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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 111 Registered: 05-2005 |
I find it easier to name my favourite LPs than tracks. Who else loves what? Don't feel you have to do 20. I just could not stop at 5, or 10. 1 The Chills – Soft Bomb 2 The Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray 3 Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love 4 R.E.M. – Murmur 5 The Pursuit Of Happiness – Love Junk 6 The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues 7 The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds 8 The Go-Betweens – 16 Lover’s Lane 9 Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque 10 Whipping Boy – Heartworm 11 Mary Margaret O’Hara – Miss America 12 The Posies – Frosting On The Beater 13 The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses 14 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On 15 The Replacements – All Shook Down 16 Pixies – Doolittle 17 Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs 18 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 19 Husker Du – Zen Arcade 20 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 107 Registered: 04-2005 |
Oh, my goodness...this thread was inevitable. And irresistible. Nice list, Pádraig--a number of your choices are serious contenders for my list. Here's 20, not necessarily in order: Roxy Music - Stranded Television - Marquee Moon Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs James Brown - Star Time (box set; maybe it's not fair to include) Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic Spinanes - Strand Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Zuma John Cale - Fear Velvet Underground - VU & Nico The Chills - Submarine Bells Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year's Model The Only Ones - Special View (U.S. compilation) Brian Eno - Another Green World My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue The Auteurs - New Wave Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady David Bowie - Station to Station | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2005 |
In no particular order...except the first 5 which I have played on shuffle WAY too many times! Younger than Yesterday - The Byrds Carnival of Light - Ride Rubber Soul - The Beatles Best of Traffic Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys Gone to Earth - David Sylvian Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys Meat is Murder -The Smiths Lifes Rich Pageant - R.E.M. Sunshine Superman - Donovan Regatta de Blanc - The Police The Blurred Crusade - The Church Ram - Paul McCartney Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips Seachange - Beck America - America Tabaran - Not Drowning,Waving Blue - Joni Mitchell The Beatles (White Album) - The Beatles and on the edge are.... Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express - The Go-Betweens John Barleycorn Must Die - Traffic Out of Time - R.E.M. Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths Fear of Music - Talking Heads Born Sandy Devotional - The Triffids Temple of Low Men - Crowded House New Gold Dream - Simple Minds | ||
| Duncan Hurwood Member Username: Duncan_h Post Number: 28 Registered: 05-2005 |
To really love an album, I think there can't be any tracks on it you want to skip. Even though I own every Bob Dylan album, there's tracks I dislike on every one - so there's none from him here: The Mutton Birds - Envy of Angels The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane Stephen Duffy - I love my friends Mike Scott - Still Burning Marc Almond - Open all night Lloyd Cole - Love Story David McComb - Love of Will The Beatles - Sgt Pepper | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 53 Registered: 05-2005 |
Excellent choices, but if you dont mind can I suggest albums from some of these bands that I think are as good if not better,I've put them in brackets. 1 The Chills – Soft Bomb 2 The Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray 3 Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love 4 R.E.M. – Murmur 5 The Pursuit Of Happiness – Love Junk 6 The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues 7 The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds 8 The Go-Betweens – 16 Lover’s Lane (before hollywood) 9 Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque (grand prix) 10 Whipping Boy – Heartworm 11 Mary Margaret O’Hara – Miss America 12 The Posies – Frosting On The Beater 13 The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses 14 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On 15 The Replacements – All Shook Down (pleased to meet me) 16 Pixies – Doolittle (surfer rosa) 17 Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs 18 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (fear of a black planet) 19 Husker Du – Zen Arcade (warehouse songs and stories) 20 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless My own top 5, in no order David Bowie - Low Joy Division - Closer Super Ape - Lee Perry American Music Club - California Husker Du - Warehouse Songs and Stories | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 120 Registered: 08-2004 |
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Kraftwerk - Man Machine Go-B's - Linerty Belle Public Enemy - There's A Poison Going On Stephen Jones - Almost Cured Of Sadness | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 42 Registered: 05-2005 |
Love - Forever Changes Go-Betweens – Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express Kraftwerk -Trans-Europe Express Suicide - Suicide The Scars - Author Author Wire - Chairs Missing Joy Division - Closer Marc Almond - Jacques Scott Walker - Scott 2 Tindersticks - Curtains Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey The Nightingales - Pigs On Purpose The Wedding Present - George Best The Kinks - Something Else Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! Traffic - Mr Fantasy | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 149 Registered: 10-2004 |
the go-betweens - liberty belle the smiths - louder than bombs microdisney - everybody's fantastic felt - strange idols pattern japan - tin drum cocteau twins - treasure nick drake - bryter layter rem - murmur xtc - skylarking left banke - walk away renee love - forever changes beach boys - pet sounds siouxsie - kaliedoscope wire - 154 aztec camera - high land hard rain echo & the bunnymen - ocean rain prefab sprout - swoon new order - substance everything but the girl - eden the church - seance john cale - paris 1919 | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 23 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel Velvet Underground - Velevet Underground Love - Forever Changes My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Beatles - Rubber Soul Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights R.E.M. – Murmur Slowdive - Souvlaki Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight The Go-Betweens – 16 Lover’s Lane Gang of Four - Entertainment! Kate Bush - The Dreaming Talking Heads - Remain In Light Peter Gabriel - III (Melting Face) Eveything But The Girl - Idlewild Julia Fordham - Porcelain Aimee Mann - Whatever Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking and on the edge are.... Big Star - Sister/Lovers Allman Bother Band - Live at The Filmore East Derek and The Dominoes - Layla John Cale - Paris 1919 Bangles - All Over The Place Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine and Roses Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now | ||
| Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 48 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wow this is extremely tough as I know I'll miss some by here goes from memory: Go-Betweens - 16 LL U2 - Unforgettable Fire Trashcan Sinatras - Cake Everything but the Girl - Amplified Heart Patty Griffin - Living with Ghosts Lloyd Cole - Love Story The Smiths - Louder than Bombs Natalie Merchant - Tigetlily Hothouse Flowers - Songs From the Rain the Cure - Disintegration Norah Jones - Come Away With Me Luka Bloom - Salty Heaven the Alarm - Change Duncan Sheik - Daylight the Church - Starfish the Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me Cactus World News - Urban Beaches Devlins - Waiting Daniel Lanois - Acadie Peter Gabriel - Us Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red and Grey New Order - Substance Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad Sting - Soul Cages | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 21 Registered: 06-2005 |
hmmm in no particular order big star sister lover/tird neil young after the goldrush smiths hatful of hollow mark eitzel songs of love live nina simone Emergency Ward/It Is Finished/Black Gold [Live] triple album stone roses stone roses nico chelsea girls nick cave boatmans call pixies doolittle stones exile on main street joy division unkown pleasures hardly anything under 20 years' old | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 150 Registered: 10-2004 |
oops! forgot to indulge in a few 'on the edge' honorable mentions: eno - another green world bowie - scary monsters big star -third/sister lovers joy division - closer teardrop explodes - wilder style council - our favorite shop | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 108 Registered: 04-2005 |
A few "bubbling under" choices from me too (following my arbitrary "no repeat artists" rule; "16LL" and "Liberty Belle" would both be ahead of any of these): Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Talking Heads - Fear of Music Husker Du - Flip Your Wig Wire - Chairs Missing XTC - Black Sea Beatles - Abbey Road (or Revolver? Rubber Soul?) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 43 Registered: 05-2005 |
some great stuff listed.. here's mine, in no order of merit: 1 Magazine - The Correct use of soap 2 Kings of convenience - Riot on an empty street 3 XTC - English Settlement 4 Spike Priggen - The very thing that you treausure 5 Josef K - The only fun in town 6 Pixies - Doolittle 7 Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger 8 Felt - The Pictorial Jackson Review 9 Television - Marquee Moon 10 Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend 11 Orange Juice - You can't hide your love forever 12 Jazateers - Jazzateers 13 The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus 14 Associates - Sulk 15 The Jam - All mod cons 16 Paul Haig - The warp of pure fun 17 Wilco - A ghost is born 18 The Go betweens - Oceans 19 The Beatles - Rubber Soul 20 The Beach Boys - Sunflower/Surfs up 'on the edge' runner's up: 21 Associates - Perhaps (cassette version) 22 Tuxedo Moon - Desire 23 Momus - Circus Maximus 24 Del Amitri - Del Amitri 25 The Clash - London Calling | ||
| Dusty Member Username: Dusty Post Number: 18 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, here we go. In no particular order: 16 Lovers Lane Lambchop - Is a woman Beach Boys - Friends David Crosby - If only I could remember my name Gene Clark - No Other Pavement - Crooked rain Fall - Groteque Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the great highway Robert Forster - Danger in the Past Smiths - Meat is Murder Little Feat - Dixie Chicken Steely Dan - Aja David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees Talking Heads - Remain in Light Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump Smog - Red Apple Falls Triffids - Calenture Byrds - Sweetheart of Rodeo Colorblind James - Strange Sounds from the Basement Townes Van Zandt - Flying Shoes Nick Cave - The Good Son Orange Juice - Can't Hide Love Forever or The Orange Juice The Very Best of Chris De Burgh* *Only joking | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 36 Registered: 07-2005 |
The Go-betweens-16LL Bruce springsteen-Darkness Elvis Costello- Get Happy Neil Young-After the Goldrush Lloyd Cole-Rattlesnakes Billy Bragg-Brewing Up w The Pogues -Rum Sodomy and the Lash Nick Cave-Boatmans Call Tom Waits-Raindogs and Asylum Years Flatlanders-1st album The Smiths-Hatful of Hollow Johnny Cash- American Recordings 111 The Band-The Band The Rockingbirds-Rockingbirds Teenage Fanclub-Grandprix and Desert Island book is Collected Works of Conan Doyle. Could be other albums by all these artists | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 37 Registered: 07-2005 |
The Go-betweens-16LL Bruce springsteen-Darkness Elvis Costello- Get Happy Neil Young-After the Goldrush Lloyd Cole-Rattlesnakes Billy Bragg-Brewing Up w The Pogues -Rum Sodomy and the Lash Nick Cave-Boatmans Call Tom Waits-Raindogs and Asylum Years Flatlanders-1st album The Smiths-Hatful of Hollow Johnny Cash- American Recordings 111 The Band-The Band The Rockingbirds-Rockingbirds Teenage Fanclub-Grandprix and Desert Island book is Collected Works of Conan Doyle. Could be other albums by all these artists | ||
| Michael Leach Member Username: Mike_l Post Number: 9 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll just go five, I think: 1. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 2. Beatles - Revolver 3. Go-Betweens - 16LL 4. The Jam - Modern World 5. Triffids - Treeless Plain | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 54 Registered: 05-2005 |
Can I take this off on a slight tangent? Does anybody agree with me that the best time to experience an album is at the moment in time it is released, and then grow with it in the following years? I was born in the early 60s and was a teenager when Punk hit in the late 70s. I believe that this made me the perfect age to fully experience and appreciate all those great punk and new wave albums because I was evolving with them. I could be wrong but I dont think that a 17 year old (in say the late 80s or 90s) hearing these albums (Clash, Pistols, Ramones, PIL, Wire, Talking Heads etc) for the first time could possibly get the same enjoyment I (we?) got because the moment had passed, they werent "living" it? Conversely I feel like that about blues/jazz from the 40s/50s, or Dylan/Stones/Byrds/Doors/Velvets from the mid 60s. Sure I love this music, but I wasnt there at the time when it must have been amazing! Almost as frustratingly for me, this can apply to the young guitar bands of the here and now. I have heard a download of The Arctic Monkeys album and after 3 listens I think its sounds great. But heres where the frustration kicks in, it ticks all the boxes - melodies, exciting guitars, bouncy melodic (sometimes funky bass) and a good contrast in the vocals - sometimes shouty, sometimes tender. However,I know if I was 17 it would sound like the best record I had ever heard in my life. Sorry that this is a bit of a ramble, but its the bestI can do - it would be easier to put this over verbally o  | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 38 Registered: 07-2005 |
Hi Kevin. I agree to a certain extent, and am of a similar age, I metioned someting similar on another thread,about music not being as good now ( I was talking about hype/promotion of decidedly average bands). But I think the real reason is that, as you say, you grow up with a band and also at that impressionable age ( teens mid-late) you are starting to really appreciate and relate to music, books, art etc. You are really up for everything, and this has a great impact and I think as you get older it's harder to feel the same excitement as you did then. I rarely feel so enthusiastic now about new music or even new discoveries as I did when I was 15 ( and upwards) at hearing The Great Punk acts or when I was at University in London seeing the Smith /Go-Betweens/ Costello/REM etc. On the Otherhand some older music can still change your life I remebmber first hearing Thunder Road when I was 16 and thinking this is proper serious music and that had a real impact on my tastes/life etc. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2006 |
