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Albums only you rate
Posted by woodface on 14 October 2011 - 10:33pm.
After listening to 'Everything must go' by Steely Dan this evening I came to the conclusion that I am one of the few who really like this album. The general response to said release was rather 'meh' but I rate it above 'two against nature' (which enjoyed better reviews but I have never really liked it). I also believe that 'regeneration' is the best Divine Comedy' release.
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Atom Heart Mother
Always has been my favourite Floyd album since buying it upon it's release.
Right on
With you all the way on atom heart mother. Obscured by clouds is a close second for me.
Ummagumma
No one else rates this, but I love it for some reason. The live stuff is absolutely wonderful, and the studio disc is quite extraordinary. I know I'm on my own here though!
Sorry to burst your solitary bubble....
... but you're not on your own. The live version of Astronomy Domine may be my favourite Floyd release of all time; and don't get me started on Narrow Way part 3....
Ooh...
...feel a bit warm and fuzzy now. Thanks Fitter - maybe we need to dim the lights, light up a long illegal ciggy and bliss out....?
Vanity/Nemesis
by the Celtic Frost, first CD ellpee I ever bought.
Still kicks erse!
Shedloads,
including:
Spooky - Found Sound
Fingerbobs
Autechre - Incunabula
444
I love Autechre
this isn't my favourite LP of theirs as they were still finding their 'language', but it's still a great record and like all their stuff doesn't seem to 'date' even though it's relatively primitive compared to what came after.
Regeneration
is the best Divine Comedy album by a country mile. No hit singles, but who cares when the tunes are that good?
Blimey
I'm a big Neil Hannon fan but I virtually never listen to that one, apart from Bad Ambassador. It was supposed to be Neil's Big Statement LP but it comes across as an uneasy cross between Noel Coward and early Radiohead.
Noel Coward and Radiohead
That makes sense (minus the uneasy part)
Came to this through the great Back To Mine cd from Orbital. With Lost Property on it.
"Gym-kits and trainers
Asthma inhalers
Silk-cuts and Bennies
Ten-packs and twenties
C-class narcotics
Antibiotics
The holes in my pockets
I lost it all
All that I'd like is to know
Just where do those lost things go?
When they slip from my hands
Then one night in a dream
I passed through a sheepskin screen
To a green, pleasant land
I found them all piled up into the sky
And I cried tears of joy "
I was at a gig where NH
I was at a gig where NH called for requests and someone asked for Lost Property. He tried and then gave it up after a verse - he said that the song just had too many lyrics.
I try to see Neil Hannon whenever he tours and I've rarely seen him play anything from Regeneration - making me suspect he didn't consider it that much of a success himself.
Not my favourite of NH's
but a brave record, and one that he needed to make. He needs to do the same thing again now - the last two DC albums have been very pedestrian.
Oh yeh, and "Perfect Lovesong" makes me cry.
The songs aren't all bad
"Perfect Lovesong" and "Bad Ambassador" being stand-outs, but it is the sub-Radiohead production that ruins it for me. NH seems to be rotate between good album and bad album at the moment so (as I liked Bang Goes The Knighthood) I expect the next one to be very average.
Godrich
Radiohead comments make some kind of sense given the production was handled by Nigel Godrich, which leant the album a fine spaciousness, depth and clarity that his work often does. I love the album, its his darkest, and the concerts with a more "rock" band with Neil sporting long hair and t-shirt were splendid.
Love what you do
That is possibly the only DC song I have ever liked. It's fantastic.
The other stuff I had heard was mostly radio played singles and I just thought that Noel Coward's back catalogue must be slowly creeping out of copyright tune by tune.
i disagree
I saw that tour - Neil looked fed up and completely disinterested. The nadir was when he ran "I'm all you need" (one of my favourite DC songs) into a version of "Last Christmas" by Wham. I think it's telling that he never plays anything from Regeneration these days.
The best?
I have mentioned elsewhere my love for Jethro Tull's 'Passion Play'. I know no one else who likes this album , never mind loves it like I do. So I may be the only person in the world who loves this unfashionable alubum by an unfashionable group.
Saw Ian Anderson recently..
...and he was clearly embarrassed by going all prog with this album! That said, he did The Story of The Hare that Lost His Spectacles, and it was rather good! The GLW had this album when we met and I never liked it much - I really like early Tull, so this was all a bit overblown to my ears, I must admit. I think the album cover doesn't help...
The Stars Look Different From Down Here
By The Cosmic Rough Riders.
Glorious. Majestic. Wonderful.
No-one else seems to like it, though.
I do, as with most things
I do, as with most things Cosmic.
Same here
it's not my absolute favourite - but really they hardly put a foot wrong on anything they recorded
There have been a fair few threads like this
I usually either choose Captain - 'This is Hazelville' or 18 Wheeler - 'Year Zero'
The toss of the coin has determined it's 18 Wheeler...who attempted to mix Screamadelica with Pet Sounds and came up with this:
That's a great wee ellpee Dr.
I've punted it onto many mates but they just don't get it.
I pity da foos!
I have never got around to getting this one
Although I have the other two and love them.
Got the singles off Year Zero, but it is just one of those I never got hold of. I am sure it will turn up one day.
If you'd like to IM/PM me
I'm sure I know a man who could furnish you with an evaluation copy.
Beauty Stab by ABC
I loved (most of) their other stuff but still feel I'm the only one who ever "got" this album.
me too also as well
I liked this album, particularly 'Unzipped' and 'By default by design'. The album did, however, contain, this rather naff lyric:
"Can't complain, mustn't grumble
help yourself to another piece of apple crumble"
That's a great lyric and...
... I wonder if Fry had been reading Alan Bennett?
SOS pulled as a single?
I seem to recall that there was a tragedy at sea around the time that SOS was about to be released, so it was pulled - don't think it would have made a jot of difference to the way the album tanked -
This is my favourite ABC album.
I think SOS was still
I think SOS was still released as a sinle. I'm fairly certain I have it somewhere on 7". That said, I don't think it hung around the charts for long.
Nope. You're not alone, Eddie.
Didn't buy it until last year (£3 in Fopp) but I "get" it too.
Also:
Knife - Aztec Camera. If I remember right, everyone seemed disappointed to the follow up to High Land, Hard Rain, but I like it.
Room To Roam - Waterboys. I prefer it to Fisherman's Blues. I just do.
The Orange Juice - Orange Juice. 3rd album. Best album. IMHO.
Back To The Egg - Wings
Breach - The Wallflowers. Couldn't get anyone interested in it.
Waterboys
Room To Roam, not sure if I prefer it to Fisherman's Blues, but probably equal in my estimation.
A Life of Sundays might be my favourite WB track ever.
Something That Is Gone
Featuring my favourite-ever backwards saxophone solo...
Orange Juice
The one I love is Texas Fever, and nobody seems to agree with me.
It's short but perfect. Six of the best songs they ever wrote.
But Orange Juice is a close second.
Um
My Beauty by Kevin Rowland
(cover art notwithstanding)
Too slick
Great choice of songs and I liked most of the re-interpretations. But the band and the production were far too polite.
I quite fancied Kevin in that gear.....
Mmmm maybe
'polite' can often be confused with finesse. The reason why I adore this album has a lot to do with the fact that a guy who'd been an egomaniac (principally because of cocaine) and had had to deal with the inevitable fallout was announcing his new-found humility to the world.
For me, as a not-that-shit guitarist, the solo pm reflections of my life is the most perfect little guitar break I've ever heard--and McGee's money well spent.
*Stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Vorgongod*
You are not alone, my friend. I think this is great, and I know that some other members of the Massive like it too.
I love it...
...but agree the arrangments are a bit dry and stuffy. The vocal interpretations are great though. 'Rag Doll' exemplifies this - a strangely stiff and old fashioned arrangement with a searing vocal. I come back to the record again and again though because, at its best, it's uplifting and inspirational.
I like...
... Everything Must Go, I think it's similar in sound and feel to The Nightfly. Two Against Nature was a bit too hi-hat heavy for me.
