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Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by daydreamer » Tue 24 Feb, 2015 9:43 pm

Late to the party as ever :roll: Hmm, too many to pick just 15, and like TE, I mostly listen to playlists and downloads of my favourites. There's not many albums out there where I can claim I like all or even most of the songs. Anyway here you go. In no particular order.

Dan Black - UN (one of the few albums where I love nearly all the tracks).
The Smiths - Meat is Murder (+ most of their back catalogue)
The Jam - Setting Sons
Aztec Camera - Stray
Billy Bragg - Victim of Geography (two albums in one :) )
Alex Winston - King Con
Garbage - Garbage
The Clash - London Calling (In fact most of the Clash's back-catalogue)
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (or Hounds of Love - really difficult to get this down to 15).
R.E.M - Green or Monster
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pulp - Different Class
Metric - Fantasies

Also, Pixies (Doolittle), Mazarin (We're Already There), Cornershop (When I was born for the 7th Time), Flaming Lips (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots), Ghost of the Robot (Mad Brilliant, plus a couple of tracks from B Sider - discovering this band had nothing to do with Spike - honest), Madness (Divine Madness), Nina Simone (The Very Best of), Tom Robinson (Hope and Glory), Oasis (Definitely Maybe - because it was the sound track to a brilliant holiday in Greece), Lenka (Two), Some Feeder songs (City in a Rut, Morning Life) , Beverley Knight - Voice (sentimental reasons - "Play duck track again, mummy").

Plus too many more to mention. There you go, should give you all a good laugh.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by LadyCentauria » Fri 20 Feb, 2015 1:17 pm

Ah! :D

If WelshIan is correct, I used to have a print of that stuck on my old Blueberry iMac but I've lost it somewhere. The print, I mean – the iMac's in my dead-Mac-Museum...

And I should have hit Submit before I went to hunt for it in the dMM. Fail. Need. Coffee.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by WelshIan » Fri 20 Feb, 2015 12:42 pm

Anatoly, I needed your prompt! But I think you're referring to this one:
http://xkcd.com/386/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

'Someone is wrong on the internet'

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by AnatolyKasparov » Fri 20 Feb, 2015 10:56 am

It is pertinent to what we do on this site, and the online world more generally :)

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by LadyCentauria » Fri 20 Feb, 2015 6:06 am

You'll have to tell me, Anatoly – I've got a memory like a bent and battered old sieve with some of the holes gunked up. But xkcd has restored my humour on many a day when I'd thought I'd lost it...

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by AnatolyKasparov » Thu 19 Feb, 2015 11:37 pm

That site of course produced one of the greatest cartoon strips ever - do I really need to tell you which one? :)

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by WelshIan » Thu 19 Feb, 2015 11:06 pm

NonOxCol wrote:
I have big problems with the passing of time wrt popular culture. For instance, How Soon Is Now? is closer to Tutti Frutti than it is to today.

*howl of despair*
xkcd is one of my favourite comics, so even though this relates to films, I'm going to post it here anyway :)

http://xkcd.com/891/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://xkcd.com/1477/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by NonOxCol » Fri 13 Feb, 2015 11:29 pm

WelshIan wrote:
NonOxCol wrote:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smells like Teen Spirit was on the radio as a golden oldie recently. I can't believe it's over 20 years old, when did that happen?!
I have big problems with the passing of time wrt popular culture. For instance, How Soon Is Now? is closer to Tutti Frutti than it is to today.

*howl of despair*

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by WelshIan » Fri 13 Feb, 2015 3:56 pm

NonOxCol wrote:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smells like Teen Spirit was on the radio as a golden oldie recently. I can't believe it's over 20 years old, when did that happen?!

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by NonOxCol » Fri 30 Jan, 2015 11:54 pm

Great thread everyone! Only just found it.

I did this for another site in 2012 and just dug up the results. Don't think I'd change anything, though (as with everyone) there are an awful lot of honourable mentions. In particular I would say that 'Parade', 'Lovesexy' and 'Sign O The Times' would all be in my top 25 but not the top 15, so it's unfortunate that Prince only has one album in the list below.