in no particular order...and i'm sure i've missed a few.. Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Luna-Bewiched My Bloody Valentine-Loveless Spacemen 3-Recurring Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks The Beatles-Revolver/Abbey Road Iggy & the Stooges-No Fun Spectrum-Soul Kiss Glide Divine The Wedding Present-George Best The Smiths-Strangeways Here We Come Van Morrisson-Moondance Neil Young & CrazyHorse-Zuma Jesus & Mary Chain-Psychocandy Go-Betweens-16 Lovers Lane Spiritualized-Pure Phase Velvet Underground-VU-Previously Unreleased Pavement-Slanted & Enchanted The Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots/Hit to Death in the Future Head Tom Waits-The Black Rider The Modern Lovers-Modern Lovers | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 22 Registered: 06-2005 |
my god! how could I have left out funhouse by iggy & the stooges...... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 55 Registered: 05-2005 |
As a follow on from my post about experiencing albums at their genesis, I'll never forget the thrill of buying my first ever album. My 9th birthday, November 21st 1970 and rushing to the local record shop to buy Let it Be by the Beatles. From memory the album had been out for about a fortnight and I was counting down the days till I had birthday money and could afford to buy it. Possibly the greatest day of my life - I felt so grown up! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 124 Registered: 03-2005 |
I agree that the age of the person is important rather than the age of the music. When I was 16, it was late 1972. Pop music was sinking deep into a phase of bloated degeneration that I still view as a nadir, although I am now aware of a decent undercurrent of good records from the time. I remember the excitement my best friend and I had when we first got hold of the first Velvet Underground album which was about five years old then. I also remember the intense thrill of discovering the first Thirteenth Floor Elevators album, about six years old at that time. And, speaking of another two-guitar wonder band, I also remember how excited we were over the discovery of the Easybeats' five or six year old "Friday on my Mind" album. We felt like the last survivors of a dying race. By the time interesting new music started to reach us we were about 20. "Never Mind the Bollocks" seemed like the perfect update of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. Everything was a great discovery then, but that's because the music scene was finally dynamic again. It was objectively different than it had been before. The major labels were bypassed by the little indies and zillions of bands were putting out their often quite imaginative singles. There are particular eras that are exceptional, for example 1964 to 1967 and 1976 to 1979. Those two time periods brought incredible upheaval and progression in the world of pop music. I have no doubt that there is at least one more newer similar period but I am not personally qualified to identify it. If you arrived in one of these great eras during your teens, you hit a sweet spot that cannot be improved upon. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 112 Registered: 05-2005 |
I mostly agree with you Kevin. Of my selections only The Beach Boys and Marvin Gaye predate either my birth or my starting to appreciate music. Most of my selections back up what I've always thought; which is that your favourite albums tie you to a time and place you like to be reminded of. With The Chills, it is seeing them in Sydney in 1992 when the album came out and playing the album on the bus to work. The Lemonheads ties me to earlier the same year. Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love came out the year I finished high school and was working an awful job as a hotel restaurant waiter. The Pursuit Of Happiness and Pixies tie me to living in Boston in 1989. (Last June I was walking around my home village in Ireland listening to Love Junk on the iPod and it struck me that a similar stroll around the village more than 16 years earlier would have found me listening to the exact same album on a cassette walkman!). The Waterboys' Fisherman’s Blues reminds me of a particular girl and missing her and Ireland when I returned to Boston in 1990. (I know that Fisherman's Blues came out in 1988 though, of course. I bought it on vinyl in the Sound Cellar on Nassau St the week it came out. It was probably the one non metal/ blues album bought there that day!). Pet Sounds always makes me think of listening to it immediately after I bought it in Cork in December 1991. It was cold, dark and drizzling rain but I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt under my leather jacket (I really was) and was grinning like an idiot at how amazing the album was. It had such a reputation to live up to and it did. By the way, it's good to see that I am not the only one who adores Murmur above all other R.E.M. albums. | ||
| M. Mark Burgess Member Username: Fortysomething Post Number: 58 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think that the best albums are the ones that always stay with you. I always give a new album at least ten years and if I still enjoy it as much as when I first heard it then it's a classic for me. 1. Fairport Convention---Unhalfbricking 2. Velvet Underground--Same 3. Bob Dylan--Highway 61 4. Shirley Collins--No Roses 5. Go-Betweens--16LL 6. Television--Marquee Moon 7. Richard and Linda Thompson--I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 8. Nick Drake--Pink Moon 9. X--Wild Gift 10. Beatles--Revolver 11. Capt. Beefheart--Trout Mask 12. Steeleye Span--Below the Salt 13. XTC--Nonsuch 14. Nico--The Marble Index 15. Byrds--Fifth Dimension 16. Midnight Oil--Diesel and Dust 17. Ashley Hutchings,et al--Son of Morris On 18. Shirley Collins--Love, Death and the Lady 19. Elvis Costello--This Year's Model 20. Talking Heads--Buildings and Food Honourable mentions 1. Lou Reed--The Blue Mask(Robert Quine R.I.P) 2. The Kinks--Something Else 3. Fotheringay--Same 4. Sonic Youth--Daydream Nation 5. Savoy Brown--Raw Sienna Best album in the last ten years John Cale--Hobo Sapiens | ||
| Erhard Grundl Member Username: Erhardgrundl Post Number: 7 Registered: 09-2005 |
as i said before, i love lists like that. here are my favourites: old no 1 - Guy Clark velvet underground and nico the clash(first album) white blood cells - white stripes at san quentin - johnny cash green river - creedence clearwater revival low - bowie ziggy stardust - bowie tonight`s the night - neil young everybody knows this is nowhere -neil&crazy horse buffalo springfield - first album la maison de mon reve - coco rosie liberty belle - go-betweens tunnel of love - bruce springsteen your funeral my trial - nick cave and the bad seeds i`m your man - leonard cohen and far too many Bob Dylan albums | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 56 Registered: 05-2005 |
Christ, how could I leave out Grotesque by The Fall. Knew I should have done more than a top 5 so here is a top 20 The Fall - Grotesque David Bowie - Low Joy Division - Closer Super Ape - Lee Perry American Music Club - California Husker Du - Warehouse Songs and Stories Stooges - Funhouse Smiths - Strangeways... Talking Heads - Remain in Light Wire - 154 PIL - Metal Box Stones - Let It Bleed Pixies - Surfer Rosa VU - VU and Nico REM - Murmer Radiohead - Kid A Television - Marquee Moon Gof4 - Entertainment Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine Wilco - YHF | ||
