Entertainment For Lively Minds
Artist. Album.
Posted by Kay Lester on 22 May 2011 - 6:09am.
Pick one artist, any artist.
Pick your favourite album by that artist.
(We've probably done this or its like before but what the heck, eh.)
I'll start: The Who - Quadrophenia
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What the heck.
Cassandra Wilson - Loverly.
OK Then
Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
Neither Scared To Dance nor Days In Europa but...
Skids - The Absolute Game
I'll have 'pretty' Who with good clothes
The Who - 'Sell Out'
Nick Lowe
Dig My Mood.
XTC
XTC-Apple Venus Volume One
Right now
Nick Lowe - At my age
The Damned
Machine Gun Etiquette.
I'd Up you but I'm being...
nibbled to death by an okapi
bunnymen
Heaven Up Here
Slint
Spiderland
David Bowie
Diamond Dogs
Byrne/Eno
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Stone Roses
I Am The Resurrection.
Right now?
Big Star - #1 Record
XTC
Skylarking
No question
(although I gave an up to Apple Venus up there; and Good Old Boys)
Grandaddy
The Sophtware Slump
The Blue Aeroplanes
Swagger
Got tickets to see them June 13th
can't wait...!
Van the Man
It's Too Late to Stop Now
pixies
Doolittle
cheating maybe
But The Beatles Love
Elvis Costello
King of America
King Crimson - Red
Have an up, Stimpy old chap...
....this came a close second for me...
The Fall
This Nation's Saving Grace.
Hey Mark!
Your spoiling all the paintwork
Terry Reid
Seed of Memory
Joni Mitchell
Hissing of Summer Lawns
Its Immaterial
Song
Number One
Underrated classic of all time?
I am sure many of The Massive would love this one.
This week...
It's Night Sonng by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook.
... or is it Tigermilk by Belle and Sebstain - yep changed my mind in 30 secs.
First one that comes to mind
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Could nominate the first two
but since we can only have one:
Can't buy a thrill - Steely Dan
The Jam
All Mod Cons
(although Setting Sons is an extremely close second)
Heres A Spotify Playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/marbles22/playlist/06P8iBZk7zZnyCzAIzyAeH
The Mars Volta
De-loused in the Comatorium
I want to like them too..
but the bloke's voice is like nails down a blackboard (shudder).
Van der Graaf Generator
Still Life
Bob Dylan
The Freewheeling Bob Dylan
The Fabs
Abbey Road
Kings of Leon
Aha Shake Heartbreak.
Run DMC
King of Rock
Genesis
Selling England By The Pound
Supergrass
In It For The Money
The Specials
More Specials
The Pogues
If I should fall from grace with god.
The Church
Priest = Aura.
I`d describe it as "sprawling"
Gravediggaz
Niggamortis
McCartney
Ram
Up arrows
Why isn't it possible to give a down?
Once upon a time..
Such a thing was possible. But it caused rancour and flouncing. So Fraser removed the facility.
Well in essence you just
Well in essence you just did. But I don't see how you could diss this album. Ram is his masterpiece and widely acknowledged as such, at least in the states, where the album's stature has grown steadily in the last 5 years. There's been 3 Ram tribute albums by indie artists in the last 2 years alone. I'd give myself an up arrow if I could. ;)
Ram
Absolute gem.
This is where the gold is in Macca's solo back catalogue, not Band On The Run.
*GASP!*
Ranger in "post-'69 recommendation" shock!
The Beatles
Revolver. First album I ever bought.
Neil Young
Zuma
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Liverpool – if you take away the singles, their debut stinks. Their second, on the other hand, stripped away the zeitgeist for something far more subtle. After Two Tribes and Relax – Rage Hard was always going to be too understated to match their commercial success – but listening to it now – it is only a whisker away from that other contemporary slice of Trevor Horn genius – Slave To The Rhythm. Elsewhere the album is carefully crafted and the quality never drops as far as it does on some of their debut’s rushed filler
Suede
Coming Up
The B-52's
The B-52's
Blue Nile
Hats
Sufjan
Illinois
The National
Alligator
Jean-Michel Jarre
Equinoxe
The Go Betweens
Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express
Bonobo
Animal Magic
Hepcat
Right On Time
Boz Scaggs
Middle Man
U2
The Unforgettable Fire
Cocteau Twins
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Tom waits
Mule variations
The lowest selling greatest album ever?
Love`s "Forever Changes", despite what Hepworth and his mates said about it in a long ago, but not forgotten, by me anyway, podcast.
Erm.....
.....what did they say about it?
They didn`t rate it...
...they claimed it was over rated, what do they know about ...anything!
Never Mind!
Summertime's here and look over there, flowers everywhere in the morning, in the morning
La da da, da da da da
Tom Petty
Full Moon Fever
The Residents
Fingerprince
Spiritualized
Lazer Guided Melodies
Talking Heads
Remain In Light (runner up: True Stories)
Bruce Springsteen
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate
Pet Shop Boys
Behaviour
Pink Floyd
The Final Cut
really ?!?
wow
R.E.M.
Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables...
Joe Boyd London classic at least TWO WHOLE ALBUMS before they started getting proper massive.
I defy you to hear "When you greet a stranger, look at their shoes..." without becoming wistful.
good shout.
It's been way too flaming long since I listened to Fables... so I'm going to remedy that right now.
You're welcome !
How was it ?
This is my favourite REM lyric/ending I think.
There wasn't even time to say
Goodbye to Wendell Gee
So whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows with me
If the wind were colors
And if the air could speak
Then whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows
The very acme
of wistful melancholy. Have an up.
How was it?
I wanted it to go on longer. And the bittersweet Wendell Gee seemed to compound that sentiment.
When I get round to buying the new record, I think I'll do an REM marathon... maybe working backwards.
I just did.
Don't work backwards. Work forwards. It's unbelievably rewarding and interesting. There aren't many bands you can do that with: tracing their slow growth and sudden explosion of form.
Frank Zappa..
One Size Fits All
Steely Dan
Gaucho
Gary Numan
Telekon
The Stranglers
Black & White
Go to iTunes Canada and look up 'Stranglers IV'
North American release that was a blend of 'Raven' and some singles that outgunned everything else in their considerable catalogue. Played it to death. Came with a 7 inch single including White Room, Choosy Susie and JJ's Do the European.
Talking Heads
Fear of Music
Simple Minds
Empires and Dance
Prefab Sprout
Jordan The Comeback
Stevie Wonder
Innervisions