What y'all favorite album?
I got 2 , songs in the key of life and innervisions _ stevie wonder. My gramps got these on vinyl and played them over and over i remember as a kid. I just starting my vinyl collection and these are the first albums I bought! Classics and both released years before my ass was even born ! #music#vinyl
@Tattie@Jaden3 Different Class is up there on my list too. Might also go Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory. I played that album so hard... Or maybe Tanya Donelly's Love Songs For Underdogs
@Jaden3 r.e.m. "life's rich pageant" is one of my favorites... also bob mould is a favorite artist of mine -- hard to pick which of his albums i like best but it's probably "silver age" or "workbook."
Remain in Light is indeed a classic where Talking Heads are going deep on afrobeats.
A few years ago, Angelique Kidjo brought it back in force by re-recording the album, track by track. She even got afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen to play the drums.
@Jaden3 you have great taste, young man! The best of Stevie for sure. I have many favorite albums tbh. I’ll start off with my fave Prince album, Sign O’ The Times. Double album, amazing songs, lots of variety.
@Jaden3 One of my favorite artists from my youth (early 80s in high school) is Jane Siberry, a Canadian singer/songwriter: eclectic, fun, kooky, and an amazing artist in her own right.
She has several albums:
Jane Siberry (1981)
No Borders Here (1984)
The Speckless Sky (1985)
The Walking (1987)
Bound by the Beauty (1989)
When I Was a Boy (1993)
Maria (1995)
Teenager (1996)
Here's "Map of the World (Part II)" from The Speckless Sky.
@Jaden3 oh my. Those are two of the Best. Albums. Evuh!
I dunno if I have favorites anymore. But there are albums that I can still listen to with my complete attention, even 30 or 40 years after hearing them for the first time:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Rush - Moving Pictures
Tool - Lateralus
Rage Against the Machine - RATM
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Styx - Paradise Theater
Michael Jackson -Thriller
Maná - En Vivo
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Van Halen - I
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Frank Zappa - Them or Us
Billy Joel - Glass Houses
Journey - Escape
@Jaden3 Those are great choices, Stevie is way up there with my all-time faves too. But if I can only pick one I gotta go with #Prince's "1999" album. I literally wore out 2 vinyl copies before I bought it on CD LOL 🎶 👍 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYboMkLluKo
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When I got my first FM radio (another conversation; yeah I’m old) one of the first songs I heard was Living for the City. It got under my skin then and remains there. I can still get goosebumps hearing the opening riff.
@Jaden3 Innervisions is an all-timer! "Visions" into "Living For the City" knocks me flat.
Personally I couldn't pick a permanent fave, but at the moment (and for several years now) it's probably Joanna Newsom's third album, Have One On Me. Someday, it'll be a different album. Always fun to think about!
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Though This was the first album I got to buy myself with Xmas allowance at 14
Never spent any money better again it blew my mind
Dav̲i̲d B̲o̲wie - H̲e̲roe̲s (Full Album) 1977 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TFLLE8LPA_k
@Jaden3 When I was a kid, I found a box of my dad's old vinyl in a closet and thought "this should be funny." Turned out my dad was cool! Three albums I remember were great:
Rufus Thomas, "Walking the Dog"
Wilson Pickett, "The Wicked Pickett"
James Brown, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (2 million seller! Says it right on the cover!)
@stevegis_ssg@Jaden3 I remember buying the cassette, putting it on and then taking it out because it was a bit too much. Funny thing is it sounds pretty normal now, but at the time, aged, 15, I’d never heard anything like it.
@Jaden3 and PE, It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising (the real album, not the streaming audio version with samples missing)
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It's so hard to pick a favorite. I grew up listening to so many different genre's. I love motown of course cuz I grew up in Detroit. In my teens I was more into rock n roll, Bowie, Queen, Led Zepplin etc. Stevie Wonder is a great choice he's such a talented artist. You have a great choice on starting your collection. I love his music.
This might not be your cup of tea but it is truly an astonishing piece of work for its time. I have the double gatefold original from the seventies. The production is amazing, well worth listening to on good quality headphones. It almost makes your eyeballs roll out of their sockets.
@Jaden3 OMG I adore both those albums! I used to have SITKOL in double vinyl with a gatefold cover. I imagine my ex has it now, he still has a record player. Also it came out the year I was born. Innervisions I listened to over and over again when I was pregnant with my son, I wonder if any of it made it into his unborn ears?
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