Urban's greated album of all time.........ever!

[Iam]

Doh! We have an anorak anorak on our hands...

 

[Dubversion]

i know actually...

come on then, shit or get off the pot..

 

[maya]

...Dub? ...bloody hell! ...you can't just ask rhetorical questions then fart off, you know!! !1!!

 

[Sunspots]

<stern look>

Er... -and don't think I'm not including you too, Mr Iam.

 

[maya]

come on then, shit or get off the pot..

i wouldn't ask me more questions of that ilk, were i you...

 

[Dubversion]

...Dub? ...bloody hell! ...you can't just ask rhetorical questions then fart off, you know!! !1!!

i was working, dammit

 

[maya]

that reminds me, had a super-bizarre dream in which you were some sort of referee in a mexican wrestling match...
with mariachi bands deafening the noise from a more-than-agitated crowd...
i ended up crushed beneath the feet of a Lucha Libre dude because you and your friends pushed me out into the ring and the mariachi dudes made me a special song as i twitched in merry death-haze cramps...

 

[Dubversion]

that reminds me, had a super-bizarre dream in which you were some sort of referee in a mexican wrestling match...
with mariachi bands deafening the noise from a more-than-agitated crowd...
i ended up crushed beneath the feet of a Lucha Libre dude because you and your friends pushed me out into the ring and the mariachi dudes made me a special song as i twitched in merry death-haze cramps...

that's a great fucking dream

 

[maya]

i always wondered why they were having thai cockfights in the same ring as the wrestlers stomped around...
strangely the roosters didn't get crushed 'tween the wrestlers at all, and there were lots of thai chefs and bandidos scratching their greasy scalps and waving dollar bills amid vocal arguments...

 

[hiccup]

Without thinking about it too hard and driving myself mental, I'd say:

1. Leftfield - Leftism
2. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
3. Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight Yeah!
4. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
6. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
7. Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry
8. The Slackers - Redlight
9. KRS-One - Return of the Boom Bap
10. Terrorvision - How to Make Friends and Influence People

If mix albums were allowed, Prodigy - Dirtchamber Sessions, and Coldcut - Journeys By DJ would be in there.

10 is too hard though

 

[Flavour]

Hmmm....

1. Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
2. McCarthy - I Am A Wallet
3. Godspeed - Lift yr. skinny fists
4. KLF - Chill Out
5. Vex'd - Degenerate
6. Autechre - Amber
7. Deadbeat - Something borrowed, something blue
8. Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
9. Venetian Snares - Rossz scillag alatt szueletet
10. Burning Spear - Fire Down Below

*list subject to change

 

[Boogie Boy]

right.. lots of caveats - there's no soul or reggae in this list, because these aren't primarily albums-based music. If I'd included compilations, it would have the Stax/Volt singles boxed set, perhaps Lee Perry's Arkology or any number of other great reggae collections. But I've tried to stick to 'proper' albums.

1 Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
2 Van Morrison Astral Weeks
3 Neutral Milk Hotel In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
4 Leatherface Mush
5 Low Things We Lost In The Fire
6 Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous
7 The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
8 The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic
9 Shellac 1000 Hurts
10 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream


These are all albums I've played constantly since I got them (in Van's case, for more than a quarter of a century ) and while other artists drift in and out - Joanna Newsom is a recent contender for Milk Eyed Mender, for example - they haven't quite taken up permanent residence yet.

picking a Nick Cave album was REALLY hard

Oooooo Yuk!!!!!!


BB

 

[Brockway]

The idea of "greatest" or "classic" in an industry that thrives on transience is of course ridiculous. Still, that's not going to stop me contributing:

Jacques Brel - Grand Jacques (compilation)
Roy Orbison - In Dreams (compilation)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (German version)
Delroy Wilson - Cool Operator (compilation)
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Ramones - Ramones
The Handsome Family - Through the Trees
Johnny Dowd - The Pawnbroker's Wife
Euros Childs - Chops
Gruff Rhys - Candylion

 

[Sunspots]

Gruff Rhys - Candylion

-Wow, it's only been out for a week! Top marks for ...er... now-ness!

 

[PacificOcean]

1 Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
2 Van Morrison Astral Weeks
3 Neutral Milk Hotel In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
4 Leatherface Mush
5 Low Things We Lost In The Fire
6 Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous
7 The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
8 The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic
9 Shellac 1000 Hurts
10 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream

Pppppppppffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttt.

Call that music?

