
-- "Go" and "Our Man In Paris" were contenders, but this live recording is the one I play the most

Keith Jarrett - "The Sun Bear Concerts" (1980, ECM)
-- why choose the single disc "Koln" when you've got 6 CD's to choose from here?

Rock:
Dire Straits - "Love Over Gold" (1982, Vertigo)
-- my first CD (even though I didn't get a CD player for another 5 years)

Led Zeppelin - "IV" (1971, Atlantic)
-- as if you need me to describe this to you

Tool - "Lateralus" (2001, Zomba)

Tarentel - "From Bone To Satellite" (2001, Temporary Residence)
-- Lengthy instrumental numbers from San Francisco group, kinda like Mogwai vs Godspeed You Black Emperor)

Low - "The Curtain Hits The Cast" (1996, Vernon Yard)
-- Slow, sparse music from Duluth trio, from achingly beautiful numbers such as "Over The Ocean" to 17min drone fests

Red House Painters - "Ocean Beach" (1995, 4AD)
-- more of that slow, sparse guitar music. This one was more acoustic than other RCP releases. I also like Mark Kozelek's AC/DC covers

Spiritualized - "Lazer Guided Melodies" (1992, Dedicated)
-- Spirit of Velvet Underground fused with JJCale

Tea Party - "Edges Of Twilight" (1995, EMI)
-- Canadian blend of Zep, Doors, blues, and the far east

Progressive Rock:

Genesis - "Selling England By The Pound" (1973, Charisma)
Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" (1974, Charisma)
Genesis - "A Trick Of The Tail" (1975, Charisma)
-- hard to pick just one out of this lot

Pink Floyd - "Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973, EMI)
Marillion - "Script For A Jester's Tear" (1983, EMI)
Dream Theatre - "Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory" (1999, Elektra)

Avante Garde:
Steve Reich - "Music For 18 Musicians" (1998, Nonesuch)
Charlemagne Palestine - "Strumming Music" (1975, Felmay)
Gavin Bryars - "The Sinking Of The Titanic" (1994, Point)
Philip Glass - "Koyaanisqatsi" (1998, Nonesuch)

Ambient:
Padmasana - "s/t" (1999, Dakini)
-- ambient/dub music from Japan. I use this a lot for testing speakers/amps

Sun Electric - "30.7.94" (1994, Apollo)
Global Communication - "Pentamerous Metamorphosis" (1992, Dedicated)

Brian Eno/Harold Budd - "The Pearl" (1984, E.G.)
-- see also "The Plateaux of Mirror", from 1980)

Labradford - "E luxo so" (1999, Kranky)
Tetsu Inoue - "Organic Cloud" (1995, Fax)
Biosphere - "Substrata" (1997, All Saints)

A Small Good Thing - "Slim Westerns" (1994, Soleilmoon)
-- lots of slide guitar and sage brush

Circular - "Divergent" (2000, Beatservice)
-- lots of cool Alien and 12 Monkeys samples here

Manuel Gottsching - "E2-E4" (1981, Spalax)
Klaus Schulze - "Timewind" (1974, Virgin)

Classical:
Glen Gould - "Goldberg Variations" (1982, Sony)
Arvo Part - "Kanon Pokajanen" (1998, ECM)
-- double CD choral work to make the soul tremble

Gorecki - "Symphony No 3" (1992, Elektra)
Hilliard Ensemble - "Lassus" (1998, ECM)
Rachel's - "Music For Egon Schiel" (1996, Quarterstick)
Ketil Bjornstad & David Darling - "The River" (1997, ECM)

(and just about any Bach, any decent performance of Mozart's Requiem, Chopin's Etudes & Preludes, Debussy's Preludes, Mahler's Symphonies, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Faure's Requiem, etc)

Pop/Soundstracks/etc:
David Sylvian - "Secrets Of The Beehive" (1987, Virgin)
The Blue Nile - "A Walk Across The Rooftops" (1983, Linn)
Frank Sinatra - "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" (1955, Capitol)
Beck - "Sea Change" (2002, Geffen)
Kate Bush - "The Sensual World" (1989, EMI)
Roy Harper - "Stormcock" (1971, Harvest)
Simple Minds - "New Gold Dream" (1982, Virgin)
The Cure - "Disintegration" (1989, Fiction)
Pet Shop Boys - "Introspective" (1988, Parlophone)

Ry Cooder - "Paris, Texas" (1985, Warner)
-- wonderful soundtrack, full of slide guitar

Nick Drake - "Fruit Tree" (1991, Rykodisc)
-- I'm cheating here, as this box set includes all of Nick's released albums

--Geoff

[NMG]

In addition to some of the others that have been mentioned,

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Legend - The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers
2 Pac - Greatest Hits

[Kingdaddy]

Of course this is relative to the time, what I used to play over and over is a lot different then what I play over and over no, so I’ll make 2 categories.

Then:

Pink Floyd Animals
Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall
Rush Moving Pictures
AC/DC Highway to Hell
Scorpions Animal Magnetism
GRP Live in Concert
David Sanborne Voyeur
Supertramp Brother where you Bound
Roger Waters Pro’s and Cons of Hitchhiking
Robert Plant The Principal Of Moments



Woops, forgot:

Alan Parsons On Air and turn of a friendly card


Now:

Collective Soul Dosage
Coldplay Rush of Blood to the Head
Sinead O’Connor am I not your Girl
REM Around the Sun
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun
ELO Definitive Collection
Garbage Beautiful Garbage
Billy Joel The Stranger SACD
Sheryl Crow Global Sessions SACD

[hired goon]

G'day,

Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun

I loved "The Sky Moves Sideways" (sorta Pink Floydish sound) and "Voyage 34" (a sorta ambient/dub/psychedelic trip). Other Porcupine Tree doesn't do much for me, however.

--Geoff

[Kingdaddy]

Have you tried Stupid dream? One of their best IMO

[shokhead]

Grand Funk Railroad/Grand Funk past masters
Donald Fagen /Kamakiriad

[bimmer528]

big head todd and the monsters
-Midnight Radio
-Sister Sweetly
-Any live BHTM disk

Black Crows
-Shake your money maker

Pearl Jam
-Ten
-Unplugged

Nirvana
-unplugged---ONLY THIS.. cant stand thier albums but this is a phenominal cd.

Alice in Chains
-Unplugged

bob Dylan
-Greatest Hits

Van Morrison
-Any

[brendon]

Taking Heads-Stop Making Sense .
Amazing live album !
Brendon
:T

[gymguymass]

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions (a fantastic recording!)

U2 - Acthung Baby (often overlooked)

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti

[David Meek]

Oh, another I forgot is:

The Doobie Brothers - The Captain & Me

[Eddie Horton]

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Live - Throwing Copper
Sara McLachlan - Mirrorball
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

[taz13]

ACDC- Hells Bells ( or anyother ACDC )
Alannah Myles- The very Best of Alaannah Myles
Barenaked Ladies- Gordon
Bon Jovi- Crossroads - One Wild Night
Iron Maiden- The Best of the Beast
The Watchmen- Silent Radar
Randy Bachman- any band or album/cd where he plays guitar
:drool: :drool: :drool:
The Watchmen- Silent Radar

[BobD207s]

Pat Metheny Group - all
Steely Dan - all
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book, Innervisions, Songs in the key of life
Spyro Gyra - all
Sting - Bring on the night
Chicago - all
Sheryl Crow - Global Sessions
Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore
Jeff Lorber - all