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― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)
I think you are of taking the piss yesno? With the supplidamento gullibilties?
― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 06:22 (twenty years ago)
There are several songs that I can listen to endlessly, but there isn't one album that I can say the same about. And I do have a fear that I will eventually tire of some of these favorites.
― Matthew E. Armstrong (gensu3k1), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:26 (twenty years ago)
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― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)
Vis-a-vis Pulp. I was thinking earlier this week that, despite the fact that Different Class is Pulp's "best" album (or argue This is Hardcore is you want), We Love Life is the one that I return to all the time. I think there are a couple of other examples like that, but I can't think of them right now. "Standing in the shadows of classics" or something.
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)
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― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)
-- Thomas Tallis"
Gosh, you may have the worst music taste ever.I'd say Jeff Buckley's "Grace"
― Tina Josefine (t inajosefine), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:40 (twenty years ago)
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)
I'm kidding of course. I understand that quite a few folks get the jelly knees for Jeff Buckley. He's never done a thing for me though. Still, I can't argue against anyone's considered choice. And for me, that consideration has a time factor that leaves out Luomo and a few of the others listed, including Beck's "Mutations."
The time consideration as far as I am concerned is no shorter than ten years. As the OP wrote, you might think for five years that you listen to an album forever, but then at ten years you are sick of it.
Yes, I realize that if you are younger than 25, you might not have sufficient music from which to draw. TFB.
There is another hidden component to emekars' question. I can think of a handful of disks right now that for me have stood the test of time (more than twenty years, some more than thirty) but the interval between listening on some of them has grown to years. I listen to some of them in heavy rotation for a few weeks and then I don't need to hear them for several years.
Again, this is my preference and not a prescription, but the albums that hold up the best for me have no vocals per se--that is no song with verse-chorus-verse. Most word-based music for me has a limited shelf life because the lyric usually becomes tedious if I have to listen to it again and again.
If you're still reading, here are ten that make my desert island disks, which are not necessarily my favorites of all time, but ones that I think I could play without getting tired of if I only had a limited pool to pick from:
Don Cherry - Brown RiceAlice Coltrane - Journey in SatchidanandaRavi Shankar - Three RagasDave Liebman - Lookout FarmArchie Shepp - magic of JujuAcademy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Il quattro stagioni/VivaldiBerliner Philharmonic - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ("Eroica"), Op. 55 (but I'll take it in the box set with the other 8 symphonies, just in case)Michael Blake - Kingdom of ChampaCharles Mingus - Right Now!Paul Bley - Open, to Love
― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)
And toss in Sonny Sharrock's Ask the Ages, too, please.
― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)
ten years +/- and still growing on me.
― john clifford (onesoma), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:39 (twenty years ago)
I saw The Minutmen documentary a couple months ago; "Anxious Mo-fo" came on and an anticipatory chill went down my spine. If they had temporarily suspended the screening to play the rest of the album I wouldn't have minded.
It's kind of sad to hear people say they've never found a record that still affects them years later. It's like never falling in love. Maybe you just haven't met the right albums?
― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)
― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)