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Postby BishounenStalker » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:16 pm

Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schonberg -- Les Miserables
Andrew Lloyd Webber -- The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber -- Cats (beat out A Chorus Line for longest running show on Broadway)
Jerome Kern -- Showboat
Leonard Bernstein -- West Side Story
John Williams -- Star Wars
John Williams -- Indiana Jones
John Williams -- Jaws
John Williams -- Superman
John Williams -- Jurassic Park
Jerry Goldsmith -- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Jerry Goldsmith -- The Secret of NIMH
James Horner -- The Land Before Time
James Horner -- Willow
Michael Kamen -- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Klaus Doldinger -- Das Boot
Klaus Doldinger (and Limahl) -- The Neverending Story
Jimmy Webb and America -- The Last Unicorn
Joseph LoDuca -- Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3)
Journey -- Greatest Hits
The Beatles -- The White Album
The Beatles -- Revolver
Foreigner -- Mr. Moonlight
Neil Diamond -- Hot August Night II
R.E.M. -- Reckoning
Chicago -- Live Chicago
Chicago -- Greatest Hits: 1982-1989
Joshua Kadison -- Painted Desert Serenade
Joshua Kadison -- Delilah Blue
Winton Marsalis -- In Full Swing
Heart -- These Dreams: Greatest Hits


These are all I've come up with for the moment going through my CD collection. Most of them are at least 5 years old :lol: [/i]
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Postby Geirr » Thu Apr 10, 2003 1:40 am

I'll put in another vote for 'Das Boot'- in the day, I almost got at ticket rippin' along Rte 2, about 86mph to the engine theme (heard in 'Angriff' and 'Homeward Bound') Tip of the hat to Basil Poledouris' 'Hunt for Red October' while we're on submarine movie theme music.

I gotta play selections from Richard Rodgers' 'Victory at Sea' during Memorial Day or July 4th, and Handel's 'Messiah' for Easter.

Beethoven's 9th, (but also 'Helgoland,' by Anton Bruckner,) 'Karn Evil 9,' by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and 'Going for the One,' by Yes. And a ton of Celtic and medieval stuff, especially a-capella motets.

None of this seems to make good AMV's though, but I might try:
- That silly, sped-up 60-second rinky-tink piano run at the end of 'The Sheriff' (ELP again. The lyrics suck. But we knew that already.)
- Stuff by The Dregs. (aka Dixie Dregs) Virtuoso guitar-ing, all instrumentals. No lyrics.
- 'Classical Gas,' by Mason Williams. No. Just kidding.

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Postby manndk » Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:01 pm

Timeless albumns..
Life After Death - Notorious BIG
Its Dark And Hell Is Hott - DMX
Doggy style - Snoop Dogg
Chronic 200 - Dr. Dre
BeeGees - Greatest hits
ABBA - Gold
I Am - Nas
All Albumns - Bob Marley
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Postby RamonesFan2020204 » Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:02 am

Pink Floyd-The Wall
Van Halen-5150 (Sammy rocks!)
Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique
Night Ranger-7 Wishes
Alphaville-Forever Young, Afternoons In Utopia
Ozzy-Diary of a Madman
Electric Light Orchestra-Time
Rush-Permanent Waves, Signals, Counterparts, Test For Echo, Vapor Trails
INXS-The Swing, Listen Like Thieves, Kick
Megadeth-Peace Sells But Who's Buying, Rust In Peace
Savatage-Hall of the Mountain King
Anthrax-Among The Living
Manowar-Battle Hymns, Into Glory Ride, Hail To England, Sign of the Hammer, Fighting The World, Kings of Metal, Triumph Of Steel, Louder Than Hell, both live albums, Warriors of the World
Scorpions-Lovedrive, Love at first Sting, Crazy World
Styx-Grand Illusion, Cornerstone, Paradise Theater, Kilroy Was Here
Tommy Shaw-What If, Ambition
Dennis DeYoung-Desert Moon, 10 on Broadway (I'm not really a big broadway buff, but this was actually a good album.)
Foreigner-Self-titled, Double Vision, 4, Agent Provocateur


Just a few. I'll think of more later.
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:15 am

this thread is gay. It had a good idea but no one knwos what they're tlaking about.

I only saw a few that fit the bill.

The stuff has to appeal the EVERYONE, it has to be well known, the band has to be famous.

This seems to be a "name albums you like" thread more than anything.

I only read the first page up until Thursday was mentioned to save myself the waste of time to come.

I saw only a few albums mentioned that are good answers, CDs like Green Day's Nimrod being one of them.

Thursday, as much as I fucking love that album, no one knwos who they are dude. Shame shame on you, you even made this thread. How can they be part of our culture, and a timless album if no one knwos who they are?

