On your recommendation, I listened to Ian Anderson's "The Secret Language of Birds" on UA-cam. Very, very nice. However, I'm still in love with Anderson's "Divinities: Twelve Dances with God." After all these years of listening to it, I still get a chill when "In a Stone Circle" comes on. I enjoy your videos and, just as importantly, the way you present them. You've got a touch of the showman in you.
Those poly sleeves changed my life about a decade. They let me fit four times the number of CDs in my limited storage space. More CDs are always a good thing.
Shout out, Ryan Adams. Nice . . . DRA is an amazingly consistent, excellent songwriter. 💜 The four proper albums he's released very recently are all worth a listen.
The diversity is impressive in itself. Nice to see The Answer get a guernsey. Have pre ordered the new album to complete the set (so far). Another really interesting video Barry. Thank you.
I bought a vinyl copy of Fillmore East in early 90s. The joyous cool cover just sucked me in and I wasn't disappointed. Have the same deluxe cd version also.
Nice selections in the "A"s! As for my own collection, I have albums by: Accept, AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Don Airey, Alcatraz, Alice in Chains, the Allman Brothers, Greg Allman, Tori Amos, Antibalas, April Wine, Joan Armatrading; Art (ie: pre-Gary Wright - Spooky Tooth), Tony Ashton, Asia, Natacha Atlas, Audioslave, and David Axelrod. ----I enjoy all those albums, and my favourite in the A section is Alice in Chain's "Black Gives Way to Blue" ...essentially an ode to the late Layne Staley.
I used to store my music by category- box(es) for progressive, psychedelic, grunge and so on. Now, they go alphabetically. My favourite A's under the alphabetical system would be a couple of albums by Avatarium (doom with a soaring & bluesy female vocalist) and Anekdoten (progressive, complete with mellotron). Keep up the tour. Its always interesting to take a peek at someone else's collection.
Great pick for #1. My favorite CD in my collection for "A" is Aerosmith "Rocks." My personal favorite of the band's discography and I think their best.
Nice to meander through a few of your discs. I really love Bryan Adams "Reckless" and of course AC/DC "Back In Black". I love the deluxe edition CDs you have. I have a lot of those versions. Looking forward to the next chapter.
The only A album we both have is At Fillmore East, which is probably my favorite of the lot as well. I have several Chet Atkins albums, but mine are all either duet (with Jerry Reed, Les Paul, and Tommy Emmanuel) or compilation. You didn’t mention which five came in your set, but I assume they are all solo studio albums. I was surprised you don’t have any Aerosmith or Alice In Chains albums. I only have a greatest hits for each, plus Sap (acoustic EP) for AIC.
'At Fillmore East' is my favourite early '70s live rock album. Humble Pie's 'Performance Rockin' the Fillmore' came out shortly after, and wasn't too damned shabby either...
An interesting list, with excellent summaries and insights. Looking forward to the whole series. Air - Moon safari is a retro synth masterpiece - love it. AC/DC - Back in black, awesome , and given the situation of a new singer, to make a banging belter is truly impressive. ABBA - Arrival - pure pop joy, mum gave it to me for Christmas at the time, I didn’t tell my mates though.
No America in your collection Barry? Hearts is an album of theirs my Dad regularly spun on the turntable when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's. I'm joining the top Patreon stream tomorrow so I can take part in the monthly zoom conversations and I'll definitely bring this album to one of them.
Interesting choice for your No1 CD.I have Live at Filmore East and it is a truly great live album. I agree with you about Christgau's comments-in his Rock Album's Of The 70's he unfavourably compares the Allman Brothers to The Grateful Dead-WTF?
I’m searching for more info about your choice of CD after Ian Anderson’s The Language of Birds. I can’t hear what you called the title - something like “Alliance of Son Hillaire”. Can’t find the album artwork anywhere on the internet! Please enlighten me - what’s the title again? Not on iTunes or in Discogs as far as I can see.
