What do you listen to to refuel?

[Leopold]

I don't mean as you're having your baby's mama pump your gas for you. I noticed every summer i get back in to listening to certain bands from certain points in my life that I associate with them, lately it's been Led Zeppelin, last summer it was the Jesus Lizard, and Coltrane. The Stooges Fun House album always seems to bring me back to the excitement I felt when i first heard it.

So what do you like to go back to?

L

[Slider]

Lennon, Bowie, Chilton, The Kinks, The Beatles, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, The Clash, The Pogues, Bob Dylan,
The Relacements, T-Rex, Motown, Chess records, Nina Rota, Kind of Blue. Lou Reed & VU, The Zombies.

[KennyLusk]

Pink Floyd "Animals"

Train's first album

Alison Krause

Queensryche "Rage for Order"

Stevin MacNamara's Chakra Meditation (a Carolyn Myss project)

The Bluegrass Cardinals

[ubertar]

For me too, Zeppelin and Coltrane would be the two main ones. That includes Alice Coltrane, an incredible musician who's probably overlooked because of how great John was. Also Hamza El Din and Yes.

[Isolation]

David Lee Roth era Van Halen, namely Van Halen II...

The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste by Ministry, it was the first thing i ever heard from them thanks to this freaky kid who went to my private school...changed my life and the way i looked at music as cheesy as it sounds...

and yeah, i've been getting back into Led Zeppelin, i was so into them back when i was 14-15 and fell out of them...coming back in for reentry however happy to say...

[RefD]

the albums that do it for me when i need to refuel/reinspire:

Pink Floyd - Meddle; Dark Side of the Moon; Wish You Were Here
Neil Finn - Try Whistling This
Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon; Actual Sounds and Voices
Led Zeppelin - I; In Through the Out Door
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing; 99.9 Farenheit Degrees
The Beatles - Revolver; Abbey Road
Crowded House - Woodface; Together Alone
Papas Fritas - Helioself
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Raise Yr Skinny Fists...
Rush - A Farewell to Kings; Hemispheres; Grace Under Pressure
Laurie Anderson - United States Live (I, II, III & IV)
Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus
Sergio Mendes - Brasileiro

quite a few albums, actually... and that's only a partial list!

EDIT: D'OH! i forgot Radiohead - OK Computer and Soul Coughing - El Oso

[syrupcore]

kind of blue or dolphy's out to lunch. depending on where I'm at in my head. one reminds me about space and restraint and the other reminds me about completely letting go and rocking out.

edit: that sounds pretentious! not supposed to be. If I'm trying to refresh I dont feel like I can listen to music that sounds anything like what I'm doing. I also usually want something lyricless.

[bigtoe]

nod is as good as a wink - faces. i wish i could stop listening to it. as soon as that guitar starts up it's all over for me. amazing.

Mike

[djdrake13]

I agree with Pink Floyd!! They always are amazing to me, and make me want to jump into the studio!

Also
Phil Collins
Zeppelin
Eminem
Pearl Jam

[Reuben]

1) Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick ohmigod you can hear the tubes melting, Zander's voice is incredible, sick guitars and weird-ass songs, and Jack Douglas's production is loud, dirty, dark, and perfect. They never made another one quite as good. Always an inspiration.

2) Stuart Dempster - In The Abbey of St. Clement VI One man, a trombone, a pvc didgeridu, and a big natural reverb of something like 17 seconds. Reminds me every time of the incredible power of sound.

3) Lou Reed - The Blue Mask during a brief break from insanity Lou made this stellar collection with my favorite guitarist of all time, the recently departed Robert Quine. Chills me every time.

4) Glenn Gould - The Solitude Trilogy three radio documentaries Gould produced for the CBC which combine polyphonic spoken word, environmental sounds, and even MUSIC (!) to create an absorbing and highly personal sonic look into the subject of solitude. Available as a 3-disc set. Endlessly inspiring to me.

5) Bob Dylan & The Band - Basement Tapes recorded in the practice room in Woodstock and has more atmosphere than anything Dylan did at 30th Street. Look for the bootleg versions with more songs and sometimes better sound.

6) John Coltrane - Africa Brass over the long haul I've been more affected by the albums A Love Supreme or Meditations, but it seems that when I need a recharge those are almost too familiar to me. At one point I knew Love Supreme so well that listening to it seemed useless. I rediscovered Africa Brass last year and use it now to get myself right when I forget what it's all about.

[Devlars]

In no particular and non exhaustive order:

The Beatles, The Duke & Sachmo, Beethoven, The Verve, Pink Flloyd, Radiohead, Doves, Rolling Stones, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Nick Drake, Elbow, Talk Talk

to name but a few.

[MoreSpaceEcho]

miles.
in a silent way, bitches brew, live evil, fillmore west, any of that stuff.

can...tago mago and ege bamyasi. pretty much my favorite music ever.

so, yeah, for me music basically peaked in 1972.

[HuskerDude]

Anything but rock.

[analogcabin]

Minutemen - Double Nickles
Talking Heads - 77
Latin Playboys

[Catfish]

Hmmmm,

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut
Seal - Seal II
Yes - (anything from any era)
Judas Priest - (anything pre 1980)
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Kate Bush - Sensual World
Soul Coughing - (anything)
UFO - Lights Out

Catfish.................