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Title: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 27, 2014, 01:26:53 AM
Pick 10 tracks (by anybody) for your best of the best CD

a sort of desert island CD

Mine;

Edward Elgar - Nimrod
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Love - You Set The Scene
Weather Report - A Remark You Made
Fleetwood Mac - Man Of The World
Miles Davies - So What
Crowded House - 4 Seasons In One Day
Barclay James Harvest - The World Goes On
Yes - Close To The Edge
Starless - King Crimson
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 03:16:06 AM
Pick 10 tracks (by anybody) for your best of the best CD

a sort of desert island CD

Mine;

Edward Elgar - Nimrod
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Love - You Set The Scene
Weather Report - A Remark You Made
Fleetwood Mac - Man Of The World
Miles Davies - So What
Crowded House - 4 Seasons In One Day
Barclay James Harvest - The World Goes On
Yes - Close To The Edge
Starless - King Crimson

Great thread idea Nim. This'll be tough. First off the top of my head:

We can work it out - the Beatles
Strawberry Fields - the Beatles
One of us must know - Bob Dylan
If you see her say hello - Bob Dylan
Gimme Shelter - the Rolling Stones
Days - the Kinks
Let Down - Radiohead
Losing My Religion - REM
Tom Trauberts Blues - Tom Waits
Holy Water - the Triffids

I limited myself to two Beatle and Dylan songs each. Easy to substitute any number of theirs in there. I've also not included anything from the last yen years or so to make sure they're not temporary fancies. So these are songs that keep turning back up on my playlists over a long period.  Also wanted to mix the pace up a bit. Tomorrow my list will be different  ;D
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 03:19:35 AM
Pick 10 tracks (by anybody) for your best of the best CD

a sort of desert island CD

Mine;

Edward Elgar - Nimrod
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Love - You Set The Scene
Weather Report - A Remark You Made
Fleetwood Mac - Man Of The World
Miles Davies - So What
Crowded House - 4 Seasons In One Day
Barclay James Harvest - The World Goes On
Yes - Close To The Edge
Starless - King Crimson

Nim you're live of prog and fusion is an advantage. You could get a ten track CD that goes for hours. Unfortunately most of my favs are three minute pop songs.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Hello Goodbye on April 27, 2014, 04:00:36 AM
I hate lists and compilation albums, Kev.  But if I were to make one of these CDs, you can bet that Mr. Moonlight would be on it.    ;D
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Hello Goodbye on April 27, 2014, 04:09:01 AM
One of us must know - Bob Dylan


One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs too, Moog.  Those Al Kooper organ swirls are magnificent!  He just sat down at the organ during rehearsals and improvised following Dylan's vocal phrasings.  Bob Dylan liked it and so we have that great recording today.


Al Kooper: The Making of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde / The Record That Changed Nashville (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IE0vVN08c#ws) 
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 04:44:54 AM
One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs too, Moog.  Those Al Kooper organ swirls are magnificent!  He just sat down at the organ during rehearsals and improvised following Dylan's vocal phrasings.  Bob Dylan liked it and so we have that great recording today.


Al Kooper: The Making of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde / The Record That Changed Nashville ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IE0vVN08c#ws[/url])

Yep. It's a great recording with the organ and all. I've never heard a good cover of it. Something about Dylan's just right delivery too.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 05:37:19 AM
Pick 10 tracks (by anybody) for your best of the best CD
...
Love - You Set The Scene
...

I've never really listened to much of Love so you-tubed this one. Quite Moody Blues-ish I think (which is good since I like the Moodies). But with strings rather than a mellotron.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Hello Goodbye on April 27, 2014, 05:59:43 AM
Yep. It's a great recording with the organ and all. I've never heard a good cover of it. Something about Dylan's just right delivery too.

There will never be a good cover of that song.  Others are playing something, Bob Dylan is saying something.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 27, 2014, 07:59:04 AM
I've never really listened to much of Love so you-tubed this one. Quite Moody Blues-ish I think (which is good since I like the Moodies). But with strings rather than a mellotron.