Beatles - Revolver (quite possibly, alongside 'Catch-22', my favourite work of art of the 20th century)
Pulp - Different Class (includes my favourite single of all time, 'Common People', and dozens of other moments that will sum up my 20s forever)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
U2 - Achtung Baby
Beatles - The Beatles ('White Album')
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Pixies - Doolittle
Happy Mondays - Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches
Nirvana - Nevermind
U2 - The Joshua Tree

"One album per artist" rules would bring into play things like Debut (Bjork), Blue Lines (Massive Attack), Maxinquaye (Tricky), Parklife (Blur), Actually (Pet Shop Boys) and The Soft Bulletin (Flaming Lips).

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by adam » Tue 14 Oct, 2014 8:13 am

mbc1955 wrote:Late to the Party but eager to catch up:

In no particular order (except that the first is my best album of all time) and rationed to no more than one album per act

REM - Automatic to the People
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Who - Who's Next
Shawn Colvin - Fat City
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Joy Division - a double CD of Unknown Pleasures and Closer as I can't separate the two: we're allowed one cheat, right?
The Pierces - Creation
Kirsty MacColl - Kite
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Buffalo Tom - Sleepy-Eyed
Warren Zevon - Mr Bad Example (by the narrowest of heads from either the self-titled album or Sentimental Hygene)
Love - Forever Changes
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model (though his best has to be Imperial Bedroom)
Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
mbc1955 - there is a message from me about this sitting in your inbox up at the top left of the screen :)

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by yahyah » Mon 13 Oct, 2014 2:18 pm

mbc1955 wrote:Late to the Party but eager to catch up:

In no particular order (except that the first is my best album of all time) and rationed to no more than one album per act

REM - Automatic to the People
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Who - Who's Next
Shawn Colvin - Fat City
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Joy Division - a double CD of Unknown Pleasures and Closer as I can't separate the two: we're allowed one cheat, right?
The Pierces - Creation
Kirsty MacColl - Kite
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Buffalo Tom - Sleepy-Eyed
Warren Zevon - Mr Bad Example (by the narrowest of heads from either the self-titled album or Sentimental Hygene)
Love - Forever Changes
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model (though his best has to be Imperial Bedroom)
Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl

Good list, although have to admit there are a few there I've not heard of [Buffalo Tom, The Pierces] so will search them out.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by adam » Sun 12 Oct, 2014 10:40 pm

mbc1955 wrote:Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model (though his best has to be Imperial Bedroom)
I can't believe I didn't include Imperial Bedroom.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by mbc1955 » Sun 12 Oct, 2014 9:53 pm

Late to the Party but eager to catch up:

In no particular order (except that the first is my best album of all time) and rationed to no more than one album per act

REM - Automatic to the People
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Who - Who's Next
Shawn Colvin - Fat City
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Joy Division - a double CD of Unknown Pleasures and Closer as I can't separate the two: we're allowed one cheat, right?
The Pierces - Creation
Kirsty MacColl - Kite
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Buffalo Tom - Sleepy-Eyed
Warren Zevon - Mr Bad Example (by the narrowest of heads from either the self-titled album or Sentimental Hygene)
Love - Forever Changes
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model (though his best has to be Imperial Bedroom)
Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by TheGrimSqueaker » Sun 05 Oct, 2014 5:51 pm

LadyCentauria wrote:For the Genesis/Gabriel appreciation society :wink: Did anyone see the BBC Two documentary, earlier? (Saturday 9pm) and now available on iPlayer, followed by a TOPT2 special. It was v. good and left me brimful of memories.
Genesis:Together and Apart (First shown Oct 4th 2014)
A feature-length documentary about one of the most successful British bands in rock music, reuniting Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett to tell their story. The film recounts their extraordinary musical story, exploring the songwriting and the emotional highs and lows. It features previously unseen archive material and rare footage from across their entire career.
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I didn't watch the TOTP2 programme, but did watch the documentary. Thoroughly enjoyable, and I have been working my way through my Genesis (and assorted solo) albums today; I'd forgotten how good some of the solo stuff is from Banks, Rutherford and Hackett. :rock:

Predictable fuss on Twitter about the brief appearance of Jonathan King, but you couldn't tell the story without at least mentioning him; you can, apparently, tell the story without mentioning Ray Wilson, which is a little unfair imo.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by LadyCentauria » Sun 05 Oct, 2014 4:02 am

