| Classic Albums 10:42 - Oct 2 with 7223 views | BrianMcCarthy |
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.
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| Classic Albums on 17:11 - Oct 2 with 1466 views | superhoop67 |
One For The Road - Ronnie Lane
Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks |  | | |
| Classic Albums on 17:21 - Oct 2 with 1455 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Classic Albums on 16:49 - Oct 2 by scot1963 |
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 |
Yes, Faith is a great album |  | | |
| Classic Albums on 17:34 - Oct 2 with 1439 views | karl |
I have a limited music knowledge but I'll add;
Levellers - Levelling the Land
AC-DC - Powerage |  | | |
| Classic Albums on 17:56 - Oct 2 with 1423 views | bosh67 |
If anyone is interested, this is my latest book, now gaining funding on Pledge.
http://www.pledgemusic.com/artists/ogwt
The Old Grey Whistle Test - Bob Harris years.
The greatest album programme of them all. |  |
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| Classic Albums on 18:37 - Oct 2 with 1394 views | ElHoop |
| Classic Albums on 16:30 - Oct 2 by BrianMcCarthy |
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. |
If you ever get really really bored. I mean REALLY bored, you can always sit and watch people crossing the zebra on Abbey Road:
http://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing |  | | |
| Classic Albums on 18:47 - Oct 2 with 1380 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Classic Albums on 18:37 - Oct 2 by ElHoop |
If you ever get really really bored. I mean REALLY bored, you can always sit and watch people crossing the zebra on Abbey Road:
http://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing |
Have arranged toothpicks for my eyes and four jars of coffee. And I thought tonight would be a quiet one! | |
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| Classic Albums on 18:55 - Oct 2 with 1372 views | ElHoop |
When it's busy you do get some real idiots! | | | |
| Classic Albums on 18:57 - Oct 2 with 1368 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Classic Albums on 18:55 - Oct 2 by ElHoop |
When it's busy you do get some real idiots! |
I think I may have done it once myself! | |
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| Classic Albums on 19:09 - Oct 2 with 1356 views | jamois |
An off the top of my head contribution Mr Givens. Very tricky aint it?! Hard to get to 15 and must be dozens missed....
Beatles - Revolver
Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music For the Mind and Body
Donny Hathaway - Everything is Everything
Digible Planets - Beyond the Spectrum
Herbie Mann - Hold On, I'm Comin
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
James Brown - The Payback
Sweet Smoke - Just a Poke
The Doors - LA Woman
Led Zepplin - II
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
ABC - Lexicon of Love
Richard Groove Holmes - Comin On Home
Radiohead - OK Computer
July - July |  |
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| Classic Albums on 19:28 - Oct 2 with 1329 views | qpr1976 |
| Classic Albums on 13:38 - Oct 2 by BrianMcCarthy |
Definitely. I have some of my favourite albums framed on my wall. Some great choices by you too. |
Proud to say I have a London Calling framed gold disk on my wall. | | | |
| Classic Albums on 19:30 - Oct 2 with 1327 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Classic Albums on 19:28 - Oct 2 by qpr1976 |
Proud to say I have a London Calling framed gold disk on my wall. |
A gold disk? Well played, young man, well played! | |
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| Classic Albums on 19:40 - Oct 2 with 1317 views | mendipexile |
Off the top of my head....
John Lee Hooker The Legendary Modern Recordings
Otis Redding Otis Blue
Ray Barretto Acid
Johnny Cash Live At Folsom Prison
John Mayall Bluesbreakers
The Beatles A Hard Days Night
The Jam All Mod Cons
Crowded House Woodface
Radiohead The Bends
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible...
Ask me next week and it would probably have changed a bit.....! | | | |
| Classic Albums on 20:26 - Oct 2 with 1281 views | sexton |
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Scott Walker - Scott 4
The Band - The Band
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Wailers - Catch a Fire
Guy Clark - Old No 1
Love - Forever Changes
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel
The Clash - London Calling
Elvis Costello - Get Happy
Leave me on a desert island with that lot and I'll be happy. |  | | |
| Classic Albums on 20:40 - Oct 2 with 1272 views | BklynRanger |
I'd randomly add:
- 'Velvet Underground & Nico'
- 'Ok Computer'
- The first Interpol ablum
- Jackson Browne's 'Late for the Sky'
- The first Fleet Foxes album (but points off for helping to encourage the modern overabundance of nonreligious beards.)
- Joni Mitchell's 'Blue' or 'Clouds' (whichever)
- Neil Young's 'Harvest' of 'After the Goldrush' (whichever)
- Midnight Oil's "Diesel and Dust' (no seriously)
- Death Cab for Cutie's 'Transatlanticism' (no seriously)
- FourTet - Rounds
Sorry, I may have lost my grip on the term 'classic' towards the end of that list. |  | | |
| Classic Albums on 20:54 - Oct 2 with 1254 views | AgedR |
| Classic Albums on 14:28 - Oct 2 by BrianMcCarthy |
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. |
Abbey Road is extraordinary.
You can very near hear the band moving apart during recording.
