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MrFab
Albums You Must Have
January 24, 2010 08:44PM
The earliest Album You Must Have (AYMH) that I remember was the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack. Then "Thriller." As a teen, "Dark Side of the Moon," which I even had for some reason. (Thought it was boring, tho I loved "Meddle.)

"Sgt Pepper" certainly seemed to be so for the Boomers, and I would imagine "Nevermind" must have been for '90s kids.

Have there been any AYMHs since then? Albums that, thru some combination of peer pressure, media hype, the zeitgeist, and cultural canonization, you have to get to be cool?



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hoip chiggs
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 24, 2010 08:46PM
The Star Wars soundtrack.
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MrFab
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 24, 2010 09:03PM
Yup you're right, I did have that one, too.

And "Star Wars" would be a Movie You Must See, even with today's kids I bet.
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hoip chiggs
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 02:32AM
Today's kids get to choose which Star Wars movie they want to see, the chopped up version, the remastered version, the truncated version, the paralytic version, et cetera...thanks to Lucas.

I don't think the movie we loved as kids is the same Ewok today, McFab.
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nosepail
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 24, 2010 09:09PM
OK Computer. I have it. Its OK.
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erikalbany
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 24, 2010 09:12PM
When I was a little kid, it seemed like all of the teens and grownups around me had copies of Bat out of Hell and Frampton Comes Alive.
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Aitch
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 24, 2010 09:36PM
EVERYONE had Bat Out Of Hell, Let's Stick Together (is that the one with Bryan close-up in shades on the cover?) and Silk Degrees when I was a little 'un.
Later, when the 2 Tone thing belatedly swept through Sydney's northen beaches, it was The Specials and Searching For The Young Soul Rebels.
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breno
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 12:17AM
I usually avoided any albums that everyone else claimed I had to have. But I remember back when my cousin who knew nothing about music bought a copy of Pink Floyd The Wall and I asked why in the world she bought it and she said everyone else had it. That more than anything else delayed my discovery of anything that was good about Pink Floyd until 1998.

I remember in the late 90s being asked by several co-workers who knew I had strong opinions about music if I had the soundtrack to The Bodyguard. Why it mattered to them if I had it I never understood - I've never understood why it matters to someone whose taste does not correspond to mine if I like something they do (a current coworker was desperate that I like Rocco DeLucca because she's a big Keifer Sutherland fan - I don't get it) - but had I realized at the time that buying a copy was allowing Nick Lowe to be financially independent, I might have grabbed one and then took sandpaper to the listening side of it or something.

Of course, the same end could have been achieved by just buying a second copy of any of Lowe's albums, which not only would have been more pleasant but would have given him even more royalties than one copy of The Bodyguard soundtrack would have, so it's just as well that I didn't. Although supporting both Nick Lowe and Dolly Parton wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world.



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mats84
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 12:35AM
As a kid, the first album I ever bought with my own money was Boston's debut because all of my older brothers friends had it, and it was an attempt to impress.

"Born in the USA" was that kind of an album at my high school too.........

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HollowbodyKay
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 26, 2010 10:16PM
My first musical purchase amounted to two Tom Petty 45s. Y'know those things wont work in these new-fangled CD players! What a rip off!

Whatever the singles off Hard Promises were. "A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)" and "Nightwatchman." I think that was it. I remember the B-Side "Gator On The Lawn" with fond memories. It was a piss-take.

That seems a long-assed time ago. 1981 ... if wikiwhatever is to be trusted. Can it have been that long ago? Maybe it was 1982 and they were still sitting there on the shelves of the local drugstore?

Pretty pathetic when you start nickel and diming with the years. Hah!

...

Ever hear The Soft Boys reunion bootleg were Robyn Hitchcock tells the audience that he wrote "The Queen Of Eyes" for Tom Petty to sing?

Not sure if I want to hear that cover version.
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 26, 2010 10:03PM
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When I was a little kid, it seemed like all of the teens and grownups around me had copies of Bat out of Hell and Frampton Comes Alive.

