Hello to all ,

So ...how about albums or CD's that you bought that you will always keep ?

For me :
Fly like an Eagle from Steve Miller
Captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboys from Elton John
Tommy from the Who


are just a few ...............dano

Elvis anyone ?

You're not going to believe this. Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock". I bought it new as a little boy and still have it.
This was about forty years before CD's were invented.
Next important was Elvis--a four-song extended record with Paralyzed, Love Me, Blue Moon Of Kentucky and . . .I forgot what the other song was. I'm getting senile along with sentimental. See what you did.
DonM

Careful Don,
Your age is showing!!!!!

How about VINTAGE COLLECTION by Merle Haggard
All the best,
Nobby
PS: hey!! DanO enjoying that Kaces KB porter
it's very nice!

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Hi Everyone,
CD`s that I will keep, all "Alan Parsons Project" + all "Steely Dan" + PF "Dark Side of the Moon" , Wish You Where Here" + Supertramp "Crime of the Century" , "Breakfast in America" + Yes Years [box set] . These songs bring me "up when I`m down and keep me level when I`m up!
O- I almost forgot the 2 Julee Cruise albums ("Floating Into The Night" + The Voice of Love" ) Good Poll
jedi

I miss opening an album to read the lyrics and look at the credits !

CD's have taken away from this IMHO .
I can never get the cover back in right ! it sucks ..........

dano

For me it comes down to my favorites in my favorite genres.

Jazz and Jazz Fusion : Elegant Gypsy - Al DiMeola ; Electric Guitarist - John McLaughlin. Any Chick Corea "album"

Blues / Power Blues : Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower

Rock: Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibiton - Emerson Lake and Palmer ;
Fragile, Close to the Edge, and almost every other album from the group "Yes".
Also various albums from Alan Parsons, Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa.


AJ

Well, Jedi and Bluezplayer must have taken a look in my record collection . I would also like to add Genesis "The lamb lies down on Broadway". A truly marvelous record.

I´m also into "classical" music. My fav. composers are JS Bach, Haydn, Tchaikovskij, Prokofieff and Stravinskij. But Purcell, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mussorgskij, Debussy, Ravel, Schoenberg, Holst, Berg, Schostakovitj, Bartok did also write some nice stuff!

Regards, Michael

1. Abbey Road
2. Chicago first album
3. Blood Sweat & Tears first album
4. Rubber Soul
5. Inna Godda Da Vida (sp)? with the 22 hour drum solo

Tom

P.S. Like the fool that I am I traded away my Beatles 45 of Twist and Shout for a 45 of Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter by Herman's Hermits.

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Wow AJ.....Bridge of Sighs....that makes 2 of us...also


Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - EJ
Stranger - Billy Joel
Herb Albert and the TB -
led Zep - Stairway

Age showing here----but all of the albums by the Ventures, 60's instrumental group. Got most of them.
Larry

Gino Vannelli - "Brother To Brother" and "Nightwalker"

DanO
I have link here that you & the others might like to see.
DonM you have e-mail!
http://www.bondegezou.demon.co.uk/amy_faq.htm#history
Nobby

PS: My daughter found this because I new nothing about the "YES" group!


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Sgt. Pepper: Beatles
Heavy Weather: Weather Report
Beach Boys (I'm Sorry) but the harmonies are great, always have been.

For quite some time I used to think "Cheap Thrills" was the best recorded "live" album until I read the Joplin biography "Buried Alive" and found out the stage intro, background sounds, everything, was done in the studio.

Another vote for Bridge of Sighs.

"Jazz Poet", 1989, by Tommy Flanagan
(with Kenny Washington and George Mraz)

I was born in the 70's and in the early 80's I found myself buying my first record. I was only 12 years old and the first LP I got was "A kiss in a dreamhouse" from Siouxie and The Banshees. The music from the post-punk era is in my background and I've been so much influenced by it. The Cocteau Twins, The Cure, and many other bands formed nearly at the end of the 70's are still my favorite bands. I like to listen to 60's music but as I sayd the post-punk era made me who I am (musically speaking!) so that makes very hard for me to enjoy the melody and the contents of 60's music, plus I'm too young to feel those pre 70's music releases close to my life experience, that's why they don't say to much to me. VIVA ROCK!

