Correction: Pinnock’s baroque chamber ensemble was (is?) called the English Concert, not Consort. I always get that wrong, because it uses an obselete sense of the word “concert.”
Yeah, I have a bunch that fit that slot.
- What’s Going On, by Marvin Gaye
- Heart-Shaped World by Chris Isaak
- Avalon, Roxy Music
- I Just Can’t Stop It, English Beat
- Dirty Mind, Prince
- Matador, Grant Green
- Marquee Moon, Television
- Van Halen
- Montrose
- Strangers in the Night, UFO
- Physical Graffiti, Zep
Barely scratching the surface. A lot of early Aerosmith, AC/DC, Beatles, Stones, Thelonius…
WordMan, now I’m off to check out Grant Green, and Montrose… (I hadn’t heard of either one, but I see the former is a jazz pianist fl. 1960s, while the latter is an early 70s rock album by an eponymous band).
Correction: Grant Green was a jazz guitarist, not pianist.
Also, Montrose (named after their guitarist) was Sammy Hagar’s first important band.
Thought of a few more candidates:
Jethro Tull - War Child, Minstrel in the Gallery
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
John Prine - Great Days
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia
mmm
Have fun and let me know what you think.
Montrose is proto-Van Halen (produced and engineered by the same folks) with some truly great songs I suspect you’ve heard like Rock Candy, Rock the Nation, Bad Motor Scooter, etc.
Grant Green was Blue Notes’ house guitarist for a decade. Matador features the same combo that supported Coltrane for his classic My Favorite Things, and features GGreen’s take on that fresh standard. His phrasing blows me away.
Tough question. It would have to be an album I originally had on vinyl (or cassette, or 8-track!) and then later on CD, and that I still listen to somewhat regularly. Likely candidates:
Rush - 2112
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Wishbone Ash - Argus
WordMan, I enjoyed them both, though Montrose was too Zeppelinesque for repeated listenings, for me (I’ve always loved Zep).
Grant Green – nothing too fancy, just tasteful, bluesy pickin’ with a good sense for creative (but not show-offy) rhythmic phrasing. In other words, not unlike some of Frank Zappa’s solos (“Willie the Pimp,” “Inca Roads”…)
Montrose was burned into my 14-year-old brain, so I hear it when I see the album cover.
Grant Green’s playing is really durable - stands up to many listenings. I’ll have to check out that Zappa.
Pop/rock: probably Pink Floyd’s Wish you were here.
Classical: Gorecki’s third symphony or Mahler song cycles by Fischer-Dieskau.
I practically wore out the Brubeck at Carnegie Hall two-record set years ago. Then got it on CD and wore that out, too. It’s one of the finest live jazz sets ever done.
Tull-Aqualung
ELP - Tarkus
Queen - A Day at the Races
XTC - Black Sea
Simon - Graceland
Nothing else comes close.
I’d like to say Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, but that’s almost certainly second to Moon Safari by Air.
Answering this requires a time machine…
The Beatles, Sgt Pepper
The Doors
Moody Blues, Days of Future Past
Traffic, John Barleycorn Must Die
Derek and the Dominoes, Layla
Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead
The Kinks, Everybody’s in Showbiz
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
Arvo Pärt, Te Deum
No clue as to number of times played. Enough that anyone else would have been driven mad by the repetition.
It’s either The Mason Williams Phonograph Album or Close To The Edge by Yes. Since I’ve listened to both frequently since my college days, the number is in the low thousands for both.
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West
Revolver, The Beatles
Steeleye Span
Hark! The Village Wait
Many times. I’m sure more than a thousand over the years.
Another one I prefer to listen to all the way through is The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society. But I only discovered it a year ago (thanks, fellow Dopers!), so it hasn’t hit the 100-listens mark yet. Surely someday it will.
I also discovered TKATVGPS about a half a year ago on a separate forum and it’s already in the 20s. Every track either fits into the theme or is a great song nonetheless (“Big Sky” and “All of my Friends” are the only ones that don’t seem to fit thematically but musically they do, and are good songs.)
Probably “Rain Dogs” by Tom Waits, or “John Prine” by John Prine.