As there hasnt been much brilliant music out recently (IMO) im just wondering what music from any decade you can listen to any amount of times, and it just stays brilliant.
my top 3) Mamma's and the Pappa's- california dreamin'.
Billy joel- Piano man
joy division- love will tear us apart.
Can't beat a bit of Queen, even my 8-year old daughter loves them.
queen are good, but i get tired of them, maybe its because i listened to them for 2 years solid when i was 10
Neil Young and Minor Threat
Any Bowie upto Lodger.
Any of the first 4 stranglers LP,s plus the last two.
The Damned Black Album.
THe Beatles Red and Blue Double Album,s.
Go back through any decade, and people will whine 'there isn't much decent music about', when in fact there's loads; all you gotta do is put a bit of effort in and find it. I've put up a number of posts with long lists of current quality music that's on a par with anything from any previous decade. And I can say that as an obsessive music lover who started getting interested forty years ago. Two tips: 6Music, especially Lauren Lavern and Cerys Matthews shows, and The Word magazine, which has quality reviews and good sampler cd's that are perfect iPod fodder. There's probably more music out there now, and more ways to get it, than any previous time.
Black Album +1
NMA - Thunder & Consolation
Sisters of Mercy - First & Last & Always
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pulp - Different Class
The Clash - London Calling
SLF - Inflammable Material
The Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
and many more
i do like music that is about today, my point was that after listening to it a lot i dont like it much anymore, compared to say california dreamin which i have and can listen to a lot and it sounds just as good
Any of the American Recordings albums by Johnny Cash, but especially America V: A Hundred Highways
And if you [i]really[/i] only have time to listen to 1 song of that album...make it 'if you could read my mind'
The most beautiful, beautiful version of any song I have ever heard.