Maximo

Black Sabath's Heaven and Hell.

hi!

ALL of The Beatles
most Elvis!
FELICIANO !! from Jose Feliciano
Elegant Gypsy from Al DiMeola
From the Craddle by Eric Clapton
and the great works from Mozart, Beethoven, Puccini, Verdi and Chopin.

there is much more but these are the most influencial for me.

thanks

Simon

Well, she didn't do an album, but I guess the greatest musical influence was my mother. She played piano and organ at church and was a quite-accomplished concert pianist in high school. We always had a piano and/or organ at home.
She is in South Texas in a retirement community and still has a small Yamaha organ that she plays occasionally.
See what you caused, Mom?
DonM

The Best Of Spyro Gyra
The Best Of Eumir Deodato
The Best Of Uriah Heep
The Best Of Tower Of Power
The Best Of Deep Purple
The Best Of Yes
The Best Of Steely Dan
The Best Of Dobbie Brothers
The Best Of Santana
The Best Of Rare Earth
The Best Of Gary Moore
The Best Of Bill Withers
The Best Of Emerson,Lake and Palmer
The Best Of Earth, Wind and Fire
The Best Of Dave Clark 5
45 record of Critters; Mr. Diengly Sad
All Chicago Albums
All Pink Floyd's Album
The Art Of Tea, Tiger in the rain; Michael Franks

DonM....
Very nice tribute.

Napster . . .

Man oh man!
I am too old for this group!
Here are some folks that influenced me in my music career.
Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Nelson Riddle
Henry Mancini
Miles Davis
Walter Wonderly

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As for singers:
Jack Jones
Mel torme
Frank Sinatra
Perry Como
Tony Bennet
Ella Fitzgerald
Elvis

Having nothing to do with talent, this is probably the only reason that I am still making a living performing at 59 1/2 years old.

Probably my favorite album of all time is Romantic Warrior by Return To Forever featuring Chick Corea on keys with memorable synth lines, Al Di Meola on guitar, Stanley Clarke on bass and Lenny White on drums. Listening to this recording is always an experience.




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Hey everyone! I know that I have not been out here lately...I've been working hard on my website that will feature my music along with my twin brother's music as well!!! And, don't forget, there will be studio pictures too! (I'll let you know when it is ready!)

But, I will not get off topic, so I will go ahead and tell you what my favorite CD's are:

I really don't have a favorite CD, since there are so many good compositions out there. I specifically like orchestral arrangements, like movie themes. Other than that, I like ALL types of music! I cannot say that I like one type of music more than the other since all types are simply unique and offer their own sound, whether it be Jazz or even slow rock.

Again, like I said, I really enjoy listening to orchestral arrangements! Here are some CD's I really like:

-The Last of the Mohicans...I really love this one...I think it has the best movie theme! When I watched the movie, the music was so uplifting and inspiring - it really was perfect for this movie and added A LOT to the scenes. But, unfortunately, I do not even own the soundtrack! LOL!
-Dances with Wolves...this one is VERY good and I really enjoy listening to the inspiring orchestral arrangements!
-Phil Collins: Hits...of course, this one is very good, since it has all of Phil Collins' hits on it!
-Star Wars: Episode 1...This one has some excellent music, even though I am not a big fan of the Star Wars series. I like the Dual of the Fates composition...I honestly think that John William's music was too good for this movie and I feel that his compositions belonged in a better movie!
-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...This one has some very unique music! The Cello is an awesome instrument, and it is one of the main instruments featured in the soundtrack! Since I took Cello lessons for about two to three years, I really love this soundtrack! And there is even a Cello solo by the famous cello player Yo-Yo Ma!

