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If you were to give someone five albums to introduce yourself to them, what would they be?  This isn't a desert island list.  This should be the five albums you would have someone listen to that they could understand your taste or your person.

 I think, maybe:

A Ghost Is Born -Wilco
Children Running Through -Patty Griffin
Blues For Allah -Grateful Dead
Sign O The Times -Prince
Bluefinger -Black Francis

Matthew Ryan - May Day

Marah - Kids In Philly

Neil Young - Harvest

Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

 

I'm the only alt-country prog rocker I know!  

 

 

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Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Steve Earle - I Feel Alright

Neil Young - Tonight's The Night

The Band - The Band

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

 

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'I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.' Bill Hicks (R.I.P.)

this sort of thing is never easy....

the beatles' revolver

the band's music from big pink

john hiatt's bring the family

muddy waters' folk singer

crosby, stills, & nash's crosby, stills, & nash....the debut

i think there's about five others i'd smuggle to the island though.

 b

Man, I suck at this, but I'll try...

Old Crow Medicine Show - Self Titled
Son Volt - Trace
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Steve Earle - Train a Comin'

See, here's the problem. Not all my favourite albums fit, and that list could change tomorrow if I found the right record in my collection.

How about five favourite artists? That one is easier - almost...

Steve Earle
Bob Marley
John Prine
Rolling Stones
Toots and the Maytalls
(with honourable mention to The Band)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great idea. One problem though, I started compiling a list, and ended up with 53 albums, all of which felt essential. I narrowed & narrowed it down until I broke a sweat. Now I am down to 20, and I honestly can't get any further without a nervous breakdown. Sorry for cheating!

Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
Slayer - South Of Heaven
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash
Black Flag - Damaged
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Motörhead - Another Perfect Day
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
John Coltrane - Soul Trane
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Corrosion Of Conformity - In The Arms Of God
The Clash - Super Black Market Clash

 See, I had to leave out Marvin Gaye, Wilson Picket and Jimi Hendrix to name a few. How heartbreaking is THAT!?!

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kmb117:

We don't have a cure for cancer but we've got 16 million different versions of the Lord of the Rings. What. The. Fuck.

Steve Earle - The Hard Way
Steve Earle - El Corazón
Tom Russell - Love And Fear
Billy Joe Shaver - Earth Rolls On
Johnny Cash - American III. - Solitary Man

and George Strait - Somewhere Down in Texas
and Guy Clark - The Dark
and and and many others ;-) 

I see a few Neil Young Albums here, have you checked out Neil Young's "Live At Massey Hall 1971" CD? a truly GREAT live recording! By far my favorite Neil Young CD.

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Bob

enlightened:

 

I'm the only alt-country prog rocker I know!  

 

 

Umm, no. Although I don't want to pigeonhole me in any way, I like Fish-era Marillion, King Crimson, early Jethro Tull and the mighty TOOL.  

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kmb117:

We don't have a cure for cancer but we've got 16 million different versions of the Lord of the Rings. What. The. Fuck.

Massey Hall thing is excellent.   The A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold medley is my favorite.  It's probably my favorite live Neil now, though I still don't have Live Rust to judge it.

 Also: everyone likes Tool.
 

jasoncubarhodes:

Massey Hall thing is excellent.   The A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold medley is my favorite.  It's probably my favorite live Neil now, though I still don't have Live Rust to judge it.

 Also: everyone likes Tool.
 

Massey Hall IS excellent. Not everybody likes Tool.

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'I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.' Bill Hicks (R.I.P.)

Hey Tuco! The two greatest things ever-- Steve Earle and Clint Eastwood moveies. Cool picture!!

The Beatles' Rubber Soul, Van Morrison's Moondance, Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark, John Lennon's Imagine, Steve Earle's I Feel Alright.

 There are many more, but I will keep it to five. 

Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band - The Mountain

The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach

Led Zeppelin II

Yes - Classic Yes

Steely Dan - Aja

 

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Somebody somewhere said "love is a prison" but no one really wants to be free....

Steve Earle - El Corazon

Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

Nirvana - Nevermind