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52 minutes ago, MoveD said:

Mmm... Skyscraper I love you...

 

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Booka Shade - Movements
Kruder Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Portishead - Dummy
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
F*** Buttons - Tarot Sport
Plastikman - Musik
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
The Black Keys - Brothers
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Everything But The Girl - Amplified Heart
John Martyn - Solid Air
Jeff Buckley - Grace
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call

Great list but never heard of The Field - From Here We Go Sublime. Must check them out.

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57 minutes ago, Be Quiet...Listen said:

I had TV On The Radio’s ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’ shortlisted before I finally settled.
Love these guys! 

 

Yes. ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’ and 'Dear Science' had been played a lot too... Bring back memories...

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Peter Frampton-Frampton Comes Alive!

Just a quick mention of this album, was growing up along the coast at City Beach in Perth and was hanging around with the older surfie crowd of the time who introduced me to Stones Green Ginger Wine and Scrumpy Jack Cider.

This album always was on at parties played loud...vaguely remember being there.

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Pyschocandy should've made my list (hindsight) @zog. Proven to be a timeless work of sonic art. Hüsker Dü- Candy Apple Grey has a similar effect on me. I get goosebumps just thinking about those two albums.

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9 hours ago, deanB said:

Pyschocandy should've made my list (hindsight) @zog. Proven to be a timeless work of sonic art. Hüsker Dü- Candy Apple Grey has a similar effect on me. I get goosebumps just thinking about those two albums.

yes, I have the Hüsker Dü release as well it's great -  I also left of Treasure - Cocteau Twins from my list, but it's done..
Although techno and other electronic music makes a big chunk of my listening (and DJing!) it's harder for me to think of whole Albums as I listen and think of them as single tracks, though good mix CDs work well as albums.

 

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Hi All,

 

In No Order, but very roughly chronological.

  1. The Kinks, Self Titled, first album I purchased with my own money, at the beginnings of the Brit Invasion
  2. The Beatles, Revolver, the album that set the path for Sgt Peppers and beyond
  3. Jimi Hendrix, Axis: Bold As Love, wow, guitar playing like no-one else
  4. Led Zeppelin, I, the power of those 4 was like a blitzkrieg at the time
  5.  King Crimson, In The Court Of The Crimson King, I was in Melbourne going to buy clothes in Myers, and across the road was a record shop, completely panted in flat black playing KC, ITCOTCK, I listened for the side to finish the went in a purchased it as just had to have it,  :thumb:
  6. Pink Floyd, Ummagumma, again was not the 2min 30sec rubbish they were playing on the radio on high rotation
  7. Deep Purple, In Rock, just a great album
  8. Black Feather, At The Mountains Of Madness, an Australian band that could probably stand against any other band in the world at the time
  9. Black Sabbath,  Paranoid one of the early hints of Metal to come
  10. David Bowie, The Man Who Sold The World, the album that showed his wordsmithmanship
  11. Tangerine Dream, Atem German Electronic music, their 4th album that was more coherent than their previous 3. I was into them before Kraftwerk began getting airplay and popularity
  12. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, the step beyond DSOTM
  13. Led Zeppelin IV, possibly the pinnacle of their albums, but still remained there for the next couple, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti.
  14. Neil Young, Harvest, nothing to say but great
  15.  Closer, Joy Division, the changing of British pop Post-punk
  16. Queen, A Night At The Opera, from Zero to Light Speed overnight
  17. Back In Black, AC/DC, seminal Australian Rock and Roll
  18. Kate Bush, The Hounds Of Love, her unique voice and ability to 'paint a picture' with the lyrics
  19. Radiohead, OK Computer, complex and thought provoking
  20. Rage Against The Machine, Self Titled, American rebellion a decade and a half after Punk
  21. Nirvana, Unplugged, a compilation of their, to then, best songs, performed, filmed and audio produced excellently
  22. The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, the album that brought them to a larger audience
  23. PJ Harvey, Let England Shake, Putting English military history on trial and showing that nothing is learned
  24. David Bowie, Black Star, A farewell album that melded his knowing of his life's end succinctly

As with others there are many albums that I will have missed and placed on the list, but this is what I came up with having a think this morning.

