donslow Posted May 5, 2019 Posted May 5, 2019 I’ve not seen a thread on this as yet and thought it might be a good idea to start one..... what album is “always there” on your ipod/phone/mp3 player however you listen to music on the go, regardless of whatever phase or current listening habits your going through, for no particular explicable reason, an album that just does not seem to leave whatever device you listen to music on..... I’ll kick this off, one album that seems to never leave my device for no particular reason The Horrible Crowes - Elsie Quote
TheGreek Posted May 5, 2019 Posted May 5, 2019 In the days of making my own "various tapes" I would invariably put on a track from "Stop Making Sense" by Talking Heads. 2 Quote
Doctor J Posted May 5, 2019 Posted May 5, 2019 (edited) This never fails to hit the spot. I always have a copy of it with me Edited May 5, 2019 by Doctor J Quote
Skybone Posted May 5, 2019 Posted May 5, 2019 Hawkwind;: Space Ritual. The bass just drives the whole album. 3 Quote
ead Posted May 5, 2019 Posted May 5, 2019 All mine are very uncool so not worthy of inclusion 1 Quote
davegriffiths91 Posted May 5, 2019 Posted May 5, 2019 Bon Iver - Bon Iver. Always have the CD in my car and its always available off-line on Spotify. Quote
TrevorR Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) I have a few beyond “Greatest Hits” and “Best Ofs...” Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox ELO - Out of the Blue Horslips - The Tain Horslips - The Book Of Invasions Gordon Giltrap - Fear Of the Dark Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - I Musici featuring Pina Carmirell William Boughton, English String Orchestra – Orchestral Favourites (for The St Paul’s Suite by Holst and The Capriole Suite by Warlock and some other great tunes) Elgar - Cello Concerto/Enigma Variations - LSO, Yehudi Menuhin, Julian Lloyd Webber Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of War of the Worlds Edited May 6, 2019 by TrevorR 2 Quote
TrevorR Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 2 hours ago, ead said: All mine are very uncool so not worthy of inclusion No such thing as uncool or guilty pleasure - if it’s a pleasure then there’s no guilt That makes them all the more worth listing 1 Quote
Cosmo Valdemar Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 The Yes Album Sabotage (Black Sabbath) All Beatles 2 Quote
Oopsdabassist Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 Tubular Bells....always great to chill to Curved Air- Air Cut...great band at their most rocky Yes- Going For The One....no filler here! Sabbath Bloody Sabbath......Sabbs. nuff said 1 Quote
donslow Posted May 6, 2019 Author Posted May 6, 2019 5 hours ago, TrevorR said: No such thing as uncool or guilty pleasure - if it’s a pleasure then there’s no guilt That makes them all the more worth listing @ead, @TrevorR makes a good point! Quote
FinnDave Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 I have 100 or more CDs on the shelf above my stereo in my 'music room' (smallest bedroom/box room) and they are all Grateful Dead, mostly live recordings. In fact most are 2 or 3 disc live shows. A few are 20+ disc box sets. I have most of them of them in my iTunes library as well. So whatever I listen to, it will be the Dead, unless it's a gig or rehearsal recording of the band I play in, which plays nothing but the Dead. 4 Quote
thebigyin Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 5 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: The Yes Album Sabotage (Black Sabbath) All Beatles Sabbotage…..now were talking fave band of all time Quote
thebigyin Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 34 minutes ago, Oopsdabassist said: Tubular Bells....always great to chill to Curved Air- Air Cut...great band at their most rocky Yes- Going For The One....no filler here! Sabbath Bloody Sabbath......Sabbs. nuff said Sabbath love 'em Quote
thebigyin Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 Master of Reality Vol 4 Sabbotage Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Huge early Sabbath fan but they hit there musical heights with these 4 lp's take some beating in terms of musical creativity and sheer power 3 Quote
TrevorR Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: The Yes Album 1 hour ago, Oopsdabassist said: Yes- Going For The One....no filler here! Oooooh, Yes,I forgot Yes... Close to the Edge is my Yes album tho Going For The One is close behind! Edited May 6, 2019 by TrevorR Quote
