Best Ever Albums

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

Anonymous — Wed, 5 Jan 2011 02:04:59 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/05/2011 07:04

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

thomas697 — Wed, 5 Jan 2011 01:28:35 GMT

Author: thomas697

Posted: 01/05/2011 06:28

Has anyone mentioned any Nine Inch Nails album yet. That guy works super hard to put out an album.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

Mr. Shankly — Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:39:36 GMT

Author: Mr. Shankly

Posted: 01/05/2011 01:39

Nick Drake- Pink Moon

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

GARY — Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:50:03 GMT

Author: GARY

Posted: 01/03/2011 03:50

Paul McCartney-Paul McCartney (self titled album)-1970

McCartney wrote all the lyrics,sang all the songs,& of course played all the bass parts.But he also played all of the other instruments on it.Those instruments include the mellotron,drums,piano,acoustic guitar,toy xylophone,organ & lead guitar.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

Alt-Rocker77 — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:03:50 GMT

Author: Alt-Rocker77

Posted: 05/30/2009 20:03

This might not be everyone's favorite, but I still find it remarkable that Dave Grohl recorded all of the instruments on the Foo Fighters debut. Another example of this is some the later Sly and the Family Stone recordings, although they were not exclusively recorded by Sly Stone, it comes pretty close.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

willonething — Sat, 2 May 2009 23:31:04 GMT

Author: willonething

Posted: 05/03/2009 03:31

Homme de Pomme wrote:

Please supplement this list with more great albums. Thanks!

Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

Those are three good ones. See also:
- Anything by Blind Willie McTell and Mississippi John Hurt
- Just Roll Tape, Stephen Stills
- Downward Spiral, NIN (Trent Reznor)

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:23:59 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/18/2009 04:23

Either/Or- Elliott Smith
All Hail West Texas- The Mountain Goats

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

Charicature — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:15:21 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 04/17/2009 15:15

JohnnyRocketFingers wrote:

Some great solo electronic albums:

µ-Ziq (Mike Paradinas) - Lunatic Harness
moody mann - silent introduction
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92
Derrick May - Innovator
moby - moby
bjork - debut

Debut was a decent album, but you must remember that Bjork just did the singing - Nellee Hooper did the electronic mixing - Indeed, I seem to recall a number of reviews when the album came out saying Bjork's vocal stylings got drowned out quite a bit by the electronica. So it really depends on your interpretation of albums "by just one person" - I thought the topic was meant to refer to a single singer/musician composing all the songs, playing all the instruments, and singing all the vocals.

Otherwise, I'd put forth Matthew Sweet's best three albums, Girlfriend, Altered Beast, and the Japanese-only release Kimi-ga-Suki. All phenomenal.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

Richie Hunt — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:05:40 GMT

Author: Richie Hunt

Posted: 04/16/2009 13:05

Xavier Rudd - Food in the Belly; Dark Shades of Blue... these are definately worth a listen. He plays several instruments at the same time live, check him out on youtube.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

RFNAPLES — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:13:56 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 04/16/2009 05:13

Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 25-Maurizio Pollini
The Köln Concert-Keith Jarrett
Switched-On Bach, Carlos, Walter

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

JohnnyRocketFingers — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:33:04 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 01/26/2009 16:33

Some great solo electronic albums:

µ-Ziq (Mike Paradinas) - Lunatic Harness
moody mann - silent introduction
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92
Derrick May - Innovator
moby - moby
bjork - debut

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

JohnnyRocketFingers — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:24:56 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 01/26/2009 16:24

Dust Bowl Ballads - Woody Gutherie

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

Mr.Music — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:23:40 GMT

Author: Mr.Music

Posted: 01/18/2009 09:23

The old delta blues masters.
Leadbelly, Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

maxxy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:51:33 GMT

Author: maxxy

Posted: 01/17/2009 00:51

Justify that for me. I think prince tries to do everything and just ends up being average at everything.

The only one that really comes to mind is pink moon, so I'm no help with this.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

alank1975 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:41:55 GMT

Author: alank1975

Posted: 01/16/2009 18:41

Prince - The Truth

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

JohnnyRocketFingers — Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:06:39 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 01/08/2009 20:06

Homme i have to say i'm sorry. Now that i think about it this is a pretty interesting topic of disucssion. I judged the book by its cover and it is nice to have a good amount of threads to page through and post your opinions on multiple topics.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

AleJohnMari — Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:31:40 GMT

Author: AleJohnMari

Posted: 01/08/2009 07:31

It's like the 80 20 rule. Eighty procent of the text on this site gives you 20 procent of useful information and 20 procent of the text on this site gives you 80 procent of the information you want 😉

Maybe you're right, I hoped to do some new discoveries.

But Johnny, please, give me one addition, the great missing album of this pointless thread, please? 😉

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

JohnnyRocketFingers — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:37:03 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 01/07/2009 23:37

A whole thread just for "great albums made by one person"? This thread will last a few days. yes it is a good topic but i for one don't like all these threads filling up the forums that get one reply and then end.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

AleJohnMari — Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:00:28 GMT

Author: AleJohnMari

Posted: 01/07/2009 18:00

I don't see why this thread is pointless. I just love the idea of one person giving the same intension (or even more) on a piece of music or an entire album than one complete band.
For me this are the great artists.

So please Johnny, reconsider and give me and all the other BestEverAlbums-visitors some great additions.

Re: Great Albums played by just one person

JohnnyRocketFingers — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:04:52 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 01/06/2009 21:04

...This thread is pointless