 

29.1.20 An addit, forgot about Hawkwind, seeing them in Cardiff in the early 70s, throwing bread at the audience.

 

JJ

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On 22/01/2020 at 4:08 PM, blybo said:

I bought the Young Ones on DVD around 10 years ago. Gawd it did not age well did it? How did we ever get addicted to shows like Monkey too?

Hey blybo. This is not the first time I've come across that point of view, but that's not been my experience. It's remained a favourite. Definitely of its time and place (80s Britain), but I still find slapstick gold, an appealing sense of the absurd/surreal and some pretty sharp dialogue. Maybe I haven't grown up much! 

 

The first time I showed it to my kids it went over like a lead balloon: 'This is just men being stupid and it's stupid.' A few years later they were all over it, watched both seasons and took to quoting it around the house. 

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On 19/01/2020 at 1:06 AM, Monty said:

Nice thread @Batty

 

It's tough picking just 25.  In rough chronological/autobiographical order, with no deference to the 'album' proper:

 

1. The Best of Pete Seeger

2. 20 Loony Tunes

These are my earliest memories of having my own records and favourites, aged 5-6. My favourite Pete Seegar track was the African Folk story 'Abi Yoyo', every word and pause counted and I still remember them all. And the leftie folk songs that were so earnest and righteous and joyful. Then there's an inspired (K-Tel) compilation of whacky novelty songs: Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Nervous Norvus, Lonnie Donegan, the Chipmunks and the Coasters.

 

 

 

. . .

 

Picking up from @Dave O))) I reckon lists are more interesting with a few reasons why. But it does slow you down and I'll have to come back to it.

 

 

 

 

Pete Seeger

Very impressive

 

but where’s the James Brown soul music New Orleans?

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In no particular order:-

 

Band of Gypsies

Least we can do is wave to each other - Van der Graaf Generator

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

If only I could remember my name - David Crosby

Blow against the Empire - Jefferson Starship

Forever Changes - Love

Live Dead - Grateful Dead

Live at the Filmore - Allman Brothers Band

We're only in it for the money - Mother of Invention

Sergent Peppers - Beatles

1st Dire Straits album

Water Sign - Chris Rea

Desperado Eagles

Hearts on the Nightline - Richard Clapton

East - Cold Chisel

Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie goes to Hollywood

In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson (still cannot stand Moonchild though!)

Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsten

Sinatra Swings - Frank Sinatra

Fools Mate - Peter Hammill

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Just 24? No order at all. 

1. Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Peter Lang
2. Leo Kottke - 6 & 12 String Guitar
3. The Albion Band - Rise Up Like the Sun
4. Ry Cooder - Ry Cooder
5. Bert Jansch - Santa Barbara Honeymoon
6. Randy Newman - Little Criminals
7. Joe Cocker - Cocker Happy
8. T-Rex - Bolan Boogie
9. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust...
10. The Edgar Winter Group With Rick Derringer
11. Michael Oldfield - QE2
12. John Martyn - Solid Air
13. Genesis - Duke
14. Steeleye Span - Below The Salt
15.Leon Russell - Leon Russell And the Shelter People.
16. Art Garfunkel - Angel Clare
17. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
18. Al di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
19. Eric Gale - Ginseng Woman
20. Herbie Mann - London Underground
21. Ray Bryant - In the Cut
22. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
23. Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
24. Al Stewart - Time Passages

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no order

1. Hendrix  - Axis bold as love

2. Santana -  Caravansarai

3. Masters Apprentices  - Choice Cuts

4. Richard Clapton - Dark Spaces

5. LRB  - After Hours

6. ZZ To  - Tres Hombres

8. Focus  -  Hocus Pocus

9.  Colin Wallcot - Grazing Dreams

10. Lary Carlton  - Friends

11. David Bowie  -  Lets Dance

12. Rickie Lee Jones - self titled

13. Jan Ackerman - Tabernakel

14. Brand X  - Unorthodox Behaviour

15. Roy Buchanan - Youre Not Alone

16. George Winston  - Autumn

17. Frank Zappa -  Billy the Mountain

18.Doobie Brothers  - Takin It To The Streets

19. Dire Straits - First Album

20. Earth and Fire  -  Maybe Tomorrow, Maybe Tonight

21. Miles Davis  - Jack Johnson

22. Pat Metheny - As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita

23. Porcupine Tree In Absentia

24. The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound

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It’s been 3528 hours. Does that mean we have to do... oh never mind. Here’s mine

