WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE ALBUMS?
POST A SONG OR TWO FROM EACH.
CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN - Blood Sweat And Tears - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN - Blood Sweat And Tears - Morning Glory
PET SOUNDS - The Beach Boys - Thats Not Me
PET SOUNDS - The Beach Boys - I Know Theres An Answer
BORBOLETTA - Santana - Life Is Anew
BORBOLETTA - Santana - Practice What You Preach
NO GURU NO METHOD NO TEACHER - Van Morrison - A Town Called Paradise
NO GURU NO METHOD NO TEACHER - Van Morrison - Foreign Window
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WHATS GOING ON - Marvin Gaye - Whats Happening Brother?
WHATS GOING ON - Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me
King Diamond -Give Me Your Soul...Please
Coroner - No More Color
CCR .... back to back years
Willy and the poor boys and
Cosmos Factory
What a great band, Americana before I knew what that was.
Yep, love me some CCR.
Saw Donald Fagen in concert a few years ago with a band called the Dukes of September.
Him, Boz Skaggs and Michael MacDonald. Basically they all played their own music. Great concert.
You get one guess who got the most applause.
That sounds like an amazing concert!
It was
My favorite of their 8 or so great albums.
Such a great album!
As it happens, for the first time in a while, this morning, I listened to the whole of U2: The Joshua Tree . It was one of my favorites back in the day, and I guess it still is. I’m not sure there’s a bad track on that whole album. It’s very easy to just sit back and enjoy the whole thing.
Yesterday, I happened to listen to another whole album I haven’t enjoyed for a while that is also quite good. Dire Straits: Alchemy - their live album from ‘83. It’s still the best version of “Romeo and Juliet.”
I completely agree with you about about both, these two bands were among the few that I enjoyed in the 80's.
Boz Scaggs was kind of a genre to himself, not really like anything else.
SLOW DANCER - Boz Scaggs - Pain Of Love
SLOW DANCER - Boz Scaggs - Slow Dancer
SLOW DANCER - Boz Scaggs - Sail On White Moon
Champagne Jam Album
Dark Side of the Moon, Who’s Next, Led Zeppelin II, Deja Vu, Sticky Fingers…the soundtrack of our lives…
Great albums!
All excellent choices.
Days of Future Past album by The Moody Blues. Knights in White Satin.
An underrated band, my favorite is "To Our Children's Children's Children" is my favorite with ":Days of Future Past". a close second.
Best live album I've ever heard.
(features Candy Dulfer, the best female sax player in the world)
A NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO - Van Morrison - See Me Through/Soldier Of Fortune
A NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO - Van Morrison - I'VE BEEN WORKING -
Two excellent picks from Pet Sounds, John, and Deja Vu is a great album.
One of my favorites:
Steve Winwood is the best. This song always makes me want to dance. Nice video, too.
Play it loud!
Love Winwood, great choice. This is one of my favorites by Winwood.
Great tune, Kavika.
A couple more brilliant works by a true musical genius:
I love ''Higher Love''.
So do I. As one of the comments on YouTube correctly describes it: A masterpiece.
If I recall, he was a child prodigy on the piano studying classical piano at a conservatory while still in primary school.
Heck, I think he was sometimes playing professionally in clubs at the age of 8 or 9..
I wouldn't be surprised. Winwood is the greatest. I have been a fan for decades.
I have a friend who is a true musical genius and was a child prodigy. He was the tour pianist for the great Dinah Washington at the height of her career for 3 1/2 months (his summer vacation), when he was only 13 1/2 years old. He went on to become a producer and arranger for some of the top musical acts, and was Aretha Franklin's musical director for 40 years. He is 86 now and I've been trying to get him to write his memoirs for quite a while. He played a very important role in the history of music of the 20th century, and he is still active as of this time. It is quite a story.
You being an LA guy are well aware of the music scene in the metroplex and all of the small venues/clubs that flourish there and you never know who is going to show up. So that being said, does the Palomino Club in North Hollywood ring a bell, G?
One of the greatest unrehearsed jam sessions in history took place there in 1987.
Taj Mahal and his band with the great Jesse Ed Davis on guitar when into the club walked Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, and George Harrison. Fogerty had not sung any of the CCR hits for years because of a dispute with the recording label. That night he sang a number of them and when asked why he sang them he said simply, '' Bob asked me too''.
