Towelie
March 22nd, 2007, 05:26 AM
This is the best way to understand someone's taste in music. State your 10 favorite ALBUMS (not songs), and why you like them so much. Include a video or audio sample if possible.
10.) Sublime - Sublime (self-titled) - One of those albums where every single song is a classic. That album defined my childhood and was my favorite album from 4th grade til junior year.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1716962560
9.) Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Then and Now - Double live album, two discs, two different performances, 30 years apart. First disc has an awesome live version of Karn Evil 9, complete with a drum solo that proves that Carl Palmer is the most talented drummer of all time.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=700663351
8.) Green Day - Dookie - Let me start by stating that American Idiot sucked. I am no longer a Green Day fan, and havent really been since I was 12. But Dookie as an album is fucking SUPERB. Dookie is how I discovered Rock and Roll. The music, the attitude, the fact that music has and can change the world. Every song on the album rocks. Even the hidden track, "All by Myself"
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2015539746
7.) The Grateful Dead - American Beauty - From pop-punk to folk-rock. People may not like the Dead. Some say they are too soft and folkish, others say they only improvise so many jams when they play live because they are so stoned they cant remember the notes to their own songs... but as far as lyrics go, American Beauty is awesome. If you like lyrics more than melody, American Beauty is a must-buy. I tell you what, download "Friend of the Devil", if you like it, buy the album.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1831207453
6.) Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan (self-titled) - Dylan's very first album is just so good it hurts. Especially since he recorded it at the age of 20. Almost all of the songs are covers, and, oddly, are about dying. He said he hated the album when he first heard it, because he was just running songs off the top of his head, and didn't realize he had created such a dark blues album. Some of the covers he did were of old blues and folk ballads that no-one had ever recorded and released before, and had only been spread by storytellers and blues musicians, travelling the country. "House of the Rising Sun" is one of these, which was later covered by The Animals, which led to it being covered by just about everyone. "In My Time of Dying" is another, which Led Zeppelin will cover a decade later, and stretch Dylan's 94 second version, into an 11 minute blues-rock epic. "Man of Constant Sorrow" is another, which was covered in the movie O' Brother Where Art Thou
http://www.youtube.com/v/fypFt_zvW1w
5.) Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (self-titled) - Every song on this album is great. The best lyrics of any album of the 90s. It's Rock the way is SHOULD BE NOW. Not this faggoty emo bullshit. Fallout Boy and Hawthorne Heights alone have hurt the good name of Rock And Roll. Robert Johnson would be spinning in his grave. To be honest, emo, screamo, hardcore, whatever the hell you call bands like Good Charollette and Fallout Boy should NOT be allowed to be considered "Rock" bands. Their whiney piss-ant faggot attitude goes against everything Rock and Roll was about.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=599394167
4.) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - Balls-out fucking ROCKS. If you like blues-rock, the dark Satanic blues rock that Robert Johnson invented, then LZII is as good as it gets. Led Zeppelin showed tribute to, or did unauthorized covers of two Willie Dixon songs from the 1930s. "Whole Lotta Love" and "Bring It On Home". Whole Lotta Love was the first and only Single Led Zeppelin ever released in America. Not even "Stairway to Heaven" was released as a Single. The band just didn't like the idea of singles, they thought albums were more important, and they proved it with this one. "The Lemon Song" is one of the greatest studio tracks of all time and it alone warrants LZ2 in my top 5 albums.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1534299724
3.) Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon - If you need an explanation as to why this is here, you need to go buy this fucking album and join the rest of the human race. "Breathe" and "Time" were life-changing songs for me.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1629441619
2.) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti - My favorite studio album, and my favorite Zeppelin album. Jimmy Page had just started his own label, so Physical Graffiti was Zeppelin's first album that they could record what they wanted without having to worry about whether or not it's "Sellable". Their cover of Dylan's cover of "In My Time Of Dying" is my favorite song of all time. With songs like "Kashmir", "Custard Pie", "In The Light", "Ten Years Gone" and "The Wanton Song", it is just progressive blues perfection.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1649192520
If Physical Graffiti is my favorite studio album, why isn't it number one? Because I like live albums better, and the greatest live album of all time is
1.) The Who - Live At Leeds, Deluxe Edition - This album changed me. Changed the way I thought about life, music, and especially Rock and Roll. This is what music is all about. Four guys, putting so much energy into their playing that the crowd is completely blown away and left speechless, if not cheering and screaming. Their bassist, John Entwistle, is on FIRE the whole show. Hands down the best Bass player in the history of Rock and Roll, and his Mona Lisa is Live at Leeds. Scratch that, the Mona Lisa took Da Vinci forever to finish, Entwistle was busting riffs faster than the speed of sound. If everyone had this album in their collection the world would be a better place. Or at LEAST have better taste in music. No accoustic tracks, all electric, all live, all balls-out Rock and Roll. Get the Deluxe Edition, because it has a full performance of their album "Tommy", which really completes Live At Leeds, and without that, I dont think this would be number One.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1565700640
