The Life Of A Female Geek

Show us what makes you a die-hard fan.

Neil gaiman

Audio: Share an album in your collection that's a classic from the first to the last cut (no need to use the skip button).  Submitted by Cortadito. 

Just one? Seriously?

Powerage

AC/DC - "Powerage" - (1978.) It's a little quieter than "Let There Be Rock", (1977) but not as overplayed as "Back in Black." It was between this and the Australian version of "T.N.T."... but "Powerage" is international, relatively easy to find and *really* highlights early AC/DC, the way I see it. You don't need to skip a track here at all.

Moving Pictures

Rush - "Moving Pictures"- (1981.) Not my personal favourite out of the Rush discography... but I'm a fan. "Moving Pictures" is a classic for *anyone*, Rush fan or not.They've gotten into their own style here and left their Led Zeppelin-style stuff behind. It's a little less "epic" than "Caress of Steel" and "Hemispheres." If you sit and press the skip button when you're playing this, you need your head checked.

London Calling

The Clash - "London Calling" - 1979. Again, not my personal favourite (that goes to the UK version of their debut or "Combat Rock") but if "London Calling" isn't a classic, I haven't the faintest clue what is. Punk was in. But The Clash, imo, were so much more than a punk band. Listen to "The Guns of Brixton"... they've incorporated reggae there. Punk came back and gave 70's rock a kick in the ass - it needed it. As much as I personally like the 70's rock style, it gets over the top sometimes. If you sit and skip tracks on "London Calling"... again, you need your head checked.

Four words (and an action):

Stardust movie. Seven days.

*dead Gaiman fangirl*

Audio: Show us your favorite compilation album. 
Submitted by Mana'olana.  

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Tom Waits

Audio: Show us five CDs or albums that changed your life. 
Submitted by redhotmomma.

Life-changing? Mmmm.... *scours library*

Closing Time

Tom Waits

I absolutely *adore* this album. Waits' 70's stuff is my favourite. His style wouldn't have been something I usually listened to, before. He changed my taste quite a bit and opened me up to other stuff.

Five Days in July

Blue Rodeo

                                                           Jim Cuddy = GOD. Need I say more?
                                                           "Five Days in July" - aka ^ - is probably my favourite.That or "Outskirts."

Powerage

AC/DC

                                                          Love, love, love, love this one. It's a little less bluesy than other "early" AC/DC, but it shows still. Bon Scott sounds legitimately lonely and miserable on "Down Payment Blues." What's not to like? It's straight up rock and roll - and that's all it is.

 

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

                                                          I was debating between this one ("American IV") and "American V", released posthumously, but American IV won. Fiona Apple's background vocals on "Bridge Over Troubled Water" *kill* me. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is *chilling*, even if you're not a country fan at all. The cover of "If You Could Read My Mind" on American V almost made me put it here, though, but his video for "Hurt" has stuck with me so long....

Rush

Rush

                                                          Rush's first album - I think it was either this or "Fly By Night" that introduced me to them. It's not quite the same band - they switched drummers *after* it was recorded/released, if memory serves me. (*is a major Neil Peart fan.*) The "English music" influence is there - I can hear major Led Zep and Cream in it. (The original drummer is *so* Bonham influenced.) But it had a pretty good part of introducing me to them. Plus, I like snagging debuts of bands and then listening to later material - you can hear them grow and change.

... As in dead air... to say this:

Why is Rolling Stone talking about Tom Waits? *puzzled* I know the label/people-responsible-for-such-thingers categorize his albums as "rock"... but is he *really* a rock musician?

Not to me, at least.

What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?

Do you really want to know? No, I don't think you do. :P

1. "Ride On" - AC/DC. (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Australian) - 1976.)
2. "Anthem" - Rush. (Fly By Night - 1975)
3. "Coming Back to You" - Leonard Cohen. (Various Positions - 1984)
4. "Tumbling Dice" - The Rolling Stones. (Exile on Main St - 1972)
5. "If I Have to Go" - Tom Waits. (Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards -2006.)
6. "White Riot" - The Clash. (The Clash (UK) - 1977)
7. "Bridge over Troubled Water" - Simon and Garfunkel. (Bridge over Troubled Water - 1970)
8. "Shadowboxer" - Fiona Apple. (Tidal- 1996)
9. "3 Dressed Up As A 9" - Trooper. (Flying Colors - 1979)
10. "Hammer To Fall" - Queen. (The Works - 1984.)

Oi, Six Apart.

Nice job of shooting yourselves in the foot there.

Now do you see why you don't mess with fandom people?

/LJ user.

Which band or artist which is no longer performing or alive would you have loved to have seen?
Submitted by Rev Stan.

Pre-1980 AC/DC, with Bon Scott as frontman. He seems to have so much stage energy, in video clips - and his lyrics are witty/tongue-in-cheek. Listening to a live track, I swear, I can *hear* him grinning, almost. I'd've loved to have been born early enough to see him with AC/DC.

- If not AC/DC with Bon, then maybe Led Zeppelin or KISS at their height, when there was more music involved than "ooh-let's-make-money."

Book:  Show us a book everyone should read before they die. 
Submitted by Rob

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

I'm serious. Read it. Love it. Shiny book. I want to go read it again. (Gaiman is love... but yet nobody seems to know he exists.)