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Sophtware Slump -Grandaddy
An Awesome Wave - Alt J
For me, all timeless wonders.
Some fantastic choices already but I have to add
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Darklands.
closer - joy division
Horses - patti smith
the Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Setting Sons - the Jam
Nice to see Soul Mining get a mention.
Just been listening to it after going through my random CD drawer.
Top album.
Sophtware Slump -Grandaddy
Yes! Brilliant album
The wedding present- bizarro
High on fire- death is this communion
Beck-odelay...if he had omitted the 'experimental' electronic stuff.
Fields of the nephilim-the nephilim
In flames-reroute to remain
Fluke-puppy
Massive attack-mezzanine
Ministry-the land of rape and honey/ the mind is a terrible thing to taste
Soul 2 soul-club classics vol1
Spiritualized-lazer guided melodies
System7-777
Van halen-1984
Wormed-planispharium
The wonderstuff-eight legged groove machine
John mayall-blues breakers
Link in park-hybrid theory
Cypress hill-temples of boom
Husker du-the living end
The smiths-rank
Auto correct made me chortle ...''[i]lazier[/i] guided melodies'
And 'busker two' 😀
Came to this late as usual but would add: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and Disintegration.
My favorite from the already mentioned is Ladies and Gentleman we are.... but i'd add Dog Man Star, Peggy Suicide and Stormcock by Roy Harper as Lps that hold together as one sitting wonders.
Problem is with albums are that an Artist's/Band's first isn't a 'true' album, it's a collection of tracks that they've already written packaged up, but it's often their best as it has all the ideas and enthusiasm hence 'second album syndrome', it's much harder to write a 'proper' album.
Saying that here's the ones that have stuck with me over the years, most of these have the 'shock of the new' when they first appeared. Probably showing my age a little bit too..
The Orb: Adventures beyond the ultraworld
808 State: Newbuild
Boards of Canada: Music has the right to children
Orbital: Brown LP
Bola: Soup
Butthole Surfers: Locust abortion technician
The Breeders: Last splash
Primal Scream: Screamadelica
Portishead: Dummy
Coldcut : Journeys by a DJ
Various: Artificial intelligence vol. 1
AFX: Selected ambient works 85-92
Reload: A collection of short stories
Cool to as Peggy Suicide mentioned, but I prefer Jehovakill as a complete thing.
Also.
Manic Street Preachers. The Holy Bible.
Lou Reed. New York.
Ride. Nowhere.
Disraeli and the Young Gods. Moving in the Dark.
Scroobius Pip. Distraction Pieces
New Model Army. Thunder and Consolation.
The The. Infected.
Clockwork Angels in that it tells a story from start to finish.
Mando Diao. Hurricane Bar. Awesome album.
Forgot about -
LONE - Lemeurian (and most other albums)
OPN - Returnal
Screamadelica
RATM
Nevermind
Turner - Slow Abuse
Erlend Oye - Unrest
Bononbo - Dial M
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman
Beck, pretty much everything he's done but especially Sea Change and Modern Guilt.
Spiritualized-lazer guided melodies
Yes.
Probably the most complete album from the whole Spacemen/Spiritualized/Sonic Boom mess. Though Spectrum's Soul Kiss album runs it close.
Nice to see such diverse tastes, and great to see Dave Brubeck, Marvine Gaye Mile Davis, Funkadelic, FSOL and the Prodigy appearing here. These are some I'd also add - I always want to hear them as a whole like Dark Side Of The Moon.
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Global Communication - 76:14
The Detroit Escalator Company - Soundtrack 313
Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity
Crikey, so many ....
Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer lawns
Bob Dylan - Desire
Tom waits - Rain Dogs
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Arctic Monkeys - first album
Nick Cave - No more shall we part
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Massive Attack - Blue lines
White Stripes - Elephant
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Jack Bruce - Songs for a Tailor
And loads more ....
Rediscovered this a few days ago, forgot how good they were
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So many, difficult to know where to start, around forty years of record buying n'all, and so many already mentioned, so I'll try not to to duplicate those that have already been posted up, but some will be impossible to avoid.