That is all. As you were.

 

[Dubversion]

The idea of "greatest" or "classic" in an industry that thrives on transience is of course ridiculous. Still, that's not going to stop me contributing:

that's largely incorrect. The industry doesn't thrive on transience anywhere near as much as it once did. As '£50 man' and other daft demographic groups play a larger and larger part in record sales, the whole greatest / classic canon is increasingly used as a marketing tool. Look at the amount of box sets, the amount of magazines dedicated to endless hagiographies about long dead or defunct 'heritage' acts.

So not that ridiculous, really

 

[Brockway]

-Wow, it's only been out for a week! Top marks for ...er... now-ness!

I feel you have to have a contemporary musical passion otherwise you are just mr saddo playing old records...

 

[Dubversion]

-Wow, it's only been out for a week! Top marks for ...er... now-ness!

it's cos he understand the essential 'transience' of the industry

 

[Iam]

<stern look>

Er... -and don't think I'm not including you too, Mr Iam.

*relief*

 

[Sunspots]

I feel you have to have a contemporary musical passion otherwise you are just mr saddo playing old records...

It wasn't a criticism, it was applause. I love Gruff's music!

 

[Brockway]

that's largely incorrect. The industry doesn't thrive on transience anywhere near as much as it once did. As '£50 man' and other daft demographic groups play a larger and larger part in record sales, the whole greatest / classic canon is increasingly used as a marketing tool. Look at the amount of box sets, the amount of magazines dedicated to endless hagiographies about long dead or defunct 'heritage' acts.

So not that ridiculous, really

Oh I know the marketing of "classic" is rife. But it's still a nonsense to me. I hate people who harp on about "classic" in an industry that's barely a hundred years old. Culturally that's not even a blink of the eye.

 

[Sunspots]

*relief*

Know thyself...

 

[colacubes]

Personally I was quite dissapointed by it compared to 'one part lullaby' - was suprised to see it someone's Top 10.

A few people have said that to me before. I think I just fell in love with it as I saw them at ULU when they were touring the album and it totally blew me away.

 

[Dubversion]

...

 

[The_Reverend_M]

A few people have said that to me before. I think I just fell in love with it as I saw them at ULU when they were touring the album and it totally blew me away.

I saw them at Dingwalls to a quarter empty room and was under-whelmed - sounds like I picked the wrong gig!

I found the beats/production angle Mr Barlow was taking The Folk Implosion on 'one part lullaby' really interesting and was eager to see how he developed it. When he didn't and instead seemed to create Sebadoh V.2 I wasn't very happy.

 

[Flavour]

Hmmm....

1. Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
2. McCarthy - I Am A Wallet
3. Godspeed - Lift yr. skinny fists
4. KLF - Chill Out
5. Vex'd - Degenerate
6. Autechre - Amber
7. Deadbeat - Something borrowed, something blue
8. Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
9. Venetian Snares - Rossz scillag alatt szueletet
10. Burning Spear - Fire Down Below

*list subject to change

8 out of those 10 are pretty much entirely instrumental, aside from short samples

what does that say about me?

 

[longdog]

In no particular order...

The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus
The Clash: London Calling
Chumbawamba: Anarchy
Carter USM: The Love Album
Kirsty McColl: Galore
The Jam: Setting Sons
The Levellers: The Levellers
Oysterband: The Shouting End of Life
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Steeleye Span: Hark! The Village Wait
The Who: Quadrophenia

That's 11 but fuckit.

 

[Dr. Furface]

8 out of those 10 are pretty much entirely instrumental, aside from short samples

what does that say about me?

Er, you like instrumental music?

 

[PacificOcean]

In no particular order...

The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus
The Clash: London Calling
Chumbawamba: Anarchy
Carter USM: The Love Album
Kirsty McColl: Galore
The Jam: Setting Sons
The Levellers: The Levellers
Oysterband: The Shouting End of Life
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Steeleye Span: Hark! The Village Wait
The Who: Quadrophenia

That's 11 but fuckit.

Woo!

Finally. Out of all these lists of obscure bands that I have never heard of, not only one I know but really like too!

 

[Dr_Gonzo]

Couldn't put them in order sorry:

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Radiohead - OK Computer
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
British Sea Power - The decline of British Sea Power
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Ramones - Ramones
The Clash - London Calling

I wanted to put in 50,00 fall fans can't be wrong by the The Fall but it's a but silly seeing that it's a best of album. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis nearly made it on the list.