 

1 Tom Waits - Mule Variations
2 Bill Frisell - Good Dog Happy Man
3 Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
4 Tex, Don and Charlie - Sad But True
5 McCoy Tyner - Guitars
6 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
7 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
8 Various - O Brother Where Art Thou (OST)
9 Dirty Three - Horse Stories
10 Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
11 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
12 Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
13 They Might Be Giants - Flood
14 The Bad Plus - Never Stop
15 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
16 Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
17 Old Crow Medicine Show - OCMS
18 Various - Brett Whitely: Strange Brew of Inspiration
19 Keith Jarrett - Vienna Concert
20 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
21 Nina Simone - Released
22 Paul Kelly - Live, May 1992
23 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis
24 Andrew Davis & The Toronto Symphony - Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

 

hard to narrow it down but all of these have been my gateway records to some genre or artist or style that has stuck with me and usually escalated. Not always the best or most important or even first, just the hook that caught me

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In no particular order

 

1. Elton John - Goodybye Yellow Brick Road

2. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Trouble Water

3. Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory

4. UB40 - Labour of Love

5. Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston

6. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

7. Coldplay - Parachutes

8. Madonna - Like a Prayer

9. Bob Marley - Exodus

10. Fugees - The Score

11. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

12. Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction 

13. Savage Garden - Affirmation 

14. Queen - Queen II

15. Dido - No Angel

16. Faithless - Reverence 

17. R.E.M - Automatic for the People

18. Michael Jackson - Thriller

19. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

20. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 

21. John Legend - Get Lifted

22. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life 

23. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

24. Radiohead - The Bends

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1- Tower of Power - S/T

2- Stephen Stills - Manassas

3- Carole King- Tapestry

4- James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

5- Ry Cooder - Boomer's Story

6- Jethro Tull - Aqualung

7- Grateful Dead - American Beauty

8- Al Green - Gets Next to You

9- Roberta Flack - First Take

10- Donny Hathaway - Everything is Everything

11- Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

12- Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe

13 - Rickie Lee Jones - S/T

14- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

15- Blood Sweat and Tears - S/T

16- Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky

17- Crosby Stills and Nash - S/T

18- Buena Vista Social Club

19- Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - S/T

20- Joni Mitchell - Hissing of the Summer Lawns

21- Beatles - Sgt Peppers

22- Eagles - S/T

23- Van Morrison - Moondance

24- Little Feat - Sailing Shoes

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My most first and important musical event was am radio’s top 40 during the 60’s

First 2 records I played on my own record player were Déjà Vu and Music from Big Pink I’m about to buy a 50 year box set of Déjà Vu and am listening to Big Pink now

First record I bought was Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young is a rock god😀

The Times They Are A Changin’ -first time I really understood Dylan in about 71

John Wesley Harding most important record in my life started life long interest in The Old Testament and the use of language an interest in all things God

John Prine -self titled record probably the best American songwriter whose name isn’t Bob

Gram Parsons- GP with Emmylou on backing vocals and backwards to Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace Of Sin and The Byrds Sweetheart Of The Radio and a lifetime love for country music

Arlo Guthrie Loudoun  Wainwright Tom Paxton Jerry Jeff Walker Guy Clark - amongst others no specific record but all singer songwriters I still listen to regularly 

And political songs

Words could be the most lasting part of the song for me

Even if the lyrics are less than intelligent like in country music

Well Sometimes😀

New York Dolls Ramones Talking Heads Mink DeVille Elvis Costello Graeme Parker The Clash and others Great rock and roll records that defined the 70’s as the only decade that rivals the 60’s for the best music ever made

