Last album you listened to that made you go "wow"

[jpgray]

I just got the "After the Heat" bootleg by This Heat, and a few of the songs on there are incredible.

[Ruffhowse]

1. "Abbey Road" by the Beatles. It's been all downhill since then.

[jpgray]

4. There are so many brilliant albums that were released after 1968 (nt)

[Ruffhowse]

7. Yes, many excellent albums, but none has ever matched the WOW I got

from "Abbey Road". Every single track on the album seemed absolutely perfect to me.

[jpgray]

10. Okay, now I understand

That's not my favorite from the Beatles, but I haven't found a recent (i.e. past few years) "wow" album myself.

[Ruffhowse]

12. I agree with that. The past few years have been VERY lean for any really

good albums. The music biz seems to be in a real slump lately.

[intheflow]

22. Because it's so tightly controlled by corporations.

the good stuff isn't getting out to it's listeners except for pirate radio and online. But most of what we hear on the free airwaves is corporate controlled.

Just look how they submarined Tom Petty's album with that song about the last non-corporate controlled DJ. No air play at all on the most stations.

Sad... rock and roll used to be about rebellion, but it's been co-opted by Mr. Charlie.

[eleonora]

50. Sting - Fields Of Gold/Phil Collins - No Jacket Required

Both old albums, and of course, the Beatles.
Michael Jackson - Thriller (back then once again)

edit:oops, wrong thread.

[Deja Q]

2. 'Good Stuff' by the B-52s.

[intheflow]

3. "Spun" by Keller Williams

Saw him in concert, had to buy an album. Have bought two more. He's kind of a one-man jam band. Funny. Funky. Wierd.

http://www.kellerwilliams.net/internal.links.html

[goodboy]

36. I experienced much the same thing when he opened for the Flecktones

so I picked up Spun too!

[intheflow]

61. Flecktones also awesome!

Gotta love Bela fleck! I first discovered him with his old band, New Grass Revivial.

Last time I saw Fleck, he was opening for Dave Mathews. Have to say, Flecktones were better than Matthews that concert. But then again, some random guy threw up on me during the Matthews part (*gah!*), so maybe that has tainted my musical memories.

[johnnie]

5. I have to say "Smile" by Brian Wilson

The one before that was "Material Issue" Freak city soundtrack.

[bettyellen]

6. i listened to smile xmas day. i really liked it and the person i gave it

to didn't .. i wanted to ask for it back! but i didn't, damn!

[johnnie]

8. LOL

If they didn't like it then you should have said to give it back and give them something they liked.

[KitchenWitch]

9. Joan Osborne's Relish

and John Hiatt's Walk On

[donheld]

14. I love Joan Osborne's Relish every damn song is great

I would say Sarah Mclachlan's "Surfacing"

[Kenneth ken]

11. Sam Phillips

The Indescribable Wow :D

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not really, it's a good disc, but I've had it for years. I just wanted to put it because it's the only thing I could think of that actually has "Wow" in the title.

I got a best of Chicago disc the other week; that would have to be my real answer for this thread. I hadn't really listened to them since I was young and had one-speaker radios. Those things didn't do them justice. Terry Kath did some really good guitar work on there earlier stuff. :)

:hi:

[Dogmudgeon]

17. Nope -- It's an INCREDIBLE album

Philadelphia D.J. and music legend Michael Tearson introduced me to Leslie "Sam" Philips' oeuvre right after The Incredible Wow was released. She's been consistently excellent since Day One, when she was a quirky Christian artist in the vein of Sixpence None The Richer and Bruce Cockburn.

--p!

[Kenneth ken]

20. I came to her via

Cruel Inventions. That one did make me go WOW!, so I went right back out and got "...Wow", but that was what 1992? I still like Cruel Inventions better than ...Wow; maybe just because that was my intro to her. I'm a bit quirky that way.

I do agree she is consistently excellent. I've never heard any of her Christian music.

[Dogmudgeon]

21. Sam's Christian catalog

I've heard the album once, a long time ago -- late 1980s, I think, when she was Leslie Philips. It wasn't the nasty, "Hillbilly Herrenvolk Jesus" stuff that has come to represent J.C. among the ponytailed suits. The songs were good, but not especially strong. That would come in a year or two.

Financial considerations have forced my hand; I've had to forgo her last two albums, but WXPN plays her stuff as soon as they get it.

