Many of mine are from late 80's to early 90's,
Beastie's "Paul's Boutique"
Gang Green "Older Budweiser"
Wesley willis Experience "Get on the Bus"
Urge Overkill "positive Bleeding"
Buffalo Tom "Let Me Come Over"
Jerky Boys "The Mustacha Tapes"
Ween "God, Ween, Satan"
Replacements "Pleased to Meet Me"
Husker Du "Warehouse: Songs and Stories"
In writing this list, I have also ascertained that I have many more favorite albums, so I'll stop now.
Later,
Rick

No way I can narrow this one down. Here's a list off the top of my head though:

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of life
Beastie Boys - Check your Head
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Beck - Midnight Vultures
Grant Green - Alive
Miles Davis - Bitch's Brew
Paul Simon - Graceland
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Garcia/Grisman - Old and in the way
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live Art
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

Many, many more live shows from my collection, but they don't really count.

Chefboy RB, if you had one album in your list I had ever even heard my kids speak of of before I might think we had something in common, but now I feel like I don't even know you. It's tough to admit, but man, I must really be getting old. I hope we can find some musical compatability while under the influence.
FWW - reeked of fog machine juice? Where was I in the 80's?

A couple of my favorites that haven't already been mentioned...

Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Neil Young and Willie Nelson- Old Ways
Springsteen- Born to Run
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Stones - Love You Live
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Robert Cray - Strong Persuader

Hey Dad Fisherman, now I have to go out and get Quadrophenia on cd. I haven't listened to that in years, I forgot how good it is:cool:

Just one? "Blonde On Blonde".....no, wait.. "Disraeli Gears"....or maybe "Abraxas"... I meant "Are You Experienced?"...This is harder than I thought it would be..

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Right back at ya...I forgot all about Bowie. Ziggy Stardust rocks as well as Diamond Dogs. Saw him play out in Oakland in 83 backed up by The Tubes. Unbelievable show

and we musn't forget Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll

oh comeon rick you dont really listen to that freakin music do you ?

maybe the replacements !

I bet you like spinal tap and millie vanillie too ! LOL

huskar du LMAO come on thats like the band flock of seagulls

Was that the Mondo Bondage Tubes or the She's a Beauty Tubes??

I want to say it was the Trash tour. They did Mondo Bondage complete w/ leather and lingerie, White Punks on Dope w/ the Full Capt. Quay outfit, Iwas punk before you were a punk. They only played about an hour, if they did a whole show they would have Blown Bowie off the stage.

i forgot "appetite for destruction" by GNR. :smash: gotta have some motley crue and cinderella in there. probably some poison and def leopard while i'm doing 80's bands.

Stones - Exile on Main St.

Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus

Rush - 2112
J Giels - Blow Your Face Out or Full House

Oooooooooo! Rush!!

How about Moving Pictures?

little feat : time loves a hero waiting for columbus (old version)
Zappa : zoot alures , sheik yerbouti , Joes garage
doobie bros : taking it to the streets , toulouse st
steely dan : cant buy a thrill , pretzel logic , katie lied , the royal scam
santana : santana , abraxas
cream Disraeli Gears is a great album form my younger days
so is the stones Decembers children
iron butterfly :In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
jean luc ponty : live in california 78
jeff lorber : fusion
george clinton and the funkadelics
Bob marley
peter tosh
earth wind and fire
the 5 satins ( I know fred parris's son )
the drifters
the coasters
GNR
ram jam ( black betty )
lynyrd skynard
charlie daniels
YES all albums
we can add these to my prior list . there really is so much I like Ill have to add more later

I'm adding early VH and Van Hagar :laughs:

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening

I've got a Million of 'em

early blue oyster cult only first 8 albums

I think Cheap Trick Live at Budokan should make the list, too.

Bruce-the wild & the innocent
Zep- Presence
Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Rush- A farewell to Kings
the who-Tommy
Tull- Songs from the wood
Zappa- Roxy & Elsewhere
U2 - BOY
YES- Close to the Edge
Floyd- Animals
NEW STUFF:
Steve Earle- el corzon
Wilco- ALL
Uncle Tupelo- Anodyne

Yo La Tango---great band.
The Gram Parsons anthology

Wilco--good stuff

Pavement---wowee zowee
Everything but the girl---walking wounded
Leonard Cohen--songs of love and hate
Prince--sign of the times, purple rain---:smash: :smash: sorry guys, had to put him in.

Still Hendrix -

I saw him live with the Experience at the old RI Auditorium in 1968 - the place caught on fire while he was playing and there was a stampede for the doors - I ran up to the emptied out front row (Jimi kept playing) and stood on a chair 15 feet away from him watching him play "Purple Haze" while firemen were running for the burning chairs in the back - :eek5:

Saw Clapton and Cream there a month later -

Yeah, I was at Woodstock, too - the first one.