Bruce Springsteen Greetings From Asbury Park and Elliott Murphy Aquashow that dragged me back to rock n roll from LA country rock and inoculated me from the dull boring billion selling records that dominated the record charts of from the late 70’s onto now

Leonard Cohen Songs Of Leonard Cohen Drifted in and out of Lenny’s records over decades until the 90’s

God death sex and humour What’s not to like

Probably the best live concert I’ve ever been to

Or Bruce in 75

The Beatles Stones Kinks Who No specific records They account for a dozen of the best records ever made and certainly dozens of the best songs 

Johnny Cash Hank Williams Merle Haggard - American gods of country music

Last but not least Elvis Saw all those dreadful movies at the cinema in Coolangatta at Saturday matinees during the 60’s in my first excursion without parents

I may have even discovered girls and all the resulting confusion that they involve😀

I think I’m over the limit 

And haven’t even started on local music 

Not a list @Batty😀

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 11/05/2021 at 4:47 PM, keyse1 said:

My most first and important musical event was am radio’s top 40 during the 60’s

First 2 records I played on my own record player were Déjà Vu and Music from Big Pink I’m about to buy a 50 year box set of Déjà Vu and am listening to Big Pink now

First record I bought was Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young is a rock god😀

 

 

Radio was an important one for me too.

Small country town in the mid 70's.  No local record store or live music scene, but the local newsagent stocked some LPs and would order stuff in for you.  Otherwise it was the occasional trip over to Horsham for purchases.

 

The local commercial station (3WM) had a top 30 album countdown on Sunday afternoons.

The announcer made a point of playing a different track from each album each week, so as long the album hung around in the chart for a few weeks, you started to get a bit of a feel for what it was like as a whole.  Didn't take long to work out which ones were only a hit single + filler to inform my purchasing decisions.

This pre-dated Billy Pinnell's album show on EON-FM by about a decade.

 

Also had a long-wire antenna strung between the house and a big shed and could pick up 2JJ at night.

Was a great resource.  Many hours of happy listening on the Hodgson headphones.  Bob Hudson's show was a favourite.

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Yes radio broadcasts were an important source of music for me too! Growing up in Malaysia I was able to tune into the British Forces Broadcasting Service out of Singapore. Looks like they're still in operation!!!

 

https://about.bfbs.com/our-history

 

Also, I made use of the library service offered by the United States Information Services where I accessed lots of cassette tapes of Jazz music titles. That's where I learned to appreciate the genre.

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King Crimson...ITCOTCK...

King Crimson...Lizard...

Gordon Haskell...It is and it isn't...

The guy who sang...And I wonder about you and Sugarman....

America...Horse with no name...

Argent...Hold your head up...

Renaissance...Wanderer...

ELP...Lucky Man...

Moody Blues...Ride my Sea-saw...

Van Morrison...Moondance...

Van Morrison...Astral Weeks...

James Taylor...See you again...

Bulldog...Bulldog...

The Doors...come on come on now touch me babe...

Joan Armatrading...Show some Emotion....

Janis Ian...I learnt the truth at 17...

CCR...Heard it through the Grapevine...

Beatles...Let it Be...

Led  Zepplin...First....

Eagles...Desperado...

Steely Dan...Can't buy a Thrill...

Steelers Wheel...Stuck in the Middle...

Phoebe Snow...Greatest Hits...

Stevie Wonder...Mary wants to be a superwoman...

 

Maybe even Tubular Bells...

 

Canna remember some of the Album titles but I do remember the songs that impacted...

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22 minutes ago, surprisetech said:

 

So someone else has that album!

My copy is an original cassette coz it's great driving music.  Doubt it's ever been played on the main system.

Snap!!!

WOW cassette copy that is rare! I have a home made CD copy a friend made of the original Album for me...I was so worried about misplacing this Album that I sourced a second NM copy from Discogs! :) 

Well done @surprisetech it's nice to know someone else knows of the band! They brought out two albums but the second was not a patch on the first one!  Two members from the original Rascals US Band and those vocals by Billy Hocher which are to die for!!!