When Taj recorded his first hit album, Jesse Ed Davis was the lead guitar, and everyone seemed to want Jesse on their album. Sadly, a year after this epic jam session Jesse Ed Davis died. Jesse is on the far right.
I cannot link the ''you tube'' video of this epic jam session but if you google, ''Palomino Club 1987, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, et all you will be able to see part of the session and I believe there is one that is almost all of the session.
Yes, I went to the Palomino Club a few times over the years. That session must have been EPIC! I met George Harrison and his wife, Olivia, in 1985 with my late friend, Hal Blaine, drummer extraordinaire. Very nice folks.
Jesse Ed Davis was a great musician. Another one who died way too young.
Taj is a favorite.
It was epic, G nothing like it before or after IMO. I would have loved to have met George and his wife.
I met Jesse a number of times along with some other great musicians/singers. Back in 60's the Hollywood area had a great Indian underground music community that lasted for years, Jesse and John Trudell were part of it.
Any album by Billy Joel. All classics.
War-U2
Nice to see some jazz added to this seed.
Clint Eastwood has used Johnny Hartman in the soundtrack of a few of his movies.
Among Clint Eastwood's many talents are jazz piano.
Has he ever played piano for one of his films? I'm not sure.
I think he played piano on the theme from Gran Torino, but I'm not totally sure about that.
CRIME OF THE CENTURY - Supertramp - Rudy
CRIME OF THE CENTURY - Supertramp - School
THE WHO SELL OUT - The Who- I Can See For Miles
THE WHO SELL OUT - The Who- Armenia City In The Sky
THE WHO SELL OUT - The Who- Tattoo
Speaking of Winwood. How about a former band mate of his? Claptons best album IMO.
Slowhand; Cocaine, Lay down sally, wonderful tonite ..... great album
I saw Winwood and Clapton perform together at the Hollywood Bowl on the last night of their tour, June 30, 2009.
Nice!
Love me some Blind Faith
For sure.
I saw Winwood perform another time at a smaller theater in L.A., but the acoustics were terrible.
I was too young to see Blind Faith but saw Winwood in 86 at Pine Knob. He put on great concert played a great mix of new and old stuff.
I hear a lot of Zappa in the compositions and arrangements on this album:
Brace yourselves for this track:
It often annoyed John McLaughlin when he was asked about Jimmy Hendrix's influence on his playing. A lot of talent and work went into being a virtuoso jazz guitarist before he cranked up the volume to 11 and started running his guitar through guitar effect pedal boards.
This is the final album I have to share for this music roundup.
It's from a live Frank Zappa album released during the mid-70s. The topic is broadcast news obsession, so how could I not share it here on NT?
You can tell from this track what a wild time was had by all at these Roxy shows.
I saw the Mothers of Invention perform 200 Motels with the L.A. Philharmonic at UCLA in 1970. Six months later, I saw the Mothers with Flo and Eddie to perform some additional material for 200 Motels at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
I didn't see Zappa when it was that cool but I did get to see him two or three times.
I'm pretty sure I saw him when he recorded some of the material for his Zappa in New York album.
I still have my vinyl copy of Freak Out! from the 60's.
What I didn't get at the time about Zappa but have come to appreciate in later years is his brutal honesty.
Everyone who played at Woodstock is sort of venerated for their peace, love, and rock and roll, in an almost religious sense. But when you get down to it, none of them really meant a word of it. A closer reading of the lyrics in most of rock and roll albums of that time usually reveals that the joke is on a sucker in the audience, and maybe you don't want to be that sucker.
Zappa just starts out with that premise, and in reality, it is a sign of respect for his audience. He doesn't bury the lede. He exposes it.
I saw Frank Zappa in concert once, cant remember the year, either '70 or '71 . Me and my friends dropped some acid before the concert and , as I remember it, the musicianship of Zappa and his band was out of this world great. These were people who were phenomenal at playing their instruments.
I think the music is more problematic though, depending on your taste in "avant-garde" rock. His songs are generally not very melodic, and sound disjointed to many. And then there are the lyrics, which are an acquired taste to say the least.
Nonetheless he is an important figure in 20th century music.
Zappa treated his albums and performances like they were subversive theater, kind of like National Lampoon. While he was doing that, there is evidence here and there of a gifted, even visionary composer. (I think he had a pretty big influence on jazz fusion.)
If "[we] are what [we] is," then he was what he was. He was a gifted satirist who dazzled us with moments of musical brilliance.
