Favorite Albums of All Time: 200-191

2022-03-232022-10-12 ~ Liam ~ 2 Comments

Having listened to every album on the Rolling Stone list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, I’m making my own list. This list will be only 250 albums, although I had to make some tough cuts. The list includes a mix of works of musical genius with the pure nostalgia of some albums I’ve loved throughout my life. As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts about these albums and what your favorite albums are. I will continue the countdown every other Wednesday throughout 2022.

200

Artist: The Kinks
Title: Something Else by The Kinks
Year: 1968
Favorite Tracks:

Death of a Clown
Harry Rag
Love Me Till the Sun Shines
Waterloo Sunset

The First Time I Heard This Album …: The Rolling Stone 500 was the first time I listened to these songs in entirety.

Thoughts: This album marks the transition of The Kinks from a British Invasion rock band to a band that writes wry, introspective, and observational songs about every day people. The Kinks aren’t folk rock but their music is informed by the folk tradition, and this album also reflects that odd music hall revival that coincided with psychedelic rock in England.

Bonus Sounds: “Waterloo Sunset” is a nice song, isn’t it? Here are some covers by David Bowie and Cathy Dennis.

199

Artist: Aretha Franklin
Title: Lady Soul
Year: 1968
Favorite Tracks:

Chain of Fools
People Get Ready
(You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Woman
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone
Good to Me As I Am To You
Ain’t No Way

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Sometime in the early Oughts, I borrowed this album from the library

Thoughts: It’s hard to believe this is not a greatest hits compilation because it has so many of Aretha’s classic bangers. But that’s what makes it a GREAT album.

Bonus Sounds: I somehow talked my way down to only one Aretha Franklin album on this list but Young, Gifted, and Black, Amazing Grace, and I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (and many more) are all worth a listen.

198

Artist: Elvis Costello
Title: My Aim Is True
Year: 1977
Favorite Tracks:

No Dancing
Alison
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
Less Than Zero
Mystery Dance
Watching the Detectives

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Early Oughts when I was exploring old punk and new wave recordings.

Thoughts: This debut album features Elvis Costello at his rawest, channeling an early Rock & Roll sound into the new punk rock/new wave paradigm. So many of the tracks from this album remain in rotation almost fifty years, to the point that Costello’s earliest work almost overshadows the rest of his oeuvre.

Bonus Sounds: There are several other recordings by Costello worth listening to. I also read his memoir Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink several years ago and found out he is better at writing songs than books, but it had some interesting moments.

197

Artist: Beck
Title: Guero
Year: 2005
Favorite Tracks:

E-Pro
Qué Onda Guero
Girl
Hell Yes
Go It Alone
Rental Car
Emergency Exit

The First Time I Heard This Album …: When it first came out in 2005.

Thoughts: This album came at the end of a great decade of peak Beck music from the mid-90s to the mid-00s, but it remains one of his best.

Bonus Sounds: One of Beck’s most creative albums was Song Reader, a collection of sheet music. In 2013, I was part of Beck’s Song Reader Performed Live, were over 150 musicians, performance artists, and dancers (including burlesque dancers) brought the song to life. I was part of a 50-voice chorus who sang on several songs, most notably “The Wolf Is On the Hill” (Note: this link is NSFW, because, burlesque dancers).

196

Artist: Modest Mouse
Title: Moon And Antarctica
Year: 2000
Favorite Tracks:

3rd Planet
Gravity Rides Everything
Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
A Different City
Wild Pack of Family Dogs
I Came As a Rat

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Around 2005, I was looking for new music and got this album on the recommendation of … someone.

Thoughts: This is a great example of where indie/alternative rock was going in new directions in the early to mid Oughts. This albums got weird sounds and creative lyrics, but Modest Mouse never forgets to make an enjoyable tune.

Bonus Sounds: This album surprisingly didn’t include any singles, but the next album released in 2004 included the bands most memorable track, “Float On.”

195

Artist: Fountains of Wayne
Title: Welcome Interstate Managers
Year: 2003
Favorite Tracks:

Mexican Wine
Stacy’s Mom
No Better Place
Valley Winter Song
All Kinds of Time
Hung Up On You

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Sometime around 2003.

Thoughts: When I first learned of Fountains of Wayne, I was surprised that there was a band that appealed to both young hipsters as well as old dudes who usually only listen to 70s rock. I guess the band’s power pop sounds has a timeless appeal. And I find their anthems of New York City Tri-State Area ennui to be relatable.

Bonus Sounds: There are only so many slot in my favorite 250, so I could only choose one Fountains of Wayne album, a great slight to Utopia Parkway. But do check out the collection that includes “Red Dragon Tattoo” among many other greats.

194

Artist: 3RDEYEGIRL
Title: PLECTRUMELECTRUM
Year: 2014
Favorite Tracks:

PRETZELBODYLOGIC
PLECTRUMELECTRUM
FIXURLIFEUP
ANOTHERLOVE
FUNKNROLL

The First Time I Heard This Album …: When it was released in 2014 simultaneously with the Prince album Art Official Age.

