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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 21, 2024 14:54:57 GMT -5
I really LOVE the Doors, but it took be a little time to get into them back in the early 90s, when I first heard their music. I was into a lot of other West Coast psychedelic bands before the Doors properly clicked with me. And it was this debut album in its entirety that finally won me over. These days I have all of their albums, and I think they never really made a bad one while Jim Morrison was in the band (even The Soft Parade is pretty damn good really). When it comes to my favourite Doors LP though, it's always a battle between this and the follow-up, Strange Days, which is at least every bit as good as The Doors, even if it doesn't quite have that reputation, generally speaking. Yeah, I love them, too, ever since my pre-teens when I heard "Riders on the Storm" on the radio and asked my older brother who it was and he said, "Some sixties band called the Doors." When I got a little older and started buying music, I got a 'best of' cassette but then quickly moved on to the individual albums. Had 'em all plus Absolutely Live on cassette (and now on cd) and listened to them over and over. Can't really say which is my favorite; the debut album is killer (and used to be my favorite when I was in my teens), and yes, Strange Days is excellent, too, but then again so are Waiting for the Sun and Morrison Hotel. Heck, even The Soft Parade is solid. And then there's LA Woman. Damn, still can't decide...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 21, 2024 15:06:23 GMT -5
I really LOVE the Doors, but it took be a little time to get into them back in the early 90s, when I first heard their music. I was into a lot of other West Coast psychedelic bands before the Doors properly clicked with me. And it was this debut album in its entirety that finally won me over. These days I have all of their albums, and I think they never really made a bad one while Jim Morrison was in the band (even The Soft Parade is pretty damn good really). When it comes to my favourite Doors LP though, it's always a battle between this and the follow-up, Strange Days, which is at least every bit as good as The Doors, even if it doesn't quite have that reputation, generally speaking. Yeah, I love them, too, ever since my pre-teens when I heard "Riders on the Storm" on the radio and asked my older brother who it was and he said, "Some sixties band called the Doors." When I got a little older and started buying music, I got a 'best of' cassette but then quickly moved on to the individual albums. Had 'em all plus Absolutely Live on cassette (and now on cd) and listened to them over and over. Can't really say which is my favorite; the debut album is killer (and used to be my favorite when I was in my teens), and yes, Strange Days is excellent, too, but then again so are Waiting for the Sun and Morrison Hotel. Heck, even The Soft Parade is solid. And then there's LA Woman. Damn, still can't decide... I recommend checking out The Doors album which came out after Jim Morrison's death. Titled Other Voices (1971) it had some killer tracks. Keyboardist Ray Manzarek supplied most of the lead vocals but it is easy to imagine Jim Morrison belting these out. The song Tightrope Ride was a top 40 single. Ships With Sails was a great extended Doors Jam Their final album, Full Circle (1972) was not as good but had a weird, catchy song, The Mosquito
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 21, 2024 15:41:07 GMT -5
#4 - Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths (1984) I never got The Smiths. They just weren't a big thing where I grew up (I was in high school in '84). So, I got nothin'. King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) I had some roommates in college who played this album incessantly, so I've heard it a lot. I've not listened to it since college. 4. Aerosmith: Big Ones (1993) I was a reasonably big fan of Aerosmith in high school and college. If I never had to hear Aerosmith again it would be too soon.
