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MikeDeTiger

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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #42 on: March 24, 2025, 12:08:33 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on March 24, 2025, 11:01:46 AM
Just listened to a recent re-pressing of Steely Dan- Katie Lied.  This is a great album that sounds bad due to some poor sound engineering.  Over the decades they've done everything they can to correct it, but the flaws are in the master.

But anyway, it's definitely an all-the-way-through album for me.

The incomparable Jeff Porcaro on drums.*  Everything he touched was magic.  To hear him and a lot of others tell it, the way Becker and Fagan operated Steely Dan's recording sessions, they were perfectionists to the nth degree and they drove the takes in the ground with relentless redo's.  The engineers were also legends, and I wonder if any bad audio is the result of the splicing that took place on some of those songs when the musicians revolted and had it out with the duo.  There was no cut, edit, and paste in those days.  You either played the take perfectly, or you could literally mark tape, cut and splice it, if you were good enough and knew what you were doing.  Their sessions were some of the first to mangle the technology that way, that I know of.  




*Hal Blaine on 1 track, from the old Wrecking Crew.
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #43 on: March 24, 2025, 12:11:06 PM »
Speaking of Jeff Porcaro...


Toto IV 
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« Reply #44 on: March 24, 2025, 12:11:16 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 24, 2025, 12:03:38 PM
GnR just doesn't do it for me
More of a Soggy Bottom Boys type,huh?
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #45 on: March 24, 2025, 12:14:05 PM »
Back on Topic
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
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« Reply #46 on: March 24, 2025, 12:14:34 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on March 24, 2025, 12:11:16 PM
More of a Soggy Bottom Boys type,huh?


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« Reply #47 on: March 24, 2025, 12:23:05 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on March 24, 2025, 12:08:33 PM
The incomparable Jeff Porcaro on drums.*  Everything he touched was magic.  To hear him and a lot of others tell it, the way Becker and Fagan operated Steely Dan's recording sessions, they were perfectionists to the nth degree and they drove the takes in the ground with relentless redo's.  The engineers were also legends, and I wonder if any bad audio is the result of the splicing that took place on some of those songs when the musicians revolted and had it out with the duo.  There was no cut, edit, and paste in those days.  You either played the take perfectly, or you could literally mark tape, cut and splice it, if you were good enough and knew what you were doing.  Their sessions were some of the first to mangle the technology that way, that I know of. 




*Hal Blaine on 1 track, from the old Wrecking Crew.
There's a lot of discussion about it over the years and in the liner notes of the new repressing.  It was something about using the then-new DBX noise reduction system rather than the more established Dolby system, as I recall.  The overall recordings came off really dull and even fuzzy.  Allegedly the band refused to ever listen to the album again after it was cut.

Quote from: MikeDeTiger on March 24, 2025, 12:11:06 PM
Speaking of Jeff Porcaro...


Toto IV

Agree, definitely an all the way through album for me.
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« Reply #48 on: March 24, 2025, 12:53:03 PM »
Some R&B albums I like all the way through:
Anita Baker--Compositions
Brian McKnight--I Remember You
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« Reply #49 on: March 24, 2025, 12:54:35 PM »
A contemporary jazz album with a twinge of funk:  Joe Sample--Spellbound

I'm having more luck thinking about this by genre, rather than just pulling an artist/album off the top of my head.  
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« Reply #50 on: March 24, 2025, 12:56:08 PM »
Oh man, can't believe I haven't named Miles Davis - Kind of Blue.  Even over the past two decades when I'd almost completely stopped listening to albums, I'd still throw this one on a few times per year.

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« Reply #51 on: March 24, 2025, 12:56:34 PM »
A funk classic:

Tower of Power--Back to Oakland. 

Excellent from start to finish.  
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« Reply #52 on: March 24, 2025, 01:30:10 PM »
I can't think of a single album I consider all bangers or a true "just push play" album. So, considering the vinyl aspect of this discussion, I'm running this through the criteria of, "would I get up to move the needle for a song?" instead of "I'd definitely bump past a song on Spotify."

Band of Horses - Everything All The Time

Beatles - Abbey Road

Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Green Day - American Idiot

Guster - Lost and Gone Forever

Nada Surf - Lucky

The Shins - Oh Inverted World, Chutes Too Narrow

The Strokes - Room on Fire

Weezer - Blue Album

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« Reply #53 on: March 24, 2025, 03:55:11 PM »
I really thought Fleetwood Mac's Rumours would be on my list. I haven't listened to it all in a couple of decades but I remember liking it.

So a couple months ago I sat down and listened to it on vinyl at my buddy's place, and realized I couldn't even get past the first song, "I Don't Want To Know."

I love "Dreams" and "The Chain" but there are several songs on that record that I just didn't like.  Maybe nostalgia, maybe my tastes have changed, but I'm just fine with leaving that one on the shelf and jukeboxing a couple of my favorites every now and then.
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« Reply #54 on: March 24, 2025, 04:55:19 PM »
I think Rumours still holds up as one of the best albums of all time. "Oh Daddy" is weak and I considered excluding the album from my list because of it. I think "Songbird" and "Gold Dust Woman" are merely OK. "You Make Loving Fun" is a song I can recognize as quite good, but just not my style. For me, everything else is very good to great.
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #55 on: March 24, 2025, 05:05:57 PM »
Yeah, opinions and all that.  I already wanted to skip tracks after listening to track 1.

Like I said, I had remembered it as being quite good.  Upon review, it was decidedly not so.

But, it does have a couple of great tracks on it.
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