Thoughts: “Girl with a guitar is twelve times better than another crazy band of boys/Trying to be a star/When you’re just another brick in a misogynistic wall of noise.” 3RDEYEGIRL is the trio of Hannah Welton, Donna Grantis, and Ida Kristine Nielsen who served as Prince’s backing band from 2014 until his death. Their one album with Prince rocks hard! And it features a cameo from Lizzo.

Bonus Sounds: “FUNKNROLL” is a song so good that Prince also recorded a version for his own album.

193

Artist: The Who
Title: Who’s Next
Year: 1971
Favorite Tracks:

Baba O’Riley
The Song is Over
Behind Blue Eyes
Won’t Get Fooled Again

The First Time I Heard This Album …: High school, sometime in the late 80s.

Thoughts: I’m surprised to end up including an album from The Who on the list since they’re not a band that has ever interested me much. But the Rolling Stone 500 project made me realize that a lot of the songs by The Who that I really do like happen to be on this album.

Bonus Sounds: I think The Who is a band who were probably far more electrifying in live concert performance than on their albums. Do I’ll recommend listening to Live at Leeds for the closet experience to enjoying the band in concert during their prime.

192

Artist: The Velvet Underground
Title: The Velvet Underground
Year: 1969
Favorite Tracks:

What Goes On
Pale Blue Eyes
Beginning To See The Light
The Murder Mystery
After Hours

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Last year, Rolling Stone 500

Thoughts: After all these years I’m still kind of surprised that The Velvet Underground can do melodic ballads. There’s a lot of great music on this album that sounds different from the great music on their other albums. There’s also “The Murder Mystery” an esoteric track with different songs being sung and poems recited simultaneously in a harmonic way. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of anything like that before! I kind of wish Moe Tucker sang lead on more songs.

Bonus Sounds: Another band for whom it’s hard to pick just one album, especially with classics like White Light/White Heat and Loaded in contention.

191

Artist: The Ramones
Title: Rocket to Russia
Year: 1977
Favorite Tracks:

Cretin Hop
Rockaway Beach
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
We’re A Happy Family
Teenage Lobotomy

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Last year, Rolling Stone 500

Thoughts: The title Rocket to Russia, seems all to topical now. The Ramones third album contains some of their most memorable tunes, including my all-time favorite “Sheena is a Punk Rocker.” It’ll always remind me of when I first discovered The Ramones in the late 80s and realized that I, too, could be a punk rocker.

Bonus Sounds: The title of this album sounds more political than The Ramones’ music typically is, but one of their most political songs ever, “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg” from 1986, is another of my all-time favorites.

Favorite Albums of All Time: 230-221

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230

Artist: Green Day
Title: Dookie
Year: 1994
Favorite Tracks:

Longview
Basket Case
She
When I Come Around

The First Time I Heard This Album …: I think I ordered this on a whim from Columbia House after hearing “Longview” on the radio.

Thoughts: Dookie came out a time when “alternative” music was suddenly everywhere and one could hear cool stuff on the radio, not just on the independent stations on the left of the dial. I don’t think I really knew how Green Day were carrying on the punk traditions from the 70s (nor how controversial they became in the punk community for being successful). I grew tired of the album and it wasn’t until I listened to it again for the Rolling Stone 500 project that I realized how well it held up.

Bonus Sounds: I’m kind of indifferent to the rest of Green Day’s music, but I do remember them being a big part of the documentary Punk’s Not Dead.

229

Artist: Elvis Costello
Title:This Year’s Model
Year: 1978
Favorite Tracks:

Pump It Up
(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea
Radio Radio

The First Time I Heard This Album …: While familiar with the work of Elvis Costello for a long time, I probably listened to this album in its entirety for the first time around 2002-2006 when I went through a phase of listening to early punk and post-punk music.

Thoughts: While not my favorite Costello album (we’ll see that later on the list), it’s a solid collection that includes the ultimate banger “(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea.”

Bonus Sounds: One of my favorite Elvis Costello songs not from the albums on this list is “Shipbuilding,” a social commentary on how the Falklands War was manufactured to revive industries in Britain.

228

Artist: Depeche Mode
Title: Violator
Year: 1990
Favorite Tracks:

World in My Eyes
Personal Jesus
Enjoy the Silence
Policy of Truth

The First Time I Heard This Album …: This album was everywhere when I was in high school, so I think I absorbed it by osmosis.

Thoughts: Before grunge hit, alternative music typically meant UK bands like The Smiths, The Cure, New Order, Erasure, and Depeche Mode. While Depeche Mode had a huge hit with “People are People” in the US in 1985, they were kind of under the radar until they hit big again with this album full of hits. Violator will always remind me of high school dances even if the music isn’t necessarily the most danceable

. Bonus Sounds: Speaking of dancing, Depeche Mode’s 1987 single “Strangelove” seemed to be the unofficial anthem of The Cafe, a dance club for teenagers I frequented in my youth. I learned much later in life that the DJ was Moby.

227

Artist: Living Colour
Title: Vivid
Year: 1989
Favorite Tracks:

Cult of Personality
Desperate People
Open Letter (To a Landlord)
Memories Can’t Wait
Broken Hearts
Which Way to America?

The First Time I Heard This Album …: I acquired this when I was a high school student in 1988 and played it death for the next few years.

