My History in Music
by 
dihansse 
This is a top 100 chart of my personal musical history via albums in which I try to stick to the adagio of one album per artist. Next to a number of classics I have tried to include some hidden treasures but also some guilty pleasures to which I still stick. This means that I had to leave out some artists that I really appreciate but didn't make this overall top 100: Sorry Rolling Stones (the Beatles were better), sorry Bruce, sorry Jimi, sorry the Who, sorry ELO, sorry the Police and sorry many, many others (but you'll find them in my Decades lists).
I also tried to stick to regular albums but sometimes live albums or eaven Greatest Hits couldn't be avoided. By the way, in my custom charts I also added an alternative top chart which takes a more mathematical view on my personal taste meaning that it is the result of scoring my favorite albums and in this way of course doesn't stick to the one album by artist rule, which means several (more than 2) albums by Beatles, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr, Pavement, etc.
- Chart updated: 02/10/2017 21:15
- (Created: 02/10/2017 20:08).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Roxy Music was always a constant in the music I liked with first the singles like "Virginia Plain" and "Love is the Drug" and later the more intricate songs of the albums of which "Viva!" features a few of the most beautiful like "Both Ends Burning" and "In Every Dreamhome A Heartache".
I saw them a few times live in their later stages when they started playing their old songs again and every time they were fantastic. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
I saw them a few times live in their later stages when they started playing their old songs again and every time they were fantastic. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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Still mainly focused on listening to the radio instead of buying albums, I discovered "Whole Lotta Rosie" by AC/DC which entered the Belgian and Dutch hitparades in June 1978 and really blew my mind. In fact it was a pity that I listened to the radio version because the guitar solo on the album version (Let There Be Rock) was much better (and longer) but I didn't know that at that time.
Anyhow I prefer their fantastic live album "If You Want Blood You've Got It" on which this song also appears. Of course like all real AC/DC lovers I prefer the Bon Scott period ;)
Other real standouts on this album are "Let There Be Rock" and "The Jack". AC/DC is still one of the bands I would have like to see live but I suppose it's too late now. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
Anyhow I prefer their fantastic live album "If You Want Blood You've Got It" on which this song also appears. Of course like all real AC/DC lovers I prefer the Bon Scott period ;)
Other real standouts on this album are "Let There Be Rock" and "The Jack". AC/DC is still one of the bands I would have like to see live but I suppose it's too late now. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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1978
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379
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I was tempted to put "Deepest Purple: the very best of Deep Purple" in this top 100 because there are so many fantistic Deep Purple songs which don't appear on this album like "Highway Star" and many others, but I chose this one because it does stand out; this not in the least because it contains one song that has been my absolute favourite song for a very long time: "Child in Time".
Around my 14 years I started listining to the more "symphonic" hardrock bands, partly because of the many pirate radio stations which dominated the radio landscape (because regular radio stations where still not really into rock music). One of these stations had a program on which listeners could submit their top 10 lists and on these lists invariably appeared "Return to Fantasy" and "Easy Livin'" by Uriah Heep (unfortunately not in this Top 100), "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath and indeed mostly at number 1 (like in many top 100 programs after that) "Child in Time" by Deep Purple. Since I was still taping on cassettes I once asked my uncle to include this one on one of the mix tapes he made for me: he thought I was stupid because I could have added 4 more songs instead of this long one. Another uncle thought this was a jazz song.
In any case, this is not my favourite song anymore but still a stand-out with the fantastic voice of Ian Gillan and the incredible build-up of the song (two times) to the shredding of the guitar solos.
The other stand-out on this album are "Speed King" and "Flight of the Rat".