Everything must go
only has one song I really rate in their top batch namely Things I miss the most whereas Two against nature has two ie.Cousin Dupree and Gaslighting Abbie. Dont think either of these albums match their first 5 up to and including Royal Scam. Aja was substandard as was Gaucho although that does contain my favourite Dan song Hey Nineteen.
Album I enjoy that didnt deserve the negative reviews it got was Elvis Costellos North which I really like. Mellow and with some great Brass arrangements.
Gaucho...
...is, hands-down, the best 'Dan LP. I can live without 'Third World Man', but the rest is utterly sublime. Imagine how much better it would have been had (accidentally wiped song) 'The Second Arrangement' been included.
I'd call it a draw...
... Countdown To Ecstacy and Gaucho.
"Gaucho"
I like that line about "...bodacious cowboys". Marvellous.
Bodhisattva...
...features one of the great guitar solos.
Woops III
.
Woops II
.
Woops
.
I never studied the lyrics close enough....
...but it now makes sense as to why a Steely Dan covers band I saw in Sydney, Australia a few years ago were called "The Bodacious Cowboys". Suddenly everything's so clear...!
Bodacious cowboys...
...such as your friend, will never be welcome here, high in the Custerdome!
I saw Nearly Dan a while back and they started with this most difficult-to-play 'Dan song. They were brilliant.
Nearly Dan
I think this is a great covers band name (about which I am sure there is a thread); when I saw them, I also liked their t-shirt slogan "They got the Nearly Dan T-shirts" (though I think, given that irony, just like T-shirt fabric, can be stretched only so far, they omitted the preceding line).
You've seen them...
...they don't have the shapely bodies.
OK, time out here!
while other opinions are welcome pocket, I have to challenge your dismissal of Third World Man. Apart from being a beautifully weighted mood to match the darkness of the lyric, it contains one of the most haunting guitar solos in their entire canon of great solos.
And Steve, Aja was sub-standard? Presumably that's why, of all the Dan albums, Aja is the one they featured in the 'Classic Albums' DVD series.
sheesh!
I like the title track, 'the
I like the title track, 'the last mall' (one of their best lyrics) and 'things i miss the most'; all of which would not be out of place on their better albums. My favourite actually 'Katy Lied' and I think I am in the minority here also.
you say tomato
I like both 'Everything Must Go' and 'Two Against Nature', but what do I know?
Nik Kershaw's '15 minutes' from 1999 is under-rated but brilliant; it's probably the best mid-life crisis album I've heard.
I don't know how it happened ...
... but 15 Minutes makes it into my top 10 of all time, alongside ...... well, Prog!
In The Studio by The Special AKA
Third Specials album (ish) that is always overshadowed by the first two but it really is a fascinating work.
And I'm the only person I've ever met who loves it.
Once, I met a former Special AKA band member (who shall remain nameless) in a Hackney pub during the early nineties and they confided that they can never listen to it because the arduous recording process drove them to a complete nervous breakdown.
This single should have been number one for ten weeks!
Best
of the three Specialswise.
For me.
OOAA!
Ooh Aah!
You and me both
I don't think there's a weak track on it. Given it contains one of the best-known songs of the 80s, its obscurity is baffling. I even love the Blue Note-esque cover.
Heart gladdened!
But what is the Blue Note-esque cover?
The actual album cover!
Moody, tinted photos of band etc. You know the sort of thing.
Ah, got it!
Yes.
Yoshinori Sunahara
Take Off and Landing
sorry
you're not alone
Soul Coughing - Irresistible Bliss
I've never met anyone else who likes this album, one of my favourites.
Try the opener for size. This is a homemade video for Super Bon Bon.
I also have an artist that only I rate; Mechell Ndegeocello who has released a number of great albums, the best being Peace Beyond Passion.
Soul Coughing and
Yes, I loved Soul Coughing and Me'shell Ndegeocello's Plantation Lullabies and Cookie: the Anthropological Mixtape.
Also i have to admit to a fondous for Terence Trent D'arby's 'Neither Fish Nor Flesh'......!!!
Some
Dogs D'Amour - In The Dynamite Jet Saloon
Henry Priestman - Chronicles Of Modern Life
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Darkness - Permission To Land (overblown, pompous, but delivered with a smile)
The Who - Endless Wire
Permission to Land is a classic.
