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I`ve given up. This is an impossible task. I`ve just spent twenty minutes trying to decide between Red Roses For Me, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash and If I Should Fall From Grace With God and still can`t make my mind up.

I don`t think I could even narrow it down to ten acts if I could take the entire back catalogue of all of them!

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1 hour ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

I`ve given up. This is an impossible task. I`ve just spent twenty minutes trying to decide between Red Roses For Me, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash and still can`t make my mind up.

Hope you haven't mixed up your desert island discs list with Mrs LR's shopping list for the week-end! :shocking:

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8 hours ago, The Dolman Pragmatist said:

Great list.  Totally different to my eventual ten, but all of your albums would be on my shortlist (though might prefer Volunteers or Bark by Jefferson Airplane).

Thanks, ironically Volunteers was the 1st JA album I bought at the time it came out (1970), got into them so much that I started to buy their back catalogue, and when I got into After Bathing At Baxters I just could not believe how good music could be.  Bark is under-rated generally, and throw Surrealistic Pillow and Crown of Creation into the mix and, as many have said it is impossible to pick an album from one of your favourite artists, let alone the whole Universe of music.

5 hours ago, slartibartfast said:

I couldn't do it ! Looking at my rack of albums (literally 100s)  The 10 would change daily depending on my mood .      Best I can do is two I would never be without.

20 Golden Greats----- The Shadows  (just to remind me of my childhood)

Hunky Dory_______________ Bowie    (one of the finest sets of esoteric  songs on one album IMHO )

I would have to agree about Hunky Dory, it has stood the test of time far more than Ziggy!  And yet Ziggy is in my top 10 (with my self-imposed rule that no artist would feature more than once!).  How did that happen?  Ziggy actually changed my musical taste, I suddenly went from Neil Young/Crosby Stills Nash & Young (who I still highly regard) etc to Lou Reed's Transformer, Roxy Music etc.

The other big anomaly is that one of my favourite musical periods is from the mid-late 70s to 1983, yet the only album on my list from the 80s is from U2.  How could I leave out London Calling, New Boots and Panties, The Human League's Dare, any of The Jam albums, Pistols NMTB,  early UB40 etc?  The answer is, as you say, it is impossible, I must borrow LJ's Tombola machine!

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In no particular order, and different tomorrow...

Band on the run-Wings

Blood on the tracks-Dylan

Nebraska-Springsteen

Inflammable Material-SLF

Rattus Norvegicus-Stranglers

New boots and panties-Ian Dury

Paranoid-Black Sabbeth

All mod cons-The Jam

It's Alive-The Ramones

Life on the line-Eddie and the hot rods 

 

 

 

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Since I was 13 my favourite band have been Rush - and they don't get an album in the list!

A little different to everyone elses, sorry.

 

Joe's Garage Act I - Frank Zappa

If You Want Blood - AC/DC

Space In Your Face - Galactic Cowboys

Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss

Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV - Coheed and Cambria

Feel The Darkness - Poison Idea

David Comes To Life - ****** Up

All Those Wasted Years - Hanoi Rocks

Something To Write Home About - Get Up Kids

Earth Vs The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts

 

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1 hour ago, Reddrive said:

In no particular order, and different tomorrow...

Band on the run-Wings

Blood on the tracks-Dylan

Nebraska-Springsteen

Inflammable Material-SLF

Rattus Norvegicus-Stranglers

New boots and panties-Ian Dury

Paranoid-Black Sabbeth

All mod cons-The Jam

It's Alive-The Ramones

Life on the line-Eddie and the hot rods 

 

 

 

Nice list. SLF, Hot Rods I'm in total agreement with.

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6 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

I`ve given up. This is an impossible task. I`ve just spent twenty minutes trying to decide between Red Roses For Me, Rum, Sodomy & The Lash and If I Should Fall From Grace With God and still can`t make my mind up.

I don`t think I could even narrow it down to ten acts if I could take the entire back catalogue of all of them!

Rum, sodomy & the lash is the best Pogues album. Fact.

5 hours ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Bugger. Forgot the roses.

She was into the Stones when I was into the Roses. 

Fratellis anyone? Just me? 

3 hours ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

I find music a fascinatingly unique subject to discuss - everyone has different tastes, and because it is subjective none of us are wrong.  

Correct, you can't attach scientific perameters to a value judgement. 

Rum, sodomy & the lash IS the best Pogues album though. Fact. 

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I’m going to have to do this quickly before I start changing my mind.....

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

The Upsetters - Rhythm Shower

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Duke Pearson - How Insensitive

Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties

The Beatles- Abbey Road

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

Parliament - The Clones of Dr Funkenstein

Electro 5

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Isawjonshaw said:

I’m going to have to do this quickly before I start changing my mind.....

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

The Upsetters - Rhythm Shower

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Duke Pearson - How Insensitive

Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties

The Beatles- Abbey Road

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

Parliament - The Clones of Dr Funkenstein

Electro 5

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, Isawjonshaw said:

I’m going to have to do this quickly before I start changing my mind.....

