Friday, November 18, 2011

Just like Guardian Music, but with a smaller audience

Music writers at THE GUARDIAN newspaper recently compiled their lists of favorite albums, then invited readers to do the same.
Never ones to shirk from appropriating a good idea, we here at ROUTE 1 have done the same with this week's FRIDAY QUESTION:
"What is your favorite album?"
RICK T. -- "Full Circle" by Rick Tittle.
MARY N.-P. -- "Legend" by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
BRIAN M. -- SO hard to nail it down to just ONE favorite album, so I'll cheat and say, "Exit..Stage Left," Rush's live album from 1981. Critics don't seem to like this one of the band's four (I think there are five now) live albums, but it has what I think are great performances of some of my favorite late-70s/early-80s Rush material. A highlight is the "Broon's Bane/Trees/Xanadu" triptych.
JOHN S. -- "Thriller!"
SASKIA M. -- "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John.
BEKAH P. -- Easily, hands down, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." There's nothing that can beat that. Nothing.
KERI M. -- "So It's Come To This" by the Irish Plantation Orchestra.
KERSTIN H. -- "The Best of Culture Club."
STEVE M. -- Beatles' "Revolver." Best rock album of all time, no? Free's "Fire and Water" is an under the radar great album, but we are talking different leagues here.
ERIK H. -- Ever since I was in high school, the ska and rocksteady tunes on the compilation, "More Intensified: Original Ska 1963-67" has provided me the musical equivalent of comfort food. Basically reggae before its commercial globalization, the album includes tracks by The Skatalites, Stranger Cole, the Ethiopians, Desmond Dekker and The Maytals, among others.

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