I’d post the album cover but it’s my homemade Guess Who greatest hits album. I was not pleased with the GH albums that were out there so I made my own. The Guess Who always seem a little underrated to me and have far more big-time songs than folks realize. Plus they were fantastic when I saw them live.
Plus Burton Cummings may be one of the singers who I think sounds better now than he did back in the day…just seems like a smoother voice these days. One of my favorite moments when I saw them live was when Bachman was tearing up a solo during American Woman and near the end and he busted a string…but he kept playing with the broken string and was making all sorts of crazy effects and sounds as the band just kept the rhythm before finally ending on this high note before stopping and going to get a new guitar to finish the song. Just an awesome moment.
It’s fun doing your own GH since you get to chose track listing and you get to consider the pacing the song and which songs you want in which parts. It’s very fun. I didn’t try to go chronological…just what I liked. My GH:
- Shakin All Over
- Albert Flasher
- Bus Rider
- Undone
- Guns, Guns, Guns
- Laughing
- American Woman
- Hang On To Your Life
- These Eyes
- Star Baby
- Rain Dance
- Hand Me Down World
- Sour Suite
- Running Back to Saskatoon
- No Time
- Glamour Boy (maybe my favorite unknown Guess Who tune)
- Follow Your Daughter Home
- Heartbroken Bopper
- No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
- Clap For the Wolfman
- Share The Land
and
Great, great blues.
For some reason I’m currently into music made by black men. Their legacies are so tied together so it’s understandable that listening to one makes you crave more. (although I’m not including the Bernie Williams music in this. That was more a curiosity because he was a Yankee)
I am not sure if you have heard of mississippi john hurt if you have a chance to grab this ablum I wouldn’t think twice
love mississippi. im a huge blues fan, including muddy waters, howlin wolf, taj mahal, robert johnson, and of course elmore james. 
^Not the same era but I’ve been digging some George Benson. Dude’s got soul.
Speaking of soul, holy crap this album is amazing. There’s so much more to Aretha than Respect and other well known songs. This blues album is something else. Only 5.99 for 14 songs on iTunes. Check it out, trust me.
Strauss is the best. Trey must love Strauss.
Thanks to Trey, I listened to some of The National. Loved it. Very different. May have to dig a little deeper.
MAMMA MIA! HERE I GO AGAIN! MY MY…HOW CAN I RESIST YOU!
(Man, what an album cover. Those gals have the voices of angels)
Still one of my favorites. The title track is golden. Who needs Roger!?
(Speaking of, I really have no interest in Roger solo or his music but I saw an ad for him doing The Wall live again in a tour that will be around jere in June. I know he can’t sing anymore and may be lip-synching some parts but…well…it’s the damn Wall. I still want to see it).
J-Tull goodness! A great album with every non-hit on the album being quite religious, mostly ripping on how organized religion doesn’t seem to get the Gods it worships. There’s a song called “My God” that is super sweet. Check it out!
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The Doors - Strange Days
The Doors are one of those bands where EVERY song on almost every album is legitimately enjoyable. Even with my favorite bands, there’s a few songs here or there that I feel like skipping but never with The Doors.
I LOVE Moody Blues studio albums. On almost every one, they’re big on seguing the songs from one to another. Even if it’s not a natural segue and it’s just one fading into another it gives the album that feeling of it being one big journey. More bands need to do this.
^The first MB album I ever purchased. Just happened to be in a record store when they were playing the just released new albums over their PA back in the late 60s. Heard it, loved it, became a MB fan thereafter.
Waters’ touring of The Wall is one of the greatest shows I have seen… ever.
Ya, Roger coming June 5th to Joe Louis. I’ll have to start banging the phones to some friends… It’s not like the rest of the band is touring anyway.
Kind of blows me away that Days of Future Past was just their second major album…I can’t imagine a band pulling off that kind of thing on just their second entry. I Love Threshold and Question of Balance too. Need to get Children’s Children’s Children.
Ever?
i could believe that.
EVER? Really?
If you haven’t seen it, you have no reason to question.
It helps to enjoy The Wall, obviously. But one of the best lights/video screens ever.
Tool, and Phish, are the closest.
Seeing Roger Waters on the Dark Side tour in 2006 in Holmdel for my second concert ever still ranks among my favorite concert experiences.
I am currently listening to my iPod on shuffle. Zappa is on now “Pick Me I’m Clean” from Buffalo 1980. I plan on listening to a lot of FZ tomorrow as it would be his 71st birthday.
Ya, I’ve seen both the Pink Floyd tour from the 70’s and Roger’s Berlin Wall tribute show and both seem like they’d be pretty sick to see live. (Though I hope Roger doesn’t stick in “The Tide is Turning” in place of “Outside the Wall” like he did with the Berlin show. Ick)