Non Jazz Albums (Or Songs, etc.) That Rocked Your World

[medjuck]

Wow that Little Richard Lp brings back memories. I never owned it, but a friend did and we played it over and over again. I did have the first two Elvis Lps and 2 out of 3 of the Eps culled from the first Fats Domino Lp.

And then I think I never bought anything but jazz until around 1967.

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Hampton Grease Band - Music to Eat (Columbia, 1971). Bruce Hampton - vocals; Harold Kelling, Glenn Phillips - guitars; Mike Holbrook - bass; Jerry Fields - drums. Some of you may follow jam bands such as Aquarium Rescue Unit, Code Talkers, etc.; this is the same Bruce Hampton who now styles himself as the Colonel. This is an incredible band in many respects. I never heard anybody plays guitar like Harold and Glenn since, and Holbrook's bass playing is basically an extensive album long solo that perfectly fits the music - none of this "walking the bass" business with this boyo. Three star cast iron plunger

[jeffcrom]

Hampton Grease Band - Music to Eat (Columbia, 1971). Bruce Hampton - vocals; Harold Kelling, Glenn Phillips - guitars; Mike Holbrook - bass; Jerry Fields - drums. Some of you may follow jam bands such as Aquarium Rescue Unit, Code Talkers, etc.; this is the same Bruce Hampton who now styles himself as the Colonel. This is an incredible band in many respects. I never heard anybody plays guitar like Harold and Glenn since, and Holbrook's bass playing is basically an extensive album long solo that perfectly fits the music - none of this "walking the bass" business with this boyo. Three star cast iron plunger

And (so the legend goes) by the time it was cut out, Music to Eat was supposedly the second-lowest selling album in Columbia history. That might just be one of Colonel Bruce's stories.

[Buddha the Magnificent]

jeffcrom, I have no particular reason to doubt the album sold poorly. It got very little promotion and hit the cut out racks almost instantaneously.

Didja ever see them back in the day? I probably saw them a half dozen times, and recall one truly spectacular show they did at Emory circa 1970-71. I also saw one of their last shows (minus Harold, plus Mike Greene on keyboards), when they opened for Mahasishnu Orchestra 1972-73. Music to Eat is available on YouTube, for those that are curious.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CA7A5610382FB461

I drove up to Atlanta to see that reunion show at Variety a few years back (2008) when Bob Elsey played in place of the departed Harold Kelling. Here's a clip from that show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzlpSzXDk-A

[jeffcrom]

No - I was a little young to see the Grease Band back in the day; I was around 11or 12. I've seen Bruce's bands at various times over the years. I remember one performance by The Late Bronze Age that was seemingly completely improvised. Chick Corea had played the club the previous night, and had apparently passed out flyers printed with his "Rules for Musicians." The band found one backstage. Throughout the evening, Ricky Keller, the bassist, read from the flyer while the band responded (in)appropriately. One of Chick's "rules" was "Do not beat or abuse your instrument." The two minutes following Ricky's reading of that one were truly epic.

[Sundog]

Blimey, it's easier to mention artists than specific albums.

Graham Parker - Mona Lisa's Sister

Agree, that's a very fine GP album.

[Ligeti]

Blimey, it's easier to mention artists than specific albums.

Graham Parker - Mona Lisa's Sister

Agree, that's a very fine GP album.

I am a little embarassed to say that it was my first real introduction to him. I was given a mix tape back when it was released, and that contained a few tracks from Squeezing Out Sparks. I went to the store and the new release was Mona Lisa's Sister, so I picked it up. it's worth noting that it got a reissue a few years ago. They played around with the mix, and added some extra bass response. I like the newer version, although the jangly bite of the original remains a favorite.

The song "Back in Time" is so good I can't begin to describe it, It raises the hairs on my neck every time I hear it. Marvellous!

[porcy62]

Talking Heads "77"

Bob Dylan "Blonde On Blonde"

Beethoven late strings quartets

The Clash "London Calling"

Nusrath Fateh Ali Khan "Must Must"

Tom Waits "Blue Valentine"

Frank Zappa "Hot Rats"

Neil Young "On the Beach"

Van Morrison "Astral Week"

Nick Drake "Pink Moon"

Tuxedomoon "Desire"

Jefferson Airplane "Crown Of Creation"

Deep Purple "Made In Japan"

Pink Floyd "Ummagumma"

I could go on indefinitely, but I think it's a fair collection, since I am still able to be amazed by new music.

edit: and, yes, all the late Beatles and Stones albums from Sgt Pepper's

Edited November 18, 2014 by porcy62

[catesta]

Beatles - Abbey Road

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

Thin Lizzy- Live and Dangerous

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Kiss - Alive and Alive II

Van Halen - Van Halen and Van Halen II

Rush - Exit Stage Left

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman

Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love and Shout at the Devil

Dokken - Tooth and Nail and Under Lock and Key

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East (controversy and all)

Metallica - Ride the Lightning and Kill Em All

Megadeth - Peace Sells..But Who's Buying? and Rust in Peace

Edited November 26, 2014 by catesta

[Chuck Nessa]

Wow that Little Richard Lp brings back memories. I never owned it, but a friend did and we played it over and over again. I did have the first two Elvis Lps and 2 out of 3 of the Eps culled from the first Fats Domino Lp.