For the Genesis/Gabriel appreciation society :wink: Did anyone see the BBC Two documentary, earlier? (Saturday 9pm) and now available on iPlayer, followed by a TOPT2 special. It was v. good and left me brimful of memories.
Genesis:Together and Apart (First shown Oct 4th 2014)
A feature-length documentary about one of the most successful British bands in rock music, reuniting Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett to tell their story. The film recounts their extraordinary musical story, exploring the songwriting and the emotional highs and lows. It features previously unseen archive material and rare footage from across their entire career.
Edit to correct formatting

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by Spacedone » Fri 03 Oct, 2014 10:56 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
Roger does your no jazz rule exclude 'Little Girl Blue' by Nina Simone?
No, that rule was only for me as I couldn't possibly leave any of my choices out - just made my life easier. I might do a separate jazz one soon...
"Jazz ain't nothing but when you throw a Blues quartet down a long flight of stairs"

Otis Lee Crenshaw aka Rich Hall.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by RogerOThornhill » Thu 02 Oct, 2014 8:38 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Singling out 15 albums is hard enough, so I am sticking to the period c 1960-1980 - THE top creative period for popular music beyond doubt 8-)

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Can - Tago Mago
Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (3rd album)
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes

Everybody should have every one of these. No exceptions :)
I have all apart from the SLF. Never got into them - I was more a Wire and Magazine man.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by RogerOThornhill » Thu 02 Oct, 2014 8:25 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
Roger does your no jazz rule exclude 'Little Girl Blue' by Nina Simone?
No, that rule was only for me as I couldn't possibly leave any of my choices out - just made my life easier. I might do a separate jazz one soon...

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by ErnstRemarx » Wed 01 Oct, 2014 5:14 pm

LadyCentauria wrote:
TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Singling out 15 albums is hard enough, so I am sticking to the period c 1960-1980 - THE top creative period for popular music beyond doubt 8-)

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Can - Tago Mago
Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (3rd album)
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes

Everybody should have every one of these. No exceptions :)
Can't argue with much on that list, although I could take or leave the Dylan album; sorry, I know that is almost heresy! :D

Back in the distant mist that is my youth I listened to a lot more radio than I do now; Peel was obviously king, but I was also a big fan of Capital Radio's Nicky Horne with arguably UK radios first rock, as opposed to pop, show "Your Mother Wouldn't Like It".

On Wednesday nights (I think) the show was "Chains" where he would play two hours of music suggested by listeners; the idea was that you would start with a record, the next record would be linked to the first in some way (it got very tenuous at times) and, two hours later, end up at the original record. And, every week without fail, the lists would include a King Crimson track and a Genesis track!! Happy days. :-)
Indeed! And I'm with you on leaving the Dylan off. Never was my cup of tea – and I had to play a lot of it at jams'n'stuff 'cos people wanted to sing it, including all twenty-four verses of something I seem to have finally succeeded in wiping from my memory... Love the rest of @AnatolyKasparov's selection, though :rock:

I'd add Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show to the list of essential radio listening. That, and your choices, were what I listened to when I wasn't listening to LBC - remember when they used one of their frequencies for a straight news and current affairs output and the other frequency for features and 'phone-ins? I prized my LBC mug from one of their quizzes for years until someone 'being helpful' succeeded in smashing it. And, for quite a while, I did bits and pieces for some of their late-night and grave-yard shift programmes – characters and music stuff. And no, I'm not Jan from Rainham with her extraordinary organ performances!

The pictures are better on radio :wink:
Pretty good list, that one. AK's list isn't too far out from what I'd post up for the 60-80 period (probably half would stay).

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by LadyCentauria » Wed 01 Oct, 2014 3:46 am

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Singling out 15 albums is hard enough, so I am sticking to the period c 1960-1980 - THE top creative period for popular music beyond doubt 8-)

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Can - Tago Mago
Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (3rd album)
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes

Everybody should have every one of these. No exceptions :)
Can't argue with much on that list, although I could take or leave the Dylan album; sorry, I know that is almost heresy! :D

Back in the distant mist that is my youth I listened to a lot more radio than I do now; Peel was obviously king, but I was also a big fan of Capital Radio's Nicky Horne with arguably UK radios first rock, as opposed to pop, show "Your Mother Wouldn't Like It".