But you're on your own with Endless Wire:it's dreadful, as the clip you provided plainly shows. The absolute nadir of a once-great group.
Pete Townshend's Psychoderelict
I've loved this album since it came out, but it's hard to find anyone else who has heard of it, let alone listened to it. It's nowhere near perfect, but I maintain enormous affection for it.
Another Henry Priestman fan here
The Chronicles of Modern Life is great!
Sun O)) - Monoliths and Dimensions
I'm the only person I know who likes this album. I'm damn certain sure that the neighbours at my old apartment don't like it.
You are not alone
I like White 1 & 2 as well. Not everyday listening, but there is an itch that only Sunn O))) can scratch!
Rio, Duran Duran.
I'm the only man I know who likes this. I'm not even sure why I like it.
Not alone
Some decent songs on Rio. Now if you had said "Seven and the Ragged Tiger"...
Glossy brilliance
Me too, it's just unashamedly brilliant glossy pop,....no DD no Killers.
Sally Can't Dance
One of Lou's better solo efforts IMO. Disliked by most, including Lou it seems.
Wilder, The Teardrop Explodes
It was completely overlooked at the time because the band split at exactly the same time it was released. I think it's the best thing Cope has ever done.
Wilder
Yep. Totally agree.
Ah!
I must look out for that. thanks.
I personally really rate Fried but most people seemed to have been put off by the "not in front of the children" reviews received at the time.
From the sound of things I'm pretty sure Albarn/Coxon must have given it the odd spin too.
Fried
Morrissey's album of the year in 1984.
Really?
Now there's two people I would never have connected.
The account of the period in Copey's autobiography is entertaining, in a "Jusy say no, kids!" sort of way.
A strange Wilder coincidence
The BBC used The Great Dominions as the soundtrack to their coverage of the Poll Tax riots. The "mummy I've been fighting again" refrain was what did the trick, I guess. What they didn't (presumably) know was that Julian Cope was there, dressed in a giant alien costume. Not, to be fair, a possibility that might immediately suggest itself. Still, weird eh?
Passionate Friend is my top pick from it though.
The Everly Brothers: 'Roots'
Mentioned every so often but rarely, if ever, trumpeted from the roof-tops.
I'd put it above all those 'back to the country'-type LPs by The Band etc. from the late 60s.
Wow - Moby Grape
Wow was how critics described their debut album, not this, the follow-up. I wore the vinyl smooth. Love it - especially this track...
Adventure - Television
We're all supposed to worship Marquee Moon.
I prefer this.
The Eighteenth Day Of May
Did a fantastic session for Mark Radcliffe a few years ago.
Not heard of since I bought the album.
Zoolook
In the UK, pretty much everything released to this point by Jean Michel Jarre had gone Top 10 in the album chart. This stumbled in at 48 in 1984, though it was received a little better in mainland Europe. Char placings be damned, it's a strange and wonderful beast. Recorded in New York it has echoes of early hip hop and dance, not to mention the ethnic sources later described as "world music". And it's crammed with great players. To me at least, it is not only one of the albums of the 1980s, but one of the great overlooked electronic albums. Lots of it was written around 18 month before and made extensive use of the new capabilities of the Fairlight CMI. Jarre was one of the first to take delivery of the Fairlight and used it to realise some of the aims of the work he'd done at GRM in Paris 15 years before.
This was Musique Cnncrète opening its eyes and stepping into a whole new world. It was light years beyond what both he and Kraftwerk, for example, had done before. It didn't just change the rules, but ripped them up and wrote an entirely new rule book. In this country he's forever yolked to Oxygene, but this is really his crowning achievement as far as I'm concerned; it's the album I'd take to the desert island.
I bought this album when it came out and loved it...
The first side still sounds fantastic, especially Diva. The use of found voices is ingenious. It was a self-reinvention for Jarre: shame he then went into reactionary self-repetition with the forgettable Rendezvous.
Jarre
I love Jarre and this is a great album. I love a lot of Jarre's later stuff though. Chronologie is my favourite Jarre album (apart from Equinoxe). Geometry of Love is excellent in my opinion, and Waiting For Cousteau is great too.
