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Let’s play.

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We all have favorites.

This shouldn’t be difficult.

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For me, two immediately come to mind.

I’m a Jersey girl born and bred, and when I was growing up? Bruce ruled.

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I still have my original vinyl from 1975. I played it endlessly, learned all the words to all the songs and can still sing along verbatim to this day. Including a perfectly timed grunt on the title track. IYKYK.

Bruce’s raspy vocals filled with angst, Clarence’s mournful horn…Thunder Road, Jungleland. I can almost smell the shore.

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My second perfect album?

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The year was 1992, MTV was all we watched and Clapton was mesmerizing. Stripped down acoustic guitar performances that seared right through your soul. Bluesy and heartfelt, it was a masterpiece. His tender version of Layla rocketed to the top but the lesser known songs like Before You Accuse Me and Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out still resonate. Tears in Heaven? I can still feel the pain.

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Now you?

What’s your album of pure perfection…

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30 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  2. It’s been what seems like centuries since I listened to music.
    When I do listen… I like it LOUD! Bouncing off the walls loud!
    I have a big house and my daughter and her family live with me.
    Everyone has their favorite form of entertainment, and none of it is the same as mine.
    I hate headphones so I crank it up only when I have the house all to myself, (which isn’t often)
    Two of my favorite entertainers are The Chuck Wagon Gang and Jim Reeves. (Yes I’m old-school)

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  4. I don’t think I have a perfect album. There’s always a song or two that’s disappointing somewhere. (Probably why Clapton’s “Unplugged” is so good, he was drawing from multiple albums.) Although the soundtrack to “The Little Mermaid” and a few other Disney movies are pretty good. Maybe because they have fewer songs.

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  6. Too many to name (including both your choices), but the obvious first one that pops into my mind is “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd. Their “Animals” album, too–which I like even better.

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  8. Can’t say I have one…I’m just not a 100% fan of anything or anyone – remote control for a cd player is a dear friend like the fast forward button on the tv remote! Patience – I have none! (I had to speak to someone on the phone this morning and it couldn’t have been more than a minute or 2 into the call when I told them to speed it up, spit it out and move the encounter along.)

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  13. I’ve thought about this all day, and it is hard to pick one album over all others. But I. finally chose Eric Burdon and the New Animals. I believe it was called Every One of Us. Very close second is Neil Diamond, Jonathon Livinstone Seagull.

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      1. He has had a lot of them over the years. The band started out as The Animals, but like a number of singing group, the record companies demanded the lead singer be promoted to star status. So The Animals became Eric Burdon and the Animals. That band broke broke up in 1967, and with new musicians they recorded under the old name. The next album came out as EB with the New Animals, but it didn’t stick.

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