From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Sun Feb 02 10:05:41 2003
Subject:Re: top 10 albums....desert island classics

This is a cool thread...for me the only problem is the
list changes a bit from time to time, or at least
maybe the artists remain, but different works appear.
If I had to narrow it down though to 10 desert island
classics, no hope of rescue (GILLIGAN!!!), I guess
those ten would be:

1. UK-Night After Night
2. Led Zeppelin III or Physical Graffiti
3. The Fixx-Calm Animals
4. Pink Floyd-Animals
5. Sam Phillips-Martinis & Bikinis
6. Genesis-Selling England By The Pound
7. Nirvana-Nevermind
8. Santana-Milagro
9. Jethro Tull-Thick As A Brick or Stand
10.Rush-Different Stages (only because I really love
this band, and this spans every era of their
career, and of course, it's live.)

This is a hard list to make, cuz like every musician,
sometimes you want to hear something you've put away
for a LONG time, and other times you want no part of
something else. Like last night, driving home from
the all too rare date with my wife (on a Saturday nite
no less!), Us & Them came on the radio, and
immediately I was sublimely lulled by Wright's piano
solo. And to think in the last 24 hours I said I
never wanted to hear any of that album again!

I noticed only about half of mine contained Hammond
organ too. But while they are all definitely rock in
nature, it's a pretty wide spectrum. Animals for its
music, and intense lyrics (for the next year at least
after I bought it, it was played before I went to
school, and for better or worse it shaped my outlook
on life), Milagro for the beautiful playing and
calming songs (gorgeous recording, live to Diaxis
2-track, unbelievable solos by Chester and Carlos, and
musically is all over the map from typical Santana to
very Weather Report-ish stuff to VERY authentic South
American chant music), Martinis & Bikinis for the
great songs and tasteful subtle playing (she is an
unbelievably gifted songwriter, very Beatley, strings
by Van Dyke Parks and production by husband T-Bone
Burnett), Calm Animals for the lush production, great
songs (Cy Curning is an amazing singer, Oram is a
phenomenal guitarist and Rupert Greenall is not that
great a keyboardist, but is an awesome synthesist and
colorist), Selling England (IMO the BEST Genesis,
concise songs -for them anyway!- great playing, great
production...the record really takes you away...and if
for no other reason, you should have it for the piano
intro to Firth Of Fifth), Nirvana because not only did
they change the landscape of rock (and in the process
spawn way too many clones with nowhere near as much to
howl about), but like any true art, expressed real
emotions, this one unfortunately being utter pain, and
did it with beautiful, simple Beatle-y music (listen
to Unplugged if you have your doubts), Tull because
its simply great music (combining rock and jazz and
folk with a sense of humor, cynicism and wit),
Zeppelin for the sheer scope of those records (folk to
rock to BritBlues, and cause JPaul Jones is just one
of the best rock bassists ever) and Rush because (as
geeky as it makes me, they're my favorite band and
what they accomplish for 3 musicians is incredible)
and I do think their songwriting is very individual
and cinematic, and UK because not only is Eddie Jobson
an awesome keyboardist/violinist, but its progrock at
its leanest and meanest (yes, very derivative of ELP
at times) but they tightened up the format and made it
even more muscular...and more pop (way better than
Asia, which is where that ended up going).

I can honestly say I love every song on every one of
these records...except for More Fool Me on Selling
England By The Pound. lol

Pass me the sunscreen.....
tony

PS...Can I please have The Yes Album too....it looks
like we're gonna be away for a very long time.

--- Frank and Cindy Stroupe wrote:
> Since the current thread has pretty much played out,
> what's your 10 most
> favorite albums of all times? (if you have never
> really thought about it,
> try to narrow down your list down by excluding any
> album that you love less
> than half the songs on it)
>
> 1. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
> 2. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and
> the Dominoes
> 3. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the
> Spiders from Mars - David
> Bowie
> 4. The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East - The
> Allman Brothers Band
> 5. Animals - Pink Floyd
> 6. Untitled (also known as Led Zeppelin IV, that's
> what Page says he calls
> it) - Led Zeppelin
> 7. Pronounced 'leh-'nerd 'skin-'erd - Lynard
> Skynerd
> 8. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
> 9. Outlaws - Waylon Jennings, Jessie Coulter,
> Willie Nelson, and Tompall
> Glasser
> 10. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
>
> 5 have Hammond, the sixth (skynerd) has organ,
> though I'm not sure what
> kind, guess that's not too bad.
>
> Frank
>

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