Duffman5
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Post by Duffman5 on Nov 13, 2021 12:51:06 GMT
Afternoon Ratfans I know we would have already done this multiple times on EG but times and people's taste change... although as the title suggests, these are not necessarily your favourite albums but ones that have a special place in your hearts/ears. On that bombshell lets have a "best of" style thread, I know you loves 'em  Pink Floyd: The Wall. I absolutely adore every second of this album. I can say without hesitation my fav of all time. Meatloaf: BOOH. My dad (rest easy dad) played this to death from the late 70's on. Vinyl on a flashy (for the time)Technics deck no less Tom Petty: Full Moon Fever. Got sent it randomly via Britannica music club (who remembers that...most of you old bastards I bet  ) I had seen TP on Live Aid and was intrigued then, wonderful 1980's summer soundtrack. Dylan: BOTT: Again dad was a big fan, Blood is sublime, maybe didn't need Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts though. Simple Minds: Live in the city of light. SM were my first "grown up" band having liked them from the early 80's. Live is them at the peak of their powers with JK vocals being powerful and rich. Oh Yeah! |
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Nov 13, 2021 13:16:08 GMT
Your dad had good taste Meatloaf: BOOH .Exactly as you've mentioned. My vinyl is worn out . I've a new fangled CD now. U2 : Joshua Tree Before Bono went a bit er.. strange. Guns and Roses : Use Your Illusion I November Rain ... Enough said. Springsteen : Born In The USA Newcastle June 1985 Just class. Oasis : (What's The Story) Morning Glory? I think everyone of a certain age has this classic. |
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Post by MysteryLamb on Nov 13, 2021 13:21:50 GMT
dEUS: Worst Case Scenario
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Sufjan Stevens: Feel the Illinoise
Counting Crows: August and Everything After
Divine Comedy: Promenade
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Post by Derblington on Nov 13, 2021 13:22:03 GMT
Invincible, for sure. ‘If Ya Gettin Down’ and ‘Keep On Movin’ are bangers!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2021 13:39:02 GMT
Good one. In rough chronological order - 1 - Motown Chartbusters Vol 3 My dads, and the first album I ever put on, probably aged about 7 or 8, remembered so vividly because I knew full well I shouldn't be doing it. And infact only did because the silvery cover looked a bit like the start of Doctor Who. It is infact a lot of the very, very best of Motown. Tracklist - www.discogs.com/release/669949-Various-Motown-Chartbusters-Vol-3I know every one of those by heart. 2 - Happy Mondays - Thrills Pills and Bellyaches Everyone has an internal soundtrack to the best bits, this is mine. 3 - 808 State - 90 So is this. 4 - KLF - Chill Out Ditto. 5 - Pink Floyd - The Wall Above and beyond and apart from all the rest, the greatest album ever made. I don't give a fuck if it is pompous and overblown, not unlike Waters himself. One purpose of music is to evoke emotion - nothing I have ever heard does it like this. |
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Post by simple on Nov 13, 2021 13:39:42 GMT
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Edit: I had a list but couldn’t narrow it down. Space Ritual is undisputed though.
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Post by Ulythium on Nov 13, 2021 13:43:51 GMT
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Television - Marquee Moon
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
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Post by mothercruncher on Nov 13, 2021 13:50:30 GMT
Sonic Youth - Sister. Get lost in this, it cleanses my brain.
Prince 1999 - Peak Prince, especially when he’s in full filth mode on side two. Lady Cab Driver and Everybody Loves You in New York two big highlights.
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Polygondawanaland. Too many awesome albums to choose, and it’s a very close call between this and Flying Microtonal Banana, but few bands past of present have ever come close to the breadth and creativity of KGATLW.
Bowie - Hunky Dory. My teenage album.
Whole shit load of artists together for number five, I can’t pick.
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Post by elstoof on Nov 13, 2021 14:17:53 GMT
Tool Lateralus
Springsteen Nebraska
Suede Dog Man Star
Radiohead OK Computer
Deftones White Pony
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2021 14:25:38 GMT
Now That's What I Call Music 48 through 52.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2021 14:26:21 GMT
Actually lose 51 for 58.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 13, 2021 14:32:44 GMT
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen/Songs of Love and Hate
Tom Waits - Small Change
Scarface - The Diary (new but gets a good listen)
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Post by Danno on Nov 13, 2021 14:40:42 GMT
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Queens of the Stone Age - eponymous
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Perfect albums start to finish. All three got a weekly listen for about 5 years in my wreckhead days and I have friends I bonded with over them.
Fingathing - Superhero Music
Blew my mind and still does. Also got me into a whole heap of stuff that I sought out on the basis of this record like Kid Koala, Depth Charge, Deltron 3030 etc.
Jurassic 5 - J5
It was really refreshing after an age of nothing but cunts rapping about murdering other cunts. Still my favourite hip-hop album.
I could probably list about 30 more
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 13, 2021 14:45:25 GMT
Hey! Danno! Leave them cunts alone!
