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    Forced to decide...my favorite album ever? A little help?

    So here's the deal. My son's 17th birthday is this week, and he and Alice are coming out to Denton to spend the weekend. So, naturally, I asked him what he wanted for his birthday.

    The monkey in the wrench is that we got him his "big" birthday present six weeks early...a seven-string electric guitar...so he doesn't want (or expect) anything big now.

    What he has asked for is a copy of my favorite album. He says "whatever it is, just get me my own copy". I asked "how do you know you'll like it?", to which he replied "I just will."

    So, no draft, no top 20, just my favorite album for my son on the occasion of his birthday.

    Those who have drafted with me a dozen times may know better than I do. But, even if you don't know what would be right for me, what would be right for you in this situation?

    Remember, only one choice.
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    Me: London Calling.
    I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...

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    • #3
      yeah, I think you can get a lot of this out of the first round of the 80s-90s record draft. Mine would be Graceland. If I still like it in another ten years, it might someday be Hot Fuss by the Killers, but I doubt it.
      In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesmen and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.

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      • #4
        Layla and other Assorted Love Songs, no??
        I'm just here for the baseball.

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        • #5
          Greatest hits albums are OK???

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            Originally posted by chancellor View Post
            Layla and other Assorted Love Songs, no??
            Yep, I was thinking Clapton or Cream (Disraeli Gears)
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            • #7
              Originally posted by chancellor View Post
              Layla and other Assorted Love Songs, no??
              This was my first thought too.

              Or your favorite Zeppelin album.
              "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

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              • #8
                Originally posted by swampdragon View Post
                Greatest hits albums are OK???
                Sure. I remember there being a greatest hits album I thought was awesome, but can't remember which one.

                Live albums are good, too. ABB Live at the Fillmore is somewhere up there.

                LAOALS may be it. I've already given him LZ I, II, III, IV and PG

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                • #9
                  The choice is obvious...

                  Neutral Milk Hotel!

                  I would think for you it would be either LAOALS or ABB. If I was choosing between those two, it'd be the latter.

                  If I found myself in this same scenario, I'd probably have to go with Hunky Dory.
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                  • #10
                    Your choice from Doolittle and Surfer Rosa?
                    I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by DMT View Post
                      The choice is obvious...

                      Neutral Milk Hotel!

                      I would think for you it would be either LAOALS or ABB. If I was choosing between those two, it'd be the latter.

                      If I found myself in this same scenario, I'd probably have to go with Hunky Dory.
                      NMH? Why don't you just suggest the debut NKOTB album for Lucky.
                      Considering his only baseball post in the past year was bringing up a 3 year old thread to taunt Hornsby and he's never contributed a dime to our hatpass, perhaps?

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Pogues View Post
                        NMH? Why don't you just suggest the debut NKOTB album for Lucky.
                        Just as odd, but seriously, Night at the Opera - Queen. I just rediscovered this and forgot how good it is.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Bernie Brewer View Post
                          Just as odd, but seriously, Night at the Opera - Queen. I just rediscovered this and forgot how good it is.
                          It isn't good..it's classic!!
                          "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Bernie Brewer View Post
                            Just as odd, but seriously, Night at the Opera - Queen. I just rediscovered this and forgot how good it is.
                            It was my first round pick in the 70s draft after LZIV and Dark Side of the Moon were taken. I don't think Lucky's as big of a fan, though.
                            I'm just here for the baseball.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by chancellor View Post
                              It was my first round pick in the 70s draft after LZIV and Dark Side of the Moon were taken. I don't think Lucky's as big of a fan, though.
                              Night at the Opera was also going to get serious consideration from me for my 1st round pick, but picking near the end of the line meant I had no chance, apparently.
                              Considering his only baseball post in the past year was bringing up a 3 year old thread to taunt Hornsby and he's never contributed a dime to our hatpass, perhaps?

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