Top Ten (Studio-Produced) LPs of the post "64 Era: (not necessarily in order) 1. Abbey Road (the Beatles) 2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the Beatles) 3. The Beatles (aka the "White Album") (the Beatles) 4. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan) 5. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan) 6. Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan) 7. Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen) 8. The River (Bruce Springsteen) 9. Astral Weeks (Van Morrison) 10.Moondance (Van Morrison) 10.Music from Big Pink (the Band) 10.The Band (the Band) 10.Tapestry (Carole King) 10.Are You Experienced (Jimi Hendrix) 10.The Wall (Pink Floyd) 10.Disraeli Gears (Cream) 10.Derek and the Dominoes (Derek and the Dominoes) 10.Rust Never Sleeps (Neil Young) 10.Eat a Peach (Allman Brothers) 10.Pet Dreams (the Beach Boys) 10.The Pretender (Jackson Browne) 10.White Light, White Heat (Velvet Underground) 10.Tommy (the Who) Okay, so it's not a top ten- it's a top 23 (merely posting a topic does not constrain one to it's random, fascist dicta- like I said, this is Amer'ca)...

That's a great list!

In no particular order: 1. Tapestry - Carole King 2. Blue - Joni Mitchell 3. Axis, Bold As Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 4. Crosby, Stills, and Nash - CS&N 4. Famous Blue Raincoat - Jennifer Warnes 5. American Garage - Pat Metheny 6. Absolutely Free - The Mothers of Invention 7. Tommy - The Who 8. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd 9. The White Album - The Beatles (Paul McCartney's old backup band) 10. Turning Point - John Mayall Just a few of the records I have tried to wear out and never could... *smile* Karl

I didn't see Van Morrison in that list, guess he doesn't make the cut. Nor any Grateful Dead.

Karl, do you have the Tapestry Tribute? Various artists covering Carole King's songs? I was listening to it this a.m. It's my "lonely" CD.

Good choice for a lonely CD. I've heard it!

Tapestry tribute? I can't believe I haven't heard of it yet! Where have I been? That may be my very nearly favorite album of all time... She is soooo soulful, so warm. *smile* Who is on the tribute album?

everyone!

Everyone???? Was I on the record? Did this happen in my sleep? Again... *grin*

Didn't you do backups for James Taylor?

It's awesome.

I'm a computer geek Stacey. The closest I might get would be backing up James Taylor's hard drive. *grin* Of course there are those blackout periods where I have been unable to explain my whereabouts. Hmmmmmmmm.

*grin* The BeeGees, Celine Dion, Aretha Frankin, Richard Marx... one on one, not some of my FAVORITE artists but they do great things with her songs!

Top ten LPs in History? I wouldn't even begin, but for me Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Land is on there, as well as the Beatle's White Album. To me these albums were very important in the evolution of rock and roll and were even a turning point in rock music.

The Eagles double album - Hotel California and the Long Run. Mares Eat Oats -- a childrens album I still own and adore! I don't think they were ever on vinyl but... Medusa - Annie Lennox Shaking the Tree -- Peter Gabriel

Top Five Songs from Led Zeppelin IV (untitled): 1. Rock and Roll 2. Black Dog 3. Misty Mountain Hop 4. When the Levee Breaks 5. Going to California Notice any omissions?

Nick has refused to succumb to public pressure! Good for you, Nick!

May each right-thinking, sanity-loving person endeavor to extirpate that irksome song from popular conciousness, once and for all... Was at a club the other night, and between the band's sets must have heard it 17 times (a gruesome experience, to be sure)... Of course, I played "Thunder Road" about 17 times, too (though that's entirely different, obviously)...

obviously... *smile*

okay, the category is top ten singles of the post '64 era... and remember, this will account for 1/4 your final grade...

can't go back that far...... (shucks, wasn't born yet)

and what makes up the 3/4 left?

am gonna crash soon, better make it quick

lemme sleep on it, later :)

1. Hey Jude (the Beatles) 2. Don't Worry Baby (Brian Wilson) 3. All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix) 4. Crazy Love (Van Morrison)(hey, it was our song...) 5. Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)(our other song) 6. The Weight (The Band) 7. Hotel California (the Eagles) 8. The Pretender (Jackson Browne) 9. Behind Blue Eyes (the Who) 10.Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) 10.Our House (CS&N) 10.Here Comes That Girl (Tom Petty) 10.Beast of Burden (the Stones) 10.Lola (the Kinks) 10.Sunshine of my Love (Cream) 10.Bell-bottom Blues (Derek and the Dominoes) 10.Melissa (Allman Bros.) 10.Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 10.Suffragette City (David Bowie) 10.Maggie Mae (Rod Stewart) 10.Some Kind of Wonderful (Grand Funk RR) 10.Coming into Los Angeles (Arlo Guthrie) 10.Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) (this, as all men know, is the greatest song of all time, so the list stops here...i'm growing weary, anyway)

wimp...

you should talk (!!) night-

Wot, no "El Paso"? No "White Christmas"? Being born in 1971, in Jamaica, I'm not really into this one. Pre '64: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs - Marty Robbins; anything by Nat "King" Cole. Pre '64 does not include Rubber Soul by the Beatles, nor anything by Pink Floyd. The Wailers' debut single "Simmer Down" came out locally in 1963...

