| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Talen
Capellan Confederation
Sang-shao
Joined: 05-Feb-2002 00:00
Posts: 1269
Location: United States
|
 Posted: 27-Aug-2002 18:35 Post subject: Favorite Albums? |
  |
|
What are your favorite albums? Pu as many as you like, and maybe a few words of why you like the music. Um, no collection albums, please. Live is okay.
I'll do my top 5...
5) "Saving Private Ryan" by John Williams. When listening to it I feel the emotion the movie put foward. Really powerful music.
4) "Metallica S&M" Metallica. One of the most ass-kicking bands of all time playing some of their mosy popular songs (and a few new ones) with the SF Symphony Orchestra. Some songs are decent...most of it kicks ass.
3) "La-ter-a-lus" Tool. There are few CDs that are just perfect from start to end. All 74 minutes of this album are powerful and awesome.
2) "Beethoven's Last Night" Trans-siberian Orchestra. Hard to really explain this CD. its a story, more than anything, with music to carry you on. Its a tale about Beethoven's last night on Earth, and his struggle with the devil about having his sole sparred in return for the unfinished manuscript of Beethoven's 10th sympony. Awesome story, great music.
1) "Dark Side of the Moon" Pink Floyd. Other albums have better music, or more songs. But I cant think of any that really have the mood, emotion, feel and overall power that "Dark Side of the Moon" does. And in almost no other case does an album feel so together. Each song seems to blend into eachother. The album feels complete...adding or taking away would ruin it completely.
Well, those are mine!
_________________
"Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well." - Leto II
|
|
| Back to top |
  
|
Sir Henry
Team Bansai
Senior Tech Specialist
Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00
Posts: 4899
Location: United States
|
| Posted: 27-Aug-2002 19:35 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
Favorite albums… that’s gonna be tough. I like songs, not albums. They could have an awesome song on a piss poor album….
Let’s try…
Mine are:
5) Tragic Kingdom – No Doubt. They did a great job getting the emotions across on this one….I’m also a fan of minor scales….
4) West Side Story, the Soundtrack – Leonard Bernstein. A soundtrack should make you feel the music and the story and this one does…
3) Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd. Need I say more…..
2) Test for Echo/Grace under Pressure – Rush. Songs that I never get tired of hearing. I’ve listened to them on a 17 hr road trip, just those two.
1) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band – Beatles. The quintessential Album of all time….
_________________
Sir Henry
A Dragon in the disguise of a bunny, is still a Dragon.
[ This Message was edited by: Sir Henry on 2002-08-27 21:33 ]
_________________
Sir Henry
A Dragon in the disguise of a bunny, is still a Dragon.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
chihawk
Clan Blood Spirit
Master Bartender
Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00
Posts: 8072
Location: United States
|
| Posted: 27-Aug-2002 19:59 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
5)Bat Out of Hell- Meatloaf. It only contains 7 songs, but many say its the album that brought rock 'n roll back to the people.
4)Throwing Copper- Live. The most underated album of the 90s. Never mind the radio "hits", its the songs that aren't played on the radio that make this CD.
3)Texas Flood- Stevie Ray Vaughn. The beginning of the legend that is the greatest blues guitarist ever. And today happens to be the 12 anniversary of his tragic death in a helecopter crash.
2)Songs In The Key Of Life- Stevie Wonder. The quintessential R&B album.
1)Rubber Soul- The Beatles. Everyone says Sgt. Pepper's is the most influential album of all time, and this is the album that influenced that one.
_________________
"You all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because you're all the same" Anon
[ This Message was edited by: chihawk on 2002-08-27 20:02 ]
_________________
www.210sportsblog.com
|
|
| Back to top |
 
|
Gunslinger Patch
Royal Black Watch Regiment
Major
Joined: 04-Mar-2002 00:00
Posts: 1611
|
| Posted: 28-Aug-2002 04:53 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
Throwing Copper and Stevie Ray Vaughn are among my most listened to. But I think my 1st favorite is from Seven Nations, the Old Ground CD. Celtic rock done really right.
And then there's Fleetwood Mac, Rumors, and the GoGo's greatest hits CD, lots of good songs on that one. And definetely DEVO, their sound is strange but unmatched by anybody else.
