Just feeling rather nostalgic this morning. I really miss those vinyl days of going to the local record shop and just looking at albums, checking out the cover art, learning about new bands. Every blue moon you'd buy an album just because the cover art looked cool.

Even more wonderful were those magical moments when you listened to that very special album....a listening session where the house could have been taken away by a tornado and you wouldn't have blinked....where you carefully studied the lyrics, the album credits, the photographs, and just immersed yourself in the moment.

If you were to make a list of your Top Ten albums that fit this category, what would they be? ONE ground rule: you may only mention an artist or group one time (even the Stones). With that in mind, and in no particular order, here's my

TOP TEN "OH MY GOD!" ALBUMS AT FIRST LISTEN

1. STONES - Let It Bleed
2. BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. LED ZEPPELIN - first album
4. THE WHO - Tommy (although very tempted to say Quadrophenia!)
5. PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
6. BLIND FAITH
7. JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - Are You Experienced?
8. CREAM - Disreali Gears
9. STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
10. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Volunteers

By the looks of your choosing I can see that you were blessed with a good date of birth. All those albums are from back when the majority of the world was interested in music, and the music was interesting enough to be interested in. It's not like that today I can assure you, and that's the reason that I never had an OMG experience with any new band ever. I really envy you mate.

JumpingKentFlash

I guess so.....I'm 52. My dad was a big band drummer in the 40s...I appreciated his music (Basie, Ellington, etc.) but it wasn't MY music. When the Beatles and Stones and Who and Kinks came out, it was like "THERE....FINALLY.....MY MUSIC!"

It's funny about that list. Just as soon as I posted it, I thought, "Dang, why did I leave out ALLMAN BROS. Live at Fillmore East!" For that matter, the MOTHERS OF INVENTION's Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Uncle Meat were also "OMG" albums.

And, you're right. It's a shame, but the world has moved on to other things. We had a circular here in Atlanta with CDs for sale from an electronics store...one of those "Today's Music! Today's Hits" kinda things. With the exception of about four artists, I had no earthly idea of who anybody was.

You're lucky my friend. And BTW: There'll always be albums where you think "Why did I leave this out". Take it from an esteemed list-maker. :-D

JumpingKentFlash

dammit: i just read a cool statement about that stunning moment in the 1960s when popular music
became one of the main repositories for ideas - "if you had something to say you put it in a song" -
what a cool and true insight, and i can't remember where i read it. which may be one of the drawbacks
of being the same age as Mongoose. :E but indeed: what an amazing era to become music-conscious in

Where the green grass grows the rolling stones 78 live in virginia
jerry lee lewis live in hamburg
whats going on marvin gaye
axis bold as love jimi hendrix
the clash london calling
jimi reed everything!
Elvis
b
back in black amy winehouse
bob dylan n skyline



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Elvis? Does that include Double Trouble soundtrack?

Sorry Elvis in memphis!!

1.Beach Boys-Pet Sounds
2.Bob Dylan- Time out of Mind
3.Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
4.Blondie- Parallel Lines
5.Dave Crosby- If only I could remember my Name
6.Bob Marley and the Wailers- Catch a Fire
7.Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run
8.The Who-Who's Next
9.The Band- The Band
10.Tom Waits-Swordfishtrombone (I dare anyone to listen this, it will blow your mind but not in a positive way to start with).

John Nicholls

The 10 albums listed below are not neccessarily my favourites by the bands in question, but are th ones that got me listening!

1 Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass - The Stones
2 A Hard Days Night - The Beatles
3 Led Zeppelin 2 - Led Zeppelin
4 Strange Days - The Doors
5 The Best Of The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
6 Is This It? - The Strokes
7 Whats The Story? (Morning Glory) - Oasis
8 Up The Bracket - The Libertines
9 Gold Against The Soul - Manic Street Preachers
10 Different Class - Pulp

JumpingKentFlash Wrote:
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It's not
> like that today I can assure you, and that's the
> reason that I never had an OMG experience with any
> new band ever. I really envy you mate.

I used to think this until I actively went out and searched for good stuff... There's been plenty 'new' albums, lets say in the past 10 years, that have been nothing but fantastic.

Some greatest hits record with Hendrix.
Theatre of pain - Motley Crue
Destroyer - Kiss
Love you live - the Rolling Stones
Beatles for sale
Paint it black/Long Long While - 45er, single, but played at wrong speed (33)
The Idiot/Tin Soldier (half of each) - Iggy
Lennons first solo album (no not first time but maybe third)
Winterreise - Schubert
The Velvet Underground - the Velvet Underground
Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) - despite Let it Bleed, the Rolling Stones and Out of our heads, this had those singles...

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy - Bowie
Sticky Fingers - Stones (and all other afterwards)
Houses of The Holy - Led Zep
Vol 4 - Black Sabbath

Then a few Prog
Tales from...Oceans - Yes
The Lamb Lies Down on Bradway - Genesis
Brain Salad - ELP
The Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd

Mongoose, I will simply add to your list because I was surrounded by all the same music having lived through the 60's.
Sticky Fingers
Exile ( those two are a given)
Blonde On Blonde-Dylan
Blue-Joni Mitchell
Led Zeppelin -first album
Are You Experienced- Jimi
The Doors & Soft Parade &Morrison Hotel- The Doors
Bless His Pointed LIttle Head- Jefferson Airplane
A Nod Is As Good As A Wink -The Faces
Crosby, Still & Nash ( This knocked me out!)
ALL BEATLES ALBUMS just like ALL STONES!
Ten Years After and Cricklewood Green - Ten Years After
The Kinks- all early albums
These are just a few of the albums that I played non-stop!

1. Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
2. Piledriver - Status Quo
3. Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
4. Moondance - Van Morrison
5. The Wall - Pink Floyd
6. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
7. Two Steps From The Move - Hanoi Rocks
8. Sonic Temple - The Cult
9. Music From The Elder - Kiss
10. Wolfmother - Wolfmother



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Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
***Peeping Tom self titled
Mr Bungle self titled
Faith No More The Real Thing
Grotus Slow Motion Apocalypse
Iron Maiden SOmewhere In Time
Supergrass I Should Coco
Faith No More Angel Dust
Aerosmith Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith Rocks

*** probably my favorite album ever

Not in any particular order

1.Led Zeppelin 1
2.Led Zeppelin 2
3.Are You Experienced - Hendrix
4.Wheels of Fire - Cream
5.Making Movies - Dire Straits
6.Other People's Lives - Ray Davies
7.Back in Black - AC/DC
8. Highway to Hell - AC/DC
9. Sgt. Pepper - Beatles
10.Exile on Main St.- Our Home Boys

Amy Wimehouse - Back To Black

Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy - Bowie

Thanks leteyer

__________________________

1. The Who – Live at Leeds
2. Led Zeppelin 2
3. Genesis – Lamb Lied Down on Broadway
4. Pink Floyd - Meddle
5. Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
6. YES – The YES Album
7. Traffic - Low Spark
8. Beatles – Help
9. Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
10. Todd Rundgren – A Wizard a True Star

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street (72)
Dinamit - A Híd (80)
P Box - Kö kövön (83)
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (first in stereo) (74)
Deep Purple - Machine Head (71/72)
Doors - Strange Days (67)
TSOOL - Welcome to the Infant Freebase (96)
Omega - 200 Years After The Last War (75) *
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (75)
Pink Floyd - Meddle (71)

Bubblin': Gasolin' - Live Sådan (76)

* Review [www.progarchives.com]

Quote: Omega's second album to feature previously recorded songs
in the Hungarian language on the Bellaphon label.
A good introduction to the more progressive-rock sounding era
of their long career (42 years and counting!) featuring everything
from mellotrons, moog synthesisers and a 20 minute show piece which
features sevral sections beginning with a moody opening building up
to a bluesy center section with all kinds of drum and guitar fills a
nd back to a moody ending. Side two contains three very different
tracks which demonstrates different approaches this band took with
their early seventies music from the synthesiser dominated Help To find Me
to the heavier You Don't Know whose organ intro could easily be mistaken
for a Deep Purple riff. The title track is very folky and is
very reminicient of the earlier music they recorded in the late 60's.
The only drawback, as on just about every English-language Omega album,
is the sometimes very poor english text and hard to understand lyrics.
Otherwise an excellent example of early 1970's progressive rock.
(Ian Gledhill)



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1. rolling stones-exile on main street
2. the doors-absolutely live
3. creedence clearwater revival-cosmos factory
4. jimi hendrix-electric lady land
5. led zeppelin-physical graffitti
6. lynyrd skynyrd-one more from the road
7. ozzy osbourne-blizzard of oz (the real version not the crappy one with new drums and bass tracks added)
8. ac/dc - back in black
9. fleetwood mac-rumors
10. peter frampton -frampton comes alive

Rolling Stones - Sticky fingers and E.O.M.S
Led Zeppelin - Physical graffiti and Led Zeppelin IV
Lucio Battisti - Il mio canto libero
Fabrizio De Andrè - Creuza de Ma
Neil Young - Harvest
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Bob Marley - Exodus

not a "top ten" (not my kind of thing) but a few that come to mind:
England's Newest Hitmakers ~ Beggars Banquet ~ Some Girls ~ Tattoo You ~ Four Flicks ~
Abbey Road ~ Blood on the Tracks ~ Larks Tongues in Aspic ~ Talk Is Cheap ~ The New Barbarians at Milwaukee :E



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Roxy Music-First Album
Patti Smith- Horses


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

>>New Barbarians at Milwaukee <<

THat's a rocking one, yes ! Didn't expect to see it listed here though!

>> Didn't expect to see it listed here though! <<

well, i had to include a fair share of non-Stones stuff
lest people think i'm biassed or something

Mongoose wrote:
>
> a listening session where the house could have been taken away by a tornado and > you wouldn't have blinked
>

Well, that's certainly the case for the following, even if for some just at 1st listen. In no particular order:

-John Hiatt - Perfectly Good Guitar
-Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Ry Cooder - A Meeting By the River
-The Chieftains - Santiago
-John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp
-Tonio K - Ole
-Douglas Spotted Eagle - Closer To Far Away
-Wingless Angels
-Los Lobos - La Pistola Y El Corazon
-Daniel Lanois - Shine
-Toumani Diabaté & Ali 'Farka' Touré - In the Heart Of the Moon

I could come up with more, but the 10 slots are used up ;-)

Stones -Exile
Elton John - Honky Chateau
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Neil Young - Harvest
English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Love - Forever Changes
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Roxy Music - Siren
Talking Heads - '77

1.The Beatles (White Album)
2.Quadrophenia
3.Exile on Main St.
4. Rain Dogs
5. Ok Computer
6. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Let it Bleed
8. Live at Leeds
9. Ram
10. All Things Must Pass
11. The Man Who Sold the World- Bowie (blew my mind!)



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The earth moved off it's axis when I first heard these gems:

1 Get Yer Ya Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones.
2 Who's Next - The Who.
3 Live Rust - Neil Young.
4 Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan.
5 Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan.
6 Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen.
7 Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols.
8 Revolver - The Beatles.
9 Hunky Dory - David Bowie.
10 New York - Lou Reed.