Five Albums You Couldn't Live Without...

Well, Sig Other and I are at that point in our breakup where we are dividing the CDs... and have been together long enough that we can't remember who bought what, so we're now arguing about what we each can not live without.

We've given eachother the right to pull five "can't live without" CDs out of the pile before we fight over the rest. Here are mine, what are yours?

- The Best of Leonard Cohen
- Blue by Joni Mitchell
- Food by They Might be Giants
- Easter by Patti Smith
- The Soundtrack to Oh Brother, Where Art Thou

"I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
I can't keep track of each falling rock.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
That's all - I don't think of you that often"

- L Cohen

but, here's what my answer (disclaimer: this list is subject to change without notice and on any whim i so choose.)

1) Ween - White Pepper
2) Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
3) Beck - either Stereopathic Soulmanure -or- Sea Change
4) (Soundtrack - V/A) - Rock and Rule
5) David Bowie - Best of Bowie (2002)


man.. i would really need 10 i think, even if just to allow for more/all the Ween albums.

No fair including Best Of's. Those are collections not individual albums. You might as well include Complete Recordings boxed sets.

At the moment:
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Basil Poledouris - Conan the Barbarian OST

Wow, Cybin, Rock and Rule? There's a flashback.

1)System of a down
2)System of a down toxicity
3)System of a down Steal this Album
4)CCR's greatest hits
5) jefferson airplane

I also think i would badly miss the soundtrack to RedAlert2 and NoFx

quick comment here..

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Julian,
i own an original copy of it as well!
it's going to be released on DVD sometime soon!!
it will include both American AND Canadian versions!!
there are supposed to be interviews as well!
and other extras!
for more info, here's a link to the producing company's site:
Unearthed Films

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I couldnt pass this one by!

1.) Leonard Cohen Live (the one with who by fire/joan of arc/ectect on it. i think there were a couple of live recordings released- this particular one was later into his whisky-and-cigarette-voice stage )
2.) Sisters Of Mercy- Vision Thing
3.) The Cure- Galore
4.) any Johnny Cash album, doesnt matter, im not picky
5.) Tori Amos- Under the Pink
great thread bhodi


*CHOKE*

ok, i am slow, i just caught it rereading the thread... rock and rule?? YAY!
heheh cheesy, but fun

10 - 0 : Midnight Oil.
The Best of Crowded House
Beethovens 7th Symphony
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues
Rain Dogs - Tom Waites

Nice Selection

thanks siggy!

if i had room for more, I would include all Rasputina's albums

Bhodi:
good call! my favorite passage from that song has to be:

and clenching your fists
for the ones like us
who are opressed by the figures of beauty-
you fixed yourself,
you said "well, nevermind-
we are ugly, but we have the music."

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldnt Stand The Weather
2. AC/DC - Back In Black
3. Van Halen - Van Halen 1
4. Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
5. Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons


Now... for the real question....
Which 5 can you not figure out why they even have a recording contract?

In no particular order:
1. Tom Waites
2. Neil Young
3. Warren Zevon
4. Bob Dylan
5. Ringo Starr

The Captain has turned on the FLAME AWAY sign.

Oh, Christopher... poor Christopher...

The only thing I can say is at least you picked an AC/DC album for the Bon Scott era... but still - oh, this is just sad...

Not at least understanding why other people love Neil Young HAS to be a warning sign of either mental illness or spiritual distress.

My music tastes are a bit more esoteric...

Blind Guardian: A Night at the Opera
Falconer: Chapters from a Vale Forlorn
Rhapsody: Power of the Dragon Flame
Elfquest: Songs of the Wolfriders (Or something, I honestly don't know its exact title offhand, oddly, despite it being one of my favorite discs)
Heather Alexander: Shadowstalker

Actually its a combination of mental illness and being a guitar player...

Notice all of the Top 5 are guitar-centric choices?
Notice the bottom group all SUCK with a guitar in their hands?

I dont begrudge them their success, I just dont get it. I cant listen *past* the suck guitar and even WORSE voices long enough to have revealed to me this so called amazing song writing ability.
Here is an idea... how about they stop making my ears bleed and give their catalog to some decent voices?
Maybe THEN I would be able to listen past 50 pounds of ugly in a 5 pound bag and hear the songwriting?

I would rather hear Rainman read the friggin PHONE BOOK than to suffer through a Neil Young piece.

Is "esoteric" a foreign word for "Dollar Bin at Sam Goody"?

Heh. Actually I have to go out of my way to get most of my music, Chris. Its damn hard to find most of it at Sam Goody. Some reasonable luck with Blind Guardian, but thats about it. And they tend to be very *expensive* CDs too.

They may not be to your taste, but they aren't bargin-bin crap.

Oh, GUITAR is what those top five have in common? And here the only thing I could think of is that they're all eighties hair bands.

**squeals with JOY**
HOLY CRAP i thought I was pretty much the only person on the planet who owns and loves that cd!!!!!!!

