Readers' Thread: Non-Baseball Topic - Great Albums

by Paul Semendinger

March 10, 2024

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From time to time many of our authors and readers reference great songs and albums in the articles and comments. The SSTN community has a lot of knowledge in the area of music.

I figured I would break away from the regular for today's Readers' Thread. Today we won't discuss baseball. Instead we'll discuss music.

In the comments share some of your favorite record albums of all time. You can list one, five, ten, or more. Hopefully this generates some discussion. I also hope this leads to people listening to other people's favorite albums and expanding their own musical knowledge.

I'll start. Please know there are far too many to name, but here are some of my favorites. (I didn't include Greatest Hits albums.)

1. Pet Sounds - Beach Boys

2. Abbey Road/Let It Be/The Beatles (White Album) - The Beatles

3. The Game/News of the World - Queen

4. Escape - Journey

5. Out of Time - REM

6. All Things Must Pass - George Harrison

7. Duke - Genesis

8. Night and Day - Joe Jackson

9. The Stranger - Billy Joel

10. Heart - Heart

11. Back in Black - AC/DC

12. The KiIlers' Hot Fuss

13. The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1
    

I feel compelled to also list a few Greatest Hits albums that are great:

1. Simon and Garfunkel

2. History - America

3. Chronicle - Credence Clearwater Revival

4. Beatles: The Red and the Blue

5. All the Best - Paul McCartney

6. James Taylor

7. Billy Joel (Vol 1 and 2)

8. Mothership - Led Zeppelin

9. Records - Foreigner

10. The Best of the Alan Parsons Project (a bit obscure...)
    

I didn't add classical music or Jazz with my lists. Among my favorite classical artists are Chopin, Bach, Vivaldi, Dvorak, Mozart, and Gershwin - that's a wide ranging list! For Jazz, my favorites include Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, and Duke Ellington. Chip White's Harlem Sunset is really good.

Do we really want to get into musicals? :) (West Side Story and Phantom top my list...)

Enough from me. Now it's your turn.

Have fun.

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