The CD that you never get sick of

[Rubia Warren]

What is the CD, no matter how many times you've played it in your life, you never get tired of it?

[Solly]

Rush - Power Windows. Played it everyday for two years when it first came out.

Currently playing LOTR:TTT everyday. Brill!!

Also Integrity Music/Hosanna's Christmas tape that came out about 1990. We play it every year for about two months.

[$cirisme]

Thrive - The Newsboys. :thumb:

[Rubia Warren]

I have two that I can think of off the top of my head... finding a CD where I like all- if not the majority of the songs, is rare for me, but I've liked these 2 CD's since the 80's, I never get tired of them, and I love almost every single song on both of them. Ready? They're oldies, but goodies:

Sting- The Dream Of The Blue Turtles

and

Sting- Nothing Like The Sun

[Sozo]

Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Seal - II
Billy Joel - Turnstiles
The Call - Reconciled
Susan Ashton - Awakened By The Wind
Christopher Cross - Another Page
Richard Page - Shelter Me
10cc - Hits
Pink Floyd - Echoes

[Em7add11]

Living Sacrifice - The Hammering Process
Coldplay - Parachutes
KMFDM - Nihil
Zao - Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets

[Captain Ochre]

Dixie Dregs "Dregs of the Earth"
Steve Morse Band "Coast to Coast"
Allen Collins Band "Here, There, and Back"
King's X "Gretchen Goes to Nebraska"
Eric Johnson "Ah Via Musicom"
the innocence mission "Glow"
Brent Bourgeois "Brent Bourgeois"
Atomic Opera "For Madmen Only"
DA (Daniel Amos) "Darn Floor Big Bite"
Seventy Sevens "All Fall Down"

One more and I've got my ten for a "desert island" list!
There are more I could mention, but these keep ending up in the CD player regardless of when I first heard 'em.

[Em7add11]

03-07-2003 @ 02:58 PM
Captain Ochre:
*snip* Eric Johnson "Ah Via Musicom" *snip*

Is that the one with "Cliffs of Dover"?

[graceinme]

This is another one of those threads where I get excited about the question, answer the question, get ignored, then realize how old I am, and learn that I know nothing about the groups today.

Oh well here goes......

80's--Duran Duran(RIO)
90's--Guns N Roses(Appetite for destruction)
00''--Jennifer Greenberg(Speak Peace)



:gim: Love Grace

[Rubia Warren]

Who the heck is Jennifer Greenberg?:huh:

[graceinme]

03-07-2003 @ 08:03 PM
La Rubia:

Who the heck is Jennifer Greenberg?:huh:

She is an awesome singer from my old church. She has the most beautiful voice I ever heard. The first time I heard her sing in church, It brought tears to my eyes and raised the hair on my neck. I can send you her songs if you would like?


:gim: Love Grace

[Sozo]

03-07-2003 @ 10:08 PM
graceinme:

The first time I heard her sing in church, It brought tears to my eyes and raised the hair on my neck.

Can anyone say "Epilady"?

[graceinme]

Oh you big ape! Can you say Tick Tack?



:kiss:

[Sozo]

Did you say something grace?

[Eyeheart Pumpkin]

Rush - 2112
Rush - 2112
Rush - 2112
Rush - 2112
Rush - 2112
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys I
Spinal Tap - This is Spinal Tap soundtrack

[Captain Ochre]

03-08-2003 @ 03:32 AM
Em7add11:


Is that the one with "Cliffs of Dover"?

Yes! :smile:
Also "Righteous", "Desert Rose", and "Forty Mile Town".

[Alden]

03-07-2003 @ 07:32 PM
Em7add11:


Is that the one with "Cliffs of Dover"?
yes

[Alden]

Queen- Killer Queen, Classic Queen

Anything by Jeff Buckley

Radiohead- The Bends

The Police- Message in a Box

The Who- Thirty Years of Maximum R+B

Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream

[Jimmy Higgins]

03-08-2003 @ 12:26 AM
Eireann:

Rush - 2112
Rush - 2112
Rush - 2112
Rush - 2112
Rush - 2112
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys I
Spinal Tap - This is Spinal Tap soundtrack Why does it happen?
Because it happens!
Roll the bones.
:thumb:

I love Cygnus X-1. I think the sounds in the song are very representative of the mood. And even better, one of the best lyrics ever. "The star that would not die."

[Jimmy Higgins]

Over the Rhine has a killer CD, don't know the name, but its last song, which is live, "I'm Drowning" is sharp.

Of course, then there is always Close to the Edge and Fragile. "Mountains come out of the sky and stand there." Almost mythological!

[Sozo]

How could I forget the most well written Christian album of all time :doh:

"A Briefing For The Ascent" by Terry Scott Taylor

[Captain Ochre]

03-08-2003 @ 02:53 PM
Jimmy Higgins:

Over the Rhine has a killer CD, don't know the name, but its last song, which is live, "I'm Drowning" is sharp.


That would have to be "Besides" afaics, which is a collection of "B" sides (outtakes and the like for those who don't appreciate the reference to platters).
Karin Bergquist of OTR has the most beautiful and emotive singing voice that I've ever heard. Those of you who haven't heard it can take advantage of the samples (including free mp3 downloads) at the band site, starting here:
http://overtherhine.com/music/recordings/cd01/cd01.html

Bear in mind that "Til We Have Faces" and "Patience" were accomplished independently without the benefit of a recording deal.
[edit to add]
Oh, nevermind. The older mp3 links are dead, so the material from those recordings is unavailable for download.
"Moth" from "Pictures for Radio" is a great tune, and a great example of Karin's vocal ability.


Of course, then there is always Close to the Edge and Fragile. "Mountains come out of the sky and stand there." Almost mythological!

Almost ridiculous! Gotta love Anderson's lyrics!
(All in fun; I'm a Yes fan as well)

[Pilgrim]

03-07-2003 @ 11:41 AM
La Rubia:

I have two that I can think of off the top of my head... finding a CD where I like all- if not the majority of the songs, is rare for me, but I've liked these 2 CD's since the 80's, I never get tired of them, and I love almost every single song on both of them. Ready? They're oldies, but goodies:

Sting- The Dream Of The Blue Turtles

and

Sting- Nothing Like The Sun

I'll second that vote. Also for me anything by Harrod and Funk or Jason Harrod because it takes me back home.

[Jimmy Higgins]

03-08-2003 @ 11:18 AM
Captain Ochre:
Karin Berquist of OTR has the most beautiful and emotive singing voice that I've ever heard.I really am not big into female vocalists at all. That is, she is the huge exception. She has a presence in her voice that makes it more than just a higher pitch voice. She's got range and emotion.

Almost ridiculous! Gotta love Anderson's lyrics!You do realize what that means, right? He's singing about the mountain tops when they pierce the clouds. From above, it literally looks like the mountains are born out of the sky (in the clouds) and that they can stand there, somehow supported on the clouds. It is very telling and very mythological. I'm a huge Anderson fan. G.O.D. is perhaps the best meaningful piece of literature written: "kill or be killing, faster sins correct the flow" It also may be one of the rare songs that was captured perfectly on tape, sounding as good or even better than live, something unique to most Yes recordings.

[Sozo]

"Heart of The Sunrise" is my favorite Yes

[Rubia Warren]

*shakes head* Oh, all you Yes and Rush fans!!!! You guys remind me of my dad- he's a huge fan, too.

I gotta add 2 more:
The Police- Synchronicity
and
La India- "Llego' La India" (with Eddie Palmieri)

[Sozo]

De do do do de da da da
Is all I want to say to you

[Rubia Warren]

LOL I used to read the lyrics to "Synchronicity", and others on that album when I was in middle school, and look things up in the dictionary and encyclopedia to see what they meant. Sting and The Police taught me all kinds of stuff I didn't know about. Too bad school wasn't as interesting at the time.

