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Inspired by the brilliant Best Gigs thread and the wealth of knowledge on there, what albums do we recommend to each other? Even for a music addict like me, there must be loads of stuff that we can recommend to each other. No suggestion too obvious:-
I'm basing my list on Most-Played, and keeping it to a dozen for now.
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther Television - Marque Moon The Cure - Disintegration The Band - The Band Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (I know - obvious!) Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Wilco - Summerteeth Beatles - Abbey Road Nightmares on Wax - Car Boot Soul Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
and, special category, one you mightn't have heard before:-
The Bothy Band - The BCC Sessions
All thirteen guaranteed to give orgasms.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
B B King - Live at the Regal Ry Cooder- Into the Purple Valley (partly for the cover!) Michael Bloomfield - If you love these Blues... Bob Dylan- Highway 61 (and all the other) Artic Monkeys- First three albums. Can't work out which track comes from which.
Ignoring all the obvious ones ie Master Of Puppets etc.
Blood Ceremony: The Eldritch Dark Phantom Blue: Built to perform Kate Bush: The Kick Inside/Lionheart Epica: The Phantom Agony Arch Enemy: Wages of SIn.
In love with this:
Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent
Permission To Land - The Darkness Nevermind - Nirvana Subterranean Homesick Blues — Bob Dylan The Real Thing — FNM Park Life — Blur The White Room — KLF Johnny The Fox - Thin Lizzy Black Sabbath — Black Sabbath All The Queen albums up to Hot Space.
Permission To Land - The Darkness Nevermind - Nirvana Subterranean Homesick Blues — Bob Dylan The Real Thing — FNM Park Life — Blur The White Room — KLF Johnny The Fox - Thin Lizzy Black Sabbath — Black Sabbath All The Queen albums up to Hot Space.
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Agree on The White Room by KLF. When I bought it the album was such a departure from what I would normally listen to.
Adding to the list
London Calling and Sandanista - The Clash All Mod Cons - The Jam The Black Album - The Damned Georgia Satellites - Georgia Satellites Whats the Story Morning Glory - Oasis Down in Albion - Babyshambles The Crossing - Big Country Magic Hour - Cast Heavy Soul and Stanley Road - Paul Weller
In Order 1 Clash - London Calling 2 Jam - All Mod Cons, just pipping Setting Sons 3 Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Eebels 4 Ian Dury - New Boots & Panties
In no order Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Specials - Specials Beat - I Just Can't Stop It UB40 - Signing Off Arctic Monkeys - whatever people say I am.... The Libertines - Up The Bracket B.A.D. - This is Big Audio Dynamite Damned - Machine Gun Ettiquette Courteeners - St Jude Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Human League - Dare Hard Fi - Stars of CCTV Joe Jackson - Look Sharp Madness - One Step Beyond & Liberty of Norton Folegate Nirvana - Nevermind Pink Floyd - The Wall Primal Scream - Screamadelica Pulp - Different Class Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves & Indestructable Stone Roses - Stone Roses Smiths - The Queen Is Dead Streets - Original Pirate Material Undertones - Undertones & More Songs About Chocolate & Girls Mark Ronson - Version Carter USM - 101 Damnations
Can't pick a favourite (too tricky to seperate) Cure Bob Marley Dreadzone Elvis Costello Stiff Little Fingers Oasis - first 2 albums only The Who Tom Waits Crass (yes really !)
And finally some new kids on the blocks Arcade Fire Vaccines Rotten Hill Gang Urban Voodoo Machine Stone Foundatom Miles Kane Frank Turner By The River Interrupters
Lexicon of Love - ABC Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division Screamdelica - Primal Scream Electro Soma - B12 Dimension Intrusion - FUSE (Richie Hawtin) All Mod Cons - The Jam Closer - Joy Division (probably my top one) Selected Ambient Works I - Aphex Twin Sandinista - The Clash Morning Glory - Oasis What's going on - Marvin Gaye The Sound of the Cosmos - Tom Middleton Entroducing - DJ Shadow Northern Exposure vol 2 - Sasha & Digweed The Scream - Siouxsie & the Banshees Damned Damned Damned - The Damned Moon Safari - Air The Brown Album - Orbital Pills n Thrills etc - Happy Mondays From the Lions Mouth - The Sound The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk Disintegration - The Cure Republic - New Order Movement - New Order Another Music in a different Kitchen - Buzzcocks Love Bites - Buzzcocks Signing Off - UB40 Live at the Witch Trials - The Fall Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers
Lexicon of Love - ABC Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division Screamdelica - Primal Scream Electro Soma - B12 Dimension Intrusion - FUSE (Richie Hawtin) All Mod Cons - The Jam Closer - Joy Division (probably my top one) Selected Ambient Works I - Aphex Twin Sandinista - The Clash Morning Glory - Oasis What's going on - Marvin Gaye The Sound of the Cosmos - Tom Middleton Entroducing - DJ Shadow Northern Exposure vol 2 - Sasha & Digweed The Scream - Siouxsie & the Banshees Damned Damned Damned - The Damned Moon Safari - Air The Brown Album - Orbital Pills n Thrills etc - Happy Mondays From the Lions Mouth - The Sound The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk Disintegration - The Cure Republic - New Order Movement - New Order Another Music in a different Kitchen - Buzzcocks Love Bites - Buzzcocks Signing Off - UB40 Live at the Witch Trials - The Fall Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers
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have you nicked my record collection Captain?
to your list I would add
Lurkers - Fulham Fallout Stranglers - Rattus Pistols - Never mind Marley - Babylon by Bus
and one that often get missed and brilliant - Gang of Four - Entertainment.
