Favorite Album, song and why

[Guest]

Dark Side of The Moon. Almost everything you need to know about life...

The song might surprise some of you, Moonlight Sonata 1st movement (played by someone who knows what dark emotions are supposed to taste like. ) Played properly, it's as real as feeling it yourself.

 

[AN5Sprite]

Well...eh...I work alone, listen to music all day and think about stuff like this off and on. I hate to exclude ALL my other favs but the one album that I keep coming back to is: Pat Metheny; Bright Size Life, 'cause I discovered it as a teen when I was 100% rock-n-roll. When I heard Jaco Pastorius on bass something clicked inside my brain and my ears were open to ALL music. (also bought my first bass guitar) The appreciation that I developed for Jazz Guitar Trios as a teen led me, in my 20's, to a bar in Baltimore where I met a musician named Paul Wingo. He mentored me for a couple of years and helped me figure out what it was that I wanted to do with my life (make instruments) at a time when I was confused. He also provided the soundtrack to the first date I had with the girl I love and married. All the result of a teenager buying a record by chance. It's pretty cool to think about all this in retrospection.

Favorite song: Something (in the way she moves) -Beatles. Memories of my first serious girlfriend and listening to Abbey Road on vinyl, in the basement, durning a particular snowstorm in Dec '92...

 

[martx-5]

There's just too much great music in all genres to pick just one composition and/or performance. Having said that, I really like listening to Bach's Chaconne, originally written for violin, played on guitar by either John Williams or Christopher Parkening.

 

[Basil]

It's a tie for me between Sgt Pepper's and Abby Road.

 

[NutmegCT]

One Favorite - impossible.

Favorites:

Modern Jazz Quartet (just about anything!). Lots of good college memories in those sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M-QtVkqJZA


Vespers of 1610 (Monteverdi), Nisit dominus. The power to join mind to body, 400 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lduGvtTqqwo


Many Peggy Lee albums, "I am woman". The power of woman to "make a man outta you", from 50 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8ZpZkUr2Y


Requiem (Mozart), all sections. One man's statement of "what's next".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqkMbk8eX6Y



Many Segovia albums, Asturias. Some heavy emotions from the 1960s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efHwnFAkuA


Schumann Carnaval, "Chopin". First love, 1967.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d6P788cpZg


And a few zillion more.

Tom

 

[DrEntropy]

One Favorite - impossible.

yep. Couldn't pick <span style="font-style: italic">one</span> if I tried. As soon as I name one, another pops into mind. To paraphrase: "I've got my ship... and music is her name."

:laugh:

 

[Basil]

One Favorite - impossible.

yep. Couldn't pick <span style="font-style: italic">one</span> if I tried. As soon as I name one, another pops into mind. To paraphrase: "I've got my ship... and music is her name."

:laugh:

I really tend to agree with that. I have over 5000 songs and I don't even know how many artists on my iPhone. Beatles are right up there, but I like a wide range of stuff, from Billy Thorpe, Brooks and Dunn to Santana, to Deep Purple and, on the other end of the spectrum, George Winston. I'm also a big fan of Josh Groban and Michal Buble.

 

[drooartz]

I'll answer this question with a list of the 3 albums that defined my musical upbringing. I was thinking of these recently at a gig we did where we just happened to be playing something from each one. These are not necessarily my favorites, but definitely the most influential early on and I've come to realize that they each had a huge impact on my playing and song writing.

So in no particular order:

"Together in Concert" - Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie

I still play quite a few songs off this live recording (from about 1975 or so). My parents were big Pete and Arlo fans, and this album in particular introduced me to the social justice role of music, and also to the power of two guys on stage with nothing but their voices and instruments.

"Time Out" - Dave Brubeck Quartet

I trace my love of odd-meter music directly to this album. Still stands out as one of my all-time favorite recordings. An album of non 4/4 music that still has groove and drive -- complexity that serves the music. Paul Desmond's sax tone is so pure.

"Houses of the Holy" - Led Zeppelin

Keep in mind that I came of age in the 1980s, not the best time for popular music (extra curses for the Yamaha DX7). A friend gave me a taped copy of this album and it changed my musical life forever. This was what rock and roll was supposed to sound like to me. Interesting and complex but still rocking. Marked the end of me listening to what was current on commercial radio. Yet another clue that I was born too late.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

The mind truly boggles.