Thoughts: Living Colour was one of the first hard rock bands I ever enjoyed. And their debut album came out at a time when I had stopped listening to anything contemporary under the belief that the only good music was Classic Rock. So this album opened my mind to new artists. It helped that the Rolling Stone invited Living Colour to open for their 1989 tour. The social commentary of the lyrics also appealed to my growing consciousness as a teen.

Bonus Sounds: Living Colour remained of my favorite bands from around 1988 to 1994. I got all of their subsequent albums – Time’s Up, Stain, and the EP Biscuits – immediately upon their release. Stain was a particularly ear-opening experience as the band adopted a more thrash metal sound. One of my favorite songs by Living Colour is their cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution.”

226

Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Title: Born in the U.S.A.
Year: 1984
Favorite Tracks:

Born in the U.S.A
No Surrender
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark
My Hometown

The First Time I Heard This Album …: I think my mother got this one from Columbia House in 1984.

Thoughts: I had an internal debate over what Bruce Springsteen album to include on this list, if any. I’ve never been a huge fan of Springsteen, but I like a lot of his songs from across his career. Plus I admire the way he reflects the struggles and joys of working people in his songwriting, and he and I were actually born in the same town! I ultimately decided to go with Born in the U.S.A. because when I was 10 years old, this was my introduction to The Boss and it has a lot of great songs.

Bonus Sounds: There probably isn’t a bad Springsteen album out there, so instead I’m just going to list my 10 favorite songs that are not on Born in the U.S.A.

225

Artist: Boston Women To Benefit Respond, Inc
Title: Respond: A Compilation
Year: 1999
Favorite Tracks:

Melissa Ferrick – “Everything I Need (Acoustic Version)”
Jenny Reynolds – “Whisper”
Kris Delmhorst – ‘Weatherman”
Mary Gauthier – “A Different Kind of Gone”
Jess Klein – “Romeo”
Mary Lou Lord – “Two Boats” (I once had the delight of seeing Mary Lou Lord busking this song at the Park Street MBTA station)
Deb Pasternak – “One Regret”
Catie Curtis – “Do Unto Others”
Charan Devereaux – “Come Around”
Lori McKenna – “Fireflies”
Alexis Shepard – “Purple Ray Gun”

The First Time I Heard This Album …: I picked up this double CD at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 1999. I even got it autographed by Jess Klein, Laurie Geltman, Charan Devereaux, and Linda Sharar.

Thoughts: Respond, Inc. is a pioneering domestic violence prevention agency for the Greater Boston area. This benefit album includes songs from 27 women singer/songwriters of the Boston folk scene. Not only did it support a good cause but was an introduction to a lot of talented local musicians.

Bonus Sounds: The album was produced by Charan Devereaux who also contributed a song to the collection. She’s still active in community based projects in Somerville, MA to this day.

224

Artist: John Prine
Title: John Prine
Year: 1971
Favorite Tracks:

Hello in There
Sam Stone
Paradise
Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore
Angel from Montgomery

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Another personal discovery from the Rolling Stone 500 project.

Thoughts: John Prine brought a country twang to his folk tunes about everyday people and their milieu. His music is right up my alley and yet somehow I was not made aware of it until after he died.

Bonus Sounds: Prine was one of the early victims of COVID-19 and NPR’s All Songs Considered ran a great piece: “John Prine’s Life in 10 Songs.”

223

Artist: Lou Reed
Title: Transformer
Year: 1972
Favorite Tracks:

Vicious
Perfect Day
Walk on the Wild Side
Satellite of Love
Goodnight Ladies

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Last year, for the Rolling Stone 500 project.

Thoughts: Lou Reed’s sophomore solo album establishes him as the street-level documentarian of gritty 1970s New York.

Bonus Sounds: The first Lou Reed album I ever had came out when I was in high school and was appropriately called New York. Reed updated his observations on the city in the Reagan/Koch era on songs like “Dirty Blvd.”

222

Artist: Van Morrison
Title: Moondance
Year: 1970
Favorite Tracks:

And It Stoned Me
Moondance
Crazy Love
Into the Mystic
Brand New Day
Glad Tidings

The First Time I Heard This Album …: I first heard the title song in the soundtrack of the movie An American Werewolf in London, but I got the album during my Classic Rock phase in high school

Thoughts: I learned from the book Astral Weeks that Van Morrison is a cantankerous asshole. In recent years he’s even revealed himself as a political reactionary with his angry tirades against government action to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But somehow, this perpetually angry and self-centered individual expresses himself in some of the most poetic pop music ever created. Moondance contains a lot of terrific songs and remains my favorite Van Morrison album

Bonus Sounds: Van Morrison is not a good person, but he did create a lot of beautiful songs. Astral Weeks is generally considered his greatest work, although I’ve always preferred Moondance. Another album I enjoyed was Irish Heartbeat, Morrison’s take on traditional Irish tune with the Chieftains. And a song I’ve always loved is “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m in Heaven When You Smile).”

221

Artist: Fine Young Cannibals
Title: The Raw and the Cooked
Year: 1989
Favorite Tracks:

She Drives Me Crazy
Good Thing
Don’t Look Back
It’s OK (It’s Alright)
As Hard as It Is

The First Time I Heard This Album …: Around the time it came out when I was a teenager.