By the way: I know that many people think that their "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" is one of the worst marriages between rock and classical music: well think again: I think this album is very good and worth a listen: there are some very good guitar and drum solos on it and the interaction with classical instruments works very well (personally I think "Kashmir: the symphonic Led Zeppelin" is much worse). [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
Around my 14 years I started listining to the more "symphonic" hardrock bands, partly because of the many pirate radio stations which dominated the radio landscape (because regular radio stations where still not really into rock music). One of these stations had a program on which listeners could submit their top 10 lists and on these lists invariably appeared "Return to Fantasy" and "Easy Livin'" by Uriah Heep (unfortunately not in this Top 100), "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath and indeed mostly at number 1 (like in many top 100 programs after that) "Child in Time" by Deep Purple. Since I was still taping on cassettes I once asked my uncle to include this one on one of the mix tapes he made for me: he thought I was stupid because I could have added 4 more songs instead of this long one. Another uncle thought this was a jazz song.
In any case, this is not my favourite song anymore but still a stand-out with the fantastic voice of Ian Gillan and the incredible build-up of the song (two times) to the shredding of the guitar solos.
The other stand-out on this album are "Speed King" and "Flight of the Rat".
By the way: I know that many people think that their "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" is one of the worst marriages between rock and classical music: well think again: I think this album is very good and worth a listen: there are some very good guitar and drum solos on it and the interaction with classical instruments works very well (personally I think "Kashmir: the symphonic Led Zeppelin" is much worse). [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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1970
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Again the hard choice between a best of, a live album or their best: and here again: Black Sabbath's second album is certainly their best.
Of course it all began with Paranoid, a song which was all over the place when I listened to pirate radio stations round 1976, a track which still rocks like anything else.
I discovered "Iron Man" and "War Pigs" later and they are also two of the quintessential songs of Sabbath with their long and winding song structures.
It seems that in the summer of 2016 they will do their last shows so maybe a last chance to see them live, ex on the Belgian heavy metal festival Graspop. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
Of course it all began with Paranoid, a song which was all over the place when I listened to pirate radio stations round 1976, a track which still rocks like anything else.
I discovered "Iron Man" and "War Pigs" later and they are also two of the quintessential songs of Sabbath with their long and winding song structures.
It seems that in the summer of 2016 they will do their last shows so maybe a last chance to see them live, ex on the Belgian heavy metal festival Graspop. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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1970
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Here again: the embarrasment of choice: take one of their first six, all fantastic, albums; take a best of like their Remaster series or take a live album like the BBC Sessions?
Here my choice is a live album but definitely one which stands out on its own. Many people won't agree with my choice of "The Song Remains the Same" because of the very long tracks with, for many people, I guess, tedious guitar solos and aaaargh drum solos (listen to "Moby Dick").
But I love this album, not in the least because I came in contact with this album before all the others. Of course already at 13/14 years I heard things like "Stairway to Heaven" but when I heard this album a few years later I lost my soul to Led Zep. "Dazed and Confused", "Moby Dick" and especially "Whole Lotta Love" went on and on in its own spacey way and is still the best version of the many version that exist. In any case it sounded fantastic and the general atmosphere on this album, which is of course also a movie soundtrack, formed a unique unity, maybe if you really push it even a bit like the very very weird "Space Accumulator" of Hawkwind.
Of course the fact that "Stairway to Heaven" keeps appearing on all kinds of top 1000's is starting to sound like the 'I've heard this one one time too much, but OK it's still "Stairway to Heaven". [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
Here my choice is a live album but definitely one which stands out on its own. Many people won't agree with my choice of "The Song Remains the Same" because of the very long tracks with, for many people, I guess, tedious guitar solos and aaaargh drum solos (listen to "Moby Dick").
But I love this album, not in the least because I came in contact with this album before all the others. Of course already at 13/14 years I heard things like "Stairway to Heaven" but when I heard this album a few years later I lost my soul to Led Zep. "Dazed and Confused", "Moby Dick" and especially "Whole Lotta Love" went on and on in its own spacey way and is still the best version of the many version that exist. In any case it sounded fantastic and the general atmosphere on this album, which is of course also a movie soundtrack, formed a unique unity, maybe if you really push it even a bit like the very very weird "Space Accumulator" of Hawkwind.