[Jimmy Higgins]

Me forget Tales of Mystery and Imagination. How dare thee!

Alan Parsons is great, and that album was and is excellent. Not a bad tune. I love "To One in Paradise".

Synchronicity... The album that killed the band. It did so well, they couldn't do better. Nothing like Jungian psychology to make a rock album. Archetypes and instincts. There is a link.

[Eyeheart Pumpkin]

Me forget Synchronicity, too. Hare dare me! Awesome album.

[Em7add11]

When I was about 2 years old apparently I would dance anytime "Spirits in a Material World" by The Police was on the the stereo.

[Salus]

Hmmmm...tough question. So far I would have to say:

Eminem - The Eminem Show

[Pilgrim]

Ok I'll probably catch it for this one but I rather think old Marshall Mathers is the most overated artist of our time. If what he does can be defined as art that is.

[Rubia Warren]

You won't be catching it from me, Pilgrim.

[Furious B]

Agalloch - The Mantle
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Foo Fighters - The Colour & The Shape
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever Amen

There's probably more, but I'm tired. :zzz:

[Eyeheart Pumpkin]

03-11-2003 @ 03:03 AM
Furious B:

Agalloch - The Mantle
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Foo Fighters - The Colour & The Shape
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever Amen

There's probably more, but I'm tired. :zzz:
I just can't get into Opeth. The music is great, but I can't get past the death metal vox. One similar band that it took awhile for me to get into, due to the vocals, was Children of Bodom, but I finally got to where I like them a lot. Of course, their vox are a little more clean than death metal, but less clean than power metal. I have trouble defining them for that reason.

[Em7add11]

I dig the death metal vocals, but I'm not a singer. Most singers want to cry when they hear some of my CDs.

[RumTumTugger]

Cats : soundtrack
John Fischer - Wide Angel
LOTRs Fellowship of the Rings. :Soundtrack

[Patroclus]

Chasing Furies--With Abandon

[abarnhar]

Van Halen - Balance
Pillar - (Self-Titled)
Collective Soul - (Blue one/self-titled)
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
DC Talk - Jesus Freak
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - (arghh! Self-titled)

[luv1another]

Steven Curtis Chapman .... Declaration
Ray Boltz .... moments for the heart
Hillsongs .... for this cause

In Christ
Luv1another

[abarnhar]

Switchfoot's "Beautiful Let Down" is quickly becoming the same way. Awesome disc!

[Em7add11]

Yesterday @ 10:07 PM
abarnhar:

Switchfoot's "Beautiful Let Down" is quickly becoming the same way. Awesome disc!
I'm gonna have to check this one out.

[doogieduff]

I think I'm a youngen on this site, but here goes...

Dashboard Confessional - Anything
Five Iron Frenzy - Anything
Dogwood - Anything
Slick Shoes - "Rusty" and "Burn Out"
The Juliana Theory - "Emotion is Dead"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American" and "Clarity"
Anti-Flag - "Undergound Network"

[Sozo]

I forgot about... Tears For Fears - "Elemental"

[Rubia Warren]

:duh: Ooohhh... I love Tears For Fears.... I've never heard of that album, though.:huh: Is it new, or fairly recent?

[Zakath]

Jimmy Buffett - the Yellow Cover CD.

[Em7add11]

I like that one Jimmy Buffett song about the water and drinking. :yipee:

[Sozo]

Today @ 04:25 PM
La Rubia:

:duh: Ooohhh... I love Tears For Fears.... I've never heard of that album, though.:huh: Is it new, or fairly recent?

Musically it's by far their best! It was released in 1993. Some of it is pretty heavy, and similar in sound to "Simple Minds".

[efta777]

Some other people that I definitely agree with first:

Em7:
Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets

Yes, but I like Passion and Warfare much better.