And then I think I never bought anything but jazz until around 1967.

I only had the Little Richard stuff on eps. The background colors changed but the layout was the same. My early Elvis stuff was on singles and eps.

[Shawn]

Beatles - Abbey Road

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

Thin Lizzy- Live and Dangerous

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Kiss - Alive and Alive II

Van Halen - Van Halen and Van Halen II

Rush - Exit Stage Left

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman

Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love and Shout at the Devil

Dokken - Tooth and Nail and Under Lock and Key

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East (controversy and all)

Metallica - Ride the Lightning and Kill Em All

Megadeth - Peace Sells..But Who's Buying? and Rust in Peace

I owned most of those albums in the 1980s...and still own quite a few.

[Eric]

Parliament - Mothership Connection and Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome

Funkadelic - Let's Take It To The Stage

Prince - Dirty Mind

The Cars - The Cars

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model and Armed Forces

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

The Jam - Setting Sons

The Clash - London Calling

R.E.M. - Chronic Town, Murmur and Reckoning

Shoes - Present Tense

Talking Heads - Remain In Light and Fear Of Music

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Spoon - Gimme Fiction

Peter Tosh - Equal Rights

Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign

Son Seals - Chicago Fire

Van Halen - Van Halen

Boston - Boston

Aerosmith - Rocks

Edited November 27, 2014 by Eric

[Noj]

Some favorites...

Cymande - S/T

The JB's - JB's Monorail

Kool & The Gang - Wild & Peaceful

The Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau

Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!

Rodriguez - Cold Fact

Funkadelic - S/T

Parliament - Mothership Connection

Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch

Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man

James Brown - Black Caesar

24-Carat Black - Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth

William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You've Got

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections

Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse

LA Carnival - ...Would Like To Pose A Question

War - Platinum Jazz

[GA Russell]

Some favorites...

Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!

Noj, I got that Demon Fuzz album the summer of '71, the same time I got the first Osibisa album. I think you're the first person I've known who is familiar with it! (Probably MG knows it well too.)

[Noj]

It's an amazing album! That's so cool that you've had it since then GA, I've only had it a few years.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Some favorites...

Demon Fuzz - Afreaka!

Noj, I got that Demon Fuzz album the summer of '71, the same time I got the first Osibisa album. I think you're the first person I've known who is familiar with it! (Probably MG knows it well too.)

No - but I got the Osibisa LP when it came out in 71. Took my wife to a gig of theirs then, when we were courting. We danced in the aisles!

MG

[Balladeer]

Blimey, it's easier to mention artists than specific albums.

Graham Parker - Mona Lisa's Sister

Agree, that's a very fine GP album.

I am a little embarassed to say that it was my first real introduction to him. I was given a mix tape back when it was released, and that contained a few tracks from Squeezing Out Sparks. I went to the store and the new release was Mona Lisa's Sister, so I picked it up. it's worth noting that it got a reissue a few years ago. They played around with the mix, and added some extra bass response. I like the newer version, although the jangly bite of the original remains a favorite.

The song "Back in Time" is so good I can't begin to describe it, It raises the hairs on my neck every time I hear it. Marvellous!

His two earliest recordings "Howilng Wind" and "Heat Treatment" are splendid soul drenched RnB stuff with a nod to Punks anger.

IMO still the best music he ever recorded."Squeezin out sparks" is hard to disklike. From his later albums in the 1990s I´d choose "Struck by lightning"

[Thomas Jackson]

James Brown Live at The Apollo 1962

Marvin Gaye - I Want You

Earth Wind and Fire- Thats The Way of The Word

War- The World is a Ghetto

Donny Hathaway Live

Al Green - I'm Still in Love With U

Parliament- Mothership Connection

Isaac Hayes- Black Moses

The Isley Brothers- The Heat Is On

Bootsy Collins- Ahh... The Name is Bootsy Baby

Aja- Steely Dan

Jimi Hendrix- Band of Gypsys

Bobby Womack-The Best of Bobby Womack

Bob Marley and Wailers-Legend

Frankie Beverly and Maze-Live in New Orleans

Smokey Robinson-A Quiet Storm

Dr. Dre - The Chronic

[felser]