I kind of agree about RV
too much neo-baroque bomabast - didn't really like RV2 at all. Better at the gigs played live, but even then...
Things got a bit odd for a while; some of Revolutions was just dire (September: nice intention, crap song) and I only half enjoyed Cousteau - Calypso three was really plodding.
And, like Art said, Chronologie got things up and running again. Since the mid 1990's he hasn't released much official "new" material, but it certainly hasn't been formulaic; the B&O demo disc, Interior Music, was certainly a departure. And Geometry of Love, and even Teo and Tea and Metamorphoses all had things to recommended them. In the case of GoL of course, one of those things was the digitally doctored picture of Isabelle Adjani's lady garden on the cover :)
Like I said, he gets a stinking press in hr UK now, though I'm not sure why. And I don't think he deserves it either.
I don't think you are the
I don't think you are the only person to rate this album though!
I know plenty of people who like Zoolook but don't necessarily like Jarre.
I like Jarre. Always have. Favourite Jarre album? It changes depending on how I'm feeling. Right now it's Waiting for Cousteau, but that's because I need to get some work done and that 46 minute piece is putting me in the appropriate "zone".
Later it might be "Zoolook", but it'll probaby be "Oxygene" as I've just bought a new turntable and it sounds absolutely glorious on there!
Monster
Two spring to mind,.......
Monster - REM (pretty much my fave REM ...due the the bleak arrangements and massively fuzzed up guitar) Bang and Blame my most played track by them ever.
and Neither Washington Nor Moscow - The Redskins
The Redskins
Neither Washington Nor Moscow is a regular round my house. Great album. And so many exclamation marks!
Hear hear
best album-with-a-still-from-Battleship-Potemkin-on-the-front-cover ever.
Monster dissapointment
Of all the entries so far, this is the one that I find most unlikely favourite album by an artist. You could be the winner!
There's really nothing wrong with Monster
It's a decent rock album. It's not what most of the fairweather fans or their label wanted, sure, but I reckon it's OK judged on its own merits.
They were to go on and be far more will-this-do.
Up/New Adventures
I've been known to attrack funny looks and/or derisive laughter when I sugegst Up is R.E.M.'s best album, closely followed by new Adventures in HiFi. Actually even I don't believe that last one, but Leave and Be Mine are brilliant.
As is Bang and Blame ...
"No Other" by Gene Clark.
OK, there's a few aficionados of West Coast rock who also rather like it but we do seem to be in an inexplicably small minority. It's a classic. As is his "White Light." I listened to them both again this afternoon... marvellous!
Great shout there Mark,
Great shout there Mark, "Strength Of Strings" is tremendous, featuring the late great Jesse Ed Davis on lead guitar.
This album died on its arse
and wasn't released on CD until about 2000. Madness!
It's wonderful and everyone should have it. Better than anything by Gram Parsons if you ask me.
Moose
Why does it always have to be "better than", can't it just be another great album ?
I'm a fan of both Clark and Parsons.
Point taken JB
... what I meant was that the acclaim that Parsons has (rightly) garnered draws attention to the fact that Gene Clark has been, at best, forgotten, at worst, ignored.
I prefer GC, but I love most of GP's work and only really made the comparison because of the Boids connection.
That's a fair comment Moose
Gene Clark is well overdue some recognition.
My favourite album
of all I've ever heard, this is the best - it's perfect in every way.
It's one of my favourites
but it's quite critically acclaimed. My tip for an unfairly ignored GC disc is Firebyrd. Amazing versions of Mr Tambourine Man, If You Could Read My Mind and Feel A Whole Lot Better. Rain Song's a great track too. The man could do little wrong and should be up there with the list of great self-destructive geniuses as far as I'm concerned. Hard to know why he isn't as mythologised as Gram or whoever.
Trans
Not my absolute favourite Neil Young album but much-loved nonetheless. It gets unfairly panned due to the use of vococorder, however that is only a few tracks - and works well in context, I think.
Possibly, my enthusiasm for it stems from seeing the great man on the associated tour, which was fab.
