Music Musings--Favorite Album? (school, father, children, town)

[Nonchalance]

I was raised on jazz, blues, classical, opera, folk, standards, and whatever was on the radio at the time. It's impossible to name just one favorite, but I keep listening to things like Brubeck's Time Out (love Take Five!), an old recording of Bizet's Carmen, and it's a funny coincidence... lately the Beatles '1' compilation.

[MrRational]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwFQpRTwaP0

[oddstray]

Appasionada - Stan Getz
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra rendition of Holst's 'Planets' symphony

[MadManofBethesda]

My top 5 would be:

1. The Black Album - Metallica
2. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
3. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
4. Back in Black - AC/DC
5. Aqualung - Jethro Tull

But when I'm in a "softer" mood, I have a different top 5:

1. Unplugged - Eric Clapton
2. So Far - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3. Simon & Garfunkle's Greatest Hits
4. Tapestry - Carol King
5. Dreamboat Annie - Heart

And then I have one album is a special category from a band that I'm sure many of you have never heard of:

Demons & Wizards - Uriah Heep.

It's special to me because Uriah Heep was the first band that I ever saw in concert, back when I was still in high school in the early 70s.

[MadManofBethesda]

Originally Posted by jim9251

Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues of course

That's a great song, and one of my favorites, but the title of the thread is favorite albums. Are you saying that the album Days of Future Past is your favorite?

Originally Posted by MrRational

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwFQpRTwaP0

Again, great song, but not an album or an album title, which would be Led Zeppelin IV.

[Dustyroad70]

I don't want to listen to any album over and over again, never did, never will, but, there was some a long period of time back in the day, that I had an album of Gilbert O'Sullivan. I can't remember the name of the album. Could have been, Alone Again Naturally? or could have been a greatest hits album. I sure like it though, especially when I was kind of sad.

[jbgusa]

1. Gordon Lightfoot - Gord's Gold
2. Gordon Lightfoot - Sunday Concert
3. James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
4. James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim and the New Horizon
5. Carole King - Tapesty
6. Steve Goodman - Somebody Else's Troubles
7. George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ringo Star, Leon Russel, Ravi Shankar - Concert for Bangla Desh
8. Woodstock
9. Blue Rodeo - Five Days in July
10. Neil Young - Harvest
11. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
12. Grateful Dead - Europe '72
13. Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead

[Lodestar]

I was sent alone by train at fourteen years to visit my cousins in Chicago to see "West Side Story," bought the album and nearly wore it out!


There's no way I could give a single answer. All of you have mentioned great stuff. I like music of all kinds.


A couple missing ones come to mind. Billy Holiday, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (nearly the soundtrack of the VietNam War) Bob Marley, Queen, ELO, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Seger, anything from Chopin. And Dylan, for heaven's sake, Dylan!


Klezmer, blues, skiffle, even some polka music. Lutheran church choir music from F. Melius Christiansen. Lately I've been listening to didgeridoo.


Music is the universal language of the spirit, yeah?


Edited to add: I forgot Leonard Cohen.

[BabyJuly]

However did you guys ever get through the disco era?

Your choices brought back many good memories. I must add a few more favorites:

1. Streetlife--by the Crusaders (Jazz) A Classic
2. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack--BeeGees--Yes!
3. Whats Going On?-----Marvin Gaye-- RnB
4. Ohio Players--Skin Tight---70's Funk

[cebuan]

I think the only album from my younger years that I've listened to much is Miles Davis' "Miles Ahead".