Here's a couple: 1. Urgent-Foreigner 2. Barracuda-Heart

and a couple more: 3. More Than a Feeling-Boston 4. (Don't Fear) The Reaper-BOC

really liked "more than a feeling", the first 1000 times i heard it. (the last 9000 have presented a problem, though) like "peace of mind", "long time" much more...

don't think i can limit this to 10.......... 5. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love-Van Halen 6. Poundcake-Van Halen

please, God... no "stairway..." no "free bird"... (that's all i ask) p.s. might wanta nix "seasons in the sun", "billy don't be a hero" and "Feelings", too (assuming You have the time)

how'd you know?

7. Photograph - Def Leppard 8. Hysteria - Def Leppard 9. Animal - Def Leppard

Survival: Bob Marley & The Wailers (So Much Trouble In The World, Zimbabwe, Babylon System, One Drop, Ambush In The Night, et al.) The Dark Side Of The Moon: Pink Floyd (Breathe In The Air, Time, Money, Brain Damage, et al.) Bridge Over Troubled Water: Simon & Garfunkel (Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer, So Long Frank Lloyd Wright, Cecelia, et al.) Frampton Comes Alive!: Peter Frampton (Baby I Love Your Way, Do You Feel Like We Do, Show Me The Way, et al.) Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs: Marty Robbins (Big Iron, Billy The Kid, THe Strawberry Roan, The Master's Call, El Paso {NOT El Paso City} et al.) Can't think of any R&B albums; mostly know those as singles. Oh yes... Diamond Life: Sade (Smooth Operator, probably my favourite song!)

Singles and or Album Tracks: Redemption Song: Bob Marley & The Wailers Fast Car: Tracy Chapman (Actually, I should add her self-titled album to the album list) For You: Tracy Chapman (I should name the songs on the album I don't think much of, that'd be easier!) Many Rivers To Cross: Jimmy Cliff Fortunate Son: Creedence Clearwater Revival In The Ghetto: Candy Staton

like Tracy too

9.1 In My Dreams - REO Speedwagon 9.2 Time For Me To Fly - REO Speedwagon Sam, I like Sade as well

Oh man Wolf! You're making me nauseous! I suppose you wanted to rank Loverboy too!?!? Just giving you a hard time. My tastes in music are varied (just not THAT varied!)

yeah, wanted to see how far I could go before I got that response!

I know about as much about REO Speedwagon as I know about the car they're named after! (Actually, I think I know more about the car...)

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Jonathan Livingston Seagull

omigod... (a neil diamond fan is among us)

Well I can't help it, can I! I grew up with two sisters who were mad on Neil Diamond and they brainwashed me with large doses of his music. By the time I realized that he wasn't much better at singing than Michael Bolt-Head it was too late! Besides which, what's wrong with the soundtrack for Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

hey, my sister was in love with that defranco twerp (so i KNOW the awful taste of misery, bub)... but he ain't on my top ten list, either... that record struck me as , what? goofy, i guess... neil diamond doing serious, conceptual music makes as much sense as bob denver doing hamlet (and if you've seen that particular gilligan's island, you'll probably agree the latter was more sucessful at it... that "neither a borrower nor a lender be" tune had a nice ring to it)... (sorry, sit-com anologies are the best i can come up with, tonight)

Who's defranco? never heard of him! BTW, one of those sisters was also heavily into R&B along with her two older brothers (I'm the last of seven), and they turned me on to R&B, so don't knock 'em too hard! My first exposure to Jonathan Livingston Seagull was the soundtrack, which I enjoyed. I then read the book by Richard Bach, which I also enjoyed. I tried to watch the movie when it came on T.V. but it bored me to tears. I think someone should take the book and the soundtrack and write a ballet.

The Very Best Of Sam Cooke

excellant choice... have you heard any of his soul stirrers stuff?

No... just know "Another Saturday Night", "What A Wonderful World This Would Be", "Cupid", "Summertime", "Chain Gang", etc. I don't remember which '70s group covered "Cupid", but I wish they hadn't... I'm actually called Sam Blob 'coz I sang Sam Cooke songs for my hall's concert (the Blob part is because I'm fat).

don't forget "havin' a party" (if you get the chance, listen to southside johnny and the jukes cover... really excellant)... if you're a sam cooke fan, the soul stirrers (the gospel group he headed before he went pop) are an essential... "Touch the Hem of His Garment", "Peace in the Valley", and "Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles" are as good as anything he ever did, and some of the very best gospel music ever created...

