Posted on 11/21/2005 6:13:54 AM PST by MplsSteve
A few weeks ago, I posted "What Are You Reading Right Now?". Got a great cross-section of responses from Freepers. In another month or two, I'll repeat the question. But now, I have another question.
What is favorite CD, album or cassette of all time?
It can be country, blues, 80's-style rock, etc. Anything.
I'll start.
My two favorites are:
"World Falling Down" (1992) by Peter Cetera. Not as sappy as you might think. An album written at a down-time in his life.
"Rebel Yell" (1982) Billy Idol. A great collection of rock songs. Some of his best songs (on this CD) never made the Top 40.
OK, what's your favorite?
There're many Sinatra albums I could mention, but if I had to name just ONE cd; I'd say that Sinatra's "The September Of My Years"; (1965) is my favorite, (next to "Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim".)
My second choice is an obscure album that was released in 1977, by Jane Olivor, "Chasing Rainbows"..I've listened to this album, (on vinyl, cassette, and cd) at least once a week since I originally purchased it in 1977. Jane Olivor may be a Lib, but she's a marvelous singer, nonetheless. Absolutely stunning.
I know that logo!
BLACK FLAG!
You are hard-core!
I used to be hard-core, anyways! Still love the music from back then, though!
A-friggin'-men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Several years ago, on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, there was a person (I think female, but it's been awhile, and I don't exactly remember), who played a keyboard and set out her hat for people to drop money in. She not only was legless, she was also armless. How did she play? She played with her tongue! Of course, she couldn't play chords, but she was pretty good at playing a single note at a time.
Groan!!!! ;o)
He never did anything to me other than to pollute my ears with his pathetic warbling.
Many favorites, but here are a few:
Cherish the Ladies - The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone
Rush - Moving Pictures
Phil Woods - I Remember
Herbert Von Karajan/Berlin Symphony Orchestra: Saint Saens Organ Symphony #3
Any Maurice Andre album
The Cars - The Cars
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Wolfstone - Pick of the Litter
Dixie Dregs - What If
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Cool, Wind and Wuthering is great!! The last album with Hackett, and Genesis hasn't been nearly as good since.
That is indeed a great album.
Love Intruder, I think that was the first tune that Phil Collins went "cymbal less" on.
There's nothing better than cranking up the volume for those drums at the end of "Rhythm of the Heat" though.
You know what else I love about this album? It's not Rush.
Hmmmm...the 16%/10 Yr CD during the Carter years!!!
Saw her in AC back in the mid-80s.
Tchaikovsky - Francesca da Rimini - cond. Leopold Stokowski
Richard Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie - cond. Bernard Haitink
Bruckner - 8th Symphony - Herbert von Karajan, Vienna Phil., 1988
Tchiakovsky - 5th Symphony - cond. Gergiev (although he could have varied the dynamics of some of the quieter music more)
Mahler - 6th Symphony - von Karajan again (despite his seeming to ignore some of Mahler's markings)
Bach - Goldberg Variations - Pierre Hentai or Glenn Gould 1955 or Murray Perahia
Bach - St. Matthew Passion - cond. Klemperer (yeah, I know, not authentic, but what music-making!)
etc.
For the Saint-Saens, try to hear also Levine and the Berlin Philharmonic, or the CD (I've heard the SACD isn't very good) of Munch's recording on RCA (which has one or two edit errors in it, especially a long organ note in the second movement missing the first half of the note! But the music making is terrific).
BUMP!
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