Greatest Album from Front to Back?
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:19 am
It's been such a long time since I started a thread! But a recent discussion with Jason (Music Junkie) about Boston's first album got me thinking about this subject.
Like many of you, I'm a child of the 70s and grew up listening to my dad's vinyl record collection. I loved the ritual of putting on a record and even through college I regularly still played music on vinyl. But time passed and we entered the digital age. My record player broke and I started feeling like those records were taking up a lot of room in our tiny apartment. So I grudgingly got rid of my records and kept all of my musical in digital form. But though there is a benefit to having more space, over time I missed more and more the physicality and the ritual that comes with playing vinyl records. I missed putting on a record, flipping it, looking through liner notes, and checking out the awesome facial hair on the musicians.
So, for my 40th birthday I got a record player and started re-buying all of my favorite records on vinyl. My dad and my sister also passed their collections on to me, since they no longer played them, and at this point I've got a sizable collection again. In fact, it's gotten to where I can't think of many more albums that I "have to" have. However, recently I was at a store and found a used copy of Boston's first album on vinyl. Of course I'd had this on cassette as a teen and loved it but I hadn't listened to it (besides More than a Feeling) in years and had forgotten how solid the entire album is.
When you play records on vinyl you really notice which albums are solid from front to back and which albums have dud songs- or which albums are great on side one but tank out on side two (I'm looking at you, Doobie Brothers Greatest Hits!).
I can think of a few albums that, for me, are completely solid. No dud songs + side two rocks = bliss. I'll keep those to myself for now because I want to hear from you this:
Name an album that is perfect from beginning to end!
Cheers,
Suzi
Like many of you, I'm a child of the 70s and grew up listening to my dad's vinyl record collection. I loved the ritual of putting on a record and even through college I regularly still played music on vinyl. But time passed and we entered the digital age. My record player broke and I started feeling like those records were taking up a lot of room in our tiny apartment. So I grudgingly got rid of my records and kept all of my musical in digital form. But though there is a benefit to having more space, over time I missed more and more the physicality and the ritual that comes with playing vinyl records. I missed putting on a record, flipping it, looking through liner notes, and checking out the awesome facial hair on the musicians.
So, for my 40th birthday I got a record player and started re-buying all of my favorite records on vinyl. My dad and my sister also passed their collections on to me, since they no longer played them, and at this point I've got a sizable collection again. In fact, it's gotten to where I can't think of many more albums that I "have to" have. However, recently I was at a store and found a used copy of Boston's first album on vinyl. Of course I'd had this on cassette as a teen and loved it but I hadn't listened to it (besides More than a Feeling) in years and had forgotten how solid the entire album is.
When you play records on vinyl you really notice which albums are solid from front to back and which albums have dud songs- or which albums are great on side one but tank out on side two (I'm looking at you, Doobie Brothers Greatest Hits!).
I can think of a few albums that, for me, are completely solid. No dud songs + side two rocks = bliss. I'll keep those to myself for now because I want to hear from you this:
Name an album that is perfect from beginning to end!
Cheers,
Suzi
