Driving in to work today I put a CD in the radio, something that I do every day. I put in Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys. I was unable to leave the car until the last song was played. Of course this made me late for work. I couldnt help from thinking that this album is a work of art. Machine Gun should be played often, and at high volume. What is that one album for you TB that you cant turn off until the last song is played. What is that perfect album? (for all you young cats, I know they are called CD's. They will always be albums to me)
To quote Frank Zappa, "What is your conceptual continuity?" Conceptual albums are not nearly as common today as they used to be.
I would not call it a "perfect" album ( they are albums to me also ), but Miles' "Bitches Brew" has the effect on me that you describe.
Regardless of the medium...they're all albums. Anyway, just picked up the just issued Legacy version of Bitches Brew...includes a nice DVD performance of Miles, Shorter, Dejohnette, Corea & Holland in Copenhagen 1969. http://www.amazon.com/Bitches-Brew-...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1285007399&sr=8-1
Agreed, and now more than ever. The last time I cranked that in my car it made me cry. There is a lot of pain in that recording. Tortured playing. Sorry to derail...
not that anyone asked but i think the only album that can be considered a masterpeice is marquee moon - television
In the age of shuffle, I can say that whenever I hear a single track off any of the following albums, I feel the need to listen to the whole thing. The Blood Brothers - ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn The Doors - Self-Titled DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters Descendents - Milo Goes to College Filter - Short Bus Frank Zappa - Apostrophe, Overnight Sensation, Roxy and Elsewhere, Freak Out, Absolutely Free, Weasels Ripped My Flesh Jeff Buckley - Grace The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium Morphine - The Night NIN - Broken The Offspring - Ignition A Perfect Circle - The Thirteenth Step The Phunk Junkeez - Injected The Pimps - To a Cool Person, Stay That Way Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation Radiohead - OK Computer Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Rollins Band - Nice Sage Francis - Personal Journals Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale System of a Down - Self Titled Toad the Wet Sprocket - Coil The Toadies - Rubberneck Tool - Aenima The Who - Quadrophenia
Its a very hard question but if i had to choose it'd be one the following. Led Zeppelin III Fragile by YES OK Computer by Radiohead Stand Up by Jethro Tull Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys Animals by Pink Floyd and Flight of the Conchords by Flight of the Conchords I couldn't choose.
Even to us young cats, they're still albums. Thats the difference, and Album is a single piece of work that makes sense together (and sometimes only makes sense together), whereas a CD is just a medium for a collection of music, an LP or EP, depending on length. As for my picks, there's certain albums I can really ONLY listen to in album form, front to back, all at once, the way it was intended. Although there may be one or two songs that can be picked out on their own, they just make me want to listen to the whole thing, especially when it's the first track... But I digress. Most of Pink Floyd's catalogue falls in to this category, although the standouts are The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. Tool's 10,000 Days fits as well, along with Jethro Tull's Aqualung. They just work better in context.
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