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Subject: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: CatwomanofV on 02/10/23 at 2:02 pm
What albums to do you think are masterpieces?
For me (no order):
-Rick Wakeman-Journey to the Centre of the Earth
-Moody Blues-Days of Future Past
-Pink Floyd-The Wall
-Beatles-Sgt Pepper
-Jethro Tull-Song from the Wood
-Fleetwood Mac-Rumors
I know there are more but these are the ones that I can think of right now.
Cat
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 02/10/23 at 3:20 pm
Traffic-John Barleycorn Must Die
Dave Mason-Alone Together
Absolute masterpieces. Every single note, every single word. The sequencing of the songs. The cover artworks. Absolute masterpieces in every way possible. Both of these albums are from 1970. There must have been something in the air.
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: whistledog on 02/11/23 at 1:01 am
Duran Duran - Rio (1982)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/DuranRio.jpg
Every song on this album is a winner and there is one track in particular called The Chauffer that I think should have been a single. The album has 9 songs, 4 of which were singles...
- My Own Way
- Hungry Like The Wolf
- Rio
- Save A Prayer
Some album tracks, such as The Chauffer had music videos as in the early days of MTV, some artists did that to help promote their album. I won't share the video because it has nudity in it, but if you want to see that version, go to YouTube and find it yourself lol
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Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: whistledog on 02/11/23 at 3:00 am
Glasvegas - Glasvegas (2008)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Glasvegas_eponymous.jpg
The self-titled debut album by Scottish rock band Glasvegas. It features 9 tracks (11 for a special North American release), 5 of which were singles...
- Go Square Go!
- It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry
- Geraldine
- Daddy's Gone
- Flowers and Football Tops
I first saw them perform on an episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and they sang Daddy's Gone, a song that eventually became 2nd on my list of the best songs of the 2000s decade. I still love that song to this day and it may just be on my Top 100 list of greatest songs of all time! As far as album tracks go, every song is a winner, and here are two in particular I thought should have been singles...
Lonesome Swan
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Polmont On My Mind
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Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: AmericanGirl on 02/11/23 at 4:06 pm
Great topic! Some of my "masterpiece" albums are already mentioned. Here are some other albums I consider to be masterpieces (with sample songs):
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - The Word
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
Boston - Boston
Boston - Peace Of Mind
Van Morrison - Moondance
Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
America - Homecoming
America - Ventura Highway
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
Paul Simon - Graceland
Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: whistledog on 02/11/23 at 11:07 pm
Honeymoon Suite - Honeymoon Suite (1984)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/HoneymoonSuite_ST.jpg
The debut album by Canadian rock band Honeymoon Suite. They formed in Niagara Falls, the honeymoon capital of the world, hence their name. This album had 10 songs, 4 of which were singles and are all still heard on Canadian radio to this day...
- New Girl Now
- Burning In Love
- Stay In The Light
- Wave Babies
The vinyl copy I have of this album contains a handwritten note by bassist Gary Lalonde gifting it to someone who at the time could not afford to purchase a copy. I verified it was legit on a Facebook music group by the band's drummer Dave Betts. It's probably the coolest thing I own in my vinyl collection!
The music video for Wave Babies was filmed at Sandbanks Provincial Park, a well-known beach in Picton, Ontario, and opens on the Glenora Ferry, which is about 30 minutes away from where I have lived almost my whole life. I don't drive on that ferry often, but whenever I do, I have to play this song!
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The video for Burning in Love was filmed in their hometown of Niagara Falls. This is my favourite song ever by them. I could listen to this one on repeat for hours!
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Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: whistledog on 02/11/23 at 11:42 pm
Pet Shop Boys - Very (1993)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Pet_Shop_Boys_-_Very.png
This album was known as "The lego case" as the original CD version came in a custom orange case that sort of looked like a Lego brick. It was one of the first albums I'd heard that has a hidden track, which appears following a little over 2 minutes of silence after the album's last track, Go West.
5 singles were released from this album, but realistically this whole album could have been a greatest hits album. Amazing from start to finish!
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Go West
- I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
- Liberation
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad
For me, the best track on the album is Go West. It is a cover of the 1979 Village People hit. The song is based on the popular classical piece Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, and what PSB did in this cover was enhance the basis of the chord progression so you can more hear the classical piece within and it sounds so great!
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Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: AmericanGirl on 02/14/23 at 12:42 pm
A few more albums I regard as masterpieces:
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 02/14/23 at 1:37 pm
"Blows Against the Empire"
Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship
1970
This album is an unequivocal, bona fide, dyed-in-the-wool, UNQUESTIONABLE masterpiece. Of the highest magnitude. It's just so hard to explain to the uninitiated. Released in 1970 while Jefferson Airplane were still together, this album is billed as "Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship". This is not the excellent Jefferson Starship fronted by Paul Kantner, Grace Slick and Marty Balin ("Ride the Tiger", "Miracles") which began officially in 1974 with the album "Dragon Fly" and it is most CERTAINLY not the 1980s Mickey Thomas screechy garbage.
