Topic: Fun albums (Read 30181 times)

Thrillho · « **on:** 29 Mar 2009, 16:19 »

Okay, now obviously we enjoy listening to everything we like, otherwise we wouldn't listen to it.

What I want to know about is the albums that you think are fun.

I've been listening to a lot of Dylan since that thread about him, and a lot of the time I've been listening to "Love And Theft". I've been wondering why that is and it's occurred to me - it's fun. He's made a lot of fun songs, and this album isn't short of emotion and point-making. But the recording, the performances (the drum sound stands out to me as well) just all says that Dylan and his band had a hell of a time making this record.

What albums do you listen to just because of the good-time atmosphere of them?

Christophe · « **Reply #1 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 16:25 »

Reed · « **Reply #2 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 16:36 »

scarred · « **Reply #3 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 16:42 »

sean · « **Reply #4 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 16:57 »

celticgeek · « **Reply #5 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 17:04 »

I figure that every album recorded by Tom Lehrer is a fun album, and he definitely sounded like he was having a great deal of fun recording them.

Be My Head · « **Reply #6 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 17:05 »

Basically any fast tempo'd jazz music

Inlander · « **Reply #7 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 17:33 »

Quote from: Dire bacterium on 29 Mar 2009, 16:36

Remain in Light

Right up until it gets all down-beat at the end.

Reed · « **Reply #8 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 17:36 »

Yeah, but most of it is so fun that I chose to ignore that.

sean · « **Reply #9 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 17:45 »

rynne · « **Reply #10 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 18:10 »

Quote from: Inlander on 29 Mar 2009, 17:33

Quote from: Dire bacterium on 29 Mar 2009, 16:36
Remain in Light

Right up until it gets all down-beat at the end.

Right, I don't know how "fun" an album about loss of identity is overall. Though I'll be damned if "The Great Curve" doesn't rock all kinds of ass. (And I still wish it'd made it onto the best album bracket.)

This would be my vote for a fun album:

Dazed · « **Reply #11 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 18:21 »

Everything by PFunk or James Brown

JD · « **Reply #12 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 19:45 »

Johnny C · « **Reply #13 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 19:48 »

David_Dovey · « **Reply #14 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 20:39 »

Almost any pre-Berlin Bowie.

Patrick · « **Reply #15 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 21:03 »

Elvis goddamn Costello, My Aim Is True.

Also, supreme songwriting.

squawk · « **Reply #16 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 21:35 »

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #17 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 22:01 »

De_El · « **Reply #18 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 22:05 »

Lhefriel_Medies · « **Reply #19 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 22:29 »

Will I be ostracized for listening to this?

(edit because the image was massive)

kyleg · « **Reply #20 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 22:31 »

Iron Maiden and Judas Priest from the 80s

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #21 on:** 29 Mar 2009, 22:43 »

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #22 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 00:51 »

Fun ... music?

Does such an entity exist?

Sting once said that 'I love you' is not a song. 'I love you ... but you love someone else' is. But then again, what does Sting know?

Cernunnos · « **Reply #23 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 04:44 »

the Holy Fuck LP

Beck- Midnite Vultures

Anything by Junior Senior duh

Also Squawk you are so right about Beulah.

Inlander · « **Reply #24 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 06:17 »

Any number of jazz albums, but a personal all-time favourite is the self-titled by the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet.

EDIT: Also either album by the Go! Team. Fun on record, fun live, just all-round FUN.

Radical AC · « **Reply #25 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 08:58 »

michaelicious · « **Reply #26 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 09:07 »

dancarter · « **Reply #27 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 10:13 »

Avec · « **Reply #28 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 12:15 »

This just makes me happy.

Koremora · « **Reply #29 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 12:36 »

All KINDS of schizophrenic sexy crazy goin' on up in he-ah.

Scarychips · « **Reply #30 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 14:43 »

Koremora, I love you.

Lummer · « **Reply #31 on:** 30 Mar 2009, 14:44 »

I AM THE LAZERVIKING!

billiumbean · « **Reply #32 on:** 31 Mar 2009, 04:19 »

Quote from: BeoPuppy on 30 Mar 2009, 00:51

what does Sting know?

How to play a lute, which is dancing very close to knowing absolutely everything there is to know.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #33 on:** 31 Mar 2009, 04:30 »

Suddenly his words seem to hold so much more truth.

Retrospectre · « **Reply #34 on:** 31 Mar 2009, 05:43 »

Fun House.

The minute I hear the opening of Down On The Street I'll get a dopey grin on my face.

JD · « **Reply #35 on:** 31 Mar 2009, 19:16 »

Lexington, 125 · « **Reply #36 on:** 31 Mar 2009, 19:41 »

Man Man- Rabbit Habits

Animal Collective- Tung Songs

Black Moth Super Rainbow- Start a People

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #37 on:** 31 Mar 2009, 19:53 »

Catacombs · « **Reply #38 on:** 31 Mar 2009, 20:05 »

Quote from: JimmyJazz on 31 Mar 2009, 19:53

This.

Also, I second Elvis Costello's My Aim is True

kwami42 · « **Reply #39 on:** 01 Apr 2009, 08:50 »

sean · « **Reply #40 on:** 01 Apr 2009, 15:21 »

you lose the thread.

sorry!

A Shoggoth on the Roof · « **Reply #41 on:** 01 Apr 2009, 15:50 »

scarred · « **Reply #42 on:** 01 Apr 2009, 15:53 »

Quote from: A Shoggoth on the Roof on 01 Apr 2009, 15:50

The Unicorns

yes.

squawk · « **Reply #43 on:** 01 Apr 2009, 16:03 »

That whole album is just about dying and bones and shit but it is definitely oodles of fun.

kwami42 · « **Reply #44 on:** 01 Apr 2009, 17:15 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 01 Apr 2009, 15:21

you lose the thread.

sorry!

Psh, you just don't know what fun is.

Invammocon · « **Reply #45 on:** 02 Apr 2009, 01:05 »

Anything by Logan Whitehurst. Anyone else know about him? I never hear any talk about him.

Christophe · « **Reply #46 on:** 02 Apr 2009, 07:33 »

All I know of him is his stuff with the Velvet Teen. I saw a solo show he did several years back that was pretty alright but I had to leave early. It was really sad when the guy died.

A Shoggoth on the Roof · « **Reply #47 on:** 02 Apr 2009, 15:12 »

The Velvet Teen? I have a song by them (In a Steadman Spray), but I have no fucking clue where it came from. I am listening to it now, and it is a good song. ~~I'm going to go find some more of them for my own personal enjoyment.~~ Done, downloaded Cum Laude

Patrick · « **Reply #48 on:** 02 Apr 2009, 16:54 »

Sondre Lerche's Faces Down is a pretty good album for brightening up a rainy day. After the first song, some of the earlier tracks are kindof same-y, but as the album gets on, it just gets better and better. I want to write songs as pretty as this guy does.

RedLion · « **Reply #49 on:** 02 Apr 2009, 18:18 »

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