I didn't know that it's in "The Regulations," but it turns out that you aren't permitted to even fill out an application to open up a used record store without being able to prove that you have at least one copy of each of those titles in stock. Bonus points are meted out if you have them in multiple formats. So keep those Meatloaf 8-Tracks! One never knows.

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And speaking strictly for myself, I have NEVER met anyone who will admit that they owned a copy of "Frampton Comes Alive." Not one stinking person. And I've made it a sort of crusade mission to find one.

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Don't even get me going about STAR WARS! That film warped my mind along with the entire collective mind of my entire generation. It was very much like a religion to me as a child. Certainly, I wasn't alone in my delusional adoration.

I detest the "cleaned up" versions. Indeed ... Han shot first. It's crucial to his character arc to show what a ruthless bastard he was! Success spoiled Lucas. No doubt about it. All watered down pap and straight downhill as soon as he made a buck ... as least as far as Star Wars goes.

I'm a Strictly Orthodox About It Man. Whatcha gonna dooooo about it?

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Latest spins? That Sun Records Anniversary Collection from the local library's collection kicked ass. They also have a few Gram Parsons CDs and "Something Else" by The Kinks.

Go Library!
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MrFab
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 26, 2010 10:07PM
Never owned a copy of "Frampton Comes Alive" but as a tot I did check it out of the library. Don't remember liking that much. Guess I checked it out cuz, well, it was "Frampton Comes Alive."
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breno
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 26, 2010 10:24PM
"The Waiting" was the first single from Hard Promises, with "Nightwatchman" as its b-side. And yep, it was 1981 and released pretty much concurrently with Stevie Nicks' Belladonna, with the result that "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" probably cannibalized a lot of Petty's own sales for that summer.
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Michael Toland
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 01:37PM
I owned a copy of Frampton Comes Alive for a while. But I got it as a Xmas present in the late 80s, so I didn't have it at the time it was popular.
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blasmo
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 03:19PM
Frampton Comes Alive! seems to come with a mass batch of buyer's remorse crossed with embarrassment, which I don't get , unless it was due to his over-exposure. There are a hell of a lot worse albums released in the 70's that people went nuts over. My brother had a copy of it before he threw everything away during the Sex Pistols "conversion". But it's starting to turn around now that Frampton has gone on to be considered one of the nicest guys in rock.

I don't get being embarrassed about stuff you actually like, as opposed to stuff that you bought because it was big at the time. I think Born in the USA was the only time I got caught up in that sort of rush. When I was in high school, the must-own stuff was Purple Rain, Born in the USA, and whatever Duran Duran album had just come out (this was just post Thriller). God, I remember laughing at the very concept of a Duran Duran live album, and seeing the Arena concert film again a few weeks ago on Vh1 Classic reminded me why: Simon Le Bon couldn't hit a note straight on to save his life.
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Michael Toland
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:16PM
I liked FCA well enough when I got it, but I got bored with it fairly quickly. I agree, there are much worse albums out there to be embarrassed by.

You know, I haven't contributed to this discussion before now because I couldn't think of anything that I thought I needed because everyone else was listening to it. That's just not a factor for me.

Actually, I guess that's not quite true. I got Pavement's Slanted & Enchanted in '91 and the Strokes' first album a few years ago because everyone of any supposed taste or influence was talking them up. I ended up loathing both of them (the Strokes within about a month), but I wouldn't say I regret either acquisition. If I hadn't given them a listen or 12, I'd've never known.

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blasmo
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:46PM
"Buying a copy of I'm In You, on the other hand, could almost be viewed as a cry for help." -- okay, that broke me at work.

Anyone hear Zappa's live version of "I Have Been in You", where he just destroys that song? It's on YCDTOS Vol.6, but a part of it is in the Baby Snakes movie:

Now check this out: How d- how do you rationalize the appearance of an album entitled I'm In You? I mean, wha . . . what, what is that? Is that guy kidding?