On Wednesday nights (I think) the show was "Chains" where he would play two hours of music suggested by listeners; the idea was that you would start with a record, the next record would be linked to the first in some way (it got very tenuous at times) and, two hours later, end up at the original record. And, every week without fail, the lists would include a King Crimson track and a Genesis track!! Happy days. :-)
Indeed! And I'm with you on leaving the Dylan off. Never was my cup of tea – and I had to play a lot of it at jams'n'stuff 'cos people wanted to sing it, including all twenty-four verses of something I seem to have finally succeeded in wiping from my memory... Love the rest of @AnatolyKasparov's selection, though :rock:

I'd add Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show to the list of essential radio listening. That, and your choices, were what I listened to when I wasn't listening to LBC - remember when they used one of their frequencies for a straight news and current affairs output and the other frequency for features and 'phone-ins? I prized my LBC mug from one of their quizzes for years until someone 'being helpful' succeeded in smashing it. And, for quite a while, I did bits and pieces for some of their late-night and grave-yard shift programmes – characters and music stuff. And no, I'm not Jan from Rainham with her extraordinary organ performances!

The pictures are better on radio :wink:

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by TheGrimSqueaker » Tue 30 Sep, 2014 8:54 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Singling out 15 albums is hard enough, so I am sticking to the period c 1960-1980 - THE top creative period for popular music beyond doubt 8-)

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Can - Tago Mago
Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (3rd album)
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes

Everybody should have every one of these. No exceptions :)
Can't argue with much on that list, although I could take or leave the Dylan album; sorry, I know that is almost heresy! :D

Back in the distant mist that is my youth I listened to a lot more radio than I do now; Peel was obviously king, but I was also a big fan of Capital Radio's Nicky Horne with arguably UK radios first rock, as opposed to pop, show "Your Mother Wouldn't Like It".

On Wednesday nights (I think) the show was "Chains" where he would play two hours of music suggested by listeners; the idea was that you would start with a record, the next record would be linked to the first in some way (it got very tenuous at times) and, two hours later, end up at the original record. And, every week without fail, the lists would include a King Crimson track and a Genesis track!! Happy days. :-)

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by AnatolyKasparov » Tue 30 Sep, 2014 8:37 pm

Singling out 15 albums is hard enough, so I am sticking to the period c 1960-1980 - THE top creative period for popular music beyond doubt 8-)

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Can - Tago Mago
Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (3rd album)
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes

Everybody should have every one of these. No exceptions :)

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by yahyah » Mon 29 Sep, 2014 5:48 pm

JackPranker wrote:
yahyah wrote:That's fab Jack :clap:

Any hippy ones for me ?
Image

Wish I still looked like that. Thanks :D

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by refitman » Mon 29 Sep, 2014 5:32 pm

JackPranker wrote:
refitman wrote:In no particular order:

DJ Format - Music For The Mature B-Boy
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Tool - Lateralus
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Live Lie
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Metallica - Black album
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Faith No More - King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time Of Science
doublejo(h)ngrey - The Link Between Man and Beast
(the last is a friend's band from uni)
RAAAAAAAAAAWK!
:rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by JackPranker » Mon 29 Sep, 2014 3:41 pm

yahyah wrote:That's fab Jack :clap:

Any hippy ones for me ?
Image

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by JackPranker » Mon 29 Sep, 2014 3:37 pm

refitman wrote:In no particular order:

DJ Format - Music For The Mature B-Boy
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Tool - Lateralus
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Live Lie
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Metallica - Black album
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Faith No More - King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time Of Science
doublejo(h)ngrey - The Link Between Man and Beast
(the last is a friend's band from uni)
RAAAAAAAAAAWK!

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by Spacedone » Sun 28 Sep, 2014 11:04 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
Still working on my list. Thanks for including Gabriel, but I can never choose which is my favourite.
I had to choose between his third solo album, So and Us, all of which I love. However I picked So because it was the first album that I really liked when I was a kid, especially the wonderful Mercy Street.

