Top 5 Albums of All Time

[Bosko Schwartz]

Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Diamond Dogs
Low
Scary Monsters

Not neccessarily in that order.

You Rebel Rebel, you!  There you go, breaking the rules not once, not twice, but FIVE TIMES!

Not quite sure, but it looks like maybe, just maybe, you're a bit of a Bowie fan?

[Bosko Schwartz]

AC/DC               - Highway to Hell (Bon's best work)
Dream Theater    - Images & Words
Ozzy Osbourne    - Blizzard of Ozz
David Lee Roth    - Skyscaper
Anthax               - Spreading the disease

It takes balls, sir -- grargantuan, titanium balls -- to put a David Lee Roth album on an all-time Top 5 list.   I applaud your balls, sir.  How do you ride a bike?

[64Guitars]

I always think of them as 'Hendrix barre chords' but a lot of guitarists have used the same technique.

Who used it first, Hendrix of Townshend?  The eternal question, If you ask Townshend he will say Hendrix copied a lot from him, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton...If you could ask Hendrix he would say those guys copied a lot from him?  I guess it ws a melting pot back in the boom days of 60s British Blues when these guys were all developing.  Maybe it came from Buddy Guy or someone like that?

I'm sure that guitarists were fretting with their thumbs long before Hendrix and Townshend came along. As I said earlier, it's a very natural way to hold the neck, so I think a lot of self-taught guitarists would have played that way. I just associate the technique with Hendrix because he was the first guitarist that I noticed fretting with his thumb. But I never assumed that he invented the technique.

Based on interviews I've read in magazines, Townshend strikes me as a very arrogant bugger with a chip on his shoulder. To hear him tell it, you'd think he invented every guitar technique known to man and everbody else stole his ideas. It's a load of rubbish. The only guitar technique Pete Townshend ever invented is the 'windmill'.

I've never thought of Pete Townshend as a great guitarist. He's a great songwriter and showman but his guitar playing is nothing special. Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of the Who (I have several albums and saw them in 1975). And I think some of Townshend's playing is very beautiful ("Behind Blue Eyes" comes to mind) but I don't think it's exceptional. If I was asked to list my top 100 favourite guitarists, I don't think Townshend would make the list. Yet, if I was asked to list my top 100 favourite bands, The Who would definitely be on it.

[Bosko Schwartz]

Based on interviews I've read in magazines, Townshend strikes me as a very arrogant bugger with a chip on his shoulder. To hear him tell it, you'd think he invented every guitar technique known to man and everbody else stole his ideas. It's a load of rubbish. The only guitar technique Pete Townshend ever invented is the 'windmill'.

I've never thought of Pete Townshend as a great guitarist. He's a great songwriter and showman but his guitar playing is nothing special. Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of the Who (I have several albums and saw them in 1975). And I think some of Townshend's playing is very beautiful ("Behind Blue Eyes" comes to mind) but I don't think it's exceptional. If I was asked to list my top 100 favourite guitarists, I don't think Townshend would make the list. Yet, if I was asked to list my top 100 favourite bands, The Who would definitely be on it.

I love Pete, but I couldn't have said it better myself, 64.

[Blooby]

I hate these types of things...and yet I am drawn to them.  Oh well, here goes in no particular order...

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Aerial Boundaries by Michael Hedges
At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers (I believe live recordings were ok in the rules)
Band of Gypsys by Jimi Hendrix
Shakti by John McLaughlin

That was a rush to try and do off the top of my head.  Can't stop now...

A Meeting By the River by Ry Cooder and V Bhatt
V and Snow by Spock's Beard
Cabin Fever by Lenny Breau
Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix
Fire and Water by Free
Songs From the Wood by Jethro Tull
Animals or Meddle from Pink Floyd (I've played out their other biggies)
Quadrophenia and Who's Next by The Who
Close to The Edge by Yes
Physical Graffiti or IV by Led Zeppelin
Stand! by Sly and the Family Stone
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Go For What You Know by Pat Travers
Caught in the Act by Grand Funk Railroad
Resolution by Andy Timmons
In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
Abstract Logic by Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane, and Jeff Sipe
Layla and... by Derek and the Dominoes
Passion and Warfare by Steve Vai
Dregs of the Earth by The Dixie Dregs
Friday Night in San Francisco by John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia, and Al DiMeola
Surfing with the Alien by Joe Satriani
A Night at The Opera by Queen
Playing the Fool by Gentle Giant
Testimony by Neal Morse
Eponymous album by Gov't Mule
Live at Leeds by The Who
High Tension Wires by Steve Morse
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska by King's X
Birds of Fire by The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Abraxas by Santana
Epnoymous album by Bad Company
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell
Modernday Folklore by Ian Moore
Ten by Pearl Jam
Eponymous album by The Arc Angels
In Step by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Blow by Blow, Wired, There and Back, and The Orange Album by Jeff Beck
What's Going on by Marvin Gaye
Live in Colorado: Volume II by Steve Kimock
A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis
Inner Mounting Flame by The Mahavishnu Orchestra
And of course, anything by Tom Jones

Bosko, you wanted stream-of-consciousness honesty, and there it is...as quickly as I could hunt and peck.  All important albums to my musical education and my spiritual development.

