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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2015 2:28:56 GMT
All of us music fans know the difficulty when someone asks "What is your favourite album?".
My favourite album? One album? From 40+ years of listening? My usual answer was that I didn't have one album , but that I had many, depending on my mood, my level of consciousness, my alcohol consumption, etc. etc.
However, I have come to the conclusion that if I were to stranded on a desert island for the rest of my life with only one album, it would have to be Physical Graffiti.
Yes, my top 5 would have Kate's Aerial, Sylvian's Secrets Of The Beehive, Robert Johnson's King Of The Delta Blues Singers, and Esbjorn Svensson Trio's From Gagarin's Point of View, but my absolute favourite would have to be PG.
It seems to have everything I love all wrapped up in one album. Hard rock. Gentle acoustic guitar-based almost-folk music. Serious blues. Some Eastern tunings/rhythms. Virtuoso performances from all members. For me it has absolutely everything, and is the one album that I just couldn't be without, so I guess that makes it my desert island disc.
What about yours?
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Post by gommer on Jun 21, 2015 9:20:42 GMT
Damn, that's a hard one.
I wouldn't even be able to make a shortlist, I'd be in doubt forever. As you say, depending on the mood, there are many albums that I'd like to pick. Yazoo's upstairs at Erics, Muse's Absolution. The superb synchronization of Richard Galliano and Michel Portal in Blow Up. Some Prince, with Sign o the Times. Raymond van het Groenewoud with some real beauties in Dutch language. And then there's Kate Bush. I couldn't stand to choose just one of her albums.
If i HAD to choose one album, I'd choose for an album that I can set on repeat without a trace of getting tired of it. And there are only 2 such albums: RVHG: 'Ik ben God niet' and Kate's Aerial. But since Areial is a double album, I'd then have to choose for A Sky of Honey. On 'Ik ben God niet', there's a single track I often skip (RVHG is also a bag of many treats), on aSoH, there's none that I ever skip. So there you go.
No surprise, eh?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2015 9:41:08 GMT
This is probably the most difficult question in musical appreciation circles. I think any single album is likely to lead to madness eventually. However, there's one album that's stuck with me for decades now (in various guises). Am I allowed a Greatest Hits album?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2015 10:41:39 GMT
What a question to pose on a Sunday morning!! I mentioned desert island headphones in another thread yesterday. That would've been an easy pick but albums are way more difficult. We've heard so many over the years and they affect us in so many ways and on so many different levels. They're a bit like icebergs in the sense that there's this small tip that sticks out of the water (the obvious bits e.g. musicianship, harmony, arrangements) and then there's this whole mass that sits below the surface. The bit were an album sticks all these barbs into our hearts and connects on a deeper emotional level (handcuffing themselves to happy moments in our lives, sitting dormant ready to catch us when we fall)....god knows how to make sense of that stuff. So yeah. Rather than deliberate I'm going to say the first album that springs to mind. It'll never appear in the top 100 albums ever. Nor is it the best at anything it does. But it's special to me....so ner. Edit: Newsflash. Mr Rabbit has just PM'd me to say this album has been given CRP approval so it will now be handed out as standard issue when you are getting on the boat. You can thank me later
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 21, 2015 11:04:46 GMT
I think the CRP seal of approval is a great idea. Especially since I'm nominating them!!!! Oh the power .......
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Post by ronzo56 on Jun 21, 2015 12:16:23 GMT
If double albums are allowed, since PG is one, then I would say the White Album. Has a bit of everything. From the ridiculous to the experimental. Rockers, blues, pop and a Ringo tune even. I know Ian I'm bonkers. Sorry mate. I like what I like.
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