And lately Linkun Park. I play that one at work almost every day. It just clicks, exp. that last song on the CD.
[ This Message was edited by: Gunslinger Patch on 2002-08-28 04:56 ]
_________________
"Those who beat their guns into plows will plow for those with guns..." -Thomas Jefferson
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Horhiro
Draconis Combine
Samurai
Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00
Posts: 1625
Location: United States
|
| Posted: 28-Aug-2002 08:41 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
In no particular order:
ELO: Out of the Blue, this album was one of the first I ever owned (tape actually, later album and cd) Having grown up on AM radio this album rocked my world!
Star Wars (a new Hope): Original score, heck I can hum my way through every track on this one. Can anyone say that John Williams was not at his best here? This score impacted a whole generation and defined the most evil character in movie history.
Foreigner: 4, "Urgent, Juke Box Hero, Waiting for a girl like you", 80's rock at its best!
Phil Collins: Face Value, introspective tracks defining a solemn time in his life. Fantastic tracks "In the air tonight, This must be love"
Asia:self titled, this album rocks! "Heat of the moment, Only time will tell," and a slew of others constantly remind me of the summers of '83 and '84 the heyday of D&D roleplaying, very fond memories indeed.
_________________
"I have lived my life trying to be a virtuous man. The Dragon admires tenacity, and the code of the samurai upholds it as well." -Minobu Tetsuhara
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Nightmare
Lyran Alliance
Kommandant-General
Joined: 03-May-2002 00:00
Posts: 2214
|
| Posted: 28-Aug-2002 12:46 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
Satyricon:The Shadowthrone (Moonfog 1995)
Bathory:Hammerheart (Black Mark 1990)
Immortal:At the Heart of Winter (Osmose 1999)
The Gathering:Mandylion (Century Media 1995)
Sentenced:Frozen (Century Media 1998)
_________________
A tree fall in the forest, and no one is around, and it hits a mime. Does anyone care?
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Slythis
Federated Suns
Colonel
Joined: 09-Aug-2002 00:00
Posts: 712
|
| Posted: 28-Aug-2002 15:22 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
Disturbed - "The Sickness" I'm not sure why I like this album but singing along to it is great stress releaif
Straight outta Junior High - "Heres a Ray of Hope for Someone with an Inferiority Complex" yeah I know long title, it's a local punk band I saw last spring but their music is some of the best punk I've heard in a long time, check out their site at www.sojh.com
ATB - "The Two Worlds" Great music if you like Technotic style
Van Halen - "1984" yeah I know this one is a year older than I am but I still love it
Joe Satriani - "Crystal Planet" I've always loved the sound of the electric guitar, and on no other Album have I heard it sound This good.
_________________
"It is pleasant, when the winds are high and the seas are rough to watch the stuggles of another from the shore."
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Sir Henry
Team Bansai
Senior Tech Specialist
Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00
Posts: 4899
Location: United States
|
| Posted: 28-Aug-2002 20:18 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
I stayed up all night DEC 31 1983 to record the album at midnight. WRIF was playing the whole album....
_________________
Sir Henry
A Dragon in the disguise of a bunny, is still a Dragon.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Horhiro
Draconis Combine
Samurai
Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00
Posts: 1625
Location: United States
|
| Posted: 29-Aug-2002 18:27 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
Quote:
|
On 2002-08-28 15:22, Slythis wrote:
Van Halen - "1984" yeah I know this one is a year older than I am but I still love it
|
|
Ouch, I graduated High school in 1984!
_________________
"I have lived my life trying to be a virtuous man. The Dragon admires tenacity, and the code of the samurai upholds it as well." -Minobu Tetsuhara
|
|
| Back to top |
|
Sir Henry
Team Bansai
Senior Tech Specialist
Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00
Posts: 4899
Location: United States
|
| Posted: 29-Aug-2002 19:22 Post subject: RE: Favorite Albums? |
|
|
So did I. I could have in '83, but a Teacher's Strike got in the way...
_________________
Sir Henry
A Dragon in the disguise of a bunny, is still a Dragon.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
