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  • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

    Originally posted by solovsfett View Post
    Oh man, Siamese Fream should have made my list. What a fantastic album top to bottom!
    I remember when that album came out my world changed forever. To think I was only like four or five years removed from listening to goddam Raffi.
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    • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

      Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
      Bizet's Carmen with Leontnye Price
      Mozart's Le Nozze di Figar with Kiri Te Kanawa & Samuel Ramey
      The Who - Quadraphenia (but, but Tommy)
      U2 - Joshua Tree (Boy? Unforgettable Fire?)
      The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (I think Mats fans give this one short shrift)
      Black Rebel Motorcycle Clue - Baby 81 (the greatest CD no one has ever heard)
      Garbage - Garbage. Way too many great memories with this to leave it home
      REM - Automatic for the People (Reckoning? Document?)
      The Cure - Pornography (hard to ignore KMKMKM or Disintegration)

      Under consideration to knock one of those off:

      The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
      Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset
      Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
      Beatles - Let it Be or Rubber Soul
      The Police - Synchronicity or Outlandos d'Amour
      Boston - Boston
      Supertramp - Breakfast in America
      Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East
      Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet. Interestingly enough Tattoo You might be my 2nd favorite if for nothing else, "Waiting on a Friend"
      Morcheeba - Big Calm
      The Samples - No Room

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      • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

        This is tougher than I thought.

        Seems like live albums - especially double albums - are cheating in a way. Maybe if I pick live albums, they count as 2 (or 3)?

        I mean, if I can have any one Zeppelin official release and that's for the rest of my life, it's gotta be How the West Was Won - live and 3 discs. Floyd would be Pulse (2 discs) and the Dead would be Dozin' at the Knick (3 discs).

        If it's studio stuff I take Zeppelin III, Meddle and I skip the Dead.


        The other thing is that I really don't listen to albums by themselves too often. I have playlists or I put an artist's catalogue on shuffle.

        Also - I'm torn between all-time favorite albums that I don't necessarily listen to frequently anymore and more current stuff that I listen to on playlists.


        For this exercise it should probably be studio as that makes one make tough choices.

        I'll be back...

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        • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

          We've lost Gurt to the library. Probably forever.
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          • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
            We've lost Gurt to the library. Probably forever.

            Long days at work... I have the time.

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            • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

              If I'm going to be stuck here, I can only rock my socks off so many days in a row, so rather than a list of just my favorite albums, I went for a variety of great music. (With the exception of "at Budakon " which is the first album I really loved as a kid, so I couldn't bear to part with it for purely personal connection reasons.)

              Willie Nelson -Greatest Hits (and some that will be)

              Bob Marley and the Wailers -Exodus

              Frank Sinatra -Songs for Swingin' Lovers

              Beastie Boys -Paul's Boutique

              Berlin Philharmonic -Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

              Stevie Ray Vaughn -Live at Montreaux in '82 & '85

              Cheap Trick -at Budakon

              Dave Brubeck -Take Five

              Led Zepplin IV

              Beatles -White Album


              Some stuff that didn't make the cut but I wish did: Marshall Mathers LP, Ray Charles Greatest Hits (1962), Daft Punk -Discovery, Kinda Blue, The Wall, Electric Ladyland, Cream -Wheels of Fire, Dookie and American Idiot, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue etc., Zen Arcade... More stuff By Led, Johhny Cash, AC/DC, Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Springsteen, Prince, Rush, REM... It's hard to choose. Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" could provide a year's worth of time spent trying to figure out just what he meant by a particular phrase...
              Originally posted by WiscTJK
              I'm with Wisko and Tim.
              Originally posted by Timothy A
              Other than Wisko McBadgerton and Badger Bob, who is universally loved by all?

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              • Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                I remember when that album came out my world changed forever. To think I was only like four or five years removed from listening to goddam Raffi.
                Yeah, I listened to Siamese Dream front to back on an almost daily basis for a solid 6 months or more. It was the giant leap I was expecting from them after the sub pop single and Gish. Soma alone could buoy me for days on end.
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                • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

                  A friend of mine in college grew up with Corgan.

