Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Twenty Albums



The Music Of A Lifetime


Earl, over at The Verdant Dude, turned me onto this Meme. Usually I dispise Memes, but this one seemed to have some merit.

Think of 20 albums, CDs, LPs (if you’re over 40), that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life. Dug into your soul. Music that brought you to life when you heard it. Royally affected you, kicked you in the wazoo, literally socked you in the gut, is what I mean. Then when you finish, tag 15 others (yeah, not doing that), including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill

1 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
2 Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
3 Countdown to Exstacy - Steely Dan
4 Chicago II - Chicago
5 Razamenaz - Nazereth
6 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
7 The Blue Brothers - The Blues Brothers
8 Sandinista - The Clash
9 Aja - Steely Dan
10 Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
11 Avalon - Roxy Music
12 The Tales of Hoffman - Jacques Offenbach (with Beverly Sills - Soprano)
13 Beethoven's 9th Symphony - Ludwig von Beethoven (Performed by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karijan)
14 Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
15 Quadrophenia - The Who
16 The White Album - The Beatles
17 Yellow Submarine - The Beatles (Soundtrack - more George Martin than the Beatles)
18 American Beauty - Thomas Newman (Soundtrack)
19 The Road to Perdition - Thomas Newman (Soundtrack)
20 The Altogether - Orbital

That just about sums it up.....Party On Wayne....Party On Garth

7 comments:

  1. Carole King - "Tapestry"
    Todd Rundgren - "The Runt"
    Simon & Garfunkle - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
    Ricki Lee Jones - first album
    Bruce Springsteen - "The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle"
    The Three Tenors in Concert w/ Zubin Mehta

    But can you remember the first album you ever bought? Mine was (geez) Trini Lopez - "Jailer Bring Me Water". Gahd, how old am I?

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  2. This could take me awhile. So many songs have "kicked me in the wazoo" and "literally socked me in the gut"
    that because of the emotional response it's hard for me to listen to them at times but for certain Madonna and Duran Duran will be on the Top 20.

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  3. I hemmed and hawed about including Sgt. Pepper on my list. Incredible album. Incredible. And it was actually the first album I ever purchased for myself...so that means I should have included it. It's just that Sgt. Pepper and The White Album were about as far as I went with The Beatles. And I haven't listed to either in years.

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  4. If there was ever a doubt (there wasn't), this would prove you are male!

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  5. i think i need to listen to some "yellow brick road" tonight...its been too long.

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  6. You do have ecletic tastes! From Zep to Beethoven!

    I agree with the Beatles and Elton. They defined my youth.

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  7. Pyzahn: The firt album I ever purchased.....it was so long ago, I can't be certain, but for some reason I think it was "Cream - Disrali Gears".....that should pretty much date me.

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