In truth moog mate I couldve picked any of 6 from the Forever Changes album

today it was this one, tomorrow it could be Alone Again Or
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: oldbrownshoe on April 27, 2014, 08:21:16 AM
As I'm far more interested in what made The Beatles (great era) than the aftermath (lousy era), and I'm re-reading 'Absolute Beginners', this is my current 10.....I kinda hope that a few of these are on Paul's jukebox in Soho Square:

Gene Vincent - Race With The Devil
Johnny Burnette & His Rock 'n' Roll Trio - Train Kept A-Rollin' (I believe John owned this rare LP)
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes (George's fave)
Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Fool's Paradise
Larry Williams - Slow Down
Eddie Cochran ' - Somethin' Else
Cliff & The Shadows - Dynamite
(Cliff did about 8, i.e. as much as anyone in England, fantastic rock 'n' roll songs; I think this was the eighth!)
Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac
Chuck Berry - Bye Bye Johnny (on the Stones' first EP)
Billy Fury - That's Love

Tomorrow I'd probably choose 10 Dusty Springfield b-sides or 10 Nick Drake songs.........
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 08:26:35 AM
In truth moog mate I couldve picked any of 6 from the Forever Changes album

today it was this one, tomorrow it could be Alone Again Or

I'll have to check the album out.  I'm in a mood for classics
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Ovi on April 27, 2014, 09:38:31 AM
Simon & Garfunkel - Dangling Conversation
Crystals - Then He Kissed Me
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
The Who - Sea and Sand

Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Band - Whispering Pines
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Elton John - Bennie and The Jets
Bob Dylan - Girl From North Country
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Ovi on April 27, 2014, 09:46:44 AM
Forever Changes by Love is definitely worth checking out. Folk meets baroque orchestration, with Hendrix-like guitar explosion from time to time and psychedelic lyircs on top of it all.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 09:49:10 AM

Bob Dylan - Girl From North Country

I've always liked the melody of this one. But I prefer his Boots of Spanish Leather which has virtually the same melody. I just like the words better.

Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Ovi on April 27, 2014, 10:03:00 AM
Miles Davies - So What

This is an amazing tune. And that's coming from a person who usually can't get into 50's Jazz at all.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 27, 2014, 11:56:09 AM
This is an amazing tune. And that's coming from a person who usually can't get into 50's Jazz at all.

Jazz never gets better than this imo.

I also included the Weather Report track, it was a showcase for Jaco, the legendary Bassist, probably the saddest, most beautiful most impressive bass line Ive ever had the pleasure to hear, a thing of beauty, so sad he ended up homeless and then murdered. He introduced the fretless electric bass to the world and influenced a million bass players....still they try to emulate him, but no-one got near.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Ovi on April 27, 2014, 12:03:37 PM
If you see her say hello - Bob Dylan

Excellent choice, moog. One of the (rather few by Dylan standards) songs from Blood On The Tracks that I really, really love.

"Say for me that I'm all right, though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her... don't tell her it isn't so."


Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Ovi on April 27, 2014, 12:04:51 PM
I also included the Weather Report track, it was a showcase for Jaco, the legendary Bassist, probably the saddest, most beautiful most impressive bass line Ive ever had the pleasure to hear, a thing of beauty, so sad he ended up homeless and then murdered. He introduced the fretless electric bass to the world and influenced a million bass players....still they try to emulate him, but no-one got near.

Ok, you've got my interest, I'll check the band out.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 12:15:23 PM
Jazz never gets better than this imo.

I also included the Weather Report track, it was a showcase for Jaco, the legendary Bassist, probably the saddest, most beautiful most impressive bass line Ive ever had the pleasure to hear, a thing of beauty, so sad he ended up homeless and then murdered. He introduced the fretless electric bass to the world and influenced a million bass players....still they try to emulate him, but no-one got near.

