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Essential Albums Vol. 1

The Band : Music From Big Pink

 

The Beatles : Abbey Road

 

Cowboy Junkies : The Caution Horses

 

Dire Straits : Love Over Gold

 

Marvin Gaye : What’s Going On

 

The Jam : All Mod Cons

 

The Kinks : Muswell Hillbillies

Randy Newman : Good Old Boys

 

Bruce Springsteen : Greeting From Asbury Park

 

The Who : Quadrophenia

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9 Responses to “Essential Albums Vol. 1”

  1. Mazr Says:
    February 19th, 2006 at 6:06 am

    Personally, I’d take Who’s Next over Quadrophenia.

  2. PeoriaIllinoisan Says:
    February 19th, 2006 at 12:34 pm

    This could be argued until the cows come home…

    There’s no denying that Who’s Next is a nearly flawless album. It gets even better if you buy the new remastered version with all the outtakes. You know a great album when the outtakes can stand up on their own.

    Unfortunately, almost every song on Who’s Next is a stable on every classic rock station in the country. I just can’t listen to it anymore.

    Quadrophenia, the highly ambitious followup to Who’s Next, almost never leaves my rotation. It has a few hits- 5:15, The Real Me, and Love Reign O’er Me, but like “The Wall”, it is one large song cycle that must be played in it’s entirety to grasp the genious.

  3. mazr Says:
    February 19th, 2006 at 2:22 pm

    I quit listening to classic rock stations so it’s always fresh for me when I listen to it.

  4. PeoriaIllinoisan Says:
    February 19th, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    You’re better for it!

  5. CP Says:
    February 22nd, 2006 at 9:48 am

    Hey speaking of the Kinks. I’m currently listening to Village Green Preservation Society. They’re playing it on China Radio International!!

    http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/ce_easyfm/

  6. Anonymous Says:
    February 22nd, 2006 at 10:33 am

    Have you all ever heard the album “Man Who Built America” by Horslips? Terrific stuff too….

  7. CP Says:
    February 22nd, 2006 at 12:49 pm

    I have the Horslips album “short stories, tall tales” that I bought at the old Co-op when it was on Main street in the building that later became a Walgreens. They remind me a bit of the Only Ones.

  8. PeoriaIllinoisan Says:
    February 22nd, 2006 at 1:10 pm

    Is that before my time? I always thought Co-Op was in the One World building on the corner, and the used record store was in the Avantis building before it moved to the building next to Walgreens (which was later torn down to build the parking lot for Jimmy Johns.)

  9. CP Says:
    February 22nd, 2006 at 5:13 pm

    I wrote a long comment about the old coop, but it must have gone into cyberspace because it’s not here. So instead of rewriting the whole dang thing, I’ll keep it brief :) Yes the old, old co-op was in the walgreens building next to jimmy johns. They closed it around 1985.

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