I always appreciate the creative subjects you choose for your videos. Not only are your videos unique, but they are also often topics that cannot be crammed for in order to quickly post something. This video, for example, not only requires you to pick out 10 albums that you love, but it also requires you to consider the merits of probably 100 other albums by the same artists... maybe 150 considering that you included The Dead. Many of your videos could only be done by someone who has spent an entire lifetime listening to and critiquing music. I love your channel and watch pretty much everything you post because you consistently offer something a little different in an online space that can be somewhat cluttered and bloated.
Must agree on most of those pics there Tom. I’m big on Meat Puppets but don’t own that “Sun”Lp, heard it good. The English Beat album I absolutely love and for decades I thought it was a greatest hits lol, that’s how good it is, have a cd and vinyl copy. There really is so many albums we could have on this list. Another fun video. 😊
I really agree with most of your faves. In addition to All Over The Place, The Bangles previous self titled EP is a power pop gem. I also really love the debut records by 20/20 as well as the Records. Their subsequent albums were underwelming.
Bandwagonesque is freaking great, but I love most of the Teenage Fanclub records. Here's a couple of mine - Richard Hawley - Coles Corner Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
@@Scotttyist I just listened to it again on headphones the other day. It's amazing. I cannot recommend a deep listen on headphones enough. Alot going on on this album.
Back in the primitive 1970's I bought a bootleg Dead album of them playing live in Chicago. Wow! What a fantastic bootleg. They are harmonizing all over the place. Every song is solid. On that record the do the best version of Cosmic Charley I have ever heard. They do a real fine version of Dancing in the Streets, as well. Overall that Dead bootleg is one of the best Dead albums I have ever heard. I have tried to find that same type of performance on other Dead live albums, and they don't even come close. I wonder why on their live albums why they pick their worst versions to put on record. Unfortunately someone stole that bootleg from me. I never got over it. There is a silver lining though. A few years back there was an extended version of the movie Woodstock, that was released. I suggest you get it, if you have a d.v.d. player. It features the Grateful Dead segment. The Dead always gave the excuse that forbade it's showing in the movie because they were too high. I must say that their performance is just fantastic. Robert Hunter opens the set singing acapella he is tripping so hard it looks like his brain is melting. Nonetheless it's a great set because the band is working together as a band. It's not the Jerry Garcia review as it became in later years. Pigpen even does a lead vocal on one song and he is just amazing. Oh well, I just wanted to share that with you. Love your channel!
I like the other Fagen solo stuff, definitely some duds though. Security Joan off Morph the Cat is hilarious. Also, Fagen wrote some lyrics a few years back that David Crosby performed in a song called “Rodriguez for a Night,” totally blew me away.
Switching out 3 or 4 Garcia/Hunter songs between those 2 albums would make a near perfect album. I love the mood(s) of James Taylor's One Man Dog. It lacks the poignancy of the 2 previous albums, but it flows just fine. Haven't listen to Meat Puppets for a long time but my memory seems to say that was their best album. Speaking of Arizona vibes, what do you think of Giant Sand? More low-key, and maybe it's Tucson heat. I'm usually careful about using the word "genius" but I kinda wanna. Good post !
An on-the-spot phrase comes to mind "soulful desert." Humor. Howe Gelb. Over 30 albums since the mid-80s, I think. Lots to explore. To narrow it down a bit, Albums : 'Chore of Enchantment' 'Ramp' 'Swerve' 'Center of the Universe'
@@tomrobinson5776 Just a bit of caution. After touting Giant Sand to you I played some and realized the songs I have in mind are scattered over many albums. I decided there's a lot to wade through to get to the gold. I wonder if GS has "best of" albums. Howe Gelb has also released solo albums under his own name that are pretty similar to Giant Sand.
Is This lt by the Strokes. Keeping the NYC art/punk tradition alive with fire and focus. A classic. And every subsequent Strokes album l heard--l must have bought three, hoping for more of that magic--sounded like a tenth generation cassette dupe of Is This lt. Only the songwriting wasn't as good.
That's what I was thinking. I feel like Workingman's Dead and American Beauty are two halves of a whole work. Not literally, but they just go together so well. Both from 1970.
For some reason I don’t care for Van Morrison but I love “Astral Weeks”. Agree with you 100% on The Bangles. “All Over the Place” is a great album start to finish and nothing they did afterwards was nearly as good. I also love “The Crossing”. How wonderful that you saw Big Country live! Wish I had!
The Blues Magoos' debut LP, "Psychedelic Lollipop" (1966), was excellent. Their 2nd, "Electric Comic Book", was a mess that destroyed their momentum - which was a shame because they were a good band.
@@tomrobinson5776 Agreed. The strength of that 45 led me to buy their LP - and I wasn't disappointed. It's a shame about its follow-up. The Blues Magoos had a lot of unfulfilled potential.