I didn't realise that's how Jaco ended up. I can't claim to be that familiar with his body of work. But when I was learning bass in the late 70s he and Stanley Clarke were offered up as the gold standard. That's a terribly sad end.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 12:19:11 PM
Excellent choice, moog. One of the (rather few by Dylan standards) songs from Blood On The Tracks that I really, really love.

"Say for me that I'm all right, though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her... don't tell her it isn't so."

I've always loved it. I sometimes see it as almost a sequel to Boots of Spanish Leather which I mentioned earlier. Dylan is sometimes caricatured for his more impenetrable lyrics. He can write beautiful lucid songs that anyone can appreciate.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 27, 2014, 12:47:16 PM
I didn't realise that's how Jaco ended up. I can't claim to be that familiar with his body of work. But when I was learning bass in the late 70s he and Stanley Clarke were offered up as the gold standard. That's a terribly sad end.

Like so many Jazz guys before him, I think drugs and booze got to him

He was sleeping rough and eventually was severely beaten up by a bouncer, so badly he died
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Ovi on April 27, 2014, 02:57:08 PM
I've always loved it. I sometimes see it as almost a sequel to Boots of Spanish Leather which I mentioned earlier. Dylan is sometimes caricatured for his more impenetrable lyrics. He can write beautiful lucid songs that anyone can appreciate.

For sure. I sometimes wish I'd like Blood On The Tracks more because of what it represents - Dylan's very own confessional singer-songwriter album, one that everybody can relate to. It's funny that his approach to song-writing at the time was very much inspired by early 70's s-s such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell etc. all of whom would've probably never picked up a guitar and wrote a lyric in the first place if not for Dylan. But I still think Young's 'After The Goldrush' works way better as an album.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Hombre_de_ningun_lugar on April 27, 2014, 09:56:47 PM
1. Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles)
2. Pinball Wizard (The Who)
3. Somebody To Love (Jefferson Airplane)
4. Eight Miles High (The Byrds)
5. Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)
6. Time Of The Season (The Zombies)
7. Alone Again Or (Love)
8. Shapes Of Things (The Yardbirds)
9. For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)
10. Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles)
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 27, 2014, 10:16:58 PM
1. Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles)
2. Pinball Wizard (The Who)
3. Somebody To Love (Jefferson Airplane)
4. Eight Miles High (The Byrds)
5. Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)
6. Time Of The Season (The Zombies)
7. Alone Again Or (Love)
8. Shapes Of Things (The Yardbirds)
9. For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)
10. Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles)

Waterloo Sunset was my reserve Kinks choice. Lovely song.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 28, 2014, 01:17:47 AM
I hate lists and compilation albums, Kev.  But if I were to make one of these CDs, you can bet that Mr. Moonlight would be on it.    ;D

Just a bit of harmless fun Baz baby... :-X

Im amazed that none of my fellow posters have included any Jazz, Blues or classical in their desert island discs

Is Rock/pop all you guys listen too ?  glassesslip

(I noticed Ovi said he liked Miles Davies though)

and where are Dmitry & Bobber in all this, are they working undercover in Kiev ?
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Hello Goodbye on April 28, 2014, 02:12:33 AM
For sure. I sometimes wish I'd like Blood On The Tracks more because of what it represents - Dylan's very own confessional singer-songwriter album, one that everybody can relate to.

Is Blood On The Tracks any more "confessional" than some of his previous albums?  Yes, his lyrics were more straightforward on that album but weren't the enigmatic songs he wrote in the mid-60s also "confessional" or autobiographical?


It's funny that his approach to song-writing at the time was very much inspired by early 70's s-s such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell etc. all of whom would've probably never picked up a guitar and wrote a lyric in the first place if not for Dylan.

That's quite a presumptuous statement, Ovi.  Do you really mean that?  Do you know what Neil Young and Joni Mitchell's early interests in music were and what instruments they first learned to play and when?  Both wrote music extensively in the 1960s.  Which early 70s singer/songwriters are you referring to?  Or is it "all of whom?"