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Belly - Star
Beth Neilsen Chapman - Sand and Water
Björk - Homogenic
Blonde Redhead - 23
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
The Carpenters - Close To You
Catatonia- Way Beyond Blue
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Curve - Doppelgänger
Daniel Lanois - Acadie
Danny & The Champions of the World
Dark Star - Twenty Twenty Sound
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Delgados - The Great Eastern
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me
Dubstar - Disgraceful
Eddi Reader - Driftwood
Elbow - Asleep In The Back/The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Emmylou Harris -Cowgirl's Prayer
Gemma Hayes - Bones + Longing
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Gerry Rafferty - City To City
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Half Man Half Biscuit - Achtung Bono
Howling Bells - Radio Wars
J.D. Souther - Black Rose
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat
Joni Mitchell - Blue/Hissing Of Summer Lawns/Hejira
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love/Aerial
Killing Joke - Pandemonium
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Metric - Live It Out
Paper Aeroplanes - Little Letters
Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
Paul Simon - Hearts And Bones
Portishead - Dummy
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richie Lee Jones - eponymous
Robbie Robertson - eponymous
Sandy Denny - Sandy
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lat My Head
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs
The Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
The Staves - If I Was
Steeleye Span - Below The Salt
Steely Dan - Aja
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
The Stills -Oceans Will Rise
Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Tanya Donelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Thea Gilmore - Don't Stop Singing
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now
Tom McRae - eponymous
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - eponymous
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
XTC - Apple Venus
In alphabetical order 'cos I've just scrolled down through my iTunes library... 😀
I'm resurrecting this thread in order to second this statement:
Jethro Tull 'Thick as a Brick', the whole album is one track!
What an incredible album!
Prog is such a great genre for the album; Metropolis by Dream Theater [sic], Blackwater Park by Opeth, or The Theory of Everything by Ayreon. They're designed to be listened to from start to finish, not just in 3 minute bursts.
MC Mabon - The Hunt for Meaning
It's by the cousin of the Super Furry Animals lead singer. A mad and beatiful album - one of the only ones I listen to as a whole.
Must be getting old as I have not heard of most of the non mainstream bands mentioned
Thick as a brick is great, but I rarely listen to the second side.
Bach Gammon Is Easy - Victor Bach, its a pure musical journey
Marks out of ten if you noticed Justin VanDerVolgen mash that up in one of his sets 😀
I am a serial song skipper or with vinyl I often just listen to one side over and over but these 2 are getting played through a lot at the moment.
Neil Young Zuma
Neil Young Tonights the Night
Hell Is For Heroes- the Neon Handshake
Fair play, they toured it nonstop for 2 years before finally releasing it so it was polished and tested to [i]near[/i]-perfection... If they'd just clipped "retreat" off the end it'd be perfect.
You know how usually when a band does that "playing album X in its entirety" thing, it's kind of bullshit? You end up thinking "Why are you playing the filler tracks, and not playing all those other great songs off other albums? Well, they did it for their last ever gig, supporting Hundred Reasons at [i]their[/i] last ever gig, and it broke me like a twig 😆 Best show I'll ever see.
Riskier option, David Comes To Life by F***ed Up. (I hope that's OK mods, every time i type their name I feel like I'm dancing with swear-filter avoidance, but if I fully star it you can't really tell the name of the band...). Starts out awesome, ends incredible, sags in the middle under the weight of its incomprehensible storyline but that puts the weight behind the knockout blows when they come. One More Night is the sort of song that makes me want to abduct people and force them to listen to it in my [s]sex[/s] music dungeon
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Screaming Trees - Dust
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
James Brown - In The Jungle Groove
CCR - Willie and the Poor Boys
Highly Suspect - Mr Asylum
Frazey Ford - September Fields
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Arcade Fire - Funeral
as I have not heard of most of the non mainstream bands mentioned
Not really. All threads like this quickly degenerate into a "name an obscure band ****athon".
Greatest album of all time - Sgt Peppers? Naah man, it was Fondle My Goolies by The Throbbing Teakettles.
🙂
Mine are pretty obvious!
Forever Changes. Love. Surprised no one seems to have mentioned it.
Revolver. The Beatles
Up to Our Hips. The Charlatans. Probably their most 'complete album' album.
Fifth Dimension. The Byrd's
Sea Change. Beck
Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Public Enemy.
Howl. BRMC
Rubber Factory. The Black Keys
Three EP's. The Beta Band
To The Death of Fun. Cashier No. 9
Zooropa. U2. I think it is more thematically complete than Achtung Baby.
Blood on The Tracks. Bob Dylan
Good shouts already for:
Laser Guided Melodies
Dog Man Star
Screamadelica
Otis Blue
Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
What's Going On
Edric 64 - MemberMust be getting old as I have not heard of most of the non mainstream bands mentioned
I think the youts won't recognise most of them tbh, nobody on STW's discovered a new band for a decade except via radio 6 or TV adverts.
Joe's Garage.