It’s hard to beat All Things Must Pass, but I like some other of George’s albums all the way the through. All 3 of the original Beat albums are great, don’t agree with that one.
I love The Only Ones-'.Even Serpents Shine'(1979), every track is affecting, their other two albums are good (the debut0 and average ('Baby;s Got A Gun), but ',Serpents' is a new wave classic. The Scars-'Author Author'(1981), I bought as soon as it came out and still enjoy it. This choice is a bit of a cheat, as it is their only studio album, but I recommend it to anyone as a pure pop/new wave all-time great.
Hi 👋 I like the British Ska music scene. Groups such as The English Beat as you have showcased and Bad Manners , Selecter. and The Specials. Good fun music.
The first Chicago and the last Zombies record come to my mind, as well as Rod Stewart's Every picture tells a Story and Rush's Moving Pictures. P.S.: Robert Fithen hates Donald Fagen's Nightfly as one of the worst albums ever. 😂
I had 10 and then I remembered I have an Eric Clapton record. 1.Donovan - Open Road (1970) - my favourite album of all time. 2.Paramore - S/T (2013) - Don't like anything else really. 3.The Thermals - The Blood, The Body, The Machine (2006) 4.Richard Thompson - Across A Crowded Room (1985) 5.Nikki Sudden - Groove (1988) 6.Lloyd Cole - S/T (1990) 7.John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (1970) - this is also a stand in for the Beatles too. 8.David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) 9.Hole - Live Through This (1994) 10.Tim Buckley - Greetings From L.A (1972) 11.Eric Clapton - Money And Cigarettes (1983)
@@tomrobinson5776 When you do, go right to "Sweet Surrender" and CRANK IT. When it was new (August '72), bars would play it through their 'sound system' and people danced to it. It's a magnificent track that builds and builds.
If you like acoustic Dead I highly recommend the album Reckoning. It's an official Grateful Dead live album released in 1981 of all acoustic material. There's no long jamming on it. All the songs are under 10 minutes.
Keep coming back to Kamakiriad... It grows on you fast. Eventually, you find all the songs indispensable. Snowbound, Tomorrows Girls, and especially Teahouse on the Tracks. Great closer.
Gypsys' self titled first album is stellar, I still have it on vinyl and CD, songwriting and production brilliant. I love how it works as a complete piece of music. You should turn others on to this classic, if you dont own it...shame on you
I had never watched this channel before so I didn't know what to expect. Then seeing The Bangles, I'm 100% on board with that, with one caveat: I've heard their five song 1982 debut EP, and it's just as good. One I would suggest: Duran Duran's "Rio". I can't listen to anything else they did, but that album works beginning to end, odd from a group thought of as fake musicians who couldn't write. There's a LOT more than just the big hit singles.
1. The Congos - Heart Of The Congos (Blood & Fire, 1977) Nothing else touched Lee "Scratch" Perry's spectral production work here, arguably his peak. 2. Love - Forever Changes (Elektra, 1967) The two preceding albums have some great stuff, but are incomplete. 3. Pink Floyd - The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn (Columbia, 1967) I used to HATE everything else by Pink Floyd. They've grown on me, but I'll never love 'em like this. 4. The Slits - Cut (Island, 1979) 5. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box/Second Edition (Virgin, 1979)
Sharks - First Water from 1973 is a great album. Andy Fraser, Chris Spedding and the inimitable Snips aka Steve Parsons on vocals. Their second album didn't do much for me but the 1st one is epic. For those that aren't really into the Grateful Dead, another accessible album is From The Mars Hotel.
The Coyote Sisters - 1983 Self-titled LP. Total 3 part harmony pop masterpiece. Leah Kunkel (Mama Cass's sister) was 1 of the singers. Tony Berg on guitar. Their sophomore effort, 18 years later, doesn't even compare.
Robert Palmer's Sneaking Salley Through the Alley is like that for me... The first couple of Smashing Pumkins records I thought were pretty good, but didn't like anything else that I heard by them. For jazz, I'd say Stanley Clarke's self tittled debut. Probably others that I just can't think of...
The Melons : Rock and Roll I love this album. I know i should have more but this is only Melons album i own Shame on me but i never got in to them although on paper i should have
Hah! For once, I disagree with maybe all your choices (still give you 👍 for effort), with the possible exception of The Bangles, because I just don't know their later work but do like that first record. Some, because I don't know the ouvre in question, some because I know enough of it to see no reason to single out a favorite, some because I have a different favorite. I've already told you that I think all three English Beat records are great and still listenable (though the first does stand out). There are tons of Grateful Dead albums (including bootlegs) that I like, from various periods (nothing after Wake Of The Flood). I read in a band history that after Crosby, Stills And Nash was released, the Dead had a group meeting to discuss their deficiencies in harmony, and asked CSN for some mentoring -- that's why you have Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. My favorite Teenage Fanclub record is Thirteen (but I can also listen to Bandwagonesque). I don't have a lot of "only one liked" records. Elastica's debut is the only one I can think of off-hand. I like Gang Of Four almost the way you like English Beat. If the list were of bands that I only liked for *two* records, I could probably give you more.