Philips, Cockburn, Sixpence N.T.R., and several other "Christian" acts have quietly but firmly ditched the modern pagan warrior religion masquerading as Christianity in order to live closer to the message of the Gospels, which -- can you believe it? -- demands honesty and a full understanding of human weakness.

I betcha most of them believe in Evolution, too. But they sure can make good music.

--p!

[murielm99]

13. Susan Tedeschi's

Just Won't Burn.

That woman can SING!

[intheflow]

16. Good call!

Seen her twice. Her vocals and guitar scorch.

[Dogmudgeon]

15. Amy Rigby. Françoise Hardy. Miriam Makeba.

Amy Rigby: The Sugar Tree. Amy Rigby is my long-lost twin sister.
Personal Discography Favorite: The Summer of My Wasted Youth


Françoise Hardy: The Yé-yé Years. Mlle. Hardy is my long-lost twin cousin.
Personal Discography Favorite: La Maison Ou J'ai Grandi ("Tar and Cement")


Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa. The Grande Dame of Afro-European Pop Fusion. "Mama Africa" is World Music.
Personal Discography Favorite: Ring, Bell! (By George Weiss and Jerry Ragovoy, who also wrote for Janis Joplin)

It's been more the chicks than the dudes over the past few years, and in the case of Makeba and Hardy, some of the older catalogues.

We Americans make a lot of great music, but them there ferriners have put out a lot of music that would verily rock our world if we only knew that we were missing it.

Ms. Rigby is American, but has been cruelly neglected by the music-consuming proletariat. Someone ought to address this shameful situation.

Incidentally, these cytherian muses are 45, 61, and 72 years old respectively, and each of them first began their careers as teenagers. Gotta love longevity, too.

--p!

[WindRavenX]

18. Coldplay's "A Rush of Blood To The Head"

Yeah, I know. Only a few years old. But that album just took my breath away.
Flame on!

[theorist]

19. CCR's "Willy and the Poor Boys"

I've been getting into older rock over the last year, and this one really grabbed me by the collar and threw me around. Every song is great, and I listened to the whole album three times without skipping any tracks.

I was tempted to put Elton's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", but I wasn't in the best mood when I was listening to it.

[mark414]

23. the arcade fire "funeral"

in a word, brilliant

[Tyrone Slothrop]

55. And how! n/t

[Skittles]

24. American Idiot, Green Day

ya, I listened to it before I mailed it to Iraq - it's really quite good.

[Heidi]

25. Leonard Cohen,

"Ten New Songs."

[Robeson]

26. Nuspirit Helsinki

[WritersBlock]

27. "Buena Vista Social Club"

Actually, we haven't bought the album yet because the shop's closed until after New Year's, but we saw the movie last week on TV. WOW, indeed!

(Btw, is it just me, or are you dating yourself severely by using the word "album?") B-)

[Enraged_Ape]

28. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" by the Flaming Lips

I never get tired of listening to it. I always hear something in it I didn't hear before.

[peacefreak]

29. Brian Wilson's Smile

and Car Wheels on a Gravel Road--Lucinda Williams. I hit re-play after the first time I heard them.

[jbane]

44. Smile, I agree. Have not heard the other one.

[HEAVYHEART]

30. System of A Down

Toxicity

[roenyc]

42. god i love SOD

they rock. they are so good. also love tool, and last record that made me go oh wow was a perfect circle - the one with Imagine on it.

but i always go home to pink Floyd, the doors and my favorite Nirvana unplugged.

[HEAVYHEART]

49. Awesome!

You have great taste in music. I too love all the bands/artists you mentioned. I do like a wide variety of music. Depending on my mood, one minute I might listen to Simon and Garfunkel, Iron Maiden the next, Segovia, Johnny Cash, Tool, and so forth. I just love music period!

Right on roenyc!:hi:

[Forkboy]

31. Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm

[GOPisEvil]

32. Interpol's "Antics"

:thumbsup:

[NewJeffCT]

33. Metallica's "Master of Puppets"

they put the heavy into heavy metal

[TyeDye75]

34. Franz Ferdinand........amazing /nt

[Squeech]

35. Hey, tell us more about This Heat

Now that was a band that made me go Wow! Their first album was just ferocious, a merger of punk energy and abandon with deep space dub tape technique, all essayed with King Crimson precision. Then the second album-- how many people in the world would have the insight to do a song setting of the Declaration of Independence?