Like an Inca
is the only song that isn't a stinker
I can't believe you disparage
Track 2, Computer Age.
Amongst other good bits.
I don't mind it.
Certainly better than Everybody's Rockin which is awful.
Susan Cadogan
Of the whole of my collection, this has to be the most overlooked album that I play the most. Produced by Lee Perry no less.
A real lost classic.
It's a wonderful album
have an up
all of the above, really
Being a contrarian about received rock wisdom and the lazy music press 'canon', this thread is great to me.
Amongst the dirty little secrets I have are:
Love Beach - ELP (it DOES have some good bits)
The second Stone Roses album - much more exciting than the first
Fuzak - ANY fusion album appropriate for a lift or hip hotel lobby
The smuttier Frank Zappa albums - nifty musical chops and dirty jokes - what's not to like?
Love Beach?
Good bits? The run out groove on each side of the album are the only good bits I can think of.
Certainly
Second Coming is pretty cool. Any album that contains Love Spreads, Driving South, Begging You and Breaking Into Heaven can't be all bad. One of the best gigs I ever saw was the Bridlington Spa gig the Roses played in November 1995. They were, to use an overused word in a very literal and correct way, awesome. The noise they produced was epic and personal and all-consuming all at once, and Brown's voice wasn't shot. They were simply amazing.
And, as for Frank, people get po-faced about the filth, but songs like Dinah Moe Humm are just fabulous, fabulous things. And so's Titties and Beer, just to name two.
The End of the Surrey People
Unique. Charming. Glorious. Postmen do it better.
Just in case you don't believe me
I'm gonna quit this town forever
With Vic
It's not a case of records people like or dislike.
I love Vic, he's my favourite.
Persons who are in tend to be in.
Persons who are not are not.
This record is unavailable.
Seek it like a failing organ.
Oh!!
I communicate with Vic a bit.
I work for the Post Office too.
The fact he E-mails me is the equivalent to most of your massive having a sex with that over rated band from Liverpool
In honour of your name
.. and can I have his email address?
That's
where the name comes from.
Via Wire too.
Go to the new web site for subway sect.
http://www.vicgodard.co.uk/
Vic isn't a pop star, although he's the greatest pop star. Say hello.
I don't want to email him ...
... just look at his email address and consider the possibility. It's all about possibilities don't you think?
Now, you've ruined it, drilltime
You giddy goat.
BAAA!!
Bleat!
I'm a post punk sheep!
(or goat)
Ignore him kids
You can buy "The End of the Surrey People" on that there iTunes. The possibilities are endless.
Staircase To The Day - Gravy Train
Anyone else remember these ?
Just me then
GAH !!
From my late teens (1975)
Fox - Only you can. Featuring Ben Goldacres Mum (Noosha Fox)
I love this, & The bands debut album "Fox"
Brett Anderson - Slow Attack
It's only two years old and BA has pretty much disowned it.
The reviews said, "Ohhh, it isn't "Animal Nitrate" 12 times". I think it's great. You might like it even if you don't like Brett A.
Paul Leary
The History of Dogs
Sticking to the OP,
I absolutely love The Jazz Devils 'Out Of The Dark', their only album I'm aware of, and I've yet to meet anyone who's heard it outside of my car, as evidenced by the 3 (admittedly very poor) tracks on youtube with between 3 and 10 views. If you do get anywhere near the album, "It's a Crime", "Chase the Blues", and "The Postman Song" are particularly good. IMHO of course.
1 English, 2 foreign
Sniff 'N' The Tears - The Game's Up
Fabrizio De Andre - Crueza De Ma
Agricantus - Taureg
oh and...
Everyone and his cousin thinks Nixon is Lambchop's best. It isn't. Is A Woman is. Fact.
And similarly, contrary to worldwide belief, Secrets Of The Beehive is not David Sylvian's best. That would be Dead Bees On A Cake. And I should know, cos I'm me.
Spot
On
Dead Bees On A Cake
is splendiferous. The better by far, in my opinion, of Davy Boy's apiary-themed 'rekkids'
Public Image Limited - Album
Come on. It f--king ROCKS.
Steve Vai, Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Ginger Baker and Johnny boy on the same record? Of course it's brilliant. And so it is.
May the road rise with you...
Some I like
That I'm supposed to hate:
Beefhart - Unconditionally Guaranteed
The Byrds - Byrds (the reunion album, brilliant !)
Dylan - The christian albums - have all got some cracking songs on, "gotta serve somebody","slow train", "gonna change my way of thinking","covenant woman", "presing on", "heart of mine", "every grain of sand". Of course at the time, and thinking this was what you were going to get from Dylan forever more, sure they got an increasingly bad reception, but looking back from 30 years on there's plenty of choice cuts.
And one album I rate that no-one else seems to : Seals & Crofts - Get Closer. Wonderful dreamy optimistic hippy shit.
Cath Carroll's...
... 'England Made Me.' I don't even know know anyone else who has this LP.
I have ...
.... although, to be fair, I got given it by Rob Gretton when I was in his office one afternoon. It was in his Factory stash book case (left over stock) and I said I liked the single. Good album. "Moves Like You", excellent single.
I have the other copy
I like it rather than love it. Next time and Moves like you are good. Actually, come to think of it, I like it quite a lot. It shall be played again before the night is out...
Tarkus
Not many people like this round here.
Even Danny Baker seems to have stopped posting.
Van the Man's Enlightenment
I think it's his best album.
I love it!
It's not his best. I bought it not long after it came out. The day after, it snowed so heavily that we had a powercut for 36 hours. Never mind - I put Enlightenment on my walkman and sat in front of the fire... I therefore associate it with cosiness.
Those... wireless... knobs!
His Band And The Street Choir
is my unfashionably favourite Van Morrison album.
Now I've admitted that I'll cancel my subscription
and go and jump off the roof!
Atom Heart Mother
Floyd hates AHM cos it sounds like a mess. I love it for exactly the same reason. That the title track sounds like it's about to fall apart at any moment and finally pulls itself together. That's also why all airbrushed re-recordings of Tubular Bells just tarnish the memory (ironically).
I once asked singer Bruce Cockburn about why bands disown things that are patently fab. His reply was "You just have to to say 'what the hell do they know? They just wrote, performed and recorded it...'"
My sentiments entirely.
ah
posted that in the wrong place. Hey ho. not moving now I'm comfy...
Rickie Lee Jones
Pop Pop. Had this on cassette in car for years, know it off by heart. Her classic albums pass me by, but, apart from the nasality of her voice, which is an acquired taste, the timing and pitch and emotion of her singing are tremendous, and the band are awesome. But it's an album that always gets overlooked in any overview of her career.
Weezer! The Stones! Zep! Clash!
Pinkerton By Weezer. Panned on its release (Hi Rolling Stone).Did not stop me from buying it for multiple Xmas gifts for friends. Now rightly seen as a classic (see Metacritic). History has 20/20 vision indeed.
Emotional Rescue by The Rolling Stones. Yes, some of it is crap but the title track, Down In The Hole and Dance are fantastic.
In Through The Out Door by Led Zeppelin. Became a fan in 79 and, like the above, some of it is poor and dated even by late 70s standards. For some reason I enjoy its inherent crapness.
Give Em Enough Rope The Clash. Their best sounding album, closest to their live sound. See Luke Haines' comments in his book Post Everything.
Regarding Monster by REM. Utterly hearbreaking. The death of a once great band.
Sandinista!
Often--in fact, almost always--dismissed as a folly, but I love every last self-indulgent minute of it. I can put on any of its six sides and make the last 30 years disappear as if they'd never happened.
Without wishing to provoke spleen in the Massive
this is Phill Jupitus's favourite album. True
I salute Mr Jupitus, clearly
I salute Mr Jupitus, clearly a man of taste. Someday, I remain convinced, Sandinista! will attain its deserved spot up in the pantheon. I remember visiting your fair country in 1981 and being shocked at just how low the Clash had fallen in general esteem. You all seemed more impressed with Spandau Ballet at the time. (And no, that's not a cue for some wiseguy to put a Spands album on this post!)
Gideon Coe agrees
6music dj Gideon Coe agrees, I remember being so pleased when he played "The Call Up" that I emailed him. This was in the early days of 6music when there very few listeners and they were almost guaranteed to read out your email, which he did. I was so pleased to hear something from Sandanista instead of London Calling or one of the singles. Then I read Gideons biog on the 6music website and it asked which album he would save from a fire and this was it. So it must have seemed like I was sucking up!
De La Soul Is Dead
Neil Young and Pearl Jam - Mirrorball
Roachford - Feel (yes, I know)
Blind Melon - Blind Melon
De La Soul Is Dead
is terrific if you edit all of the skits out. And remove yourself from the context of it being the follow-up to Three Feet High by, I dunno, listening to it 20 years after it was released...
Agreed
Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa is particularly good.
Pixies
I and some colleagues once met Gil Norton and had a bit of chat and after much hushed tones about doolittle and (therefore) Nirvana, I mentioned that I felt that Bossanova was often overlooked as a great piece of work as it had a real consistent cinematic 'entirety' to it with superb mixing, great textures etc.
From the reaction of others present, later, you'd have thought I'd said I loved his work with the power rangers.
Bossanova
was my introduction to Pixies and for me it works as an 'album' more than the others but the others are tremendous in their own way so it's kind of a moot point but you are spot on.
You're not alone
The top album of 1990 according to Sounds (RIP)
And I think it's great too.
Fully agree
Fully agree
Milla - The Divine Comedy
Thanks to this thread for reminding me of this album. As well as beating up zombies in Resident Evil and earning bucketloads from being the face of various cosmetics, Milla Jovovich also released a wonderfully odd album in the mid-ninties that sort of defies description. Imagine if Kate Bush had been a east european gypsy growing up listening to This Mortal Coil. It's not quite that good, but I'm almost inspired to start a "Great music from unexpected sources" thread. This is the only thing a quick look on YouTube brings up from said album...
Neither Fish Nor Flesh - Terence Trent D'arby
This album got massively panned when it came out but I always liked it and think there is some lovely stuff on it. I think I even like it more than 'Introducing The Hardline'. Of course it was career suicide for the Dance Little Sister hitmaker but it's a lot more interesting than an easy rehash of his debut would have been.
I think the press didn't really like his cockiness and went a bit over the top in slating him for it.
He really was a major talent
He really was a major talent who just went up his own rectum. His third album was the best byt the way.
Didn't he claim to be channeling John Lennon on this album?
... absolutely bonkers. His first album is very dated, but this one sounds great. And I do kind of admire that he had that huge career momentum and pretty much consciously squandered it, because after this he only had a couple of minor hits.
I was working as a guest booker on a radio show
about ten years ago when TTD was on the comeback trail. My immediate reaction was, yes, we'll have him, fine.
Then I get a call from the PR who says, Terence wants to be known and referred to by his new name (I can't remember what it was, but it sounded like Hakuna Matata). Oh, and he only wants to talk about his new material and he doesn't want to answer any questions about his past.
I said, I think we'll pass then. And we wonder why some acts disappear...
A great many...
...but the album that even his own disciples seem rather unimpressed by, but that continues to this day to fascinate me is:
"The man from utopia" by Frank Zappa.
Any album that contains "The Dangerous Kitchen" must never be overlooked and cannot have enough praise heaped upon it.
The Cosmic Rough Riders
The Stars Look Brighter From Down Here.
Took me a while to get into it and then recognised it for the work of genius it is.
Supertramp
Supertramp's first album I believe to be a work of genius. No one agrees with me, even when I play them the distorted organ riff on "Nothing to Show" 58 times in a row, saying "See, see? No, listen! No that bit not that bit! See, see? etc"
Joe Jackson's last great album, 'Laughter and Lust'
Criminally overlooked and contained the most cynical and acerbic song about the pop industry ever written:
Phil Collins - Both
Phil Collins - Both Sides
Whenever I'm feeling it a bit I put this on, if only to hear someone else was feeling a lot worse.
I know it's Phil Collins, but no one knows who I am do they? Oh, wait a minute, my name is under this post.
Bugger.
REM - Up
For me their finest work, beautiful album but generically written off as being post Automatic for the People - therefore crap.