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Tangerine
posted: 7/26/2008 at 10:48 PM
modified: 8/15/2008 at 12:30 AM
What's your all-time favorite album? Or at least the top 5 or so. I know it's so hard to pick just one.

How 'bout the album you have played more than any other... that you've had to buy extra copies of because you practically ruined the first one from playing it so much. Or the album you grew up listening to... or the first album you remember hearing.


For me... Elton John's Madman Across the Water is all of those things and more. Madman is one of the first things I ever remember listening to (along with Chopin that my mom played). I loved the song, I loved the album.

By the time I was in THIRD grade, I had all of Elton's albums of the 1970-1975 era, up to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. (I was even Elton for halloween). Even at age 9, I felt a huge difference in his music after Captain Fantastic and I've never liked it to this day. But man, that 1970-1975 era... the glory days for Elton and Bernie... spoke to me before any other music ever did. He was depressed, he was shy, he was coked up, he was boozed up, and man he could write a melody and sing it.

When I started playing piano, it was because of him. If I could make a career out of playing piano and writing songs like that, man I would. I could never be at the level he ever was. And I definitely couldn't sing like that. But if I could revive that kind of rock and roll today, that would be my true life calling as a musician. (Not this silly orchestra thing I'm doing now... Wink)...

Also up there, in the all time favorites cloud, is more Elton... Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John, and Tumbleweed Connection.

But I also love love love love...
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
Phish's album Rift.
Tom Petty's first album, and Led Zeppelin's first album are great too.
at one point loved Oasis' What's the Story: Morning Glory

So anyway... My all time favorite album is Madman Across the Water by Elton John.
"Tiny Dancer" – 6:17
"Levon" – 5:22
"Razor Face" – 4:44
"Madman Across the Water" – 5:57
"Indian Sunset" – 6:46
"Holiday Inn" – 4:16
"Rotten Peaches" – 4:58
"All the Nasties" – 5:09
"Goodbye" – 1:48


...What's your's?
"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." -- Leonard Bernstein
PWL
posted: 7/27/2008 at 1:48 AM
Albums that I can listen to front to back and never get tired of:

R.E.M.--Automatic for the People
Pearl Jam--Vs
Pearl Jam--Ten
Blink-182--Dude Ranch
Guns 'n Roses--Use Your Illusion I & II
Smashing Pumpkins--Siamese Dream

Other "pseudo-albums" I listen to a lot are:

Movie Soundtrack--"Singles"

and, embarrassingly enough

Michael Jackson--Number Ones


I feel kind of dirty now.
"I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong."--Bertrand Russell
ajaxinacan
posted: 7/27/2008 at 1:52 AM
modified: 7/27/2008 at 1:53 AM
Tough topic. Lessee...

(in no particular order)

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Hotel California - Eagles
Glass Houses - Billy Joel
Boomtown - David & David
Streets of Fire - Various (Soundtrack)
Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
Genesis - Genesis
Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn
New World Record - ELO
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. --Paul Brodeur
zoom-zoom
Registered for #2
 posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:03 AM
My list is too long and eclectic. I just plain love music...the following are all albums that I can put on repeat for hours and not get tired of.

Ashley MacIsaac: "Hi, how are you today?"
Maroon 5: "Songs About Jane"
Dixie Chicks: "Fly"
Domestic Problems: "Live" (we were at this show and can pick ourselves out of a crowd photo in the liner notes)
Stereophonics: "You Gotta Go There To Come Back"
Johnny Cash: "16 Biggest Hits"
Once: (movie soundtrack)
KD Lang: "Ingenue"
Moulin Rouge Soundtrack
Loreena McKennitt: "Book of Secrets"
Rawlins Cross: "Living River"
Squirrel Nut Zippers: "Hot"

And I could listen to pretty much any Elton John or Billy Joel and not become annoyed.
Kirsten
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JakeKnight
posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:04 AM
modified: 7/27/2008 at 2:04 AM
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zoom-zoom
Registered for #2
 posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:04 AM
Quote from ajaxinacan on 7/27/2008 at 1:52 AM:
Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf


Oh, that should be on my list, too. Man, I need to dig that out and play it for DS. I'll bet he'd be singing along in no time. Smile
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
...

• Ladies Locker Room •

.: 2009 Goals :.
• Run 1750 miles
• 2 marathons (May - Bayshore, Fall - ?)
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2
• 1st trail relay (North Country)
JakeKnight
posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:10 AM
modified: 7/27/2008 at 2:11 AM
Quote from ajaxinacan on 7/27/2008 at 1:52 AM:

Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf


I find it hard to believe anyone else admits to that.

Bat is the only CD I ever actually wore out. It remains the answer to that question: if you were on a desert island and could have just one album, what would it be ...?

And I'm pretty sure we had this exact conversation the last time this comet passed by Earth.

The video is still worth watching start to finish. Arguably the greatest ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBZDTK9Yhko

But not as hot as this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ns8t9iQck
E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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zoom-zoom
Registered for #2
 posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:15 AM
I forgot another one...
The Police: "Every Breath You Take: The Singles"
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
...

• Ladies Locker Room •

.: 2009 Goals :.
• Run 1750 miles
• 2 marathons (May - Bayshore, Fall - ?)
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2
• 1st trail relay (North Country)
zoom-zoom
Registered for #2
 posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:16 AM
Can't get the second one to load...what is it, JK?
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
...

• Ladies Locker Room •

.: 2009 Goals :.
• Run 1750 miles
• 2 marathons (May - Bayshore, Fall - ?)
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2
• 1st trail relay (North Country)
redleaf
posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:17 AM
The Police are definitely up there for me. And Bruce Springsteen. And Neil Young. ... so many choices it might be easier to say what I wouldn't listen to!
PB: 36:44 2008 STWM 5k ... now to bring that lower...
zoom-zoom
Registered for #2
 posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:19 AM
Quote from redleaf on 7/27/2008 at 2:17 AM:
... so many choices it might be easier to say what I wouldn't listen to!


...like the WASPy gospel crap my grandparents forced us to listen to in their car...made me want to stab a butter knife in my ears. Dead
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
...

• Ladies Locker Room •

.: 2009 Goals :.
• Run 1750 miles
• 2 marathons (May - Bayshore, Fall - ?)
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k? ~ HM ~ 26.2
• 1st trail relay (North Country)
redleaf
posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:21 AM
Quote from zoom-zoom on 7/27/2008 at 2:19 AM:
...made me want to stab a butter knife in my ears. Dead


can barely type this is making me laugh so hard...
PB: 36:44 2008 STWM 5k ... now to bring that lower...
ʇuǝɹʇ
ʎǝʞuoɯ ʎʞunɟ
 posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:23 AM
Anything by Bob Dylan.
noʎ ɥʇıʍ ǝq ʎǝʞuoɯ ǝɥʇ ʎɐɯ
JakeKnight
posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:24 AM
Quote from ʇuǝɹʇ on 7/27/2008 at 2:23 AM:
Anything by Bob Dylan.


You funny.
E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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ajaxinacan
posted: 7/27/2008 at 2:24 AM
You're right. It's hard to pick favorites, but I forgot one obvious one.

Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon

Okay, that's my last nomination. I promise. It's got a couple of good running tunes on it.
Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. --Paul Brodeur


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