Interesting you should mention The The. I have been playing this band in the car for the last couple of days. The thought came to me that this is the most wonderful band in the world that nobody knows about.
I can think of a few CD's that were so good , I had to listen again and again.
These are a few, that I can easily recall:
Sisters of Mercy-Vision Thing
The Cure- Disintegration
Depeche Mode- Violator
Sin After Sin-Judas Priest
Lights in the Night-Flash and the Pan
Nazareth-Hair of the Dog
Brain Salad Surgery-ELP
Let it Bleed-the Rolling Stones
Layla & other assorted love songs-Derek and the Dominoes
Street Survivors-Lynyrd Skynyrd
My Aim is True-Elvis Costello
This Year's Model-Elvis Costello
Armed Forces-Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Harvest-Neil Young
Rust Never Sleeps-Neil Young & Crazy Horse
The Up Escalator- Graham Parker & the Rumour
Double Vision-Foreigner
Caravan to Midnight-Robin Trower
Animals-Pink Floyd
Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/8/2011 1:10 PM EST
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/8/2011 10:58 PM EST
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So many ...
"Abbey Road"
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
"Dark Side of the Moon"
"Beggar's Banquet"
"London Calling"
"The Joshua Tree"
"Pretenders"
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul -- Men Without Women
What Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band might have been, if Springsteen hadn't turned out to be such a deuschebag.
Graham Parker (and the Rumor) -- The Up Escalator
A much harder edge than the more critically acclaimed Squeezing Out Sparks, this signalled the end (for the most part) of Parker's association with The Rumor . . . more's the pity.
Warren Zevon -- Stand in the Fire
Live Zevon -- Non-stop energy from start to finish. The album is summed up succinclty during I'll Sleep When I'm Dead when Warren encourages the audience to "Get up and dance! Get up and dance or I'll kill you!"
and, oddly enough . . .
Steve Winwood -- Arc of a Diver
This one just sticks with me. I don't generally use the word "haunting" to describe music (or anything, really) but this album has a tone to it that keeps me listening for what's under the music . . . if that makes any sense. -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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In Response to Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing:Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul -- Men Without Women What Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band might have been, if Springsteen hadn't turned out to be such a deuschebag. Graham Parker (and the Rumor) -- The Up Escalator A much harder edge than the more critically acclaimed Squeezing Out Sparks , this signalled the end (for the most part) of Parker's association with The Rumor . . . more's the pity. Warten Zevon -- Stand in the Fire Live Zevon -- Non-stop energy from start to finish. The album is summed up succinclty during "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" when Warren encourages the audience to "Get up and dance! Get up and dance or I'll kill you!" and, oddly enough . . . Steve Winwood -- Arc of a Diver This one just sticks with me. I don't generally use the word "haunting" to describe music (or anything, really) but this album has a tone to it that keeps me listening for what's under the music . . . if that makes any sense.
