OT: What Album Do You Listen To All The Way Through?
Mid afternoon in Shanghai drinking and listening to music. Looking for feedback from the Board on albums (I say that in a generic sense in today's digital world) you put on and listen to all the way through.
Most of mine are old school since, one, I'm old (not like Herm old though), and, two, I just download one off songs these days.
Please enlighten me on what albums you play and listen to from start to finish so I can download some more music.
A few off the top of my head that I listen to from start to finsih.
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
Kid A - Radiohead
It's Dark and Hell is Hot - DMX
Gentlemen - Afghan Whigs
The Roots Come Alive - The Roots
Room On Fire - The Strokes
Bossanova - The Pixies
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Disintegration - The Cure
Nevermind - Nirvana
Life After Death - Notorious BIG
Murmur - REM
Pleased To Meet Me - The Replacements
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Pretty Much Any Grateful Dead Live
That's enough....yes, I listen to The Beatles and The Smiths too...
EDIT: As expected you all came through! I spent way too many hours checking out a lot of different music today and dowloading quite a bit. Now it is sleep time in Shanghai. Thanks!
Plus 1,000.
Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love, Shout at the Devil
Guns N Roses - Appetite
Metallica - And Justice for All
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Pearl Jam - Ten
AC/DC - Ballbreaker, Highway to Hell, Back in Black
Ozzy- Blizzard of Oz, Diary of a Madman, Speak of the Devil
As you can tell, I don't care for too much of todays music. BTW I am 34.
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site, Left and Leaving and Reunion Tour
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
Weezer - The Blue Album.
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Bright Eyes - Lifted or the story in the soil.
Tool - Undertow, Anemia
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
EDIT: Oh and every single Andrew Jackson Jihad album that has ever been released.
Interpol-Turn of the Bright Lights
Sketches of Spain. Kule Se Mama. Blue Train.Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana. The Best of Fela Ransome Kuti EMI LP version. Amadou Et Mariam. Como El Agua. Nonesuch Music of Bulgaria.
The Dirty Dancing soundtrack... Seriously... It's awesome... No, for real, It's awesome.
What an irony, I would (with all due respect) say the exact same thing about your suggestions re: "ain't what it used to be." Mine goes back even further: Eric B. & Rakim, Licensed to Ill/Paul's Boutique, Run DMC up through Raising Hell, LL up through Mama Said, Mix-a-lot's Swass, 3rd Bass, and so on.
The problem is, both of you are correct.
However, in 20 years...the kids of today will have no argument like you do.
Alex Clare - The Lateness of the Hour
Boston - Boston
Beatles - Let it be
Five Man Electrical Band - Absoutely Right
Foghat - Fool for the City
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (II)
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Incubus - Make Yourself
Metallica - And Justice for all & Blacken
The Strokes - Angles, Room on Fire & This is it
30 Seconds to Mars - A beautitful Lie
All the Brand New albums (except Your Favorite Weapon)
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor, The Airing of Grievances
The Antlers - Hospice
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
am I the only one that listens to Dark Side of the Moon? Please tell me I'm not the only one who has played it along with The Wizard of Oz? (Back in the old days, we didn't have MTV, we used to get stoned and watch the radio)
forgot to add that one.. opps
When it first came out, I listened to Dark Side of the Moon over and over. And yes, I'm pretty sure you are the only one wh played it along to Wizard of Oz, but it does kind of make sense, in a stoned, ephemeral way.
It's funny -- I knew about the album *way* before its association with the movie. In fact, I learned about it from much younger relatives.
And I just learned about it here today. In addition to sports info., I pick up at least one odd bit of cultural trivia per week reading MGoBlog posts. I guess this is my odd bit for the week (and at least this is one I don't have to ask my kids to explain to me; Google sufficed.)
Neutral Milk Hotel - ITAOTS
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Auld Lang Syne - Midnight Folly
Any Arcade Fire
The Black Keys - Brothers
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Cool Hand Luke - Wake Up O Sleeper
The Cure - Disintegration
Any Daft Punk
Death Cab - Narrow Stairs
Kanye - The College Dropout
The Killers - Sam's Town
Any Led
mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Muse - Absolution
Radiohead - The Bends
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie/Siamese Dream
Weezer - Blue
Any pre-American Idiot Green Day album
Pretty much any Brand New album, maybe not Daisy
All of Coheed's albums
All of Circa Survive's albums
Bayside's albums minus the most recent
A lot of Alkaline Trio's albums except maybe one or two.
