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USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

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solovsfett said:
Oh man, Siamese Fream should have made my list. What a fantastic album top to bottom!
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I remember when that album came out my world changed forever. To think I was only like four or five years removed from listening to goddam Raffi.
 
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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Bizet's Carmen with Leontnye Price
Mozart's Le Nozze di Figar with Kiri Te Kanawa & Samuel Ramey
The Who - Quadraphenia (but, but Tommy)
U2 - Joshua Tree (Boy? Unforgettable Fire?)
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (I think Mats fans give this one short shrift)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Clue - Baby 81 (the greatest CD no one has ever heard)
Garbage - Garbage. Way too many great memories with this to leave it home
REM - Automatic for the People (Reckoning? Document?)
The Cure - Pornography (hard to ignore KMKMKM or Disintegration)

Under consideration to knock one of those off:

The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Beatles - Let it Be or Rubber Soul
The Police - Synchronicity or Outlandos d'Amour
Boston - Boston
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet. Interestingly enough Tattoo You might be my 2nd favorite if for nothing else, "Waiting on a Friend"
Morcheeba - Big Calm
The Samples - No Room
 
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This is tougher than I thought.

Seems like live albums - especially double albums - are cheating in a way. Maybe if I pick live albums, they count as 2 (or 3)?

I mean, if I can have any one Zeppelin official release and that's for the rest of my life, it's gotta be How the West Was Won - live and 3 discs. Floyd would be Pulse (2 discs) and the Dead would be Dozin' at the Knick (3 discs).

If it's studio stuff I take Zeppelin III, Meddle and I skip the Dead.


The other thing is that I really don't listen to albums by themselves too often. I have playlists or I put an artist's catalogue on shuffle.

Also - I'm torn between all-time favorite albums that I don't necessarily listen to frequently anymore and more current stuff that I listen to on playlists.


For this exercise it should probably be studio as that makes one make tough choices.

I'll be back...
 
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We've lost Gurt to the library. Probably forever.
 
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If I'm going to be stuck here, I can only rock my socks off so many days in a row, so rather than a list of just my favorite albums, I went for a variety of great music. (With the exception of "at Budakon " which is the first album I really loved as a kid, so I couldn't bear to part with it for purely personal connection reasons.)

Willie Nelson -Greatest Hits (and some that will be)

Bob Marley and the Wailers -Exodus

Frank Sinatra -Songs for Swingin' Lovers

Beastie Boys -Paul's Boutique

Berlin Philharmonic -Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

Stevie Ray Vaughn -Live at Montreaux in '82 & '85

Cheap Trick -at Budakon

Dave Brubeck -Take Five

Led Zepplin IV

Beatles -White Album


Some stuff that didn't make the cut but I wish did: Marshall Mathers LP, Ray Charles Greatest Hits (1962), Daft Punk -Discovery, Kinda Blue, The Wall, Electric Ladyland, Cream -Wheels of Fire, Dookie and American Idiot, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue etc., Zen Arcade... More stuff By Led, Johhny Cash, AC/DC, Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Springsteen, Prince, Rush, REM... It's hard to choose. Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" could provide a year's worth of time spent trying to figure out just what he meant by a particular phrase...
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I remember when that album came out my world changed forever. To think I was only like four or five years removed from listening to goddam Raffi.
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Yeah, I listened to Siamese Dream front to back on an almost daily basis for a solid 6 months or more. It was the giant leap I was expecting from them after the sub pop single and Gish. Soma alone could buoy me for days on end.
 
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A friend of mine in college grew up with Corgan.

I was at Western Illinois for one semester and he was telling me about his friend's new project - Smashing Pumpkins - and how great they were gonna be. Gish hadn't come out yet.

One weekend, a couple of the guys from Snake Train (Iha's previous band) came down and stayed with him and partied with us. Used to have an EP of theirs on cassette but haven't seen it in 20+ years.

This friend of mine also said that he had been asked to join Billy for the new project - in Iha's slot presumably (or on bass?) but that he chose college instead. This was well before Gish (fall of 89) and dude was a really good guitarist - we played together and recorded in the dorms - so at the time and without the benefit of hindsight or knowing how it all turned out - I had no reason not to believe him.

If true, I wonder if he had regrets. :D

We didn't stay in touch when I moved to Lacrosse the next semester.


Gish was my favorite and MC seemed to be written about MY childhood in the Chicago burbs.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
This is tougher than I thought.