Thoughts: The Fine Young Cannibals, a trio from the UK, hit number on the album chart with their second album and had two songs go to Number One on the Hot 100. They sounded like no one else at the time, and despite their popularity they didn’t inspire any significant sound alikes. And then they pretty much disappeared. But, dang, what a document to leave behind to show that you made your mark!

Bonus Sounds: FYC recorded an excellent take on “Suspicious Minds” for their 1985 debut album.

Music Discoveries: Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 130-121

2021-10-012021-09-23 ~ Liam ~ Leave a comment

In September 2020, Rolling Stone magazine released their most recent list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which includes a greater variety of artists and genres than previous lists. Looking through the list, there were many albums I’d never listened to before and a few I’d never even heard of. In fact, counting it up, I found that I’d only listened to 140 of the albums, although I’d heard songs from many more. So I’ve decided my project for 2021 is to listen to 10 albums each week and write up some thoughts about each one.

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Artist: Prince
Album: 1999
Year: 1982
Label: Warner Bros.
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?:Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“1999”
“Little Red Corvette”
“Delirious”
“D.M.S.R.”
“Lady Cab Driver”

Thoughts: We’re clearly getting into brilliant album territory here. Prince and the Revolution exploded onto the scene with this album in 1982. I still remember hearing Prince’s “Little Red Corvette” for the first time on Casey Kasem’s “America’s Top 40.” Prince was probably too raunchy for me, and while three singles got a lot of airplay the rest of this album was and probably is to sexy for radio. It remains an amazing collection by an artist at the top of his game.

Artist: Pink Floyd
Album: The Wall
Year: 1979
Label: Columbia
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: No
Favorite Tracks:

“Another Brick in the Wall, Part II”
“Comfortably Numb”

Thoughts: I flinched when I saw that this album contains 26 tracks, meaning approximately 96 hours of prog rock. Do I really need to listen to every minute of every album on this list? But, in the end, I did. It’s always fun to sing along with a chorus of disaffected English school children on “Another Brick in the Wall, Part II,” one of the strangest songs ever to reach Number One in the US. Actually, a lot of this album sounds familiar. Klassik Rawk radio sure loves Pink Floyd, so I heard a lot of these tracks as background music at some point in my life.

Artist: Queen
Album: A Night at the Opera
Year: 1975
Label: Elektra
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Maybe?
Favorite Tracks:

“You’re My Best Friend”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”

Thoughts: We’ve apparently reached the over-top-dramatic prog rock of the 1970s portion of the list. I’ve never been too keen on Queen although I’ve softened over time. And I’ve got to give the band credit for liking Marx Brothers movies. I’ve got to admit that there’s quite a bit of eclecticism that I never was previously aware of from Queen, including music musical all (“Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon” and “Seaside Rendezvous”), proto-yacht rock (“You’re My Best Friend”), folk rock (“’39”), and Dixieland jazz (“Good Company”). Plus, whatever “Bohemian Rhapsody” is. I guess this whole project is softening my long-held musical opinions!

Artist: Ray Charles
Album: Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Year: 1962
Label: ABC-Paramount
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?:
Favorite Tracks:

“You Don’t Know Me”
“Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way)”
“Careless Love”
“I Can’t Stop Loving You”
“Hey, Good Lookin'”

Thoughts: There have always been Black artists in Country & Western music, and later soul and hip hop artists like Lionel Richie and Lil Nas X have made Country their own. But it was still a bold proclamation by Ray Charles in the midst of the Civil Rights Era to declare he was making the “modern sound” of country and western music. Charles takes a number of Nashville tunes and with a big band orchestra and lush strings, makes them soulful and swing!

Artist: Mary J. Blige
Album: My Life
Year: 1994
Label: Uptown
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: No
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: No
Favorite Tracks:

“You Bring Me Joy”
“I’m Going Down”

Thoughts: This is a quality R&B album with thoughtful, introspective lyrics. I feel bad that I appreciate it more than I love it.

Artist: Beastie Boys
Album: Paul’s Boutique
Year: 1989
Label: Capitol
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Shake Your Rump”
“The Sounds of Science”
“What Comes Around”
“Shadrach”

Thoughts: I’ve gravely underappreciated the Beastie Boys over time. After their bratty debut album, I had no interest in hearing Paul’s Boutique. It’s too bad because I’ve always liked the art of sampling when sound collages are created and the original source is barely recognizable if at all. I loved De La Soul’s masterpiece 3 Feet High and Rising (also released in 1989) and would go on to love the work of The Avalanches, The Go! Team and similar artists. Now, I know that Paul’s Boutique is another classic of sampling.

Artist: U2
Album: Achtung Baby
Year: 1991
Label: Island
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

Not a bad song on this album.

Thoughts: Over the 70s & 80s there was a parallels stream of popular music known as punk, new wave, post-punk, synthpop, college rock, modern rock, alternative rock, and various other appellations. U2 was certainly part of this stream before hitting it big with The Joshua Tree in 1987. Then 1991 came, “the year that punk broke.” R.E.M. kicked the year off with Out of Time becoming a big success, albeit with the band adopting a more commercial radio sound. Then Nirvana’s Nevermind blew up while being unapologetically “grunge.” Before the year was out, U2 released Achtung Baby, which would have probably been a hit regardless, but it sounded nothing like anything U2 had released before. The band entirely reinvented their image and sound incorporating industrial and electronic music influences. I was middle-of-the-road on U2 prior to 1991, but I loved Achtung Baby and it continues to hold up as the band’s best album.