| John Flood Member Username: Floodjo Post Number: 46 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice music discussion - I agree with lots of it though finding something new can still me a tremendous kick - e.g. hearing that Damian Rice album O - love it. Something different from first listen. (When's he going to bother bringing out something new, I wonder). Or Joshs Ritter & Rouse - great music in any age! They've given me a great buzz recently. Still, the pure excitement of Bowie at his peak (Ziggy days) will never be matched. I was about 14 and in awe of him. I remember feeling physically sick when he announced his "retirement" 33 bloody years ago - the cheeky bastard! Fave Albums : Bowie - Ziggy Dylan - Desire Beatles - Revolver REM - Green Go-Betweens - Tallulah Planxty - The Woman I loved so Well Kristin Hersh - Hips & Makers Al Stewart - Past, Present & Future Van Morrison - Astral Weeks James - Laid Pierce Turner - The Sky & the Ground Renaissance - A Song for all Seasons Genesis - Selling England by the Pound Prefab Sprout - Steve Mc Queen Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 27 Registered: 05-2005 |
Love the eclecticism of most peoples choices. So I'm not the only person who likes The GBs AND the Allman Bros! Here's some of my favs: The Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair/Oceans Apart Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady XTC - Drums and Wire The Lemonheads Best of - the Atlantic Years Lou Reed - Rock'n'Roll Animal The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (I did pause for thought when I read this is the favorite album of the new Tory party leader David Davies) The Strokes - Is this It? J Giels Band - Live Full House Tim Buckley - Greetings From LA Crowded House - Temple of Low Men The Beat - The Beat (the 'English' Beat to anyone in the US) Elvis Costello - Get Happy/Trust/Imperial Bedroom Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted/Blood on the Tracks Allman Brother Band - Live at the Fillmore East Finn Brothers - Finn Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won Pixies - Waves of Mutilation (best of) The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops | ||
| Guy Morton Member Username: Guym Post Number: 5 Registered: 09-2005 |
Here's the 20 I can think of offhand: The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder The Church - Seance Iggy Pop - New Values Television - Marquee Moon Elvis C & the Attractions - This Year's Model REM - Murmur Pretenders - Learning to Crawl Wilco - AM Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane Something for Kate - Echolalia Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare Crowded House - Woodface Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos Icecream Hands - Sweeter than the Radio Jellyfish - Spilt Milk Dave Grany & the Coral Snakes - Night of the Wolverine Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five Hunters and Collectors - Juggernaut Guy | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 2 Registered: 01-2006 |
oops, forgot to mention Beck's 'Seachange' in there.....also i see a few people have mentioned Mary Margaret O'Hara's incredible "Miss America", has anyone heard her Chrismas EP or the 5 or 6 songs she contributed to the 'Apartment Life' soundtrack? i heard they were very good... | ||
| Graham Twyford Member Username: Graham_twyford Post Number: 28 Registered: 05-2005 |
Agree with Kevin about time influencing what makes an album great. Undoubtedly that has some influence on my selection: Altered Beast - Matthew Sweet Heartworm - Whipping Boy Murmur - REM Liberty Belle and The Black Diamond Express - The Go-Betweens Fables of the Reconstruction - REM Miss America - Mary Margaret O'Hara The Good Will Out - Embrace Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega Abstinence - Popsicle Automatic for the People - REM Marion - This World and Body Marquee Moon - Television 100 Broken Windows - Idlewild Harvest - Neil Young Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout Antics - Interpol Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot - Sparklehorse Before Hollywood - The Go-Betweens Dog Man Star - Suede Spoon and Rafter - Mojave 3 XO - Elliott Smith | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 109 Registered: 11-2004 |
There are some killer lists here! Here's mine. Television - Adventure The Saints - Prehistoric Sounds Lou Reed - Berlin Verlaines - Hallelujah All The Way Home Laughing Clowns - Mr Uddich Schmuddich Goes To Town Red Crayola - Soldier-Talk John Cale - Paris 1919 Go Betweens - Send Me A Lullaby Apartments - The Evening Visits ...and Stays For Years Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis Felt - Strange Idols Pattern & Other Short Stories Neil Young - Tonight's The Night Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks The Clean - Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-so Sounds So-so, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten The Triffids - In The Pines Velvet Underground - s/t John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 121 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo Bob Dylan - Desire Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues Bjork - Homogenic Doves - The Last Broadcast | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 125 Registered: 03-2005 |
Choosing best albums is really tough. There's always something that could be improved upon, but here are ones that have stood out for me over the years that I don't already see on someone else's list here: In the Dark -- Toots & the Maytals Confessions of a Mind -- The Hollies Easter Everywhere -- 13th Floor Elevators The Great Speckled Bird --same (Ian & Sylvia) Odyssey & Oracle -- The Zombies Out of Our Heads (U.S. version) -- Rolling Stones From a Whisper to a Scream -- Esther Phillips Never Mind the Bollocks -- Sex Pistols Nevada Fighter -- Michael Nesmith & 1st Natl Band New Routes -- Lulu Real Life -- Magazine Chrominance Decoder -- April March Character Assassination -- Ed Kuepper A Century Ends -- David Gray Good Earth -- The Feelies Bend Sinister -- The Fall Here Come the Warm Jets -- Eno Good Friday -- Easybeats After Everything Now This -- The Church West of Rome -- Vic Chesnutt Spotlight Kid -- Captain Beefheart Digital Ash -- Bright Eyes Gorilla -- Bonzo Dog Band Radio City -- Big Star | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 5 Registered: 08-2005 |
In alphabetical order... The Beatles: Revolver The Beatles: Rubber Soul Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk Kate Bush: Hounds of Love Chills: Submarine Bells The Cure: Seventeen Seconds Nick Drake: 5 Leaves Left Go-Betweens: 16 Lovers Lane Go-Betweens: Spring Hill Fair Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter’s/Crown of Creation (first side of ABaB, second side of CoC...) Ed Kuepper: Everybody’s Got To Jimmy Little: Messenger Love: Forever Changes Nirvana: Nevermind Portishead: Dummy REM: Reckoning Saints: Prehistoric Sounds The Smiths: Strangeways Here We Come The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow Velvet Underground & Nico: Velvet Underground & Nico This gives an idea of my favourites at the moment, though it misses out David Byrne, Talking Heads, Teardrop Explodes, Jacques Brel, Doors, Dandy Warhols, Crowded House and loads more. And I could list loads of GBs, Chills, Belle & Sebastian, Kate Bush, Cure, Nick Drake, REM, etc, plus compilations of Beatles, Ed Kuepper, Nick Drake, Lovin’ Spoonful... but that would be well over 20... | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 35 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's been heartening to see so many references to the Teardrop Explodes. I didn't think they were very well known or regarded. You could always "freak out the straights" in normal record (ah...remember them???) shops here in Australia just by mentioning the name! I was going to list "Fried" by Julian Cope. Does anybody here rate any of his stuff? And how DO you approach basically anything by him after he swam with dolphins??? I find lots of his later stuff nearly unlistenable, although his "Address Druidian" on his website is a cack but sort of scary. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 111 Registered: 11-2004 |