Who influenced Bob Dylan early in his career?  Did folk and folk rock begin with Bob Dylan?
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 28, 2014, 02:28:03 AM
Is Blood On The Tracks any more "confessional" than some of his previous album?  Yes, his lyrics were more straightfoward on that album but weren't the enigmatic songs he wrote in the mid-60s also "confessional" or autobiographical?


That's quite a presumptuous statement, Ovi.  Do you really mean that?  Do you know what Neil Young and Joni Mitchell's early interests in music were and what instruments they first learned to play and when?  Both wrote music extensively in the 1960s.  Which early 70s singer/songwriters are you referring to?  Or is it "all of whom?"

Who influenced Bob Dylan early in his career?  Did folk and folk rock begin with Bob Dylan?

Ive been a pretty avid Young fan over the years and Ive seen interviews and read books about him (and by him) and he always lists his influences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, The Shadows, Jimmy Reed, & Johnny Cash as well as Dylan, also unlike Dylann ,he didnt set out to be a solo artist with an acoustic guitar but part of a band with other musicians.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 28, 2014, 02:33:51 AM
Just a bit of harmless fun Baz baby... :-X

Im amazed that none of my fellow posters have included any Jazz, Blues or classical in their desert island discs


I was hoping to get a separate classical desert island disc on a technicality.  ;)I don't like to mix pop with classical on the one disc.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: oldbrownshoe on April 28, 2014, 06:08:43 AM
Nimrod
I think that we could all probably include Jazz or Blues (I'm not sure if I'd have a Classical piece) but it's almost like having something sweet with something savoury.

As for Jazz, despite regularly picking up 50s/early 60s titles up from Fopp in Covent Garden for £3 a throw by people I've never heard of, I can listen to a 30 minute LP six times on the trot but not be able to tell you anything about it afterwards, apart from the year it was made and that it will have a fantastic modern art cover (those Blue Note covers are as wonderful as art, any art, ever got).

 I use Jazz as mood music more than anything else.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 28, 2014, 06:12:14 AM
I was hoping to get a separate classical desert island disc on a technicality.  ;)I don't like to mix pop with classical on the one disc.

you have to bear in mind that this is the ONLY CD you will have forever on the island

you can listen to just one track at any time so it could be anything that is you favourite

I just couldnt go forever without listening to a Miles Davies or Weather Report track or my favourite classical piece
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 28, 2014, 07:20:53 AM
you have to bear in mind that this is the ONLY CD you will have forever on the island

you can listen to just one track at any time so it could be anything that is you favourite



You're a hard man Nim.

That complicates it for me as my other great musical love is opera. Hmmm. That being the case I'll substitute in the Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes by Britten, and the Graveyard Scene from Mozarts Don Giovanni. I'll sacrifice REMs Losing my Religion and the Triffids. Although it pains me to lose the Aussie representation.

At least it makes my cd longer. If I'm going to have to listen to one over an over better it be an hour rather than 30 minutes.  ;)
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Joost on April 28, 2014, 12:47:57 PM
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Warm Sounds - Birds and Bees
France Gall - Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son
Ph.D. - I Won't Let You Down
Tim Hardin - (How Can We) Hang On to a Dream
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Michel Fugain - Une Belle Histoire
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Elliott Smith - Miss Misery
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: tkitna on April 28, 2014, 11:56:42 PM
She's A Lover - The Pretty Things
Greenburg, Glickstein, Charles, David, Smith, & Jones - The Cryan Shames
The Daily Planet - Love
Brief Candles - The Zombies
Gypsy - The Moody Blues
You Are Gone - The Buckinghams
Situation Vacant - The Kinks
Hopelessly Human - Kansas
Just One Girl - The Knickerbockers
Fly At Night - Chilliwack
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: ibanez_ax on April 29, 2014, 03:23:03 AM
Bare Trees-Fleetwood Mac
Midnight Blue-Kenny Burrell
ZZ Top-Waitin' For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago
Buddy Guy-Saturday Night Fish Fry
The Beatles-Paperback Writer
CCR-Born On The Bayou
Santana-Everybody's Everthing
Grant Green The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark-It Ain't Necessarily So
The Beatles-If I Needed Someone
Frank Sinatra-Old Devil Moon

