Favorite Albums
I’ve been feeling out of things at breakfast while the boys talk music. So this morning I proposed a topic: top five favorite albums.
The boy’s:
U2 Boy
Beatle’s Sergeant Pepper
Pretender’s first album
Stone Temple Pilot’s Tiny Music from the Vatican Gift Shop
Queen Live at Wembley Stadium
The dh’s:
Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced?
U2’s Joshua Tree
Pretenders II
Foo Fighters
and a Yanni album to make him appreciate all the others. Their criteria was that the albums be something you'd want with you on a desert island.
Mine:
U2’s Joshua Tree
Midnight Oil’s Blue Sky Mine
Sinead O’Connor’s I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got
Peter Gabriel’s So
Paul Simon’s Graceland
(how sad is it that these were all from ten or more years ago?)
My criteria was that they be original releases that I listened to most of the songs without skipping over.
Now, if I’m going to do soundtracks, they’re going to be:
Buffy
Phantom of the Opera 
Out of Africa
Harry Potter
Hope Floats 
.
If I’m going to do greatest hits, they’re going to be:
The Very Best of Crowded House
Squeeze Singles 45 and Under
The Cure Mixed Up
Ramones Mania
Rolling Stones 40 Licks
.
What are yours?
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6 comments:
My top all-time must-have albums:
1) Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
2) October by U2
3) The Complete Adventures of the Style Council (Box set)
4) In Step by Stevie Ray Vaughan
5) The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack
6) The Ramones first album
7) Rio by Duran Duran
8) Live Baby Live by INXS
9) 5150 by Van Halen
10) Greatest Hits by Sade
I can't do this in order, since I can't decide between these, but these are my favorites based on the "like most of the songs on the album" criteria:
NEW FAVORITE - Alison Krauss & Union Station
SO - Peter Gabriel
FUMBLING TOWARD ECSTASY - Sarah McLachlan
GREATEST HITS/STRAIGHT AHEAD - Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Band
THE ROAD TO HERE - Little Big Town
That was hard!
Paula
My favorite albums (in no specific order)
Rachmaninoff For Romance
Somewhere In Time, by John Barry
Kind of Magic, by Queen
Thriller, by Michael Jackson
Only You, by Harry Connick Jr.
Bad Girls, by Donna Summer
Always and Forever, by Heatwave
True Blue, by Madonna
That's The Way Of The World, by Earth, Wind & Fire
Carpenters, by The Carpenters
I need one more to my list: Back in Black by AC/DC.
This is fun! Michele, October is an interesting choice. U2 almost broke up making that album. Our tastes are very similar, considering you're (mumble) years younger than me.
Paula, I really liked Alison Krauss on the O Brother soundtrack, and I grew up listening to Larry Gatlin.
Tanya, don't you love John Barry? I don't have Somewhere in Time but I have Dances with Wolves.
The 80's were my formative musical years and also I was really into music from an early age. I also have a great love of 50's and 60's rock, jazz, blues, and country to boot.
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