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

The Upsetters - Rhythm Shower

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Duke Pearson - How Insensitive

Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties

The Beatles- Abbey Road

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

Parliament - The Clones of Dr Funkenstein

Electro 5

 

 

My top 10-

 

1- Wurzels never mind the bollacks 2002.

2- Wurzels greatest hits 2007.

3- Wurzels 2011 Xmas hits. 

4- Adge cutler / wurzels 1991.

5- Thriller Michael Jackson. 

6- Amy wine house Back to black.

7- Pink Floyd the wALL.

8- meat loaf bat out of hell.

9- Queen At the opera

10- East end what ever song they are singing.

11- Oh one for the bristol city , two for the boys and red 

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Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle

Donald Byrd - Up

Fugazi - Fugazi

Public Enemy - It takes a nation of millions to hold us back

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

The Upsetters - Cloak and Dagger

Hard Knocks - School of Hard Knocks

Mary Lou Williams- Black Christ of the Andes

Portishead - Third

Dire Straits- Making Movies

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I suppose for me, the easiest way to work out which are my favourite albums is by looking at the albums purchased in Surround Sound, ie 5.1. (SACD, Bluray, DVD-A). Would I have bought the album just because it was released in this format? No. 

If you have a surround sound set up at home, it really is worth the effort to track down and buy a 5.1 album. Obviously, it depends who has remixed the album from the original master tapes. However, if the mixing was by Steven Wilson, then it will have been mixed superbly. The emphasis from him will be on audio quality and placement.

Here's my favourite album of all time in whatever format! 

#1 The Beatles

Abbey Road (the latest reissue deserves all the praise it rightly received)

The rest, in no particular order:

Genesis      Selling England By The Pound

XTC          Drums and Wires

Mike Oldfield  Tubular Bells

Thunder            Back Street Symphony

Aerosmith                   Pump

Dr Feelgood        Stupidity+

The Rutles          The Rutles

Zilch                       Platinum

 

The final album is still up for grabs. I'm toying with:

 

Queen          A Night At The Operal

Ian Dury and the Blockheads       New Boots and Panties

Creed                  Weathered

The Sex Pistols          Never Mind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

Dan Baird          Love Songs For The Healing Impaired

Nine Below Zero      Live At The Marquee

Yes                              90125

 

 

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I'm as fanatical about my music as much as my football club, been collecting albums since I was a kid over the last 50+ years 

Ten is difficult but he goes

Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds'

Rolling Stones 'Get Yer Ya Ya's Out'

Marvin Gaye 'Lets Get It On'

David Bowie 'The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust....

Robert Wyatt 'Rock Bottom'

Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead'

Radiohead 'Kid A'

Beirut 'The Flying Club Cup'

Delines 'Colfax'

Delines 'The Imperial'

I probably own over 100 albums by the above artists alone

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1 hour ago, AppyDAZE said:

@Norn IronNursery Cryme / Foxtrot / Selling England... The holy trinity

Sod it! Let's make this the desert island 100  :laugh:

Actually Appy, before PlanetRock deserted Northern Ireland for just the mainland a couple of years ago, they had a discussion as to albums where there isn't a single duff track on it. There aren't many. If you take my own list, I'd have to nominate Pump by Aerosmith. 

It would be worth others reviewing their own list and nominating one album that doesn't contain a duff track. We can then beg to differ! So Appy, which album would you nominate (Travels in Nihilon from Black Sea is dubious at best!)?

 

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8 minutes ago, Norn Iron said:

Actually Appy, before PlanetRock deserted Northern Ireland for just the mainland a couple of years ago, they had a discussion as to albums where there isn't a single duff track on it. There aren't many. If you take my own list, I'd have to nominate Pump by Aerosmith. 

It would be worth others reviewing their own list and nominating one album that doesn't contain a duff track. We can then beg to differ! So Appy, which album would you nominate (Travels in Nihilon from Black Sea is dubious at best!)?

 

Yes, I never really enjoyed that being the last track. I'd have had No Language in Our Lungs as the last track.

Interesting point though. Drums and Wires / Black Sea, in honesty, i couldn't choose

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31 minutes ago, Norn Iron said:

Actually Appy, before PlanetRock deserted Northern Ireland for just the mainland a couple of years ago, they had a discussion as to albums where there isn't a single duff track on it. There aren't many. If you take my own list, I'd have to nominate Pump by Aerosmith. 

It would be worth others reviewing their own list and nominating one album that doesn't contain a duff track. We can then beg to differ! So Appy, which album would you nominate (Travels in Nihilon from Black Sea is dubious at best!)?

 

Sometimes I have found that a track on an album that I never used to like, starts to become one i really like.

She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettos) - Sheer Heart Attack. never used to like it, now i LOVE it.

There is no duff track on SHA.

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