03-05-2004, 08:22 AM
I'm too lazy to go down and flip through my vinyl. I've only got about 200 so I'm sure that about 95% of them would have made my top 5 at some point and I would probably change this list about a dozen times if I actually did go through them. At one time, audio was my favorite form of entertainment. I loved sitting listening to music coming from my Polk 10's powered by the Dynaco amp and pre-amp I built. I tended toward heavy sounds. If I felt my chest vibrating (not thumping mind you) from the throaty sounds I was hearing, I was in heaven. Few other things have brought me to the giddy, giggly, this is as good as it gets feeling I could get from music like that.
In no particular order (the titles might not be exactly correct):
Michael Murray - Bach: The Great Organ at Methuen (I could never learn to play a pipe organ - they would never get me away from it)
Mannheim Steamroller - Sampler (their original sampler - beige cover - selections from the first four Fresh Aire albums - my first exposure to MS and their Toccata from Fresh Aire III)
Mobile Fidelity half speed master - Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture (my turntable was good but not great and it could barely track the cannon shots - on lesser equipment the stylus was thrown out of the track - you could see the jagged tracks for the cannons - I was never brave enough to really crank this one because speaker cones and window glass are expensive)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (my first real album - "Oooh what a lucky man he was...." "Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea..." - when I got this on CD, the vinyl was so imprinted on my brain that it took me a long time to not expect a couple pops that were present for so many years)
Rush - 2112 (rock opera at its best)
Styx - Paradise Theater (I know, that's 6 but I had to get Styx in there too and this one was a toss up with so many of their others - Pieces of Eight, The Grand Illusion, Equinox, Kilroy Was Here)
Geez, I hate you now you know! Must.. leave.. equipment.. in.. storage.. So many albums that I am missing now. I wish I had a good place to set my stuff up again. Argghhhh..... :angry:
In no particular order (the titles might not be exactly correct):
Michael Murray - Bach: The Great Organ at Methuen (I could never learn to play a pipe organ - they would never get me away from it)
Mannheim Steamroller - Sampler (their original sampler - beige cover - selections from the first four Fresh Aire albums - my first exposure to MS and their Toccata from Fresh Aire III)
Mobile Fidelity half speed master - Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture (my turntable was good but not great and it could barely track the cannon shots - on lesser equipment the stylus was thrown out of the track - you could see the jagged tracks for the cannons - I was never brave enough to really crank this one because speaker cones and window glass are expensive)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (my first real album - "Oooh what a lucky man he was...." "Just take a pebble and cast it to the sea..." - when I got this on CD, the vinyl was so imprinted on my brain that it took me a long time to not expect a couple pops that were present for so many years)
Rush - 2112 (rock opera at its best)
Styx - Paradise Theater (I know, that's 6 but I had to get Styx in there too and this one was a toss up with so many of their others - Pieces of Eight, The Grand Illusion, Equinox, Kilroy Was Here)
Geez, I hate you now you know! Must.. leave.. equipment.. in.. storage.. So many albums that I am missing now. I wish I had a good place to set my stuff up again. Argghhhh..... :angry:
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"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
"You don't know how strong you can be until strong is the only option."
"Think deeply, speak gently, love much, laugh loudly, give freely, be kind."
"Talk, Laugh, Love."
Freshman Diablo
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
"You don't know how strong you can be until strong is the only option."
"Think deeply, speak gently, love much, laugh loudly, give freely, be kind."
"Talk, Laugh, Love."