6:48 I preferred the girls… anyway, just found your channel last week through the Heep album review. excellent stuff (Heep and your channel(. We're around the same vintage (I'm 59 in a couple of weeks) and seem to enjoy much the same stuff. subbed :-)
Oh, this is going to be a fun series! Looking forward to the rest. I actually had way more “A” bands on cassette than I do on CD for some reason, but probably the most interesting “A” CD that I have is the first and only Armageddon album from 1975, a band that saw Keith Relf joining forces with a couple of the guys from Steamhammer. Pretty unique album that’s very heavy for its time; you could almost call it proto-prog metal. The mixing isn’t great (Relf’s voice gets drowned out sometimes) and a couple of the songs feel a bit half-baked, like they could’ve taken a bit more time to develop their ideas further, but it’s still a cool little footnote in music history that’s worth a listen if you haven’t heard it before, and I’m pretty sure it was also Relf’s last album before he died.
Sticking with the letter A, ---Tori Amos Boys For Pele would make my all time top twenty but i'd rank her in letter T, so saying that. Tough--actually really tough---maybe Alice Cooper, Muscle Of Love, but Billion Dollar Babies and Schools Out i like about the same, other mentions Angelwitch, Debut album. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead--Worlds Apart, So Divided, Source Tags And Codes all absolute bangers. At The Drive In , Relationship Of Command.
@@classicalbum I get that--i guess i'm a bit weird as i have Kate Bush under K and Tori under T but Bowie under B, don't mind me---if i went your way Boys For Pele is my fav Tori album and would make my top twenty all time albums, i love that album. If you have never come across Trail Of Dead i highly recommend giving them a spin. Go with the album Worlds Apart give it a few shots to sink in, judging what i've watched of you i think you'd likely enjoy---don't let the name fool you, not a row band, very melodic.
Ac/ Dc's 'Let There Be Rock' is for me their quintessential album before descending into pop / rock territory starting with Highway To Hell...thanks a lot Mutt Lange. Great choice for your No.1 Barry.
@@jasonladd6400 Not knowing Def Adams music i cannot comment. However Highway To Hell was far too polished for us 19 year olds and even one of them rechecked the label to make sure it was Ac/ Dc. The energy and sheer rockiness of LTBR is for me the gold standard that the band never came close to again (although Powerage had the brilliant Riff Raff).
Don't Ask (1994) by one the world's best pop vocalists of the last 40 years, the fantabulous Tina Arena. Australian, but the French awarded her their highest civil honour. The song Sorrento Moon is just beautiful, you will probably weep.
An interesting list of albums . As great as Bryan Adams' Reckless is , his follow up , Into the Fire , is even better . He had been touring with Peter Gabriel , Bruce Springsteen , and Sting ; and their influence shows ( topic wise ) on Into the Fire . There is a great song called Native Son , about the marginalization of the Indigenous people in Canada . There is also the great Remembrance Day , and host of other top notch songs , including Rebel , which was covered by Roger Daltrey . Cheers !!
Moon Safari is excellent. I love electronic music and it's a pleasure to listen to. Chill out music. Don't knock the French too much. Serge Gainsbourg is alright with me. So is his daughter Charlotte.
If I was to get into Tull, what songs would I listen to? Perhaps, the more commercially accessible tracks, please. I understand this might not represent the band in general.
Hey Baz. You mentioned that you lived in Russia for a while. Very curious to know what music they're exposed to there. Is it the same as in the West? Anything that you would care to share on the subject would be interesting to me here in the good old U.S. of A.
I've always hated plastic CD jewel cases... too thick, always cracking, those little teeth that hold the CD in place breaking off. I swear when CDs came out in the 80s, a plastic industry lobbyist or salesman convinced music execs to go with those infernal things over cardboard sleeves, which served vinyl albums for decades just fine. Now we finally see more cardboard digipacks (paper/cardboard) coming out. Anyway, Barry, what brand/style of sleeves are you using to store your CDs there? Thanks.
Good question....I have storage issues with all my CDs. Need to find a way to repackage so that I can fit all of them onto my shelves. Would really like to know where such sleeves are available.