By the way, I'm back from the mountains, the rivers, the lakes, and the peace of Tennessee.  Saw Gov't Mule in Memphis Tennessee as well.  Warren Haynes is a monster.

Blooby

[Bosko Schwartz]

I hate these types of things...and yet I am drawn to them.  Oh well, here goes in no particular order...

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Aerial Boundaries by Michael Hedges
At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers (I believe live recordings were ok in the rules)
Band of Gypsys by Jimi Hendrix
Shakti by John McLaughlin

That was a rush to try and do off the top of my head.  Can't stop now...

A Meeting By the River by Ry Cooder and V Bhatt
V and Snow by Spock's Beard
Cabin Fever by Lenny Breau
Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix
Fire and Water by Free
Songs From the Wood by Jethro Tull
Animals or Meddle from Pink Floyd (I've played out their other biggies)
Quadrophenia and Who's Next by The Who
Close to The Edge by Yes
Physical Graffiti or IV by Led Zeppelin
Stand! by Sly and the Family Stone
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Go For What You Know by Pat Travers
Caught in the Act by Grand Funk Railroad
Resolution by Andy Timmons
In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
Abstract Logic by Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane, and Jeff Sipe
Layla and... by Derek and the Dominoes
Passion and Warfare by Steve Vai
Dregs of the Earth by The Dixie Dregs
Friday Night in San Francisco by John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia, and Al DiMeola
Surfing with the Alien by Joe Satriani
A Night at The Opera by Queen
Playing the Fool by Gentle Giant
Testimony by Neal Morse
Eponymous album by Gov't Mule
Live at Leeds by The Who
High Tension Wires by Steve Morse
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska by King's X
Birds of Fire by The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Abraxas by Santana
Epnoymous album by Bad Company
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell
Modernday Folklore by Ian Moore
Ten by Pearl Jam
Eponymous album by The Arc Angels
In Step by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Blow by Blow, Wired, There and Back, and The Orange Album by Jeff Beck
What's Going on by Marvin Gaye
Live in Colorado: Volume II by Steve Kimock
A Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis
Inner Mounting Flame by The Mahavishnu Orchestra
And of course, anything by Tom Jones

Bosko, you wanted stream-of-consciousness honesty, and there it is...as quickly as I could hunt and peck.  All important albums to my musical education and my spiritual development.

By the way, I'm back from the mountains, the rivers, the lakes, and the peace of Tennessee.  Saw Gov't Mule in Memphis Tennessee as well.  Warren Haynes is a monster.

Blooby

Dude ... the whole point was to revel in agony at the difficulty of choosing just 5 albums.  But then again, I guess you did that.  You just added like 50 more afterward.  Very clever!

Nice list, by the way.  If I were to list 50 more, we'd have several overlaps.

Sounds like your trip was awesome.  Glad to have you back!

[Flash Harry]

But sometimes I think that these are the best

Low
StationToStation
Lodger
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Aladdin Sane

Again, not necessarily in that order.


Seriously though, how can you have 5 all time top? Revolver? Are you experienced? Grace? '77? The Closer? Penthouse and Pavement? Tubular Bells, Dark Side of the Moon, In Rainbows, Felt Mountain, Rainbow Rising (not), Breakout, Exodus, Born to Run, Discipline, Music for Airports, Gracelands, Love Supreme, Where do we go from here? the list is simply endless.

Maybe I've opened one too many red wine bottles.....

[Blooby]

I put my five at the top.  I chose to visually display my agony by purging myself afterward like you said.  

It's been fun looking at everybody's list to see what makes them tick.  I'm also being reminded of music I haven't broken out in ages. 

And now for it's time for my gin and colonic.

Blooby

[launched]

And now for it's time for my gin and colonic.

Blooby

Ooh, you have me beat there by an hour - but I can still catch up!!

Mark

[Bluesberry]

I am finally back to trying to write an original song here tonight, so its red ales all the way for me (and finally some lyrics are flowing!!!!!)  damn that was a long writers block since my last original song.  Its flowing with the red ales tonight!