What's your favorite song at the moment?

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Runwildboys said:
I wish you could only buy whole albums. Most of my favorite songs are the ones you don't hear on the radio....it wherever.
You used to buy an album and listen to the whole thing, because the whole thing was good. It almost had to be.
Machine Head by Deep Purple
Nearly every Led Zeppelin album
Pink Floyd
Bad Company

So much great music you wouldn't have heard without buying the album.
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Yes back in the day, they had to be..... 8 tracks were not known for rewinding or fast forwarding..... But then came along technology and as we evolved, so did the bands..... Many can spit out a new CD on an off week or two now with studios in their own homes.... Before it was a long process of taking a season off and writing together and trying out what works best with each song. Got to say, while I still love today's metal as well as the old, the song writing of yesterday is long gone.... No where near the same dedication it once was.... Now I am lucky to like half of a new studio album.
 
Reality said:
I have a couple Yanni CDs and many others from that genre of music from back then. I really liked Rainmaker by him.

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Yep, My wife and I went all in on the New Age and Electronica back in the early 90's. Moved back to Dallas in 96 and the Oasis was going strong, a great non-radio radio station. But success took care of that. They began bringing urban ballads into it to expand the audience and that morphed into Smooth Jazz.

Patrick O'Hearn
David Arkinstone
George Winston
David Lanz
Chick Corea
Mangione
Alpert
Pieces of a Dream
Shadowfax
Spyro Gyra really brought all of that together.
 
The Dark Bishop said:
Yes back in the day, they had to be..... 8 tracks were not known for rewinding or fast forwarding..... But then came along technology and as we evolved, so did the bands..... Many can spit out a new CD on an off week or two now with studios in their own homes.... Before it was a long process of taking a season off and writing together and trying out what works best with each song. Got to say, while I still love today's metal as well as the old, the song writing of yesterday is long gone.... No where near the same dedication it once was.... Now I am lucky to like half of a new studio album.
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Agree
 
Runwildboys said:
I wish you could only buy whole albums. Most of my favorite songs are the ones you don't hear on the radio....it wherever.
You used to buy an album and listen to the whole thing, because the whole thing was good. It almost had to be.
Machine Head by Deep Purple
Nearly every Led Zeppelin album
Pink Floyd
Bad Company

So much great music you wouldn't have heard without buying the album.
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Sgt. Pepper changed everything. Fans had been buying albums more each year because of the single releases from the Beatles but this album broke the mold and changed the way bands and labels thought about the vehicle, the LP.

Couple this with the birth of Album Rock with stations going 3 deep on a album out of the chute and it was the perfect storm for albums. And this also aided in the live concerts because more fans were more familiar with the depth of their work and, like you, wanted to hear the "non-hit" tunes.

Plus albums had some magic for me...liner notes. Listening to an album for the first time and reading the liner notes, lyrics and the players was pure joy. It really added to the experience and that's how I learned about all the players and their band lineage and to identify their signature sound.
 
CouchCoach said:
Sgt. Pepper changed everything. Fans had been buying albums more each year because of the single releases from the Beatles but this album broke the mold and changed the way bands and labels thought about the vehicle, the LP.

Couple this with the birth of Album Rock with stations going 3 deep on a album out of the chute and it was the perfect storm for albums. And this also aided in the live concerts because more fans were more familiar with the depth of their work and, like you, wanted to hear the "non-hit" tunes.

Plus albums had some magic for me...liner notes. Listening to an album for the first time and reading the liner notes, lyrics and the players was pure joy. It really added to the experience and that's how I learned about all the players and their band lineage and to identify their signature sound.
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The whole thing just seemed more personal, and it didn't seem as much like bands bere doing music for any other reason than the love of it.
 
The Dark Bishop said:
Just I get into a blues kick one night, then a nu-metal the next...... Back to classic rock yet another night. I can't switch genres like a radio station. Normally I am already in a mood to hear a certain sound so I stay with it most of the night.
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I will start out that way but it often takes an abrupt turn based on something I hear within a song that triggers something.

One thing I do is avoid memory music that might conjure up sadness.
 
Runwildboys said:
The whole thing just seemed more personal, and it didn't seem as much like bands bere doing music for any other reason than the love of it.
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Art and business colliding is seldom a good thing.

However, I do have respect for an artist admitting they're trying to crank out hits. When Def Leppard announced their tour and partial set list, Joe Elliott said of course they're going to do their hits, that's why they recorded them and what the fans want to hear. He admitted going into the studio with Mutt Lange to turn out an album of hits and did so with Pyromania and Hysteria. Not sure there have ever been two back to back like that since Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour.
 
The Dark Bishop said:
Yes back in the day, they had to be..... 8 tracks were not known for rewinding or fast forwarding..... But then came along technology and as we evolved, so did the bands..... Many can spit out a new CD on an off week or two now with studios in their own homes.... Before it was a long process of taking a season off and writing together and trying out what works best with each song. Got to say, while I still love today's metal as well as the old, the song writing of yesterday is long gone.... No where near the same dedication it once was.... Now I am lucky to like half of a new studio album.
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But you could change programs with eight tracks, I remember when casettes came out and I thought they'd never catch on because you had to fast forward through every song and take the tape out and flip it over to hear the other side, lol. Of course being able to listen to a tape without having a butter knife or something stuck under the tape to get it to play right was pretty cool.
 
jimmy40 said:
But you could change programs with eight tracks, I remember when casettes came out and I thought they'd never catch on because you had to fast forward through every song and take the tape out and flip it over to hear the other side, lol. Of course being able to listen to a tape without having a butter knife or something stuck under the tape to get it to play right was pretty cool.
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And they didn't switch tracks in the middle of a song.
 
jimmy40 said:
But you could change programs with eight tracks, I remember when casettes came out and I thought they'd never catch on because you had to fast forward through every song and take the tape out and flip it over to hear the other side, lol. Of course being able to listen to a tape without having a butter knife or something stuck under the tape to get it to play right was pretty cool.
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I had one in my car that had this cool feature. It had a little wheel that I could move to align the tape so I could hear just one song at a time or leave it alone and hear the entire tape in half the time.

I believe these older EDM jocks got the idea for their mixes with 8 tracks bleeding songs.

I traveled by car back then and I was a sucker for 8 tracks in gas stations and ended up with a lot of crap. I think a lot of them were pirated. I also don't think there was ever a player that did not develop a taste for tape.
 
CouchCoach said:
I had one in my car that had this cool feature. It had a little wheel that I could move to align the tape so I could hear just one song at a time or leave it alone and hear the entire tape in half the time.

I believe these older EDM jocks got the idea for their mixes with 8 tracks bleeding songs.

I traveled by car back then and I was a sucker for 8 tracks in gas stations and ended up with a lot of crap. I think a lot of them were pirated. I also don't think there was ever a player that did not develop a taste for tape.
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And if your cassette player ate a tape, you could open it up and splice it if necessary. Good luck fixing an 8 track!
 
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