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If you could choose one album from every decade from 60s to the teens. What would it be?
80;s
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
90's
Nirvana Nevermind
2000's
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
This Decade? Hard to say, probably not the best but struck a chord (intended) with me
Bowie - Dark Star
Can't really go back much earlier as too young
Can't do it. Too many to choose from
[i]Can’t really go back much earlier as too young[/i]
You've heard no albums from the 60s and 70s?? There's a hell of a lot of good stuff you've missed then! Like, Hendrix, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Can, Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground, Stooges, Iggy, Talking Heads...etc etc... I suggest you do some listening young man! 😀
I suggest you do some listening young man!
Buying, Shirley. <STW>You can't recommend anything you don't have.</STW>
Most of my 60s & 70s were nicked 😀
You’ve heard no albums from the 60s and 70s?? There’s a hell of a lot of good stuff you’ve missed then! Like, Hendrix, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Can, Sex Pistols, Velvet Underground, Stooges, Iggy, Talking Heads…etc etc… I suggest you do some listening young man!
Listened to plenty but hard to judge as I wasn't there 😉 and my post did have pics in when I did it
60`s - Something by the Beatles (before I was born)
70`s - Dark Side Of The Moon
80`s - Joshua Tree
90`s - Definitely Maybe
00s - Bring It On (released in the 90s, but I didn't start listening to it until the 00s, cheating I know, but the 90s were crammed full of great albums)
Nothing of any note since then.
60's - Revolver - The Beatles
70's - Never mind the B******* Here's The Sex Pistols
80's Purple Rain - Prince
90's What's The Story - Oasis
00's Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not - Artic Monkeys
10's - England Keep My Bones - Frank Turner
60's Prophets, Seers & Sages - Tyrannosaurus Rex
70's The Wanderers - Soundtrack
80's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
90's 93 Till Infinity - Souls of Mischief
00's Countryman - Skitz
10's Cave Rave - Crystal Fighters
i'm sure that would change on any given day. or i'd happily swap for any of the Earthed soundtracks
60's - Velvet Underground and Nico
70's - Unknown Pleasures
80's - The Queen is Dead (I could so easily put George Best in here as it is such an essential part of my growing up, but as DLG says it isn't their best I'll bow to his greater knowledge)
90's - Different Class
00's - American Idiot
10's - Too soon to tell......
Think I'd struggle with this.
1960s - The Stooges debut LP (still the best rock album ever)
1970s - Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
1980s - It Takes a Nation of Millions - P.E.
1990s - Loveless - MBV
2000s - Thunder Lightning Strike - The Go Team
2010s - dunno yet
60's - cream - Disraeli gears
70's - The doors - LA woman
80's - The smiths - the queen is dead
90's - Portishead - Dummy
00's - The white stripes - Elephant
10's - Daft Punk - Random access memmories
So far ...
60's Van Morrison "Astral Weeks"
70's Neil Young & Crazy Horse "Live Rust"
Can't do but I can say Van Morrison's 10 albums from 68-1978 are unparalleled in terms of sustained artistic achievement in pop music.
60s - Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
70s - Talking Heads: Fear of Music
80s - Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy
90s - Yo la Tengo: I can hear the heart beating as one
00s - Burial: Untrue
10s - Chromatics: Kill for Love
Can’t do but I can say Van Morrison’s 10 albums from 68-1978 are unparalleled in terms of sustained artistic achievement in music.
Fixed and very much agree handybar. Know he's very much an acquired taste but people don't realise what a terrific songwriter he is.
Edit: would also include Them in that category cos that's where it all started.
Seeing as I started this, I think I've got my list together. It's flipping hard though.
60s - are you experienced
70s - led zep IV
80s - hup
90s - his n hers
00s - funeral
10s - royal blood
first and last one most difficult. First because it's not a decade I've got many albums from. Last for the same reason.
My choices are based on what could always get put on the stereo and I still listen to.
60's - The White Album - The Beatles
70's - Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned
80's - JuJu - Siouxsie and the Banshees
90's - Version 2.0 - Garbage
00's - Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
10's - 1,000 Forms of Fear - Sia
60's Freewheeling Bob Dylan. Whoever said Highway 51 is deluded.
70's Mothership Connection
80's The Lion and the Cobra
90's The Second Coming
00's 18
10's What the hammer! (but then I'm biased on this one....)
Bloody difficult to choose from later decades, some will be like sticking a pin in a list, but could change just as easily. So, here goes:
60’s King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
70’s Talking Heads - 77
80’s Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
90’s Portishead - Dummy
20’s. Arcade Fire - Funeral
A lot I cannot argue with there - here goes...
60's Disraeli Gears (Cream)
70's Lamb lies down on Broadway (Genesis)
80's Script of the Bridge (Chameleons)
90's Ladies and Gentleman we are floating in Space (Spiritualized)
2010s Happy Songs for Happy People (Mogwai)
2020'2 Trouble will find me (the National)
Ask again tomorrow and they'll have changed!
60s: no idea
70s: Land Speed Record (actually an 80s album but they formed in 79 and it’s my list so my rules!)
80s: Stone Roses
90s: Cooper Blue, no! The Charltans, no! Screamadelica, no! Hmm...this could go on and on. 90s were too good to me.
00s: Hot Fuss (the rest of their stuff is shit though)
10s: Silver Age.
