my significant albums

[low_delta]

Jethro Tull was one of my early favorite bands. Before I'd ever owned any records, I'd get excited when I'd hear a tull song I hadn't heard before. There were several songs from Aqualung that got airplay, so naturally, that was first purchase. That record and Stand Up have remained favorites.

  
Styx was the first band I ever really got into, and Paradise Theater was the first LP I owned that I really wanted. I still love it.

 
U2's second album, War, has always been high on my list, but I found Achtung Baby to be particularly thrilling when it came out.

  One of my all-time favorites. It just washes over me.


I picked up Patti Smith's debut album, Horses, after hearing about her (and it) for so many years. I decided I could no longer wait to learn about her (and it). It's an impressive record. Gone Again was the first record she put out after a hiatus, and it's among my favorites, as well.


Nine Inch Nails was one of the bands that moved alternative music to the mainstream. I liked Pretty Hate Machine, but I really got deep into this one. It was one of the first records I heard that were really heavy - not just hard, but heavy. And furiously so.

 
My sister introduced me to the party classic, Violent Femmes. One of the first bands I got into that was really alternative - alternative to anything else I listened to. 3 was the album that made me realize there was more to them than why can't I get just one fuck? Hallowed Ground was the one that hit home and never left.

 
I was a fan of Rush since the beginning, and have trouble picking a favorite record out of several of their albums from the 70's, but Roll the Bones, from 1991, is not only my most favorite of their records, but the one that made me realize that the band was improving with age - a rare feat.


The Doors is a wild album. A collection of unique songs. L.A. Woman is probably my favorite of theirs.

      
I don't have any stories about these. They're just favorites. Quadrophenia, Workbook, Security, Ted Nugent, Animals, Diary of a Madman, Born to Run.

 
One of the first CDs I ever purchased. I played it a lot. Especially "Turn You Inside-Out" and "World Leader Pretend."

    
Brain Salad Surgery was an early progressive-rock favorite.  I don't listen to it as much anymore, but I still enjoy it. Other old-school prog favorites were Fragile, Close to the Edge (from Yes), Marillion's Childhood's End and King Crimson's Court of the Crimson King. King Crimson was a band that I wasn't familiar with, but always intended to be. Cyn cured that. The Power to Believe was an eye opener. It wasn't too long before I'd purchased several more Crim records, and we now own them all. And that was the beginning of an ongoing prog period.

When I was Cruel is another recent album ( from 2002) from a veteran artist, that demonstrates a still vital talent.

 
A record that opened my eyes to the talent of a local artist. This guy is way too good not to be heard outside of Milwaukee. Such is the fate of someone who isn't willing to sell his soul to the industry.

 
I have Volume 1 of this 120 Minutes collection from Mtv. It contains a lot of songs from the early alternative bands, that I had never got a chance to become familiar with - several of which I have since become fans of.

 This one used to spend a lot of time in my record player.

Top Seven: Stand Up, Workbook, The Bends, Quadrophenia, Hallowed Ground, L.A. Woman, Security

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Comments

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

*blink blink*
I almost agree with every one of those.
I cannot get into Styx.
And Stand Up is probably one of my favorite Jethro Tull albums.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Stand Up is in my top 4.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I was pregnant with Ian when we saw the Aqualung concert. He lept and twirled through the whole thing.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I wasn't able to see them until the late eighties. I missed them in their heyday. By the time I became a fan, they were almost a cult band. I was amazed to find out that they used to sell out arena tours.

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

I wish everyone else who is splattering album covers across their journal would take the time to comment on them, too. Thank you for doing so.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I just wish people would put them behind lj cuts, if they use the table formatting given at the site. They keep breaking my friends page. Yesterday, one of these, and one other quiz both broke my friends page at the same time, and I think I lost quite a few posts, and didn't see them until this morning.

[vocalista001.livejournal.com]

This was fun because of your commentary. Thanks, Kevin!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I hope so - it took me long enough!

[kingseyeland.livejournal.com]

So many good albums, so little time to comment.

Patti Smith's Gone has a duet with Jeff Buckley, methinks.

Good stuff here. I'll get mine on here sooner or later.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware of it, but yeah, Gone Again features the last studio performance of Jeff Buckley released before his death less than a year later.