Must listen to albums, please.

[Boris Sprinkler]

Slobberbone - Crow Pot Pie
Afghan Whigs - Gentleman
Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg and Wilco
Honey's Dead - Jesus and Mary Chain
13 - Fugazi
Zen Arcade - Husker Du
Bows and Arrows - Walkmen

just some good albums i enjoy presently-

 

[felixthecat]

I've come across many a good album by chance, or via this way. Even say 3 albums out of those listed that I wasn't aware of, that I tremendously enjoy makes the exercise worthwhile.

It's worth listening to most things at lest once.

btw, thanks for suggestions t hus far.

I agree with this. I found some fabulous music this way - if several people are discussing and artist/album and giving it/them the thumbs up, I'll download a bit and have a listen. Theres many a time I come away thing wtf haven't I listened to this before??

 

[Pavlik]

THIS!

Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Tales of the Inexpressible - Shpongle
Kid A - Radiohead
Erpland - Ozric Tentacles
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
Movements - Booka Shade
Animals - Pink Floyd
Discovery - Daft Punk
Classical Mushroom - Infected Mushroom
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Simple Things - Zero7
The Last Days of Gravity - Younger Brother
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós

hippy

 

[albionism]

Psychocandy-Jesus and Mary Chain

 

[Numbers]

Thanks all. Mucho appreciato.

 

[Artie Fufkin]

Scott Walker - Scott 4

but also Scott, Scott 2 and Scott 3

 

[The_Reverend_M]

A few favs of the last couple'a years...

the new pornographers - twin cinema
edan the humble magnificent - beauty and the beat
dm and jemini - ghetto pop life
jeffrey and jack lewis - eastern songs
gridlok - break the system
cyantific - ghetto blaster

 

[pootle]

Girls Aloud - The Sound of Girls Aloud
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Venetian Snares - My Downfall

 

[pootle]

edan the humble magnificent - beauty and the beat

I picked this up on your recommendation Rev, and oh ma dayz! It's jaw droppingly brilliant. I never realised Edan had such skills as a lyricist AND a rapper.

Will be looking up your other suggestions I reckon!

 

[Pavlik]

Girls Aloud - The Sound of Girls Aloud

Are you serious?

 

[pootle]

Classic, witty, intelligent pop - am deadly serious!

 

[stavros]

Girls Aloud - The Sound of Girls Aloud
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Venetian Snares - My Downfall

This person speaks the troof.

 

[pootle]

You are a wise hamster!

 

[goldenecitrone]

the guitar and other machines - the durutti column
I see a darkness - bonnie 'prince' billy
among my swan - mazzy star
ihre grosse erfolge - hildegard knef

 

[Pavlik]

Classic, witty, intelligent pop - am deadly serious!

I think I'll pass.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

I picked this up on your recommendation Rev, and oh ma dayz! It's jaw droppingly brilliant. I never realised Edan had such skills as a lyricist AND a rapper.

Will be looking up your other suggestions I reckon!

Probably my favourite hip-hop album of this decade

He MCs, produces and DJs ...

I got it all, the complete package
You can't fuck with that at all
All you people out there that can just rhyme, you wanna battle?
We need to take it to the triathlon
You need to shut up and bring all that shit to the table
I'll take you out one by one, yo



Can't wait to see him again supporting Public Enemy!

 

[saucisson]

I just listened to Grand Prix - teenage fanclub...stone cold classic, all of it, probably my most listened to lp of the last 10 years.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Speaking as a folk/folk-rock enthusiast, and limiting myself to one album per artist…

Alan Hull – Statues and Liberties
Bob Dylan – Bringing it All Back Home
Chumbawamba – English Rebel Songs 1381-1941
Deaf Shepherd – Even in the Rain
Eliza Carthy – Angels and Cigarettes
Fairport Convention – Liege and Leif
Joni Mitchell – Ladies of the Canyon
Kate Rusby – The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly
Loreena McKennitt – The Mask and the Mirror
Loudon Wainwright III – More Love Songs
Maddy Prior and June Tabor – Silly Sisters
Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick – Rigs of the Time
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset – The Bairns
Richard and Mimi Farina – Reflections in a Crystal Wind
Seth Lakeman – Kitty Jay
Simon and Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence
Spiers and Boden – Songs
Stan Rogers – Home in Halifax
Steeleye Span – A Parcel of Rogues
The Levellers – Levelling the Land
The Oysterband – The Shouting End of Life

I prefer Pipedream by Alan Hull.

 

[Sasaferrato]

The ten finest albums of all time are:

James Taylor - Sweet baby James
Leonard Cohen - Songs of
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Rory Gallagher - Deuce
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Beatles - White Album
Bob Dylan - More Bob Dylan's Greatest hits*
Donovan - Catch the wind
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

* this has his only recording of Tomorrow Is A Long Time, it is a live version, but until the audience applaud at the end you wouldn't realise it.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Dexys Midnight Runners- Searching for the young soul rebels

Spookyfrank is

 

[gentlegreen]

Joni Mitchell "Hissing of Summer Lawns", "Hejira".
John Martyn "One World" (electric), "Solid Air" (acoustic).

 

[jeff_leigh]

Dusty In Memphis

 

[Roadkill]

I prefer Pipedream by Alan Hull.

Pipedream's great, but Statues and Liberties is - I think - just that little better. Maybe it's the poignancy of it - the fact that he died suddenly before he finished recording it - but it's got some lovely songs as well: '100 Miles to Liverpool', 'Cardboard Christmas Boxes' ... they're among the best things he wrote. A great and underrated songwriter, Alan Hull, IMHO...

 

[gininteacups]

Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett


and so on

Fucking yes.

Ludus - The Seduction
This Heat - Deceit
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Cannibal OX - The Cold Vein
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Liquid Liquid - Liquid Liquid EP & Successive Reflexes EP
Josef K - Young and Stupid


Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Madvillain - Madvillainy

 

[gininteacups]

A few favs of the last couple'a years...

edan the humble magnificent - beauty and the beat

Yeah, that was such a wicked album. I got his other one, i forget what it's called, and it was just straight up hip hop. Like a new take on old school shit, but then beauty and the beat was mind blowing - probably the best hip hop album since the turn of the century.

 

[Yetman]

THIS!

Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Tales of the Inexpressible - Shpongle
Kid A - Radiohead
Erpland - Ozric Tentacles
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
Movements - Booka Shade
Animals - Pink Floyd
Discovery - Daft Punk
Classical Mushroom - Infected Mushroom
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Simple Things - Zero7
The Last Days of Gravity - Younger Brother
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós

Some great recommendations there too

 

[SpookyFrank]

Kid A only really works if you listen to it on your headphones whilst wandering around some spooky landscape or other IMO. Thom Yorke has said as much IIRC, he says it was designed as a sort of landscape soundtrack album...

 

[g force]

Some great recommendations there too

Bar Zero 7

 

[Yetman]

Bar Zero 7

I know I know, but thats one of my favourite albums (probably more to do with the first summer my mrs and I spent together blissing out listening to it )

 

[Annierak]

Man Or Astroman - Destroy All Astromen!
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears