Top 3 Albums

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The chat on the "then and now" thread got me thinking about the impossibility of picking out a top 3 albums list.

There are so many great albums out there that I found it difficult to pin this down but I've gone with the following:

Revolver - the Beatles
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Queen is dead - the Smiths
 
archie said:
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys (1966)
Forever Changes - Love (1967)
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1967)
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I'd say that the top 2 are constant and the 3rd varies with my mood. On a different day I might have picked Blue or Born To Run, a Beatles album (probably A Hard Day's Night), Gaucho by Steely Dan, Hold Out by Jackson Browne or Night and Day by Joe Jackson.
 
Desert Orchid said:
Never been into albums, to be honest, and tend to go for compilations.

However, I would have to put Thriller somewhere up there.
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I have never entertained "greatest hits" albums because there are gems contained in individual albums which I would have missed had I narrowed it down to an artist's greatest hits (eg Springsteen's Meeting across the river)
 
2017diary said:
I have never entertained "greatest hits" albums because there are gems contained in individual albums which I would have missed had I narrowed it down to an artist's greatest hits (eg Springsteen's Meeting across the river)
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Totally understand but I didn't fall into the category of teenager who came to school with an LP or two under their arm and just wasn't much into pop (or any) music. Couldn't stomach The Old Grey Whistle Test & the like. Hated being coaxed into going to listen to bands at the uni ('way too loud for a quiet soul like me).

On top of that I didn't have any money to buy LPs when I needed to buy stuff for the football and get myself to and from matches, etc, so all my money went on keeping the car on the road. Boils down to choices, I suppose.

But the idea of greatest hits and compilations appealed to me since I got to hear good stuff from good artists for a reasonable price.

Probably not unlike watching re-runs of the Cheltenham festival without going through all the trial races.
 
The advent of CDs and then streaming has pretty much stuffed the idea of carefully crafted albums because it's so easy to pick out individual tracks. The likes of Neil Young and Paul Simon were very particular about the positioning of each song on an album.

A few on here won't have heard of Love or Forever Changes which is a good example of an album building to a climax. This is the final track which illustrates my point.

 
My favourite two albums are set in stone:
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)

Like Archie I vacillate with the third one - could be DSOTM, Mob Rules (Sabbath), White Pony (Deftones), In Rainbows (Radiohead again) any one of three or four Rush albums, probably overall my favourite ever band....in 1983 my dad got us tickets to the Cup Final (United/Brighton 2-2 draw one) and Rush were playing the Wembley Arena. I might have mentioned that I'd have preferred the concert over the Football - he wasn't pleased given how much he'd paid for the tickets.
 
I'd struggle to Narrow it down to 3 tbh as I could go all day. I wouldn't listen to them really these days unless they come on the radio but Guns amd roses Appetite for destruction was a hard album to fault. Nirvana unplugged I also thought was genius I could go along with Tanlic on Fleetwod macs Rumours or Meatloafs Bat out he'll.

I also thought War or the world's was a master piece I listened to it as a child on Lp through some big headphones on my nans record player and scared the life out of me.
White Zombies La sexorcisto was also one I wore out as a youth. Lauryn Hills Miseducation of Lauren Hills. Any of eninems. The list goes on.

For me though too much good music to limit it down to 3. Everything from Otis, Elvis, Sam cooke, beatles, stones, to pearl jam, Alice in Chains, nirvana, to beautiful south, bob Dylan Springsteen to things like Adele ..how do you pick?
 
archie said:
The advent of CDs and then streaming has pretty much stuffed the idea of carefully crafted albums because it's so easy to pick out individual tracks. The likes of Neil Young and Paul Simon were very particular about the positioning of each song on an album.

A few on here won't have heard of Love or Forever Changes which is a good example of an album building to a climax. This is the final track which illustrates my point.

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Most opportune, this thread, given that I’ve just moved my cd collection to another part of the living room and have been listening to some old favourites, so I’ve dug this one out. Now I’m old I find listening to the music of my youth quite painful, although I think my 15 year old self actually discovered Forever Changes much later. At one point in my life I learned that, if anything sad was happening to me, I had to stop listening to music, because the association meant that I could no longer listen to it. The only album I would definitely put in my top three is Levelling the Land: not a single bad track and I never tire of it. But the other two would depend on my mood and which genre of music I’m into at that moment in time ( which could be anything except jazz). Love might lead me onto Blue Aeroplanes. Perhaps we should have a ‘ albums that are amazing but people might not have heard of’ thread? A conversation whilst out dog walking got me listening to Hybrid Theory again for the first time in years.
 
Albums that are amazing but people might not have heard of (I just can't resist)

LOL where do I start?

Crazy Horse- Crazy Horse (1971)
Dory Previn - Mythical Kings & Iguanas (also 1971)
Tommy Bolin - Teaser (1975)
Tom Verlaine- Tom Verlaine (1979)
etc etc (now adding Robert Johnson - Close Personal Friend 1978)
 
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An impossible task indeed but three 'all time fvourites' are:

Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Of those mentioned, Forever Changes would be high on my list too as would Highway 61 Revisited. As for The Beatles I'd have Rubber Soul top with Revolver bubbling under

Like Moehat, I'm wary of over-indulging in songs of my yoof. Music is as much a reminder of time and place as it is the toons themselves
 
I love live music but I must admit I'm an over-indulger Drone although I did go see a band that supported Wolf Alice (where my mate & I were the oldest in the room by about 30 years) + also saw Crash Test Dummies recently
 
2017diary said:
Albums that are amazing but people might not have heard of (I just can't resist)

LOL where do I start?

Crazy Horse- Crazy Horse (1971)
Dory Previn - Mythical Kings & Iguanas (also 1971)
Tommy Bolin - Teaser (1975)
Tom Verlaine- Tom Verlaine (1979)
etc etc
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Bloody hell. Tommy Bolin. His talent was exceptional and shown to its best on Billy Cobham’s Spectrum album. A quite brilliant guitarist taken from us, like so many others, by drugs
 
I have a K-Tel compilation (3 LPs) going back to around 1975 which is loaded with good pop stuff.

I also have an old 'Top of the Pops' compilation that would have cost something like 10/6 out of Woolies. Cover artists doing some hits but Elton John is one of the session musicians on them. (Maybe not all of them.)
 
Desert Orchid said:
I have a K-Tel compilation (3 LPs) going back to around 1975 which is loaded with good pop stuff.

I also have an old 'Top of the Pops' compilation that would have cost something like 10/6 out of Woolies. Cover artists doing some hits but Elton John is one of the session musicians on them. (Maybe not all of them.)
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Would I be right in thinking that the TOTP album had a picture on the front with a couple of "dolly birds" dancing? (:ROFLMAO:)
 
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Didn't they all??

It's in a box in the garage but I know exactly where so if I get a chance I'll scan the cover and stick it on this thread.

(Just wondering if it might have been one of the bunch the local record shop paid me very decent money for.)
 
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