Now all of the ladies in the audience, you get to have fantasy time. This is female fantasy hour. Okay? You're a teen-age girl, right? You have abducted the succulent popstar of your choice, right? You have taken the aforementioned popstar, who is really cute and Aryan and eats a lot of crumpets, back to your teen-age room. That's right, spindle twice. You have taken this turkey back to your room, you have laid on your teen-age bed, you have put your teen-age legs up in the air, you have actually taken your own teen-age pants off. You have the teen-age red bulb on, right next to the bed. The curtains are drawn, it's dark, it's midnight. You put on a Phoebe Snow record, you're really relaxing. Tears come to your eyes, you are sensitive, you are in love. The popstar of your choice takes off his pants and climbs on top of you, and the next thing you know you hear this little voice in your ear and it says:

"I'M IN YOU!"
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:58PM
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This is female fantasy hour.

Whoa there! I think I need a shower now.

I thought I'd accidently landed at the music board at Penthouse Magazine's website. It's the link right under the "New Recipe" section.

They've got one for lemon bars that looks totally out of sight, man.

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My favorite part of your original post was the bit about "really cute and Aryan and eats a lot of crumpets."

I'm putting that in my next personal advert.
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blasmo
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 06:22PM
I wish. Better than warehouse management. My best writing's a blog about when I was stalked, written as a parody of H.P. Lovecraft.
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Michael Toland
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 07:10PM
Ooh - please share!
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blasmo
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 11:03PM


[40til40.blogspot.com]
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:47PM
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I owned a copy of Frampton Comes Alive for a while. But I got it as a Xmas present in the late 80s, so I didn't have it at the time it was popular.

Hah! What was that song by Survivor about the search being over? Now I can finally say that I "know" someone who'll admit to owning a copy of that Frampton LP - with qualifications galore, of course. Still ... it's better than being forced to listen to Eddie Money bootlegs. Again.
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Michael Toland
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:56PM
Speaking of qualifications, I should also note that it wasn't something someone bought me without thinking - I actually asked for it. I wanted to hear it. I was still exploring my options musically back then.
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rhettlawrence
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 05:17PM
Not to take anything away from the estimable Blasmo - who may well write pulp paperbacks for a living - but I understood him to be transcribing Zappa's take on the song.
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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 01:07AM
There's a long list of "must-have" albums, based on any combination of the factors that Fab listed in his originating post ...

One thing I've noticed, though: within two years after the fact, it's usually possible to find a large number of used and/or remaindered copies of those albums at the CD shops.

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STEVE
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 02:57AM
dictators

that and my john lennon playboy interview book.



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jcakp
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 06:06AM
metallica's 'black album' was essential when i was in 7th grade and, for some reason, my friends and i didn't seem to mind that everyone else was listening to it too... it was a must have back in the day, at least in kansas...

i lived overseas for a while and when i came back i made new friends, but only after i bought 'in the aeroplane over the sea'. maybe i'm a bit like breno in that i 'usually avoided any albums that everyone else claimed I had to have', but if you lived 'round these parts in the early aught's that was THE album you had to have or you wouldn't be taken seriously.
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breno
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 12:11PM
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Today's kids get to choose which Star Wars movie they want to see, the chopped up version, the remastered version, the truncated version, the paralytic version, et cetera...thanks to Lucas.

What has been re-released and remastered more often? The original three Star Wars movies, or Elvis Costello's back catalog?

I just saw the other day that with the success of Avatar, Lucas is now meeting with James Cameron to figure out how to convert Star Wars to 3D. I'm sure if there were a Charlie Chaplin revival, Lucas would immediately be hard at work taking the sound and color out of the movies and releasing a silent movie version.

And Greedo did not fire first! Han Solo shot that bitch in cold blood and everybody knows it, no matter how much Lucas wants us to believe otherwise now.
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blasmo
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 01:11PM
Apostrophe by Frank Zappa (me) and Led Zeppelin IV (everyone else). Aside from those two, KISS's first three albums were cherished by every kid I knew but me. What can I say, I've lived in Oklahoma my entire life.