I could wish that he was more serious about his music but it would be kind of like asking Banksy to be more like Monet.
Zappa was most definitely honest, sardonic, but honest.
Zappa was a brilliant musician/ composer. He was also strongly opposed to drug use.
He is an important figure in 20th century music.
But I definitely could have done with less dirty jokes.
Zappa was to repetitive dirty jokes what Tarantino is to repetitive screen violence: a mind mess.
Listen to enough Zappa and your mind might just be the ugliest part of your body.
"... Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind..."
I generally agree with that.
I’ve had this hanging on my walls for decades.
Somebody stop me...
...before I post again.
“DON’T TRY TO LAY NO BOOGIE WOOGIE ON THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL”
OMG, I can't believe I never listened to this guy before. I have a ridiculous amount of British Blues in my collection but not this one.
I noticed checking out the album that he does a version of Ledbetter's "Black Girl" aka "In The Pines."
That's a tough song for a white guy to pull off. It usually buries the point of the song when a white guy sings it.
This is probably mine.
The sound of the band, particularly the singer, reminds me of Alice in Chains.
Not too many albums where I can personally say every song is stellar, but Terrapin Station, Nevermind, and Paul’s Boutique do come to mind.
I said I had posted my last, but I'm bored.
Black Sabbath friggin' created heavy metal all the way back in 1970.
Everybody has probably heard these first two tunes from the album Paranoid:
I think this track from the same album is less well known:
Even less well known is that right before the lead guitarist of Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi) launched his musical career he lost the tips of two of his fingers in a workplace accident:
He wears prosthetics to replace his his missing finger tips.
I'm not sure if he actually frets the strings with them. It looks here like he is fretting a chord, that most people would do with the first and third fingers, with the first and fourth fingers.
Sinead eventually went off the deep end, but her breakthrough album is phenomenal. HBO is currently airing a documentary on her, and it’s much better than I expected. I’ve always been a huge fan of her early career. Watching her perform is mesmerizing.
Hard to pick just one because there are ten are so great Los Lobos albums.
Yer a freak wry ....... 😬
I never really thought of myself as a freak. But, I love to freak.
The great BB King and Eric Clapton, ''Riding With The King''. I've seen Clapton in Long Beach, Englewood and San Franciso plus in Europe, and the Great BB King and Lucille I can't count the times I've seen him the last being in Las Vegas around 2012.
Clapton was once one of my favorites but he lost me with his infamous racist rant and then later with his anti-vax nonsense.
Nobody made more money from appropriating African American music than he did and then he has to let us know that he doesn't have love in his heart for the people who made this music but contempt.
Was it some kind of self destructive melt-down? If it was then I need to see more of an apology tour.
But if I can still listen to Miles Davis I guess I can listen to Clapton:
Los Lobos from their album ''By The Light of the Moon''. One of their best albums and their best song, IMO.
Simply the greatest album ever recorded...'The Last Waltz'' with The Band and friends recorded at Winterland in the city by the bay, San Francisco.
SRV, Texas Flood from the album of the same name.
Antonio Carlos Jobim , almost single handedly responsible for "bossa nova" music becoming an international sensation in the 1960's, was one of the greatest composers of popular music of the 20th century.
The album ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM'S FINEST HOUR brings 17 of his finest compositions onto one album.
I really like this guitarist:
I think Joe Pass internalized a lot of his jazz standards from Sinatra records.
Excellent.
Nice.
I didn't realize Antonio Carlos Jobim was actually a guitar player.
One of the first country rock albums that I remember.
Great, great record.
Does nobody remember their infatuation with The Beatles:
John Lennon ultimately died from gunshot wounds and I remember reading, poignantly, that a charity that John Lennon donated money to while he lived in NYC was dedicated to purchasing bullet proof vests for police officers.
The Beatles understood that there was an ultimate psycho fringe in their audience (also from White Album sessions):
But, whatever. The Beatles music was a sweet rite of passage for teenagers. Even all that drug stuff.
Charles Manson and Mark David Chapman were/are monsters that The Beatles were not responsible for creating.
Eventually, all of Van Morrisons music started to sound the same. That was not the case earlier in his career. This 1990 album shows his greatness in all its glory. The great Wild Night begins at 53:30 of this video.
From the soundtrack album to the movie Sharky's Machine. Great jazz tinted music and one of the best movie soundtracks of the 80's. Hard to find album these days. ($60 on e-bay)