Ostensibly a Paul Kanter solo album, and make no mistake that Kantner is the mastermind behind it, it is actually a collective of musicians from various San Francisco bands that arose from a period of cross-collaboration during late 1969 through 1971 including Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Quicksilver Messenger Service, along with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young recording at the time in the city. These musicians included Jack Casady, Joey Covington, David Crosby, David Freiberg, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Paul Kantner, Bill Kreutzmann, Graham Nash, and Grace Slick. Given the umbrella name "Jefferson Starship" by Kantner, they were also informally known as "The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra" . This same bunch appeared on David Crosby's 1971 masterwork "If I Could Only Remember My Name".
OK, got all that straight? "Blows Against the Empire" is a concept album that, through a suite of interlocking songs, weaves a science fiction tale about a bunch of hippies (7000, to be exact) who hijack the first sound interstellar starship created by the US government (This was when the government made these things, rather than today's private rich billionaires), and launch it into space, creating a hippie utopia with:
"free minds
free bodies
free dope
free music
the day is on it's way
the day is ours..."
So excellent is this album that it was nominated for the prestigious science fiction writer's Hugo Award, one of the few musical works to have such an honor bestowed. The Hugo usually went to the likes of writers like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury.
Sorry for the long winded explanation, but I will not have this masterpiece excluded from any list of album masterpieces, anytime, anywhere. And I want it to be understood.
Front Cover:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/JS_Blows-Against-the-Empire.jpg
Gatefold:
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Back cover and libretto booklet:
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Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 02/15/23 at 10:22 am
"Sunshine Superman"
Donovan
1966
Make no mistake. This was the FIRST psychedelic album in rock history. The first. Before "Sgt. Pepper", before "Pet Sounds" (which influenced "Sgt. Pepper"). Donovan did it first. Everyone knows the classic title cut (presented on this album in a longer version than the edited hit single) with guitar solo by Jimmy Page, long before he formed Led Zeppelin. Everyone also knows the oft-covered "Season of the Witch". But there is much more here as well. The medieval "Guinnevere", the evocative "Ferris Wheel". The baroque "Celeste". The ode to Mama Cass Elliot, "Fat Angel" (when one could still talk like that). Put on this album and you will SMELL the incense and patchouli and feel that you are in a better, more optimistic, more spiritual time. Yes, such a time once existed.
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Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: CatwomanofV on 02/15/23 at 2:32 pm
This is definitely one:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Carole_King_-_Tapestry.jpg
My sister had the album when I was a kid and used to play it so many times. When I finally got my own copy on CD I would say about 15+/- years ago, the first time I played it, I knew EVERY song.
Cat
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 02/17/23 at 10:44 am
Crosby, Stills & Nash
"Crosby, Stills & Nash"
1969
Every word. Every note. It is perfectly and organically itself. Even it's imperfections (like the fact that the three artists are "out of order" on the iconic cover photograph) are perfect.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81w01y1TnCL._SX425_.jpg
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 02/17/23 at 10:50 am
This is definitely one:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Carole_King_-_Tapestry.jpg
My sister had the album when I was a kid and used to play it so many times. When I finally got my own copy on CD I would say about 15+/- years ago, the first time I played it, I knew EVERY song.
Cat
You know, people always talk about how Madonna "reinvents" herself all the time and all that. But it's all fake, it's all artifice. I don't think Carole King gets enough credit for truly reinventing herself in the most honest, organic way possible. She want from being the pert New York Brill Building professional songwriter of hits for others in the early-mid 60s to the laid-back California hippie "Earth Mother" of the early 70s. And the style of the songs followed suit. As Roger McGuinn of the Byrds once said of her "she wanted to write 'more California' type of songs.
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: AmericanGirl on 02/17/23 at 11:20 pm
Crosby, Stills & Nash
"Crosby, Stills & Nash"
1969
Every word. Every note. It is perfectly and organically itself. Even it's imperfections (like the fact that the three artists are "out of order" on the iconic cover photograph) are perfect.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81w01y1TnCL._SX425_.jpg
I don't have this album, but I listened to its three songs I didn't know (You Don't Have To Cry, Lady Of The Island, 49 Bye-Byes) and fully concur this album is a masterpiece.
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: whistledog on 03/02/23 at 5:30 am
Modern Romance - Trick of The Light (1983)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Modern_Romance_Trick_of_the_Light_Album.jpg
This was the 2nd album by English pop group Modern Romance. It includes 10 songs, 6 of which were singles:
- Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
- Best Years Of Our Lives
- High Life
- Don't Stop That Crazy Rhythm
- Walking In The Rain
- Good Feelings
I have always been a fan of fun pop music, especially from the 80s, and IMO this album is GOLD! Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White is a vocal cover of the instrumental song made famous by Perez Prado in 1954. Best Years Of Our Lives was covered in 2001 by Baha Men for the animated movie Shrek
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
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Best Years Of Our Lives
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Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: Emman on 03/02/23 at 5:28 pm
"Sunshine Superman"
Donovan
1966
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51v2MISTgZL.jpg
He went from a Bob Dylan soundalike(which I also like because I like Bob Dylan) to doing this drippy music in only a year :o, also that album cover shows the immense influence the Art Nouveau movement had on psychedelia, both 80 years apart from each other.
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Albums
Written By: Emman on 03/02/23 at 5:36 pm
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine is a masterpiece imo, it reinvented guitar rock and still influences music today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJoMLJoZRQ