Entire Album: Recommend

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L4Everton

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The title doesn't explain it all. We can all knock out the critics favourites like 'The Purple Album' or 'Thriller', but what off the beaten track or generationally forgotten is an album or albums you front up for consideration.

My safe bet is 'ten' by Pearl Jam. I have a soft spot for 'New light through old windows' by Chris Rea.

When thinking up this thread I considered the material and then its relevance to whichever age group it was most likely to appeal to.

(After thought: Generationally, does each musical era fulfill the needs of its predicessor or do any (or all) creative tennants/talents fill out their niche in a rich ever expanding territory of artistic accomplishment?)
 

Superb, I'll give it an investigation. Any chance you can give some opinion, why or what or how makes it worthy of volunteering?
 
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It's the "whys"

I accept I have been a bit tentative with the OP, but why do your picks mean so much - often it is the meaning given to an album (piece of art) that tells more than the meaning intended by those that made it. Beauty and the eye of the beholder and the rest etc etc..

My Dad loved Motown, I cant listen to any of that stuff without welling up, better and worse we're all subject to the background we were brough up with. This isn't a 'what critic do you agree with' question, but a personal one if you are prepared to share it. The why being the meat on the bone so to speak.
 
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It's the "whys"

I accept I have been a bit tentative with the OP, but why do your picks mean so much - often it is the meaning given to an album (piece of art) that tells more than the meaning intended by those that made it. Beauty and the eye of the beholder and the rest etc etc..

My Dad loved Motown, I cant listen to any of that stuff without welling up, better and worse we're all subject to the background we were brough up with. This isn't a 'what critic do you agree with' question, but a personal one if you are prepared to share it. The why being the meat on the bone so to speak.
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I chose that album because I've been a fan of Bruce since my early teens, whilst many others were popping on their Clubland CDs I looked through my dad's tape collection and found that album and Born to Run, loved both of them but I put that above the other simply because every song I love and can listen to over and over again, the only other album I can do that with came out last year which is Random Access Memories by Daft Punk.
 

L4Everton said:
It's the "whys"

I accept I have been a bit tentative with the OP, but why do your picks mean so much - often it is the meaning given to an album (piece of art) that tells more than the meaning intended by those that made it. Beauty and the eye of the beholder and the rest etc etc..

My Dad loved Motown, I cant listen to any of that stuff without welling up, better and worse we're all subject to the background we were brough up with. This isn't a 'what critic do you agree with' question, but a personal one if you are prepared to share it. The why being the meat on the bone so to speak.
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*to save you the trouble of reading below, just give Check Your Head a listen

Hard to explain why, at least in eloquent words, I like Check Your Head so much. A major factor is probably my age, but nevertheless it was to me a masterful melding of styles in a time that was turbulent for music. Maybe you Brits had figured out what you would do with music, but 1992 was (in America) at the same time the end of the hair band era and the realization that hip hop was not a trend but a real cultural good that would endure. In the end, the album just got me. Not sure why, but I still enjoy it very much today (if I'm patient to listen to it all without jumping around the tracks).
 
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Ok, pardon me, although I'm not bingo big balls, I intended this as a means to get a personal reflection regards what album meant what to whom. It's not a hipster thread, we can all cite Mimosa and Odelay, it's the person and personality not at question but at identification.

For instance - Brothers in Arms - Dire straits. Will Live through and beyond me. Recognising ones limits allows both an understanding and a revernace to a piece of work that both holds it aloft as understood and then greater that ones appreciation. Time, tide, and turmultuous political strife have varrying affect on the outcomes.

What entire album do you love? why?
 

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