Sunday, October 12, 2008

My Favorite Things


All my life I have been a lover of the old vinyl albums. As a teen I devoured them -studied the covers, read all the liner notes, sang along, wrote out the lyrics, tried to play them on my guitar. Totally consumed them. Now just thinking back to them releases happy endorphins in my brain. The older ones take me back to eras in my life - the good old days. The more current ones create those good old days for future rear-view mirror reminiscing.

I list them here in no particular order. I will try to refrain from commentary on them, for now at least. Some of these I don't classify as good music now but nonetheless, they touched me. Have any of these impacted your life too?
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Dan Fogelberg - Home Free

Dan Fogelberg & Tim Wiesberg - Twin Sons of Different Mothers

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Linda Ronstadt's Greatest Hits (Vol I)

Billy Joel - The Stranger

Al Green Greatest Hits

Harry Nilsson - A Little Touch of Schmillson in the Night

Nilsson - The Point

The Best of the Guess Who

Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way of the World

Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine

Bread - Best of Bread

Chris Sligh - Running Back To You

Bebo Norman - Ten Thousand Days

Chris Rice - Deep Enough To Dream

Chris Rice - Past The Edges

Gene Autry - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer :o)

John Stewart - The Phoenix Concert

Don Williams - 20 Greatest Hits

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence

Mandisa - True Beauty

Jars of Clay - Redemption Songs

Carole King - Tapestry

Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years

Art Garfunkel - Watermark

Amy Grant & Art Garfunkel - Animals' Christmas

Loggins & Messina - The Best of Friends

Mac Davis - Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me

John Denver's Greatest Hits

Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge - Full Moon

Sarah Groves - Conversations

Sarah Groves - All Right Here

Amy Grant - My Father's Eyes

Amy Grant - A Christmas Album

Amy Grant - Legacy...Hymns & Faith

Any Grant - Rock of Ages Hymns & Faith

2 comments:

Liz said...

Do you still have any of your albums?

I had some Earth Wind and Fire,
Stevie Wonder, probably some Al Green and lots of other ones. I don't have them anymore.

My hubby is always reminicing about some rock band or lead singer that I don't know.

I was into oldies, Motown, Funk and the like.

Hischild said...

I have very few in album form unfortunately. Although I no longer have a turntable so couldn't playe em if I did. I have some in CD but have a longing to start searching for LP's. My brother has a huge collection of LP's. It's a hobby of his.

I really liked Motown too. Still do, I guess. Lots of early soul like the Chi-Lites, Temptations, Stylistics etc.