Favourite album?

[tor]

This is maybe my favourite album of all times:
Neil Young - Freedom
http://open.spotify.com/album/2QC5ZUzKLsEbDaI9RF1PmJ

I love it because it has such high degree of integrety in the lyrics combined with the musical package and a sound that is just state of the art.

What do you folks put up there among your favourites?

[trogluddite]

Usually my fave is the most recent one I got - mostly CDs from bands I've been to see live just lately.

However, one album I always find myself coming back to is 'Double Nickels on the Dime' by the Minutemen (it's a double album - I hope that's not cheating).
I always loved the punk attitude, but not always the saminess of the barrage of noise kicked out by most punk bands - the Minutemen had all the attitude but mixed it up with a really eclectic mix of musical styles and sounds, and some real thought behind the lyrics rather than just the usual "tear it all down" punk nihilism. And a killer rhythm section; one of the few punk bands you could really dance to (for a minute or so - they always kept the songs short and sweet!).

[oddson]

This is maybe my favourite album of all times:
Neil Young - Freedom

Have you ever seen the SNL version of Rockin' in the Free World?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7luq7 ... orld_music

My recollection is a string broke during the first solo and he managed to play a decent second without it. I can't tell for sure from this low-rez but clearly at the end there's at least one gone.

Always loved this version - pretty edgy for a guy that had been a rock star for more than 20 years already (guitar guys - please don't tell me why his playing isn't technically proficient!).

Me I'm partial to mid-70s King Crimson; so I'd say Larks' Tongues in Aspic because it married jazz fusion --which tends to being precious and dull-- with heavy metal --which tends to being simplistic and crass-- with free improv --which tends towards anarchic noise-- without being any of these. (OK, so some find it pretentious but that's because they listened to the music press of the day and/or confused it with ELP and some of the earlier incarnations of the band.)

[trogluddite]

Yeah, it's sad how that 'pretentious' label gets stuck on anything that isn't in 4/4 or has more than two clearly hummable riffs per song - certainly, here in the UK, the music press seems to treat its readers as if they are a bunch of 5 year olds who need mummy to tell them what it's acceptable to enjoy.

[Acrobat]

This is maybe my favourite album of all times:
Neil Young - Freedom
http://open.spotify.com/album/2QC5ZUzKLsEbDaI9RF1PmJ

I love it because it has such high degree of integrety in the lyrics combined with the musical package and a sound that is just state of the art.

What do you folks put up there among your favourites?

What a question - following your judging policy I would say "The Wall" by Pink Floyd.
BUT
I have a lot of albums sporting non-sense lyrics and wonderful music, like Led Zeppelin 4th !
Or albums with HORRID covers and wonderful music, like "The Wake" by IQ or Henry Cow's "In Praise Of Learning"...

[aliasant]

Okok.

Tangerine Dream, Poland

A live album that I can never get tired of.
It was one of very few concerts in poland during the cold war with a western band. I just wish I could have seen it, or any other Tangerine Dream concerts live
Amazing album if you dont care much for vocals but enjoy early electronic music.

[tor]

This is turning out to be a great thread

Yes, The Wall is absolutely up there aswell I think. And it is great to (re)discover new/old music.

Early seventies was a good period... Genesis, Supertamp, Marillion and much more.

But right now I wonder if I started a similiar thread some time ago... hmmmmmmm?

[pall]

JEAN MICHEL JARRE

Today is March 21 ; Spring EQUINOX

[sunsynth]

A friend introduces me Supertramp - what a wonderful 'band'

The 'last' concert i saw them live was in the 'Volksparkstadion' 1983...
a warm summer evening with a superb sound!

supporting act(or) was the 'little' Chris de Burgh

JMJ is/was also my favorite for a long long time (Concert in China - my first double CD from Japan)

P.S.: My favorite: Alan parsons project - just hear 'the eye in the sky'

[aliasant]

A friend introduces me Supertramp - what a wonderful 'band'

The 'last' concert i saw them live was in the 'Volksparkstadion' 1983...
a warm summer evening with a superb sound!

supporting act(or) was the 'little' Chris de Burgh

JMJ is/was also my favorite for a long long time (Concert in China - my first double CD from Japan)

P.S.: My favorite: Alan parsons project - just hear 'the eye in the sky'

hehe.

My favourite since Oxygen was JMJ. None of my friends listened to anything like that so they all considered me an oddball
After that I started listening to Tangerine Dream and also Alan Parsson Prjoject. Lovely music indeed.
You have good taste Sunny boy

[Acrobat]

My favorite: Alan parsons project - just hear 'the eye in the sky'

Tha's a great album too, check also his 1979's "I, Robot" album, it is nice just as much.
Afterall, he's also the man on the desk for Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon".

But he's a real studio-guy like Brian Eno or Tom Scholz of Boston. Not a street guy at all, no real band like the stones or such, just a chief and damn pro session men and friends going around. Does he ever played live? Dunno.

[sunsynth]

Hi Acrobat,

we all should have bin in Madrid last year

2010: Eye 2 Eye: Live in Madrid

They made an awesome Video of it...

[tor]

about sound and musicallity check theese norwegian artists:
Eivind aarseth: Experimental/chill jazz guitarist: http://open.spotify.com/artist/0VqQFqLcy0bBMPDnKB25vC
Nils Petter Molvaer: Experimental/chill jazz trumpeter: http://open.spotify.com/artist/35RK0qcmTUBmMRbXKQUzw6
Bugge Wesseltoft: Experimental/chill jazz pianoist: http://open.spotify.com/artist/4p35pLn1lRgqoVVsnqNZEK

I can highly recomend theese for anyone.

[nix]

Nice idea for a topic.
You guys are more old school than me it seems.
Here are 2 of mine->
Massive Attack-Mezzanine
GrooveRider-Mysteries of Funk
I'll see if I can link a track from each.
Neither of these albulms is philosophically deep,
but both explore and cover an individual style comprehensively,
musically
Cheers

[AngularMomentum]

Love Neil Young, mostly play Harvest, I think the organic sound (crazy horse and barn) of that album is just great.

My favorite album is Thinderbox from Siouxie and the Banshees. Parties Fall is probably my favorite on that album, and the guitar lick in Candyman gives me goosebumps from awesomeness.