The CD Nostalgia Challenge!!!

[Gresh]

OK all you geriatric music nuts...here's the challenge:

Dig into your CD archives and pull out something that you haven't listened to in over 1 year....and listen to it all the way through.

Report your findings, what was it, and what are your impressions of it today.

I'll start...I've got two

1. Extreme: Pornagraffittii

Haven't pulled this out in a LONG TIME...been at least 4 years. Holy crap what tone Nuno had on that one. He is such a strong player in all respects on this one. The rhythm playing is just top dead center. The leads are some what yawnish...but he was what, like 18 or 19 when this was recorded?

2. Yes: Union

Simply fantastic album. I love this version of Yes, Trevor Rabin is awesome...sort of reminds me of Neal Schon, never overpowers a song but crap can the guy play his arse off. great band.

[moro]

Originally Posted by Gresh

but [Nuno] was what, like 18 or 19 when this was recorded?

Er, 24. Still pretty young, but not *that* young.

[fettouhi]

Mötley Crüe : Dr. Feelgood

Just a great album .

Poison : Flesh & Blood

Another fine moment back in 1990 .

David Lee Roth : Skyscraper & Eat 'Em And Smile

Amazing .

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers : Into The Great Wide Open.

Tom's best album IMHO .

Van Halen : I & 1984

A must have classic.

Yngwie J. Malmsteen : Rising Force

The beginning of shred .

Vinnie Moore : Mind's Eye

I just love his tone on that album.

Ozzy Osbourne : No More Tears

Ozzy & Zakk in their finest hour .

Regards

André

[sanitarium]

Good idea I dug out:

Status Quo - 12 gold bars, on vinyl!

Man that album rocks so hard. It's so basic yet rockin. I don't think i've ever played a quo album on less than 3/4 volume on a stereo!
I think tomorrow in the car it's gonna have to some Chris Rea.

[Drew]

Good one. I'll do this when I get home tonight.

[vaijem777]

I pulled out Dweezil Zappa's "Confessions" last night. DAMN good album! Especially the "Stayin' Alive" with Donny Osmond on vocals and consecutive solos by Dweezil, Nuno, Zakk, Warren DiMartini, Lukather and a handful of others. Plus...Josh Freese on drums! Great album and very interesting. Hadn't listened to it for years, but it's on my iPod now

[markg5150]

Van Halen 2 - especially women in love and beuatifl girls

Bryan Adams - Reckless - brings bcak some good memories

I would like to listen to John Norum - Total Control but I haven't got a turntable to play vinyl anymore !!!

[Gresh]

Originally Posted by vaijem777

I pulled out Dweezil Zappa's "Confessions" last night. DAMN good album! Especially the "Stayin' Alive" with Donny Osmond on vocals and consecutive solos by Dweezil, Nuno, Zakk, Warren DiMartini, Lukather and a handful of others. Plus...Josh Freese on drums! Great album and very interesting. Hadn't listened to it for years, but it's on my iPod now

It's actually an iPOD/iTunes fiasco that's got me listening to all the old stuff. I have to reload everything back in one album at a time and I'm finding all the stuff I used to love...and I still do. Goes to show that good records are just good, period...it's timeless. And just about every one of them that I truly love, just hearing it again brings me back to when it was first bought...ahhh to be young again.

[fettouhi]

Originally Posted by markg5150

Van Halen 2 - especially women in love and beuatifl girls

Bryan Adams - Reckless - brings bcak some good memories

I would like to listen to John Norum - Total Control but I haven't got a turntable to play vinyl anymore !!!

Bryan Adams : Waking up the Neighbours

Van Halen : F.*.*.K.

AC/DC : Who Made Who

Regards

André

[bob mclaughlin]

Ozzy's Diary of a Madman (Randy smokes!!)

Night Ranger's Dawn Patrol (Great duel guitar riffs)

[pawel]

All of it is on tapes, but stuff I really haven't listened to in ages are:

Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Aerosmith - Pump
Queen - Works, Live Killers
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Genesis - And Then There Were Three...
AC/DC - Flick the Switch
Joe Satriani - Extremist

Just need a tape player to listen to all this now...

[Drew]

So, I threw on The Foo Fighters' self-titled debut while cooking dinner last night, and stopped after about two minutes to go turn it up.

Jesus, I forgot how good that album is- I mean, I'm a total product of the grunge generation, but this is still a seriously good disc. Popy, grungy, quirky as hell ("For all the Cows"?), and just plain cool. Dave Grohl's breakout album is impressive if, for nothing else, just how little it sounds like Nirvana, while still capturing some of the same energy. It took me back to being 14, hearing this one on a tape for the first time.

-D

[Two hands31]

I did this recently actually with some of my first guitar albums (albums that made me want to start playing guitar). See, most albums of mine stay in constant rotation, so basically everything's been listened to recently. Except: Metallica's "Black Album" and "Load"

Wow, these albums were just about huge, god-like sound to me when I first heard them. I had no idea how to make sounds like that. Now that I've listened back, there's really not that much to them. No millions of over-dubbed amps on rhythm guitars like Linkin Park or other recent "nu-metal" bands, just left, right, and center for the most part. Vocals that were huge sounding as a kid, I can now pick apart into the separate layers of harmony/double-tracking. I can hear the bass now (never payed attention to it before). The drums still sound cool, though not as huge and god-like as I remembered them. But the songs, and the playing is still there, and they still kick my ass. Still great albums (yes, I'm a fan of later Metallica, including St. Anger).

Of course, that's what happens when you've just finished two semesters of engineering/production training

[marianozz]

I really like Load, not the later...



my nostalgia cd of the week is: Van Halen's 1984

dunno why, i found it the other day while sorting out cds and just been lisening to it all the time... every guitar chord, every drum fill, every lil scream Dave does, all bout this album just brings a huge smile to my face

[elcid]

Mine are

Megadeth -Rust in Peace

Anthrax - State Of Euphoria

My drummer is huge into that stuff and while jamming I just happend to through out a few riffs from each so we ended up jamming on the tunes and I had to go home and listen to them.