Your favourite Singer-Songwriter albums?
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Topic: Your favourite Singer-Songwriter albums?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your favourite Singer-Songwriter albums?
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 01:44
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Singer-Songwriter is not a genre I've been very fond of, but I've enjoyed some albums over the years, which not least are (in more or less chronological order): Bob Dylan (USA) - Highway 61 Revisited (1965) Marek Grechuta / Anawa (PL) - Korowód (1971) Al Stewart (UK) - Year of the Cat (1976) Tracy Chapman (USA) - Tracy Chapman (1988) Sinead O'Connor (IRL) - The Lion and The Cobra (1987) Tanita Tikaram (UK) - Ancient Heart (1988) PJ Harvey (UK) - To Bring You My Love (1995) How about you? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 02:46
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John Lennon Plastic Ono Band Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon Brian Wilson Smiley Smile Marvin Gaye What's Going On Tori Amos Little Earthquakes ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 02:57
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Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns/Hejira Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown/Summertime Dream Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks Neil Young - Harvest/After The Goldrush Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman James Taylor - Sweet Baby James Carole King - Tapestry Nick Drake - Pink Moon/Bryter Later Jeff Buckley - Grace David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 03:03
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Joni Mitchell - Don Juan/Hejira Neil Young - Nowhere/Rust Never Sleeps/Psych Pill Van Morrison - Astral Week Nick Drake - 5LL/Pink Moon/Bryter Later Jeff Buckley - Lorca/Starsailor David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 07:09
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Hard pass. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 07:16
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anything by John Lennon ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 09:13
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I honestly con't know where to draw the line... Lots of folk artists I don't know whether to include or not. I wouldn't originally have considered PJ Harvey myself. Joni Mitchell: St aka Song to a Seagull, Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, For the Roses, Court and Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs From a Room, Songs of Love and Hate, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Recent Songs PJ Harvey: Is This Desire?, I Inside the Old Year Dying, Let England
Shake, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, To Bring You My Love Sufjan Stevens: Michigan, Seven Swans, Illinois, Javelin Scott Walker: 3, 4, 2, 1 Nick Drake: Five leaves Left, Bryter Lyter, Pink Moon Judee Sill: St, Heart Food Gene Clark: No Other Linda Perhacs: Parallellograms Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day Sibylle Baier: Colour Green ...oh and Tim Buckley: his seven first
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 10:59
I've followed here RYM's classification and was some suprised myself to see PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love labelled as Singer-Songwriter, and they tag it as Alternative Rock too. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Saperlipopette! wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 11:51
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I've just done one album per artist that I would think would fit sufficiently well. Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (2022) Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005) Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972) Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms (1970) Douji Morita - A Boy (1977) Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! (2023) Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) Susan Sundfor - Music for People in Trouble (2017) P J Harvey - White Chalk (2007) Roy Harper - Stormcock (1971) Fiona Apple - When the Pawn (1999) Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses (2018) Joni Mitchell - Heijira (1976) Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006) Scott Walker - Scott 3 (1969) Robert Wyatt - Shleep (1997) Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle (2013) Anna von Hausswolff - Singoing From the Grave (2010) Tim Buckley - Lorca (1970) Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970) Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon (1970) Julia Holter and Jenny Hval when they count.. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 11:57
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Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything without a shadow of a doubt! It's my all time #1 singer-songwriter kinda album! The reason it's not AWaTS is because that one's more of an experimental/prog kinda album rather than a traditional singer/songwriter one. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 13:18
If this is the correct genre too, I'll add them all to my list as well.
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 17:21
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Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left Roy Harper - Stormcock Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks Neil Young - After The Goldrush Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman James Taylor - Sweet Baby James Carole King - Tapestry Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Gillian Welch - The Revelator Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: duchamp
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 17:45
probably david bixbys old to quetzacoatl or most ov jandeks discog from 1978 2 1990
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Posted By: Gordy
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 22:35
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https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely" rel="nofollow - https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely Wikipedia: "How Sad, How Lovely is the first album collecting music from American singer-songwriter Connie Converse, released in 2009. The guitarist and singer had disappeared over 30 years prior and this compilation is made up of some of the few recordings she made in the 1960s..." "...folk performer Robert Forster characterized the release as "both a historical document and a living, breathing album", noting how Converse may have single-handedly shifted American folk music from political music and work songs toward the confessional emphasis of singer-songwriter music: "doing this, alone and unaided, making a deep and marvellous connection between lyric and song that allows us to enter the world of an extraordinary woman living in mid-twentieth-century New York"." |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 30 2023 at 07:18
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Grechuta's Korowód is my most favourite album and as much proggy as being Singer-Songwriter (Polish Sung Poetry). Both the whole album and this title track are amongst the greatest Polish Rock classics: ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 03 2024 at 03:45
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Tanita Tikaram's Ancient Heart may not be a very well-known album, but I've been fond of it since its release in 1988, and I've enjoyed its honest, special mood and stylish simplicity. Here's a sample of it: ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Lesanderd
Date Posted: January 03 2024 at 04:51
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Jeff Buckley - Grace Al Stewart- Year of the Cat
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 03 2024 at 08:46
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Carole King - Tapestry James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan - Desire Carly Simon - No Secrets Judee Sill - s/t Judee Sill - Heart Food Buffy Sainte-Marie - She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina Joni Mitchell - Blue Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen Melanie - Candles in the Rain (TBH all her albums from 'Born to Be' through to 'Gather Me') All classics IMO from the heyday of the singer songwriter explosion. ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 03 2024 at 11:19
I've discovered quite a few new singer-songwriters over the last year or two. The best of them is MG Boulter from Southend - see http://www.mgboulter.co.uk/" rel="nofollow - http://www.mgboulter.co.uk/ . |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 03 2024 at 11:22
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Video for one of MG Boulter's best songs I also recommend the very wonderful Jenny Sturgeon
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 03 2024 at 16:31
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Hmm..lots of good 'singer/songwriters'..... Nick Drake-Five Leaves Left Joni Mitchell- Blue, For The Roses Jackson Browne- For Everyman, Late FoR The Sky Roy Harper-Flat Baroque, Stprmcock, Once Steve Earle- Guitar Town, Copperhead Road, Jerusalem Tori Amos-Little Earthquakes. Under the Pink Sandy Denny-Sandy Dylan- Blood on the Tracks Kate Bush- Hounds of Love Neil Young -After the Gold Rush John Prine-John Prine ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: January 03 2024 at 16:47
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Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |