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I don`t have a favourite album...
Posted by johnsimpson1965 on 28 November 2011 - 3:41pm.
....but I do have 10 which are always in my top ten.
Adopts Dermot O`leary voice..."In no particular order....."
New Order - Technique
The Church - Starfish
It`s Immaterial - Life`s hard and then you die
Icicle Works - The small price of a bicycle
The Chameleons - Strange Times
The Stranglers - Black and White
Rush - Signals
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
10CC - Live and let live
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
So there we have it, nothing since 1989, but i have loved all these for some time and continue to do so.
Anyones elses favourites set in stone?
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Oh yes
Rain Dogs is the greatest album ever. Always has been. Probably always will be. Everything else is just frippery.
That's wrong ...
... on a previous thread it was proven that Swordfishtrombones was of equal greatness - and because of this it was agreed that we would now refer to the pair as a double album - Swordfishtrombonesraindogs.
Rainfishtromdogs
Or something... Call me weird but I still prefer "Blood Money" to "Swordfishtrombones".
So to sum up, this week's top 10:
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Kanye West - 808s And Heartbreak
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Alfie - A Word In Your Ear
Scott Walker - Scott 4
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Mos Def - True Magic
Burial - Untrue
Portishead - Dummy
Gemma Hayes - The Hollow Of Morning
Not weird...
... I think "Blood Money" is a corker too.
Lovely to see a mention
For Alfie. A criminally underrated band if ever there was one.
I thangyoo.
Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Lou Reed - Rock 'n Roll Animal
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Chris Whitley - Living With The Law
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Iggy & the Stooges - Funhouse
Ry Cooder - Paris Texas
John Betjeman - Banana Blush.
Nice to see 'Presence' getting the respect it deserves...
Bloody good record that.
Agree on New Order's Technique
A magic record that I always return to. It never dates.
You know what...
..you`re right. It does never date...though surely it must..it is very much of its time but still feels fresh. It`s very important to me.
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Votes are in from the Rochdale jury
Costello - Get Happy!!
Mr Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
John Prine - In Spite of Ourselves
Nick Lowe - At My Age
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Emmylou Harris - Luxury Liner
Lyle Lovett - Step Inside this House
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Gram Parsons - GP/Grevious Angel
Merle Haggard - Swinging Doors
You have two of mine Benny
In spite of Ourselves and Car Wheels. So instead I will give you the other 10:-
Last Train to Memphis - Bobby Charles
Chicken Skin music - Ry Cooder
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
I want to see the bright lights tonight - Richard/Linda Thompson
Songs of - Leonard Cohen
King of America - Elvis Costello
Still Crazy after all these years - Paul Simon
Ophelia - Natalie Merchant
The Black light - Calexico
Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis
Great to see King of America
Great to see King of America and last train to memphis there. Mighty stuff
hmmmm?
John Prine and Lucinda? Philadeplhia?
some of your other choices tell me you are probably not Amos Lee, but you MUST be a fan !! Right?
"Bryter Layter"
by Nick Drake is, for me, indispensable. Then:
"Bless The Weather" by John Martyn
"Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd
"Get Ready" by New Order
Jeez
Rush's Signals and the Stranglers' Black and White. Both great but i've never seen them on the same list. Well done sir.
You really should be...
Robbie2112.
Jeez
Rush's Signals and the Stranglers' Black and White. Both great but i've never seen them on the same list. Well done sir.
Any excuse for a top ten
Chic - C'est Chic
Joe Higgs - Life Of Contradiction
Velvet Underground - 3rd Album
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Andrew Deutsch - The Sun
Gregory Isaacs - Extra Classic
Roxy Music - Avalon
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Congos - Heart Of The Congos
Oh yes
but like any good manager I know when to rotate the squad
So, the current first XI
1. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
2. The La's - The La's
3. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
4. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
6. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
7. The Stooges - Fun House
8. Radiohead - OK Computer
9. Supergrass - I Should Coco
10. Happy Mondays - Pills N' Thrills N' Bellyaches
11. These Animal Men - (Come On Join) The High Society
On the subs bench
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Genius/ GZA - Liquid Swords
Method Man - Tical
Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Nirvana - In Utero
Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
Some good un's there.
In a play off I would put out my team
1. Elbow - Seldom seen kid
2. Oasis - What's the story
3. Pulp - Different Class
4. Blur - Blur
5. Nirvana - Nevermind
6. Radiohead - The Bends
7. Villagers - Becoming a jackal
8. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
9. Pixies - Bossanova
10. Carter USM - 30 Something
11. Beatles - Sergeant Pepper
(Will probably put a bid in for Ok Computer in the January transfer window)
That's interesting
Jilted Generation and Different Class were very close to my list too.
We must be men of a certain age
Because supergrass & your oasis pick would have been in my second eleven
Similar
OTTOMH, INPO...
01. Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
02. Lewis Taylor - Lewis Taylor
03. Kraftwerk - Computerworld
04. Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
05. Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain
06. Thelonius Monk - Straight, No Chaser
07. The Black Dog - Spanners
08. Steely Dan - Gaucho
09. Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
10. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Just one Teenage Fanclub
Just one Teenage Fanclub album. Why are they not massive, even now ?
10 constant favorites
Not in any particular rank order, these are the 10 I've listened to the most -- in their entirety -- in my life and expect to always love:
Home Brew — Nenah Cherry
Soul Mining — The The
Back to Black — Amy Winehouse
Nick of Time — Bonnie Raitt
Purple Rain — Prince
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood — Neko Case
Whatever and Ever Amen — Ben Folds Five
Ram — Paul & Linda McCartney
White Album — Beatles
Revolver — Beatles
Ooh good, a list!
This week my all-time top ten has always been:
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Everything But The Girl - Eden
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedos
Lambchop - Is A Woman
Mississippi John Hurt - Last Sessions
Is A Woman...
... is a great record, and I think this helps prove it.
Monkees "Headquarters"
Elton John "Captain Fantastic"
Ian Dury "New Boots and Panties"
The Associates "Sulk"
Haircut 100 "Pelican west"
Llyod Cole and the Commotions "Rattlesnake"
The Jam "All Mod Cons"
The Smiths "Meat Is Murder"
Del Amitri "Waking Hours"
Justin Currie "What Is Love For"
Everybody loves a list
1. Blonde on Blonde – Bob Dylan
2. Imperial Bedroom – Elvis Costello
3. Who’s Next – The Who
4. Raindogs – Tom Waits
5. Moondance – Van Morrison
6. Sound of Lies – The Jayhawks
7. After the Goldrush – Neil- Young
8. Car Wheels On A Gravel Road – Lucinda Williams
9. Damn The Torpedoes – Tom Petty
10. Blue – Joni Mitchell
And I left out the Kinks, and the Beach Boys and Led Zeppelin and Steely Dan etc.etc.etc. Doh!
I envy you
You can spell "torpedoes". I wish I could.
You lost me at Dermot O'Leary voice...
*falls into a coma*
Fairly Stable Listing
Beatles - Abbey Road
Big Country - The Crossing
Jam - All Mod Cons or Setting Sons (what day is it?)
Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Henry Priestman - Chronicles Of Modern Life
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Who - Quadrophenia
In Reserve:
Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Madness - The Rise & Fall
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Perm any 10 from the above 16 and thats pretty much the top ten on any given day.
Compilers Note: Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds is rapidly becoming a "can't do without" album, and may (in the near future) replace one of the reserve list.
Not set in stone, but here are ten of my favourites...
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Paul Simon - Greatest Hits, Etc.
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
JJ Cale - Naturally
Mose Allison - Mose Allison Sings
I knew it was Patrick..
I knew it was Patrick as soon as I read the words "Breakfast in America"....
Here's mine:-
Grace And Danger - John Martyn
Welcome to the Cruise - Judie Tzuke
Never For Ever - Kate Bush
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
David Gilmour - David Gilmour
The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
Stautues - Moloko
Boys Outside - Steve Mason
Even In The Quietest Moments - Supertramp
pretty much my most played elpees..
My absolute definitive ten favourite albums
at the moment are, I think...