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Album: Led Zeppelin II
Year: 1969
Label: Atlantic
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Whole Lotta Love”
“Heartbreaker”
“Ramble On”
“Moby Dick”

Thoughts: Early Led Zeppelin was deeply invested in the traditions of American guitar-based Blues artists before the band began to evolve to incorporate folk music, mysticism, and art rock in their later incarnations. Appropriately this album includes three covers of songs by Chicago Blues songs by Willie Dixon and Howlin’ Wolf. The songs serve as a showcase of the band member’s skills on guitars, drums, and screeching vocals.

Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Album: The Downward Spiral
Year: 1994
Label: Nothing/Interscope
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“March of the Pigs”
“Closer”
“Hurt”

Thoughts: A friend and I once wrote a poem that began with the line “I want to fuck you like a plant.” It was pretty funny.

This video, however, is quite disturbing.

Artist: Elvis Costello
Album: This Year’s Model
Year: 1978
Label: Columbia
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Pump It Up”
“(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea”
“Radio, Radio”

Thoughts: There are some good tracks on this one but I like My Aim is True more as an album. “(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea” is a total banger, though.

Running List of Albums I’d Listen to Again

500. Arcade Fire, Funeral
498. Suicide, Suicide
497. Various Artists, The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
494. The Ronettes, Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
489. A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector from Phil Spector and Various Artists, Back to Mono (1958-1969)
487. Black Flag, Damaged
485. Richard and Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
483. Muddy Waters, The Anthology
482. The Pharcyde, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
481. Belle and Sebastian, If You’re Feeling Sinister
478. The Kinks, Something Else by the Kinks
477. Howlin’ Wolf, Moanin’ in the Moonlight
469.Manu Chao, Clandestino
465. King Sunny Adé, The Best of the Classic Years
464. The Isley Brothers, 3 + 3
462. The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Gilded Palace of Sin
459. Kid Cudi, Man on the Moon: The End of the Day
457. Sinéad O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
456. Al Green, Greatest Hits
455. Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley/Go Bo Diddley
453. Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine
452. Diana Ross and the Supremes, Anthology
451. Roberta Flack, First Take
448. Otis Redding, Dictionary of Soul
446. Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidanada
444. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
443. David Bowie, Scary Monsters
440. Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner’s Daughter
439. James Brown, Sex Machine
438. Blur, Parklife
437. Primal Scream, Screamadelica
435. Pet Shop Boys, Actually
433. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
431. Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?
430. Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
429. The Four Tops, Reach Out
428. Hüsker Dü, New Day Rising
427. Al Green, Call Me
426. Lucinda Williams, Lucinda Williams
425. Paul Simon, Paul Simon
424. Beck, Odelay
423. Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
422. Marvin Gaye, Let’s Get It On
421. M.I.A., Arular
417. Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come
416. The Roots, Things Fall Apart
415. The Meters, Looka Py Py
414. Chic, Risqué
413. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo’s Factory
412. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Going to a Go Go
409. Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead
408. Motörhead, Ace of Spades
406. Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs
405. Various, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era
403. Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele
402. Fela Kuti and Africa 70, Expensive Shit
401. Blondie, Blondie
400. The Go-Go’s, Beauty and the Beat
398. The Raincoats, The Raincoats
397. Billie Eilish, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
395. D’Angelo and the Vanguard, Black Messiah
392. Ike and Tina Turner, Proud Mary: The Best of Ike and Tina Turner
390. Pixies, Surfer Rosa
388. Aretha Franklin, Young, Gifted and Black
387. Radiohead, In Rainbows
386. J Dilla, Donuts
385. Ramones, Rocket to Russia
384. The Kinks, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
380. Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um
378. Run-DMC, Run-D.M.C.
377. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell
375. Green Day, Dookie
374. Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers
373. Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul
371. The Temptations, Anthology
369. Mobb Deep, The Infamous
368. George Harrison, All Things Must Pass
365. Madvillain, Madvillainy
364. Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food
363. Parliament, The Mothership Connection
360. Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove
358. Sonic Youth, Goo
357. Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
356. Dr. John, Gris-Gris
354. X-Ray Spex, Germfree Adolescents
351. Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure
350. Stevie Wonder, Music of My Mind
349. MC5, Kick Out the Jams
348. Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator)
347. GZA, Liquid Swords
346. Arctic Monkeys, AM
345. Bruce Springsteen, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
