My favorite album right now is Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti. I have a real thing for double albums by very prominent bands in the vinyl era (White Album, Exile On Main Street, The Wall, etc.) and Zeppelin projected such a *stature *that a double album can’t help but feel like their definitive work to me. Even though half of the album is outtakes they’re still better than a lot of first-run stuff on other bands’ records. Plus this one is a real delight to hold in your hands, with the die-cut album art and the different pictures in the little windows depending on how you arrange the inner sleeves.
I’ll post Houses of the Holy because a) Ten Years Gone is only available on YouTube in lousy audio quality, and b) at 1:24 something that sounds like a cowbell kicks in, and a Zep tune with cowbell is A-OK by me.
Hmm, I used a song from my favorite album when I answered the “favorite band” challenge. I’m going to bend the rules and give one from my favorite album right now, as in the one I’m most likely to plop on the turntable in the last few weeks.
It occurs to me I don’t really have a favorite album. I have a lot of albums I play quite a lot but my current favorite rotates. One of the albums frequently in the rotation is Lindsey Buckingham’s Out of the Cradle.
To me there can never be such a thing as “my favorite album.” It’s so broad and malleable and volatile a concept. And just any song from it? which one?
My focus today is on the Replacements cause I just finished the full length bio of them and I’m thinking they were possibly the best we ever had, in the US anyway.
The album is “Tim.” from 1985. I counted the flat-out anthems on it and there are 5!
Try Left of the Dial, seemingly about a love affair with another touring musician.
Like many of you, I have too many albums I love to have a favorite. Off the top of my head, I love:
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Billy Joel - River of Dreams
Within Temptation - Silent Force
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Nirvana - Nevermind
KMFDM - Nihil
And so many I’ve failed to list. I’ll pick one from Dirt because it was my favorite in 10th grade or so, right when my taste in music improved and evolved.
I’m going to go with Led Zeppelin too, but my favorite album is Led Zeppelin III. My favorite song is not on that album though.
So Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III, “That’s the Way”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phd48YT18vY
This is one of the CDs I designed for the gay men’s chorus I’m in., and this is a promotional video featuring one of its songs (not my favorite). And yes, in addition to singing, I can be seen in some of the dance numbers.
These are all the CDs I designed for the chorus. Each was truly a labor of love.
The Minutemen’s “Little Man With a Gun In His Hand”, from their “Double Nickels on the Dime” double album. There’s an earlier version on the “Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat” EP, but I prefer this one:
This is my favorite song from the Dada album Puzzle: Surround Me
I loved this album so much that I bought four more Dada albums, and I just about never listen to any of the other albums. But this one particular album hit the spot.