[youtube]zs35CBGOxbc[/youtube]

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by PaulfromYorkshire » Sun 28 Sep, 2014 8:54 pm

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Did you or anyone else happen to see him live around 1987/88?
The only disappointment in that show was Kate Bush not joining him for "Don't Give Up" .... but that was never going to happen anyway! :D

I saw him at Earls Court in the summer of '87, one of five gigs I went to over 8 weeks; Bob Dylan at Wembley Arena (I fell asleep, it was that boring); Genesis at Wembley Stadium, which included Paul Young as a support act who was joined on stage by Billy Joel; who I saw the following week at Wembley Arena; and finally Sting at Wembley Arena, probably the last tour where he wasn't totally up himself.

A lively few weeks. :rock:
Yes that's the summer! I saw Gabriel at the NEC, Genesis with, indeed, Paul Young at Roundhay Park and Bowie at Roker Park ;-)

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by TheGrimSqueaker » Sun 28 Sep, 2014 8:36 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Did you or anyone else happen to see him live around 1987/88?
The only disappointment in that show was Kate Bush not joining him for "Don't Give Up" .... but that was never going to happen anyway! :D

I saw him at Earls Court in the summer of '87, one of five gigs I went to over 8 weeks; Bob Dylan at Wembley Arena (I fell asleep, it was that boring); Genesis at Wembley Stadium, which included Paul Young as a support act who was joined on stage by Billy Joel; who I saw the following week at Wembley Arena; and finally Sting at Wembley Arena, probably the last tour where he wasn't totally up himself.

A lively few weeks. :rock:

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by refitman » Sun 28 Sep, 2014 7:53 pm

ErnstRemarx wrote:
Sky'sGoneOut wrote:In alphabetical order...

Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out.
Broadcast - Haha sound.
Cardiacs - A little man and a house and the whole world window.
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand.
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Funkadelic - Free your ass and your mind will follow.
Joy Division - Closer.
Kraftwerk - Ralf und Florian.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Your funeral my trial.
O.M.D. - Architecture and Morality.
Pentangle - Basket of light.
Public Image Limited - Metal Box.
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements.
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses.

And then Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Both disks of course.
Bah! Throwing Muses, Cocteaus and Joy Division! How could I miss all of those off my own list?? Excellent selection, Sky.
I've been listening to old Mark & Lard shows (from Radio 1 in the 90s) and they had the Cocteau's on doing live tracks. Each track they performed ended with Liz going "Oops" and then collapsing into a fit of giggles. It was really funny.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by refitman » Sun 28 Sep, 2014 7:50 pm

In no particular order:

DJ Format - Music For The Mature B-Boy
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Tool - Lateralus
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Live Lie
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Metallica - Black album
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly.ky
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Faith No More - King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time Of Science
doublejo(h)ngrey - The Link Between Man and Beast
(the last is a friend's band from uni)

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by PaulfromYorkshire » Sun 28 Sep, 2014 3:02 pm

Spacedone wrote:My favourite 15 albums in no particular order:

1) Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
2) Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
3) Pisces Iscariot - Smashing Pumpkins
4) Down On The Upside - Soundgarden
5) Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
6) Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
7) Tidal - Fiona Apple
8) Best Of Bowie - David Bowie (a best of... bit of a cheat but I listen to it more than his actual albums)
9) Violator - Depeche Mode
10) The Big Roar - The Joy Formidable
11) Contraband - Velvet Revolver
12) So - Peter Gabriel
13) The Aeroplane Flies High - Smashing Pumpkins
14) Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
15) Gish - Smashing Pumpkins

Yes I really love Smashing Pumpkins. :rock:
Still working on my list. Thanks for including Gabriel, but I can never choose which is my favourite. Did you or anyone else happen to see him live around 1987/88? I think his performance of No Self Control was one of the most stunning things I've ever seen on stage, with the enormous lighting gantries moving like huge angle poise lamps crashing down and apparently knocking him to the floor. You can just about make it out here

[youtube]DH33fopFgWE[/youtube]

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by ErnstRemarx » Sun 28 Sep, 2014 2:47 pm

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:In alphabetical order...

Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out.
Broadcast - Haha sound.
Cardiacs - A little man and a house and the whole world window.
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand.
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Funkadelic - Free your ass and your mind will follow.
Joy Division - Closer.
Kraftwerk - Ralf und Florian.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Your funeral my trial.
O.M.D. - Architecture and Morality.
Pentangle - Basket of light.
Public Image Limited - Metal Box.
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements.
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses.

And then Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Both disks of course.
Bah! Throwing Muses, Cocteaus and Joy Division! How could I miss all of those off my own list?? Excellent selection, Sky.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by Spacedone » Sun 28 Sep, 2014 7:42 am

My favourite 15 albums in no particular order:

1) Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
2) Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
3) Pisces Iscariot - Smashing Pumpkins
4) Down On The Upside - Soundgarden
5) Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
6) Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
7) Tidal - Fiona Apple
8) Best Of Bowie - David Bowie (a best of... bit of a cheat but I listen to it more than his actual albums)
9) Violator - Depeche Mode
10) The Big Roar - The Joy Formidable
11) Contraband - Velvet Revolver
12) So - Peter Gabriel
13) The Aeroplane Flies High - Smashing Pumpkins
14) Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
15) Gish - Smashing Pumpkins

Yes I really love Smashing Pumpkins. :rock:

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by TechnicalEphemera » Sat 27 Sep, 2014 11:33 pm

adam wrote:
TechnicalEphemera wrote:Envy & Other Sins - We Leave At Dawn.
I saw them play in the cellars of a local club along with three other bands, when the musicians for the night outnumbered the punters by about three to one but the bands all still went for it and everyone enjoyed themselves. They set up with fairy lights and van de graaff generators and played lovely quirky music. I like this album too :)
Yay, they were totally stuffed by their promoters, they won a reality TV show which got a crappy record deal, but the sponsors didn't honour the deal to promote it.

I liked the fact they brought a living room with them when they played. They definitely deserved a better result.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by adam » Sat 27 Sep, 2014 11:15 pm

TechnicalEphemera wrote:Envy & Other Sins - We Leave At Dawn.
I saw them play in the cellars of a local club along with three other bands, when the musicians for the night outnumbered the punters by about three to one but the bands all still went for it and everyone enjoyed themselves. They set up with fairy lights and van de graaff generators and played lovely quirky music. I like this album too :)

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by TechnicalEphemera » Sat 27 Sep, 2014 9:02 pm

Envy & Other Sins - We Leave At Dawn
Slash - Apocalyptic Love
The Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up
Deep Purple - Live at Montreux 2006
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Muse - HAARP: Live from Wembley Stadium
Dire Straits - On Every Street
Whitesnake -Live in The Heart of the City
Yes - 1978 Wembley Concert (Ok it is an unreleased recording but it is the best thing they ever did)
Pulp - Different Class
Garbage - Garbage
Portishead - Roseland NYC Live (although Glastonbury was better)
Robbie Williams - Sing When Your Winning
Berlin - Love Life
Styx - Caught in the Act

That is a list limited to one per band to keep it interesting. I would urge anybody to try out We Leave At Dawn, Wonderfully put together Art Deco Rock. I have no idea why that Yes concert wasn't officially released there are broadcast quality files everywhere (The Friday Rock show broadcast it).

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by yahyah » Sat 27 Sep, 2014 8:14 am

Thanks Sky :D

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by PaulfromYorkshire » Sat 27 Sep, 2014 8:04 am

Great thread.

Hmmm

Mine would certainly include many of the artists listed here, although with the delicious quirks that are personality I nearly always thought you'd chosen the wrong album ;-)

Roger does your no jazz rule exclude 'Little Girl Blue' by Nina Simone?

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by Sky'sGoneOut » Sat 27 Sep, 2014 3:24 am

yahyah wrote:That's fab Jack :clap:

Any hippy ones for me ?


My 15, in no particular order:

Cream: Disraeli Gears
REM: Automatic For The People
Pink Floyd: Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
Leonard Cohen: Songs of
Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
Love: Forever Changes
Velvet Underground & Nico
The Seeds: The Seeds
Afro Cuban All Stars: Distinto, Differente
Ali Farka Taure: Savanne
Ralph Stanley: Ralph Stanley
AJ Roach: Revelation
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
The Doors: The Doors
Donovan: A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
I'm in awe.