*wanders off into the sunset humming the Go-Backs song*
The Timmain song also makes me tear up every time i hear it...still.

I taught myself to draw from copying pictures out of Elfquest comics...aah, memories

Hehe. I love the songs on that... unfortunatly 2 of my favorite now are all skippy, one to the point I cant even listen to it. I dont know why, the disc *looks* fine...

*sigh*

Ebay has had *no* luck in turning up a new copy. I've been trying for months.

oooh...im sorry to hear that...try
here
you might have some luck finding someone who knows where you can find it

Now I feel all boxed in by my choices and I left out some great stuff. Let's all do our top 5 mix CD's.

From: someone

Notice all of the Top 5 are guitar-centric choices?
Notice the bottom group all SUCK with a guitar in their hands?

No suprises there - Tom Waites doesn't play guitar --- so it would stand to reason that he sucks with one in his hands...

Though as a guitar player myself I'll be the first to say there's a lot more to music than guitar..

From: someone

Here is an idea... how about they stop making my ears bleed and give their catalog to some decent voices?
Maybe THEN I would be able to listen past 50 pounds of ugly in a 5 pound bag and hear the songwriting?

I would rather hear Rainman read the friggin PHONE BOOK than to suffer through a Neil Young piece.

Actually Tom was and is primarily a songwriter, and wrote songs for others.. then again when you hear how some of them were brutalized and lost thier soul in the translation, it makes me glad that he redid them.

For examination - listen to 'Downtown Train' , both versions... you'll find that where Rods is cutesy and feel good, Tom brings a level of desperation to it that totally changes the context of the song.

Again, 9th and Hennepin. close your eyes and you can literally see what he's describing... I'll take that over such great lyrical masterpeices as 'Jailbreak' 'Who made who' and of course 'Rock and roll ain't noise pollution' any day of the week.

Siggy.

See you can muster up the courage to listen past the bad vocals to hear the songwriting. I just cant. Call me a neanderthal, I probably am.

As far as your choice of those artists over AC/DC. I have to take a step back here and offer some insight on my choices.
Stevie Ray Vaughan - There are very very few notes on that album that SRV sings that is worth a flying flip, however, there are very few notes on that album that he plays that dont strike me at my very core.
AC/DC - really only include from a pure and simple "FlashBack" set of criteria. Very few albums invoke such a "good time drinking at a party with friends" atmosphere for me. *shrug*
Van Halen - pretty much reason #2
I guess some of my most precious memories are enjoying watching my kids grow up listening to this "hair band" stuff.
Steve Vai - Sorry... but this one is purely selfish. I dont dont claim he writes decent lyrics, I dont claim he can do anything other than be probably one of the finest guitarists on the planet, and yet he is the friggin KISS OF DEATH! He joined David Lee Roth and Roth Tanked, He joined Whitesnake and they Tanked, then he hooked up with one more band that slips my mind and THEY TANKED! lol! Still, I would say, opund for pound the finest guitarist on the planet for the genre.
Dream Theater - The only "rockish" forray my youngest has made away from friggin BOY BANDS!

So see, they all mean something to me other than decent music I guess. Trust me, "Big Balls" are not lyrics to ponder, whereas Dylan, Young, etc. could all very well be speaking pure unmitigated poetry of the soul.
I wouldnt ever know it.... remember, I am a neanderthal.

::::: suddenly realizes she's been wasting years looking for spiritual truth masterfully hidden inside the song Big Balls and, overcome by depression, crawls back to bed with a Punisher comic book to look for enlightenment there:::

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(edited to include this P.S.)

P.S.

You know, I woulda guessed Chris's top five completely differenty. Here's what I would have thought would be on it:

1. Ballad of the Green Beret
2. Something by Johny Mathis - I mean, c'mon, isn't that what old folks play when they wanna get some?
3. Something by Willie Nelson - cause, you know, I like to imagine that there really is more to ol' Chris than we get to see!
4. Wagner - Die Walküre. I'm pretty sure that Chris does love the smell of napalm in the morning...
5. Jim Neighbors sings your favorite Patriotic songs... or something like that...

As far as guitar players go, dont forget Vic Fergat and his Flying V.

10 - 0, by Midnight Oil is pretty amazing. I spent hours upon weeks listening to that way back when. I need to look for it now and give it another listen.

Picking just five is tough, I will list a couple.

Chemical Wedding, by Thrall. (I got three unwrapped copies, in seperate locations, to listen to in my very old age)

Dark Continent, by Wall of Voodoo.

Plastic Surgery Disasters, by Dead Kennedys.

(maybe) Mutations, by Beck.


I will think some more on it.
Fun thread, keep it growing.

It's obvious what we need to do. Sponsor this man! He's singlehandedly destroying shitty music. We must support his crusade.

Disclaimer so I don't get both barrels of Christopher: I have "Is This Love" and "Here I Go Again" and "In The Heat of the Night" in my MP3 playlist. It's just that my enjoyment of Whitesnake is ironic, not genuine.