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1) Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

2) Styx - Best of Styx

3) James Taylor - Walking Man

4) Little River Band - Best of LRB

5) Jerry Rafferty - City to City

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Southern Harmony is a GREAT album. Such a sweet mix of blues, gospel and rock. I will be digging that one out today to listen to in the car... thanks for reminding me of it!

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I had to really think on this one. But I realized all I had to do was sort my library by "most played" and the answers were obvious.

Rage Against The Machine/Rage Against The Machine

System of a Down/Toxicity

Pantera/Cowboys from Hell

Nine Inch Nails/Pretty Hate Machine

Toadies/Possum Kingdom

I would have to break this down by music type. I like such a diverse selection of music. This list isn't too shabby though I would swap the Toadies for something else.

The Black Crowes: Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Absolutely smokin album. Every song is good, a rarity in albums these days.

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These can change daily but I will go with these for today !

Big Head Todd and The Monsters - Sister Sweetly

Iron Maiden - Live after death

Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Pink Floyd - Final Cut

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This is one of those questions that has far too many answers. Top five in a genre perhaps is possible.

Rock (music I grew up with)

In no particular order:

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon

Golden Earing, Greatest Hits

I have almost all of Buffet's and Brook's albums, hard to pick good stuff on most all

Beatles, Abbey Rod, Sargent Pepper, Revolver

How about some eclectic stuff? King Crimson

No one mentioned any Hendrix or Clapton (Cream, Byrds, Derek and the Dominos)

Emerson. Lake and Palmer, Yes

So much music, so little time

Jim

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Pink Floyd---The Wall

Jethro Tull---Aqualung

Alice In Chains---Dirt

Sublime---Sublime

Disturbed---Disturbed

I'd have to think about this for a while to name my top five favorite albums. The above is an off the cuff attempt...I'll go with these for the time being, the list will change. :unsure:

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My iTunes Library lists 2588 songs worth about 7.3 days of playing and every one is a "favorite" song, artist or from a favorite album...you want me to name just 5?! Geez...I 'd really need a top 25 and then it would be more artist than album.

Ok...focus.

Gabby Pahinui..........................."Gabby"

Crosby, Stills & Nash................."Crosby, Stills & Nash "

Loggins and Messina................."Mother Lode"

Dan Fogelberg.........................."Souvenirs"

Bill Cosby................................."To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With"

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Lots of others over the years that I would say at the time was my favorite, but those 5 are ones I still listen to today.
For me a top favorite album means that all the songs are great and work together. Kind of like a musical journey with that artist.

That's my criteria exactly.

1. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

2. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

3. Frank Zappa - Shut Up and Play Your Guitar (compilation)

4. Mars Volta - Francis

5. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive

Mars Volta is definitely in there for a possible #5, probably De-loused. But Francis is right there too. And they're both great back to back.

Pink Floyd---The Wall

Jethro Tull---Aqualung

Alice In Chains---Dirt

Sublime---Sublime

Disturbed---Disturbed

And yes, Jethro Tull. I was the hugest fan ever, back in the beginning. Benefit is right up there, from his older sound. And Minstrel, from his more "jethro tull" sound.

And what about Joni Mitchell / Court and Spark. That's who bigJoni's named after. :)

Thanks everyone - keep em coming.

be

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Pink Floyd "The Wall"

Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"

Dire Straits 1st album

Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy"

The Who "Who's Next?"

Most favorite Live side: The Eagles Live- Side three!

These are the ones I wore out years ago, but could listen still for hours, sitting in an easy chair haveing a cocktail, and holding up the Album jacket reading the lyrics as the song plays!

Still a vinyl junkie!

Maybe we should sart a new thread: In heavy rotation or What are you listening to lately? :cheers:

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I for one am grateful I have XM Radio, Deep Tracks channel and also Random Rock 40 $ 161 respectively. Good cross section of music that runs from mid 60's on up. No crap (so far) also some interesting background especially on the weekends. Who met whom when and where etc.

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Zombie - La sexorcista

AC/DC - Back in Black

Van Halen - Best of

More to come

Collective Soul - Soul asylum (Sp)

Pearl Jam - Ten

STP - Core

Point Break soundtrack (yeah - I went there :ph34r: )

DMB - Crash

I'm at 8 - still having a hard time picking. I'll probably have to end at a top 10 list. And even that is cutting loose of some stuff I cherish.

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I for one am grateful I have XM Radio, Deep Tracks channel and also Random Rock 40 $ 161 respectively. Good cross section of music that runs from mid 60's on up. No crap (so far) also some interesting background especially on the weekends. Who met whom when and where etc.

Sirius "The Vault" is good- similar. . . they paly the deep unheard trax. . .

Sat radio is the only way to go in radio these days anyway!

Especially if you are and "on the road workplace person these days!

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Talking Heads-The Name of This Band is The Talking Heads (My all time favorite band, hands down)

The Clash-London Calling (The only band that matters)

Pantera-Vulgar Display of Power (When this came out it kicked every other metal band in the balls the spit on them when they were down)

Al Green-More Greatest Hits (The sweetest sounding reverend of all time)

Black Sabbath-Paranoid (Put the Heavy in Metal)

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Gary P. Nunn's Totally Guacamole

Nanci Griffith's Millennium Collection

Hank Sr's Greatest Hits

George Winston's December

Chris LeDoux's Gold Buckle Dreams

*Any album with Frank singing Fly Me To The Moon

I have VERY eclectic tastes, but when I'm overseas these make me feel like home ;-)

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This is a cool thread to read thru...

I can pretty easily say that my taste in music is pretty broad, but that doesn't mean I'd enjoy listening to an entire album from each band I like.

About a third of the lists so far I read and say, ' yeah that one is on my list too!!!'

Another third I can say I know some of the songs on it and really like those.

The other third I don't think I've ever heard of...

Interesting...

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I sometimes train with an iPod and plugs under my muffs and the BEST music to shoot to is "Don Walser the Yodlin Cowboy" also known as "Pavarotti of the Plains"(any of his albums) its amazing how some good ol'Texas yodlin will speed up your shots! ;-)

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so, i did a search and found this thread. notiicing that i posted here already, i think this should be broken down into decades. lets say, anything from 1990 to 2009.

what cya got?

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