Old Albums You'd Recommend to Younger Posters

[ohmyliver]

it does rule out nearly all electronic music if we stick to the 30 year thing

Yup, bar the Silver Apples (and yes, Pox on You is on that one, but I realise that the cd I brought is both their albums)

 

[Annierak]

whoops, twas actually released in september 1978, so i'm wrong anyway.....

I know you're wrong, just told you it was '78

 

[DotCommunist]

I wish someone had steered me in the direction of Niel Young earlier on. I've only discovered Harvest the other day and it is the tits

 

[Annierak]

Leonard Cohen - The Songs Of Leonard Cohen

 

[El Jefe]

Modern Lovers - s/t

Ray Charles - New Sounds In Country & Western Music

Elvis - '68 Comeback Special

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

Nuggets Boxed Set

Congos - Heart of the Congos

Neu - any of them

 

[ohmyliver]

Yup, bar the Silver Apples (and yes, Pox on You is on that one, but I realise that the cd I brought is both their albums)

what a load of tosh I do type, the mighty Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk is 1977 isn't it which is 31 years ago

 

[Annierak]

Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Goin’ On

 

[Griff]

Listened to this album a lot on tapes in the car when I was a kid, and inherited the album years later.

Still sounds amazing.




Also agree with Patti Smith - Horses (Don't think anything else she's done really compares)

 

[Annierak]

Lou Reed - Transformer
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Carole King - Tapestry
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Ramones- Ramones
Elvis Costello - This Years Model
Janis Joplin - Pearl
New York Dolls - New York Dolls

 

[Fez909]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

 

[Fez909]

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

 

[Sunspots]

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Anything by the Cale/Reed era Velvet Underground.

Not taking anything away from Doug Yule.

 

[stavros]

Any hits package for Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran, plus Brian Eno's "Music For Airports" (1978) and most of Dylan's 60s stuff, but especially "Bringing It All Back Home".

 

[soulman]

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On.
A superb piece of soul music that everyone should listen to at least once.

 

[cybertect]

 

[stavros]

Ooh, Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" is incredible. My favourite ever soundtrack.

 

[Detroit City]

Some Girls - Rolling Stones

 

[Detroit City]

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums - Wiki

 

[William of Walworth]

Another Green Day (Brian Eno) is surely 30 years old by now??

<can't be arsed to walk 3 yards** to check >

**oldster's measurement ..

 

[mauvais]

Good recommendations, on the case

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock (1977)

 

[Magic Sam]

Muddy Waters- One More Mile
B.B.King- Live at the Regal
The Saints- I'm stranded
Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
Bert Jansch- Jack Orion

 

[cesare]

pere ubu - dub housing

Kate Bush: The Kick Inside
Steve Hillage: Green
Gong: Radio Gnome Invisible
Wishboneash: Argus
Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life & Innervisions
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Joni Mitchell: Ladies Of The Canyon & Blue
Heart: Dreamboat Annie
Hawkwind: Masters Of The Universe
10CC: Live And Let Live & How Dare You
Billy Joel: The Stranger
Steeleye Span: Now We Are Six
Horslips: Book Of Invasions
John Martyn: Solid Air
Neil Young: After The Goldrush & Harvest
Crosby Stills & Nash: Crosby Stills & Nash
Genesis: Trick Of The Tail
Meatloaf: Bat Out of Hell
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Rod Stewart: Atlantic Crossing
Deep Purple: Stormbringer
The Who: Tommy
Thin Lizzie: Jailbreak
Roxy Music: Siren
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: The Best Year Of Our Lives
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells




Queen
David Bowie
Pink Floyd

^ Too many to list

& most of those listed by Annierak

 

[danny la rouge]

Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five.

 

[cesare]

Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True

 

[Griff]

Hawkwind: Masters Of The Universe

Oh yes.

Must have heard that for the first time around 1982 when I was 15, and the title track, Brainstorm and Orgone Accumulator changed my perceptions of recorded music forever.

 

[cesare]

Tom Waits: Small Change
Rickie Lee Jones: Rickie Lee Jones

 

[MysteryGuest]

Pink Flag - Wire

Brilliant. Actually we could squeeze in Chairs Missing as well (1978). If that's OK with you. And even if it isn't.


Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (It's Another Green World, William! Unless you're referring to a bizarre American thrashy punk version...)


For ahead of its time weird electronic/tape music, Michel Chion - Requiem.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Goin’ On

Fantastic album. If you don't know it, go and download the title track immediately!

 

[cesare]

Oh yes.

Must have heard that for the first time around 1982 when I was 15, and the title track, Brainstorm and Orgone Accumulator changed my perceptions of recorded music forever.

I was 16 when it was first released and I bought it I've been sitting here listing my old vinyl albums in my bookcase

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