lists like this beg the question: What do artists owe us? Is one crystalized statement of perfection all we SHOULD expect, and is anything else just do-overs and restatements, re-runs? Musicians get away with re-playing their greatest hits by default of live performance. Can a painter live off of re-painting the same masterpiece over & over & over & over...? out-takes, re-takes, demos and alternate takes tease at what-could've and what should've-been sometimes. Late-stage career albums rarely hit the same. The short window of time and nostalgia-tinted lenses influence our estimations of merit and enjoyment. Our fan lust for more of the same is at odds with our thirst for novelty and growth in subsequent albums. Mostly it's just impossible to beat the first album, unless the full stride of an artist's career isn't achieved till much later, if they even have that chance to mature.
From 1992,Pavement album '' Slanted and Enchanted''. loved it! played it for months almost every day.At that time it truely was different and better than what was being put out by everyone else.After that I bought every album, single, EP that they released, even went to see them live! None of it was enjoyable. I know their reputation is stellar, but man, for me after the S&E album it was all down hill!
I remember picking up Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain based on the single Cut Your Hair. I tried but couldn’t connect. I later picked up Slanted And Enchanted and even though I respected the uniqueness, I could never fully get into Pavement.
I was never a fan of Badfinger but their best album is Straight Up. A flawless record with a couple of hits. All the other other albums just don't really do anything for me. Great band with a sad story.
I am a Badfinger fan and I'll take "No Dice", the album before "Straight Up" better...And, as an album, I'll take "Magic Christian Music" as well....Horses for Courses....
The Cars..." The Cars" Little River Band..."Sleeper Catcher" David Bowie..." Ziggy Stardust" Black Sabbath: w/ Ozzy ..."Sabbath Bloody Sabbath; w/RJD..."Heaven and Hell" Humble Pie..."Smokin"
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain Carole King - Tapestry The Band (self-titled) Living Colour - Time's Up Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash My Bloody Valentine - Loveless The Stone Roses (self-titled) Ramones - Rocket to Russia Sugar - Copper Blue Dire Straits - Making Movies Soundgarden - Superunknown Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People
so i just listened to the first track of up on the sun. like the guitars and beat, but curt kirkman’s voice sounds a little affected, maybe more than a little affected. david berman of the silver jews sounds more authentic in the slightly off tune punk genre.
(1) I know Led Zeppelin did great stuff in the 1970s, but it got pretentious in large doses; as far as albums their great debut LP (1969) was enough for me... (2) I never could afford a boxed set like “All Things Must Pass”, so my one-and-only Harrison LP was “Dark Horse” (1974), several great tracks; but yeah, most of his solo LPs after the debut were blah.
Marshall Crenshaw (debut). Clapton 461 Ocean Blvd. Crowded House (debut) - though some good songs scattered throughout their catalog. Massive Attack Mezzanine - bought it because Liz Fraser-penned Teardrop - rest of the album is surprisingly good
I'm sort of the opposite with Meat Puppets. Meat Puppets II is an all time masterpiece for me and I can't decide if I like Up on the Sun or not. UOTS has an odd sound that kind of throws me off, focussing more on angular riffs than melodic country infused punk. I also kind of love their debut because of how ridiculous it sounds.
@@jefferyhoelscher I'll keep that in mind next time I listen to it. I have an original lp from the 80s of UOTS and it sounds amazing so I'm definitely going to be listening to it more!
I have to say, Cloud Nine is a very good album. Not perfect, but close, the closest George would come, since the two discs on All Things Must Pass. I don't care for the remix, either. It loses something in the translation. To be fair, George would never have been a "star" had he not met McCartney, then Lennon. I never cared about the Beat, other than their single. The Dead, though, pulled off a hat trick, with Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, and From the Mars Hotel. Live/Dead was a trailblazing live album, and Europe '72 a great collection of the band's live performances. As for Blondie, I couldn't agree more, a band who made great singles, and lousy albums! Fagen, I couldn't care less, TV soundtrack music, to my ears. Dull, listless, and unappealing. Teenage Fanclub, yes, yes, yes! They never got the promotion needed to break loose from the pack. James Taylor was never my cup of tea. I had many friends still doing Folk, he wasn't Folk. Some did Folk-Rock, but JT wasn't that, either. What he was escaped me. I have a half-dozen albums I never listen to (a couple are mint-pristine). I gave up on Meat Puppets, before that album. One great song, a lot of boring noodling. The Bangles were a heartbreaker, similar to Fanny, without that band's self-assured sassiness. Big Country had the greatest single of the early '80s, In a Big Country, but the album version is a rerecording, and the single version is nearly impossible to find. My list: Best of One-Great-Album Bands 01 C H E A P T H R I L L S (1968) Big Brother & the Holding Co 02 T A P E S T R Y (1971) Carole King 03 L A Y L A A N D O T H E R A S S O R T E D L O V E S O N G S (1970) Derek & the Dominoes 04 P A S T P R E S E N T A N D F U T U R E (1973) Al Stewart 05 M Y A I M I S T R U E (1977) Elvis Costello 06 A R G U S (1972) Wishbone Ash 07 N A T U R A L L Y (1971) JJ Cale 08 R O C K ' N ' R O L L I S B I O D E G R A D A B L E (1971) Stoneground 09 C A S S , J O H N , M I C H E L L E , D E N N I E (1966) The Mamas and the Papas 10 A L O N E T O G E T H E R (1970) Dave Mason 11 M A N A S S A S (1972) Stephen Stills 12 T U R N O F T H E C A R D S (1974) Renaissance 13 E V E N I N T H E Q U I E T E S T M I N U T E S (1977) Supertramp 14 W A R R E N Z E V O N ( I ) (1976) Warren Zevon 15 N I L S S O N S C H M I L S S O N (1971) Harry Nilsson 16 T H E B E E G E E S F I R S T (1967) the Bee Gees 17 E S C A P E A R T I S T (1980) Garland Jeffreys 18 E L E C T R I C M U S I C F O R T H E M I N D A N D B O D Y (1967) Country Joe & the Fish 19 H O L L I E S (1974) The Hollies 20 S O U V E N I R S (1974) Dan Fogelberg
@@tomrobinson5776 Agreed, he has songs on other LPs that are great, but the only album he succeeded with was Naturally. Tom Petty covered Magnolia, Lynyrd Skynyrd did Call Me the Breeze, and Eric Clapton made After Midnight a hit. By any measure, the album is a monster!
@@tomrobinson5776 I hope this isn't annoying, but I thought of another concept for a video: songs that have a great coda (new material for the ending). Off the top of my (old) head, I'm thinking "The Wall" by Kansas,;"The Nest" by the Association; "Hello Goodbye" and "Hey Jude" by the Beatles, and "Junkie's Lament" by James Taylor.
Agree about George Harrison, everything else paled after All Things, Lennon is the same for me, Plastic Ono Band is stellar, after that, meh, few things on Imagine, couple of songs on Mind Games & Walls and Bridges, and that’s it.
I always appreciate the creative subjects you choose for your videos. Not only are your videos unique, but they are also often topics that cannot be crammed for in order to quickly post something. This video, for example, not only requires you to pick out 10 albums that you love, but it also requires you to consider the merits of probably 100 other albums by the same artists... maybe 150 considering that you included The Dead. Many of your videos could only be done by someone who has spent an entire lifetime listening to and critiquing music. I love your channel and watch pretty much everything you post because you consistently offer something a little different in an online space that can be somewhat cluttered and bloated.
Thanks for your kind words. I’m glad you enjoy the channel. 😉
Not a Dead fan but totally agree that American Beauty is a terrific album.
Must agree on most of those pics there Tom. I’m big on Meat Puppets but don’t own that “Sun”Lp, heard it good. The English Beat album I absolutely love and for decades I thought it was a greatest hits lol, that’s how good it is, have a cd and vinyl copy. There really is so many albums we could have on this list. Another fun video. 😊
Great video. I agree with you about The Bangles but Eat to the Beat is my favorite Blondie album.
I really agree with most of your faves. In addition to All Over The Place, The Bangles previous self titled EP is a power pop gem. I also really love the debut records by 20/20 as well as the Records. Their subsequent albums were underwelming.
Respect for name checking one of my all time fav bands The (English) Beat. What a debut album. Good job sir.
Bandwagonesque is freaking great, but I love most of the Teenage Fanclub records.
Here's a couple of mine -
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Rings Around The World is a Masterpiece.
@@Scotttyist I just listened to it again on headphones the other day. It's amazing. I cannot recommend a deep listen on headphones enough. Alot going on on this album.
Back in the primitive 1970's I bought a bootleg Dead album of them playing live in Chicago. Wow! What a fantastic bootleg. They are harmonizing all over the place. Every song is solid. On that record the do the best version of Cosmic Charley I have ever heard. They do a real fine version of Dancing in the Streets, as well. Overall that Dead bootleg is one of the best Dead albums I have ever heard. I have tried to find that same type of performance on other Dead live albums, and they don't even come close. I wonder why on their live albums why they pick their worst versions to put on record. Unfortunately someone stole that bootleg from me. I never got over it. There is a silver lining though. A few years back there was an extended version of the movie Woodstock, that was released. I suggest you get it, if you have a d.v.d. player. It features the Grateful Dead segment. The Dead always gave the excuse that forbade it's showing in the movie because they were too high. I must say that their performance is just fantastic. Robert Hunter opens the set singing acapella he is tripping so hard it looks like his brain is melting. Nonetheless it's a great set because the band is working together as a band. It's not the Jerry Garcia review as it became in later years. Pigpen even does a lead vocal on one song and he is just amazing. Oh well, I just wanted to share that with you. Love your channel!
Thanks, that Woodstock segment sounds interesting. Now I must search and check it out. 😉
I like the other Fagen solo stuff, definitely some duds though. Security Joan off Morph the Cat is hilarious. Also, Fagen wrote some lyrics a few years back that David Crosby performed in a song called “Rodriguez for a Night,” totally blew me away.
Switching out 3 or 4 Garcia/Hunter songs between those 2 albums would make a near perfect album.
I love the mood(s) of James Taylor's One Man Dog. It lacks the poignancy of the 2 previous albums, but it flows just fine.
Haven't listen to Meat Puppets for a long time but my memory seems to say that was their best album.
Speaking of Arizona vibes, what do you think of Giant Sand? More low-key, and maybe it's Tucson heat. I'm usually careful about using the word "genius" but I kinda wanna.
Good post !
I’ve heard of Giant Sand, but not the music. I’ll have to pull that up online and give it a listen.
An on-the-spot phrase comes to mind "soulful desert." Humor. Howe Gelb. Over 30 albums since the mid-80s, I think. Lots to explore. To narrow it down a bit, Albums : 'Chore of Enchantment' 'Ramp' 'Swerve' 'Center of the Universe'
@@tomrobinson5776 Just a bit of caution. After touting Giant Sand to you I played some and realized the songs I have in mind are scattered over many albums. I decided there's a lot to wade through to get to the gold. I wonder if GS has "best of" albums. Howe Gelb has also released solo albums under his own name that are pretty similar to Giant Sand.
Excellent episode idea!!! Definitely stealing it!!!!
Is This lt by the Strokes. Keeping the NYC art/punk tradition alive with fire and focus. A classic. And every subsequent Strokes album l heard--l must have bought three, hoping for more of that magic--sounded like a tenth generation cassette dupe of Is This lt. Only the songwriting wasn't as good.
Agree with you on most of these, but Workingmans Dead is at least as good as American Beauty. Give it a shot
That's what I was thinking. I feel like Workingman's Dead and American Beauty are two halves of a whole work. Not literally, but they just go together so well. Both from 1970.
I dig Workingman’s Dead. Has the same feel as American Beauty. I think the tunes on American Beauty really connect with me in a certain way though…
Rides Again by The James Gang, American Woman The Guess Who, Long Distance Voyager The Moody Blues, to name a few.
You clearly have not listened to the Moody Blues catalogue.
I agree with you on Rides Again. 😉
@@jayhpaq I agree, al their albums from Days Of Future Past to Question Of Balance were all my favorites. They deteriorated after that.
For some reason I don’t care for Van Morrison but I love “Astral Weeks”. Agree with you 100% on The Bangles. “All Over the Place” is a great album start to finish and nothing they did afterwards was nearly as good. I also love “The Crossing”. How wonderful that you saw Big Country live! Wish I had!
The Blues Magoos' debut LP, "Psychedelic Lollipop" (1966), was excellent. Their 2nd, "Electric Comic Book", was a mess that destroyed their momentum - which was a shame because they were a good band.
Always loved the track Gotta Get Away off that first album, plus it was the flip side of We Ain’t Got Nothin Yet.
@@tomrobinson5776 Agreed. The strength of that 45 led me to buy their LP - and I wasn't disappointed. It's a shame about its follow-up. The Blues Magoos had a lot of unfulfilled potential.
It’s hard to beat All Things Must Pass, but I like some other of George’s albums all the way the through. All 3 of the original Beat albums are great, don’t agree with that one.
Dark Horse is really great too I think. I love that track Far East Man…
@@amanuensis9873 yes, I was thinking of Dark Horse too, despite George’s problems with his voice, I love that album.
Meat Puppets II. LOVE it. Everything else I've heard is just okay. I do like Up On The Sun, but not nearly as much.
I love The Only Ones-'.Even Serpents Shine'(1979), every track is affecting, their other two albums are good (the debut0 and average ('Baby;s Got A Gun), but ',Serpents' is a new wave classic. The Scars-'Author Author'(1981), I bought as soon as it came out and still enjoy it. This choice is a bit of a cheat, as it is their only studio album, but I recommend it to anyone as a pure pop/new wave all-time great.
Hi 👋 I like the British Ska music scene. Groups such as The English Beat as you have showcased and Bad Manners , Selecter. and The Specials. Good fun music.
Indeed. 😉
The first Chicago and the last Zombies record come to my mind, as well as Rod Stewart's Every picture tells a Story and Rush's Moving Pictures.
P.S.: Robert Fithen hates Donald Fagen's Nightfly as one of the worst albums ever. 😂
Yes of course the first Chicago is a masterpiece and it went downwards after that
He also hates Aja. To each his own. 😉
@@ThierryDefrance-s9s They certainly did not go downwards after C T A . It started to fade around 74 or 5.
