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Post by jandl100 on Apr 25, 2019 10:23:51 GMT
Deep Purple - Made in Japan Pete Atkin - Beware Of The Beautiful Stranger Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus The Buggles - The Age Of Plastic Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road America - America Supertramp - Crime of the Century Melanie - Gather Me Gerry Rafferty - City to City Midlake - Courage of Others
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Post by Barrington on Apr 25, 2019 10:34:35 GMT
Deep Purple - Made in Japan Pete Atkin - Beware Of The Beautiful Stranger Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus The Buggles - The Age Of Plastic Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road America - America Supertramp - Crime of the Century Melanie - Gather Me Gerry Rafferty - City to City Midlake - Courage of Others I'm always play Simon and Garfunkel but I couldn't chose one album if pushed it would be Bookends as I've just bought a Japanese pressing . Rattus Norvegicus was bubbling under .
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 10:42:13 GMT
This is a great thread, it certainly got me thinking about what I listen to the most.
Mary Black - No Frontiers Eric Clapton - Reptile Phil Collins - Both Sides Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet Def Leppard - Hysteria Dire Straits - Brother in Arms London Grammar - If You Wait Robbie Robertson - Storyville Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin Paul Simon - Graceland James Taylor - October Road Yello - The Eye
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2019 10:52:43 GMT
Deep Purple - Made in Japan . Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence . Supertramp - Crime of the Century Yes, even more commonality!
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 25, 2019 10:55:41 GMT
Reading Pete's OP, I saw he was interested in the albums that define my taste in music rather than just my eleven favourite records, so my selection was really done with the premise that they must have somehow fundamentally influenced my listening habits.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2019 11:12:03 GMT
albums that define my taste in music rather than just my eleven favourite records Very loosely, I find those to be the same things, or at least they migrate to becoming the same things.
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Post by John on Apr 25, 2019 11:36:53 GMT
I didn't aim to show my musical tastes but ended up with a fair reflection of the kind of music I enjoy
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Post by Pinch on Apr 25, 2019 11:42:10 GMT
petea I'm slightly unclear as to what a core album is. Some ideas: Favourite albums; albums which I return to most frequently; albums which have had the most significant affect on the development of my music preferences; albums which collectively represent my music preferences. I could produce distinct lists for each of these, with little or no overlap. But tell me what to do and I'll do it!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2019 12:05:39 GMT
I chose to go with the albums I am mostly likely to play. That doesn't mean that I necessarily play them all of the time, and sometimes can go for weeks or even months without playing them, but they are still albums I play over and over again.
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Post by petea on Apr 25, 2019 13:51:01 GMT
petea I'm slightly unclear as to what a core album is. Some ideas: Favourite albums; albums which I return to most frequently; albums which have had the most significant affect on the development of my music preferences; albums which collectively represent my music preferences. I could produce distinct lists for each of these, with little or no overlap. But tell me what to do and I'll do it! I was thinking about those albums I return to most frequently rather than current favourites even though the list eventually include some of the latter. I wondered if this might somehow 'define' ones taste or at least its development. I'm aware that the limit is painfully short and I certainly had to leave a few out, but it did help focus my mind and made me think more in general about what I liked and how that changes over time. For example, although I have always liked jazz, especially Be-Bop and the more avant-garde forms, I did not play it regularly nor own much until the last, maybe, 5 years. So, the main part of my core is based around my first musical influences and shows some change. Fifteen years ago, "Tales from Topographic Oceans" by Yes would have been in there and quite a bit of Jethro Tull, but that has been edged out (it was painful leaving "Thick as a Brick" out, I can tell you!). If I wanted a Yes album it would now have to be "Relayer", although that was not originally a favourite. Interesting.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2019 13:57:34 GMT
If I wanted a Yes album it would now have to be "Relayer", although that was not originally a favourite. Mine too, especially as recent mastering has finally made it sound reasonably good as opposed to distant and flat.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 25, 2019 14:48:20 GMT
Pete Atkin - Beware Of The Beautiful Stranger... You're the other person who bought that then.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 25, 2019 15:05:09 GMT
I saw Core Albums as the ones you really love, couldn't do without, play regularly
Another interpretation could be when you first heard it, (or when you had absorbed it properly, like Mahavishnu's Birds of Fire) you realised *this* was what it was all about.
Working from that I might be able to cut my list down.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2019 16:44:41 GMT
I saw Core Albums as the ones you really love, couldn't do without, play regularly That's my interpretation. You're not trying hard enough! Make a list, slice off the top 11.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 25, 2019 17:48:43 GMT
I saw Core Albums as the ones you really love, couldn't do without, play regularly That's my interpretation. You're not trying hard enough! Make a list, slice off the top 11. What, and betray those left behind !?
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Post by petea on Apr 25, 2019 17:50:01 GMT
It's a tough world. They should just have been better!
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 25, 2019 17:55:36 GMT
They are all wonderful. Some can probably be marked down to a 9. After that I'm comparing one against the other
to do it right
Wrong is easy
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 25, 2019 21:18:40 GMT
Pete Atkin - Beware Of The Beautiful Stranger... You're the other person who bought that then. Could be. Laidback laconic delivery and brilliant lyrics by Clive James. What's not to like?
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Post by Slinger on Apr 25, 2019 22:04:03 GMT
You're the other person who bought that then. Could be. Laidback laconic delivery and brilliant lyrics by Clive James. What's not to like? Exactly. I was recommending it (without success) to Mike only last week.
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 26, 2019 20:03:57 GMT
I've degenerated to core tracks these days. Perhaps it's Spotify's fault.. but wait, no I was already doing it with Jriver and Flacs.
That said I just listened to all of one album..
Though albums I put in this thread are
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones Paradise and Lunch - Ry Cooder Jazz på svenska - Jan Johansson Dire straits Rumours - Fleetwood Mac Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett Baby Darling Dollface Honey - Band of skulls Touch - Yello Greetings From Asbury Park - Bruce Springsteen Who Are You - The Who Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos Together Summit Album - Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong Frank Sinatra and Company
There used to be more but they've fallen from favour / I've changed.
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