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Pixies - Surfa Rosa
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Bowie - Hunky Dory
Nuggets - Various Artists
Seems Hunky Dory is the Bowie of choice. It's a very close call but I chose Ziggy. Maybe the highs are higher on HD but Ziggy is just great all the way through ( and it has Moonage Daydream!)
posted by accident before i'd finished my list
Breeders - Pod
The Levellers - A Weapon Called The Word
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
REM - Out of Time
Various - CD 88 (Indie Top 20)
Ooh Screamadelica is a good shout.
Might have to sub that into my list.
the libertines - up the bracket
the smiths - the queen is dead
the jam - setting sons
the specials - the specials
the smiths - the smiths
Counting Crows - August and everything after
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Pet Shop Boys - Disco
I spent 6 weeks in Iceland in the summer of 1995 on a Geology fieldtrip. We each took Walkman's and a couple of cassettes. I can safely say that the Cranberries' 'No Need to Argue' and Pulp's 'Different Class' would NOT be taken with me to a desert island.
Pixies - Doolittle
Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Carter USM - 30 Something
Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane
Oh, and The Beatles, Best of the Beatles </partridge mode>
edit: maybe Portishead - Dummy instead of 30 Something. Or record them onto a C60, one on each side 😀
Finally managed to get tickets for Leftism 20 year tour at lunchtime after clicking all morning.
Then realised that my whole life has turned into a Daily Mash "middle age man tries to reclaim youth via seeing bands who's heyday was 20 years ago"
Tickets so far this year for Leftfield, Stone Roses and De La Soul - bring on the baggies!
A good way to kill your love of a great album, but...
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Bringing It All Back Home - Dylan
King Of America - Elvis Costello
Sign 'O' The Times-Prince
Everybody Knows This Is Now here - Neil Young
Impossible task of course, I couldn't even choose a top 50 if this were real
Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Damned - Black Album
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman
Suede - Dog man Star
Pete and the pirates - One Thousand Pictures
Could well be a different list next week, though the Chameleons would remain.
I can give you my as of right now 5, but it'll have changed by the next time I blink.
Portishead - Dummy
Banks - The Altar
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
The XX - XX
Years & Years - Communion
....... already thought of more that could go on the list
Hmm, lots of indie fans in here.
My picks off the top of my head, sure there's loads of great ones I forgotten.
NIN - The downward spiral / Things falling apart (can't pick)
Motorhead - Overkill
Slayer - Decade of aggression
Springsteen - darkness on the edge of town
Bonnie prince billie - I see a darkness
[i] "middle age man tries to reclaim youth via seeing bands who's heyday was 20 years ago"[/i]
I think you'll find thats quite normal. Don't get it myself. 😛
This is difficult has to be something you won't get bored with and some variety for different moods.
Nirvana Nevermind
Primal Scream Screamadellica
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Gomez Bring it On
Radiohead The Bends
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Fat Of The Land - Prodigy
Timeless - Goldie
SouthernUnderground - Cunninlynguists
Feel The Steel - Steel Panther
Lol at scud's middle aged man crack.
I'm still gutted I missed Cud''s reunion tour with mike dunphy.honest.
Magma - ?urdah Ïtah
Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
Gas - Nah und Fern
Can - Future Days
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Stones sticky fingers
Orb u.f.orb
Motörhead Motörhead
Miles kind of blue
Pink floyd dsotm
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
Infected - The The
Vivaldi - The four seasons (Neville Marriner/Alan Loveday)
James Brown - In a jungle Groove
Most days if asked what my favourite album is I'd say Physical Graffiti, an embarrassment of riches. I'll back that up with:
Van Morrison lucky dip - Astral Weeks or Veedon Fleece
Beta Band - 3eps
Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992
John Martyn - Solid Air
Lateralus - Tool
Everyone into Position - Oceansize
A Future Lived in a Past Tense - Juno
Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD.