Of course the fact that "Stairway to Heaven" keeps appearing on all kinds of top 1000's is starting to sound like the 'I've heard this one one time too much, but OK it's still "Stairway to Heaven". [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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1976
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Of course Eric Clapton is God (dEUS comes later ;)). His guitar playing is excellent and nowhere he does it better on this album with Derek and the Dominoes although the live album "One of the road" is a close match. Nevertheless I chose to include a regular album, not from his solo period and not from his other cooperations with the Yardbirds, Cream ("White Room!!) or Blind Faith.
Layla is obviously the starting point and has always been one of my favorite songs not in the least because of the incredible piano coda. But there are many other standouts like the fantastic false slow song "I looked away" with fantastic lyric guitar playing, "Bell Bottom Blues" and many others. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
Layla is obviously the starting point and has always been one of my favorite songs not in the least because of the incredible piano coda. But there are many other standouts like the fantastic false slow song "I looked away" with fantastic lyric guitar playing, "Bell Bottom Blues" and many others. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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1970
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I can't do this band the credit it deserves if I don't put a Greatest Hits in this list. All the songs on this album are marvellous and are a fantastic blend of the superb voice of John Fogerty and some great guitar playing and song writing.
"I Put a Spell on You" is still their best track ( the reason why I didn't chose Cosmo's Factory) amongst the variety of versions around and also songs like "Up Around the Bend" and "Who'll Stop the Rain" are outstanding. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
"I Put a Spell on You" is still their best track ( the reason why I didn't chose Cosmo's Factory) amongst the variety of versions around and also songs like "Up Around the Bend" and "Who'll Stop the Rain" are outstanding. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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1976
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Maybe I should have included a greatest hits, because there are so many great songs missing here like "Take It Easy" (as a Belgian I have been standing on that corner in Winslow Arizona) or "Lyin Eyes".
However I chose this one of course because of the title song (also since long one of my all time favorites) but also because of tracks like "New Kid in Town", Life in the Fast Lane" and especially also "The Last Resort". [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
However I chose this one of course because of the title song (also since long one of my all time favorites) but also because of tracks like "New Kid in Town", Life in the Fast Lane" and especially also "The Last Resort". [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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1976
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This is just plainly a classic album: the voice and the song writing of Al Stewart on this album is just fabulous. Since then he he wasn't able to follow up on this one but that doesn't matter. This album has it all.
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1976
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I discovered this album and Pink Floyd (apart from "Money" from "Dark Side of the Moon" which was played on the radio) around 1977 when a friend of mine played a few songs of "Animals" (which is certainly not their best album) he had just bought and then let me listen to "Wish You Were Here" which indeed much better and even better than "Dark Side of the Moon"
Later I discovered where "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" came from, a dedication to Syd Barett who indeed had a great role in defining Pink Floyd in how it later became and introduced some weirdness in the band to prevented it to become to serious (although "The Wall came close").
However "Shine on You..." and "Wish You Were Here" are fine examples of the more melancholic side of Pink Floyd where the guitar playing once again plays an outstanding role. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
Later I discovered where "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" came from, a dedication to Syd Barett who indeed had a great role in defining Pink Floyd in how it later became and introduced some weirdness in the band to prevented it to become to serious (although "The Wall came close").
However "Shine on You..." and "Wish You Were Here" are fine examples of the more melancholic side of Pink Floyd where the guitar playing once again plays an outstanding role. [First added to this chart: 02/10/2017]
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1975
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My History in Music composition
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 17 | 17% | |
| 1980s | 28 | 28% | |
| 1990s | 40 | 40% | |
| 2000s | 11 | 11% | |
| 2010s | 1 | 1% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Iron Maiden | 1 | 1% | |
| Teenage Fanclub | 1 | 1% | |
| Arcade Fire | 1 | 1% | |
| Eagles | 1 | 1% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 1 | 1% | |
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From Johnnyo 02/20/2022 21:08 | #281638
I love this chart man. So much work gone into the selection of albums and I love the comments. Thanks for sharing
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