These are the best two albums in my view - nobody else could have made those albums if they'd tried for 100 years. But they ARE pop albums so if you don't like pop then you won't agree.
Hard rock/metal i wouldn't really know enough to judge. I only really know Led Zepp 4 and the Metallica Black Album intimately (latter due to Glastonbury homework) and would give Led Zepp the verdict over those two, but both are good.
Then there's the sort of pop/rock hybrids - halfway house. London Calling is a fantastic album in this category, as is Exile on Main Street. Both very versatile double albums and not much filler.
These are the best two albums in my view - nobody else could have made those albums if they'd tried for 100 years. But they ARE pop albums so if you don't like pop then you won't agree.
Hard rock/metal i wouldn't really know enough to judge. I only really know Led Zepp 4 and the Metallica Black Album intimately (latter due to Glastonbury homework) and would give Led Zepp the verdict over those two, but both are good.
Then there's the sort of pop/rock hybrids - halfway house. London Calling is a fantastic album in this category, as is Exile on Main Street. Both very versatile double albums and not much filler.
Revolver - The Beatles Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Agree. Both are masterpeices. Prefer Abbey Road to Revolver, just about, but Pet Sounds is an undisputed high point for a great band.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Great thread. My choice today, but will probably be different tomorrow:
Primal Scream - Screamadelica Stone Roses - Stone Roses Led Zeppelin III Massive Attack - Mezzanine My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Lou Reed - Transformer The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground Pixies - Surfer Rosa LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hit Makers
Great thread. My choice today, but will probably be different tomorrow:
Primal Scream - Screamadelica Stone Roses - Stone Roses Led Zeppelin III Massive Attack - Mezzanine My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Lou Reed - Transformer The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground Pixies - Surfer Rosa LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hit Makers
Loveless just missed my top 10 cut. Good man yourself on Sound of Silver. That run of North American Scum/Someone Great/All My Friends/Us Vs Them = peerless
Abbey Road was more of a hybrid album really, but I love it too. Probably my second favourite fab 4 album.
Ya, I know it was more of a McCartney + friends and was really thrown together from the remnants of the shattering group, and Revolver was a collective effort, but that run from She Came in Through/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End floors me every time. The grief in McCartney's voice about his disintegrating band and relationship with Lennon is palpable, and I always find it so poignant.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Ya, I know it was more of a McCartney + friends and was really thrown together from the remnants of the shattering group, and Revolver was a collective effort, but that run from She Came in Through/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End floors me every time. The grief in McCartney's voice about his disintegrating band and relationship with Lennon is palpable, and I always find it so poignant.
I think that Abbey Road was the album made after Lennon had a car crash in Scotland and Yoko was recovering so he brought her and her bed into the studio. Bonkers. By hybrid I mean that it's got a lot of 'rock' in it on the first side and as you say the pop stuff on the second side is pretty cool. I think that you mean Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight and stuff like that as regards the breakup. He kind of revisited that sort of style and emotion with Live and Let Die. Abbey Road was beautifully produced and is a much more modern sound, which makes it like no other Beatle album.
I think that Abbey Road was the album made after Lennon had a car crash in Scotland and Yoko was recovering so he brought her and her bed into the studio. Bonkers. By hybrid I mean that it's got a lot of 'rock' in it on the first side and as you say the pop stuff on the second side is pretty cool. I think that you mean Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight and stuff like that as regards the breakup. He kind of revisited that sort of style and emotion with Live and Let Die. Abbey Road was beautifully produced and is a much more modern sound, which makes it like no other Beatle album.
Ya, that's it exactly. Lennon was mentally gone from them at that stage, so lines like "boy, you're gonna carry that weight...a long time" , "once there was a way to get back homeward" and, most poignantly "you never give me your money, you only give me your funny paper, and in the middle of negotiations, you break down" must have stunned the rest of the Beatles, especially Yoko in the bed!
I agree too that the themes and styles are hybrid, certainly more so than the seamless Revolver.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
This is always so difficult as I would probably change my choices from one day to next, but off top of my head now...
The Who - Live in Leeds Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle The Streets - Original Pirate Material Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm Oasis - Definitely Maybe Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty Michael Jackson - Bad Al Green - The Definitive Slipknot -Slipknot Korn - Follow the Leader Notorious BIG - Ready to Die Insane Clown Posse - Great Milenko Stone Roses - Stone Roses Primal Scream - Dirty Hits Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane The Verve - Urban Hymns Gangstaar - Full Clip Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails DJ Yoda - 80's Megamix
I mostly listen to dance/trance now so think possibly the only albums I still listen to from my youth after all this time, and that have stood the test of time would be
Theatre of Hate - Westworld The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus The Cure - Faith Utravox - Ha Ha Ha 999 - Separates
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