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I'm with you on 2-4 but I'm unfamiliar with 1. I'll go check it out. | |||
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Every Metallica album up to, but not including, Load. Later albums are acceptable, but not amazing like the work of their prime. Also Aenima and Undertow. Tool became shitty when Maynard got healthy and happy, although I don't hold that against him. | |||
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Many great ones already mentioned. If I could only pick one per band I would include these. I'm cheating on some by picking Greatest hits albums, but they were very popular: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Paranoid - Black Sabbath American Beauty - Grateful Dead Temple of the Dog The Sky is Crying - Stevie Ray Vaughn Foreigner (the first album) Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley The Stranger - Billy Joel Another Green World - Brian Eno The Nightfly - Donald Fagen Dire Straits (the first album) or maybe Making Movies Deja Vu - CSNY Sundown - Gorgon Lightfoot Running on Empty - Jackson Brown Alive - Kiss Changes One Bowie In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio The Best of ZZ Top | |||
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Whoa whoa whoa. I leverage that criticism against Trent Reznor and NIN, but not TOOL. Maynard is not the driving force of TOOL, like Trent is the driving force of NIN. TOOL has much to offer, regardless of Maynard's lyrical and vocal contribution. Sorry for the drift. I hesitate to make a contribution to the thread, for fear of posting a mere "favorite", rather than a proper "masterpiece". I just listened to Fear Inoculum a couple days ago, and it's friggen rad (though not 100% rad), so I took issue with Solo's comment. Though I don't wholly disagree with it. Fear Inoculum is not a masterpiece album, when compared to TOOL's other albums. However, the quartet of Fear Inoculum, Pneuma, Invincible, and Descending is not to be slept-on. They could have made the album out of only those four songs, and it would have been better, IMO. | |||
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| Yew got a spider on yo head |
You raise a good point. Danny is carrying all of the Low-T victims on his shoulders these days. I guess being a drummer keeps you younger. And I would change could have to should have.  | |||
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Peter Gabriel: So Just another schmuck in traffic - Billy Joel | |||
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I agree with many of these mentioned. While I've seen Elton John & XTC listed, I'd offer these two as masterpiece albums in their own right: Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection. My favorite of his with Bernie Taupin, and in my top-ten of all-time favorites. XTC - Oranges and Lemons. I'm a big fan of their stuff, so I'll cop to having a bias. I stand by my opinion of masterpiece status for this one, even though there are a couple others of theirs I'd rank higher. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^ I agree, Tumbleweed Connection is his very best, his singing and composing at its best, same with Taupin's lyrics, amazing a Brit can write one of the best albums about Americana. Skylarking is my overall favorite XTC album, but recently, I have grown to appreciate Nonsuch, having ignored it for years after buying it in the 90s. I now love the album. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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@ oddball... Agreed about TC. The rural American/antebellum feel of it all is amazing. I also love Nonsuch. I could have listed everything from Drums and Wires forward, but that would have cluttered & potentially diminished the Masterpiece concept of the thread. I dug White Music and Go2 as well but the punk flavor of these two exclude them from Masterpiece status, IMO. Apple Venus and Wasp Star came along too much later for me, & my tastes had changed somewhat. I was waiting for another album after Nonsuch & the time just dragged on. I liked them for what they were, but they seemed more like Andy Partridge solo albums, and he'd gotten pretty bitter (again) in his personal life. I felt it showed through in a way that didn't benefit the material on the albums. Here endeth the drift. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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| Min-Chin-Chu-Ru... Speed with Glare |
I'd add Van Morrison's Hard Nose the Highway. | |||
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Not really my thing, bur Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs. | |||
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Queen - A Night at the Opera U2 - The Joshua Tree “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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