The Aces - I’ve loved you for so long
Billy Joel - Songs in the attic
Ryan Adams - 1989
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Hamish Hawk - Heavy Elevator
Tide Lines - Eye of the Storm
Ramones - It’s Alive
Gaslight Anthem - ‘59 Sound
The Menzingers - After the Party
Runrig - Once in a Lifetime (live)
In no particular order
Beethoven String Quartets Op. 127 & Op. 135, Alban Berg Quartett (studio recording)
Beethoven Symphony No. 7, Harnoncourt and COE
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Led Zeppelin - III
Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Bob Dylan - Freewheelin’
(Best guess based on albums I’ve continued to listen to for decades.)
Have you heard Carlos Kleiber’s Vienna PO recording of Beethoven’s Seventh?
It has just been re-released in DGG’s ’ The Original Source’ vinyl series.
(Very well worth a listen.)
I have Graham, thanks to your enthusiasm I tracked down a few Kleiber recordings of favourite pieces. I do love Kleiber’s performances, but Harnoncourt’s Beethoven really strikes a chord in me (pun unintentional), I love his tempi and the drive he gets from the COE.
It will always be special to me, as that was on the programme for the only CK concert that I ever had the good fortune to attend, with CK conducting the LSO on 9 June 1981.
The recording has just been released in DGG’s ‘The Original Source’ vinyl LP series, so I have bought it yet again!
Here goes - after a rigorously scientific analysis the 10 I reach for most often:
Capn Beefheart - Clear Spot
The Dead - Workingman’s Dead
Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Seed Ensemble - Driftglass
Misty in Roots - Wise & Foolish
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Orchestra Baobab - Specialist in All Styles
Miles Davis - ESP
Yes, mistake.
Surprised myself what I am listening to:
Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
Rush – Clockwork Angels
Ludovico Einaudi – Underwater
Editors – EBM
Tori Amos – Boys for Pele
Queen – A Night At The Opera
Queen – Queen II
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
Alter Bridge – Pawns & Kings
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
Genuinely no idea and nor do I especially care. I have 40 albums marked up as favourites though. The ones I think are close to perfect.
Would be interesting to see that list.
Good to see RT and Tabor getting some love.
In no order, here are ten that I’d pick today. More than just these albums though, each one stands for a period of the artists work and I could pick other of their comparable albums instead.
The The - Soul Mining
Peter Gabriel - So
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key of Life
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Beck - Hyperspace
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
The Beatles - Revolver
Dire Straights - Dire Straights
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Interesting concept, a label I’ve never considered giving to an album. I assume you mean musically speaking?
Good to see Gil and Mary O’Hara in your list.
Pauline Murray too!
GRATEFUL DEAD ANTHEM OF THE SUN 5OTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
GRATEFUL DEAD WORKING MANS DEAD
GRATEFUL DEAD 2ND LIVE ALBUM “SKULL 54CK”
MAN 2 OUNCES OF PLASTIC
MAN DO YOU LIKE IT HERE NOW
TEN YEARS AFTER STONEHENGED
FRANK ZAPPA HOT RATS
DAVID LINDLEY EL RAYO X
JACKSON BROWN LOOKING EAST
FAIRPORT CONVENTION LIEGE & LIEF
FLEETWOOD MAC THEN PLAY ON
THOMPSON RICHARD 13 RIVERS
Twelve in this, incredibly hard for me to keep it to 10. These and a few others all get regular cd rotation.
Essentially albums where there are either no duff tracks or no tracks I’d be inclined to skip because they’re part of a greater whole.
I woke up at 2am worrying that I had missed out an obvious choice, so in the spirit of Nigel Tufnel my list goes to 11.
The Band - The Last Waltz