Though I'd probably choose a decent hip-hop album if I were actually stuck on a real desert island. Maybe some nice, late night house or techno shenanigans.
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Setting Sons - the Jam
Sandinista - the Clash
Sgt pepper - Beatles
Absolute - Madness
Land of grey & pink -Caravan
Hounds of love - Kate Bush
Solid Air - John Martyn
Ziggy- Bowie
Kind of blue- Miles Davis
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Autechre - Amber
Sigur Ros - ()
Burial - Untrue
In no particular order
Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Daft Punk - Homework
Alt J - An Awesome Wave
Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)
Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
Irish Tour (Rory Gallagher)
Fire and Water (Free)
Live Rust (Neil Young & Crazy Horse)
Miles Davis Kind of Blue chosen by 4 peeps so far. 8)
Only 4 I havent got any of.
And someone chose cLOUDDEAD! awesome 🙂
Can I change mine from this morning?
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer.
Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About.
Beastie Boys - The In Sound from Way Out.
John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea.
Dr John and The Meters - In The Right Place.
Argh! This is too difficult 😡
Here's my selection
Powerage-AC/DC
Transformer-Lou Reed
Stone Roses-Stone Roses
Screamadelica-Primal Scream
Harvest Moon-Neil Young
The Doors - The Doors
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Raw Power - The Stooges
What's Goin On? - Marvin Gaye
London Calling - The Clash
Legend - Bob Marley
Bibliotec -Phontaine
90 minutes of madness - Coldcut
Ultraworld (Aubrey remix) - The Orb
Led Zep 111.
plus 4 of the above.
Southern Harmany or Amorica. Black Crows
Harvast. God aka Neil Young
Let it Bleed, some old blokes
Screamadia, some more old blokes, or The stones Roses.
Pixies - Doolittle
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
REM - Out of Time or Automatic for the People
Nick Cave - Push The Sky Away
Johnny Cash - Live at Fulsom Prison
...shit, that's six...
Tough call. And apt to change from day to day.
Ride. Nowhere.
Julian Cope. Jehovakill.
Manic Street Preachers. The Holy Bible.
Mega City Four. Who Cares Wins.
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Repent Replenish Repeat.
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Otis Blue - Otis Redding
The Charlatans - The Charlatans
Live at San Quentin - Johnny Cash
A Northern Soul - The Verve
5 is too damned hard.
Lovely to see Ride mentioned!
Dory Previn - Mythical Kings and Iguanas
Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Deerhoof - Runners Four
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pram - Gash
...in no particular order.
MIA arular
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
Stooges Fun House
Pharcyde bizarre ride...
No Doors or Aphex or Wu tang or white stripes or DfA 1979 or caribou or Rage. life is tough
Weezer - Blue Album
I've been known to play it three times in the trot..... If I could have written and performed music this would have been the album I would have written. Perfection.
Green Day - Dookie
It's fair to say that hearing Basket Case was a pivotal point in my life
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Again, played over and over until we wore the tape out. Something genuinely new at the time, still some of the best tunes ever IMO.
Dire Straits - Love over Gold
Long lumbering tunes I get into
Prodigy - Music for the Gilted Generation
Again, something genuinely new and it's never aged. Still fresh.
Leonard Cohen - The Best Of (1976)
U2 - The Joshua Tree
R.E.M. - Green
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
(A bit sneaky to use compilations, I know, but that way I get more songs.)
Today's choice would be
Greig's piano concerto - Andsnes/Berlin Philharmonic
Thomas Waller - Memorial
The Beatles - 1
Bob Marley - Legend
Pulp - Hits
Happy to follow the precedent set and use compilations although in Waller's case he predated the rise of the Album so most original recordings would have been 2 tracks at best.
Some interesting choices. Surprised to see so few mentions of Talking Heads. Despite choosing Blood on the Tracks I'd be slightly worried about the mental state of some people after listening to some of the more dour albums being offered 😕