Sorry, but a Fopp has opened near and I need to fill gaps in my collection.
Which classic albums would you put forward? Or, in other words, your favourite albums of all time. You heard, ALL TIME.
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Sinatra
Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Sings for Only The Lonely
In the Wee Small Hours
I don't like Sinatra
Buy a Bobby Darin album instead.
Love
Forever Changes - you should be able to pick this up for a fiver, it'd best the best fiver you ever spent
I was going to say that
and i was going to say lots of velvet under ground stuff, but joshua_t done did \/
i foget what else they have
I was gonna say that TOO.
Good Lord.
Good taste!
Somewhere, beyond the sea...
him?
Yep
Kevin Spacey starred (and wrote?) a film about him called Beyond The Sea as well, covered all the songs for it, and the soundtrack's wicked.
Kevin Spacey does a terrible job impersonating Darin.
DO NOT buy that album. It's a travesty. The film is pretty dire, too.
I love Bobby Darin,
but I think Sinatra has more to offer 'artistically', and thus would be a more 'essential' purchase.
this will be a long thread. i suggest list only
here's a basic list that EVERYONE should have. nothing specialist here.
bob dylan - blood on the tracks
highway 61 revisited
blonde on blonde
bringing it all back home
bootleg vol.4 - live 1966
van morrison - astral weeks
neil young - everybody knows...
harvest
tonight's the night
rust never sleeps
on the beach
joni mitchell - blue
velvet underground - loaded
white light...
and nico
s/t
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
the flaming lips - soft bulletin
yoshimi...
You missed out After The Gold Rush.
no i didn't. after the goldrush is terrible.
apart from a couple of good tracks.
WWWWHHHHHAAAAT???!!
...OH NO HE DIDN'T!
Ace.
I'll have a look!
Yoshimi?!?!
Toss album
Everyone?
Forgive me if I don't buy any Dylan albums, as I'd rather listen to a Walrus being castrated.
oh bamos.
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis
is this just favourite albums of all time?
Or "favourite albums which a lot of people would agree with you on"?
If its all time then ill have a go
1. radiohead - kid a
2. the mars volta - de loused
3. at the drive in - acrobatic tenement
4. john frusciante - niandra lades + usually just a t shirt
5. venetian snares - rossz allat cillag szulletet
6. joanna newsome - ys
7. red hot chili peppers - blood sugar sex magic
8.elliott smith - all of his albums. Just pick one.
9. daniel johston - dont be scared
10. radiohead - the bends
11. radiohead - ok computer
12. radiohead - amnesiac
13. sigur ros - takk...
14. 65daysofstatic - the fall of math
15. aphex twin - come to daddy (do e.ps count? its quite long anyway)
16. aphex twin - richard d james
recent classics(future considerations for all time list)
subtle - for hero for fool
venetian snares - cavalcade of glee...
final fantasy - has a good home
...
Faith No More - Angel Dust
that's all you need.
Oooh! Unless I skimmed too quick you haven't rated Television?
Get Marquee moon, it's normally a 5iva, the title track alone is worth the price of the cd, and it is a fantastic album. Yes!
dumpys rusty nuts
greatest hits
and don't forget
Out Demons Out by the Edgar Broughton Band
Out of the fiver ones
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Silver Apples - Silver Apples/Contact
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Then pay more for Tago Mago by Can.
...
Gentle Giant by Gentle Giant
In the Land of Pink and Grey by Caravan
Third by Soft Machine
Starless and Bible Black by King Crimson
Talk Talk Talk by The Psychedelic Furs
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse
My Bloody Valentine
- Loveless
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen.....
Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
The Clash - London Calling
and yes - Television - Marquee Moon
All kind of classic albums in my book...
DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing..."
In case no one else mentions it.
Really. There's even a Deluxe Edition now.
If you don't have these
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Television - Marquee Moon
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Also one I discovered recently:
David Bowie - Low. It's incredible.
any of these'd be a welcome addition
these are mainly from the 70's...
roxy music - siren/stranded/for your pleasure
leonard cohen - songs of leonard cohen/songs from a room/songs of love and hate/new skin for the old ceremony/death of a ladies' man
led zeppelin - I/II/III/IV/houses of the holy/physical graffiti
david bowie everything before lodger - space oddity/the man who sold the world/hunky dory/the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars/aladdin sane/pinups/diamond dogs/young americans/station to station/low/heroes
(lodger, scary monsters and let's dance are worth a look too)
still on a bowie theme:
iggy pop - the idiot/lust for life
lou reed - transformer
The Beatles - Revolver
and Abbey Road (any that you haven't got, really)
Bob Dylan - Desire
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Pavement - Crooked Rain/Wowee zowee (inspired loads of modern indie)
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Nirvana - Nevermind
Portishead - Dummy
And loads of this ^^^ stuff not to repeat, esp. Bowie, Television, Dylan and Radiohead.
Some more
The Band - The Band
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up
Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace Of Sin
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions / Fear Of A Black Planet
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Let It Bleed
England's Newest Hitmakers
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Throbbing Gristle - Twelve Jazz-Funk Greats
And Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones / Rain Dogs
The Doors
Wu Tang Clan - Return to 36 Chambers
Hefner- Fidelty Wars
Arab Strap - Mad for Sadness
Add n to x - On the wires of our nerves
Prodigy - The Experience
+ loads more
Is that Throbbing Gristle album as good as
'20 Jazz Funk Greats'?
oops
my mistake! I'd say it was about 60% as good.
from the land of jazz classics
miles davis: kind of blue is the obvious choice, my favourite is 'sketches of spain'. jazz mixed with classical compositions and mariachi cool.
john coltrane - a love supreme
herbie hancock - headhunters
and my all time favourite jazz album; 'the black saint and the sinner ladt' by charles mingus.
that's 'lady' btw
you are Right
'Black Saint and the Sinner Lady' is incredible.
Also 'Night Train' by Oscar Peterson, and 'The Way I Really Play' from his 'Exclusively for my friends' series.
Beck - Odelay
Notorious B.I.G - Ready To Die
Dexy's Midnight Runners
'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels'
DOOO EIIIT
Gang of Four
Entertainment!
And The Clash's first album, get the US edition if possible as it has some of the singles like White Man in Hammersmith Palais and I Fought The Law not on the Uk issue
No!
Get the UK one, otherwise you'll miss 'Cheat', 'Protex Blue', 'Deny' and '48 Hours', and they're all amazing. You can get all those other songs on compilations, and the UK one is the proper piece of work, all made at the same time. The US one was put together by the record company, and interrupts the flow of it.
Sorry, just my view!
Good point
but if you're only going to scratch the surface, then getting all the classics that were only released as singles in the UK for a fiver is the best way I reckon.
Personally, I'd say buying the entire Clash back catalogue would be well worth it...but I'm biased
That's true
of course. Being pedantic, this is all about great albums, rather than getting a good idea of the band's whole career. For instance, the reissued 'Stop Making Sense' CD would probably be the best way to start getting into Talking Heads, but 'Remain in light' is arguably the best piece of work on its own.
More records:
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance / Dub Housing.
Prince - Dirty Mind / 1999 / Sign'o'the Times
You're right
so on that note, get the UK version, and
Jeff Buckley - Grace
has that not been mentioned yet?
Top Ten LPs Ever
Loaded- VU
S/T- VU
S/T (White Album)- The Beatles
Are The Village Green Preservation Society- The Kinks
A Group- Markley
Good Old Boys- Randy Newman
Parklife- Blur
Highway 61 Revisited- Bob Dylan
Work Lovelife Miscellaneous Etc- David Devant And His Spirit Wife
even stevens,
by ray stevens.
Springsteen's
Born to Run
AND
Born in the USA
Whoa yes
See also: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
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Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Jurassic 5 - J5 LP
Any cheap Blues:
Robert Johnson
Blind Willie McTell
Muddy Waters
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin/At Folsom Prison
Most of what's already been mentioned. I hope you have a lot of money.
It's a compilation, but
get the 'Tropicalia' album on Soul Jazz. It's incredible.
everyone's already mentioned what i'd say
but i'd like the reiterate the importance of Blue by Joni Mitchell
Judee Sill
is ten times better than Joni Mitchell.
Who is good though.
Sandy Denny's better than both
proof = Fairport Convention - 'Liege and Lief'.
Also Richard Thompson - 'Mock Tudor'
Hmm
I disagree.
Oh dear
looks like we have an impasse.
Smint?
bf
would that impasse be altered in any way if I agreed that Judee Sill is the greatest?
Oh all right
if we can at least agree that June Tabor is also better than Joni Mitchell?
RFTC - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
Cream
You should buy Creams Gold album, and Revolver of course!
I hate the idea of 'classic' albums
It reinforces the silly conservative notion that there's music you "should" like regardless of personal taste. Buy what you like and ignore any notions of what you are supposed to own.
However my favourite albums include:
Elliot Smith - "From a Basement on a Hill"
Suede - "Dog Man Star"
REM - "Automatic for the People"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Henry's Dream"
Love - "Forever Changes"
Hefner - "The Fidelity Wars"
Outkast - "Speakerboxx/The Love Below"
Bran Van 3000 - "Discosis"
The Arcade Fire - "Funeral"
I bought "The Essential Leonard Cohen" the other week and it's great as is the Diana Ross and Supremes collection I bought but forgot the name of. If you've heard not much of either of those they're well-worth buying.
From A Basement...
YES
YES
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With Leonard Cohen
I'd say get proper albums. Someone else up there ^ was pretty much spot on with what to get.