Graceinme:
90's--Guns N Roses(Appetite for destruction)

Ahh... Of course, it took a while till I could turn that one off, and I still listen often.

Eireann:
Spinal Tap - This is Spinal Tap soundtrack

Yes, and the followup, 'Break Like the Wind' was also great

abarnhar:
Van Halen - Balance

Just listened to this again today, one of the best ever. However, I am one of those freaks that thinks that VH's best work was '3' with Gary Cherone :argh:

Doogieduff:
Five Iron Frenzy - Anything

Yes of course, and also their side project, Brave Saint Saturn - 'So Far From Home' I don't know which I like more. FIF's new album is my favorite of the lot.

And now my own additions:

Extreme - Waiting for the Punchline
The Bacon Brothers - Forosoco
Charlie Daniels - Greatest Hits (Sorry, couldn't pick just one)
Van Halen - 3
Tribe of Judah - Exit Elvis
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way

[Em7add11]

I've been listening to Living Sacrifice - The Hammering Process almost everyday for over a year now. It still continues to amaze me how much of a step up LS made with that album.

[mattbballman19]

Anything by Guns N' Roses, Van Halen, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Poison, etc . . . are constantly jamming in my cd player.

[Bill the Cat]

:zombie2:

[Sir-Think-A-Lot]

The soundtrack for God of War.

[sc_q_jayce]

Starcraft. I still play it after all these years!

[Sir-Think-A-Lot]

I wasnt kidding. I mostly listen to video game music. And God Of War had some of the most awesome music ever.

[Rayado]

Fire and Grace by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas. Especially "Stirling Castle Set" and "Rob Roy Crosses the Minch."

[RBerman]

My favorite video game music is the original Myst soundtrack. But I love the Katamari Damacy songs, and Little Big Planet has some great selections too.

But my all-time favorite albums would be things like David Wilcox's "Big Horizon" and the self-titled Jars of Clay album and Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and Randy Stonehill's "Welcome to Paradise." Folk rock is my favorite genre.

[Jeremiah333]

Any of Rich Mullins' CDs.

And the soundtrack to "Jump In"

[dizzle]

I think I said this already but

Evanescence Fallen

[Chaotic Void]

I've grown rather fond of The Last Temptation, Brutal Planet, Dragontown and Along Came a Spider (Youtube. Gotta love it.:teeth:)

[Seasanctuary]

Joanna Newsom - Ys
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Joanna Newsom - Ys

also

Eddi Reader - Sings the Songs of Robert Burns
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Lisa Loeb - Tails
Lovers - Starlit Sunken Ship
The Microphones - The Glow, Part 2
Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
Suzanne Vega - (eponymous)
Yanni - In My Time

[gharfish]

Boston: Boston
U2: The Joshua Tree
The Cars: Candy-O
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Long After Dark

>

[One Bad Pig]

Enya - Shepherd Moons
Tourniquet - Stop the Bleeding
Bride - Snakes in the Playground
MxPx - The Ever Passing Moment
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth
Mortal - Wake
Betrayal - The Passing
The Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus - Welcome to The Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Lost Christmas Eve

[sc_q_jayce]

My favorite video game music is the original Myst soundtrack. But I love the Katamari Damacy songs, and Little Big Planet has some great selections too.

But my all-time favorite albums would be things like David Wilcox's "Big Horizon" and the self-titled Jars of Clay album and Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and Randy Stonehill's "Welcome to Paradise." Folk rock is my favorite genre.
Seconded on the Katamari Damacy soundtrack. Excellent, eclectic music.

[Adrift]

I think I said this already but

Evanescence Fallen

Their first album, Origin, was better. Way better. I listened to that album a lot. Then the Daredevil soundtrack came out with that rapcore song, and then Fallen came out, which tweaked all the songs on Origin, and the radio played it's singles until everyone ears bled. I can't stand to listen to them now, but Origin was a really really good album. I had an odd personal experience with them before they got big. I'll have to tell you about it sometime.


Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part

:yes: that's an album that's hard to get bored of.

[Em7add11]

Hey! Somebody else that prefers Origin! (I'm biased because I love Living Sacrifice and Bruce is on one of the tracks :teeth:)

[Adrift]

Hey! Somebody else that prefers Origin! (I'm biased because I love Living Sacrifice and Bruce is on one of the tracks :teeth:)

:smile: I heard sometime back that Origin was worth money because of the limited distribution. Wonder if that's still true, and wonder if I can find the other half of the jewel case (I'm not missing cds a bit :teeth:)

[gharfish]

Dire Straits: Dire Straits

(1978)


>

[eudyptes]

Joe Bonamassa: Had to Cry Today
Queen: Night At the Opera (okay anything pre-HotSpace by Queen...and most post-HotSpace too)
Bride: Snakes in the Playground
Alan Parsons Project: I Robot
Within Temptation: the Silent Force
Kate Bush: The Whole Story
Koko Taylor: Royal Blue
Stevie Ray Vaughn: The Sky is Crying

....guess I should stop now...could go on a few dozen more

[Abykale]

:smile: I heard sometime back that Origin was worth money because of the limited distribution. Wonder if that's still true, and wonder if I can find the other half of the jewel case (I'm not missing cds a bit :teeth:)

It was selling for quite a bit before ebay became flooded with bootleg copies being passed off for authentic CDs.

I miss their old stuff. Origin was great, but also quite a few songs that I like (Bleed, Before the Dawn, Farther Away, Forever You, Listen to the Rain, Missing, Surrender, So Close) aren't even on that one -- they were only released on EPs and the like.

There's no such thing as a CD I can listen to forever without getting tired of, but the Evanescence mix CDs my sister burned for me came pretty darn close.

[Spacefoetus]

Take To The Skies- Enter Shikari

[Seasanctuary]

I hope someone manages to put together an official Braid Soundtrack (http://braid-game.com/news/?p=260) compilation CD.

[Chaotic Void]

I've grown rather fond of The Last Temptation, Brutal Planet, Dragontown and Along Came a Spider (Youtube. Gotta love it.:teeth:)

Okay, as of the end of September, I own the first three albums I listed here, and I have not grown sick of any of them.

[Jnthn]

Four:

Neal Morse ?
Spocks Beard - Snow
Living Colour - Time's Up
Vangelis - Blade Runner soundtrack
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory

(OK, that's 5)

J

[timspong]

The only Christian one I can think of is Third day; Offerings - A Worship Album


I don't think I have ever got sick of any Jazz or Classical album in my collection.

For prog rock I would say Pink Floyd Animals is by far their best IMO and I could listen to that over and over.

I remember in my late teens my tape player jammed in my car and I couldn't eject the cassette tape. It was an extremely powerful stereo system and for about 12 months all I could play in my car was pink Floyd's the wall. I was living in Edinburgh Scotland at the time and my car became known as "the wall" car.

I didn't get sick of that either, although it was rather depressing.

I can't think of too many other rock albums that I don't get sick of after a while.

Perhaps?:
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Hootie and the blowfish - fair weather Johnson
Beatles - many to choose from
Steve miller band - greatest hits
the who - live at leeds
Ted Nugent - Double live Gonzo

[One Bad Pig]

Okay, as of the end of September, I own the first three albums I listed here, and I have not grown sick of any of them.
You should get the last one, too. :yes:

I finally got another copy of ...If But For One by Detritus (someone borrowed it and disappeared a while back). I really missed that CD.

[adamds]

Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy up the girl
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble

[Em7add11]

Converge - Jane Doe

Might be the best hardcore album ever.

[Shadow Gaze]

Opeth - Damnation
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
As Blood Runs Black - Allegiance
The Darkness - Permission to Land