Julian Cope had some good singles in the 80s, like 'Charlotte Anne' for example | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 111 Registered: 04-2005 |
I saw Teardrop in a rare U.S. performance in '81 (before "Wilder" came out, I believe) and it didn't leave a big impression. I've had sort of a love/hate relationship with Teardrop/Cope over the years. I loved the single "World Shut Your Mouth" for a long time, now it sounds like bombastic generic rock to me. I really got into "Peggy Suicide" when it came out but failed to follow Cope into the weirder territory that followed. I've probably missed a lot of good stuff, but to me he's like Robyn Hitchcock--wildly prolific, but a person can only take so much of it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 25 Registered: 01-2005 |
Last Cope I bought was Peggy Suicide back in 1990. On the other hand I am a Robyn Hitchcock fanatic, and have just about all his releases except for a compilation or two and some vinyl only stuff. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 152 Registered: 10-2004 |
geoff - i LOVE the teardrop explodes immensely. words can't describe how happy both 'kilamanjaro' and 'wilder' make me. i like cope's first 2 solo records too, 'world shut your mouth' and 'fried.' not as good as teardrops but they still definitely have their moments. i don't like anything i've heard after that, and to be honest, i don't think i've even heard *anything* after 'peggy suicide' era. there just didn't seem to be any reason to keep up with it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 47 Registered: 05-2005 |
Julian Cope I saw in '91 or '92 in Birmingham around the Peggy Suicide thing and he playyed one of the greateset 10 minute guitar solo's I have EVER seen/heard, the song was Safe Surfer. It is a great album. Probably way ahead of its time on reflection. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 113 Registered: 05-2005 |
I agree Spence. Peggy Suicide is a terrific album; one that has stood the test of time. I bought it on cassette when it came out in 1991 after Melody Maker gave it a rave review. I loved it from the start. I only finally got it on CD about six months ago. I haven't bought anything he released since then but I have heard several of them through a Cope-mad friend of mine. None made me want to go out and buy my own copy, though Jehovakill had some good moments. I saw him live once but have to admit I spent most of the gig at the bar. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 36 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peggy Suicide always got the good rap but it wasn't pop enough for my tastes. I listened to Jehovakill a couple of months ago and, to my suprise, I could actually listen to it though I haven't been back. "Autogeddon" was like a big fat zero with me, as was "Interpretor" where I pretty much left off ('96?). What made me persist for an album past his use by date was the brilliant "20 Mothers". "Try,Try,Try" was glorious Cope pop which I presumed was written to top the charts and fill his coffers to fund his archeological "trips" and voluminous writings. He's one of the big ones that I haven't seen yet! I missed the Teardrops in Sydney by a few days in 1982 on a school vice-royal sorjourn and again in England by a month in 2000. I am extremely envious of anyone who has seen him as he's indicated he will never be back to the Antipodes.....unless someone can find a stone circle down here!! | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 113 Registered: 11-2004 |
Mark E Smith refuses to return to Australia, too. Perhaps its for the best - he sacked Martin Bramah and Marcia Schofield from the band last time they were here and had a huge falling out with Marc Riley the time before that... You gotta love him, though - he's a lad. | ||
| david pestorius Member Username: David_pestorius Post Number: 31 Registered: 08-2005 |
I remember well the Teardrops tour to Australia in 1982. I did a radio interview with Cope in Brisbane at this time and clearly recall him raving about having recently been to a show by Glenn Branca's ten guitar ensemble in New York. Regrettably, the Teardrops shows in Brisbane and at Surfers Paradise hardly shook me out of my shoes. On the other hand, the Echo and the Bunnymen show at Cloudland in Brisbane, not long beforehand, was really intense, with The Doors 'When the Music's Over' fittingly played through the P.A. before the band took to the stage. I also saw an early Cope solo show in London around May 1984, I think it was at the Hammersmith Palais, which also was nothing to write home about, unfortunately. Didn't stop me from reading Cope's autobiography, which I can thoroughly recommend to anyone even vaguely interested. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 123 Registered: 08-2004 |
I've been meaning to buy Cope's autobiography, Courtney Love, Pete DeFreitas, McCulloch, Pete Wylie and Cope himself would make a better sitcom/dramatisation than the Gallagher bros. one that's on tv at the moment. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 125 Registered: 08-2004 |
Anyway, I digress. The Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society Roxy Music - Stranded Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear The Associates - The Affectionate Punch Pulp - This Is Hardcore Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell ... and as a sorbet for the palate, Tubular Bells, you have to hear shit to truly appreciate the magnificent. | ||
| Rob Member Username: Rob Post Number: 44 Registered: 12-2004 |
jerry, great to see you dropping your selections in bunches rather than by the bucketload rather than add my own, i'll say that your ray & dave/bryan & brian/marvin/billy/jarvis selection is so good, the fact that i've not heard anything by the yyys won't stop me seconding it | ||
| Roland Michaener Member Username: Mr_roland Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2006 |
Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today Neil Young - On The Beach Tommy Keene - Based On Happy Times Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town Billie Holiday - The Lady in Autumn Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy Centro-matic - All the Falsest Hearts Can Try Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces The Jam - This is the Modern World The Who - Quadrophenia The Beatles - Revolver Will Johnson - Murder of Tides Patty Griffin - Flaming Red John Prine - s/t Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead The Cure - Disintegration Pixies - Doolittle The Replacements - Let It Be Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime Wire - Pink Flag The Clash - s/t KISS - Double Platinum Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains Ryan Adams - Cold Roses Uncle Tupelo - No Depression okay, that's it. no more typing for me. Yeah, yeah there's thousands I've missed. I'm tired. | ||
| kuba a Member Username: Kuba Post Number: 29 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stone Roses - s/t Go-Betweens - 16LL Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Television - Marquee Moon XTC - Skylarking Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional Mansun - Six | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 133 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's fascinating how many people put "Revolver" on their lists. When it was new it was always overshadowed by "Rubber Soul" and "Sgt. Pepper." For me, it is a mixed bag. "Tomorrow Never Knows" is almost frighteningly ahead of its time whereas most of the McCartney songs seem slight. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 41 Registered: 11-2004 |