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback
The Beatles - Revolver
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The KLF - The White Room
Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Danny Wilson - Meet Danny Wilson
My top ten
The ones that I play most often
AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've got it
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Full Moon Fever
David Bowie - Ziggy Live Hammersmith 1973
Led Zeppelin IV Untitled
The Who - Who's Next
Iggy and the Stooges - Funhouse
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Rainbow - Rainbow Rising
UFO - Strangers in the Night
The subs bench (ie they could displace any of the above)
R Stones - Exile on Main St
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
U2 - The Joshua Tree
B Dylan - Bringing it all back home
Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence and Patience
Guns'n'Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Green Day - Dookie
Audioslave's first album
my guilty pleasure when I want to be 17 again?
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law. What else could it be?
Keep coming back to...
White Album
Exile On Main St
Roxy - For Your Pleasure (new entry)
Royal Scam (new entry 2)
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is...
Neil Young - On The Beach
Radiohead - In Rainbows
David Bowie - Station To Station
Led Zep II
Not terribly original or unusual but honest.
4 of these are albums I loved in my twenties, though many others from those days have been left behind. 4 are more recent discoveries. I like a lot of new stuff too!
I do have a favourite album
and it's Revolver
but apart from that the one's I'll always go back to are
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Van Morrison Astral Weeks
Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Smile (the bootleg has kept me going for nigh on two decades)
The Clash London Calling
The Jam Sound affects
Echo & The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here
The Teardrop Explodes Wilder
Bowie Young Americans
The Stone Roses 1st
(I think I may be a little obvious)
Can...Halleluwah
This track has never failed to amaze me...Not sure the rest of the Music world has ever quite caught up.
It'll be different tomorrow but...
Nick Drake - Any or all of the three original releases (I love Made To
Love Magic as well).
Lucinda Williams - Essence and/or World Without Tears
Keef Hartley Band - Halfbreed
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Big Star - #1 Record
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Hem - Rabbit Songs
David Lindley - Win This Record!
Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner
bubbling under
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Capt Beefheart - Clear Spot
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
Moby Grape - Wow!
Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield/Stephen Stills - Supersession
Without thinking too hard,,,
Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
Change Everything - Del Amitri
Fin de Siecle - Divine Comedy
Crash Test Dude - Brad Roberts
Lexicon of Love - ABC
Ram - Paul McCartney
Very old 1960s compilation - The Mighty Sparrow
American English - Wax
Trick of the Tail - Genesis
Live 1980/86 - Joe Jackson
Hot reserves:
Tomorrow Comes Today - Gorillaz
Different Class - Pulp
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Newer Stuff - Mike Nesmith
...oh this is too difficult!
For one night only,
Kate Bush ~ The Dreaming
Beatles ~ Rubber Soul
Waterboys ~ This Is The Sea
Willie Nile ~ Streets Of New York
Stone Roses ~ 1st
Screaming Blue Messiahs ~ Bikini Red
Hey Negrita ~ We Are Catfish
Doll By Doll ~ Doll By Doll
Cosmic Rough Riders ~ Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine
and the greatest album (IMHO)ever made; LOVE ~ FOREVER CHANGES
I've never understood
Why Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine isn't seen as a classic. Almost every song on that album could have been a number one single at any time from 1967 onwards.
Have an up
For putting Doll By Doll by Doll By Doll. One of my faves too.
It's hard to pick just 10...
...and I'm bound to think of some more as soon as I finish typing, but here's mine:
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Arcana - Inner Pale Sun
Depeche Mode - Violator
Marillion - Fugazi
Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
It's Immaterial - Song
Ultravox - Rage in Eden
Brendan Perry - Ark
Duran Duran - Arena
Close runners-up:
Peter Gabriel - Plays Live
Peter Bjargo - A Wave of Bitterness
Talk Talk - The Party's Over
Everbody loves a list...
Not to be outdone, in no particular order,
Springsteen - Born to Run
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns
REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
John Martyn - One World
Stone Roses - 1st
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Elvis Costello - Get Happy
Clash - London Calling
Ask me again tomorrow, different list, probably!
10 Goodies..
Kip Hanrahan - Coup de Tete
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
George Duke - The Aura Will Prevail
John Abercrombie - Timeless
Keith Jarrett - Survivor's Suite
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Yes - Close to the Edge
Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Bubbling under: Miles, Zorn, Santana, White Stripes, Dylan, Zappa, Cowboy Junkies, Weather Report, Hendrix, Can
Nothing made after 1981...
