All-time favorite albums!

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 12:34 pm

Hey friends. I was just putting together a list in my head of my favorite records and thought I would share and ask you to do the same. The criteria I think should be the albums that have the best marriage of fidelity and content. Here's what I got:

--"sgt. peppers lonely hearts club" the beatles

--"electric warrior" t. rex

--"dark side of the moon" pink floyd

--"the rise and fall of ziggy stardust" david bowie

--"physical graffitti" led zep

--"goat's head soup" rolling stones

--"aja" steely dan

--"154" wire

--"meat is murder" the smiths

--"passion" peter gabriel

--"achtung baby" U2

--"bee thousand" guided by voices

--"king for a day, fool for a lifetime" faith no more

--"either/or" elliot smith

--"wild flowers" tom petty

--"reckoning and revelling" ani difranco

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 1:51 pm

When you mention "content" you have to add

The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 2:03 pm

That is a great record. Billy Cobham (sp?) is the star on that one for me. It's been a while. Doesn't he run the kit through a moog on one tune? It's been years. On the fusion side of things, I also love Jaco Pastoriu's debut, Weather Reports "Heavy Weather" and a Return to Forever album a can't recall. Damn, what is it called? Aaagh. This is fun.
Beau Landry

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 2:50 pm

I would say that almost any CD that was remastered by Steve Hoffman on the DCC label would be my favorite album. His discography is found at:http://www.stevehoffman.tv/discography/index.shtml. Unfortunatly, the DCC label went out of business last year, so his remastered recordings are hard to come by. Steve has a way with remastering that is pure magic. He is able to remove the digital "grunge" from recordings that very few engineers are capable of doing. No-noise is a no-no with him as is over EQ.

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 5:59 am

Golly! Inner Mounting Flame! Haven't heard that since about 1970-something, in fact I have it somewhere; must dig it out.
Can't decide which Zappa album to put forward; probably most of 'em...

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:29 pm

A true story:

I ran security at George Washington Univ. back when Inner Mounting Flame was released. The M.Orch played a gig at Lisner Auditorium: a lovely place (1200 seats, great acoustics).

A bomb threat was phoned in near the beginning of the gig. I had to go out on stage during a song. Screamed into Jan Hammar's ear that the show had to be stopped. He waved to the rest of the band & they all stopped playing. An announcement was made. We had the entire crowd cleared out. They waited across the street & down the block as Police bomb sniffing dogs checked out the hall.

The band was taken upstairs to the top of the student union building & bowled & played pool.

After the all clear was given about an hour later, we let everyone who was still outside back in for free. The place was packed. The band then proceeded to play for another 2 hours of some of the finest music I have ever heard. They were just amaized that everyone had waited in the cold for them. They just ripped it up. Cobham played an amaizing drum solo.

It was a truely memorable night!

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:50 pm

Yeah, they were truly a great band. Among their concerts that I attended I'll always remember seeing them as the opening act for Zappa when Zappa did his ultimate band tour with Jean-Luc Ponty, Gearge Duke, Ruth Underwood etc. They played a tremondous set (as usual) and about halfway through Zappa's set I noticed McGlaughlin and Cobham on either side of Zappa's drummer behind the amps watching him play with large grins on their faces.

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 8:33 am

By the way, if we stick to the thread's topic another great all-time album has to be

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 11:37 am

They are old, but they are milestones:

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
The Clash: London Calling

Everything else is crap.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 9:47 am

Hey Jim!

Being old doesn't matter. Good is good. FYI, my 15 year old son went out and recently purchased 'Kind of Blue' for his own collection!

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