"...Greedo did not fire first!" -- Damned straight. I paid good money years ago to have a chunk of my laserdiscs converted to DVD's, and those first three Star Wars films were among them.

"One thing I've noticed, though: within two years after the fact, it's usually possible to find a large number of used and/or remaindered copies of those albums at the CD shops." -- I refer to them as "coaster CD's", since they wind up either hidden or used as coasters by people who are now embarrassed to own them. Example: "Yeah, that Milli Vanilli CD is definitely a future coaster."

As far as nowadays, I assume anything by Nickelback is a future coaster.
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Jermoe
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 02:33PM
In the mid-eighties, there were two that I vividly recall as definite Album You Must Have: Violent Femmes Violent Femmes and Squeeze's Singles: 45's and Under. A few years later, it was De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising and Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. Then, Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend and Sugar's Copper Blue took over.

This was during my high school and college days, when there was much more of a collective mindset or herd instinct with my peers. Quick story: The Woggles were playing a house party, and by the end of their set, the entire place was quite destroyed...the guy who was hosting looked around, sighed, walked over to his stereo, started 3 Feet High and Rising, and asked me to help him carry the sofa out into the yard so we could set it on fire.

These were the albums you would hear at every Friday/Saturday kegger, coming out of all the dorm rooms and apartments in town, played over the PA between sets at clubs of all sizes and demographics. They weren't just ubiquitous, they were basically beyond criticism or discussion.

Which is fine with me, as I quite liked them all, and still do.
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 05:10PM
I'm with you on the Violent Femmes thing. That cassette was a fixture all through high school. It's still a great album - even if I can walk around inside it blindfolded and asleep with all the lights off and not bump into any furniture.

Doesn't "Nevermind" also fall into this category?
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breno
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 05:40PM
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I think it's related to the way bands with rich, diverse catalogs are reduced on classic rock radio to two or three songs' worth of career.

I'm sure many youngsters wonder what the big deal about the Who was. All they ever did was "Won't Get Fooled Again," "You Better You Bet," and that CSI song. Oh, and "Teenage Wasteland." Five For Fighting has had a MUCH bigger career.
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Heff
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 25, 2010 07:18PM
High School - Led Zepplin IV

College - Bob Marley - Legend
Big Chill Sdtk
Smiths - Meat is Murder (but it might have just been "How Soon is Now?" over and over again, I don't really remember hearing any other song).

Afterwards - Nirvana, Pearl Jam and I do think everyone had Jagged Little Pill when that came out.

In high school, I was in my new wave phase and college it was punk and hardcore so I missed out on all of those. But I heard them enough from everyone else. Soon after I finished school, I discovered the Trouser Press and haven't looked back since.

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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 26, 2010 04:38AM
> "Yeah, that Milli Vanilli CD is definitely a future coaster."

Yeah, everywhere but at my house. My wife will not get rid of that CD. She liked the album before the truth about the duo became public knowledge. So she doesn't see any reason to like it any less, since the music remains the same as it was before the scandal broke.

I tell her I feel exactly the same way, just from the other side of the fence: The music sucked when everyone thought those two braided boobs were the singers, and it sucked just as much after everyone learned the truth.

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Jermoe
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 26, 2010 03:15PM
Apparently, Milli Vanilli "mastermind" Frank Farian came out relatively unscathed:

[en.wikipedia.org]
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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 01:25PM
> I have NEVER met anyone who will admit that they owned a copy of "Frampton Comes Alive."
> Not one stinking person. And I've made it a sort of crusade mission to find one.

I never owned a copy. But I'll gladly admit that I saw Frampton in concert last year. He actually was pretty darn good. He brought a lot of enthusiasm and self-deprecating humor to the show. And his cover of "Black Hole Sun" really was impressive.

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breno
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 02:16PM
I know plenty of people who owned Frampton Comes Alive. I never did but wouldn't be particularly embarrassed to admit it if I had. (My brother might have had an 8-track of it, can't remember for sure.) In the context of mid-70s top 40 it was perfectly fine. It's only in retrospect that everyone decided it was some great villainous moment in music history. As a junior high kid at the time, I can attest that "Show Me the Way" sounded pretty damn good coming out of a car radio sandwiched in between Queen and the Bay City Rollers.

