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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 30, 2024 10:46:21 GMT -6
i wanna do the board's top 100 u2 bootlegs Be the change! |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 30, 2024 10:54:15 GMT -6
2. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert - 1975 - I first listened to this album on January 28, 2021. It was late at night, I was probably reading for something, but I remember getting 5-minutes in, stopping whatever I was doing, cranking up the volume, and just sitting in awe for the next hour. I then immediately come to The Board and posted this:
- 3 1/2 years later and I still feel that same awe, that same wonder, nearly every time I queue up The Koln Concert. If you're wired right, it's music beyond description. The kind of thing that should convince people to start a new religion or join a cult or something. I suppose most folks like myself do that these day by going to Big Ears and/or buying a shitload of ECM on vinyl. But yeah, three years and probably 100 listens later, I still find Jarrett's solo excursion thrilling and beautiful. I don't foresee that ever changing.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 30, 2024 11:20:38 GMT -6
1. Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quartet, Houston, TX - 1977 - What makes a live album Great? What elevates it from a great studio release, what makes it special? Of course, one component is musicality and uniqueness. Another part is the artist's personality - are they charming? Are they vulnerable? But to me, the most important component is in the setting. It's transportive-ness: when an album whisks you away from wherever you are and plops you into the middle of the action.
- Right now I'm sitting in a cubicle in the basement of a library. But not really. I'm also sitting on an uncomfortable three-legged barstool. A slightly shaky, lanky man in a cowboy hat sits in the spotlight, fiddling with his guitar. The room's a bit hot - the A/C's broken, and the sound of glasses clinking, boards creaking, and barflies ordering occasionally punctuates the din, but the man onstage is unfazed. He's just finished a haunting desperado tune and cracked a dirty joke lent from Jerry Jeff Walker. Now he's singing about poker, with words flying out his mouth a mile a minute. My beer's getting warm, but I don't particularly care. I'm enraptured. And I stay that way until he unslings his guitar 90 minutes later. In between I heard more tunes about outlaws and outcasts, about a half-dozen vaguely inappropriate jokes, and at least a dozen of the most moving, heart-aching, and life-affirming songs ever written. Which one hit the hardest? Tough to say, could've been If I Needed You, No Place to Fall, Don't You Take It Too Bad, For the Sake of the Song, or Tecumseh Valley. Maybe I've been crying, maybe it's the sawdust. All I know is that I just saw the best songwriter I've ever heard, and I saw him play his heart out for maybe 90 souls in this Houston bar. And the beautiful thing is, I can press play and do it all again whenever I want. I've spent time at the Old Quarter countless times since discovering Townes 7-8 years ago. And I look forward to countless more visits in the years to come.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 30, 2024 13:06:52 GMT -6
And here's a Spotify playlist of all my favorite cuts - except for 2 that weren't on streaming so I added approximate replacements:
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Post by doso on Sept 30, 2024 22:33:54 GMT -6
Notes on some of my selections; admittedly far less thoughtful than monasterymonochrome 's write-ups... The Rolling Stones - Still LifeThe perfect live album. If I remember correctly, the final show of this U.S. tour was broadcast live on ONTV and at the time it was scandalous because Jagger said hope you're having a good time at home drinking a few beers and smoking a few joints. WILD STUFF. For real, though, this is the dividing line from the more raw version of the Stones with Keef's gloriously ragged backing vocals and the polished/corporate version with professional backing singers. Love it and I wore the fuck out of my vinyl version when I was a young lad. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder RevueThis is my favorite Dylan. His best voice, some of his best songs, and one of his best bands. Van Morrison - It's Too Late to Stop NowJust stupid good end to end. Killer band. And the recording is remarkably articulate for the early 1970s. Love the sound of the room, too. The Who - Live at Leeds (Deluxe Edition)This is the only way I can listen to Tommy. An example where the live performance is superior in every way to the record. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Live/1975-85For such a sprawling collection, there's hardly any filler. I remember going to Camelot Records and spending a lot of my hard-earned $ on the vinyl right when it came out. Worth every penny. The Replacements - For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986Another live document that sounds way better than it should. Paul's guitar forever. Keith Richards and the Xpensive Winos - Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988Keef doing all the beautiful Keef things. Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in ChicagoDefinitely some filler in this collection, but a momentous document of when the definitive lineup for this band came into being. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Pack Up the Plantation: Live!Could do without "Shout!" but the other covers are all absolutely brilliant and the originals serve as a fairly decent greatest hits package. The killer decision here was to reach back four years earlier to pull in a pair of songs featuring honorary Heartbreaker, Stevie Nicks. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - WeldAlways liked this better than Rust Never Sleeps. Tragically Hip - Live at the Roxy May 3 91Canada's greatest band playing a killer selection from their first two records. X - UncloggedI used to work for the retail division of Warner Brothers and the record company side of things used to let us order dirt cheap CDs that we could pick up from the warehouse in Bloomingdale or Glendale Heights or something. This was one of those CDs; I was never really into X before, but something about the acoustic versions resonated. Soul Asylum - After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom, June 28, 1997Forever a soft spot for this band with its (mostly) original lineup, especially their choice in covers. They opened with "School's Out" and closed with "Rhinestone Cowboy"; if only they'd performed their version of "Jukebox Hero". The Replacements - The Shit Hits the FansFucking hilarious. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 1, 2024 9:30:39 GMT -6
The Rolling Stones - Still LifeThe perfect live album. If I remember correctly, the final show of this U.S. tour was broadcast live on ONTV and at the time it was scandalous because Jagger said hope you're having a good time at home drinking a few beers and smoking a few joints. WILD STUFF. For real, though, this is the dividing line from the more raw version of the Stones with Keef's gloriously ragged backing vocals and the polished/corporate version with professional backing singers. Love it and I wore the fuck out of my vinyl version when I was a young lad. Throwing this on \m/ I don't know that I've listened to a Stones live album start-to-finish other than "Bridges to Babylon," which I had the DVD of back in the 00s. Possibly Live Licks but definitely not any real familiarity. Shattered is one of my favorite Stones songs and I've always been a little bummed that they couldn't/didn't recreate that studio sound live, with the heavy phaser on Keith's guitar. Just got to the end of Under My Thumb and heard the joints line lol |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Oct 1, 2024 11:05:19 GMT -6
The Rolling Stones - Still LifeThe perfect live album. If I remember correctly, the final show of this U.S. tour was broadcast live on ONTV and at the time it was scandalous because Jagger said hope you're having a good time at home drinking a few beers and smoking a few joints. WILD STUFF. For real, though, this is the dividing line from the more raw version of the Stones with Keef's gloriously ragged backing vocals and the polished/corporate version with professional backing singers. Love it and I wore the fuck out of my vinyl version when I was a young lad. Throwing this on \m/ I don't know that I've listened to a Stones live album start-to-finish other than "Bridges to Babylon," which I had the DVD of back in the 00s. Possibly Live Licks but definitely not any real familiarity. Shattered is one of my favorite Stones songs and I've always been a little bummed that they couldn't/didn't recreate that studio sound live, with the heavy phaser on Keith's guitar. Just got to the end of Under My Thumb and heard the joints line lol Just gave this a spin too! Super fun listen, enjoyed Shattered the best |
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Post by doso on Oct 1, 2024 11:20:59 GMT -6
The fukken phaser is the best. On-demand 70s vibes in a box from Stones to Willie and Waylon.
“Just My Imagination” is my favorite track from Still Life. Worked that one into dozens of setlists over the years just for the sheer pleasure of cosplaying Keef for a few minutes.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 1, 2024 12:18:07 GMT -6
Throwing this on \m/ I don't know that I've listened to a Stones live album start-to-finish other than "Bridges to Babylon," which I had the DVD of back in the 00s. Possibly Live Licks but definitely not any real familiarity. Shattered is one of my favorite Stones songs and I've always been a little bummed that they couldn't/didn't recreate that studio sound live, with the heavy phaser on Keith's guitar. Just got to the end of Under My Thumb and heard the joints line lol Just gave this a spin too! Super fun listen, enjoyed Shattered the best Mick's additional "shadoo-beh!" after the song ends is such a perfect little moment |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Oct 1, 2024 12:21:26 GMT -6
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - WeldAlways liked this better than Rust Never Sleeps. Also I just remembered I wanted to put Arc on my original list at #100, but decided that would trying a little too hard lmao Weld is awesome too |
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Post by doso on Oct 1, 2024 12:23:56 GMT -6
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - WeldAlways liked this better than Rust Never Sleeps. Also I just remembered I wanted to put Arc on my original list at #100, but decided that would trying a little too hard lmao Weld is awesome too I think I made it all the way through Arc once! Felt like an accomplishment of sorts. |
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Post by borracho on Oct 2, 2024 8:22:15 GMT -6
The Replacements - The Shit Hits the FansFucking hilarious. recorded in okc! that venue (the bowery) had some great shows by bands in their early days - x, minutemen, black flag, red hot chili peppers, flaming lips, rem... i never went (18+ club) but would've loved to have been there for those shows! |
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Post by Tweet on Oct 8, 2024 18:18:34 GMT -6
I put the results in this thread for those who didn't click on it today. Mods can unpin this thread and the list thread whenever they feel like it Thank you all for participating, and apologies this took even longer than usual to trot out |
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