Picked up on these after a tip from Andrew Dixon on his Beatles themed videos. Saves oceans of space but you lose the spine to identify your disc. Need to store with the picture facing you
On your recommendation, I listened to Ian Anderson's "The Secret Language of Birds" on UA-cam. Very, very nice. However, I'm still in love with Anderson's "Divinities: Twelve Dances with God." After all these years of listening to it, I still get a chill when "In a Stone Circle" comes on.
I enjoy your videos and, just as importantly, the way you present them. You've got a touch of the showman in you.
Boys for pele Is a great álbum, and Arrival Is tied with The visitors as my favorite ABBA álbum.
Yes two amazing ABBA albums
You surprised me with the Air album!
I,m more surprised with the ABBA selections.
Those poly sleeves changed my life about a decade. They let me fit four times the number of CDs in my limited storage space. More CDs are always a good thing.
What a great series. Viva CDs! My favourite in my collection is probably Ozric Tentacles Vitamin Enhanced original and re-release.
Just like Shropshire! So many laugh out loud moments on this video.
Some really good insight. I love Tull. I'll have to check out Ian's album.
Shout out, Ryan Adams. Nice . . . DRA is an amazingly consistent, excellent songwriter. 💜
The four proper albums he's released very recently are all worth a listen.
The diversity is impressive in itself. Nice to see The Answer get a guernsey. Have pre ordered the new album to complete the set (so far). Another really interesting video Barry. Thank you.
Enjoyed that Barry and what a great reveal at the end. Looking forward to the B list.
I bought a vinyl copy of Fillmore East in early 90s. The joyous cool cover just sucked me in and I wasn't disappointed. Have the same deluxe cd version also.
Nice selections in the "A"s! As for my own collection, I have albums by: Accept, AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Don Airey, Alcatraz, Alice in Chains, the Allman Brothers, Greg Allman, Tori Amos, Antibalas, April Wine, Joan Armatrading; Art (ie: pre-Gary Wright - Spooky Tooth), Tony Ashton, Asia, Natacha Atlas, Audioslave, and David Axelrod.
----I enjoy all those albums, and my favourite in the A section is Alice in Chain's "Black Gives Way to Blue" ...essentially an ode to the late Layne Staley.
You've convinced me. I'm upgrading my Fillmore East CD to the two-disc deluxe edition. 👍
Good choice!
Glad to hear you mention Pete Pardo. Sea of tranquility and your show are my favorite UA-cam listens
Thanks for the love for 'Secret Language of Birds'. I really think it's Anderson's best solo work.
No doubt!
I used to store my music by category- box(es) for progressive, psychedelic, grunge and so on. Now, they go alphabetically. My favourite A's under the alphabetical system would be a couple of albums by Avatarium (doom with a soaring & bluesy female vocalist) and Anekdoten (progressive, complete with mellotron). Keep up the tour. Its always interesting to take a peek at someone else's collection.
Hear Duanne Allman play lead on Laura Nyro's Beads of Sweat (1970) with Cornel Dupree, Chuck Rainey and the Swampers. Exceptional.
Great pick for #1. My favorite CD in my collection for "A" is Aerosmith "Rocks." My personal favorite of the band's discography and I think their best.
Nice to meander through a few of your discs. I really love Bryan Adams "Reckless" and of course AC/DC "Back In Black". I love the deluxe edition CDs you have. I have a lot of those versions. Looking forward to the next chapter.
Great timing. Just yesterday I was reading about the Allman Brothers concerts at the Fillmore in the oral history book bill Graham presents
The only A album we both have is At Fillmore East, which is probably my favorite of the lot as well. I have several Chet Atkins albums, but mine are all either duet (with Jerry Reed, Les Paul, and Tommy Emmanuel) or compilation. You didn’t mention which five came in your set, but I assume they are all solo studio albums.
I was surprised you don’t have any Aerosmith or Alice In Chains albums. I only have a greatest hits for each, plus Sap (acoustic EP) for AIC.
allman brothers one of the live classics of all time, superb pick
'At Fillmore East' is my favourite early '70s live rock album. Humble Pie's 'Performance Rockin' the Fillmore' came out shortly after, and wasn't too damned shabby either...
Great ! I just ordered it on LP from a collector and hadn’t heard even a single track from it. Perfect 👍
Jethro Tull's Bursting Out is one of my picks....and also Genesis with Seconds Out.....both perfect live double albums
An interesting list, with excellent summaries and insights. Looking forward to the whole series.
Air - Moon safari is a retro synth masterpiece - love it.
AC/DC - Back in black, awesome , and given the situation of a new singer, to make a banging belter is truly impressive.
ABBA - Arrival - pure pop joy, mum gave it to me for Christmas at the time, I didn’t tell my mates though.
No America in your collection Barry? Hearts is an album of theirs my Dad regularly spun on the turntable when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's. I'm joining the top Patreon stream tomorrow so I can take part in the monthly zoom conversations and I'll definitely bring this album to one of them.
Interesting choice for your No1 CD.I have Live at Filmore East and it is a truly great live album. I agree with you about Christgau's comments-in his Rock Album's Of The 70's he unfavourably compares the Allman Brothers to The Grateful Dead-WTF?
Always loved the title track to Abba's Arrival-a bit different from their usual fare...'n Mike Oldfield does a magnificent cover version!
I’m searching for more info about your choice of CD after Ian Anderson’s The Language of Birds. I can’t hear what you called the title - something like “Alliance of Son Hillaire”. Can’t find the album artwork anywhere on the internet! Please enlighten me - what’s the title again? Not on iTunes or in Discogs as far as I can see.
@@pm_ordinarychap thank you!
All Salopians thank you for mentioning Shropshire.
6:48 I preferred the girls…
anyway, just found your channel last week through the Heep album review. excellent stuff (Heep and your channel(. We're around the same vintage (I'm 59 in a couple of weeks) and seem to enjoy much the same stuff. subbed :-)
Welcome aboard.
Oh, this is going to be a fun series! Looking forward to the rest. I actually had way more “A” bands on cassette than I do on CD for some reason, but probably the most interesting “A” CD that I have is the first and only Armageddon album from 1975, a band that saw Keith Relf joining forces with a couple of the guys from Steamhammer. Pretty unique album that’s very heavy for its time; you could almost call it proto-prog metal. The mixing isn’t great (Relf’s voice gets drowned out sometimes) and a couple of the songs feel a bit half-baked, like they could’ve taken a bit more time to develop their ideas further, but it’s still a cool little footnote in music history that’s worth a listen if you haven’t heard it before, and I’m pretty sure it was also Relf’s last album before he died.
'Alone with everybody' i love that album. His best solo album for sure.
Really looking forward to Episode 24!
Great stuff. Looking forward to the next installment , expected to see Alice Cooper here but guess they will filed under 'C'.! Keep up the good work!
Sticking with the letter A, ---Tori Amos Boys For Pele would make my all time top twenty but i'd rank her in letter T, so saying that.
Tough--actually really tough---maybe Alice Cooper, Muscle Of Love, but Billion Dollar Babies and Schools Out i like about the same, other mentions
Angelwitch, Debut album.
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead--Worlds Apart, So Divided, Source Tags And Codes all absolute bangers.
At The Drive In , Relationship Of Command.
I tend to organise artists by surname
@@classicalbum I get that--i guess i'm a bit weird as i have Kate Bush under K and Tori under T but Bowie under B, don't mind me---if i went your way Boys For Pele is my fav Tori album and would make my top twenty all time albums, i love that album. If you have never come across Trail Of Dead i highly recommend giving them a spin. Go with the album Worlds Apart give it a few shots to sink in, judging what i've watched of you i think you'd likely enjoy---don't let the name fool you, not a row band, very melodic.
Phew! Alphabetised by surname; I expected nothing less.
Ac/ Dc's 'Let There Be Rock' is for me their quintessential album before descending into pop / rock territory starting with Highway To Hell...thanks a lot Mutt Lange. Great choice for your No.1 Barry.
He did a better job with ac/dc than Bryan Adams at least. Back in Black is seminal gold standard unlike Waking Up the Neighbours. Def Adams.
