Recommend an Album

[CliffMcTainshaw]

I play this album every year multiple times. Some 30 yo's ask me what is one album from my era they should listen to, cover to cover, and this is it.
At the Listening Room at Monash Uni 1975, 76, 77, I spent many hours and this beauty was always in demand.

I remember after getting this album, turning up the record player really loud and putting on "Time" and watching my sleeping brothers reaction to the alarm clocks at the start.
I copied this to a CD about 20 years ago and gave it to a kid I was coaching at my cricket club. He later told me he decided to listen to it in bed at night and thought it was the scariest album he had ever listened to. I saw him at a club get together last year and he told me he still listens to it.
Sgt Pepper's was like going from the horse drawn carriage to the plane in one jump. This album was like going from the plane to interstellar space travel.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

I'm going to recommend two albums by Eva Cassidy.
Live at Blues Alley
This album was released only 6 months before Cassidy passed away.
Her clear soprano voice with its perfect pitch and her wonderful voice control put her among the greatest singers of our time.


It wasn't until two years after her death that she achieved international success, with the release of a compilation album made up of previous recordings.
Songbird - Fields of Gold


Both albums deserve to be in your collection. She's one of the voices of a lifetime.

 

[Vdubs]

I'm going to recommend two albums by Eva Cassidy.
Live at Blues Alley
This album was released only 6 months before Cassidy passed away.
Her clear soprano voice with its perfect pitch and her wonderful voice control put her among the greatest singers of our time.


It wasn't until two years after her death that she achieved international success, with the release of a compilation album made up of previous recordings.
Songbird - Fields of Gold


Both albums deserve to be in your collection. She's one of the voices of a lifetime.

Agree completely A brilliant voice. Both Sting and Christine McVie were stunned by her performances of their respective songs

 

[Vdubs]

Go Farther In Lightness by Gang of Youths- recently discovered this pearler and can't stop listening.

 

[ibd77]

I'm gonna suggest The Blueman Group, The Complex. A very well rounded rock album.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

In 1977 I went to visit a musician friend. When I got there he was trying to learn the bass lines to a new song by the band Weather Report. He told me he couldn’t figure out how the bass was being played. He’d been given a cassette the night before by another friend, so it had no information on the bass player. He plonked the headphones on my head and said have a listen to this while I make a cuppa. It was playing a track I later found out was called “A Remark You Made” from the album “Heavy Weather” by a band called “Weather Report”. The cassette deck he was using had been modified to allow him to slow down the music to make it easier to follow the more complicated or busy passages. As I listened I kept thinking that it was set to slow, because the bass passages just didn’t feel possible. When he came back I asked if it was on slow play, he checked and then told me it was playing at the correct speed. This then led to a conversation about what was going on with the bass lines. We came to the conclusion that it must be playing through a synth. Later we discovered it was a fretless bass and that the player was a virtuoso named Jaco Pastorious, who would influence every bass player since then. The other musicians on the album were all music icons. Joe Zawinul, keyboards, Wayne Shorter, sax, Alex Acuna, drums and Manolo Badrena, percussion.

A Remark You Made



Heavy Weather - The complete album



I bought the album soon after and discovered their previous album, “Blackmarket”, which I liked even better. There were 2 bass players on the album and it wasn’t identified who was actually playing bass on any tracks. It was only after the internet that I was able to identify who was playing on what track. They were Jaco Pastorious and Alphonso Johnson. Pastorious replaced Johnson during the album. Both are great players.

Elegant People



Blackmarket – The complete album



Both these albums are masterpieces and you should have them in your collection.

 

[Bostonian]

I listen to this album 10-15 times a year from start to finish. It's my take me back to the 90s album.

 

[exe ex machina]

Surely, RATM's debut album has got to be one of the greatest albums ever recorded?

 

[exe ex machina]

**** me....Evil Emoire (RATM) is just as good. Slightly fifferent musical theme, more destructoid and nuts. ****ing love

 

[deck]

**** me....Evil Emoire (RATM) is just as good. Slightly fifferent musical theme, more destructoid and nuts. ****ing love

I reckon it's the better of the 2.

 

[deck]

Stove God Cooks - Reasonable Drought

 

[exe ex machina]

I reckon it's the better of the 2.

Yeah i like it more, its savage, more focused. But the debut is still great. Could listen to both over and over no problem.

Just got Battle of LA to try next....

 

[deck]

Just got Battle of LA to try next....

That's almost as good as the other 2.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Morgan James - Hunter, full of terrific songs. James is a former Opera singer who swapped over to soul. A great singer, with a really powerful voice, great control and she can really hit the high notes.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Country Joe (Joseph Allen) McDonald founded the group, Country Joe and the Fish, with long time friend Barry "The Fish" Melton. Hence the name Country Joe and The Fish. Country Joe and the Fish were a Psychedelic rock group who sang about free love and drugs. Later as the Vietnam war progressed, Country Joe and the Fish were very involved in anti-war protests and produced a number of the most iconic protest songs of the time. At the time Country Joe's girlfriend was Janice Joplin.

When Country Joe and the Fish broke up, he continued recording. In 1976 he released Paradise with an Ocean View. He was still writing protest songs, but this time about the environment. I have 5 of his albums. For me, this is the best of the lot. Great lyrics and music. Don’t expect any Psychedelic stuff and despite his name it isn’t country either. Have a listen and see what you think. One of my long time favourite albums.



The complete album.

 

[Norwegian Blue]

The last great album from a great band before they imploded. The perfect blend of punk, funk, reggae and ska.