Didn't realise my tastes were quite so retro. Then again, these albums are almost as much comfort blankets as favourite collections of music, so perhaps it's no surprise there's nothing on the list that I didn't grow to love at a time when it felt like there was still all the time in the world.
Gonna Take a Miracle Laura Nyro and Labelle
Dare Human League
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro
Katy Lied Steely Dan
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
New York Dolls New York Dolls
The Band The Band
Aerial Ballet Harry Nilsson
Marquee Moon Television
The Roches The Roches
We-e-e-lll...
I used to always be a big lister, and always at the top were a (un)holy trinity of
The Clash
Astral Weeks - Van
Exile On Main Street The Stones
However I haven't done that in so long, partly because I would end up choosing so many compilations, which seems to be treated as somehow Out Of Scope, at least when when the music press would produce their versions. But what do mean I can't choose a Beach Boys compilation ?...
Anyway, out of those three the only one I have played in years is Exile. New stuff (and Old being the new New) just comes along all the time.
However, now you have put ideas in my head....(ponders)....
Assuming only one per artist;
Neil Young,After The Goldrush
Bob Dylan; Blood On The Tracks
Led Zeppelin,111
Bobby Charles; Bobby Charles
Tom waits; Rain Dogs
The Band; Northern Lights,Southern Cross
Rodney Crowell; The Houston Kid
Steely Dan; Can't Buy a Thrill
Bruce Springsteen; Born To Run
Marc Cohen; Join The Parade
Townes Van Zandt; Live At The Old Quarter
Cowboy Junkies; The Trinity Session
Peter Case; Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
Tom Russell; The Man From God Knows Where
Laura Nyro; Live At The Bottom Line
David Ackles; subway To The Country
Elton John; 17/11/70
The Who; Quadrophenia
Free; Fire & Water
Roy Harper; Valantine
Joni Mitchell; Hissing Of Summer Lawnes
Todd Snider; The Devil You Know
Bobby Charles
Excellent choice. I knew the track Small Town Talk from a Charlie Gillett Sounds Of The City compilation. I picked the album up for £1.50 at thre Rough Trade sale, listened to it once and thought it was average. I then heard I'm In A Good Place Now on the radio and thought I know this song and it is great. I gave the CD another listen and was converted. I even bought a few more copies for friends.
Bobby Charles was top man
I was really saddened by his death last year. You will see from further up that his Last Train to Memphis album appears in my top 10. By coincidence was playing the 'Bobby Charles' debut album last night. Rhino have done a 'Rhino Handmade' edition of it with 2 extra discs and an interview. I really want it but their price of $48 plus shipping is scandalous. Hopefully it will come down. His last album Timeless which was released just after he died is also very good.
Northern Lights, Southern Cross
How nice to hear someone namecheck such a beautiful yet under appreciated album.
OK, I just can't resist it. Here are my ten of the moment
The John Coltrane Quartet - "The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions"
Keith Jarrett - "Live at the Blue Note Complete" (Box)
Ketil Bjornstad - "The Rainbow Sessions"
Yabby You - "Jesus Dread"
Charles Mingus - "The Great Concert of..."
Magnetic Fields - "69 Love Songs"
Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight - "Once in a Blue Moon"
Penguin Café Orchestra - "Concert Program"
Eleni Karaindrou - "Elegy of the Uprooting"
Judee Sill - "Heart Food"
10 ...
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Electronic - Electronic
ABC - Beauty Stab
Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain
Dexys - Don't Stand Me Down
Wilco - Being There
Josh Rouse - Nashville
Gosh..
Don Fagen - The Nightfly
Tangerine Dream - White Eagle
Paul Simon - Graceland
Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
Matthew Sweet - In Reverse
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstacy
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
The Lilac Time - Keep Going
Elliott Smith - Figure Eight
Until I change my mind in about five minutes.
My 10...
London Calling - The Clash
Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
Alligator - The National
King of America - Costello
Trancendental Blues - Steve Earle
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Rumor and Sigh - Richard Thompson
Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole
If I had to save 10 albums, it
would be:-
Pogues - If I should fall from grace with god.
Soundtrack of our lives - Behind the music.
The Who - Who's Next.
Fountains of Wayne - 1st album.
The Jam - Snap.
Wilco - Summer teeth.
The Beatles - A hard day's night.
Casablanca - the soundtrack.