                  I was at Western Illinois for one semester and he was telling me about his friend's new project - Smashing Pumpkins - and how great they were gonna be. Gish hadn't come out yet.

                  One weekend, a couple of the guys from Snake Train (Iha's previous band) came down and stayed with him and partied with us. Used to have an EP of theirs on cassette but haven't seen it in 20+ years.

                  This friend of mine also said that he had been asked to join Billy for the new project - in Iha's slot presumably (or on bass?) but that he chose college instead. This was well before Gish (fall of 89) and dude was a really good guitarist - we played together and recorded in the dorms - so at the time and without the benefit of hindsight or knowing how it all turned out - I had no reason not to believe him.

                  If true, I wonder if he had regrets.

                  We didn't stay in touch when I moved to Lacrosse the next semester.


                  Gish was my favorite and MC seemed to be written about MY childhood in the Chicago burbs.
                  Last edited by Gurtholfin; 08-01-2017, 07:39 PM.

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                  • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

                    Originally posted by Gurtholfin View Post
                    This is tougher than I thought.

                    Seems like live albums - especially double albums - are cheating in a way. Maybe if I pick live albums, they count as 2 (or 3)?

                    I mean, if I can have any one Zeppelin official release and that's for the rest of my life, it's gotta be How the West Was Won - live and 3 discs. Floyd would be Pulse (2 discs) and the Dead would be Dozin' at the Knick (3 discs).

                    If it's studio stuff I take Zeppelin III, Meddle and I skip the Dead.


                    The other thing is that I really don't listen to albums by themselves too often. I have playlists or I put an artist's catalogue on shuffle.

                    Also - I'm torn between all-time favorite albums that I don't necessarily listen to frequently anymore and more current stuff that I listen to on playlists.


                    For this exercise it should probably be studio as that makes one make tough choices.

                    I'll be back...
                    See, that's the problem I have. There are too many live albums or anthology series that I would immediately take.

                    Ray Charles - Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986
                    Johnny Cash - American Recordings
                    Bruce Springsteen - Live/ 1975-1985
                    Willie Nelson - Revolutions of Time...The Journey 1975/1993

                    But studio albums only? In no particular order:

                    Springsteen - The River
                    Sinatra - Only the Lonely
                    Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
                    Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On a Gravel Road
                    Pink Floyd - The Wall
                    U2 - Achtung Baby
                    Dwight Yoakam - This Time
                    Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
                    Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
                    Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town
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                    • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

                      It occurred to me you could surf all day, so maybe it's wrong to not include something from The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, the Surfaris, or the Ventures, (Or Endless Summer) ... Or could I get by with the Pixies "Surferosa"?

                      Where is this island? Maybe I need more steel drums?

                      On the other hand, I guess I can easily make a Piña Colada without the Pina Collada song.
                      Originally posted by WiscTJK
                      I'm with Wisko and Tim.
                      Originally posted by Timothy A
                      Other than Wisko McBadgerton and Badger Bob, who is universally loved by all?

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                      • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

                        Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                        Carmen, Figaro
                        Excellent choices. I think I'd go with Traviata and Magic Flute, but that's simply a matter of taste.

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                        • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

                          Originally posted by Wisko McBadgerton View Post
                          Where is this island?
                          Islands I'd like to be shipwrecked on:

                          1. Manhattan

                          huge gap

                          2. Île de la Cité
                          3. Lübeck
                          4. Lindau
                          5. Does Singapore count?
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                            • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

                              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                              The Beatles - White Album
                              Chris Stapleton - Traveller
                              Eric Church - Mr. Misunderstood
                              Norah Jones - The Fall
                              Rilo Kiley - Execution of all Things
                              Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
                              Taylor Swift - 1989
                              Tedeschi Trucks - Revelator (if only to get Midnight in Harlem)
                              The Who - Tommy
                              Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
                              You're currently in the lead for least overlap with my experience: I have heard 2 of these albums, and I have heard of just 5 of these acts. I'm taking it as a homework assignment.
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                              • Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

                                Trick question!

                                I'd never travel anywhere with just 10 albums.

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