silverfoxnik Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 To go back to the OP, it's a good question.. But its so hard to find just one 'ever there' album. For me, a Top 10 album list for the last 40 years or so would include: Hunky Dory (Bowie) Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (Bowie) Real Life (Magazine) Hounds of Love (Kate Bush) The Main Event - Live (Frank Sinatra) Ingenue (KD Lang) Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes) What's Going On (Marvin Gate) Seldom Seen Kid (Elbow) Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) These albums get played constantly, but there are so many others that do too.. My guess is there's a top 100 or so albums that have formed the core of my music listening since 1972. And maybe 2 or 3 new ones get added every few years.. Thinking about it, I'm just a boring old git of a bass player who hasn't changed his tastes in music very much for over the past 40 years!! Quite happy though.. 😊 1 1 Quote
FinnDave Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 19 minutes ago, silverfoxnik said: Thinking about it, I'm just a boring old git of a bass player who hasn't changed his tastes in music very much for over the past 40 years!! Quite happy though.. 😊 Same here! Maybe add five years and it'd be spot on. 1 Quote
RobF Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 Rolling Stones . . . . Let it Bleed, always there , along with Uriah Heep . . . Demons and Wizards. 1 Quote
donslow Posted May 6, 2019 Author Posted May 6, 2019 24 minutes ago, silverfoxnik said: To go back to the OP, it's a good question.. But its so hard to find just one 'ever there' album. For me, a Top 10 album list for the last 40 years or so would include: Hunky Dory (Bowie) Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (Bowie) Real Life (Magazine) Hounds of Love (Kate Bush) The Main Event - Live (Frank Sinatra) Ingenue (KD Lang) Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes) What's Going On (Marvin Gate) Seldom Seen Kid (Elbow) Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) These albums get played constantly, but there are so many others that do too.. My guess is there's a top 100 or so albums that have formed the core of my music listening since 1972. And maybe 2 or 3 new ones get added every few years.. Thinking about it, I'm just a boring old git of a bass player who hasn't changed his tastes in music very much for over the past 40 years!! Quite happy though.. 😊 Very good point well made! The album i put up, isnt my favourite album or amongst the ones that constantly get played, just always seems to be on my phone, like you, i couldn't just list one album, id be here forever.... but some sterling music being mentioned so far.... 1 Quote
lowdown Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 I have quite a few regular albums and I'm constantly listening to music, but this bunch gets the most plays, I suppose. Mountain Dance - Dave Grusin Back To Oakland - Tower Of Power The Copland Collection - Aaron Copland The Planets - Holst AWB - The Average White Band Aja - Steely Dan West Side Story - Dave Grusin The Essential Vaughan Williams Collection... L.A. is my Lady - Frank Sinatra Caribe - Michel Camilo Big Band Quote
leftybassman392 Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) Well, it's official: Basschat is overwhelmingly overpopulated by an assorted assortment of crusty old conkers. I have a huge variety of stuff on my iPod (around 900 songs in all IIRC), which I try to make sure I listen to as much of as possible when opportunity knocks. Oldest would probably be Miles Davies, and newest would be, um, Guthrie Govan I would think. I like it all, and it's always on there mostly because I very rarely take anything off. The goodly and gentle @silverfoxnik summed it up pretty well; picking one or two from the collection is an impossible task. Edited May 6, 2019 by leftybassman392 1 1 1 Quote
chris_b Posted May 6, 2019 Posted May 6, 2019 10 hours ago, ead said: All mine are very uncool so not worthy of inclusion Mine too. But I don't care, so basically anything by Delbert McClinton, Keb Mo, Bonnie Raitt, Bobby Bland and Little Feat. 2 Quote
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