Albums you'll always come back to?

[tangerine]

^ Doc, it's a beautiful record but to be honest I like his earlier, rougher stuff more.

Harvest is also beautiful, but still has the ragged edges of youthful disillusionment.

I've been meaning to read Shakey, have you read it?

 

[Manny Calavera]

These two are the most important to me and I could listen to each 24/7 until the day I die:

Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds

Some other albums that will never grow stale:

The Beatles "Big 5": Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's, White Album, Abbey
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead: OK Computer
Bowie: Low
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Radiohead: Kid A
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise (best album of the decade thus far, by far)

*EDIT*: Oh also, it's from October but still: American Primitive Vol. II. It's an album of late 19th - early 20th century folk music compiled by John Fahey before he passed. It's a haunting, 50 song collection and it's probably had the most rotations of any album since I purchased it. Beautiful, beautiful album/history lesson.

 

[DocHolliday]

Originally Posted by tangerine

^ Doc, it's a beautiful record but to be honest I like his earlier, rougher stuff more.

Harvest is also beautiful, but still has the ragged edges of youthful disillusionment.

I've been meaning to read Shakey, have you read it?

No, I haven't. If you do, let me know what you think.

I have a soft spot for "Harvest Moon," and sometimes feel it gets overlooked in his body of work. But I can see your point. I like both his earlier stuff and the more weathered later stuff.

 

[Patrick06790]

Well, let's see what's in the changer or in the adjacent pile:

Stones, 12 x 5
Modern Lovers
Iggy and the Stooges, Fun House
Robyn Hitchcock, Element of Light
Eno, Before and After Science
Guided By Voices, Mag Earwhig
Some weird thing about black banjo players of the 1930s
Ween, Pure Guava


I like to change the pile every so often and I tend to grab things at random. My collection is large and I often forget I have something until it pops up this way.

 

[coachvu]

Derek & and the Dominoes - Layla
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Best of Roy Buchanan
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Al Green's Greatest Hits
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus
Otis Redding's Greatest Hits
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
The Who - Who's Next
Neil Young - Harvest

sorry, the list's a bit long

 

[Dakota rube]

Have you been digging in my cds? I believe my copies of these are all missing.

Nice choices. You must be an old fart like me. (And Steve B.

)

 

[Matt]

to this day I put Bad Religion's 'I wanna conquer the world' on repeat in the morning when i know a particularly challenging day is ahead.

Started doing that before college exams, and that song has been with me from tape on walkman to CD on discman to MP3 on iPod. See no reason why it wont be with me with whatever technology outmodes my pod.

 

[countdemoney]

 

[skalogre]

Originally Posted by m@T

to this day I put Bad Religion's 'I wanna conquer the world' on repeat in the morning when i know a particularly challenging day is ahead.

Started doing that before college exams, and that song has been with me from tape on walkman to CD on discman to MP3 on iPod. See no reason why it wont be with me with whatever technology outmodes my pod.

BR. Good choice. No comment on iPod

 

[Violinist]

Albums that I'll never put away for good no matter how my tastes change would definately be Jeff Buckley's "Grace", some of Oasis's albums (Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, The Masterplan, What's the Story), The Verve (Storm in Heaven)... I've gone through big phases of liking Blues records, different types of Brit rock (Ocean Color Scene, Stereophonics, JJ72, Placebo, Starsailor, Muse etc...), "classic" rock (GnR, The Who, the Pistols etc...) and Hiphop/rap (JayZ, Kanye, Nas, Gangstarr, The Streets, 50...). While I keep actively listening to all of them, sometimes some of them take a major backseat... haven't listened to any of my GnR records in ages. Used to be the biggest fan.

Then I have a pretty huge classical collection, most notably a fairly extensive collection of violin repertoire. No matter how many different soloists I listen to, with new and fresh ideas about how works should be performed, I'm always drawn back to the good old playing of Itzhak Perlman. There are some records which I think define your personality and what inspires you that no matter what changes you go through, you're fundamentally hooked on for life.

 

[johnapril]

Golden Bowls

 

[matadorpoeta]

i don't have emotional attachments to music.

 

[acidboy]

pearl jam - vs
simon & garfunkel - the concert at central park
the cure - standing on the beach (the singles)
frank sinatra - the reprise years
johnny cash - all the american recordings before he died
tears for fears - the hurting
rage against the machine - the battle of los angeles
guns n roses - appetite for destruction
nirvana - nevermind
bruce springsteen - born to run, the river, live 75-85
soundgarden - superunknown
some kind of wonderful - original soundtrack

 

[Nonk]

The Breeders- "Last Splash"
Jeff Wayne- "War of the Worlds"
Mike Oldfield- "The Songs of Distant Earth"
Black Sabbath- "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
Metallica- "Justice For All"
Half Man Half Biscuit- "McIntyre, Threadmore and Davitt"



"My Baby's got the Yipps!"

 

[keal]

In order, from best to worst:

Kotoko - Glass no Kaze (2004)
Tetsu Inoue & Taylor Deupree - Active/Freeze (2000)
Jungle Smile - Asunaro (2000)
Valen Hsu - The Cloud Knows (1996)
Yukie Nishimura - Jibuneno Tegami (2000)
Rikki - Shimauta Trickles (2002)
DJ Krush - Krush (1993)
Bomb The Bass - Into The Dragon (1988)
Ayumi Hamasaki - ayu-mi-x (1999)