I need 10 additional classical CDs!  2ch
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 29, 2014, 03:32:04 AM


I need 10 additional classical CDs!  2ch

Good luck. Bloody Nimrod will he searching our bags before we board the SS Minnow.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 29, 2014, 05:53:59 AM
Bare Trees-Fleetwood Mac
Midnight Blue-Kenny Burrell
ZZ Top-Waitin' For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago
Buddy Guy-Saturday Night Fish Fry
The Beatles-Paperback Writer
CCR-Born On The Bayou
Santana-Everybody's Everthing
Grant Green The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark-It Ain't Necessarily So
The Beatles-If I Needed Someone
Frank Sinatra-Old Devil Moon

I need 10 additional classical CDs!  2ch

Sorry George, you (and moog) know the rules  ;D
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: ibanez_ax on April 29, 2014, 11:36:43 AM
Good luck. Bloody Nimrod will he searching our bags before we board the SS Minnow.


This calls for drastic measures!  Since I'll be playing my one CD on a solar powered laptop, I'm going to sneak a flash drive with more music aboard and hide it in a body cavity!   ;)
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Ovi on April 29, 2014, 06:20:59 PM
Is Blood On The Tracks any more "confessional" than some of his previous albums?  Yes, his lyrics were more straightforward on that album but weren't the enigmatic songs he wrote in the mid-60s also "confessional" or autobiographical?

It was a poor choice of words. What I meant was that it's his most relatable, accessible lyrically. I have no idea whether he was writing about him or not, Dylan's an impossible man to read. He reinvented his image so much, appeared to the listeners in so many lights, delivered so many different messages that it's become nigh on impossible for us to separate the man from the characters he's portraying. Maybe that's what makes him so unique.

That's quite a presumptuous statement, Ovi.  Do you really mean that?  Do you know what Neil Young and Joni Mitchell's early interests in music were and what instruments they first learned to play and when?  Both wrote music extensively in the 1960s.  Which early 70s singer/songwriters are you referring to?  Or is it "all of whom?"
Who influenced Bob Dylan early in his career?  Did folk and folk rock begin with Bob Dylan?

You are right, it was an exaggerated statement. Obviously both Neil and Joni were inspired by dozens of acts over the years, as are most great artists. But I've always felt there is a strong connection between Dylan and their early 70's singer-songwriter records, 'Blue' and 'After The Goldrush' in particular. The way they expressed themselves so freely, sometimes with a minimum of instrumentation yet always sounding like they didn't need more, all this in a rock/pop context etc.
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 29, 2014, 11:45:57 PM

This calls for drastic measures!  Since I'll be playing my one CD on a solar powered laptop, I'm going to sneak a flash drive with more music aboard and hide it in a body cavity!   ;)

Thats cheating George  glassesslip

Remember Im restricted to 10 tracks as well, I too could take several more  ;D
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: Moogmodule on April 30, 2014, 01:08:26 AM

This calls for drastic measures!  Since I'll be playing my one CD on a solar powered laptop, I'm going to sneak a flash drive with more music aboard and hide it in a body cavity!   ;)


Drastic measures call for drastic countermeasures...

(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e224/jfwiblin/Mobile%20Uploads/74C591AA-9468-44D1-B4BC-B6A0639D1F3E_zpsuewimd1j.jpg)

 ;sorry
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: nimrod on April 30, 2014, 04:07:10 AM
It was a poor choice of words.

You are right, it was an exaggerated statement.

Bad day at the office Ovi ?   ha2ha
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: ibanez_ax on April 30, 2014, 11:22:12 AM
Thats cheating George  glassesslip

Remember Im restricted to 10 tracks as well, I too could take several more  ;D


You're a hard man, Kevin!   :'(
Title: Re: Your All Time Best Ever CD
Post by: ibanez_ax on April 30, 2014, 11:23:10 AM
Drastic measures call for drastic countermeasures...

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 ;sorry



Ouch!    :o