Albums that absolutely blew you away

[BassFTW]

I don't mean your favorite album to listen to, I mean the album where the sheer amount of musicianship impressed the ever loving hell out of you. Please don't turn this into a bass idol thread, this was just the most appropriate sub-forum. I mean where the band as a whole is simply amazing.

For me it would have to be Frizzle Fry. What can be said about Les doesn't need to be (I will say he's my absolute favorite musician.) but Larry's playing, I describe it as playing "around the music" (IE, circular if you dig it) just really stood out me on the album and it was refreshing to hear a drummer who can really keep a beat without playing the exact same line over and over again. About that last bit, keep in mind that I primarily listen to rock-type music and all genres that poorly phrased people would simply label rock.

[ArmyPunkGuy]

Sailing the Seas of Cheese

[BassFTW]

Originally Posted by ArmyPunkGuy

Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Amen.

Anyone else? Bands besides Primus?

[nysbob]

Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere killer diller ensemble work.

[Dave Siff]

The most recent album that truly blew me away was Thrice's The Artist In The Ambulance. The first time I listened to it was in the car, and I literally pulled over because I was so floored I could not concentrate on driving.

[pmaraziti]

I enjoyed a lot Extraction from Howe, Wooten and Chambers.

It's not an album but last Jamirquai gig available online with Paul Turner and his AC is great

Paolo

[anesthetist]

Kid A - Radiohead
Music has the right to children - Boards of Canada
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
Insides - Orbital
Mezzanine - Massive Attack

there are others!

[iplaybassguitar]

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live at the Quick, the dvd too.

[UncleBalsamic]

Aenima - Tool
The Antipop - Primus
Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus
Electro-shock blues - The Eels

[colorblindbass]

Dark Side of the Moon,

Pink floyd

wonder how long till someone said that?

[BassFTW]

Originally Posted by iplaybassguitar

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live at the Quick, the dvd too.

Oh man I can't believe I forgot Bela Fleck! Call me a poseur if you will but I got the 20th century masters best-of type deal and it was completely and totally amazing. How those guys can bring their songs together (Especially after the "breakdown in Stomping Grounds) completely and totally mezmerised me.

Would anyone care to elaborate on why the album impressed them so much?

[Mojo-Man]

ABB-Live at the Filmore East.
Led Zepplin II
Derek and the Domino's Layla
Weather Report Heavy Weather
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Jimi Hendrix Electric ladyland
Mahavishnu Orchestra Inner Mounting Flame
Steely Dan Aja

[rap138]

the wall, pink floyd

[Scottgun]

The Who's Quadrophenia

And I'm sure I'll get laughed at for this, but recently Noturnal Rites' New World Messiah blew me away.



Scott

[Jim Powers]

The Who - Live at Leeds

[was3funk]

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by BassFTW

this was just the most appropriate sub-forum.

really?

1.) it's not about 'Bassists'
2.) it's about 'Recordings' that blew you away

I'll pop this on over to "Recordings" for you.... it's a cool thread.


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For me, first was Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"... then Pink Floyd's "Live at Pompeii" & "Welcome To The Machine"... next was most likely Mile's "Bitches Brew" and Stanley Clarke's "Time Exposure" followed shortly by fIREHOSE's "Ragin' Full-On".

With fIREHOSE... the Connell's "Boylan Heights", REM's "Reckoning", "Fables", "Life's Rich Pageant" & "Document", as well as both Suzanne Vega's and the Violent Femmes' self titled releases all defined my coming of age and were a sound track to my young life.... and all blew me away to some extent.

[double-muff]

Fingerprince.

[manicbassman]

Yes - The Yes Album

[scootron]

Spirit - The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

Album has a great flow and feel, excellent musicianship throughout, sounds as fresh today as it did 37 years ago.