I had 10 and then I remembered I have an Eric Clapton record.
1.Donovan - Open Road (1970) - my favourite album of all time.
2.Paramore - S/T (2013) - Don't like anything else really.
3.The Thermals - The Blood, The Body, The Machine (2006)
4.Richard Thompson - Across A Crowded Room (1985)
5.Nikki Sudden - Groove (1988)
6.Lloyd Cole - S/T (1990)
7.John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (1970) - this is also a stand in for the Beatles too.
8.David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972)
9.Hole - Live Through This (1994)
10.Tim Buckley - Greetings From L.A (1972)
11.Eric Clapton - Money And Cigarettes (1983)
"Open Road" is excellent, as is "Ziggy Stardust" and "Greetings From L.A". ("Sweet Surrender" is tops)👍
I need to pick up Greetings From L.A.
@@tomrobinson5776 When you do, go right to "Sweet Surrender" and CRANK IT.
When it was new (August '72), bars would play it through their 'sound system' and people danced to it. It's a magnificent track that builds and builds.
If you like acoustic Dead I highly recommend the album Reckoning. It's an official Grateful Dead live album released in 1981 of all acoustic material. There's no long jamming on it. All the songs are under 10 minutes.
Sounds cool. Thanks for the tip. 😉
Keep coming back to Kamakiriad... It grows on you fast. Eventually, you find all the songs indispensable.
Snowbound, Tomorrows Girls, and especially Teahouse on the Tracks. Great closer.
Tomorrow’s Girls is great. Also love the track Florida Room.
George’s self titled 79 album is really good. His Fender sounds amazing and the songwriting is really mature snd uplifting.
I may have to give it another spin. 😉
His second best without a doubt.
Gypsys' self titled first album is stellar, I still have it on vinyl and CD, songwriting and production brilliant. I love how it works as a complete piece of music. You should turn others on to this classic, if you dont own it...shame on you
It's a Beautiful Day was a bit of a singularity. I do think James Taylor's album In The Pocket is good.
Three big sellers here. Tracy Chapman, Boston, Alanis Jagged Little Pill. Got off the bus after those.
I had never watched this channel before so I didn't know what to expect. Then seeing The Bangles, I'm 100% on board with that, with one caveat: I've heard their five song 1982 debut EP, and it's just as good. One I would suggest: Duran Duran's "Rio". I can't listen to anything else they did, but that album works beginning to end, odd from a group thought of as fake musicians who couldn't write. There's a LOT more than just the big hit singles.
That ‘82 EP from The Bangles is very good. 😉
1. The Congos - Heart Of The Congos (Blood & Fire, 1977)
Nothing else touched Lee "Scratch" Perry's spectral production work here, arguably his peak.
2. Love - Forever Changes (Elektra, 1967)
The two preceding albums have some great stuff, but are incomplete.
3. Pink Floyd - The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn (Columbia, 1967)
I used to HATE everything else by Pink Floyd. They've grown on me, but I'll never love 'em like this.
4. The Slits - Cut (Island, 1979)
5. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box/Second Edition (Virgin, 1979)
I agree regarding Floyd. I only like the Barrett era. The Gnome is a favorite.
Sharks - First Water from 1973 is a great album. Andy Fraser, Chris Spedding and the inimitable Snips aka Steve Parsons on vocals. Their second album didn't do much for me but the 1st one is epic. For those that aren't really into the Grateful Dead, another accessible album is From The Mars Hotel.
Mars Hotel was Jerry’s favorite.
Working Man’s Dead and American Beauty were from one long session they just cut an album when they had enough songs from what I remember
Both definitely sound like they are from the same session. Similar vibe.
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill. Every song different and Killer. Nothing else they released is as good IMHO.
Bandwagonesque is such a cool album. It's like a love letter to 70s powerpop.
Absolutely 😉
The Coyote Sisters - 1983 Self-titled LP. Total 3 part harmony pop masterpiece. Leah Kunkel (Mama Cass's sister) was 1 of the singers. Tony Berg on guitar. Their sophomore effort, 18 years later, doesn't even compare.
Sounds interesting. I’ll have to check it out.
I am starting to think 🤔 you do some of the best vinyl community videos 😊😊😊😊😊
I fully agree. None of the pompous attitude of some other members of the community. I have binge-watched nearly all of his videos
Thank you. Much appreciated. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 And you also gave me great inspiration for discovering new records. All the power to you!
Robert Palmer's Sneaking Salley Through the Alley is like that for me... The first couple of Smashing Pumkins records I thought were pretty good, but didn't like anything else that I heard by them. For jazz, I'd say Stanley Clarke's self tittled debut. Probably others that I just can't think of...