@@jasonladd6400 Not knowing Def Adams music i cannot comment. However Highway To Hell was far too polished for us 19 year olds and even one of them rechecked the label to make sure it was Ac/ Dc. The energy and sheer rockiness of LTBR is for me the gold standard that the band never came close to again (although Powerage had the brilliant Riff Raff).
Don't Ask (1994) by one the world's best pop vocalists of the last 40 years, the fantabulous Tina Arena. Australian, but the French awarded her their highest civil honour. The song Sorrento Moon is just beautiful, you will probably weep.
AC/DC - If You Want Blood is probably my favourite A.
Airbag from Norway. Not a bad album from them.
An interesting list of albums .
As great as Bryan Adams' Reckless is , his follow up , Into the Fire , is even better .
He had been touring with Peter Gabriel , Bruce Springsteen , and Sting ; and their influence shows ( topic wise ) on Into the Fire .
There is a great song called Native Son , about the marginalization of the Indigenous people in Canada .
There is also the great Remembrance Day , and host of other top notch songs , including Rebel , which was covered by Roger Daltrey .
Cheers !!
Moon Safari is excellent. I love electronic music and it's a pleasure to listen to. Chill out music. Don't knock the French too much. Serge Gainsbourg is alright with me. So is his daughter Charlotte.
Surprised anyone really likes Olias of Sunhillow.
I bought when it came out and was very disappointed though I was a huge Yes fan. All these decades later I still think it’s mediocre.
Even more surprising that he appreciates Animation
What do you think of Planet P Project?
Personally I like it a lot....the self-titled and Pink World. Tony Carey was very prolific from 1983 to 86.
Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies
My A is Atomic Rooster - Death walks behind you
If I was to get into Tull, what songs would I listen to? Perhaps, the more commercially accessible tracks, please. I understand this might not represent the band in general.
I have done a video on 'introduction to Tull' but I would recommend 'aqualung' or 'Songs from the wood' as a good intro
Thick as a brick will make you want more, definitely a good place to start. In some ways it's like a best of on its own.
Aqualung was the first album I listened to, to get into Tull. I think its the obvious one, thats the one that I would recommend.
Benefit and Aqualung, then Songs From The Wood
I'm assuming the best songs aren't all on one album.
Hey Baz. You mentioned that you lived in Russia for a while. Very curious to know what music they're exposed to there. Is it the same as in the West? Anything that you would care to share on the subject would be interesting to me here in the good old U.S. of A.
Love The Answer
Ryan Adams is heavy metal too 😜
😆
What, no Aiboforcen?
All these far far too mainstream for my liking, but good video.
Shropshire!
I've always hated plastic CD jewel cases... too thick, always cracking, those little teeth that hold the CD in place breaking off. I swear when CDs came out in the 80s, a plastic industry lobbyist or salesman convinced music execs to go with those infernal things over cardboard sleeves, which served vinyl albums for decades just fine. Now we finally see more cardboard digipacks (paper/cardboard) coming out.
Anyway, Barry, what brand/style of sleeves are you using to store your CDs there? Thanks.
Good question....I have storage issues with all my CDs. Need to find a way to repackage so that I can fit all of them onto my shelves. Would really like to know where such sleeves are available.
Here is the amazon link UK: amzn.to/3WV1yM4
@@classicalbum Thanks very much for this link
@@classicalbum Thanks. How many CDs can a single sleeve hold? What do you do with multiple CD sets?
Picked up on these after a tip from Andrew Dixon on his Beatles themed videos. Saves oceans of space but you lose the spine to identify your disc. Need to store with the picture facing you
A is for Aaron, Lee
B is for Bolton, Michael
C is for Clarkson, Kelly
D is for Dion, Celine
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Helping you build a Classic Rock vinyl collection.
Do people with tuberculosis actually rasp? They may wheeze, but do they rasp?
Hahaha
Bryan Adams is hardly heavy metal,bubble gum love ballads is more like it.
You confuse hard rock with heavy metal. Plz edit
It wasn't me it was kerrang magazine
You're missing something really good, when it comes to 5.1 surround sound.