1 The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle 2 R.E.M. - Murmur 3 Mover - Mover 4 Radiohead - Pablo Honey 5 Smashing Pumpkins - Machina: The Machines of God 6 Sluts of Trust - We Are All Sluts Of Trust 7 Smaller - Badly Badly 8 Pixies - Doolittle 9 Whipping Boy - Heartworm 10 The Apartments - The Evening Visits... 11 Kerbdog - On The Turn 12 Matt Deighton - The Common Good 13 Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden 14 Beastie Boys - Check Your Head 15 Split Enz - Mental Notes 16 Marion - This World And Body 17 Queen - Sheer Heart Attack 18 Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual 19 Mansun - The Attack of The Grey Lantern 20 Nine Black Alps - Everything Is Looking at other folks choices - I'm suprised at how many excellent albums have been chosen, from a fairly narrow band of artists. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 132 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt, good on you for including Maiden! I bought their best of three years ago to remind me of my teen metal years. Wasted Years is an awesome song, though far closer to hardcore than metal. The solo in it is one of my favourites. I mentioned Def Leppard's double CD comp elsewhere on this board the other day. I got albums by TNT and Helloween this week to continue my teen metal regression! Haven't played them properly yet so I don't know if I still like those two or not. | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 51 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey, Pádraig - I think most blokes go through some sort of metal phase. Most of it I find embarrassing now, but I must admit recently purchasing the first Uriah Heep lp (Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble) on CD. I think some things just stay with you, however dated. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 28 Registered: 01-2005 |
Like Matt and Peter, I also admit to some Uriah Heep in my collection, vinyl though and not CD. Other vinyl only and no CD's that I have include Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Foghat, Groundhogs, Kansas, Boston and many other 60/70's acts that I lost interest in 20 some years ago. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 135 Registered: 03-2005 |
No arguments in favor of any of the other folks listed in Michael Bachman's Hall of Shame but I'll vouch for the lasting value of many of the things the Rolling Stones did from 1965 through about 1968. That was really their great era after which they should have disbanded as far as I am concerned and, yes, I discount the critics' beloved "Exile on Main Street" too. The closest I ever got to metal was Bowie's great send-up of the genre, the entire "Man Who Sold the World" album. But I probably only escaped the clutches of metal by virtue of being about ten years older than you folks in Padraig's age cohort. For my embarrassment, I admit to listening to the likes of Lene Lovich, totally unlistenable today, and . . . get ready for it . . . the first Adam & the Ants album. Maybe we should have a thread for confessions of really bad music we used to like in our youth. Mine gets much worse: how about Ten Years After? If you are too young to know who they were, consider yourself very lucky indeed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 136 Registered: 05-2005 |
Start the thread Randy; it will be a popular one. | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 52 Registered: 05-2005 |
There was a group of punks at my sixth form who considered the first Adam and the Ants album - Dirk Wears White Sox, wasn't it? - the apotheosis of cool, so I don't think that's so embarrassing. I have a rather large collection of Hawkwind vinyl, which stops some time in the 80s, but they go in and out of fashion and John Lydon likes them, so I'm not bothered. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 136 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've always loved "Mirror of Illusion." | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 29 Registered: 01-2005 |
I used to listen to Lene Lovich a lot in the 79-83 period, along with many of her fellow Stiff Records contemporaries. Those were the days! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 114 Registered: 04-2005 |
As far as embarrassing music from my past goes, I never had a heavy metal phase; Mott the Hoople was about as close as I got, but they were more a forerunner of late '70s punk, which was my noisy guitar music of choice as a teen. I hated Led Zeppelin back in those days; strangely, I kind of appreciate them now. So that's a current guilty pleasure. I guess my worst infraction was being an Elton John fanatic in the mid-'70s, when he was at his peak of popularity and releasing two or three albums a year. Oh, and like every other teenager in the U.S., I bought "Frampton Comes Alive" in 1976. In my defense, I did it more to fit in and to try to impress girls. If you were in an American high school in '76 and wanted to get dates, you had to have that album in your collection. Another fave from that era that some may give me a hard time for is the Stevie Nicks/Lindsay Buckingham-era Fleetwood Mac(at least through "Tusk"). After disavowing them for 20 years, I rediscovered their three good albums a few years ago and appreciate them a lot. I wouldn't argue with anyone who made comparisons between "Rumours" and "16LL." | ||
| M. Mark Burgess Member Username: Fortysomething Post Number: 62 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, I too was a big Hawkwind freak back in the seventies, mainly because I was reading alot of sci-fi and they were associated with Mike Moorcock at times. I used to drive people out of my car with all my Hawkwind 8 tracks, especially the first one. Can't stand them now. though | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 138 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, folks. Embarrassing confessions now have their own thread. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 42 Registered: 11-2004 |
Cheers Pádraig, I always thought folk who were into Whipping Boy had a discernable ear (if they don't play London shortly I'm going to cry) As much as I love Maiden's debut, I'm afraid that I would say that I don't generally like metal. On a side note: It's a shame that Paul Di'Anno didn't stay with Maiden as I think the two albums featuring him are the best. Michael - sadly I haven't heard any Uriah Heap yet. However, I once met the band after we discovered that they were in the next door rehearsal room to my band. Our band's manager noticed them, became delighted and collared them for half an hour! - nice guys. I suppose I'm from the Def Leppard/Iron Maiden era metal (I'm 28). I do feel sorry for the younger generation though - the metal they are presented with comes in the form of tripe like The Darkness. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 70 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt said "I do feel sorry for the younger generation though - the metal they are presented with comes in the form of tripe like The Darkness." No offence Matt but I think we got the gist after the all important word tripe - in my dictionary if you look up the word tripe it says "heavy metal" | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 128 Registered: 08-2004 |
Thanks Rob, YYY's were actually quite succesful 2 years back, a new single is due in March, followed by a new album. Good times ahead, with Babybird also back together. :-) | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 12 Registered: 03-2006 |