And hell, it was co-written by Mickey Gallagher. So three cheers for Mickey, hope he's still getting nice royalty checks from it.
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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:20PM
My brother had an 8-track copy of FCA. At least two of my best friends still have their vinyl copies, and wouldn't even view it as an "admission" to say so. One of them went with me to the Frampton gig last year.

> Frampton Comes Alive! seems to come with a mass batch of buyer's remorse crossed with
> embarrassment, which I don't get, unless it was due to his over-exposure.

Blas points the way toward a better understanding. Frampton's first four studio albums were no great shakes, but their best songs, energized by the live setting, made FCA a big hit. His post-Alive efforts are where the "embarrassment" really set in. The live album raised the public's expectations of what Frampton could deliver next; he sounded pretty desperate trying to come up with a studio album that measured up to those expectations.

Today, buying a copy Frampton Comes Alive! just amounts to buying a decent classic-rock album, IMO. Buying a copy of I'm In You, on the other hand, could almost be viewed as a cry for help.

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Michael Toland
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:24PM
It's my understanding that the song "I'm in You" hit #2 on the pop charts and is his most successful single. Yet I'm pretty sure I've never heard it, not even when I used to listen to a bunch of oldies radio. Even the Bob/Jack format won't touch it, apparently. That's embarrassment on a large scale. Did Frampton play it when you saw him?
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HollowbodyKay
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February 02, 2010 09:38PM
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It's my understanding that the song "I'm in You" hit #2 on the pop charts and is his most successful single.

I'm flashing back to the "Austin Trivia" thread all of a sudden. I don't know why.
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MrFab
Re: Albums You Must Have
September 19, 2012 03:52PM
I thought of this thread when I recently read that the music industry is touting the success of Adele's album, which lead some to comment that most of the people who bought it are folks who don't follow music, don't know how to download, see the CD at the grocery checkout stand, and bought it simply because they heard that this is the album to buy - something to play in the background during dinner/when guests are over; "Ooh, Adele, she's suposed to be good, isn't she?" *throws it in the cart*

So apparently the phenomenon lives on. (Don't believe I've heard Adele, tho I may have in restaurants or wherever, so I can't comment on the actual quality of her music.)



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Nile
Re: Albums You Must Have
September 19, 2012 04:49PM
MrFab wrote:

> So apparently the phenomenon lives on. (Don't believe I've
> heard Adele, tho I may have in restaurants or wherever, so I
> can't comment on the actual quality of her music.)

There's nothing wrong with Adele. She's got a powerful voice and can sing pop ballads and belt out "blue-eyed soul" with conviction as Dusty Springfield used to do.

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HollowbodyKay
Re: Albums You Must Have
September 19, 2012 06:43PM
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most of the people who bought it are folks who don't follow music, don't know how to download, see the CD at the grocery checkout stand, and bought it simply because they heard that this is the album to buy - something to play in the background during dinner/when guests are over; "Ooh, Adele, she's suposed to be good, isn't she?"

Wonder if Adele will end up a fixture on those "ATTN Employees! Do NOT buy these titles" list?
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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:30PM
Thinking back, the must-have albums among my high-school crowd in Colorado were Dark Side of the Moon, Led Zeppelin IV, Elton John's first Greatest Hits and the first Boston album — all of which are in my collection, and none of which embarrasses me in the least.

When we moved to Louisiana, the must-have albums among my new high-school cohorts there were Journey's Evolution, Styx's Pieces of Eight and Supertramp's Breakfast in America — none of which will ever be welcome in my collection, even if it's the last copy on Earth.

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breno
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:42PM
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Yet I'm pretty sure I've never heard it, not even when I used to listen to a bunch of oldies radio.

That's something that's always fascinating to me - bands/songs which are huge and inescapable at the time, then vanish completely as if they never existed. You're right that "I'm in You" never turns up on oldies radio, while "Baby I Love Your Way" or "Show Me the Way" still turn up from time to time.