The last band that made me go Wow was the Tone Dogs, a trio out of Seattle. Despite the fact that they had Matt Cameron on drums, they were distinctly not a flannel-wearing grunge band, they were adroit and witty Canterbury-flavored math rock. Their bassist was a guy named Fred Chalenor, really good, who subsequently played with Wayne Horvitz and Hugh Hopper. Their other bassist was Amy Denio, doubling on alto sax and guitar, and singing superbly.

I guess I can muster a Wow for Smile.

[gollygee]

37. Crash by the Dave Matthews Band

nothing since but I'm not that up on new music.

[goodboy]

38. nobody ever replies to my posts in these threads, but here goes

Dredg, "El Cielo"

Album of the Decade

review here: http://www.fahrenheit128.com/rev_dredg_elcielo.htm


Do the world and yourself a favor and go buy this album from your local independent record store before you die...you won't regret it.

How I would rate this album (1-10):

Artistic style - 9
Production - 9
Instrumental - 9
Lyrics - 10
Overall Score - 9.25

[Squeech]

41. Okay, here's a reply

to complain that you haven't actually described Dredg and El Cielo in any way that's helpful to me as a music consumer.

I clicked through to the review, and I still don't know anything about it, other than how much you like it. You give the lyrics 10 points, but you don't quote any, and given that the title isn't even in English I wonder if these lyrics would even be comprehensible to me! You talk about the guitar, and then you talk about electronics, and I don't know whether this is an actual band that could get up and play in front of people, or some starving artist in a garret with Protools-- or whether the concept is so advanced that it doesn't even matter (which if true I'd really like to hear). You compare it to Tool, and then say the rhythm section is subtle; to me, that's a contradiction in terms :-)

I'm not trying to just jerk your chain here, I see your enthusiasm for this record, and I want to know whether I might get the Wow factor too.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

39. Amethyst RockStar by Saul Williams

[Boswells_Johnson]

40. Er....sorry

I read "Last" as "Live"

[roenyc]

43. ohh and the

black eyed peas. i loved that album before the mainstream started to play the hell out of it. it was just fun to dance and sing to in the car.

and SUBLIME!

[vinnievin777]

45. The last CD that made me go WOW

I really can't think of one because over the last decade all the music sucks. I mean if you can get three songs of a CD that are really good you are doing great.
I would have to say probably it would have to be individual songs.

Hey Now by Outkast (before they played it out) Roll Out by Ludicris and most recently Mosh by Eminem You have to go back to the eighties and listen to a CD to enjoy every single song or maybe Backlash or Bad English from the 90's and Mental Jewelry from Live and the Pearl Jam Cds.

Vinnie Vin
http://www.vinnievin.com


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1932852344/qid=1086103239/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2438201-2251026?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[blockhead]

46. David and David's

Boomtown album from 86' or 87'.

[ghostsofgiants]

47. "Who will survive, and what will be left of them?" by Murder By Death

[DemGa]

48. The Allman Brothers Band

Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival; 1970.

Got it for Christmas.

[NashVegas]

51. Joseph Arthur

Our Shadows Will Remain.

[BiggJawn]

52. Queen Latifah's latest.

the "Dana Owens" one.

[Zenaholic]

53. David Bryne -Feelings (n/t)

[asthmaticeog]

54. "Secret Wars" by Oneida

Spastic psychedelia - sounds like Neu! on a meth bender with a really, REALLY good keys player. Me likey.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

56. Talking Heads "The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads"

Reissue of an old live LP(s).

Simply amazing - especially the second disc with the expanded 10 piece band.

[mvd]

57. Plenty of recent albums are great IMO

And yes, many of them got onto the radio. Favorite among my last purchase from amazon.com, though, was John Mellencamp: Words and Music - John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits. Every song on there is incredible! He's right up there with Bruce Springsteen among the best.

[Joe Power]

58. World Without Tears - Lucinda Williams

Prior to that, I have to go back to Janes Addictions first release.

[chaska]

59. KAKI KING!!!!

Check out the videos on these websites. She will knock your socks off.
http://www.kakiking.com/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4179954

[Worst Username Ever]

60. Black eyed Peas

Whatever the latest album is called, I'm not even sure. It's awsesome.

[proud2BlibKansan]

62. Santana - Shaman

[THUNDER HANDS]

63. The White Stripes