Remarkable consensus - it seems a lot of the same names keep coming up...here's my 10, all in fact discs I'd want with me on a desert island: 16 Lovers Lane - The GoBs Moondance - Van Morrison King of America - Elvis Costello Kinks Kronikles - The Kinks Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan Two Wheels Good (Steve McQueen) - Prefab Sprout Raindogs - Tom Waits All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes - Pete Townshend After the Goldrush - Neil Young Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads | ||
| steven drennan Member Username: Dj_steviedee Post Number: 7 Registered: 04-2006 |
one entry one album unknown pleasures changed my life opened my eyes to what i could do when i dust it down to play it brings a tear to my eye as i write the tears are coming down my face does that make it special | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 322 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes it does Steven. There are many albums that bring tears to my eyes to. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 282 Registered: 08-2004 |
Ian Curtis probably felt the same way, when he played Iggy's The Idiot. Is that true by the way? I've never read any books on the JD legend, nor have I seen 24hr PP. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 393 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, apparently Curtis had played The Idiot while drinking some whiskey, he then watched some "art" film whose title escapes me, before hanging himself. I am not advocating it by any means but thats a pretty rock n roll way to go. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 284 Registered: 08-2004 |
That is quite a R & R way to go. Instant myth making of the highest order. The film was probably a Warhol factory effort, they're not very good, if you're deep in depression already But for all his shortcomings Michael Hutchence takes the trophy. I mean what was he thinking, didn't he feel that maybe if it all goes wrong it's not a very good way to be found. It's not as if he was short of female attention either. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 14 Registered: 04-2006 |
to name ten, twenty, thirty it's almost impossible. so i decided to part it into decades: sixties: jerry jester & judy henske - farewell aldebaran beach boys - pet sounds (1966) captain beefheart and the magic band - safe as milk (1968) neil young - 1st (1969) the flying burrito brothers - the gilded palace of sin (1968) love – forever changes (1968) van dyke parks – song cycle (1968) the band – same (1969) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 15 Registered: 04-2006 |
here are the seventies and this list is much longer which surely has the reason in that waht was discussed above: the age and to what music someone have been socialised/grown up: Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970) Bo Hansson – Lord of the Rings (1972) Gene Clark – No other (1975) Van Dyke Parks - Discover America (1972) Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1979) Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (1974) Allman Brothers Band – Live at Fillmore East (1971) Crosby + Nash – Live (1977) Caravan – In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971) Curtis Mayfield – 1 st (1970) Blue Oyster Cult – Some enchanted evening (1978) Yes - Yessongs (1973) Cluster – Zuckerzeit (1974) Fall – Dragnet (1979) X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents (1978) Gang of Four – Entertainment (1979) Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1977) Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (1979) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 16 Registered: 04-2006 |
the eighties. grown-up. and a lotof fantatsic music: Gang of Four – Solid Gold (1981) Fun Boy Three – Waiting (1983) Microdisney – Everybody is fantastic (1984) The Go-Beetwens – Spring-Hill Fair (1984) Scott Walker – Climate of Hunter (1984) Minutemen – Double Nickles on the Dime (1984) The Gun Club – The Las Vegas Story (1984) Mark Stewart – As the Veneer of Democracy starts to fade (1985) Robert Wyatt – Old Rottenhat (1985) David Thomas – Monster walks the Winter Lake (1985) Felt – Let the snakes crinkles their head to death (1986) Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden (1988) and everything from The Fall from Perverted by language till Bend Sinister!!! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 17 Registered: 04-2006 |
now the nineties. maybe it could be the following ones: talk talk - laughing stock (1991) bim sherman - miracles (1996) prefab sprout - andromeda heights (1997) black box recorder -england made me (1998) xtc - apple venus vol. 1 (1998) mark hollis - same (1998) rufus wainwright - same (1998) jim o'rourke - eureka (1999) the flaming lips - the soft bulletin (1999) arab strap - elephant shoe (1999) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 18 Registered: 04-2006 |
about the favourite albums of the current maybe i have to think later. what i like to say is, that reading all the above lists there showing that it seems that some of us have a similar 'education sentimentale' (Gustave Flaubert). that's fine! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 400 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, I love your lists. I'll be studying them and asking questions over time. Anybody who puts Neil Young's first album (a masterpiece in my opinion and it's all downhill afterwards) and the Fall's "Dragnet" on his favorite lists is somebody who does his own thinking. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bim Sherman, there's a man I have not listened to in quite a while. Must dig out the one album I have by him (don't think it's the one Andreas mentioned though). | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 95 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andreas, although I like Workingman's Dead a lot, my favorite Greatful Dead song is from American Beauty, "Box of Rain". | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 21 Registered: 04-2006 |
padraig, you should give especially the miracles album a listen. it is reggae played in acoustic style with an indian orchestra and talvin singh on it. marvellous. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 22 Registered: 04-2006 |
miahael bachman, american beauty is the same quality level, no question. but if you discover new music on your way you often prefer your 'first love'- and i bought workingmans dead before i the american beauty album. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 23 Registered: 04-2006 |
randy adams, no other album of neil young has a bigger impact on me than his first. many years after i bought the lp i read an discussion in a german music mag between michael ruff (german writer, musician (geisterfahrer) and rough trade record shop owner in hamburg in former times) and nikki sudden (r.i.p.) about their favourite neil young lp's. michael ruff disliked his first album because it sounded to him like that 'van dyke parks'-music (which he doen't like very much). at this time i didn't know nothing about van dyke parks. many years after that article i felt in love with the music of mr. parks and i remebered about that a.m. article - and it was absolutely clear to me that i ever loved this masterpiece. and randy, my lists are surely eclectic. i think i just like good music and i have a big heart. what neil young meant to me in seventies, maybe mark e. smith meant to me in the eighties. somewhere in the nineties i lost the contact to both. neil young's albums were boring, and the fall seemed to try to don't loose the connection to new sounds - but that new sounds (electronic music liek drum and bass for example sounds fresher and much more innovative when i listened to the originals). | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 24 Registered: 04-2006 |