344. Toots and the Maytals, Funky Kingston
343. Sly and the Family Stone, Greatest Hits
342. The Beatles, Let It Be
341. The Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
338. Brian Eno, Another Green World
337. Bob Dylan, John Wesley Harding
335. Bob Dylan and the Band, The Basement Tapes
334. Santana, Abraxas
333. Bill Withers, Still Bill
332. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley
330. The Rolling Stones, Aftermath
329. DJ Shadow, Endtroducing…
328. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
326. Prince, Dirty Mind
323.The Clash, Sandinista!
320. X, Los Angeles
319. The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses
317. Billie Holiday, Lady in Satin
316. The Who, The Who Sell Out
310. Wire, Pink Flag
309. Joy Division, Closer
308. Brian Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets
307. Sam Cooke, Portrait of a Legend
306. Al Green, I’m Still In Love With You
304. Bill Withers, Just As I Am
301. New York Dolls, New York Dolls
299. B.B. King, Live at the Regal
297. Peter Gabriel, So
294. Weezer, Weezer
293. The Breeders, Last Splash
292. Van Halen, Van Halen
289. Björk, Post
288. The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers
287. The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man
283. Donna Summer, Bad Girls
282. Frank Sinatra, In the Wee Small Hours
279. Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York
278. Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy
276. Radiohead, The Bends
275. Curtis Mayfield, Curtis
274. The Byrds, Sweetheart of the Rodeo
273. Gang of Four, Entertainment!
272. The Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat
267. Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
266. The Beatles, Help!
263. The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night
262. New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies
261. Beastie Boys, Check Your Head
260. The Slits, Cut
259. Janis Joplin, Pearl
257. Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors
256. Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman
254. Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters
252. Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
250. Buzzcocks, Singles Going Steady
246. LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out
245. Cocteau Twins, Heaven of Las Vegas
242. The Velvet Underground, Loaded
240. Sam Cooke, Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
239. Boogie Down Productions, Criminal Minded
238. Kraftwerk, Trans Europe Express
237. Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger
236. Daft Punk, Discovery
232. John Coltrane, Giant Steps
229. Patsy Cline, The Ultimate Collection
228. De La Soul, De La Soul Is Dead
227. Little Richard, Here’s Little Richard
226. Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
223. John Lennon, Imagine
221. Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine
220. Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Déjà Vu
215. Grateful Dead, American Beauty
213. Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel…
212. Nina Simone, Wild is the Wind
211. Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
210. Ray Charles, The Birth of Soul
209. Run-DMC, Raising Hell
206. David Bowie, Low
205. Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman
202. Björk, Homogenic
201. A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders
198. The B-52’s, The B-52’s
197. The Beatles, Meet the Beatles!
195. Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen
193. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Willy and the Poor Boys
192. Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
191. Etta James, At Last!
190. The Who, Tommy
189. Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out
185. The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
184. Cyndi Lauper, She’s So Unusual
181. Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home
178. Otis Redding, Otis Blue
177. Rod Stewart, Every Picture Tells a Story
176. Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
175. Kendrick Lamar, DAMN.
174. Jimmy Cliff and Various Artists, The Harder They Come: Original Soundtrack
173. Nirvana, In Utero
172. Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water
171. Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
170. Cream, Disraeli Gears
169. Billy Joel, The Stranger
167. Depeche Mode, Violator
166. Buddy Holly, 20 Golden Greats
165. R.E.M., Murmur
164. Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison
162. Pulp, Different Class
161. Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills, & Nash
156. The Replacements, Let it Be
155. Jay-Z, The Black Album
154. Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace
153. PJ Harvey, Rid of Me
150. Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
149. John Prine, John Prine
148. Frank Ocean, Channel Orange
146. Blondie, Parallel Lines
144. Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti
143. The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground
142. Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.
141. Pixies, Doolittle
140. Bob Marley and the Wailers, Catch a Fire
139. Black Sabbath, Paranoid‘
138. Madonna, The Immaculate Collection
137. Adele, 21
136. Funkadelic, Maggot Brain
135. U2, The Joshua Tree
134. Fugees, ‘he Score
132. Hank Williams, 40 Greatest Hits
131. Portishead, Dummy
130. Prince, 1999
127. Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
125. Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique
124. U2, Achtung Baby
123. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II
122. Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral
121. Elvis Costello, This Year’s Model

Music Discoveries: Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 430-421

2021-03-052021-02-27 ~ Liam ~ Leave a comment

Last September, Rolling Stone magazine released their most recent list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which includes a greater variety of artists and genres than previous lists. Looking through the list, there were many albums I’d never listened to before and a few I’d never even heard of. In fact, counting it up, I found that I’d only listened to 140 of the albums, although I’d heard songs from many more. So I’ve decided my project for 2021 is to listen to 10 albums each week and write up some thoughts about each one.

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Get ready for a great week as I love all ten albums!!!

Artist: Elvis Costello
Album: My Aim Is True
Year: 1977
Label: Columbia
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Alison”
“(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes”
“Less Than Zero”
“Mystery Dance”
“Watching the Detectives”

Thoughts: It’s a sign of a good album if several tracks are in regular rotation on the radio decades later. Although in the case of Elvis Costello, I feel that he has a lot of good work from other albums that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Thus the popular perception of Costello is frozen in his debut album as a pub rocker with hints of the coming New Wave. Still, it’s good to have your first work be so fully realized that it’s still relevant well into the next century.

Artist: The Four Tops
Album: Reach Out
Year: 1967
Label: Tamla/Motown
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Reach Out, I’ll Be There”
“Standing in the Shadows of Love”
“Bernadette”
“What Else is There to Do (But Think About You)”

Thoughts: Based on patterns in the RS 500, I would’ve suspected that The Four Tops would’ve have got a compilation album on this list. I guess since this album spawned 6 songs in the Billboard Top 20 that Rolling Stone can consider it a Greatest Hits album. The album contains three of the Tops’ greatest tunes in “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,” “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” and “Bernadette” (all by the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team). Much of the rest of the album is made up of cover songs of contemporary pop tunes, including two made famous by The Monkees. While I’d prefer more songs written for the Tops, I understand why they felt the need to do cover songs, and really admire their work as song interpreters.

Artist: Hüsker Dü
Album: New Day Rising
Year: 1985
Label: SST
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“New Day Rising”
“The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill”
“Celebrated Summer”
“Books About UFOs”
“I Don’t Know What You’re Talking About”

Thoughts: I’m afraid that most of my knowledge of Hüsker Dü is that they are the other 80s punk rock band from Minneapolis and the band where Bob Mould got his start. It’s another case of something I should have paid better attention to a long time ago. This album just plain rocks and sounds perfect on first listen.

Artist: Al Green
Album: Call Me
Year: 1973
Label: Hi
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Call Me (Come Back Home”
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
“Here I Am (Come and Take Me)”
“Funny How Time Slips Away”
“You Ought to Be With Me”
“Jesus Is Waiting”

Thoughts: The second Al Green album on this list is Al Green at his peak with hot grooves and sultry vocals. I like that he could take country songs by Hank Williams and Willie Nelson and make them his own. And somehow he made the gospel song that finishes out the album sound sexy.

Artist: Lucinda Williams
Album: Lucinda Williams
Year: 1988
Label: Rough Trade
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: No
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Big Red Sun Blues”
“Like A Rose”
“Passionate Kisses”
“Side of the Road”

Thoughts: Lucinda Williams is a name I’ve heard but I hadn’t before paid attention to her music. She has a big, beautiful, and expressive voice that works well with the blend of country, folk, and blues music presented here. I also discovered that Mary Chapin Carpenter’s big 90s hit “Passionate Kisses” was a cover, because the original is here on Williams’ album and it’s excellent. Lucinda Williams is another great revelation for me in this RS 500 experiment.

Artist: Paul Simon
Album: Paul Simon
Year: 1972
Label: Columbia
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Mother and Child Reunion”
“Run That Body Down”
“Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard”
“Paranoia Blues”

Thoughts: I’ve long listened to the music of Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel, although less so in recent years (partially because I’ve learned how much of a jerk is in real life). Nevertheless, I can’t deny that this is a collection of well-crafted songs. The music is stylistically different from the most recent Simon & Garfunkel album, and contains hints of the “world music” fusion style that would become Simon’s bread & butter in the 80s & 90s.

Artist: Beck
Album: Odelay
Year: 1996
Label: Geffen
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Devil’s Haircut”
“Hotwax”
“The New Pollution”
“Novacane”
“Jack-Ass”
“Where It’s At”
“Minus”
“High 5 (Rock the Catskills)”

Thoughts: Not only did I wear out my cassette of this album back in the day, but it ranked #78 on my own list of Favorite Albums of All Time when I ranked them back in 2009. This album was a statement from Beck that he was not going to be the guy who had a quirky hit with “Loser.” Instead there were a few years there in the late 90s and early 2000s when Beck’s unique fusion of folk rock and electronica (among other genres) was some of the most creative music around. I’m surprised that Odelay is the only Beck album on the RS 500 as I would argue for inclusion of Mutations and Guero, and possibly others from his catalog.

Artist: Yo La Tengo
Album: I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Year: 1997
Label: Matador
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Moby Octopad”
“Sugarcube”
“Shadows”
“Stockholm Syndrome”
“Autumn Sweater”
“Center of Gravity”
“My Little Corner of the World”

Thoughts: Once again, we have an album that I included on my Favorite Albums of All-Time list. I ranked I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One at #17, the highest of 4 Yo La Tengo albums in my top 200. Obviously I like Yo La Tengo, who I think were one of the best bands of the 1990s. And I wasn’t even a record store clerk.

Artist: Marvin Gaye
Album: Let’s Get It On
Year: 1973
Label: Tamla/Motown
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: Yes
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?: Yes
Favorite Tracks:

“Let’s Get it On”
“Come Get to This”
“You Sure Love to Ball”
“Just to Keep You Satisfied”

Thoughts: Marvin Gaye puts the most courteous and persuasive request for sexual intercourse to music. The album explores the spiritual and healing powers of sexuality with the same consciousness of Gaye’s social justice songs on What’s Going On? The only flaw with this album is that it’s way too short.

Artist: M.I.A.
Album: Arular
Year: 2005
Label: Interscope
Have I Listened to This Album Before?: No
Am I Familiar With This Artist/Songs from This Album?: Yes
Would I Listen to this Album Again?:
Favorite Tracks:

“Pull Up the People”
“Bucky Done Gun”
“U.R.A.Q.T”
“Galang”

Thoughts: My knowledge of M.I.A. is basically the excellent hit song “Paper Planes,” but I really enjoyed listening to Arular. This is M.I.A.’s debut album (why does the RS 500 seem to value debut albums so much?) and shows her talent rapping over largely minimal drum beats on a drum machine. It reminds of a mix of the simple hip hop of the early 80s with the consciousness of the likes of Public Enemy and De La Soul.