I was just thinking about Live the other day. For a sizable chunk of the mid-90s, they were as big a band as one could find on the planet, but I can't think of the last time I heard anything by them on the radio. I still hear other bands of that ilk fairly often on classic rock radio or instore muzak or lead-ins to radio talk shows - Collective Soul, Blind Melon, Counting Crows, hell, even the Spin Doctors - but Live, at least as far as the St. Louis market goes, are completely, totally forgotten.

But at the time Ed whatever his name was the singer was everywhere - I remember network tv doing an interview with his high school teacher about what kind of student he'd been, for crying out loud. That's how huge they were, and now it's like they never existed.
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Michael Toland
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:47PM
Live still get spun regularly on our local alt.rock station, never fear. They fit right in with Breaking Benjamin and all the other AOR bands masquerading as "alternative."

I'd be perfectly happy in a world where the Spin Doctors never existed. They don't get airply on the alt.rock station, but Bob throws "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" onto the playlist from time to time.

To your bigger point, I think it's part of a trend to shrink down the amount of actual music on commercial stations. Big hits by otherwise minor artists are forgotten, unless it was a massive #1 one-hit wonder. I think it's related to the way bands with rich, diverse catalogs are reduced on classic rock radio to two or three songs' worth of career.
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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:37PM
Frampton didn't play "I'm in You" at his show last year. (That's embarrassment on an even larger scale: the artist won't touch his own biggest hit.)

He played the highlights from FCA and from his later efforts, and quite a few songs from his most recent studio album, Fingerprints (including the aforementioned Soundgarden cover). He played a couple of Beatles covers, too, which came across just fine, since he wasn't on a big movie screen with the Bee Gees. He closed with "Do You Feel Like We Do," turning the extended solo into something of a comedy routine. Hearing him ask the audience, through his talk-box, "Do you have Geico insurance?" got a big laugh.

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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:57PM
> Still ... it's better than being forced to listen to Eddie Money bootlegs. Again.

Do those actually exist? I guess there's a market for anything.
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 10:23PM
Naw. It was just the worst thing I could think of at that moment.

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Actually, it chills me to the very marrow to think that somewhere (perhaps in a dingy, vermin-infested little basement in New Jersey <the urban part - not the pastoral sections which are quite pretty> someone is rocking out to Eddie Money bootlegs. It could happen.

I wonder what Soundgarden tune he'd cover?
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Aitch
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 10:28PM
Don't bootleg Eddie, his dad was a cop.
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breno
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 10:40PM
And his brother-in-law was a limo driver, which is how he ended up on that Yoko Ono tribure album back in the 80s. He was driving Yoko around and heard her and her people discussing who they wanted on the album and he suggested Eddie, and I guess Yoko didn't feel like she could be ungracious enough to say no thanks.
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blasmo
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 28, 2010 12:39AM
Big Dumb Sex.
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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 27, 2010 04:58PM
Blasmo, do you write pulp paperbacks for a living?

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Paganizer
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January 28, 2010 02:10AM
"Thinking back, the must-have albums among my high-school crowd in Colorado "

Yup, plus Back in Black and whatever the Bob Seger one was called

I've never heard any of the 70s/80s "classic" albums listed in this thread. Just snippets of the hit tracks. I recognize all the titles though.



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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
January 28, 2010 04:19AM
> Yup, plus Back in Black and whatever the Bob Seger one was called. Springsteen didn't hit
> until BitUSA.

Seger was just starting to become widely popular when I moved to Louisiana, although he never seemed to be viewed as "essential." Back in Black wasn't released until after I graduated.

I don't remember even hearing Springsteen until my freshman year in college. He was very popular with a lot of my new friends there; The River was his then-current album. In fact, I ended up seeing Bruce in concert that year.

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Delvin
Re: Albums You Must Have
September 19, 2012 05:11PM
Last night I picked up three albums I must have: Bob Mould's newest, and the Sugar reissues.

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