is there a limited space to write a message? i couldn't write much more in my above posting. and by the way: what i miss is a modify button. my typing errors and my english made this necessary!!! the fall (continuing): over the last few years i once again felt in love with their music. last year i went to a concert of them. it was a strange experience. the last time i saw mark e.smith live was somewhere at the end of the eighties and he saved my life (because i stood at the front of the stage and the crowd pushed forward and nearly crushed me and my girlfriend. mark e. smith helped us as he hoisted us onto the stage where we enjoyed the show savely). now he looks crumpled, small, teethless and really old as he passed me by with his plastic bag. but on the stage he does his job as good as ever. the last album 'fall heads roll' was a good one. now they exist thirty years. and it seems that he will do his shows until he his unable to stay on the stage. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 431 Registered: 03-2006 |
Andreas, your posts are "the sh_t"! That's a compliment - it's an American slang expression for: the greatest, the best, the coolest, and so on. Keep up the good work! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 27 Registered: 04-2006 |
thank you very much for your compliment, hardin. i will try my best, but first i have to work to avoid that lot of typing errors. so, sorry. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 405 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, as far too many of my own posts demonstrate there does not seem to be any limitation to the length of a post. If you want to proofread and correct your post, click the "preview/post message" button at the bottom of the first page then make your modifications in the next page that you see. Make the changes in the window on the lower half of the screen. Then hit the bottom "preview/post message" button. After you hit that button, the version of the message that you see in the upper window will be the current version of your message. Once you like the message, click the "post this message" button directly below that upper window. You can keep changing the message as many time as you want until you hit "post this message." I hope that explanation was clear enough. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 354 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, that was a very lawyer-esqe explanation of how to use the preview feature! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 440 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, I was interested to see in your list you have Zen Arcade at No19. I was a massive Husker Du fan in the 80s but try as I might couldnt get into Zen Arcade, apart from Never Talking To You Again and Chartered Trips. I dont think they topped Warehouse Songs and Stories, particularly what used to be the old side 1. My problem may have been that I worked my way from Candy Apple Grey, to Warehouse...., then worked my way back to Zen. Did you buy Zen when it first came out, and "grow" with the band so to speak? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 355 Registered: 05-2005 |
No Kevin, Warehouse was my introduction to them too. But I just love Zen Arcade as a richer, deeper album. Warehouse has not stood the test of time for me as much as Zen and Candy; though it still has a lot of great songs. | ||
| Keith Weston Member Username: Lumper5 Post Number: 2 Registered: 06-2006 |
My "current" Top 10 would be: 10. Alexi Murdoch- Time w/o Consequence 9. Beatles - Revolver 8. Mojave 3 - Any Day Will Be Fine 7. Tim Buckley - Starsailor 6. Jam - Setting Sons 5. Nursery Crime - Genesis 4. August and Everything After - Counting Crows 3. Jean Paul Sartre Experience - Love Songs 2. any ablum that has "Waterloo Sunset" by Kinks 1. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One This will change in one hour or less... I'm sure! -online @ http://www.deeperintomusic.net | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 278 Registered: 04-2006 |
kevin, my 'fall-story' is somewhere above ( 2nd of may). nothing spectacular. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1030 Registered: 03-2006 |
Your story is great, Andreas. Usually when fans say an artist saved their life, they don't mean it literally. Your description of MES as "toothless" reminds me of a great, but disturbing story I read about him somewhere. The journalist apparently had full access and was witness to a horrible fight between Mark and his girlfriend at the time, probably Brix, who hit him in the grill with a phone receiver and apparently knocked out some teeth. Undaunted, Smith took the stage later, bleeding stumps clearly visible, but the girlfriend absent. Isn't he a pretty heavy drinker, too? That doesn't do wonders for your health, either. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 416 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, I noticed the Jazzateers in your list. I've been curious about them for a while. I've read brief snippets about them here and there, and have been intrigued. Now even more so seeing them in your list. What were they like? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1058 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, thanks for the story. MES saved your life literally, I wish I could say that! My first Fall gig was in 1981 I think, MES spent the whole gig with his back to the audience and the setlist was almost exclusively new material at the time - eg the audience hadnt heard most of the songs on record( I think it may have been just before Grotesque came out, I could be wrong), and it was of course fantastic. One other memory of that Glasgow gig, was that members of the Scottish punk band The Exploited were in the front row and tried their best to verbally abuse MES in between songs. I'm sure I dont have to tell you who triumphed in these verbal jousts. LK, MES is an extremely heavy drinker and has been for a number of years. Its a pity you guys dont have access to BBC4 via cable(or do you?), they are regularly showing a Fall documentary called The Frightening World Of Mark E Smith, it is highly entertaining, but also graphically shows what a heavy drinker he is. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1059 Registered: 05-2005 |
Christ, this is a great thread when you read it again. I actually had the brass necked audacity back in January to suggest that some of Padraigs list omitted better albums by some artists - not that I retract this Padraig Its interesting that our lists include albums and artists that we have all waxed lyrical at in many different threads over the subsequent months this year, we're a consistent bunch. Must admit, I got a lump in my throat when I read M Marks list, we lost 2 friends this year. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 37 Registered: 10-2006 |
I remember reading this thread before I became a member and being deeply impressed by the lists and the stories such as Andreas'. I still am impressed and would like to add my favourites in no particular order. And yes, I am a big fan of live albums. The Hummingbirds - Love Buzz Joy Division - Closer Television - Marquee Moon Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia Bob Dylan - Desire Wilco - Kicking Television Sophia - De Nachten The Walkabouts - Devil's Road Sigur Ros - () Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the edge of Town Steve Winwood - Steve Winwood Crowded House - Debut REM - Lifes Rich Pageant Go-Betweens - Tallulah The Cure - 17 Seconds Talking Heads - Remain in Light Neil Young - Live Rust Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Good Son Indigo Girls - Nomads Indians Saints The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Interpol - Antics Franz Ferdinand - Debut Songs: Ohia - The Lioness The Clash - London Calling |