Running List of Albums I’d Listen to Again

500. Arcade Fire, Funeral
498. Suicide, Suicide
497. Various Artists, The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
494. The Ronettes, Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
489. A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector from Phil Spector and Various Artists, Back to Mono (1958-1969)
487. Black Flag, Damaged
485, Richard and Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
483, Muddy Waters, The Anthology
482, The Pharcyde, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
481, Belle and Sebastian, If You’re Feeling Sinister
478, The Kinks, Something Else by the Kinks
477, Howlin’ Wolf, Moanin’ in the Moonlight
469, Manu Chao, Clandestino
465, King Sunny Adé, The Best of the Classic Years
464, The Isley Brothers, 3 + 3
462, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Gilded Palace of Sin
459, Kid Cudi, Man on the Moon: The End of the Day
457, Sinéad O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
456, Al Green, Greatest Hits
455, Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley/Go Bo Diddley
453, Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine
452, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Anthology
451, Roberta Flack, First Take
448, Otis Redding, Dictionary of Soul
446, Alice Coltrane, Journey in Satchidanada
444, Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
443, David Bowie, Scary Monsters
440, Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner’s Daughter
439, James Brown, Sex Machine
438, Blur, Parklife
437, Primal Scream, Screamadelica
435, Pet Shop Boys, Actually
433, LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
431, Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?
430, Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
429, The Four Tops, Reach Out
428, Hüsker Dü, New Day Rising
427, Al Green, Call Me
426, Lucinda Williams, Lucinda Williams
425, Paul Simon, Paul Simon
424, Beck, Odelay
423, Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
422, Marvin Gaye, Let’s Get It On
421, M.I.A., Arular

A Song and a Story: “Oliver’s Army” #AtoZChallenge

2019-04-172019-04-17 ~ Liam ~ Leave a comment

Would you like to buy an “O?” Our “O” today is a cover of an Elvis Costello song by Peter Mulvey:

Oliver’s Army

One of the things I enjoyed most about Boston when I first moved here 20 years was the lively folk music scene. Before my children were born, I spent many nights a week at concerts, festivals, or volunteering at Club Passim in Cambridge. But in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, it wasn’t necessary to go to a club to hear great music. Buskers would attract crowds on the sidewalks and MBTA platforms. Sometimes you’d even see some fairly well-known artists playing a T station as they found it a good place to practice new songs and get audience feedback.

One of these artists is Peter Mulvey, who has a strong following in the indie folk scene. While based in Milwaukee, Mulvey got his start busking on the T in the 1990s. In 2002, Susan & I spotted him playing “Oliver’s Army” on the platform in Davis Square. When he finished playing, he told us he was actually recording an album! I’d never seen someone recording an album before, but Mulvey did indeed release his collection of cover songs – complete with the screeching steel wheels of the subway – Ten Thousand Mornings, later that year. We also saw him perform at Club Passim, and when Susan lost her purse, he was the one to find it, but that’s a different story.

2019 Blogging A to Z Challenge – A Song and a Story

A: Always on My Mind
B: Baby Come Back and Baker Street
C: Cheek to Cheek
D: Don’t Worry, Be Happy and Doctor Jones
E: Everyday Sunshine
F: Fly Me to the Moon
G: Ghost Town
H: Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe
I: If I Were John Carpenter
J: Jungle Strut and Justified & Ancient
K: Kiss
L: Loaded
M: Marble Halls and My Moon, My Man
N: New York, New York

If you want to read more, check out my previous Blogging A to Z Challenges:

2016: A journey through my neighborhood of Jamaica Plain in Boston.
2017: A spontaneous photograph each day.
2018: Watched and reviewed documentary movies.

And dig deep into Panorama of the Mountains, by checking out my:

Book Reviews
Movie Reviews
Beer Reviews
Music Reviews and Writing
City Stories, expository writing about my experiences in various cities

And, if you like Doctor Who, I have a whole ‘nother blog where I review Doctor Who stories across media: Epic Mandates.

Book Review: Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello

2016-01-072016-01-08 ~ Liam ~ Leave a comment

Author: Elvis Costello
Title: Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Narrator: Elvis Costello
Publication Info: Penguin Audio (2015)
Summary/Review:

The memoir of Declan MacManus, better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is more of a collection of thematic essays than a birth to present memoir. Like the lyrics of his song, Costello’s way with words is evident. His father Ross MacManus, a band leader and musician of some note in his own right, is central to the narrative and an influence on Costello’s life and music, if not readily apparent from his punk/new wave days, but more evident in his latter days as pop/jazz/fusion collaborator. Speaking of collaboration, Costello name drops an awful lot of musicians and songwriters, although he comes by it honestly having worked with so many of them. Thankfully his stories tend towards the creative process rather than idle gossip. I can’t help but feel that Costello comes of as something of jerk which is an unexpected outcome for a self-penned biography. I don’t know if I should admire his self-awareness or just dislike that he’s such a jerk. At any rate there are some interesting aspects of this book if you’re interested in musicians or a fan of Costello, but it’s a bit too long and pompous to recommend to a general audience.

Recommended books: Life by Keith Richards, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You? by George Clinton, and My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte.
Rating: **

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