It’s my home, it’s my era, it was voted best rock album of the 80’s by Bolling Stone magazine, it’s my SDMB nic and i might have mellowed some but it’s still in my blood. Long live The Clash.
Tricky “maxinquaye” “nearly god”
Tori Amos “Crucify” [I know this is a song, I just think it totally says what I feel.]
Blur “blur”
Hmmm…lessee.
For album, gotta be “Little Earthquakes” by Tori Amos. Describes my life damn near perfectly. I have quotes from it all through my journals. Especially the one DB quoted a while back - “Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.”
And so as not to worry Coldy…RTB and 2112 by Rush hold special places in my heart too. Plus, the line from a SONG that applies best is from a Rush song - “Prime Mover.”
Rest of the album isn’t as good…but I love that song.
I knew it. I just KNEW Falcon would chime in with one of my other top 5 Rush quotes! You rock, woman!
Well we sure do have a lot of Rush fans in here. Sticking with the theme of prog rock, I have a few albums that stand out above the rest.
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery : so exciting and brilliantly written it just sends me to another world.
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow : absolutely beautiful music, and one of the most coherent albums I’ve ever heard.
Greatful Dead - Blues for Allah : I came back to my place after an excursion into the chemical unknown knowing, put this on, and danced like no one was watching.
Bobby McFerrin - Circle Songs : very special music.
Well, I can go on and on, but I wont. At least not yet.
Rush - Hemispheres. Without a doubt.
(And by the way, g’day to my fellow fans. Warms my heart to know y’all.)
(I’m refraining - with considerable effort - from adding Rush commentary because it’s outside the OP, and I’m trying to give up hijacking for a whole 24 hours.)
Oh, and Philip Glass’s soundtrack to “Koyaanisquatsi” (sp?).
The movie is one of my favorite pieces of art in the world, and the soundtrack itself is right up there.
Sibelius’ “Our Native Land”. I don’t know what the chorus is singing, since it’s in Finnish. But it’s beautiful music, on the depressing side, and I love it.
Uke - you are the only other person I know who has even heard of that album. I still have the album - is it on CD?
For me - “The Pretender” Jackson Browne
Danny Elfman - Music For a Darkened Theater 2
Sassy: Doesn’t look like it. My copy’s vinyl, too.
“I Am the Light of This World” made it onto AND FURTHERMORE, the new live album by Hot Fucking Tuna, though…as well as some tasty versions of “Third Week in Chelsea,” “True Religion,” “I See the Light,” and “Water Song.”
Hello to all my fellow rush fans out there and let me pust in my vote for 2112 as the best rush album. But as for the OP:
“The Goldberg Variations” as performed by Glenn Gould (the 1955 recording even though the newer one is great)
“Ten” by Pearl Jam
I have a few that come close:
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Spirit, Jewel - I totally relate to most of the songs, especially “Hands,” “Deep Water,” “Absense of Fear,” and “Kiss the Flame.” I love the raw emotion.
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Crush, DMB I love all the songs on the album, they totally capture how I felt at certain moments in my life. A love the line from #41:
And the number one…
- The Stealing Beauty Soundtrack. This album has such a mix of songs…“Glory Box” by Portishead is about coming of age and being a woman, “Superstition” is one of my fave songs, there’s some jazz and blues and I love and “Rhymes of An Hour” by Mazzy Star is awesome. The SD captures the heart of the movie, about a girl becoming a woman, which is something I am busy doing right now.
Wow. I had Rush in mind before I read any of the posts. For me it’s Signals, as in:
Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasy
But most of us just dream about the things we’d like to be
Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it
For you the blind who once could see - the bell tolls for thee
and
He’d love to spend the night in Zion
He’s been a long long while in Babylon
He’d like a lover’s wings to fly on
To a tropic isle of Avalon
Information Society: Hack. The odd thing about this one is that I really don’t see the connection to me. But every song on the album fits a character I roleplay almost perfectly, so maybe it is a subconscious thing.
Cincinatti Pops: Star Tracks. Sometimes I just feel my life is a fantasy film. But I know I’m not Truman.
One of better the MIPSIMS topics to come down in a while.
My first choice would probably be Crime of the Century by Supertramp. My second choice would be Speaking
in Tongues by Talking Heads.
if you choose not to decide you still HAVE MADE A CHOICE!
I have so many Rush quotes…I wrote them all over my book covers in high school. I graduated in 92, mmmkay? The only people who agreed with my musical tastes were the long haired ex hippie teachers who smoked cloves.
Rush is fucking awesome…and its cool to see some Tori fans in here. Actually I started this thread because I was listening to Little Earthquakes, and so many things she says on that, her first album, are so honest, so immediately recognizable to a woman: “She’s been everybody else’s girl/maybe one day she’ll be her own.” and my favorite, the title track, “oooh this little earthquakes/doesn’t take much to rip us into pieces…” and the cathartic battle cry at the end, “Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again…”
But still it’s Boys for Pele for me. It’s just raw pain, and she makes it so beautiful.
I fucking love her, man.
FWIW, I’m a huge Tori Amos fan as well. If you want to shut Coldy up, fire up a good stereo and play “Past the Mission”. Goose bumps all the way. What a breathtaking (and sexy!) voice, and what brilliant lyrics.
I know it may seem sappy - but the best album for my money
is the Gold album by Boney M.
Sad but true.
great question…
“It takes a nation of millions to hold us back” - Public Enemy
“Ass pocket o’ whiskey” - R.L. Burnside
“Superunknown” - Soundgarden
“Definitely Maybe” - Oasis