Name 5 albums in your stash you absolutey love!

~~MicShazam~~ · 11-27-2017, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You're surprised that I'd dig a weird album?

It was pretty instrumental in getting me into hip hop and shaking my pretty surface level view of the genre. The strangeness of it made it alluring and showed me what hip hop is capable of while the hip hop roots that hold the album together helped me learn how to appreciate the genre more appropriately. It's also an album that I can return to and still uncover new things about, which is always good in my book.

It's almost not weird enough, being that it's placed right under Trout Mask

I think it might be a surprisingly good gateway album for people who think of hip hop as being boring. So, people like me, basically. It's definitely one of the hip hop albums that's come the closest to grabbing my full attention.

Plankton · 11-27-2017, 08:35 AM

Just off the top of my head without looking through my drives, and thinking about all the actual full albums that have gotten the most plays over the recent years, here's what I come up with:

1. Clutch - Earth Rocker
2. Billy Cobham - Spectrum
3. Steve Stevens - Flamenco A Go-Go
4. Steve Hackett - Bay Of Kings
5. Dwight Yoakam - This Time

Neapolitan · 11-27-2017, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

Just off the top of my head without looking through my drives, and thinking about all the actual full albums that have gotten the most plays over the recent years, here's what I come up with:

1. Clutch - Earth Rocker
2. Billy Cobham - Spectrum
3. Steve Stevens - Flamenco A Go-Go
4. Steve Hackett - Bay Of Kings
5. Dwight Yoakam - This Time

I have Bay of KIngs, and while I love Steve Hackett and like the album very much, especially Horizon, Black Light, and Skye Boat Song. I thought the recording sounded too thin. I thought it had a sound of being recorded in large hall that left the guitar sounding distant and faint. That is just my two cents about the quality of the audio, it's not meant to reflect negatively on the music on the album or Steve Hackett's talent.

Plankton · 11-27-2017, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I have Bay of KIngs, and while I love Steve Hackett and like the album very much, especially Horizon, Black Light, and Skye Boat Song. I thought the recording sounded too thin. I thought it had a sound of being recorded in large hall that left the guitar sounding distant and faint. That is just my two cents about the quality of the audio, it's not meant to reflect negatively on the music on the album or Steve Hackett's talent.

He did record most of it by himself, so the sound quality might have been a little sub-par, but most reviews tend to overlook those facts. The guitar sounds like it was recorded in a large hall because it was. Natural acoustics are what drives the tone of most of the tunes. I love it for it's simplistic pureness in that effect. I once played the title track on a guitar I was thinking about purchasing, and it impressed the store owner enough to make him come over and ask what it was. I bought that guitar and still play it. It always reminds me of that day.

Neapolitan · 11-27-2017, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

He did record most of it by himself, so the sound quality might have been a little sub-par, but most reviews tend to overlook those facts. The guitar sounds like it was recorded in a large hall because it was. Natural acoustics are what drives the tone of most of the tunes. I love it for it's simplistic pureness in that effect. I once played the title track on a guitar I was thinking about purchasing, and it impressed the store owner enough to make him come over and ask what it was. I bought that guitar and still play it. It always reminds me of that day.

Horizon is one of my favorite pieces to play on guitar when I am in a guitar store, however no one ever asked me what I was playing. :/

Don't get me wrong, I like the music, it just a thin sounding album to my ears. It doesn't make me dislike the music, just that while listening to it I always feel it could have sounded better. I've strained my ears on even worse recordings on YouTube. So its not disliking lo-fi recordings, probably I am more to accustomed to studio recorded guitar albums, and secretly wish that Bay of Kings was one of them. I've heard Julian Bream and Christopher Parkening record in a church with a high vault ceiling or large room for the effect of reverberation that a spacious room provides and the quality of the recording still comes out sounding a little bit fuller.

Plankton · 11-27-2017, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Horizon is one of my favorite pieces to play on guitar when I am in a guitar store, however no one ever asked me what I was playing. :/

Don't get me wrong, I like the music, it just a thin sounding album to my ears. It doesn't make me dislike the music, just that while listening to it I always feel it could have sounded better. I've strained my ears on even worse recordings on YouTube. So its not disliking lo-fi recordings, probably I am more to accustomed to studio record guitar albums, and secretly wish that Bay of Kings was one of them. I've heard Julian Bream and Christopher Parkening record in a church with a high vault ceiling or large room for the effect of reverberation that a spacious room provides and the quality of the recording still comes out sounding a little bit fuller.

I get ya. Lotta variables in there, so... *shrug*

Picture sitting on the top deck of a house boat in the very front with your legs dangling where all you can see is water while moving slowly through a morning fog about 50 feet off the coast of a lake as Bay Of Kings plays gently in your ears through your headphones. That was quite a moment, and my first experience with that album.

Plankton · 11-27-2017, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Horizon is one of my favorite pieces to play on guitar when I am in a guitar store, however no one ever asked me what I was playing. :/

I should actually mention that I didn't mention that I knew the owner, so that had to factor in there somewhere too. It's not like I was channeling my inner Hackett, just the melody of the tune caught his ear. More of a tribute to his songwriting, and just a memorable kinda thing for me.

I gotta give this an honorable mention too. All his Pikes series start to meld together, but this one stands out for me. I listen to it a lot. Cranked.

**Janszoon** · 11-27-2017, 11:36 AM

I try to keep my mustache free of albums.

Chula Vista · 11-27-2017, 12:00 PM

Re: Hackett

Learned "Can Utility and the Coastliners" note for note back in the day.

Such a unique and fun solo to play.

Plankton · 11-27-2017, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Re: Hackett

Learned "Can Utility and the Coastliners" note for note back in the day.

Such a unique and fun solo to play.

Reminds me of the Ender collab with George, Mousetown.

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