The White Album and Revolver are better musically, but, bearing in mind the context Abbey Road is like boxing up and keeping a moment in time. |  |
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| Classic Albums on 21:06 - Oct 2 with 1161 views | derbyhoop |
Ignoring all the obvious, check some of these
PJ Harvey Stories from the city, stories from the sea
TV on the Radio Dear Science
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Its Blitz
everything Everything - Arc
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
Elbow - The Take Off .... |  |
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| Classic Albums on 21:10 - Oct 2 with 1158 views | PunteR |
Some of my favorite albums have already been mentioned but here's a few more .
Prodigy- Fat of the Land
Beastie Boys- Ill Communication
Public Enemy- It takes a nation of millions to hold us back
Air- Moon Safari
Fat boy Slim- You've come along way baby.
Jimi Hendrix Experience
U2 -Rattle and Hum |  |
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| Classic Albums on 21:17 - Oct 2 with 1150 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Classic Albums on 20:54 - Oct 2 by AgedR |
Abbey Road is extraordinary.
You can very near hear the band moving apart during recording.
The White Album and Revolver are better musically, but, bearing in mind the context Abbey Road is like boxing up and keeping a moment in time. |
I'm sorry to do this to you after you agreed but I just don't get The White Album. Never have.
There, I said it. The relief! | |
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| Classic Albums on 21:29 - Oct 2 with 1137 views | ted_hendrix |
No particular order;
Taste; "live at the Isle of Wight"
Wishbone Ash "Argus"
Pink Floyd "Dark Side of The Moon"
Beatles "Sgt Peppers".
Beatles "White Album"
Deep Purple "Machine Head"
Son House "The Original Delta Blues"
Cream "Disraeli Gears"
John Lennon "Imagine"
Small Faces "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake"
Kinks "Greatest Hits"
Frank Zappa "Hot Rats"
Ry Cooder "Into The Purple Valley"
Anything by Hendrix but his best album was "Are You Experienced" |  |
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| Classic Albums on 21:56 - Oct 2 with 1104 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Classic Albums on 21:17 - Oct 2 by BrianMcCarthy |
I'm sorry to do this to you after you agreed but I just don't get The White Album. Never have.
There, I said it. The relief! |
Ah now, I love The White Album.
McCartney said he sometimes had his doubts about bits of it but then thought, "Oh f*ck it, its the bloody White Album..."
Whereas, shameful though it may be, I've tried and tried but I just don't like Pet Sounds, nor Patti Smith's "Horses".
Actually, "Great albums I just don't get" would be a decent thread. | | | |
| Classic Albums on 22:04 - Oct 2 with 1099 views | CiderwithRsie |
Not even going to try to do this, too hard to call, but some fantastic lists here, proper albums where the "lesser" tracks are still key to the whole sound. Best of all, lots of great lists throwing in the odd thing I've never herd too, giving me something new to listen to.
Haven't spotted Fall And Rise of Ziggy Stardust yet. And there used to be a triffic Bob Marley boxed set full of lovely rare stuff like "Is This Love" with a horns section, that I played all the time until some bastard broke in and nicked it. | | | |
| Classic Albums on 22:08 - Oct 2 with 1093 views | AgedR |
| Classic Albums on 21:56 - Oct 2 by CiderwithRsie |
Ah now, I love The White Album.
McCartney said he sometimes had his doubts about bits of it but then thought, "Oh f*ck it, its the bloody White Album..."
Whereas, shameful though it may be, I've tried and tried but I just don't like Pet Sounds, nor Patti Smith's "Horses".
Actually, "Great albums I just don't get" would be a decent thread. |
Agree with you to an extent, with Pet Sounds, but it's a classic for me on the back of "god only knows" alone | |
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| Classic Albums on 22:15 - Oct 2 with 1086 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Classic Albums on 22:08 - Oct 2 by AgedR |
Agree with you to an extent, with Pet Sounds, but it's a classic for me on the back of "god only knows" alone |
True, and Sloop John B of course. But most of the rest I just don't get. probably just me though. | | | |
| Classic Albums on 22:21 - Oct 2 with 1083 views | ElHoop |
| Classic Albums on 21:17 - Oct 2 by BrianMcCarthy |
I'm sorry to do this to you after you agreed but I just don't get The White Album. Never have.
There, I said it. The relief! |
If the White Album had been a single album and had have included Hey Jude (same sessions) then it would have been pretty good probably would have been stronger than Abbey Road, something like this:
Side One
1 Back In The USSR
2 I'm So Tired
3 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4 Julia
5 Sexy Sadie
6 Mother Natures Son
7 Don't Pass Me By
Side Two
8 Revolution
9 Cry Baby Cry
10 Blackbird
11 Dear Prudence
12 I Will
13 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
14 Hey Jude [Post edited 2 Oct 2014 22:22]
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| Classic Albums on 22:42 - Oct 2 with 1068 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Classic Albums on 22:15 - Oct 2 by CiderwithRsie |
True, and Sloop John B of course. But most of the rest I just don't get. probably just me though. |
I think Pet Sounds is all about the vibe. A agree that some of the tracks are weak enough. However (!) :-
Wouldn't It Be Nice - Unbelieveable intro and kick-in, and perfectly arranged and produced
I'm Waiting For The Day - heavenly - edit - what a fuggin ending!
I Know There's An Answer - heavenly
and, as mentioned above,
God Only Knows - which is just sublime.
Sloop John B is a classic, and great fun, but loses points for being a cover.
But huge points for the whole album have to be given for how, with a handful of others in the late 60's it raised the bar to untold heights. [Post edited 2 Oct 2014 22:45]
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