That's miles better than mine.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by Sky'sGoneOut » Sat 27 Sep, 2014 3:11 am

In alphabetical order...

Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out.
Broadcast - Haha sound.
Cardiacs - A little man and a house and the whole world window.
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand.
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
Funkadelic - Free your ass and your mind will follow.
Joy Division - Closer.
Kraftwerk - Ralf und Florian.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Your funeral my trial.
O.M.D. - Architecture and Morality.
Pentangle - Basket of light.
Public Image Limited - Metal Box.
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements.
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses.

And then Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Both disks of course.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by TechnicalEphemera » Fri 26 Sep, 2014 11:35 pm

Interesting topic, I will have a crack at it at some point.

Sadly however I have become a digital creature, I consume music as playlists built from stuff I really like (new and old). Most albums have at least one filler track, many only have one good (often great) song.

The other issue I have is most of the stuff I listen to is live, often bootlegged - usually soundboard rips (so Yes's live 78 Wembley concert, or Deep Purple's stuff with Joe Satriani on lead guitar in Japan and Switzerland, or the one drug free MkIV performance in 75). None of that is ever getting published.

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by LadyCentauria » Fri 26 Sep, 2014 11:12 pm

JackPranker wrote:
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@TGS, can you make Jack's 'metal' GIF sit in the Smilies list, please? Or one like it...

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by TheGrimSqueaker » Fri 26 Sep, 2014 8:37 pm

You see other peoples lists and it prompts you to go digging through your collection to dig out albums you've neglected for far too long .....

Courtesy of JackPranker I've had Polly Jean on repeat all afternoon and now, courtesy of Yahyah, the neighbours are being treated to a bit of Hendrix. Happy days. :dance:

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by yahyah » Fri 26 Sep, 2014 4:30 pm

That's fab Jack :clap:

Any hippy ones for me ?


My 15, in no particular order:

Cream: Disraeli Gears
REM: Automatic For The People
Pink Floyd: Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
Leonard Cohen: Songs of
Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
Love: Forever Changes
Velvet Underground & Nico
The Seeds: The Seeds
Afro Cuban All Stars: Distinto, Differente
Ali Farka Taure: Savanne
Ralph Stanley: Ralph Stanley
AJ Roach: Revelation
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
The Doors: The Doors
Donovan: A Gift From A Flower To A Garden

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by JackPranker » Fri 26 Sep, 2014 8:00 am

LadyCentauria wrote:I'm enjoying this, now the pressure of choosing is off :smile:

Loving everyone else's choices – will be dusting off the turntable and vinyl :dance:

Needs a head-bang Smily
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Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by LadyCentauria » Thu 25 Sep, 2014 4:55 pm

I'm enjoying this, now the pressure of choosing is off :smile:

Loving everyone else's choices – will be dusting off the turntable and vinyl :dance:

Needs a head-bang Smily

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by JackPranker » Thu 25 Sep, 2014 10:13 am

Ouch! My favourites include a fair amount of new stuff, however some will drop off as time goes by, some will always be on there...

INPO:

Tom Waits: Nighthawks at the Diner
Bon Iver: For Emma
Sugar: Copper Blue
The War On Drugs: Lost in the Dream
Band of Horses: Infinite Dreams
Henry Rollins: Get Some, Go Again
Pink Floyd: Animals
Metallica: Master of Puppets
PJ Harvey: Tales from the City…
Phosphorescent: Muchacho
Iron & Wine: Around the Well
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Lord Huron: Lonesome Dreams
Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 64-71
The Black Crowes: The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Re: Your Favourite 15 Albums

by TheGrimSqueaker » Fri 19 Sep, 2014 6:45 pm

Okey doke, after much thought and (as others have said) in no particular order:

Haim - Days Are Gone
Deacon Blue - Raintown (been playing that a lot over the last couple of days)
Kirsty McColl - Tropical Brainstorm
Alabama 3 - M.O.R.
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (to tell the truth Kate could have taken more than one spot)
Madness - Absolutely
Everything But The Girl - Idlewild
The Specials - The Specials
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Afro Celts - Further In Time
Tracey Thorn - Tinsel and Lights
Paloma Faith - Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (subtlety isn't always a good thing)

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