The Beat - Beats per min.
Les Negresses Vertes - Mlah.
Apart the whole Gin Blossoms oeuvre…
…stuff drifts in and out of the list but the fairly stable participants would be:
Running on Empty – Jackson Brown
August and Everything After – Counting Crows
Woodface – Crowded House
Floodland – Sisters of Mercy
Drunk Enough to Dance – Bowling For Soup
High Land Hard Rain – Aztec Camera
Permanent Waves – Rush
A Concert For The People – Berkeley James Harvest
Nine Tonight – Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
I notice Car Wheels on a Gravel Drive gets a few mentions. It’s fairly new to me but could well achieve long term favourite status.
Ten
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Pixies - Doolittle
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Nas - God's Son
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Ryan Adams - Gold
Kayne West - Late Registration (or College Dropout...can't decide)
Portishead - Dummy
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
I thought lists were banned...
The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Future Days - Can
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
Gaucho - Steely Dan
Fun House - The Stooges
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Swordfishtrombonesraindogsbloodmoney - Tom Waits
Ten
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Hup! - The Wonder Stuff
The Clash - The Clash
My Generation - The Who
Phil Spector's Greatest Hits (not a "proper album" granted but the only place all those great singles were collected, so I count it)
Rum, Sodomy & The Lash - The Pogues
Rattle & Hum - U2
The Lexicon of Love - ABC
All very white, very mainstream and probably not a funky bone in there (except Monkey Man by the Stones that outweigh all other funkiness).
Off the top of my head
Abbey Road - The Beatles
The Last Waltz - The Band etc
New York - Lou Reed
Small Change - Tom Waits
Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
In Through The Out Door - Led Zeppelin
Hammersmith 1975 - Bruce Springsteen
You Had To Be There - Jimmy Buffett
Carney - Leon Russell
Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
!@
My Giddy Aunt! There's some thick n thin in this lot. A bit sad that there is an indication that bugger all has happened for the last twenty years. Still whaddya expect? All the real rockers are wrinkly. Some I actually listen to regularly.
Uptight--Little Stevie Wonder
Steve McQueen--Prefab Sprout
Stripped--R. Stones
Bop til You Drop--Ry Cooder
Live in Europe--Otis Redding
Rumours--F. Mac
Complete Recordings--The Animals (A bit of a cheat maybe but effing good all the same)
Live at Leeds--The Who
Band of Gypsies--J. Hendrix
Best of--The Hollies
The best singles ever are Higher & Higher by Jackie Wilson and Skinny Legs by Joe Tex. If anyone disagrees I will send the lads round.
Bugger, forgot The Beat!
In no particular order...
Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
Genesis - A Trick of The Tail
XTC - Nonsuch
Kraftwerk - Tour De France Soundtracks
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Steely Dan - Gaucho
King Crimson - Discipline
Imagined Village - Imagined Village
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
In no particular order...
Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox
ELO - Out Of The Blue
Gordon Giltrap - Fear Of The Dark
Rush - Moving Pictures
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Rush - Signals
Horslips - The Tain
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War Of The Worlds
The Beatles - Revolver
Near misses...
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Byrds - Greatest Hits
Changing Faces - The Best of 10cc and Godley and Creme
Horslips - The Book of Invasions
Nerina Pallot - Fires
Capercaillie - Delerium
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Nanci Griffith - Last of the True Believers
Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky
Asia - Asia/Alpha
Yes - Close to the Edge
Me? An aging rocker? Surely not?
In No Particular Order....
White Album – The Beatles
Fulfillingness' First Finale – Stevie Wonder
IV – Led Zeppelin
Sketches Of Spain – Miles Davis
Nighthawks At The Diner – Tom Waits
Exile On Main St. - The Rolling Stones
Aquemini – Outkast
The Clash – The Clash
Morning Glory - Oasis
The 3 E.P's – The Beta Band
A Marillion obsessive writes..
1.Marillion Marbles Live
2.Marillion Brave
3.Man Back To The Future
4.John Martyn Solid Air
5.Nick Drake Five Leaves Left
6.Kate Bush The Sensual World
7.Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
8.Joe Bonamassa Dust Bowl
9.Free Live at The BBC
10.Golden Earring Moontan
11.Marillion all the rest....