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Even though I chose I went back to this list and now I have no idea!!
60s: Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
70s: Queen - A Night At The Opera
80s: Peter Gabriel - So
90s: Gomez - Bring It On
00s: Kino - Picture
10s: Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
It would be different next week, but every decade was a tough choice.
60s Strange Days by The Doors
70s Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
80s George Best by TWP
90s Violator by Depeche Mode
00s Music of the Spheres by Ian Brown
10s La Petit Mort by James
Let it Bleed - the Stones
After the Goldrush - Neil Young
Doolittle - The Pixies
Southern Harmony - The Black Crowes
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
Sometimes I sit and think - Courtney Barnett.
But at least four of those could change daily.
ah it's not a fair one is it, i'll change my mind in half an hour, but
60's Songs of Leonard Cohen
70's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
80's Eat 'Em and Smile - David Lee Roth
90's Mr Funny Face - Sprung Monkey
2000's - Angles - Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
2010's Teatime Dub Encounters - Underworld and Iggy Pop ( only because i've mostly been obsessed by it this last couple of weeks)
ask again next week and we'll all give different albums I suspect.
60s Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
70s What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
80s Critical Beatdown by Ultramagnetic MC's
90s Different Class by Pulp
00s Original Pirate Material by The Streets
10s Positive Songs for Negative People by Frank Turner
Blimey, 2 votes for Astral Weeks.
50s (It's too important to miss out) A Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
60s Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
70s Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder (how on earth I'm meant to choose 1 soul album from the 70s I've no idea)
80s Sign o' the Times - Prince
90s Blue Lines - Massive Attack
00s OK Computer - Radiohead (Yes, I've moved it forward, but it fits better here)
10s Too early
This is going to take some thinking about, but already some brilliant 60s and 70s choices up there.
OK, here's a list. If I wuz gunna play an album NOW from each decade.. so among my favourites..
60s - Stooges
70s - Gang Of Four - Entertainment
80s - Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles (a Bunnymen tribute band was on Later, so would listen to the real thing)
90s - Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
00s - Subtle - A New White
10s - milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?!
As has been said, it's an impossible task so have added rules to help me pare it down.
1. Must be albums I've played (and continue to play) to death yet seem to refuse to die.
2. Artists must all begin with a random letter. So the letter 'M'
60s MC5 -Kick Out The Jams
70s Miles Davis - Dark Magus Live at Carnegie Hall
80s Matt Johnson - Burning Blue Soul
90s Make-Up - In Mass Mind
2ks Magma - Trilogie au Trianon
210s Moses Gun Collective - Mercy Mountain
Well having thought about it, my rule is albums which knocked my socks off when they came out and which I continue to play (some more than others).
60s Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
70s Yes - Yes Album
80s Frank Zappa - Them or Us
90s Richard Thompson - Mirror Blue
00s Grinderman - Grinderman
10s New Noise - Frozen River Flows
Though it's hard not to mention The Beatles or Led Zeppelin or listing Zappa's entire output.
60s: MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
70s: Lou Reed - Transformer
80s: Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
90s: Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
00s: The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
10s: Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
Innit amazing how some lists can contain things you love and things you absolutely hate. Just goes to show eh? (What? I dunno.)
60s Freewheelin - Dylan
70s Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
80s Boys don't cry
90s Screamadelica
00s Sound of silver - LCD
10s Our love - Caribou
60's ..King Crimson " In The Court Of The Crimson King "
70's ( this was the hard decade for me !) ..
Free...The Free Story ..yeah I know it's a g.hits but works so well as a standalone ..
80's ..( my least favourite decade ) ..
Aerosmith .."Pump."
90's
Smashing Pumpkins .." Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness"
00's
Gazpacho..." Night "
Teens ..
Afghan Whigs .." In Spades "
Maybe I've forgotten something but these would be pretty close to the top of any list ..
Ah Free. Most underrated band of their day. "Free Live" is the one for me.
Yeah ..I would agree with you there slowoldman..I've got" live " and it's another good one ..
Talking of underrated ..I wanted to get Wishbone Ash in there too ..the original line up ..Argus is another great album ..😎😉
There was me expecting dez’s list to be all cliff Richard. 😉 he’s right though, too many.... so off the top of my head when I should be doing housework....
60s - Otis reading -Otis blue
70s - Blondie. - parallel lines
80s - the Cult - Dreamtime
90s - underworld dubnobass....
2000 -beck -the information
2010’s Tame impala -currents
Get on with your housework.
..and I'm wired for sound... 😀
Jeez... didn't even know [url= https://www.discogs.com/Beck-The-Information/master/45504 ]this [/url]existed 😳
Ah Wishbone Ash. Live Dates is brilliant. Reminds of seeing them at the Kursaal in Southend. Oh and at the Buxton Pop Festival on High Edge which was a tad colder.
Parallel Lines up there too. Good call. Or how about The Pretenders?
Another slightly off the wall choice for me would be The Groundhogs - Split.
Must be albums I’ve played (and continue to play) to death yet seem to refuse to die.
My basic criteria, I chose only albums that I’d listened to and actually owned and continue to play on a regular basis. King Crimson I borrowed from a mate at school, it made a huge impression on me, changed my entire musical outlook forever. It was a while before I bought a copy, however, I just didn’t have the money to buy albums at that time.
Lots of great selections, many took me a while to come to appreciate, though.