Barry White!! "baby, baby, baby.... can't get enough of your love baby" Whatami gonna do with your love baby?" Love serenade.... King of cheese makes GREAT sex music!

I LOVE BARRY WHITE!!! (he deserves his own topic- hell, if sting gets a topic, barry oughta have 3)

Woo! Woo!

Three topics? "I don't know, I don't know why..." So tell me, what makes Barry White great while Neil Diamond and Sting stink?

first, i don't actually think sting "stinks"... among my redneck friends, he is regarded as the Man Who Killed the E. Street Band, and we're always cutting him, so i guess it's kind of instinctual... i think his music can be ponderous, and banal, but overall i think he's okay... i have several of his records, and turn "roxanne" all the way up, every time i hear it, even if grandma's in the car (a little classic rock and roll never hurt anyone)... same, kind of, goes for neil diamond... don't own any of his records (nor will i, i suspect), but i do respect the 60's pop music he created... it's not really my cup of tea, but it was top-flight stuff... it was in his pandering, feeble attempts at becoming "a major artist" that he invited scorn upon himself... neil diamond jokes are pretty old stuff... (yeah, i know... especially mine)... and barry white is sooooo smooth... (just love him... what can i say?)

Worst Neil Diamond song: "Jungletime". Even worse than "Soggy Pretzels"; almost as bad as "Get Up And Boogie" by The Silver Connection! BTW, it's songs like "Fly Robin Fly", "Love To Love Ya Baby" and the forementioned "Get Up And Boogie", that give disco such a bad name. K.C. And The Sunshine Band were rather good, although the Bee Gees sounded like they had their collective round objects in a vise (but their songs were still infinitely better than "Get Up And Boogie"!). ABBA is also classified as disco, and they're extremely good! Let's see, wasn't "Another Brick In THe Wall, Part II" also popular in discos?

nick, if I didn't think you were okay already, the consensus on Barry White would've cemented the deal. And last night I was hankerin' for a listen but I lent the CD out to an old roommate years ago... never returned. (group sigh) [1~And, although she doesn't come close to affecting me in quite the same way, Natalie is certainly a glorious singer/songwriter. And, I'll give you she is an excellent representation of the female gender. She toured with REM a couple of years ago and I attended the concert in Austin. Southpark Meadows, methinks.

she has perfect eyebrows, you know... (like a goddess)

What does Natalie Cole have in common with Ziggy Marley and Julian Lennon? They all make their living off the talent of their fathers, with no genuine talent of their own.

Man. You didn't give me a chance to even answer! I woulda got it too!

I kind of like Julian.

me, too...

know this is off topic- but who in the hell is colin firth?

(and boy, must his ears be burning)

I find Julian a bit whiny actually.

Don't say that too loud. He's the object of drooling around here.

Oh, is that what that liquid is? I thought someone threw up!

Gross!!!

To be gross on the 'Net... interesting!

Hi Sam! Have you found Natalie M yet?

Hello? (as my voice echoes into the abyss)

hey, isn't that my line?

*gasp* why it....it lives! *hysterical laughter*

i think you're giving "it" too much credit...

ok, it's barely breathing.....better? You don't check your mail anymore, huh?

that a question or an answer... actually just limped home a few minutes ago...

both (you ok?)

you see how much stuff is being posted about colin firth? Geez, he must be some dude!

no. (my mail has been frightening lately) yes. (nearly sober)

geez, was it something I said.... (my mail has been MT) getting ready to be totally unsober now, huh? (am feelin' alright with help from tylenol)

no. not referring to your mail. yes. determined to be sober some time this weekend (have my kids tomorrow)

ya want mine too? they're driving me nuts with this preholiday spirit! (just kidding) (and if it were my mail, you wouldn't tell me)

*sigh*

no, i wouldn't (but i wouldn't be talking to you, either...that's my famous escape move...avoidance)

(by the way, go to the planet, angel just posted somethin' you'll really like)

don't sigh at me (you're stealing my best lines)

stealing, nay sir. imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (haha)

did you see that thing the guy without a name posted? it was chilling (no joke)

yes it was....

but powerful...

still there? (got disconnected)

annie struck a blow against the normans (it was beautiful)

knew you'd like it........

well, uh, you were right...

what was that? can you say that a bit louder? (just teasin')

didn't mean to space out (which is a really stupid thing to say, i know, because i never MEAN to, though i'm invariably doing it) trying to talk/chew on gum at same time

gum, not gums, incidentally (know how your mind works)

we all zone out once in a while (i actually did it right in the middle of a live conversation and didn't wake up til i was asked a question). yeah, that doin' two things at once can be a real bummer.....

do you now?