Seems like live albums - especially double albums - are cheating in a way. Maybe if I pick live albums, they count as 2 (or 3)?

I mean, if I can have any one Zeppelin official release and that's for the rest of my life, it's gotta be How the West Was Won - live and 3 discs. Floyd would be Pulse (2 discs) and the Dead would be Dozin' at the Knick (3 discs).

If it's studio stuff I take Zeppelin III, Meddle and I skip the Dead.


The other thing is that I really don't listen to albums by themselves too often. I have playlists or I put an artist's catalogue on shuffle.

Also - I'm torn between all-time favorite albums that I don't necessarily listen to frequently anymore and more current stuff that I listen to on playlists.


For this exercise it should probably be studio as that makes one make tough choices.

I'll be back...
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See, that's the problem I have. There are too many live albums or anthology series that I would immediately take.

Ray Charles - Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Bruce Springsteen - Live/ 1975-1985
Willie Nelson - Revolutions of Time...The Journey 1975/1993

But studio albums only? In no particular order:

Springsteen - The River
Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On a Gravel Road
Pink Floyd - The Wall
U2 - Achtung Baby
Dwight Yoakam - This Time
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town
 
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It occurred to me you could surf all day, so maybe it's wrong to not include something from The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, the Surfaris, or the Ventures, (Or Endless Summer) ... Or could I get by with the Pixies "Surferosa"?

Where is this island? Maybe I need more steel drums?

On the other hand, I guess I can easily make a Piña Colada without the Pina Collada song.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Carmen, Figaro
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Excellent choices. I think I'd go with Traviata and Magic Flute, but that's simply a matter of taste.

I'm not lugging in Wagner. If I'm shipwrecked I've suffered enough.
 
Portishead- Dummy
Mazzy Star- So Tonight That I Might See
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
The National- Alligator
Counting Crows- August and Everything After
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
The Beatles- Sgt Pepper
Neil Diamond- Hot August Night
The National- Boxer
Garden State Soundtrack
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
The Beatles - White Album
Chris Stapleton - Traveller
Eric Church - Mr. Misunderstood
Norah Jones - The Fall
Rilo Kiley - Execution of all Things
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Taylor Swift - 1989
Tedeschi Trucks - Revelator (if only to get Midnight in Harlem)
The Who - Tommy
Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
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You're currently in the lead for least overlap with my experience: I have heard 2 of these albums, and I have heard of just 5 of these acts. I'm taking it as a homework assignment.
 
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Trick question! :mad:

I'd never travel anywhere with just 10 albums. :D
 
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Kepler said:
You're currently in the lead for least overlap with my experience: I have heard 2 of these albums, and I have heard of just 5 of these acts. I'm taking it as a homework assignment.
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Rilo Kiley - I think you'll like them. Execution of All Things is likely their most popular album, perhaps most up your alley. Released in 2003 or 2004.
 
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St. Clown said:
Rilo Kiley - I think you'll like them. Execution of All Things is likely their most popular album, perhaps most up your alley. Released in 2003 or 2004.
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I'm going to bull through all his stuff. I have a lot of gaps in my musical knowledge -- basically, if you're white and you debuted after 1983 I've never heard of you.
 
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St. Clown said:
Rilo Kiley - I think you'll like them. Execution of All Things is likely their most popular album, perhaps most up your alley. Released in 2003 or 2004.
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It's... soothing. I tend to find this genre as all sounding alike: (but that criticism always says more about the listener than the listened to) incidental music in a Manic Pixie Dream Girl ironic romcom montage. OTOH, it would have spoken to me in a voice like thunder when I was 19.

To every thing there is a season.

And I must admit, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, which lives right next door, is to me a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
 
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Kepler said:
I'm going to bull through all his stuff. I have a lot of gaps in my musical knowledge -- basically, if you're white and you debuted after 1983 I've never heard of you.
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Well, they're a band from Los Angeles that made it big in Omaha, when that city was going through a musical revival of sorts. The band members are roughly my age.
 
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Kepler said:
Islands I'd like to be shipwrecked on:

1. Manhattan

huge gap

2. Île de la Cité
3. Lübeck
4. Lindau
5. Does Singapore count?
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Maybe, but I've def. seen some bad reviews:

One star- wouldn't recommend.
-- Snake Plissken

Two thumbs down. Very unfriendly. Terrible trip.
-- The Warriors


If places like Singapore count, I believe Slap is already stranded.
 
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