A lot of Pink Floyd albums (not Dark Side of the Moon, I always skip "Money")
A lot of stuff by Thrice, especially Vheissu, not Major/Minor
Catch-22 or Streetlight Manifesto - Keasbey Nights
Less Than Jake - Losing Streak
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Jay-Z - The Blueprint, The Black Album
Thursday - Full Collapse, War All the Time
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Nirvana - Nevermind
There are probably others too but this is enough.
The Head and The Heart
also
Local Natives-Gorilla Manor
Other than H and H, I'll listen to Citizen Cope, Postal Service, and old DMB albums all the way through.
Matt Pryor - May Day
The Postal Service - Give Up
The New Amsterdams - Worse for the Wear
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About, & Simple Science EP
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit
Any Roxy Music
David Bowie - Changes One
Steely Dan - Aja
Shakatak - Open Your Eyes
Incognito - A Shade of Blue
Crap, now I feel old ... like Herm old. :-)
Dire Straits -- Love Over Gold
The Who -- Who's Next
Traffic -- Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Bob Seger -- Live Bullet
Billy Squire - Don't Say No
Any album by Triumph / Rik Emmitt
April Wine - Nature of the Beast
Eagles Greatest Hits
Steve Miller Greatest Hits
Van Halen I, 5150 and 1984
Sammy Hagar, Standing Hampton
Anything by Creed / Alter Bridge
The Outfield - Playing the Field
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien, Flying in a Blue Dream
Journey - Infinity, Escape, Departure
U2 - Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire, War, Live At Red Rocks, October
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits
GG Allin. We did a gig together in Ann Arbor in 1989. He might have been one messed up white dude but he knew his alcohol (and bought me some too!).
Loved Sheryl Crow's first album. No need to apologize.
Good to see a couple Appetite for Destructions on here.
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime or Empire
Toad the Wet Sprocket: Fear
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Born in the USA, or Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band/ Live 75 to 85 (get this one if you like Bruce and want a well-rounded greatest hits)
Van Halen: 1984
Bon Jovi: New Jersey (Believe it or not, this is an awesome follow up to the more famous but nowhere close to as good Slippery When Wet.)
Skid Row: Slave to the Grind (This came out in the early 90s when grunge was taking over and bands like Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Poison, etc. were all lumped together as a punchline.) It rocks hard. Reminicent of Appetite for Destruction by GNR but I think even better.
on Sheryl Crow's album on my list as well. Think I still have a Unix account somewhere with a quote from her as my greeting...
Genesis - The lamb lies down on Broadway, Duke, etc.
Dire Straits - Making Movies
The Engish Beat - Special Beat Service
The B-52s - Good Stuff
Green Day - American Idiot
Yes - 90125
Dire Straits - Making Movies
+1 ... a gem of an album ... often underappreciated. Knopfler was really starting to hit stride with Communiqué (album that preceded Making Movies). The first three songs pack a punch -- Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet, and Skateaway.
Romeo and Juliet is beautiful in its simplicity and elegance.
Who's Next - The Who
Tommy - The Who
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Joshua Tree - U2
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Beatles- Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's
Libertines- Up the Bracket
Arcade Fire- Funeral
The Clash- London Calling
Dylan- Blonde on Blonde
Babyshambles- Down in Albion
Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Velvet Underground- White Light/White Heat and The Velvet Underground and Nico
Radiohead- The Bends and Kid A
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm, A Weekend in the City
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Jay-Z- Reasonable Doubt
White Stripes- White Blood Cells
Oasis- (What's the Story) Morning Glory
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain (an especially good album for getting lost in London's Hempstead Heath)
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Bob Marley- Legend
Van Morrison- Moondance
Strokes- Is This It?
The Stones- Let It Bleed
Thank you for bringing up that Oasis album.
This is the only one I can remember recently:
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
Paul's Boutique, Licensed to Ill
Substance--New Order
Violator, Music for the Masses--Depeche Mode
It Takes a Nation of Million to Hold Us Back, Yo Bum Rush the Show--Public Enemy
Raising Hell--Run DMC
Viva Hate--Morrissey
Ungod--Stabbing Westward
Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral--NIN
Meat is Murder--Smiths
Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed . . . Suck Eggs--Ministry
Achtung Baby, Zooropa--U2
2. Pearl Jam- Ten
3. Elton John- Elton John's Greatest Hits
4. Eminem- The Eminem Show
5. Lionel Richie- Can't Slow Down
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon (1 or 2 really)
How do you feel about WZRD?
Torches - Foster the People