Absolutely Awesome have a wonderful day ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
You too! 😊
Galaxie 500 did a great version of Isn't it a Pity on their album On Fire
I need to hear that. 😉
We got an eviction notice after many warnings for playing the English Beat album full blast over and over . Good memories!
That’s awesome 😉
The Melons : Rock and Roll
I love this album.
I know i should have more but this is only Melons album i own
Shame on me but i never got in to them although on paper i should have
Hah! For once, I disagree with maybe all your choices (still give you 👍 for effort), with the possible exception of The Bangles, because I just don't know their later work but do like that first record. Some, because I don't know the ouvre in question, some because I know enough of it to see no reason to single out a favorite, some because I have a different favorite. I've already told you that I think all three English Beat records are great and still listenable (though the first does stand out). There are tons of Grateful Dead albums (including bootlegs) that I like, from various periods (nothing after Wake Of The Flood). I read in a band history that after Crosby, Stills And Nash was released, the Dead had a group meeting to discuss their deficiencies in harmony, and asked CSN for some mentoring -- that's why you have Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. My favorite Teenage Fanclub record is Thirteen (but I can also listen to Bandwagonesque).
I don't have a lot of "only one liked" records. Elastica's debut is the only one I can think of off-hand. I like Gang Of Four almost the way you like English Beat. If the list were of bands that I only liked for *two* records, I could probably give you more.
lists like this beg the question: What do artists owe us? Is one crystalized statement of perfection all we SHOULD expect, and is anything else just do-overs and restatements, re-runs?
Musicians get away with re-playing their greatest hits by default of live performance. Can a painter live off of re-painting the same masterpiece over & over & over & over...? out-takes, re-takes, demos and alternate takes tease at what-could've and what should've-been sometimes. Late-stage career albums rarely hit the same. The short window of time and nostalgia-tinted lenses influence our estimations of merit and enjoyment. Our fan lust for more of the same is at odds with our thirst for novelty and growth in subsequent albums. Mostly it's just impossible to beat the first album, unless the full stride of an artist's career isn't achieved till much later, if they even have that chance to mature.
Nice points made here.
From 1992,Pavement album '' Slanted and Enchanted''. loved it! played it for months almost every day.At that time it truely was different and better than what was being put out by everyone else.After that I bought every album, single, EP that they released, even went to see them live! None of it was enjoyable. I know their reputation is stellar, but man, for me after the S&E album it was all down hill!
I remember picking up Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain based on the single Cut Your Hair. I tried but couldn’t connect. I later picked up Slanted And Enchanted and even though I respected the uniqueness, I could never fully get into Pavement.
Wowie Zowie is my favorite of their's...
I was never a fan of Badfinger
but their best album is Straight Up. A flawless record
with a couple of hits. All the other other albums just don't really do anything for me. Great band with a sad story.
Five star record.
I am a Badfinger fan and I'll take "No Dice", the album before "Straight Up" better...And, as an album, I'll take "Magic Christian Music" as well....Horses for Courses....
Give "Wish You Were Here" (1974) a listen. Really solid record.
No doubt about it.
No Dice is great!
The Cars..." The Cars"
Little River Band..."Sleeper Catcher"
David Bowie..." Ziggy Stardust"
Black Sabbath: w/ Ozzy ..."Sabbath Bloody Sabbath; w/RJD..."Heaven and Hell"
Humble Pie..."Smokin"
Almost put that first Cars album on my list. 😉
I would say Maquee Moon by Television would be a good example
One of my all time faves. Perfect record.
The Nightfly was the first all digital recording. 😅😅😅😅😅
That explains the robotic vibe. 😉
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
Carole King - Tapestry
The Band (self-titled)
Living Colour - Time's Up
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Stone Roses (self-titled)
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Sugar - Copper Blue
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People
Haha, you beat me on The Band (self titled). I just couldn't get into Big Pink or Stage Fright.
Great list. I’d have to agree with 95 percent. 😉
what about "Cloud nine"!?!?!
so i just listened to the first track of up on the sun. like the guitars and beat, but curt kirkman’s voice sounds a little affected, maybe more than a little affected. david berman of the silver jews sounds more authentic in the slightly off tune punk genre.
Never heard The Silver Jews. Another selection I need to check out. 😉
Psychedelic Furs first album. The rest…….
(1) I know Led Zeppelin did great stuff in the 1970s, but it got pretentious in large doses; as far as albums their great debut LP (1969) was enough for me...
(2) I never could afford a boxed set like “All Things Must Pass”, so my one-and-only Harrison LP was “Dark Horse” (1974), several great tracks; but yeah, most of his solo LPs after the debut were blah.
Marshall Crenshaw (debut).
Clapton 461 Ocean Blvd.
Crowded House (debut) - though some good songs scattered throughout their catalog.
Massive Attack Mezzanine - bought it because Liz Fraser-penned Teardrop - rest of the album is surprisingly good
I'm sort of the opposite with Meat Puppets. Meat Puppets II is an all time masterpiece for me and I can't decide if I like Up on the Sun or not. UOTS has an odd sound that kind of throws me off, focussing more on angular riffs than melodic country infused punk. I also kind of love their debut because of how ridiculous it sounds.
