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10 albums everyone should own

DarrenW

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going through a phase where I want to buy more albums but don't want to get saddled with yet more "bought played once or twice can't get into it" peices.

So wondered what is out there that others think essential that might have passed me by. try and stay away from things that might not be available in the shops - ideally stuff that is easy to find/remember in oxfam / fairs / record shops - for me the list is:

JJ cale live
suzanne vega solitude standing
Dick Gaughan handfull of earth
ACDC black in black
Tourists luminous basements
Something by the carpenters
Green Day - American idiot
Decameron Mammoth Special (ok one dodgy one allowed)
Queen Day at the races
Bob Dylan street legal
T-rex slider

I suppose my criteria really was albums I play once a month or more out of my collection - doing it this way ensures the above (for me) are essentials in my collection

come on then - not desert island discs just solid faves that stand the test of time and thus everyone should know about
 
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
New Order - Brotherhood
The Cure - Disintegration
The The - Infected
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Blink 182 - Blink 182 (you did say a dodgy one)
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (trust me, it's a grower)
Tool - Lateralus
Bach - Cello Suites
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
 
martin stephenson - boat to bolivia

bare naked ladies - maybe you should drive

bob dylan - oh mercy

suzanne vega - 99.9 degrees

edie brickell - shooting rubberbands at the sky

tom waits - blue valentine

nick drake - five leaves left

michelle shocked - short sharp shocked

loudon wainwright - more love songs

beautiful south - welcome to the
 
bugger off wiith the queen are crap line - ok they were crao after the 80's but there are some seriously good anf fun songs on earlier albums and they were excellent live

I do appreciate there are quite a few who would agree with you though on the no no no thing
 
Sod you lot, I’m having 20…

Thelonious Monk – Genius Of modern Music Vol 1 & 2 (Blue Note)
Mingus – Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Dexter Gordon – One Flight Up
John Coltrane – Crescent
Pink Floyd – Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Amon Düül II – Yeti
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
Can – Tago Mago
Marvin Gaye – What’s Goin’ On
T. Rex – Electric Warrior
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
The Upsetters – Super Ape
Television – Marquee Moon
Wire – Chairs Missing
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume 1
Black Dog Productions – Bytes
Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
Arab Strap – Philophobia

Tony.

PS I didn't notice the easily available bit in the original post - I suspect they are all available on CD though original vinyl would be expensive in certain cases.
 
Seven seas of bloody rye. We are the knobbin champions, Fat bottom bloody girls. Don't Stop me Now.

Case for the prosecution.
 
My 10 pennorth... a vote for the oldies. 'Course, I'd pick 10 different ones tomorrow....

Joni Mitchell Blue
Dylan Blonde on Blonde
Dave Brubeck Time Further Out
Crosby Stills and Nash Crosby Stills and Nash
Tortelier Elgar Cello Concerto
Ray Charles Anything
Ashkenazy Mozart Piano Concerti 23/27
Soundtrack American Graffitti
Joan Baez Joan Baez 5
Vivian Stanshall Sir Henry at Rawlinson End

Mull
 
The 9th - 1962 HVK Berlin Phil
Switched on Bach - Walter ( Wendy ) Carlos
Late for the Sky - Jackson B
To Our Children's Children's Children.-Moody Blues - Oh, alright , delete and insert CSN CSN or Deja Vu.
Led Zep iV
The Night Fly - Fagan
Street Legal or Desire- Dylan
Thick as a Brick -Tull
Machine Head
Listen Now - Manzanera / 801

Oh, what a difficult, difficult choice :)

I'm cross indexing the other posts to look for threads of commonality.

Mullard Man, listen to 'More American Graffiti ' . Wolfman Jack hitching up Curt with the Blonde Young Lady in a Thunderbird. I fell in love with the movie when I was 15.Sigh.
 
Dinosaur Jr.- You're Living All Over Me
The Dismemberment Plan- Emergency & I
Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand
Hüsker Dü- Zen Arcade
Mission of Burma- Vs.
Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Sugar- Copper Blue
Superchunk- No Pocky For Kitty
Yo La Tengo- I Can Feel The Heart Beating As One

Repeat after me: Mould is God!
 
Sade, Diamond Life
Paris, Texas OST
Massive Attack, Blue Lines
Lauren Hoffman, Megiddo
Grace Jones, Compass Point Sessions
Average White Band, AWB
The Rutles, OST
David Bowie, Station To Station
Barry White, Sings For Someone You Love
Public Enemy, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Nothing worthy in the past 5 years.

I'm happy to be proven wrong!

ErikL, Neutral Milk Hotel's LP is great!
 
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Prefab Sprout - Swoon
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/C'mon Pilgrim
Blur - Blur (weird, never liked them before this, but then, never did Peel)
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Moby - Play (I know, did get played to death, but was/is great)
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Radiohead - OK Computer (ducks!)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars

just my thoughts

Michael
 
Lile Mull, this list will probably be different tomorrow. Today, however

Joanne Newsome, Milk Eyed Mender
Tim Buckley, Happy Sad
Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombone
Miles Davis, ESP
Bill Frisell, Blues Dream
Massive Attack, Blue Lines
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Lemonheads, Its A Shame About Ray
Gram Parsons, GP
My Bloody Valentine, Loveless

Kevin
 
The correct answer is of course:

The Stooges: The Stooges
The Stooges: Fun House
Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground: Loaded
Exile on Main Street: The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted
The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers
 
ok I like em you (and most of PFM) probably don't but have you ever heard the albums or are you judging on the singles?

off the top of the head my good list would include:

tenement funster
39
teo torriate (or however you spell it in japenese)
Brighton rocks (live)
tie your mother down is a great boogie number

Even I gat that some of the better known tracks can tend towards the cheesy end of the continuum but every album has good songs on it pre 1980 - try one and report back!

Or maybe not!
Darren
 
You are all deluded...

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Relics
Ummagumma
More
Meddle
The Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Where Here
Animals
The Division Bell
P*U*L*S*E
 
Captain Beefheart - Safe as milk
Jimmy Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Love - Forever Changes
The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle
Joni Mitchell - Hijera (sp?)
Neil Young - On the beach (but most of his early 70s albums are good)
Hildegard von Bingen - Canticles of Ecstacy
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
//Van Morrison - It's too late to stop now
Edit: Change to
Television - Marquee Moon
 
Why would Queen be any better or not than Sade and Diamond Life? Debate in no more than 94 pages of 3,000 words per post. Er, scrap that.

Instead, let's just enjoy the first 6 or so entries on Tony L's list. I'd probably vere off in a classical direction at that point for some of the great concertos, probably a bit of classic motown and one or two from amongst the likes of Dylan, Van the man (early or late stuff, I like both), a collection of best-of from the Island label as they seemed to produce the goods in the eighties and either PAco de Lucia/McLoughlin/de Meola or some other album with people who play the guitar rather than struggle on a small part of the fret at a time.
 


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