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<BR>Tragically Hip - Up To Here
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<BR>I´m pretty new to the Hip myself; the first CD I had of theirs was Phantom Power, which I loved. Music @ Work was unbelievable hit or miss with a few gems and some real stinkers but I think their latest effort "In Violet Light" is their best to date.
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<BR>And, yes, you´re right -- their live shows are absolutely mesmerizing. Gord Downie has to be one of the all-time great rock frontmen.
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<BR>1. Rush-Moving Pictures
<BR>canada gave us hockey and Rush, thank you. If you were a drummer back in the day this cassette was never removed from your Trans Am tape deck.
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<BR>2. Frank Zappa-Sheik Yerbouti
<BR>I love Terri Bozzio´s stuff from Frank to Missing Persons (the Black Page is awsome) but this album really shines, and funny as hell.
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<BR>3. Dream Theater-Images and Words
<BR>During the progressive metal stage in my life (doesn´t everyone go through that <IMG SRC="images/forum/icons/icon_biggrin.gif"> ). Jaw dropping musicianship and "how the hell does he do that" drumming by Mike Portnoy.
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<BR>Moving Pictures - I´m a bass player by trade and can still play (or at least air-drum) nearly every drum fill on this album.
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<BR>Frank Zappa - I always preferred Vinnie Colaiuta´s work with FZ (and even Chad Wackerman for that matter), but Bozzio is still an absolute freak.
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<BR>As for Mike Portnoy, he should stick to the drums and stay away from the lyric writing. Neil Peart he ain´t!
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>>>Neck and Neck, Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler<<<
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<BR>A f*cking fantastic record, indeed. Love it.
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No particular order:
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<BR>Lou Reed--New York
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<BR>Rolling Stones--Exile on Main Street
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<BR>Allman Brothers--Live at the Fillmore
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<BR>Van Morrison--Moondance
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<BR>U2--Joshua Tree
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<BR>Beastie Boys--Licensed to Ill
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<BR>The Who--Who´s Next
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<BR>Pearl Jam--Ten
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<BR>Nirvana--Nevermind
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<BR>Soundgarden--Superunknown
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Jim:
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<BR>Judging by your choices, I´m guessing you´re in the 35-40 age group. Same as me.
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<BR>Am I correct? All fine records you picked, by the way. <IMG SRC="images/forum/icons/icon_smile.gif">
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Cool thread. Impossible to list just 5, but I´ll give it a whirl
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<BR>In no particular order:
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<BR>Led Zeppelin II
<BR>Pink Floyd: Animals
<BR>The Black Crowes: Amorica
<BR>The Beatles: Revolver
<BR>The Who: Quadrophenia
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<BR>Really hard to list just five and I can´t believe I didn´t list a Stones album. I´ll take Exile on Main Street as my reserve pick. <IMG SRC="images/forum/icons/icon_wink.gif">
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OK this is not a joke and IM not a senior....yet
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<BR>1-Sinatra Live at the Sands 2-Sinatra Columbia collection 3-Capital series 4- Reprise collection 5- Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey Maybe you should ask your parents or grampa about these recordings by the Voice....C..ya

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Wow. Pretty much every selection here is something that I own or have owned in the past !!! That is really interesting.
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<BR>JimD: Good call on the Soundarden. That album (along with Pearl Jam´s ´VS.´) were what really got me into the alternative movement (I was a HUGE ´deadhead´ before that and pretty much stuck only to listening to them until I realized that there was other good music emerging FINALLY !).
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<BR>Bill_Abner: GREAT call on Quadrophenia !! Perhaps one of the best and underrated rock albums of all time !!! I actually have a somewhat interesting story regarding that particular album:
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<BR>I was a major Who fanatic growing up. Between Kiss, The Stones and The Who, I was in rock heaven during the ages of 5-10. My favorite Who album was Who’s Next and never really paid attention to Quadrophenia. I then went on to tons of other musical phases and never really bothered listening to much Who. Until…When I was about 21 years old, my buddies and I had a HUGE Who resurgence. We pretty much realized that they were the best rock band ever and were responsible for starting punk rock (which we were beginning to explore at that time as well). Now this can of course be debated but this is where my mindset was at when between the ages of 21-25. Anyway, I digress…
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<BR>When I was going through my big Who phase, I discovered Quadrophenia. I was floored. This album was incredible and I was hooked. I spent the entire year of 1995 listening to that album almost everyday up through the fall. My friends and I were Quadrophenia crazy. Which leads me to the interesting point of this story.
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<BR>During this Who ‘resurrection’, my other favorite band at the time was Phish (and had been a favorite since first seeing them in 1990). Now Phish had played a show on Halloween in 1994 in New York where they started a tradition of doing a ‘Musical Costume’. This was a set (sandwiched between two other ‘Phish’ music sets) which they would dedicate entirely to covering a famous album, but no one would know what it was until the first notes were being played. They played The Beatles ‘White Album’ that year. I was unfortunately unable to attend and was very bummed that I had missed it. So now it is 1995 and Phish announce that they will be playing this years Halloween in my hometown Chicago. WOW ! What a cool coincidence. My favorite band playing the local arena for their 2nd annual Halloween Bash/Musical Costume. I was definitely going. So I got my tickets and was off to the concert a couple of months later. Remember that my favorite album at this time was Quadrophenia and that was pretty much all I was listening to the entire year. So off we go to the Phish show on Halloween and my friends and I are talking about what we think this years ‘musical costume’ would be. We ran through some ideas and someone even had the gall to mention The Who’s Tommy. None of us would even ‘go there’ with Quadrophenia for many reasons, but mainly because it was almost too forced and obvious that we would choose that. Besides, that album was way too obscure to be the big musical costume. There were waaaay too many other major albums to cover like Zeppelin IV or Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon.