Bob Dylan - "Like a Rolling Stone"

Simon & Garfunkel - "Sounds of Silence"

Byrds - "Eight Miles High"

Byrds - "Renaissance Fair"

We Five - "You Let a Love Burn Out"

H.P. Lovecraft - "Wayfaring Stranger"

Quicksilver Messenger Service - "The Fool"

Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"

Jefferson Airplane - "Wooden Ships"

Santana - "Every Step of the Way"

Wishbone Ash - "Phoenix"

Labelle - "Phoenix (The Amazing Flight of a Lone Star)"

Gil Scott-Heron - "Peace Be With You Brother"

U2 - "I Will Follow"

Bangles - "Hazy Shade of Winter"

Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World"

[danasgoodstuff]

Clovers - One Mint Julep (written by that great imbiber, Rudy Tombs), and then everything else they did, at least for Atlantic

Joe Turner - Boss of the Blues

Joe Tex - CC Rider

Yardbirds - "Shapes of Things" & Five Live

Muddy Waters - a/k/a Mckinley Morganfield, I have this material in different packages now, but this is what first knocked me out

Howlin' Wolf - London Sessions, I won this by getting to the quarter finals in a College of Music Knowledge contest in high school

Chuck Berry - Golden Decade, yes I was very Chess-centric for awhile

Little Richard - 17 Grooviest

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads, this and some cowboy 78s I had as a child were my 1st C&W loves

Louvin Brothers - Sorrowful Songs of Life

Son House - Death Letter

Blind Lemon Johnson - Jack of Diamonds

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring

Otis Redding - White Chritmas, confirming my preference for interp over composing

these are among the things that knocked me out early on

[Clunky]

Formative sounds for me from an early age

Yellow Submarine --- The Beatles

Wheels Cha-Cha-------Joe Loss

Laughing Gnome-------David Bowie

In my early teens

This year's model----- Elvis Costello

Big hits ( and high tide)------Rolling Stone

Rubber Soul/ Revolver

Too much pressure -----Special AKA

Maple Leaf Rag-----Scott Joplin

Parallel Lines-----Blondie

Much later

Disraeli Gears----- The Cream

Rock Bottom-----Robert Wyatt

Midsummers night dream---- Abado/ Branagh (Sony)

Real Folk blues ----John Lee Hooker

Edited December 4, 2014 by Clunky

[Steve Reynolds]

First rock band I loved as a young guy was Creedence, then Traffic - then Genesis & King Crimson

Much later I discovered Captain Beefheart - then I found Mingus, Miles, Monk, Maneri, etc.

[Milestones]

That's a tough one. I came up as a rock lover, though I was very young (age 4) at the time of the British Invasion. I basically followed two paths: 1) Beatles and offshoots; 2) Dylan and rootsy Americana stuff. I also favored for some time the "art rock" groups, of which only Jethro Tull still stands high in my favor (pretty different, though, from Pink Floyd and Yes).

Some favorites:

• Sgt. Pepper--Beatles
• The "White" album--Beatles
• Who's Next--The Who
• Bringing it All Back Home--Dylan
• Basement Tapes--Dylan/Band
• Aqualung--Jethro Tull
• Into the Music--Van Morrison

Edited February 11, 2015 by Milestones

[Milestones]

I liked King Crimson too. I should add some of their stuff to my digital collection.

Also big on groups using some jazz elements--Traffic, BS&T, The Doors.

[page]

Oo, so many

Supertramp - Paris (album)
Simon and Garfunkel - multiple songs, f.e. Still crazy after all these years
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
Nick Cave and the bad seeds - Into my arms
Lou Reed - A perfect day
Tom Waits - Closing time (album)
John Hiatt - Have a little faith in me
U2 - One (not the edition with Mary J Blige), I still haven't found what I'm looking for, Stay.
Van Dik Hout - Laat het los, Meer dan een ander, (Dutch rock band) I was a groupie to this band, lol.
De Dijk - multiple songs, f.e. Was dat maar waar (Dutch band which plays a lot of blues and soul, recorded an album with Solomon Burke)
Herman van Veen - Liefde van later, Een vriend zien huilen kan ik niet (Dutch comedian, singer, my favourite national singer, his best are his renditions of Brel songs)
Arthur Rubinstein playing Chopin
Sting - Fragile
The Police - multiple songs
Phil Collins - In the air tonight
Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven
Liesbeth List - De Verzoening - Dutch singer (song is originally by Frank Boeijen, she sings a lot of chanson usually)
Stef Bos - Flemish singer songwriter, multiple songs f.e. Papa
Beth Hart - Leave the light on
Joe Bonamassa - can't recall a song right now
Jacques Brel - multiple songs

Edited February 12, 2015 by page