@@jefferyhoelscher I'll keep that in mind next time I listen to it. I have an original lp from the 80s of UOTS and it sounds amazing so I'm definitely going to be listening to it more!
I like Meat Puppets II also, and the songs that Nirvana played aren't my my favorite songs on the album.
Love Meat Puppets II and I don't think the Nirvana covers are better. I need to check out Up On The Sun
I have to say, Cloud Nine is a very good album. Not perfect, but close, the closest George would come, since the two discs on All Things Must Pass. I don't care for the remix, either. It loses something in the translation. To be fair, George would never have been a "star" had he not met McCartney, then Lennon.
I never cared about the Beat, other than their single. The Dead, though, pulled off a hat trick, with Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, and From the Mars Hotel. Live/Dead was a trailblazing live album, and Europe '72 a great collection of the band's live performances. As for Blondie, I couldn't agree more, a band who made great singles, and lousy albums!
Fagen, I couldn't care less, TV soundtrack music, to my ears. Dull, listless, and unappealing. Teenage Fanclub, yes, yes, yes! They never got the promotion needed to break loose from the pack. James Taylor was never my cup of tea. I had many friends still doing Folk, he wasn't Folk. Some did Folk-Rock, but JT wasn't that, either. What he was escaped me. I have a half-dozen albums I never listen to (a couple are mint-pristine). I gave up on Meat Puppets, before that album. One great song, a lot of boring noodling.
The Bangles were a heartbreaker, similar to Fanny, without that band's self-assured sassiness. Big Country had the greatest single of the early '80s, In a Big Country, but the album version is a rerecording, and the single version is nearly impossible to find.
My list:
Best of One-Great-Album Bands
01 C H E A P T H R I L L S (1968)
Big Brother & the Holding Co
02 T A P E S T R Y (1971)
Carole King
03 L A Y L A A N D O T H E R A S S O R T E D
L O V E S O N G S (1970)
Derek & the Dominoes
04 P A S T P R E S E N T A N D F U T U R E (1973)
Al Stewart
05 M Y A I M I S T R U E (1977)
Elvis Costello
06 A R G U S (1972)
Wishbone Ash
07 N A T U R A L L Y (1971)
JJ Cale
08 R O C K ' N ' R O L L I S B I O D E G R A D A B L E (1971)
Stoneground
09 C A S S , J O H N , M I C H E L L E , D E N N I E (1966)
The Mamas and the Papas
10 A L O N E T O G E T H E R (1970)
Dave Mason
11 M A N A S S A S (1972)
Stephen Stills
12 T U R N O F T H E C A R D S (1974)
Renaissance
13 E V E N I N T H E Q U I E T E S T M I N U T E S (1977)
Supertramp
14 W A R R E N Z E V O N ( I ) (1976)
Warren Zevon
15 N I L S S O N S C H M I L S S O N (1971)
Harry Nilsson
16 T H E B E E G E E S F I R S T (1967)
the Bee Gees
17 E S C A P E A R T I S T (1980)
Garland Jeffreys
18 E L E C T R I C M U S I C F O R T H E
M I N D A N D B O D Y (1967)
Country Joe & the Fish
19 H O L L I E S (1974)
The Hollies
20 S O U V E N I R S (1974)
Dan Fogelberg
I should have thrown that JJ Cale album on my list. Perfect from start to finish. Never really liked anything else he did.
@@tomrobinson5776 Agreed, he has songs on other LPs that are great, but the only album he succeeded with was Naturally. Tom Petty covered Magnolia, Lynyrd Skynyrd did Call Me the Breeze, and Eric Clapton made After Midnight a hit. By any measure, the album is a monster!
When I listen to The Nightfly, I skip I.G.Y. for the reason you state.
One Man Dog doesn’t have one bad song on it
Agreed. My favorite album of his.
My sister’s a big fan of that record. I need to give that record another spin. It’s been years…
@@tomrobinson5776 my favorite of his hands down
@@tomrobinson5776 I hope this isn't annoying, but I thought of another concept for a video: songs that have a great coda (new material for the ending). Off the top of my (old) head, I'm thinking "The Wall" by Kansas,;"The Nest" by the Association; "Hello Goodbye" and "Hey Jude" by the Beatles, and "Junkie's Lament" by James Taylor.
Bon Jovi debut album
Teenage fan club bandwagon album was best!
Cloud nine Harrison holds a place in my heart!
But traveling wilburys vol1 suffices.
Also Jellyfish 1st album!
Agree about George Harrison, everything else paled after All Things, Lennon is the same for me, Plastic Ono Band is stellar, after that, meh, few things on Imagine, couple of songs on Mind Games & Walls and Bridges, and that’s it.
I agree 100 percent. 😉