Third best male rock vocals after Fogarty and Lennon that I have ever heard...

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Genius post Batty & all.  If it about 'music that shaped your life'  it will have to be weighted towards the early stuff.  Here goes:-

No

Approx. Year I 1st Heard it

Artist and Album

Spiel

1

~1968

Looney Tunes

·   Powerhouse, Carl Stalling

·   Ride of the Valkyries, Wagner

·   Fingal’s Cave, Felix Mendelsohn

My first introduction to quality music was in Looney Tunes, and Bugs Bunny especially.  I loved these three pieces most of all.

2

1970

RCA 18 Supercharged Hits

My first record – other than two dopey Archies tunes a great collection of songs from the late 60’s

3

1972

Gun Fighter Ballads, Marty Robbins

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso …. My old man’s favourite record other than manky old sentimental Scottish stuff.   What a voice had Marty Robbins …

4

1975

Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan

An almost perfect record

5

1975

Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell

OK, so the producer stole the Drum part of Jungle Line from Burundi Drummers, but it is a great record with some of Mitchel’s best lyrics and tunes.

6

1975

LA Woman, the Doors

Double J would play whole sides late at night and make me tired the next day at school.  This one was and is a favourite

7

1975

Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

I though I was alone in thinking this better than Dark Side but it seems plenty here agree.  The title song is, as David Gilmour says, a very simple country song but it is a beaut.

8

1975

Horses, Patti Smith

A revelation when first played on 2JJ

9

1976

Station to Station, David Bowie

By no means the best Bowie record but it was my first and I think underrated.

19

1976

A Young Person’s Guide, King Crimson

Court of the Crimson King blew my mind – possibly permanently

11

1976

Songs of Leonard Cohen

Curiously uplifting

12

1977

Never Mind the Bollocks, Sex Pistols

It took me a while to appreciate it, but what a blast

13

1977

New Boots and Panties, Ian Dury & the Blockheads

It took me a while to appreciate it, but a very funny, joyful record

14

1977

Small Change, Tom Waits

Smelling like a brewery, looking like a tramp,

I ain't got a quarter, got a postage stamp

Been five o'clock shadow boxing all around the town,

Talking with the old man, sleeping on the ground

Bazanti bootin al zootin' al hoot and Al Cohn

Sharing this apartment with a telephone pole

15

1979

Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance

Loved it.  As said at the time "the highs are worth it, and the failed stuff ain't bad"

16

1979

Nick Drake, Pink Moon

Another almost perfect record

17

1979

John Martyn, Solid Air

Another almost perfect record

18

1980

Prayers on Fire, The Birthday Party

!

 

19

1980

Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division

Can’t believe this isn’t better represented here.  A revelation it was at the time and probably still is

20

1986

Singles, The Smiths

Accompanied me across Asia and Europe.  Was Johnny Marr’s guitaring ever better than on these songs?

21

1986

Köln Concert, Keith Jarrett

Got a bit tipsy at dinner in London and raved about to a poor young woman – who later became my wife.  But what a record still

22

~1994

Windham Hill, a Sampler

Good gear this Windham Hill Stuff.  This label is a doorway into great music

23

2018

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis

Heard before, but never properly.  Once heard properly it is hard to pass up as being one of the best records of all time in any genre

24

2021

Hope, Nat Bartsch

Young Melbourne composer.  Heard yesterday for the first time and her simple, beautiful piano and strings compositions take her straight to my leader board

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On 14/05/2021 at 4:14 PM, Mutatis Mutandis said:

1

~1968

Looney Tunes

·   Powerhouse, Carl Stalling

·   Ride of the Valkyries, Wagner

·   Fingal’s Cave, Felix Mendelsohn

My first introduction to quality music was in Looney Tunes, and Bugs Bunny especially.  I loved these three pieces most of all.

I think I discovered Fingal's Cave was called Fingal's Cave when listening to one of Paul Hamlyn's Music for Pleasure LPs. My abiding image when I hear that piece is of malevolent crows, marching. Childhood, what a wonderful time.

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