"Go To" Albums (Not A "Best" List)

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Not necessarily the best or even a "classic", but what are some albums you gravitate to naturally, for whatever reason.

Here's a partial list of mine that receive a lot of play:

Get The Knack - The Knack
Greatest Hits - Cheap Trick
Live At Budokan - Cheap Trick
Lone Justice - Lone Justice
Just What I Needed - The Cars (Anthology)
Tommy - The Who
Facedances - The Who
The Who By Numbers - The Who
Lucky Town - Bruce Springsteen
Goat's Head Soup - The Rolling Stones
It's Only Rock 'n Roll - The Rolling Stones
Black And Blue - The Rolling Stones
Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones
Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
Dizzy Up The Girl - Goo Goo Dolls
Bringing Down The Horse - The Wallflowers
Achtung, Baby - U2
Zooropa - U2
The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion - The Black Crowes
Paper - Rich Robinson
Amorica - The Black Crowes
The Lost Crowes - The Black Crowes
American Idiot - Green Day
Turn 21 - The Donnas
Spend The Night - The Donnas
Gold Medal - The Donnas
Farther Along - The Flying Burrito Bros.
GP/Grevious Angel - Gram Parsons
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo - The Byrds
Anthology - The Steve Miller Band
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Green - REM
Monster - REM
Long After Dark - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Whenever We Wanted - John Mellencamp
Human Wheels - John Mellencamp
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Back In Black - AC/DC

There's more, but I seem to gravitate to these in recent years.
 
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Aerosmith "Rocks"

Jack Logan "Bulk"

T-Model Ford 'Pee Wee Get My Gun"

Junior Kimbrough "Most Things Haven't Worked Out"

RL Burnside "Too Bad Jim

T-Rex ""The Slider"

Albert Collins "Live 92/93"
 
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Hmmm...

The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion - The Black Crowes
Live at Madison Square Garden - Elvis Presley
Green - R.E.M.
The Joshua Tree - U2
Blue Bell Knoll - The Cocteau Twins
Heaven or Las Vegas - The Cocteau Twins
Treasure - The Cocteau Twins
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Darklands - The Jesus & Mary Chain
Rocks - Aerosmith
Faith - The Cure
Disintegration - The Cure
Alive II - Kiss
Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven - Love & Rockets
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic - The Sundays
The Baja Sessions - Chris Isaak
Live Bootleg - Aerosmith
Live at the Fillmore - Derek & The Dominos
Pubic Fruit - Curve
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
Violator - Depeche Mode
Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order
Brotherhood - New Order
Technique - New Order
The Long Run - The Eagles
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses
Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
Blow My Fuse - Kix
Lust - Lords Of Acid
The Best Of - Dean Martin
Fumbling Towards Ecstacy - Sarah McLachlan
Definitely Maybe - Oasis

That's a good portion of 'em...
 
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Get Happy - Elvis Costello
Beautiful - Garbage
Cabretta - Mink DeVille
Electric Warrior - T Rex
Aladdin Sane - Bowie
Songs to Learn and Sing - Echo and the Bunnymen
Best of Generation X (early Billy Idol)
Best of Morrissey
Early Graham Parker
 
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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Bessie Smith - Box Set
Various - Copulatin' Blues
Various - Nuggets
Dave Alvin - Fourth of July
Bob Dylan - Outfidels (the entire Infidels sessions)
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
Stones - Exile
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Fairport Convention - Leige & Leif
Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Warren Zevon - Like a Fire in a Whorehouse on a Houseboat (one of my own remastered compilations)
NRBQ - Scraps/Workshop
R.L. Burnside - Too Bad Jim
Gene Clark & Carla Olson - So Rebellious a Lover
Long Ryders - Native Sons/10-5-60
 
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Howdy,

1.Chuck Berry's "Great 28"
2. Buck Owens greatest hits vol.2
3. The Rolling Stones (High Tide and Green Grass)
4. The Beatles Second Album
5. The Rolling Stones "Get Yer Ya-Ya's out"
6.Various old Blues compilations
7. Meet The Monkees (a guilty pleasure)

Eggman
 
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A few favorites:

AJA - Steely Dan
Stripped - Rolling Stones
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays - Jimmy Buffett
Two Lane Blacktop - Bill Hullett
Fillmore Concets - Allman Bros.
Blue Moon Swamp - John Fogerty
High Wire Live - Willy Porter
Unplugged - Eric Clapton

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dean said:
A few favorites:


Stripped - Rolling Stones
Fillmore Concets - Allman Bros.
Blue Moon Swamp - John Fogerty
Unplugged - Eric Clapton

Dean
Click to expand...

These are faves of mine, as well.
 
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Wow, you guys sure 'go-to' a lot of stuff. Here's my brief list:

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Continuum - John Mayer

and just recently the new Love cd, from the Beatles
 
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andy__woods said:
Wow, you guys sure 'go-to' a lot of stuff. Here's my brief list:

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Continuum - John Mayer

and just recently the new Love cd, from the Beatles
Click to expand...

"Love" is awesome, indeed. A new fave of mine, as well!
 
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The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
Hard Again - Muddy Waters
Buddy's Baddest - Buddy Guy
Seconds of Pleasure - Rockpile
Reverb Deluxe - The Derailers
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob
Revolver - The Beatles
Just Another Band From East LA - Los Lobos
The Essential SRV
 
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daugther - Incredible String Band
Gord's Gold - Gordon Lightfoot
The Time Has Come - Anne Briggs
Loaded - The Velvet Underground
Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention

And if I'm going on a road trip there'd better be a copy of either The Beach Boys' 'Endless Summer' or a Monkees 'Best Of' (the Rhino one with the 3d cover is my favorite).
 
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Grateful dead-Dick's Picks 18
Grateful dead-Without a net
Beatles-srgt pepper
Beatles-rubber soul
Rolling stones-let it bleed
Ben Harper-welcome to the cruel world
Neil young-harvest

When I was younger fav's
Sublime-sublime
beastie boys-license to ill
oasis-wtsmg
green day-dookie(what a great record)

Just off the top of my head
 
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Beautiful Midnight-Matthew Good Band
Achtung Baby-U2
Joshua Tree-U2
Zooropa-U2
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb-U2
This One's Gonna Hurt You-Marty Stuart
Essential Steve Earle
American IV The Man Comes Around-Johnny Cash
Live at San Quentin-Johnny Cash
A Rush of Blood To The Head-Coldplay
X&Y-Coldplay
The Alternate Aloha-Elvis Presley
Funeral-Arcade Fire
Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St.-Rolling Stones
Rubber Soul, Revolver, The White Album, Help-Beatles
What's The Story Morning Glory-Oasis
Anything by BLUR ;-)
 
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Axis:Bold As Love...The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Magical Mystery Tour & Sgt. Pepper's....The Beatles
Bayou Country & Cosmo's Factory....Creedence Clearwater Revival
Moontan......Golden Earring
Bridge of Sighs.......Robin Trower
Strange Universe......Mahogany Rush
20 Golden Greats.....Chuck Berry
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road......Elton John
Boston.....Boston
Tea For The Tillerman.....Cat Stevens
Tapestry......Carole King
Montrose......Montrose
Pronounced & One More For/From the Road....Lynyrd Skynyrd
Eat A Peach & Fillmore East.....The Allman Bro's Band
On Stage & Mother Lode......Loggins & Messina
L......Steve Hillage
Cheap Thrills & Pearl........Janis Joplin
In A Gadda Da Vida.....Iron Butterfly
I, II, III, IV & Houses of The Holy......Led Zepplin
Plug Me Into Something.....Henry Gross
Copperhead Road......Steve Earle
The Way Home......Russ Taff
Revival......David Mullen
The Beginning.....Michael Card
Odyssey......Yngwie Malmsteen
Stand Up........Jethro Tull
Dark Side of The Moon......Pink Floyd
Playing Music With Animals.....Jim Nollman
Canyon Trilogy.......R.Carlos Nakai
Music for Native Americans......Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
2112 & Moving Pictures.......Rush


there's more, but it's entirely too early in the a.m. for rational thought
 
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Johnny cash - Johnny Cash
Door - De dijk
One more car one more rider - Eric clapton
This left feels right - Bon Jovi
B sides and cofessions - Jeff Black
Honey and salt - Jeff Black
Tin Lily - jeff black
Wicked little high - Bird York
The girl in the other room - Diana Krall
Live in Paris - Diana Krall
Best of - Elvis Costello
Power of nine - Anthony wilson
Our Gang - Anthony wilson
Tumbleweeds - Tumbleweeds
Conny smith
When finger pickers take the world - Atkins
 
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King Of America - Elvis Costello
All Shook Down - The Replacemants
Nuggets
Grooves In Orbit - NRBQ
The Who Sells Out
The Impossible Bird - Nick Lowe
That's That - Incredible Casusals
 
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