Here are some othere ones:
-Apollo 13
-Jurrasic Park
-The Truman Show (I love the music from this movie, but I do not own the soundtrack.)
-Enya
-Speed and The Rock
-Mortal Kombat
-And there are many more that I really enjoy listening to!

Well, there is the list of some of the music I like! I love to listen to other music as well, but I think I forgot some of them. I really enjoyed looking at the music that some of you like, this is a good discussion!

Well, see you around everybody and enjoy your day!
Ryan

Mario .... we're pretty close in age (just turned 61) and even closer in some of the musical influences ... my first influence was my mother, who at the age of 89 is STILL asked to sing for seniors, etc. .... of course most of the people she sings to are younger than her ... my sisters and I used to listen to Alan Freed, and sing along with The Platters, etc. while we did the supper dishes.... and then of course ELVIS ... didn't start appreciating Sinatra until my early 30's or so ... Jack Jones, one of the most underrated singers around, Vic Damone - smooooth ... Torme .... smooooother....later - Donald Fagan, Eagles, Clapton ....
...Michael Franks - great stuff ... and ALL the old time, and unfortunately mostly gone jazz artists... Paul Desmond, Mulligan, Getz, and Brubeck, OSCAR PETERSON !!! ...
today - Michelle Camillo! ... David Sanborn, Bob James, DIANA KRAULL .....
. the beat goes on ....
t.

Nigel,

That link spurred something that turned into hours of surfing after I listened to every sample from every album on that page. I still listen to Elegant Gypsy and land Of the Midnight Sun often, but I had almost forgotten some of the others. I have "Casino" as well and have heard but never owned Romantic Warrior. I think thaat may change though. What a great album.

AJ

Nigel ,
I will try to find that CD or Album myself !

Nice input everyone !

He's a few others ....Jesus Christ Superstar
Who's Next from the WHO

dano

Tony:
Boy, am I glad to find you. I was starting to feel pretty lonely in this group. I am basically a "romantic" guy at heart and the best way to express it thru music. I appreciate some of today's music, but I do miss the "melodic" and "romantic" content of our era; this, being the reason that I keep going back to it and hopefully contributing to it's preservation.
Yeah, I forgot to mention Vic Damone as one of my biggest influence. Also I forgot the great Sammy Davis, possibly the greatest all around "live" performers of our time.
I guess is the "latin" in me (along with my lovely wife) that keeps me being a "hopeless"
romantic at heart.
regards,
Mario

My favourites:

EAGLES - Hell freezes over
GENESIS - And then there were three...
EXTREME - Pornograffitti
AYREON - Electric Castle
TOTO - Tambu

I'm going to diverge from the rest of the group here and tell you that two albums from one artist changed my life forever: "Home of the Brave" and "Strange Angels" by Laurie Anderson. I saw Laurie perform the "Mr. Heartbreak Tour" that became the live concert movie/album "Home of The Brave", and was literally stunned out of my seat. Laurie's use of electronic instruments, non-traditional timing, art and multimedia, and keen intellectual wit all blew me away. These albums are from the mid-to-late 80's and Laurie has since focused more on her two most favored devices: monologue and the violin. So I'm not as big a fan today as I used to be though I appreciate all of her work. But as a guy who grew up listening to powerhouse keyboardists like Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks, Chick Corea and many more, I saw something new and refreshing in Laurie Anderson's minimized and artistic approach to keyboards and music in the 80's that radically altered my way of thinking.

Mario ... obviously, I'm not playing today's top 40 when I'm doing a gig, but I will do some of the popular "middle of the road' stuff, and some of the country 'cross-over' or whatever (such as Garth's 'The Dance' or 'If Tomorrow Never Comes', which became the most requested tune at my latest lounge stand) ... but I thought it was great a number of years ago, when Harry Connick Jr. came out with the songs of 'When Harry Met Sally' with tunes like 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore', 'I Could Write A Book',etc., and younger people in my audience came up and asked if I knew any of the 'new' Harry Connick music ... I always throw in a good set of music from "America's Songbook" whenever I play ....
t.

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