Sure, it doesn't hold a candle to Parliament's Mothership Connection, which is another one of the greatest albums ever recorded, but this is definitely one of best unplugged albums, alongside the Alice in Chains one. And I'm not saying that just because Kurt painted the walls with his brains, this is a superb album. This is a superb album by a superb band. I mean they're doing covers and it still excels. Muddy Waters is a far better musician. Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash is better. Is it better than Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic? Overall, yeah. Chocolate and Cheese? Not so sure. I never said it was the greatest, just a goddamn great album.
edit: Couple of these albums were on MTV, I believe. Obviously, that's not were I learn about good music though.

Johnny Cash:The Man Comes Around
From LyricWiki
This song is performed by Johnny Cash and appears on the album The Man Comes Around (2002).

And I heard as it were the noise of thunder. One of the four beasts saying "come and see", and I saw, and behold a white horse.

There's a man going around taking names,
And he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There will be a golden ladder reaching down when the man comes around.

The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup.
Will you partake of that last offered cup?
Or disappear into the potter's ground when the man comes around.

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singing.
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum.
Voices calling and voices crying,
Some are born and some are dying.
Its alpha and omega's kingdom come.

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree,
The virgins are all trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree,
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Til' Armageddon, no salaam, no shalom.

Then the father hen will call his chickens home,
The wise man will bow down before the throne.
And at his feet, they will cast the golden crowns,
When the man comes around.

Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down when the man comes around.

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singing.
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum.
Voices calling and voices crying,
Some are born and some are dying.
Its alpha and omega's kingdom come.

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree,
The virgins are all trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree,
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

In measured hundred weight and penny pound,
When the man comes around.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, and I looked and behold, a pale horse. And its name it said on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

De nada. Glad I could do it.

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

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Fixed, thx!

Gotta say, love the toy dolls. "she goes to Fino's" is probably my fav choggie submission. Love Johnny Cash.

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heheh - now that I"m a bit more sober, I have to pull back just a bit from that grandiose compliment. It is one hell of a playlist, though.

I used to have a similar (i.e., word for word identical) philosophy on music. But after years of listening to the likes of the Grateful Dead, Bela Fleck, Johnny Cash, Allison Krauss, and dozens of other country musicians, I realized that what I didn't like in country was the same as what I didn't like in contemporary pop music - no soul. There is an incredible amount of really great country music out there if you learn to avoid the pop music crap created in Nashville studios. Given your otherwise very eclectic tastes, I'd recommend keeping that door not entirely closed.

In reply to this comment by Gunter:
Thanks man, Yeah my tastes in music is pretty much everything except country music. If I wanted to hear men crying then I'd go to a strip club and listen in on what they say to the hook erm um strippers

In reply to this comment by jonny:
I was just about to go off on the inclusion of Sly in a "Muzak" playlist. Then I checked the whole list. Wow - that might be the best playlist on the sift. Nice work!

That Herb Albert album cover is legendary. I was just over at my friend's place last night, and he has that album framed next to the Johnny Cash album Live at Folsom Prison which is also a pretty awesome cover. Not that it's overly stylized, but knowing it's a close up picture taken at the live prison concert of him sweating and most likely in mid-song makes it all the more cooler.

I really dig the Revolver album cover from The Beatles. It used to be in my father's LP collection when I was a kid, and I always thought it was trippy. And, I really love the Pink Floyd Animals album, because eventhough it appears to be a painting, it's really a photograph. From Wikipedia: "The giant, helium-filled pig seen on the cover was actually flown over Battersea Power Station for the photo shoot."

Some of my parents records that I liked:

-Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream (I can't tell you how many hours I stared at that album cover)
-Nat King Cole
-John Denver
-Kenny Rogers
-Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water - I practically memorized every word to every song on that album, because it had the lyrics on the back
-LOTS of traditional Irish music records. My dad's parents were both from Ireland. The Irish Rovers were one of his favorites.
-Dean Martin

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Ditto! Just replace Styx with Jethro Tull and Kansas with Motorhead, Maiden, and Priest. Prior to that it was my parent's records, Fats Domino, Beachboys, and Johnny Cash.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Did you ever have an extension cord for those big puffy cans? I had a 25-foot extension cord for my phones, so that I could wander all over my bedroom while I rocked out on "Glass Houses", my very first vinyl record. Followed by:

2. Styx - Paradise Theatre
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. Styx - Grand Illusion
5. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Van Halen - I
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle
10. Kansas - Leftoverture
11. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
12. Rush - Permanent Waves

And the rest are kind of blur after that, but those were my first 12 disciples. I'll always remember.

You may be right, I may be crazy.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Nor did I fall asleep every night wearing big puffy headphones with the curly cord listening to an 8-track copy of Songs From the Attic that I bought at Bradlees with my lawn-mowing money. If you ever hear this rumor it is a complete fabrication.

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Ditto! Just replace Styx with Jethro Tull and Kansas with Motorhead, Maiden, and Priest. Prior to that it was my parent's records, Fats Domino, Beachboys, and Johnny Cash.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Did you ever have an extension cord for those big puffy cans? I had a 25-foot extension cord for my phones, so that I could wander all over my bedroom while I rocked out on "Glass Houses", my very first vinyl record. Followed by:

2. Styx - Paradise Theatre
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. Styx - Grand Illusion
5. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Van Halen - I
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle
10. Kansas - Leftoverture
11. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
12. Rush - Permanent Waves

And the rest are kind of blur after that, but those were my first 12 disciples. I'll always remember.

You may be right, I may be crazy.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Nor did I fall asleep every night wearing big puffy headphones with the curly cord listening to an 8-track copy of Songs From the Attic that I bought at Bradlees with my lawn-mowing money. If you ever hear this rumor it is a complete fabrication.

*promote

I get to weigh in on a special guy. Hot dog. I mean, cool cat.

I feel like I know this guy like a neighbor. He swam the pond at age 2 with his British parents. If he returned to his homeland he could become a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court. Twain the Old and New Worlds, Mark my word.

His avatar skills are tops, I think we all acknowledge that. A pleomorphic pussy like that would take me weeks to master, yet he can dive into it and father a whole new one in a matter of minutes.

The lucky bastard gets to paddle a canoe around on a trout stream, yet he fishes not. I hath taken it upon myself to get an angle on him. I am sore afraid he will be decked out in Cabela's camo before the year is out.

Schmawy briefly entered my world of medicine. His puss in scrubs was a delight, but as I told him, he would need to be declawed before performing rectal or vaginal exams.

As for his posts, common interest comes to mind. We can look deep into each other's queues and find a thread to bind, a song to share.......this is going off the deep end.

And yes ladies and gentlemen, he plays guitar at least as good as Johnny Cash, the man in black, something that's not too hard to do at the moment.

I tip my hat to your skills and achievements and will always have a bottle of sevoflurane to pop open should you decide to visit the god forsaken great plains.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
What are you listening to these days, MrConrads?

In reply to this comment by MrConrads:
1. The Strokes - "Take it or Leave it"
2. Mel Torme and George Shearing - "New York, New York Medley"
3. The Beatles - "I'll be Back"
4. Dinah Shore - "Georgia on My Mind"
5. Violent Femmes - "America Is"
6. Bob Dylan - "Like a Rolling Stone"
7. Outkast - "B.O.B."
8. The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Women"
9. Rancid - "You Don't Care Nothin'"
10. Frank Sinatra - Luck Be a Lady Tonight"

I think this actually worked pretty well for me!
Actually this is a pretty good representation of whats been getting a lot of play lately, I was supprised my ipod represented me so well! Johnny Cash didnt make it to the list... that was kind of a bummer...
check out www.thecurrent.org you can stream this station over the net. It's a great radio station!!
What about you? whats in the rotation these days?

and "Shining Star was written and originally performed by Earth Wind and Fire (I don't know who Reuban Studard is) and "Dark as a dungeon was written by Merle Travis and performed by Johnny Cash