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Post by impulse on Oct 21, 2024 16:23:46 GMT -5
#4 - Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths (1984) #4 - Same Train, Different Time by Merle Haggard (Capitol 1969) King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) All three of these are names I'm familiar with that I've never gotten around to really diving into, but I know I should. I am going to try and make a Spotify playlist of all of the suggestions after this is done so I can absorb some of this stuff. Yeah, I love them, too, ever since my pre-teens when I heard "Riders on the Storm" on the radio and asked my older brother who it was and he said, "Some sixties band called the Doors." This was one of my other favorite Doors songs, and it's one of the only ones I still listen to anymore. I was a reasonably big fan of Aerosmith in high school and college. If I never had to hear Aerosmith again it would be too soon. I don't listen to them as often as I used to, but they somehow slipped past my "sick of it from exposure" filter like most other classic rock bands, so I do sometime find myself in the mood and still enjoy them a lot when I do. It was a lot of fun listening to that album again after selecting it. They probably just got in on my early impressionable years on what cool music sounded like. In the 90s, I thought Joe Perry and Steven Tyler were the two coolest mother f*****s on the planet. That sentiment has certainly cooled over time, though.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 21, 2024 16:36:39 GMT -5
#4 - Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths (1984) #4 - Same Train, Different Time by Merle Haggard (Capitol 1969) King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) All three of these are names I'm familiar with that I've never gotten around to really diving into, but I know I should. I am going to try and make a Spotify playlist of all of the suggestions after this is done so I can absorb some of this stuff. Yeah, I love them, too, ever since my pre-teens when I heard "Riders on the Storm" on the radio and asked my older brother who it was and he said, "Some sixties band called the Doors." This was one of my other favorite Doors songs, and it's one of the only ones I still listen to anymore. I was a reasonably big fan of Aerosmith in high school and college. If I never had to hear Aerosmith again it would be too soon. I don't listen to them as often as I used to, but they somehow slipped past my "sick of it from exposure" filter like most other classic rock bands, so I do sometime find myself in the mood and still enjoy them a lot when I do. It was a lot of fun listening to that album again after selecting it. They probably just got in on my early impressionable years on what cool music sounded like. In the 90s, I thought Joe Perry and Steven Tyler were the two coolest mother f*****s on the planet. That sentiment has certainly cooled over time, though. This is probably not the place to start with Haggard, as much as I love the album. I have another one coming up that's a better starting place. Or I can make some suggestions.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 21, 2024 16:37:08 GMT -5
1965 was a ridiculously good year for jazz.
That's it. That's the post.
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Post by impulse on Oct 21, 2024 16:47:34 GMT -5
#5 - Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants (1980) I may have prematurely presupposed we would run out of musical overlap around this time. I was not familiar with this group, but I can appreciate the quirky punkiness. Or is it punky quirkiness? In any case, I like it. I wonder, if you don't know it, if you's like the collection on The Crow motion picture soundtrack. It didn't make my list, but was a runner up. It's got a similar progression from 80s-esque bands like this into the 90s with a more melancholy and alternative flavoring to it. It was my bridge into alternative, but sounds similar to a lot of things I've seen you like. Not sure it will be your cup of tea, but there might be a few songs that click with you. If you're in the market for music you (possibly?) don't know.
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Post by berkley on Oct 21, 2024 18:52:51 GMT -5
5. The Beatles - 1962-66 (Red Album)
This album didn't come out until 1973, when I would have been 11 years old, but the Beatles had been a huge part of my musical world from as early as 1967 or 1968, possibly even earlier as I can't recall exactly how old I was when I first heard songs like I Saw her Standing There and She Loves You. So when I got this album I already knew quite a few of the songs but there was still a lot of things to discover. And whether hearing them for the first time or not, being able to play them on this record whenever I wanted was a different experience to just enjoying them when they happened to come on the radio. This is certainly one of the albums I've played and listened to the most times in my life, even though I've never owned a cd version.
It,s hard to pick out a samples but I'll go with Please, Please Me since, while I probably had heard it before, it was through listening to it repeatedly on this album that I came to really love it. It's still one of my (many, many) Beatles favourites:
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Post by berkley on Oct 21, 2024 19:00:10 GMT -5
Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company- Cheap Thrills -Released Aug 1968This would be the next chronological album to blow my socks off. The power, the soulfulness, the vulnerability in Janis' vocal delivery is iconic. And while this album had a bunch of her early classic hits like Ball and Chain and Piece Of My Heart, I might rank her final album, Pearl , even higher But this album had some personal significance for me. I had made friends in 1969 with a couple who were into the biker lifestyle. The only music they played in their house would be this album and a few LPS from Steppenwolf. So I know who I borrowed the album from to make a copy for my tape recorder I also remember this album being played when I finally lost my virginity And that album cover by Robert Crumb, wow I chose this live 1969 video of Janis singing Summertime from Cheap Thrills. I don't think I've ever seen this video clip before I've never listened to this album though I know a few of the tracks pretty well, including Summertime. She was a big talent but I find I only like hearing her when I'm in the right mood. Did Robert Plant ever acknowledge her as an influence? It sure sounds like he took a lot from her sound.
Speaking of Steppenwolf, one of their albums almost made my list but I've since thought of something else that I can't leave out.
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