But at one time, it was definitely the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Circle" album.

 

[Basil]

The mind truly boggles.

But at one time, it was definitely the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Circle" album.

Yeah, I had you figured for a Nitty Gritty Dirt kinda guy

 

[Mickey Richaud]

The mind truly boggles.

But at one time, it was definitely the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Circle" album.

Yeah, I had you figured for a Nitty Gritty Dirt kinda guy

HEY! I take a bath every Saturday night, I'll have you know!

 

[JPSmit]

The mind truly boggles.

But at one time, it was definitely the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Circle" album.

Yeah, I had you figured for a Nitty Gritty Dirt kinda guy

Earthen Vessel

 

[Basil]

The mind truly boggles.

But at one time, it was definitely the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Circle" album.

Yeah, I had you figured for a Nitty Gritty Dirt kinda guy

HEY! I take a bath every Saturday night, I'll have you know!

And I'll bet sometimes you even use soap!

 

[NutmegCT]

HEY! I take a bath every Saturday night, I'll have you know!

And I'll bet sometimes you even use soap!

I've heard he even changes the water regularly - once every solstice.

<ducks and runs>

T.

 

[Basil]

One Favorite - impossible.

Favorites:

Modern Jazz Quartet (just about anything!). Lots of good college memories in those sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M-QtVkqJZA


Vespers of 1610 (Monteverdi), Nisit dominus. The power to join mind to body, 400 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lduGvtTqqwo


Many Peggy Lee albums, "I am woman". The power of woman to "make a man outta you", from 50 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8ZpZkUr2Y


Requiem (Mozart), all sections. One man's statement of "what's next".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqkMbk8eX6Y



Many Segovia albums, Asturias. Some heavy emotions from the 1960s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efHwnFAkuA


Schumann Carnaval, "Chopin". First love, 1967.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d6P788cpZg


And a few zillion more.

Tom

You've got more culture than 3-day-old yogurt!

 

[NutmegCT]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]You've got more culture than 3-day-old yogurt![/QUOTE]

Darn right! And every night I go to sleep in a petri dish

T.

 

[vagt6]

<span style="text-decoration: underline">A REALLY tough decision, a couple of my top ten fave songs are</span>:

Richard Wagner, <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">The ride of the Valkyries </span></span>from <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">Die Walkure </span></span>(best done by the Berlin Philharmonic, IMHO). Excellent (fast) driving music. If this doesn't stirr your blood . . .

<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">The beautiful blue danube</span></span>, by Johann Strauss. The leit-motif at its best by the waltz king.

<span style="text-decoration: underline">Certainly in my top 10 fave albums are</span>:

<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Blind Faith</span></span>, recorded in '67 by Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and the 17 year-old English phenom, Steve Winwood (who wrote most of the music and lyrics). "Sea of Joy" is sublime; "Had to cry today" elicited rave reviews that compared Winwood to Ray Charles (e.g., "the white Ray Charles")! And, Clapton does 3-4 accoustic guitar songs on the album, a real treat. It was recored in a private studio and sounds pure, almost live and not overly edited. Great stuff by maestros, three towering icons of rock music.

Another top album of mine: 1966, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Sinatra at the Sands </span></span>Hotel with Count Basie's orchestra, Sinatra singing many of his standby tunes. I never saw Sinatra, but I did see Count Basie with his orchestra in 1977. They were <span style="text-decoration: underline">fabulous</span>, and consummate professionals. What a band! Basie's orchestra coupled with Sinatra's buttery-smooth voice and unique, lovely phrasing. There's just no one like old Blue Eyes. What a voice!

Somebody <span style="font-style: italic">stop</span> me . . . :lol:

 

[Guest]

I love all kinds of music,as long as it doesnt involve rap. I will stop there ,so not to be censored.

 

[apbos]

It is a time and place thing. Love all kinds of music from Jazz to Heavy Metal. But two truely underated Albums would be Dire Straits "Brother's in Arms"

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And Bob Marley's "Exodus"

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Edele's "Rolling in the Deep" gives me hope that the music has not yet died.

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[Guest]

Love that song by Adele. Any song that gets the head-bob going will be a hit.Crank it up.