Albums you keep coming back to after 20 years

[gottawalk]

Recently picked up a CD copy of "From the Inside" by Alice Cooper. Awesome writing and the players are first rate for the style! I used to play along with this album for years and I'm about to again!

What albums do you love so much that no matter how long it's been, you love to play along with!!!!?????????

[bassteban]

Help! by The Beatles. My hippie brother gave me the record when I was 5(39 years ago). I took it to kindergarten & still have it. Totally scratched, but that's part of the charm for me.

[speedkills]

"Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing" by DISCHARGE.

[James Hart]

David & David - "Welcome to Boomtown"
H.S.A.S. - "Through the Fire"
Peter Gabriel - all of them
The Firm - "The Firm" & "Mean Business"

[Curtybob]

Anthrax - Among the Living. I remember jamming to that on my walkman while peddling around town on my trusty 20" bike. Heard Caught in a Mosh on a Youtube video and went on an Anthrax CD buying spree.

[elros]

The Genesis album titled "Genesis" from 1983. not that it's much better than the older albums, but it was my first Genesis tape way back in '88 or thereabout. In a couple of years I can also name the other Genesis albums which I got hold of as the years went by. Next up would be "a trick of the tail".

[BigRedX]

Parachute by The Pretty Things

Doot-Doot by Freur

The Wrong People by Furniture

[BassBus]

More Genesis, particularly Selling England By The Pound and I'v recently rediscovered Wind and Wuthering. That '76/'77 period of Genesis was my favourite. They had their sound just right for me at that time.

Rush Moving Pictures, Hold Your Fire. Like Genesis that was my fav. period of Rush.

The one rock act I come back to time and again though is Steve Hackett. He's had his ups and downs with albums over the years but he has done some great music. The first four solo albums were the best, Voyage of the Acalyte, Please Don't Touch, Spectral Mornings and Defector. These days he plays the old Genesis stuff beter than Genesis do.

[KJung]

While I try to keep current with my playing approach through listening to new stuff constantly (even the stuff I don't like!), the one disc/CD that I still regularly listen to after all these years is Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life'. The writing, playing, production, etc. still sounds fresh and new.

I remember getting the double album for Christman (can't remember when it came out... maybe 1975?) and even though I was a white boy from the suburbs, it just spoke to me on many different levels.

I don't think I realized how good it was until many years later when I understood the writing and playing complexity a little better.

[rduckwor]

Originally Posted by James Hart

David & David - "Welcome to Boomtown"

+1 Great Album from guys that had no luck. Live and Die in L.A. vib

[Supertanker]

Anything with Anthony Jackson, Willie Weeks or Chuck Rainey...

Examples:

Anthony Jackson
Chaka Khan - Naughty (1980)
Donald Fagan - The Nightfly (1985)

Chuck Rainey
Steely Dan - Aja (1977)

Willie Weeks
Chaka Khan - Naughty (1980)
Donnie Hathaway Live - (1972)

[Grateful]

Rush: Moving Pictures/Hemispheres/Permanent Waves/2112/Signals
Michael Franks: The Art of Tea
The Beatles: Let It Be/Revolver
Steely Dan Aja

[Chad Michael]

Turntable I bought in 1984 still runs like a champ.

Boz Scaggs "Hits!" (Lowdown, Miss Sun, Breakdown Dead Ahead, Jojo)

Go West (We Close our Eyes, etc. with Pino)

Doobie Brothers "One Step Closer"

Christopher Cross (hits from first album and "Another Page" album)

[Valerus]

Can I vote if I'm not even 20 yet? lol

[narud]

weather report-black market
herbie hancock-thrust
return to forever-romantic warrior

never thought my dad playing these albums so much when i was growing up would shape my future like it has.

[Fawkes007]

David Bowie, "Ziggy Stardust"

Iron Maiden, "Number of the Beast"

AC/DC, "Powerage"

The Clash, "London Calling"

The Who, "Quadrophenia"

Elvis Costello, "This Year's Model"

The Jam, "Sound Affects"

Kiss, "Destroyer"

Judas Priest, "Livin' After Midnight - The Best of Judas Priest"

Donald Fagen, "The Nightfly"

Van Halen, I and II

Rush, "Permanent Waves"

Jethro Tull, "Stand Up"

Beatles, "Revolver"

Utopia, "Utopia"

I could go on. And on and on and on.

[LuvMusic]

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Chicago Albums - Through X
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Quadrophenia - The Who
Boston - Boston
Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
The Sky Is Crying - SRV

I could also go on and on.

[Hemitom]

Moving Pictures & The Wall

[casualmadness]

Originally Posted by Grateful

Rush: Moving Pictures/Hemispheres/Permanent Waves/2112/Signals

+1 on Rush.
Also,
Metallica: Kill 'em all, Ride the lightning, Mater of puppets
Black Sabbath: all of them
Pink Floyd: The Wall and Final Cut

[lunarpollen]

the Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
the Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
the Pretty Things - Parachute
ELO - Time
Queen - Queen II
the Who - Sell Out
the Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord

and many others