10.) Sublime - Sublime (self-titled) - One of those albums where every single song is a classic. That album defined my childhood and was my favorite album from 4th grade til junior year.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1716962560
9.) Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Then and Now - Double live album, two discs, two different performances, 30 years apart. First disc has an awesome live version of Karn Evil 9, complete with a drum solo that proves that Carl Palmer is the most talented drummer of all time.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=700663351
8.) Green Day - Dookie - Let me start by stating that American Idiot sucked. I am no longer a Green Day fan, and havent really been since I was 12. But Dookie as an album is fucking SUPERB. Dookie is how I discovered Rock and Roll. The music, the attitude, the fact that music has and can change the world. Every song on the album rocks. Even the hidden track, "All by Myself"
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2015539746
7.) The Grateful Dead - American Beauty - From pop-punk to folk-rock. People may not like the Dead. Some say they are too soft and folkish, others say they only improvise so many jams when they play live because they are so stoned they cant remember the notes to their own songs... but as far as lyrics go, American Beauty is awesome. If you like lyrics more than melody, American Beauty is a must-buy. I tell you what, download "Friend of the Devil", if you like it, buy the album.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1831207453
6.) Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan (self-titled) - Dylan's very first album is just so good it hurts. Especially since he recorded it at the age of 20. Almost all of the songs are covers, and, oddly, are about dying. He said he hated the album when he first heard it, because he was just running songs off the top of his head, and didn't realize he had created such a dark blues album. Some of the covers he did were of old blues and folk ballads that no-one had ever recorded and released before, and had only been spread by storytellers and blues musicians, travelling the country. "House of the Rising Sun" is one of these, which was later covered by The Animals, which led to it being covered by just about everyone. "In My Time of Dying" is another, which Led Zeppelin will cover a decade later, and stretch Dylan's 94 second version, into an 11 minute blues-rock epic. "Man of Constant Sorrow" is another, which was covered in the movie O' Brother Where Art Thou
http://www.youtube.com/v/fypFt_zvW1w
5.) Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (self-titled) - Every song on this album is great. The best lyrics of any album of the 90s. It's Rock the way is SHOULD BE NOW. Not this faggoty emo bullshit. Fallout Boy and Hawthorne Heights alone have hurt the good name of Rock And Roll. Robert Johnson would be spinning in his grave. To be honest, emo, screamo, hardcore, whatever the hell you call bands like Good Charollette and Fallout Boy should NOT be allowed to be considered "Rock" bands. Their whiney piss-ant faggot attitude goes against everything Rock and Roll was about.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=599394167
4.) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - Balls-out fucking ROCKS. If you like blues-rock, the dark Satanic blues rock that Robert Johnson invented, then LZII is as good as it gets. Led Zeppelin showed tribute to, or did unauthorized covers of two Willie Dixon songs from the 1930s. "Whole Lotta Love" and "Bring It On Home". Whole Lotta Love was the first and only Single Led Zeppelin ever released in America. Not even "Stairway to Heaven" was released as a Single. The band just didn't like the idea of singles, they thought albums were more important, and they proved it with this one. "The Lemon Song" is one of the greatest studio tracks of all time and it alone warrants LZ2 in my top 5 albums.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1534299724
3.) Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon - If you need an explanation as to why this is here, you need to go buy this fucking album and join the rest of the human race. "Breathe" and "Time" were life-changing songs for me.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1629441619
2.) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti - My favorite studio album, and my favorite Zeppelin album. Jimmy Page had just started his own label, so Physical Graffiti was Zeppelin's first album that they could record what they wanted without having to worry about whether or not it's "Sellable". Their cover of Dylan's cover of "In My Time Of Dying" is my favorite song of all time. With songs like "Kashmir", "Custard Pie", "In The Light", "Ten Years Gone" and "The Wanton Song", it is just progressive blues perfection.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1649192520
If Physical Graffiti is my favorite studio album, why isn't it number one? Because I like live albums better, and the greatest live album of all time is
1.) The Who - Live At Leeds, Deluxe Edition - This album changed me. Changed the way I thought about life, music, and especially Rock and Roll. This is what music is all about. Four guys, putting so much energy into their playing that the crowd is completely blown away and left speechless, if not cheering and screaming. Their bassist, John Entwistle, is on FIRE the whole show. Hands down the best Bass player in the history of Rock and Roll, and his Mona Lisa is Live at Leeds. Scratch that, the Mona Lisa took Da Vinci forever to finish, Entwistle was busting riffs faster than the speed of sound. If everyone had this album in their collection the world would be a better place. Or at LEAST have better taste in music. No accoustic tracks, all electric, all live, all balls-out Rock and Roll. Get the Deluxe Edition, because it has a full performance of their album "Tommy", which really completes Live At Leeds, and without that, I dont think this would be number One.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1565700640