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<BR>So after the first set of Phish music was done, I sat in anticipation. The lights go off and the opening notes of Michael Jackson’s Thriller begin playing over the P.A.. WTF !?!?!? No way !!!! ‘Thriller’ !?!?!? At that point the music stopped and all that I heard was the sound of waves crashing…Wait a sec, what other album do I know that starts off with the sound of waves crashing…??? Um…hmmmm, let’s see, there’s, well, there’s Quadrophenia, but that’s not an option so what else is there…hmmmm…
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<BR>All the sudden I hear the faint sounds of the collage that occurs at the start of the album… ‘Bellbooooy’ and ‘Looooove, Reign ‘or meeeee !’. No F**KING WAY !!!!!!!!! and as soon as I was saying those words to myself the band kicks into ‘The Real Me’ !!!!!!
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<BR>They f**king did it, they played Quadrophenia in it’s entirety. Most of the audience didn’t even know what album it was. I could hear people asking each other ‘What is this ???’. What an obscure album to play and how totally bizarre that it just so happened to be that years biggest influence for me. Too weird !?!?!?!?!? I thought I was dreaming. My friends and I nearly sh*t our pants. That was truly a magical moment in music history for me. It’s like they played that album for me and my buddies.
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<BR>Now for the real kicker…One year later to the day, on Halloween night in the same city of Chicago, I end up seeing The Who perform Quadrophenia in it’s entirety, LIVE !!!! Now how weird and magical is that !!!! Basically, Pete Townsend was tinkering with the idea of touring Quadrophenia for a while when he got wind that Phish played it for their musical costume. That was all the jump start he needed to begin planning The Who’s reunion. He always wanted The Who to perform that album but never felt they could pull it off. Well Phish did it so why not The Who !?!? I guess they planned the Chicago stop for the Halloween date as a kind of nod to Phish. Boy did I luck out !!!
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Moe:
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<BR>No joke on the Chairman. I have the first four albums/collections on your Frank list. Great stuff!
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Cool story, Spooky. Quadrophenia is my favorite Who studio album, too, although the Live at Leeds CD is my overall favorite. I always thought Quadrophenia was the album Tommy was trying to be. "The Punk and the Godfather" is one their most underrated tracks.
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I can´t possibly rank them, so I´ll stick with chronological order:
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<BR>1984: Rush - Grace Under Pressure. the first tape I ever bought. I remember my highly religious mother being failry upset that I was being corrupted my rock music. She read the lyrics and sat explaining to me how the song The Enemy Within was about drugs and how if you are at peace with God there is no enemy within. It´s funny now, because I´ve been a metalhead ever since, and she´s never intruded into my musical choices since then. BTW, the music must not have done it´sa job, because I never went on a wild killing spree. In fact, I´ve never EVER done drugs, other than drinking alcohol.
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<BR>1986: Queensryche - Rage for Order. This is what got me started on a long and beautiful relationship with progressive metal. A masterpiece I´d rate even higher than Mindcrime, although I´d say DTs Images & Words is the best ever, even today.
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<BR>1990: Del Amitri - Change Everything. Finally a non-metal band that I could honestly relate to. Some of the most wonderful songwriting I´ve ever heard.
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<BR>1994 (ish): Angra - Angels Cry. After many years of suffering through the grunge era (thanks a lot Kurt, you selfish, whiny, self-destructive prick), I found that metal was not dead, simply overseas. This became the first of many metal imports I bought. This was my salvation from the american trend-of-the-week machine. We are so fickle here when it comes to any form of art.
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<BR>2002 - Brooks & Dunn - Greatest Hits. My journey into country music begins. I always hatedit growing up, but the down to earth messages speak to me. I can relate to it, especially now that I´ve "settled in" to a family and a home in a rural location. I like the attitude and the old fashioned nature of it. Plus, I found that there is country music that can also ROCK!
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Good to see all the Rush fans here. I remember playing Grace Under Pressure something like 10 times in a row when I first bought it.
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<BR>I left one CD out that I have to also include:
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<BR>New Bomb Turks -- Scared Straight: The best punk album of the 90s IMHO. Kicks your ass for 10 straight balls-out songs, then lets you up with a nice Stonesy closer. Whenever I feel in a bit of a rut, I dig this out and instantly feel better.

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<BR>Good to see all the Rush fans here. I remember playing Grace Under Pressure something like 10 times in a row when I first bought it.
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<BR>I left one CD out that I have to also include:
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<BR>New Bomb Turks -- Scared Straight: The best punk album of the 90s IMHO. Kicks your ass for 10 straight balls-out songs, then lets you up with a nice Stonesy closer. Whenever I feel in a bit of a rut, I dig this out and instantly feel better.
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<BR>Nice. New Bomb Turks are awesome. I´ve seen them a few times here in Chitown. Saw them twice in one night actually at two different venues.
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PK/Sudz,
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<BR>Pretty close, I´m 32. Grew up on classic rock here in Rochester. That was the only option, other than top 40, on the radio. The grunge phase took off while I was college and most of the music blew me away.
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<BR>I agree, you can never go wrong with Sinatra. One of my favorite childhood memories is driving in my Grandfather´s Lincoln Towncar listening to Mr. S.
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<BR>Abner,
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<BR>Great call on the Black Crowes´ Amorica. That has to be one of the most underappreciated, unrecognized rock albums ever by a major band. "Wiser Times" is one of my favorite songs of all time.
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Agreed on "Amorica" and "Wiser Times."
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<BR>Plus "Amorica" had one of the great album covers in rock, the close-up shot of the American flag bikini brief on the hot chick with tufts of brown pubes sticking out of the sides.
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<BR>Take care,
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