I'm done rambling. Maybe I'll go back and read more of the thread later, but from what I see this is basicly a favorite albums thread.
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Postby FoolThemAll » Sun Apr 27, 2003 9:48 am

Hmm.

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Radiohead - OK Computer
Weezer - Blue Album (or maybe just on the threshold)
Beatles - Abbey Road (though I prefer Rubber Soul)
Nirvana - Nevermind

I like Pearl Jam and the Stone Temple pilots both more than Nirvana, but Nirvana's really the only one of them that comes close to having a timeless album. PJ's Ten had a second half that didn't appeal to everyone, and Core seems to me to be STP's least varied work.
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Postby Tom the Fish » Sun Apr 27, 2003 10:38 am

Jace Tsunami wrote:Thursday, as much as I fucking love that album, no one knwos who they are dude. Shame shame on you, you even made this thread. How can they be part of our culture, and a timless album if no one knwos who they are?


They've played the warped tour and been on MTV, along with what I see as a pretty solid fanbase. I don't think they're starving out in obscurity.

Michael Stipe once said that only 100 people ever bought the first Velvet Underground record, but all those people started bands. Does that make it timeless, or influential, or are those catagories too fluid from person to person? It's all just words and opinions in the long run, and fun to discuss. :D

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Postby kilik^ » Sun Apr 27, 2003 11:56 am

I usually dont tend to get into arguments with anyone on this forum, because i dont want to make nothing a really big of a deal so i usually ignore.

For myself, what i consider timeless album is something that has contributed something to music, something that had make an influence on the music itself. Thursday had contributed a lot to the hardcore scene that is pretty much a genre that is unknow to the majority of people, And thursday is on of the few known hardcore bands. Full collpase is an AWSOME album, and they really had created a style that i think no band could ever copy, So thats why i consider their album as timeless, cause in 10 years from now i could still listened to them.

But hey, everybody that has post has a diferent definition of what a timeless album is, so i dont think everybody has put anything wrong. Maybe to some people what u are saying is true, maybe to some is not. anyway, i dont feel like i should argue about this again :) .
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Sun Apr 27, 2003 2:30 pm

well according to what you just said that wouldn't technicaly make it timeless, just to you.

I have to agree with you about Thursday being Unique tho. I see a lot of their styles in other bands, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that any band sounds like them, maybe just a little similar.
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Postby SarahtheBoring » Sun Apr 27, 2003 10:01 pm

Nothing appeals to everyone. Absolutely nothing.

There are albums that I HAVE listened to for ten years - ABBA Gold, Depeche Mode's Violator - but I wouldn't call them ultimately timeless.

See, this is the problem with, once again, forgetting the difference between "ultimate truth" and "my opinion." Each is fine, but few people make the distinction at the start of the thread and someone ends up getting pissy at some point or another. :?
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Postby Yaia » Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:01 am

"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
"The White Album" - Beatles
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Postby BigshotSpike » Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:12 pm

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X-Japan-Dahlia
X-Japan-Art of Life
Pink Floyd-Wish you were Here
Manic Street Preachers-The Holy Bible
Dir En Grey-Gauze
Radiohead-OK Computer
Bjork-Homogenic
Gackt-Mars
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream
Stabbing Westward-Darkest Days
Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral
Marilyn Manson-Mechanical Animals
Green Day-Dookie
Ben Folds Five-Whatever and Ever, Amen
Oasis-What's the Story Morning Glory?
Pierrot-Heaven, the Customized Landscape
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Postby Eek-1 » Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:51 pm

I esp. enjoy listening to Chiquitita & Voules Vouz in ABBA - Gold album. Brings back childhood memories =)
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Postby Otohiko » Mon May 05, 2003 9:14 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:Nothing appeals to everyone. Absolutely nothing.


This discussion is making me chuckle. But Sarah is right :)

It feels kinda like hell to me... though it doesn't burn too too much... but what is timeless? Is timeless great? Does timeless challenge our conception of music or merely go along with it?

If timeless is great by definition, then what I see is that the greatest albums are the ones which are the most mainstream... brother, I surely am in hell then :D

But it's not a really bad kind of hell. It's gut funky little plastic horned demons running around.

Am I the only one with the crazy idea of making an AMV series for a whole album, or has it been done before?
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Postby kilik^ » Mon May 05, 2003 11:02 pm

Otohiko wrote:Am I the only one with the crazy idea of making an AMV series for a whole album, or has it been done before?


I dont think so. Quite some time ago a guy made a thread about him making an AMV series with the Reanimation album (Linkin park, just in case :) ) maybe he is making it right now..... you're right in one thing is a creazy idea :? .
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