the time has come, the walrus said ...
i am not the walrus; the walrus is not me,
yet the time has indeed come.
i've been loosely thinkin about this for a while,
but procrastinated ... anyhow, i want to start to think about compiling / collating a list of my favourite albums. maybe a top 13? or something of about that length.
it's going to take a while. there will be a few board meetings, in my mind - between my left versus right brain hemispheres perhaps. or between a frontal lobe(s) and a temporal lobe(s). decisons will be made, argued, and possibly reversed. but i'll give it a crack. just for the craic.
i could opt to go for rock albums only ... but won't. and indeed, where does one draw the line in the sand? in some circumstances at least ...
anyhow
whatever
i'm gonna start to throw around a few ideas, a few candidates. a bit of thinking out 'loud'.
in no particular order ...
i think that something from the rolling stones will make the cut - most likely 'sticky fingers'.
a miles davis album, preferably when john coltrane was still playing in the davis band; it's hard to go past 'kind of blue' really, isn't it.
there will certainly be at least one album by the church on my list. i gotta work out which one(s). that's my own personal challenge. e.g. do i go for something like 'heyday' or the obvious [yet solid] choice that is 'starfish'? on the other hand, this year's 'uninvited, like the clouds' is a contender, and i also wouldn't rule out 'the blurred crusade'! i'll get back to u on that one.
pink floyd would likely get a guernsey somewhere ... probably 'dark side of the moon' or perhaps 'obscured by clouds'?
of course, i need not limit myself to one album per band/artist.
there are many, many other contenders - but my new daughter is crying now, so further discussion will transpire at another moment ...
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i am not the walrus; the walrus is not me,
yet the time has indeed come.
i've been loosely thinkin about this for a while,
but procrastinated ... anyhow, i want to start to think about compiling / collating a list of my favourite albums. maybe a top 13? or something of about that length.
it's going to take a while. there will be a few board meetings, in my mind - between my left versus right brain hemispheres perhaps. or between a frontal lobe(s) and a temporal lobe(s). decisons will be made, argued, and possibly reversed. but i'll give it a crack. just for the craic.
i could opt to go for rock albums only ... but won't. and indeed, where does one draw the line in the sand? in some circumstances at least ...
anyhow
whatever
i'm gonna start to throw around a few ideas, a few candidates. a bit of thinking out 'loud'.
in no particular order ...
i think that something from the rolling stones will make the cut - most likely 'sticky fingers'.
a miles davis album, preferably when john coltrane was still playing in the davis band; it's hard to go past 'kind of blue' really, isn't it.
there will certainly be at least one album by the church on my list. i gotta work out which one(s). that's my own personal challenge. e.g. do i go for something like 'heyday' or the obvious [yet solid] choice that is 'starfish'? on the other hand, this year's 'uninvited, like the clouds' is a contender, and i also wouldn't rule out 'the blurred crusade'! i'll get back to u on that one.
pink floyd would likely get a guernsey somewhere ... probably 'dark side of the moon' or perhaps 'obscured by clouds'?
of course, i need not limit myself to one album per band/artist.
there are many, many other contenders - but my new daughter is crying now, so further discussion will transpire at another moment ...
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posted by fergal at 4:27 AM
5 Comments:
That's weird - I've been thinking about not a list of albums, but songs. Albums - now that's going to be tricky. Have fun with all that thinking :).Especially while losing sleep with new baby.haha.
for me, there's something intriguing about studio albums - not just the singles, but all the other songs on the album - e.g. even the bad tracks are telling in themselves, and ideally a great album shouldn't have any of these; plus u sometimes get a sense, or hear kinda 'echoes' of the best songs/singles in other tracks on the album ...
still, i look forward to your list of songs! ;-D
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Being a music fiend, this is really making me think as well - if someone threatened me with torture if i didn't produce an album list, what would be on that list? - there are a scant few that I listen to as a whole. One of them is mcguinn, clark, and hillman(1979 -geeky as hell- the hit from it was "don't you write her off") and another is david baerwald's "bedtime stories". Yes, daggy - but you can get wrapped up in the mood of a thing. What I do find odd sometimes is that a song that was a single isn't as good as other things on a record. Sometimes i'll get a run on and listen a lot to monkees records or moody blues (and i do mean the old records).Oh gerry rafferty -from city to city(think that's what it's called)-it's so easy to listen to. The eagles hotel california album - except I actually don't listen to the title track because it's been so flogged over the years that it hurts my brain to hear it . This is not much of a list :).
Oh fergal - I must say that based on the things that you like you would possibly like andy white very much, if you don't already have something by him. He worked with tim finn - is mates with him. He ended up moving out to australia from ireland.He does write some beautiful music.
thanx lee - i have heard of him i beleive, but from memory have not heard his music. sounds interesting - must try to check him out sometime ... cheers!
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