I was waitng for VH, Pavement, and Cheap Trick to be mentioned...
Jimbo, that make you feel better.
Business in the back, BTW the onlt time I ever got to see the Replacements was in your home state at that wonderful fun park...Lake Compounce.
Three more days, hope you guys are getting ready!!!:buds:

Ah, the old barn at 1111 North Main St. Everytime I went to a Reds game, I thought the place was on fire too. By the third period you couldn't see the ice from the cheap seats due to all the smoke.

What a great idea for a thread. I had a ball going through my collection and reminiscing. As others have said, impossible to pick one. In fact, I had a hard time narrowing it down to ten - so I added an honorable mention section. Here they are, in rough chronological order, and a little on why:

1. Phil Ochs - "Pleasures of the Harbor". Probably many have not even heard of him. He was a protest singer in the 60's ( a la Dylan), but switched gears for this album. The title cut is one of the most beatiful ballads ever recorded.
2. Neil Young - "Harvest". Stellar from first to last cut. The culmination of three tremendous albums in a row. "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" and "After the Gold Rush" could easily have made this list as well.
3. Steely Dan - "Can't Buy A Thrill". The first album that I ever bought. Steely Dan was huge for me in college.
4. Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon" What more could I add that hasn't already been said. Close the door, switch on the black light, turn on the stereo and light up. Aahh - UMass in the 70's.
5. YES - "Yessongs" A live album that doubles as a greatest hits. This is sort of cheating because it is a three disc set. Another great album for the dorm room - are you detecting a pattern here?
6. Joni Mitchell - "Court and Spark" Required reading for any music collection.
7. Springsteen - "Born to Run". You were considered hip if you were into Springsteen before this album. Afterwards he belonged to everybody. This LP put him on the cover of Time & Newsweek. And the rest is history.
8. Little Feat - "Waiting for Columbus". Another live album that serves as a greatest hits at the time. The band at its peak before the death of Lowell George. Never the same since.
9. The Smiths - "The Smiths". Hard to pick one out of so many great albums. This is their debut. Let the mopeing begin!
10. U2 - "Joshua Tree" Already had a number of good albums under their belt, this one brought them to a new level.

Honorable Mention:
Beatles - almost any album, espercially the early ones.
Doors - "Morrison Hotel". "I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer".
Led Zepplin - "Led Zepplin II"
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Jethro Tull - "Thick as a Brick".
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Brain Salad Surgery"
R.E.M. - "Murmur".
Allman Brothers - "Eat A Peach".
Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
Traffic - "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life"
Waterboys - "Fisherman's Blues".
Woodstock - Original Soundtrack (from the 60's, not the recent stuff)

And just so you don't think I am an old fart:
Pete Yorn - "Musicforthemorningafter"
Bush - "Sixteen Stone"
Cavedogs - "Joyrides for Shut-Ins"
The Strokes - "Is This It?"

Please don't ask me to come up with a favorite single. I think my head would explode!

CSN&Y Deja Vu . Perfect album, not one mistake or note out of place. Amazing!

Impossible question to answer.

The first 3 I bought (w paper-route $$) would have to be ones

Led Zeppelin IV
Aerosmith's debut
Neil Young - Harvest

Still have the scratched vinyl in the basement.

Slingah told me the other day that his favorite album all-time is "The Wiggles-Live at Leeds"!:happy: :bl: :hihi: :laugha: :jump1:

Pretty much didn't like anything after Fire of Unknown Origin.

Wow! Lots of picks for Floyd's Animals. Thought most people didn't even know that one. One of my favorites.

Lots of great choices!

Some more Top Picks
Jeff Buckley - Grace
PJ Harvey- Rid of Me
Roxy Music - Stranded
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Ave. I & II
O Brother, Where art thou - soundtrack
Hendrix & the Experience - Axis Bold As Love
The Wiggles - Live at the BBC
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Yeah....I forgot The Wiggles-Live at the BBC!!!! Great album!:bl: :bounce:

A couple of more that popped into my head

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz
The Commitments - Soundtrack
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Funny you mentioned that, my first three ever, also with paper route money was

Bob Seger - Against the Wind
Foreigner - Four
AC/DC - Back in Black

Love Animals but Dark Side is my favorite. I'm also very fond of Roger Water's The Wall Live in Berlin

If you really want to have some fun, find your best surround sound system, turn off the lights and play the digitally remastered version of Dark Side of the Moon - awesome! You will hear stuff that you can't here in the regular version...

I have a (Ahem) not so legal copy of the Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon Dubbed over it. Does't Sync up as well as i had heard it would.

ok here Goes....

The Smiths - Meat is Murder
U2 - October
The Waterboys - This is the Sea
Phish - Junta
Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order

Anything from George Clinton and the Parliment Funkadelic



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