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New Gold dream is a great shout and didn’t expect to see it mentioned on here. The follow up sparkle in the rain has some corkers on it as well.
Aren’t good albums about every track being decent, Bowie Ziggy, Radiohead The bends, Genesis trick of the tail. Conceptual in a vinyl age.
As for Oasis, First album a real rock and roll belter, down hill from there.
Always intrigued me that bands brought out albums, toured with them, rinse repeat etc and the live set as it progressed would take the 1or 2 corkers from previous albums and add them to the set. New Order and the latest Cure tour for example. Hence end up playing with a great set list of great tunes. Learning the craft.
I'm joking (a bit), but it's a CD that was unbelievably good considering it was free and also has the worst cover of any CD before or since. Anyone who was into all that at that time knows this mix. Also the first time I heard James Holden "Horizon" {misty eyed emoji}
Hmm. Dont even think Made In Japan is the best Deep Purple album! In Rock is the best then Machine Head. Oasis is an age thing for me they were always a second rate Slade. And Barboletta is probably 4th best Santana after Abraxas, 3 and the first LP. Stone Roses? I get it. But the best ROCK album since 1975 is Queens of the Stone Age Songs For the Deaf. Mark Lanergan on vocals, Dave Grohl on Drums, a lunatic on Bass and Josh Homme for once focussed and funny. Best LP of all time is obviously Love Forever Changes but maybe you had to be there/here
Hmm. Dont even think Made In Japan is the best Deep Purple album! In Rock is the best then Machine Head. Oasis is an age thing for me they were always a second rate Slade. And Barboletta is probably 4th best Santana after Abraxas, 3 and the first LP. Stone Roses? I get it. But the best ROCK album since 1975 is Queens of the Stone Age Songs For the Deaf. Mark Lanergan on vocals, Dave Grohl on Drums, a lunatic on Bass and Josh Homme for once focussed and funny. Best LP of all time is obviously Love Forever Changes but maybe you had to be there/here
I can get behind Forever Changes as a contender. "Maybe the people..." has been a mainstay in our house since me and my wife first met 20 years ago.
In no particular order as albums I’ve listened to the most over the many years a random top ten
Stone Roses - Stone Roses New Order - Technique Jesus and Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses Neil Young - Weld Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Beatles - White Album (could pick any of them tbh) De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising Public Enemy - Takes a Nation of Millions Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic James Browns Funky People The Streets - A Grand don’t come for free
As time has gone on I’ve got into making mammoth playlists so it’s more of a snapshot of my 80/90s!
I could maaaaybe stretch to a top 10/20, though these aren't "best" but favourite - also I find dance/electronica/hip hop don't always lend themselves to the album format. So there's lots in those genres that are missed here
The National - Boxer Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain blur - Parklife Mastodon - Blood Mountain Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Killer Mike - R.A.P Music The Hold Steady - Seperation Sunday Radiohead - In Rainbows Titus Andronicus - The Monitor Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People Casiotone for the Paindully Alone - Etiquette
5 years ago Arcade Fire, Kanye and Brand New deffo would've been on that list but they've all turned out to be degrees of pricks that have actually ruined their music for me
If you got the best mogwai songs from the early EPs - happy songs for happy songs for happy people you'd have a contender for best album imo. But I think there are one too many songs that don't have 'classic' status from them.
Radiohead - The Bends The Jam - Snap (although could swap with All Mod Cons; The Gift; Sound Effects and In the City) The Specials - Live - Too much to Young Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution Paul Weller - Stanley Road The Style Council - Introducing the Style Council The Clash - London Calling
The Streets Sounds compilation albums bring back happy memories
However, ask me next week and my choices will no doubt change
Fantastic choices there, as well as from others on this thread as well. I'd really struggle to pick a single best album as it just changes depending on time and mood. I'd probably include something from the ones below:
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the young soul rebels. Just a storming debut.
A-ha - MTV Unplugged Summer Solstice - Shows just how good these guys actually are live.
U2 - War - Band just finding it's identity prior to breaking it big
Radiohead - Pablo Honey so so different when released
Faithless - No Roots - Just brilliant infectious dance music
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material - first heard this and was just blown away by it
Joy Division - Closer Haunting and grows everytime I hear it
Fantastic choices there, as well as from others on this thread as well. I'd really struggle to pick a single best album as it just changes depending on time and mood. I'd probably include something from the ones below:
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the young soul rebels. Just a storming debut.
A-ha - MTV Unplugged Summer Solstice - Shows just how good these guys actually are live.
U2 - War - Band just finding it's identity prior to breaking it big
Radiohead - Pablo Honey so so different when released
Faithless - No Roots - Just brilliant infectious dance music
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material - first heard this and was just blown away by it
Joy Division - Closer Haunting and grows everytime I hear it
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Agree on Closer as previously mentioned but great shout with that brilliant debut album from SLF.
New Gold dream is a great shout and didn’t expect to see it mentioned on here. The follow up sparkle in the rain has some corkers on it as well.
Aren’t good albums about every track being decent, Bowie Ziggy, Radiohead The bends, Genesis trick of the tail. Conceptual in a vinyl age.
As for Oasis, First album a real rock and roll belter, down hill from there.
Always intrigued me that bands brought out albums, toured with them, rinse repeat etc and the live set as it progressed would take the 1or 2 corkers from previous albums and add them to the set. New Order and the latest Cure tour for example. Hence end up playing with a great set list of great tunes. Learning the craft.
On Oasis, was so looking forward to the second album at the time and, while I liked it, for me it never hit the heights of Definitely Maybe or even got close.
Unpopular opinion probably, but I think Wonderwall was the worst thing that ever happened to them (their bank accounts say different of course!) as the commercial success of it brought them into the mainstream and they then just started playing to the crowd in future releases.
I don’t think the perfect album exists… one where every single track is pure gold. There’s always a couple of tracks I tend to skip.
If I had a gun to my head the closest I could get would be:
Massive Attack - Blue Lines Congos - Heart of the Congos Nirvana - unplugged in New York The best of Bill Withers - Lovely day Innocence - Belief Soul II Soul - Club Classics vol. 1 Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die
The best album, for me, is the eclectic mess I put together myself for the car… but even then, after a period of time, there’s one you skip through.
4 of those would be on my shortlist with a special mention for Innocence; played that album to death and still love it
Hmm. Dont even think Made In Japan is the best Deep Purple album! In Rock is the best then Machine Head. Oasis is an age thing for me they were always a second rate Slade. And Barboletta is probably 4th best Santana after Abraxas, 3 and the first LP. Stone Roses? I get it. But the best ROCK album since 1975 is Queens of the Stone Age Songs For the Deaf. Mark Lanergan on vocals, Dave Grohl on Drums, a lunatic on Bass and Josh Homme for once focussed and funny. Best LP of all time is obviously Love Forever Changes but maybe you had to be there/here
Blimey yeah how did I forget 'Songs For The Deaf', absolute classic, just brilliant. New one is pretty bl00dy good too by the way.
Impossible task really but here's 10 from the top of my head:
Cardiacs - Little Man and a House and The Whole World Window. Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible. Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions. AC/DC - If You Want Blood. Leftfield - Leftism. The Who - Quadrophenia. The Bug - Fire. Magazine - Real Life. Arcade Fire - Funeral. The National - Boxer.
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