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Location: PDX | Definitely "Kind of Blue" and i'll add "A Love Supreme" and "Crescent" from John Coltrane, to name just two.
Then there is the whole classical catalog that could be mentioned.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Another one of those scary times when I agree totally with Dave. I don't think I've ever used the random function on a CD player after the first time I bought one. When my Sony changer finally got down under $300, I bought it and it's been great all these years, but I always play each CD all the way through and often try to combine CDs into a theme.
One of the problems I have with the way music is marketed these days, is that I still think in terms of albums and I want to hear several songs on an album before I buy it. Obviously, the current generation just downloads a song and tosses it in with all the other songs on the ipod or whatever. (My choice of the word "whatever" was a deliberate attempt at irony. I couldn't bear to use the word "like" 47 times per paragraph.) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Another one of those scary times when I agree totally with Dave. They're getting more frequent, aren't they ... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Especially since you started using your drop down menu of comments. It's hard to disagree with someone who doesn't say much. |
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Location: Citizen of the Galaxy | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Another one of those scary times when I agree totally with Dave. They're getting more frequent, aren't they ... |
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Location: Chicago | I am still impressed by CCR "Green River": it's like ONE song.
Van Halen (their first LP) is amazing that way too. |
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Location: Location Location Location | The Point by Nilsson, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Tubular Bells |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Unfortunately the concept of flow (or "concept LP") has been lost with the demise of the vinyl LP. Serious vinyl listeners such as myself would NEVER lift or drop a stylus in mid LP. You always listened to the ENTIRE LP SIDE.
With the advent of CDs, random digital access and god-forbid ipod "shuffle play" the entire idea of "flow" has been lost. I mean what vinyl listener in his right mind had ever listened to JUST "Eclipse" on the Dark Side Of The Moon LP. Never happened, at least for me.
What we have today is you go to itunes and buy JUST the 1 or 2 songs on the "LP" that you want, or steal them from some server linker like Limewire. "Flow" is an ancient concept that only old farts like us probably even know what it is. I think a big reason for that is most "LP's" today only have one or two good songs as compared to back in our day 60's 70's & even 80's many LP's deeper cuts where as good or better then the one or two songs that had air play. OMHO. |
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Location: Location Location Location | Tubular Bells or any Liberace greatest hits album. |
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Location: Chicago | What was cool is that a band like Tull or the Beatles or Floyd would have a very distinct "phase" or sound for a given LP: never repeated but PERFECTION throughout the one record. Where has THAT gone? Every Rolling Stone I get touts the "NEXT GREAT THING" only to have most vanish. |
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Location: Michigan | Originally posted by dobro:
What ALBUM(S) do you cherish that have the "Sergeant Pepper's" UNITY where songs fit like color-bands in a rainbow?
Easy for me, Tull's "Thick as a Brick". One album, one song...sides. |
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Location: Texas | Actually, there are still bands creating "albums" that hold up well in the "Unity" theme that started this thread, at least as I interpret it:
The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife" comes to mind…
(FWIW, John Lennon claimed in one interview that Sargent Pepper was never meant to be a unified or "concept" album… who knows?)
Sometimes it was just one side; I always felt that side two of "Abbey Road" demanded to be listened to all the way through…
…and if you don't know what "side 2" means…
isn't it past your bedtime? ;) |
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| Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
It is the album that to me most defines the word "epic" in music form. It also has some pretty nice guitar work in some songs. [= |
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Location: Wichita, KS | ++ again for Pink Floyd (especially "Dark Side", "Wish You Were Here", and "Animals")
++ again for most Alan Parsons albums (all of the "Project" albums plus "The Time Machine" and "A Valid Path")
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe - their one eponymous album before rejoining Yes
wilblee: Interesting choice of the Manhattan Transfer albums. Those didn't come to mind immediately for me, but I have to agree. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Yeah, the Manhattan Transfer have some really cool songs, but those two albums are great albums.
Some others that occurred to me
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly and Kamakiriad
Steely Dan - Gaucho, although I could argue for many of their albums
UK - UK
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
Amin Bhatia - Interstellar Suite
Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman - Songs from the Victorious City
Vangelis - Most any of 'em, but especially Heaven and Hell, China and El Greco
Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt - A Meeting By The River
Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya |
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Location: Chicago | +1 on Coheed & Cambria, Cooder, Vangelis, Steely Dan |
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Location: Michigan | as artie johnson use to say on laugh-in
veeeeeeery interesting GWB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200 |
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The ALBUM as a true UNITY: FAVORITES?