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Post by jimnastics on Nov 13, 2021 14:52:39 GMT
Very hard to name a top 5 but here you go....
Soundgarden - Superunknown
R.E.M - Document
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Nirvana - In Utero
Led Zeppelin - IV
Shout outs to Hendrix, Rolling Stones, QOTSA, U2 and Pearl Jam.
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Post by suicida on Nov 13, 2021 15:13:21 GMT
Don't really listen to much music these days, but 5 albums that would definitely be in the running it's I were to put something on today:
Bad Brains: The Black Dots
Justice: Across the Universe (Live)
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Killing Joke: What's THIS For...!
Skinny Puppy: Rabies
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2021 15:45:52 GMT
It's good that you mentioned "return to all the time.". I feel like if it had read "favourite," I might choose different albums, even if I chose the same artists.
Prince - Purple Rain
Wu-Tang - Wu-Tang Forever
OutKast - Aquemini
Massive Attack - Protection
Michael Jackson - Thriller
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Post by hedben on Nov 13, 2021 16:14:23 GMT
Some proper classics on here already, good choices all round.
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
The Eels - Beautiful Freak
Queen and Pink Floyd were both my mum's records before they were mine. It's a proper Facebook Boomer thing to say, but it does bug me that music doesn't work like that any more- my kids can get any song they want by asking Alexa. Whereas I listened to those first two albums on loop for weeks, because I had nothing else in my room. I wonder how they'll think of their favourite music when they're my age.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Nov 13, 2021 16:16:18 GMT
I don't even know anymore...
There was a time this list would be easy.
Origin of Symmetry by Muse
Queen Greatest Hits
Meet the Eels, Essential EEls
TISM White album
ummm, I don't know. It's unlikely my year end Spotify lists will help either.
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Post by Reviewer on Nov 13, 2021 16:50:07 GMT
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nine inch nails - with teeth
Tom Mcrae - Tom McRae
Wilco - YHF
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
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Post by rockavitch on Nov 13, 2021 17:02:28 GMT
I seem to have a bit of a different taste to what's listed already, likely an age thing since I'm a youngster in these parts at 37.
Babe Ruth - First Base
Misfits - Famous Monsters
Rezurex - Psycho Radio
Nekromantix - Return Of The Loving Dead
Zombina And The Skeletones - Out Of The Crypt And Into Your Heart.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 13, 2021 17:27:16 GMT
Orbital - Insides
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Damned - Machine Gun Ettiquette
Beastie Boys - Sounds of Science (yes, it's a compilation but an exceptional one)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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Post by The12thMonkey on Nov 13, 2021 17:50:32 GMT
Also in the youngster category, but the Beatles are deffo from the parent's influence.
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips Abbey Road - The Beatles OK Computer - Radiohead National Treasures - Manic Street Preachers (as drhickman1983 said, compilations are totally allowed, and this one is a banger) The Race for Space - Public Service Broadcasting |
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Post by cubby on Nov 13, 2021 18:47:41 GMT
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
My favourite album of his, Racing in the Street is such an underrated song.
The National - Boxer
A defining album for my twenties.
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
A brilliant folk rock album with Fleetwood Mac vibes.
Radiohead - OK Computer
Every song is a banger.
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Somehow they surpassed Funeral's brilliance with this album.
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Post by robthehermit on Nov 13, 2021 19:26:56 GMT
Alice Cooper - Trash
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Nov 13, 2021 19:31:04 GMT
Too many albums I really enjoy, but some albums which have never really diminished for me:
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Isis - Panopticon
Twilight - Monument to Time End
The Ocean - Precambrian
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
Most of the zeitgeistermusic.de-catalogue
...and so many more.
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Post by retro74 on Nov 13, 2021 19:40:54 GMT
Ones I return to / have probably bought more than once after losing them
Interpol - Antics
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Air - Moon Safari
The Strokes - Is This It
The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
I’d have said some Pink Floyd and Radiohead albums too but they’ve already been mentioned
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2021 19:46:46 GMT
Yeah, I really wanted to put Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Parliament on there... but when I think about it, I have a tendency to skip around different songs from different albums with a lot of those artists. I wanted to choose albums where I hit play at the start and listen all the way through.
The Cure's Disintegration and Parliament's The Mothership Connection could have easily taken any of those spots, though.
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Post by richardiox on Nov 13, 2021 19:46:50 GMT
Some of these HAVE to appear on my list despite the fact I probably couldn't listen to them much more. Something along the lines of:
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Skinnyman - Council Estate of Mind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today
(American Football - Self Titled LP)
(Roni Size - New Forms)
(Biohazard - Urban Discipline)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2021 19:47:12 GMT
It Was Written-Nas
Ready To Die-BIG
2001-Dr Dre
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill-Lauryn Hill
Nevermind-Nirvana
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) I had seen TP on Live Aid and was intrigued then, wonderful 1980's summer soundtrack.
