The absolute low in Lennon's career, never thought I would see that mentioned here.Originally Posted by Taped Rugs
The absolute low in Lennon's career, never thought I would see that mentioned here.
Ha! Well, ches, I guess not everybody thinks the way you do, eh?
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (close enough)
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Mtume Umoja Ensemble - Alkebu-Lan: Land Of The Blacks
Don Bradshaw-Leather - Distance Between Us
Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat
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Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
This one was released under name of Frank Zappa, if memory serves.
Great choice!
WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
That's not even a proper sentence, icewhole!
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
All the Miles double albums plus
Tales
Tago Mago
Spirit of 76 - Spirit
Preservation Act 2 - the Kinks
Irish Tour 74 - Rory Gallagher
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos
Excluding 100% Live and Compilations:
Soft Machine: Third and Six
Amon Duul 2: Yeti
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
Can: Tago Mago
Byrds: Untitled
Yes: Tales
Beefheart: Trout Mask
I'd like to put the 2 Todd's on here but they are a little too hit and miss for true greatness. Same goes for the Lamb, IMHO of course
Billed as Frank Zappa with the Mothers of Invention and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Limiting to studio albums (not in order)
ADII: Tanz Der Lemminge; Yeti
Can: Tago Mago
Derek & The Dominoes: Layla
Genesis: TLLDOB
Rolling Stones: Exile
Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything; Wizard, A True Star
Terje Rypdal: Odyssey
Soft Machine: Third
Genesis - The Lamb
Yes - Tales
(I guess those are obvious but they do happen to be my personal favorites too, which usually doesn't work out that way)
Also:
Miles - Bitches Brew
Soft Machine - Third
Allman Bros - Live at the Fillmore, Eat a Peach
Wishbone Ash - Live Dates
Jethro Tull - Living In The Past (far from my favorite of theirs, but decent enough)
It might be the most densely packed record of all time, but Wizard is a single.
Physical Graffiti wasn't supposed to be a double album.
it's a collection of previous unused tracks added to new tracks.
and the inclusion of Boogie With Stu disqualifies it-
it's the worst LZ song ever recorded!
Everybody's jealous of the mighty Zep.
Their worst song is Hard On for Roy Harper, easily.
I personally love "Boogie With Stu". It's a fun song, and they sound like they're having a riot playing it. It is part of the overall appeal of the album. That being said, Physical Graffiti is a great album, no matter how you parse it.
That's like saying Tull's Living in the Past is "disqualified" because it is a collection of singles, cuts from a UK-only EP release, songs that were on other albums, songs that didn't make it on other albums and live performances. It is still splendid, and I hate how Steven Wilson and Ian Anderson are splitting up the songs on other album remixes. When I was growing up, Living in the Past was just as much its own entity as Aqualung or Thick as a Brick, and I still listen to it that way.
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
Yeah, that's right.
I'll swap in Clube da Esquina then (Milton Nascimento)
I wouldn't count Living in the Past - it's a compilation.
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Nice on the Kriegel! He kicks serious butt.
Hoelderlin - "Live Traumstadt"
discovered Mtume fairly recently, but the next two look mega-interesting
what are they about?
released 78
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Alas not from the said period, otherwise I would have mentioned this one of course.
But from 1974:
Grobschnitt - Ballerman
For HGB's Music to Eat, check my list too. It's a fairly "reknown obscurity" nowadays. Read about it on Wiki or use the search engine right here at this Place, as there've been a lot of words on that album.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
How could I forget Roxy & Elsewhere my favourite Zappa album.
I disagree, at least for us living in the States and Canada. Of the 21 songs on LitP, only 4 appeared previously on U.S. releases, the rest was material no one had ever heard over here. The rest was U.K. singles, live and unreleased material, and 4 songs from a UK EP (Life Is a Long Song, Up the Pool, Nursie and For Later). Perhaps we were naive teenagers, but everyone I knew considered it the eccentric but brilliant album between Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play. As I said, I still hear the individual songs and think LitP. For whatever reason, all the songs mesh quite well even though they were released separately. The only thing that would have been better is if they had deleted the 4 album songs and instead included the remaining songs from the Carnegie Hall concert (which they did later on the 2010 Stand Up remaster).
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
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