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Looking for your favourite albums to build up my collection

Curtis

Curtis

pfm Member
Hi fishies.
Could you post some of your favourite albums.
I want to expand my library on Amazon music.
All genre’s are good as my taste is very eclectic.
Cheers
 
With pleasure.

Big Star “Third/Sister Lovers”
The Blue Nile “Hats”
Gorecki “Symphony No.3: Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs” (I’m partial to the Dawn Upshaw recording on Nonesuch)
Michael Head & The Strands “The Magical World Of The Strands”
Talk Talk “Spirit Of Eden”
 
Burning Spear - Hail HIM
Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America, Today.
Matthew Halsall - On The Go
 
Taylor Swift - Evermore

Al Stewart - Year of the Cat

Wang Chung - Points on the Curve

The The - Soul Mining

Dubstar - Disgraceful
 
A few that are less obvious (unless you know me, in which case sorry for banging on about them yet again)

Charles Mingus - Cornell 1964
Ceramic Dog - Party Intellectuals
Mothers - We’re Only In It For The Money
Bill Frisell - East/West
Electric Masada - Live at the Mountains of Madness
 
Emeralds are a band I come back to a lot, I'd start with - Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Field Music - Measure
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Lana Del Rey - Norman F**king Rockwell
Fleet Foxes, everything pretty much.
Kevin Morby
 
The New York Dolls: The New York Dolls
The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers
The La’s: The La’s
The Fall: 50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong
Patti Smith: Horses
Half Man Half Biscuit: Achtung Bono
John Cale: Fear
Eno: Another Green World
Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
 
matt j said:
Emeralds are a band I come back to a lot, I'd start with - Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Field Music - Measure
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Lana Del Rey - Norman F**king Rockwell
Fleet Foxes, everything pretty much.
Kevin Morby
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That LDR LP my fave of hers, the one after it was disappointing for me. Tend to play John Grant in the same listening session as Lana along with Christine and the Queens. Bit stuck in the 80’s but do buy quite a lot of new stuff.
 
Possibly obvious choices but these are all records I never tire of.

Bobby Timmons - In Person
Lou Reed - Transformer
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Slayer - Reign in Blood
John Zorn - Spillane
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
 
John Mayall Empty rooms/ turning point (double)
Nigerian Marketplace. Oscar Peterson Trio
Soft Machine Seven
Benjamin Britten Violin concerto
Bod Dylan. Blood on the Tracks
 
Autechre - Tri Repetae
The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Donato Dozzy - Plays Bee Mask
Cross Record - Cross Record
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
Kettel - Volleyed Iron
Kreng - Grimoire
Lee & Willbee - North Carolina
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Murcof - La Sangre Illuminada
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By

Sorry, I had trouble keeping the list short
 
Joe Cocker - Sheffield Steel
Alison Krauss - New Favourite
Haevn - Eyes Closed
Ben Webster - Soulville
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
 
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot
Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony
Schubert - Fantasia for 4 hands - Perahia/Lupu
 
Louis Armstrong - ‘Satch plays Fats’
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Both duets albums
Duke Ellington - ‘& his mother called him Bill’
The Beatles - ‘Hard Days Night’
Steely Dan - ‘Katy Lied’
 
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