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Oh, thanks for reminding me ... "Arc of a Diver" and Warren Zevon's self-titled debut. -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/10/2011 12:14 AM EST
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Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Animal
Stray Cats - Built for Speed
J Geils Band - Full House
Jack Mack and the Heart Attack - Cardiac Party
Wilson Pickett - A Man and a Half
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/10/2011 7:34 AM EST
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In sticking with jkj's original thread regarding albums that were not huge hits but which I could not stop playing at the time:
New York Dolls - (NY Dolls) 1973
Queen II - (Queen) 1974
Generation X - (Gen X) 1978
Valley of the Dolls - (Gen X) 1979
Ace of Spades - (Motorhead) 1980
Heaven Up Here - (Echo and the Bunnyman) 1981
High 'n' Dry - (Def Leppard) 1981
Faith Hope Love - (Kings X) 1990
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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The Replacements "Tim"
The Pogues "Rum Sodomy and the Lash"
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon, Excitable Boy, The Envoy
Peter Gabriel - So
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw (the first album) -
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Not sure if some of these were huge mega hits, but most were not:
October Project (album named after the band)
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
The Book of Secrets - Loreena McKennitt
State of the Heart - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Now that I've Found You - Alison Krauss
Forever Blue - Chris Isaak
Warren Zevon - Learning to Flinch
Tribe - Abort (gotta go with this, too)
Note: I know someone who was in The The for a few years, in the mid-ninties. Cool band. -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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I played Sting's The Soul Cages over and over - it was my first CD, actually, purchased in 1990. It came in a folding, cardboard case. I still love it, actually. -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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transmissions from the satellite heart AND yoshimi battles the pink robots -
flaming lips
on avery island AND in the aeroplane over the sea - neutral milk hotel -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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Ditto on Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots & Clouds Taste Metallic - Flaming Lips
After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
OK Computer & The Bends - Radiohead
The Clash - The Clash
Vs. - Pearl Jam
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Doolittle - Pixies
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Z - My Morning Jacket
Slip, Stitch & Pass - Phish
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Hemispheres - Rush
Substance - Joy Division
Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order
Psychocandy - The Jesus & Mary Chain
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/11/2011 2:13 PM EST
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Pearl Jam - Live at the Gorge
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Medeski Martin and Wood - Combustication
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10CC - Sheet Music
Odds - Nest -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/12/2011 8:17 AM EST
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catch a fire--bob marley
something else--the kinks
help-------------the beatles
quadrophenia----the who
ok computer---- radiohead
pet sounds-------beach boys
let it bleed------rolling stones
blonde on blonde---dylan
london calling--clash
this year's model--e.costello
hazards of love---decemberists
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London Calling the clash
Appetite for destruction Guns and Roses
Exile on Main St The Stones
Pretty much any early Warren Zevon album.
Music From Big Pink The Band
American Idiot Green Day
Folsom County Blues Cash
Darkness on the Edge of town and Nebraska Bruce Spingsteen -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/12/2011 8:38 AM EST
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In Response to Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing:The Replacements "Tim" The Pogues "Rum Sodomy and the Lash" The Clash "The Clash"
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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The Closing Of Winterland - Grateful Dead -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/12/2011 10:18 AM EST
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Albums that you couldn't stop playing... start to end....
The Doors (All studio albums, except The Soft Parade. I can't quite get to like some of those songs)
The Doors, Live in Detroit, May 8, 1970
The Doors, Live in NY Felt Forum, Jan 17-18, 1970 (four shows in total)
Alice in Chains, (All studio and live albums)
Mad Season - Recording of Live at the Moore, 1995 (VHS / Youtube)
Stones - Outta our Heads
Stones - Let it Bleed
Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Tool - Aenima
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (Live compilation)
Nirvana - In Utero
NIN - The Fragile, Left Side
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destructions
Guns n' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
Guns n' Roses - Use Your Illusion II (Ok, I often turned off at "My World")
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
Led Zeppelin - I-IV, Houses of the Holy
Mozart - The Horn Concertos (Gerd Seifert, Herbert Von Karajan; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
Yo Yo Ma - Bach Cello Suites 1-6, solo. The earlier recording. He did this at least twice.
Rostropovich - Dvorak Cello Concerto in B Minor; Saint-Seans Cello Concerto in A Minor (Mstislav Rostropovich; Carlo Maria Giulini: London Philharmonic Orchestra)
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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Sticky Fingers - The Stones -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/16/2011 6:12 AM EST
- indygreen
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This is the sea- The Waterboys
One More from the Road- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Neil Young- Live Rust
Rum,Sodomy and the Lash-The Pougues
Music for all occasions- The Mavericks
Let it bleed & Stickey Fingers - Rolling stones -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/16/2011 8:22 AM EST
- jesseyeric
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One more on my list - Tarkus - ELP -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
posted at 1/17/2011 1:33 PM EST
- devildavid
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Nick Lowe - The Convincer
Eilen Jewell - Boundary County
Ducks Deluxe - Ducks Deluxe
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Clear Spot
Funkadelic - Funkadelic, Free Your Mind....and Your Azz Will Follow, and Maggot Brain -
Re: Albums that you couldn't stop playing
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