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Post subject: What's your favorite album?
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:33 pm
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What's your favorite album and why?

Mine's Dark Side of the Moon. I can listen to that album everyday of my entire life. I mean there's a reason why it won the world record of being the longest still played album on radio, that being 35 years.

The reason I like this album is not just because the songs are good, each song relates to every generation and society. Breathe is about birth, Time is of course about time, Money is about consumerism (and it perfectly describes today), and Us and Them can relate to stuff like War, gender, race, etc. I could come up with other meanings behind the other songs, but this album to me just perfectly displays society. The philosophy and power behind this album is just uncanny. Anyway enough of my ramblin'
So what's your favorite album?


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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:37 pm
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That's a hard question for me. I love PF and just bought a CS DG strat,but I'm going to show my age and pick The Beatles White Album! 8) :wink:


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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:55 pm
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fhopkins wrote:
That's a hard question for me. I love PF and just bought a CS DG strat,but I'm going to show my age and pick The Beatles White Album! 8) :wink:


The White Album turns 40 on saturday, btw.

Today, my favorite album is Revolver.
But that changes.
And I had more fun with Sgt. Pepper. I remember when it came out. I turned 8 that summer. I had heard that it was gonna be radically different from any Beatle LP before. I remember playing it for the first time with my little brother. We were blown away. I can still remember that feeling of disbelief. It's a lot like how I feel when I try to imagine that the Universe is infinite. (No, I didn't drop acid until many years later - I was only 8!)

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PS Dark Side Of The Moon is an excellent choice.

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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:59 pm
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Aye, something of The Beatles!!!
I choose...
Revolver or White Album!
Both amazing albums, with lots of substance to them. I could never decide.


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Todd Montgomery wrote:
fhopkins wrote:
That's a hard question for me. I love PF and just bought a CS DG strat,but I'm going to show my age and pick The Beatles White Album! 8) :wink:


The White Album turns 40 on saturday, btw.

Today, my favorite album is Revolver.
But that changes.
And I had more fun with Sgt. Pepper. I remember when it came out. I turned 8 that summer. I had heard that it was gonna be radically different from any Beatle LP before. I remember playing it for the first time with my little brother. We were blown away. I can still remember that feeling of disbelief. It's a lot like how I feel when I try to imagine that the Universe is infinite. (No, I didn't drop acid until many years later - I was only 8!)

Love,
Todd

PS Dark Side Of The Moon is an excellent choice.


I was 17 when The White album came out and I had the same feeling as you every time a new Beatles album came out. They were always something new and ahead of the times!! 8) :wink:


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I must say that I find it ironic that your screen name is Black Dog and you choose Pink Floyd rather than Zep Zoso.

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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:12 pm
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I'm gonna have to go with Sgt. Pepper, too. I was 13 when it came out. I remember my dad asking me about it (he called it that rah, rah, rah, stuff). He asked me why they were calling themselves Sgt. Pepper and I told him that was their new name for the Beatles from now on. I may have been young and naive, but it was clear to me that this was a landmark album.

It's amazing that one of my other favorite albums, certainly another landmark, came out at about the same time: Are You Experienced....woo hoo. A friend called me and play Purple Haze for me over the phone and I was blown away.

I don't think it's old guy speak when I say that time period was an amazing time for music. There's about a ten year span where variety and creativity peaked. The Who, Led Zep, Bowie, Steely Dan, Doobies, Allman Bros...it goes on and on.

Can I take just one more album to the desert island with me? Ummmm...OH, OH, anything by the Spice Girls!!!!


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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:28 pm
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I was 17 when The White album came out and I had the same feeling as you every time a new Beatles album came out. They were always something new and ahead of the times!! 8) :wink:[/quote]

Exactly. And they came out with 2 albums a year. Nowadays, bands put out an album every 2-3 years. (Are you listening Axl Rose?) and the amount of growth from CD to CD is minimal.

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I Have dozens ... but just to mention one example that would be metallicas and justice for all.... :)


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Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother for me.

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First of all I must say great choice on "Dark Side of the Moon". Theme albums are awesome. :P

I cannot name one favorite because that may change often for me but lately I have been listening to a few theme albums & my current favorites are:

Electricladyland - Jimi Hendrix

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Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & the Dominoes

Eric Clapton & Duane Allman together is pure magic. 8)


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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:32 pm
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I'll tell you about an album that's fun to play to: Joe Walsh, "So What"
Also, his live album, "You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind".

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Srgt Pepper is great and it was for me the #1 favorite for a long time. But for the Beatles now my favorite is Abbey Road. I find it more finely crafted. But it is not my #1.
I am listening to "The Dark Side of the Moon" a lot, and that is also one of my favorites. The words in those songs are classic and they relate to every generation. But it is not my most favorite record.
That honor goes to (drum roll please)...... Sinatra Live at the Sands. It's 1966, and it is Las Vegas.
The music is by Count Bassie and his Orchestra. The arrangements are by Quincy Jones.


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Got to go with Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore 8) Mike

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There seems to be a lot of us that are about the same age on this site. I also was 17 when the white album came out. I received it as a Christmas present from my girlfriend at the time. Over teh next six months it was lieterally worn out. I used to go to sleep with it on the record player with arm to the side wo it would play over and over during the night. It was a long time before I switched to something else.


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