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thenewgreen  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your favorite album?

Impossible question. But still, one I've posed before because it's fun. Here is the Top 5 answer I gave before:

1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -Wilco

2. Revolver -The Beatles

3. The Bends - Radiohead

4. The White Album - The Beatles

5. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

These are all albums that for different reasons have had an impact on me, albums that I will never tire of.

If it is not possible to use two albums by the same band you can take out one of the Beatles albums and replace with Sea Change by Beck.

Now I really want to get The Bends on Vinyl. What a kick ass rock album.

Also, all the links I've provided are for "full listen" audio via youtube so you can stream the whole albums if you'd like.





user-inactivated  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We have extremely similar taste in music. My favorite album is Rubber Soul, Pet Sounds has to be up there and I love the other artists you named.

thenewgreen  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Cool, we will have to swap some other favorites. I should mention that sounds_sound has introduced me to some of my favorite artists. He will often post some good tunes FYI.

user-inactivated  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've definitely noticed that.

You know, some sort of weekly what did you download/buy this week thread might not be amiss. I'm constantly accruing music new and old, as are I'm sure a good number of hubskiers.

thenewgreen  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a good call. If you get that thread going, let me know and I'll definitely participate. Have you heard Sandro Perri? sounds_sound's most recent introduction and I love it.

Here is one of my favorites

user-inactivated  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The pacing of that is very odd, but calming.

I think if I remember on Sunday's I'll thread a "what did you listen to this week" sort of thing.

thenewgreen  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you get a chance, check out Vetiver BlueMojo introduced me. Good stuff. Great album.

user-inactivated  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Drugs and lo-fi

sounds_sound  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wolfman is better. But you knew I would say that. I was lucky enough to see him play live last year in an old movie theater turned venue. Maybe 20 people there or so. Great band.

thenewgreen  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I did know. It's a great song and that is a hell of a performance. Is that they same lineup you saw? They sound great.

sounds_sound  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No. The line up I saw was the drummer that you see there and the bass player that you see there, making 3 total. All of his buddies are multi-instrumentalists so there is a lot of depth there. The bass player for example, was playing the flute bits when I saw them. Sandro's music has a bit of Jazz structure to it too, so I would guess that they're all able to transcribe quickly. One difference with that song in particular is that the flute part that is the long linear progression of scale, up then down the up again, was played by Perri himself on his guitar. That's how we hear it on the album as well. I find it's a much more satisfying part on the guitar than the flute. That's just preference though.

Fishbread  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I havent listened to Wilco before, Im really liking it. I recently got Ok Computer on vinyl, next on my list is The Bends.

sounds_sound  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I used to take my brother's cabinet speakers, face them toward eachother, and sit in-between them with the Bends on full volume.

They brought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines, to blow me away. To blow me SKYYY HIIIGGGHHHHHH!