I just love Sleepy John Estes especially his "Floating bridge". I also like Bukka White and Son House expecially his "Death Letter Blues" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjGytOVVQA
Mumford and Sons album is amazing, Maccabees new one is quite good, not as good as their last one though
This is desperate, truly desperate. But to keep our local rivals happy ... The Doors LA Woman & Strange Days Arctic Monkeys Whatever People .. Oasis Definitely Maybe Reverend & The Makers The State of Things That do? Now back to football before the mods shut this down ... Saints being top of the table is better than any album on this thread!
The black keys are probably the hottest band at the minute. El camino is a solid record and their previous album brothers was immense.
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star George Harrison - 33 and 1/3 Gene Clark - No Other Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure Vangelis - Bladerunner OST Neil Young - Zuma David Bowie - Scary Monsters Rolling Stones - Some Girls Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Phi Manzanera - Diamond Head Evie Sands - Any Way That You Want Me Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Showing my age here but I was actually at the concert at Leeds Univerdsity when the Who performed and recorded Live at Leeds. Needless to say, they remain one of my favourite bands - Who's Next is the pick of the bunch. My taste is eclectic and what I listen to depends on my mood but anything by Genisis up to and including Trick of the Tail, Pink Floyd pre The Wall and Led Zepellin get my vote. No mention of U2 yet, I know Bono is a pretentious prat but great albums. I don't dislike Coldplay but, as I say, depends on the mood. Any rennaissance choral music, particulary Tallis, Byrd, Pallestrina or Vittoria. I also discovered the Mummers recently, quirky but good. Kate Rusby, Mark Cohn, Adele, Madeline Peyroux, Nora Jones ...
Purely on the back of your shout, I played Black Sea this evening. Have to say, when Paper & Iron came around it made me strap on the Gibson SG [ok it's a copy, but a great 'un] and play it extremely badly, but Travels in Nihilon [an Alan Sillitoe novel] is for XTC fans [and possibly AS fans] only. I tripped with it good and proper but I can't expect others to appreciate XTC unless they're a dyed-in-the-wool fan. Black Sea is a good shout, but certainly not the biggest XTC one.
I know what you mean here completely, Even though Black Sea may not be every XTC fan's favourite, this isn't really helped by the fact that all their albums don't really sound alike, yet are all mostly as good as each other and undoubtedly having that XTC sound. With XTC my favourite albums depend on what mood I'm in... but its defiantly a toss up between Black Sea, Skylarking, Oranges & Lemons and English Settlement. (though of course Drums and Wires is a classic) Also after making that list i can't help but feel i left out these Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Blood and Chocolate Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic Magazine - Real Life Tom Waits - Bone Machine/Rain Dogs REM - Life's Rich Pageant Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Beach Boys - Smile/Pet Sounds Codeine - The White Birch I'm listing way to many albums aren't I :| This is a bloody football forum not a music one. I got Last.fm for this!
hooker and heat is a lovely rolling blues album, I play harmonica so it strikes the chord for me. if you're into your blues and you're in the bristol area - check out the Kirris Riviere Blues band, saw them recently and they had everyone out of their seats
Houses of the Holy is my personal favourite But to be honest all the Zep albums except the last 3 are great! Also i have noticed no one has mentioned Frank Zappa yet! Hot Rats is a little masterpiece!
Love is a good album but you can get bored of it fairly quickly. It's all down to personal taste I suppose. Music is a wonderful thing-so diverse and endless in it's guises. I feel privileged to have been old enough to start my musical journey in the very late sixties thru to the present. If I've had a rough day sometimes I'll turn the lights down low and get out my copy of Nursery Cryme or Foxtrot- or even Close to the Edge and relax in a big comfy chair. If I'm feeling a little more sprightly then it might be Diamond Dogs or even some old Motown. There's plenty of good stuff around at the moment if you know where to look for it. That's something that has not changed.
I bought Physical Graffiti in the Weston Hart store in Fareham on it's day of release. Me and a mate bunked off that afternoon to spend most of it in a sound booth in the shop listening to the whole album Can still remember hearing 'The Rover' for the first time with that tingly feeling down the spine!
The thing about Love was the context in which it was made makes it great (as is the case with so much music historically). The charts were awash with Bad Manners, Blanchmange and the like and then She Sells Sanctuary came out of nowhere. It was like nothing else at the time, and hence the impact. It's kind of the granddaddy of the Stone Roses / Happy Mondays etc stuff that followed. They all credit that album as a huge influence.
I do remember them on TOTP with 'She sells sanctuary' and thought WOW! Especially after all the genderbending eighties carp that was dominating the charts at the time. No doubting it's a great album- and blew a few cobwebs away but it's not in the same league as say- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust etc where there is not a lame track on the whole album. Rumours is another one- not a filler to be seen anywhere.
This is the best album of all time, Magic, [video=youtube;TaKD1Vdarnw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKD1Vdarnw[/video]
