Favorite album(s) received as a gift
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Happened upon APE's concert calendar today, and I see Greyboy Allstars are playing at the Independent and New Parish. I've always wondered about them, after hearing a track of theirs on the Get Shorty movie soundtrack, which I received as a gift from my sister. Same sister gave me the Vanilla Sky soundtrack, which has lots of interesting music on it.
Which got me thinking about albums (CDs) I've received as gifts. Not just soundtracks, because today I also reconnected with an old friend, and I thought back on some albums he gave me over the years:
Tom Petty - Wildflowers - pretty much the only Tom Petty I listen to, but I like it a lot.
Steeleye Span - Below the Salt - I'd been a fan of Fairport Convention and Pentangle, but didn't know Steeleye Span. Made me a fan.
Mike Keneally - Wooden Smoke - I'd known of him from Zappa's band, thought of him as a hot-shot, this is more mellow, very good.
What favorite albums have you received as a gift?
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20th Century:
20th Century:
Waiting For Columbus
Hillbilly Jazz
21st:
The Staves + Y Music -- The Way Is Read
Chris Thile -- Thanks For Listening
Charles Bradley -- Black Velvet
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D.
Years ago, someone gave me an
Years ago, someone gave me an unmarked cassette tape that had some down right funky music on it. Wore that tape out driving around, but didn't know who the band was.
Within the past year, I bought a new CD copy of Tower of Power's "East Side Grease" and discovered it was the very same album as that cassette.
Also many years ago, someone gave me an unmarked cassette of "Blowfly's Party". Dirty early rapping that would make 2 Live Crew blush. We had fun with that one and after a while, there were copies, of copies, of copies of that tape floating around on all my friends' tape decks. I can still recite every nasty lyric from that one.
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Not actually given to me, but
Not actually given to me, but when I was 7-8 years old my neighbors cousin was saved by the lord, and instead of burning all of her records, demonically, she handed them over to my neighbor.1967-68 old 45's box with the flip up box cover with the snapping lock. Beatles, Stones, CCR, Jackson 5, Joe Tex, it was the nectar of beelzebub, well not all of it, there was some Osmonds in there too. I still remember dropping the needle on that guitar riff in Ticket to Ride, over and over and over again.
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Dude. the Osmonds ARE the
Dude. the Osmonds ARE the Devil.
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Jon Cleary & The Absolute
Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen
Cyro Baptista
Thanks, Dave!
Not OP Dave, but another righteous one!
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You were either Osmonds or J5
You were either Osmonds or J5 I was in the J5 camp
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without a net
without a net
because that was the last album i got. and purchased the rest
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I was gifted the CCR Live at
I was gifted the CCR Live at Woodstock (Vinyl). Pretty good recording considering the elements they had to deal with that weekend. I am a fan of the extended Suzie Q. I wish I could have seen that band in their prime.
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Too many to choose.
Too many to choose.
But I can easily remember The Worst album I ever got.
Christmas when I was a kid, I wanted any Beatles or Who. Instead my parents, who at this point still had hope for me, gave me Spankys Greatest Hits, with the barnburner Sunday Will Never Be The Same. I was crushed
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The Best of Donovan
The Best of Donovan
Christmas 1969
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American Beauty....from my ,
American Beauty....from my , then, sister in law, for my 18th bday. I was a fan , but by no means a dead head at the time, nor was she. The album changed my life.
Ive given that album to at least 7 or 8 friends of mine kids for their 18th...
Gotta pay it fwrd....
Ya, know, i never asked her why she bought me that particular album, maybe ill have to someday. I was known as the big music lover in a family of music lovers, but, still, i have no clue as to how she came up w that, as my brother she was married to is also not a fan etc....growing up as the youngest, in a house w prob 2,000 albums from 60 's and 70 's, spanning Abba-ZZ Top, we had one Dead album in house. My older sister had a copy of Skeletons in Closet, but, i never heard her play it, that i can recall. Whereas, i can tell you first time i ever heard Tommy, Dark Side, or any Beatle album.....
Strange....
But....beautiful....in an American Way....
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The Gift - John Zorn
The Gift - John Zorn
Phenomenal.