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albums you keep coming back to…

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I doubt most people have ever heard of Klaatu, But I've always been hooked on their first two albums
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Earl Klugh - Heartstring
Earl Klugh - Wishful Thinking
Bob James & Earl Klugh - One On One
Bob James/David Sanborn - Double Vision
Pat Metheny Group - First Circle
Pat Metheny Group - Imaginary Day
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
Joe Sample - Carmel
Mike Mainieri - Wanderlust
Darol Anger/Barbara Higbie Quintet - Live At Montreux
Don Cherry - Art Deco
Andy Narell - The Hammer
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Peter Gabriel - So
 
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bon viesta said:
what are some albums that, despite your musical journey through the years, you just keep coming back and listening to? whether in parts, a few songs, or in full. my picks are todd rundgren's something/anything and chicago's chicago transit authority. and by extension, i'll also throw in the two albums that follow those two, chicago II and a wizard, a true star.

i come back to todd rundgren for the brilliant songwriting and production, and i come back to chicago for the bass sound and bass lines, as well as the songwriting of course. something about those albums can't seem to free themselves from my mind.
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Pink Floyd dark side of the moon. Was my dads favorite album. I like that it's very much a "album." Bands more so write singles than albums these days. By that I mean modern music is more so just a handful of songs thrown on the same album, they aren't really written as a full album and there's no real album concept. With that one the intro track "speak to me" sorta teases at what is coming and song by song you hear sprinkles of the intro. Like you can hear the ticking clocks of "Time" and you can here the cash register sounds of "money" right off the bat and then those sounds come back when you get to those songs. It's less about listening to one song and more about relaxing and enjoying the entire album as one big piece.

Mudvayne LD50. Completely different sound than PF so might seem surprising to go to this one next. It's just so unique Imo. It has an intro that comes back a bit which is about the only thing it has in common with dark side of the moon. But the bass playing and mix even 20 years later is just so unique.

Sevendust time travelers and bon fires. This is a lesser known album by them that I absolutely love and feel is very under appreciated. Their lead guitarist Clint went to high school a couple miles from where I live. Literally the next school over. He got started here and did things sorta backwards from how people do things these days where they start playing originals and then move to cover bands as they get older. Clint started in cover bands and then went to an original band. They are sorta local heroes. This album is actually sort of a semi acoustic/greatest hits album with a couple new originals added. I like it because it has most of my favorite Sevendust songs done in a chill way. I like the instrumentation used. It's not a full blown unplugged album. They mainly use acoustic guitars just for the rhythm guitar. The bass and most of the guitar solos/leads are done on electrics. So it's more timeless sounding. I actually listen to this a lot when I'm relaxing. Like going for a walk on the track at the park or a walk through our local botanical gardens. As an example of how different it is here's the version of their single "Denial"
Compared to the original version of the song

the original is much more set in time. It came out in the peak of the nu metal scene. And reflects that. The time travelers version is much more timeless Imo. Ironically for a lot of bands that have a sound that's set in a certain era I do tend to prefer their unplugged work. Alice In Chains and Nirvana unplugged are also some of my favorites because those performances didn't have those grunge era tones.
 
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I'm keen on everything I can drum along to, at the moment — forces my hand a tad — but I'll listen sporadically to most of my burgeoning pile. It takes an age to get through it, practically impossible :) My Favorite Things has been explored, along with Metheny's An Imaginary Day, on a number of occasions. Made a playlist a few days back with: Meshell Ndegeocello's Peace Beyond Passion, Ronny Jordan's At Last, The Rebirth of Cool, Joe Zawinul's My People, Manu Dibango's Wakafrika, among others. Shuffled, these present some entertaining challenges — grist for the mill.

Animals was up on the slab not too long ago, as was We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll — ancient Sabbath. All very familiar, coming around again. I wandered by Yes' Union recently and scooped that one up for a near-future revisiting — another that I keep coming back to, every now and then. I don't know why. I do love it — not bothered with the ins and outs, so much, don't read too much into it. Not playing along, in this instance :) I'll just sing along :wacky:

Might see if I can get through Sex with the Necks, this time from behind the kit. That'll be a novel experience — meditation behind the wheel instead of from the sidelines :)

Better give up. Let's just say I'm coming back to 'albums,' generally ;)
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Rush - Exit...Stage Left
Roxy Music - Avalon
James Horner - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Stewart Copeland - The Rhythmatist
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Weather Report - 8:30
Bob Marley - Exodus
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Various Artists - Buddha Bar 3
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Henry Mancini - The Great Race
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
The Who - Who's Next
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of A Madman
The Police - Synchronicity
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Triumph - Allied Forces
 
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  • Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
  • Seatrain - Seatrain
  • Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly
  • Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
  • Beatles - Rubber Soul
  • Alan Parsons project - Tales of Mystery and the Imagination
  • Jade Warrior - Kites
  • Jethro Tull - Aqualung; Tales from the Wood; Heavy Horses
  • Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman; Catch Bull at Four
  • Wendy Carlos - Switched on Bach; The Well Tempered Synthesizer; Clockwork Orange Soundtrack
  • Elton John - Elton John
  • Al Stewart - Past, Present, Future
  • Pretenders - Pretenders
  • Lowell George - Thanks I'll Eat It Here
  • Peter Gabriel - Secret World - Live; Plays-Live
  • Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
  • Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective
  • Snarky Puppy - We Like It Here
  • Loreena McKenett - Live at the Alhambra
  • Weather Report - Mysterious Traveler
 
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bon viesta said:
what are some albums that, despite your musical journey through the years, you just keep coming back and listening to? whether in parts, a few songs, or in full. my picks are todd rundgren's something/anything and chicago's chicago transit authority. and by extension, i'll also throw in the two albums that follow those two, chicago II and a wizard, a true star.

i come back to todd rundgren for the brilliant songwriting and production, and i come back to chicago for the bass sound and bass lines, as well as the songwriting of course. something about those albums can't seem to free themselves from my mind.
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I heard Fleetwood Mac were putting their old albums out again, but it was only rumours.
 
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The Mountain by Heartless Bastards
Marquee Moon by Television
Live 1999 Blondie, she's better live and this is the best.
Double Nickels on the Dime by Minutemen
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Kyoto by Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers
Snow by Kate Bush. Maybe has better albums but "Among Angels" melts me and I'm a little obsessed with it.
Oxnard by Anderson .Paak
Big Attraction & Giddy Up by Amyl & the Sniffers
And
Delivery Man by Elvis Costello because Nothing Clings Like Ivy
 
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bon viesta said:
what are some albums that, despite your musical journey through the years, you just keep coming back and listening to? whether in parts, a few songs, or in full. my picks are todd rundgren's something/anything and chicago's chicago transit authority. and by extension, i'll also throw in the two albums that follow those two, chicago II and a wizard, a true star.

i come back to todd rundgren for the brilliant songwriting and production, and i come back to chicago for the bass sound and bass lines, as well as the songwriting of course. something about those albums can't seem to free themselves from my mind.
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this one - it's simply unique. One might have expected this collaboration to have been Louis playing as a soloist with Duke's band, but no; it's the other way round: Duke playing really out-there piano to his own compositions with Armstrong's more trad unit. Yah, is unique! No parallel!
 

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