Again, due it being quiet on the forum tonight. What is your top 10 albums of all time? See if we can get a top 10 from everyone's selections: My Own: 1. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow (Just love this album, this band, Guy Garvey and the whole Elbow thing) 2. The Joshua Tree - U2 (Passed their best now and perhaps a little smug, but at that time they were simply awesome) 3. Green - REM (Still get goose pimples when I hear "Orange Crush") 4. Up - Peter Gabriel (The genius of music) 5. Grace & Danger - John Martyn (My musical hero, who I met a few times and loved) 6. Out Of The Blue - E.L.O. (Loved this album and band when I was at school, hard when punk was the main thing) 7. Dizzy Up The Girl - The Goo Goo Dolls (Never heard of them until "Iris", loved them ever since) 8. On An Island - David Gilmour (What a legend, what a guitar player, what a total musician, what a songwriter, what a human being) 9. Voyage - Christy Moore (Love this man to bits) 10. Fisherman's Blues - The Waterboys (Little known fact that Guy Chambers of Take That and Robbie Williams fame, was once a member of The Waterboys) Well that was hard, many left out and I'm gutted that I don't have a single Beatles album in my top 10, shows how my life has moved on. Build A Rocket Boys by Elbow is now at number 11 for me, and it's getting closer to the top 10 everyday, their music appears to connect with me at this time in my life, just as E.L.O. did in the late 70's and U2 did in the 80's. I would ask every grown man to try and listen to "Dear Friends" (Build a Rocket Boys) and "Friend of Ours" (Seldom Seen Kid) by Elbow and not be emotional. Edit: I don't yet have a Newton Faulkner album in my top 10, but he's getting there and I rate this guy, here's hoping he continues with his musical development, he's a brilliant musician and person. Yours?
Great to see Green so high up. 1. Lifes Rich Pageant - R.E.M. 2. #1 Record - Big Star 3. Radio City - Big Star 4. Reasons To Be Cheerful (The Best of Ian Dury) - Ian Dury 5. Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur 6. The Very Best Of The Byrds - The Byrds 7. Automatic for the People - R.E.M. 8. Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest 9. Black Holes & Revelations - Muse 10. Murmur - R.E.M.
Orange Crush is still my favourite song from REM, but there are many up there with it, what's yours? As for The Byrds, much as I hate Bob Dylan, Mr Tambourine Man was/is simply brilliant. I love the bands like Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills and Nash, America and Poco.
Find The River, from AFTP, though most of the catalog is there or thereabouts. Mr. Tambourine Man's my second favourite Byrds one after Mr. Spaceman.
Not suprised really. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Star Key tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pte3Jg-2Ax4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC0Wa3P_dO0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn1t6l7UUPc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQ977u8Wuk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVv2T-afdT4
Cheers, GkofGTM, I'll give them a listen over the next day or so, then let you know my thoughts. Hope their good?
No particular order; Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys Humbug - Arctic Monkeys Employment - Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob - Kaiser Chiefs Off With Their Heads - Kaiser Chiefs Viva La Vida - Coldplay The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian What's The Story? (Morning Glory) - Oasis No Line On The Horizon - U2 Performance And Cocktails - Stereophonics American Idiot - Green Day From Under The Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy Costello Music - The Fratellis. I know that's 14 but so what.
Ian Brown - The Greatest The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Unkle - War Stories Primal Scream - Dirty Hits Chemical Brothers -Singles93-03 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement Elbow - Cast of Thousands Echo & the Bunnymen- The Very Best
I usually download singles I enjoy the sound of rather than full albums but some that I like are: Johnny Cash - American Recordings (albums I through to VI) Green Day - American Idiot Hank Williams - The Complete Hank Williams Kaiser Chiefs - Employment Johnny Cash - At San Quentin Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger The Clash - London Calling Elvis Presley - The Ultimate Collection So something of a mix, you could say!
no particular Order 112 - Part Three Kanye West - College Dropout (the others were garbage but this was an immense album - best by far) Aaliyah - I Care 4 U Britney - Circus Take That - Greatest Hits Destiny's Child - Writings On The Wall Frank Sinatra - My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds Queen - A Kind Of Magic Will Smith - Greatest Hits
1. Are you experienced. jimi hendrix 2. Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin. 3. Back in black, AC/DC. 4. Frampton comes alive. Peter Frampton 5. Silk Degrees, Boz Scaggs 6. joshua Tree, U2 7. Stranger in town. Bob Seger. 8. If you want blood, you got it. AC/DC. 9. Live and Dangerous. Thin Lizzy. 10. jagged little pill. Alanis Morrisette