Just because you've got this far
without mentioning any of my magnificent 7:
Scott 2
The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Big Star's Third
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Although many among the 50 or albums which can temporarily occupy the next three places have appeared and , prompted, I have spun Trans Europe Express, High Land Hard Rain and King Of America in the last couple of days... Pretty, pretty pretty good!
XI
Manic Street Preachers- The Holy Bible
Radiohead- Ok Computer
The Decemberists- Hazards of Love
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Pulp- Different Class
Maximo Park- A Certain Trigger
Belle and Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Tender Prey
Hefner- We Love The City
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am
The Housemartins- The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death.
All post 1985, I believe.
No point, my list would
No point, my list would change depending on my mood but it'd always include Dan Mangan and The Decemberists.
I already had this list...
Not necessarily my favourite albums, just ones I played to death, or they were played to death around me and I know every note, every pause and every scratch (if there was one)! - In no particular order,
Frank Sinatra -Songs for swiging lovers -(had the Lp and a cassette for the car, when I got a special edition Cd it had bonus tracks and effed up the running order - cd still sounds wrong! )
Scott Walker Sings Jaques Brel
John Foxx - Metamatic
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army
Tubeway Army -Replicas
Ultravox! self titled
Ultravox Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ultravox! Systems of Romance
Ultravox - Vienna
Gary Numan -The Pleasure Principle
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits - Raindogs
Elvis Costello - Blood and chocolate
The Cure - Head on the Door
Chas n Dave Christmas Jamboree Bag (we played this all day every day for years at Adrians Records, sold thousands to the Wickford public, I was too cool to enjoy it at the time, but it's a great nostalgic medley of old British songs and I play it regularly today!)
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
David Bowie - Low, Scary monsters, Let's Dance + others
REM Automatic for the People
Sex Pistols - Never mind the Bollocks!
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison / San Quentin (another one where the CD re-issues add stuff and messed up the running order I had gotten used to!)
The Smiths - The Queen is dead (and most of the otheralbums too)
Can I have a go?
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Byrds - Younger than Yesterday
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Epic 45 - Let Your Heart Be the Map
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen...
Suede - Dog Man Star
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
I tried to resist my addiction to writing lists...
...but I fell off the wagon yet again.
So here's ten that never fail to improve my mood (in no particular order etc):
A Hard Day's Night - the Beatles
Noble Beast/Useless Creatures - Andrew Bird
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat - Laura Nyro
Texas Fever - Orange Juice
The Real Thing - Taj Mahal
Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
Black Sea - XTC
and finally an old LP featuring Ariel Ramirez on the piano and Jaime Torres on the charango, no real title on the sleeve, bought in SouthAmerica in the late 60's by my father and the only album I would save in a fire.
I couldn't play it for a few years when my record player was broken, and when I finally got a new one this was the first album I put on the turntable.
As the first notes started playing tears of joy started to run down my face and I sat through the entire LP crying my eyes out.
Here's the only song from that album that I can find on YouTube.
It's not the best one from it and the sound quality is so-so.
Still, this is the sound of my happy childhood.
(El Nacimiento Del Charango - Ariel Ramirez y Jaime Torres)
In no particular order
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Kid A _ Radiohead
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love you) - Aretha Franklin
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Untrue - Burial
Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
I Am Shelby Lynne
Kind Of Blue - Miles Davies
What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall
My Beatles, Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Kate Bush, Stones, Bob, Marley, Dylan favourites keep changing.
You appear to have my iPod...
Could I have it back please?
My Ten (ish)
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (3)
Del Amitri - Waking Hours
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
REM - Green
The Wonder Stuff - 8 Legged Groove Machine
Pixies - Doolittle
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Slightly worried that there's nowt in the last 20 years... If forced to weight it...
Pulp - Different Class
Polyphonic Spree - Beginning Stages of
Strokes - Is this it?
Oh go on then...
With little thought and excluding compilations:
White Album
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
Garbage - Version 2.0
Sundays - Blind (though the other two are up there)
Zero 7 - Simple Things
This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow
The Manics - Generation Terrorists (*Know Your Enemy, 67th minute)
The Cardigans - Life
The Cranes - Loved
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
This is like when talking about food makes you hungry - can I go off and listen to all these now please? Cheers.