My favorite rock albums:

Leonard Cohen: Various Positions, I'm Your Man, The Future
Queen: The Works, Made in Heaven etc. etc.
Supertramp: Breakfast in America
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms, On Every Street
Billy Joel: The Stranger, 52nd Street, An Innocent Man
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-75
Bon Jovi: Keep the Faith

I love the Beatles too, but my favorite songs are scattered over all the albums. This must be a depressingly mainstream rock taste to some, but I'm supposed to be too young for most of this

I struggle to find contemporary rock that I really like (tips welcome!), but some of my recent favorites are:

The Jayhawks: Rainy Day Music
The Killers: Sam's Town, Day and Age

drkodos wrote on 01/09/09 at 21:19:56:


Vinyl is absolutely the best; no doubt about that.  For me the "fidelity" registers on a purely emotional scale.  I can't hear fidelity in music on an intellectual level, but I can hear its feeling, and vinyl conveys so much more.  I'm planning to expand my collection.  You can get a very decent turntable for about $300.  Recently I bought "A Whiter Shade of Pale" on vinyl just to get the title track.  It's brilliant.  The problem is, the rest of the record is pure crap.  But I think I may have said that here before.

Among my favorite records is the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man,"
which is not an old release but a recent cut.

@Ostap:  I also like Pink Floyd.  Do you know The Violent Femmes?

You can digitize your vinyl collection!  You will need:

> Sony Sound Forge (or other similar software).
> Cables

Just record the analog tracks onto the PC.  Open them in iTunes (or whatever choosen ap).

If you get good with Sound Forge, you can "clean them up" as well.  

The crux will be the finding the time you need to do it all!!  

Because the sound signal is compromised because compression and formatting, the iPod sound quality will be as good as if you ripped from CD source.

It will never replace the vinyl analog signal coming through some warm MacIntosh tubes, but you can listen to your Dion and the Belmonts collection at the local club's weekly G/30.


You can do:  

Movie Soundtracks from VHS.
8 Tracks
Cassettes
etc.





Also:  You've been mostly right in your call about the Obama Presidency, and I am glad for it.  Just thought I'd share that .... out of the fricken blue.....  I'm not sure why.   

Holbox wrote on 01/09/09 at 18:20:26:



Supertramp album  Crime of the Century.  Their best work.

In no particluar order, 14 other worthwhile selections:

Bob Dylan: Essential Bob Dylan Vol II
Pink Floyd: Animals
Jean Luc Ponty: Cosmic Messenger
Klaus Schulze:  Timewind
Tangerine Dream: Force Majeur
Kraftwerk: Computer World
Ash Ra Temple: New Age of Earth
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord
The Beatles: Rubber Soul 
Caravan: The Land of Grey & Pink
Jimi Hendrix:  Electric Ladyland
King Crimson:  The Court of the Crimson King
Steely Dan: Aja




Some artists that will cause your iPod to self-destruct:

Hootie and the Blowfish
Madonna
Hall & Oates
Michael Bolton
Mariah Carey
Pat Boone
Flock of Seagulls
Mainstream Country & Western
P Diddy




Next up:  My top 11 Baroque Sonatas in E minor. 

Klick wrote on 01/09/09 at 16:04:22:


My sons bought me an Ipod for my last birthday, so I will avail myself of the chance to buy some songs by these artists at the Ipod store, just to see if I like them.  I'll start with the two you recommend.

Dire Straits. Telegraph Road, Down to the water line, etc. ..  I`m always coming back for them.

Quote:

Well its allright....at the end of the line.

This is one of my favourite guitar pieces - easy to play, but impressive due to the introduction to the song.

And how about the "Zombies"