Nobody else has heard of the Stone Roses.
That’s right, in Britain nobody bought the Stone Roses. :rolleyes:
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[li]We’re Only In It For The Money: Mothers Of Invention[/li][li]Sabotage: Black Sabbath[/li][li]Secret Treaties: Blue Oyster Cult[/li][li]Beggars Banquet: Rolling Stones[/li][li]Nighthawks At The Diner: Tom Waits[/li][li]Aja: Steely Dan[/li][li]Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys: Traffic[/li][li]Fly Like An Eagle: Steve Miller Band[/li][li]Songs From The Wood: Jethro Tull[/li][li]Howlin’ Wolf Album (This Is Howlin’ Wolf’s New Album, He Doesn’t Like It. He Didn’t Like His Electric Guitar At First Either): Howlin’ Wolf & The Electric Mud Band [/li](No brick throwing from blues aficianados please, we’re all entitled to our opinions)[/ul]
Honorable Mention: Ode to Freedom: Bernstein Conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Berlin
I’d like to make a formal request that our illustrious moderator, Ike, answer the question. Enquiring minds want to know, and all that jazz…
Chunky Bum, my apologies for not getting back to you earlier…
Regarding The Band’s self-titled album and my comment about wishing more albums were recorded that way - I meant specifically the whole idea of a bunch of guys in one common room, rehearsing each song to the point of being able to catch it hot without practicing it too much, giving each song’s mix that funky, earthy sound because there’s mic leakage all over the place, and doing it all inside one month on a vintage eight-track open reel.
I know that Counting Crows and Red Hot Chili Peppers have done albums in mansions and whatnot with a similar m.o., but there’s always been some aspect that’s not quite right…they’re done 24-track or the mics are isolated or the music’s mixed to death or all the life’s been played out of the songs before they make it to tape.
So far the closest spiritual match I’ve heard is Cassandra Wilson’s Belly Of The Sun album, most of which was recorded in the Clarksdale Train Depot and a boxcar (the exception being a vocal overdub of some schoolchildren in NYC). To me, it’s still a little too clean sonically, but the earthiness and “soup” is still there.
I think I could make 5 or 6 top ten lists. Here are two, in no particular order.
Barefoot Boy – Larry Coryell
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Second Winter – Johnny Winter
Morning After – J. Giles Band
Aja – Steely Dan
Waiting for Columbus – Little Feat
Guitar on Fire – Roy Buchanan
Live at the Fillmore – Allman Brothers
Second Wind – Oblivion Express
Hot Rats – Frank Zappa
Truth – Jeff Beck
List two:
Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix
Back to the Roots – John Mayall
Wheels Of Fire – Cream
Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones
A Head Rings Out - Blodwyn Pig
A Step Further – Savoy Brown
Couldn’t Stand The Weather – Stevie Ray Vaughn
Never Been Rocked Enough - Delbert McClinton
Rough and Ready – Jeff Beck
In The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson