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Join our record club. Let's have your recommendations.

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upahill · 20/01/2011 12:57

After reading Minniebars thread on a classic album listeners club- rather like a book club but for records - I have decided to start our own 'club'

What classic album would you recommend to us?

Why?

Here's mine (think fast, OMG there are so many........thinking!!!!)

Classic Album. Led Zeppelin 2

Why? At the age of 13 (nearly 33years ago) I heard this album for the first time and it changed my life - sort of. It sealed my musical taste for ever.

Whole Lotta love is a classic track that most people will have heard of at some point even if they don't know who it is
Thank You is the most beautiful love song in the world and always makes me smile and makes me feel happy.

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sharbie · 20/01/2011 19:56

joy division closer

same reasons as yours in first para - its a masterpeice

sharbie · 20/01/2011 23:09

bump

anyone else?

loadofnonsense · 20/01/2011 23:30

REM - Reckoning

There are just so many albums that spring to mind but it is the one album I can still listen to again and again.

Loved closer too.

nogreatexpectations · 20/01/2011 23:35

Jethro Tull, Aqua Lung, I think it's the best concept album ever made, although the Wall is brilliant.

Love Led Zep too.

sharbie · 20/01/2011 23:49

parallel lines too

monkeyslut · 21/01/2011 06:38

Nirvana - Unplugged

NIN - The Downward Spiral

ethelina · 21/01/2011 08:44

The Divine Comedy - Fin de Siècle. It's not an obvious choice but one of the albums I own that I would happily listen to again and again, more than 10 years later.

Green Day - American Idiot. Great shouty music written with real passion which explodes through. Smile

Brilliant idea for a thread. I'm not one for music before my era (1990s onward) but I'm always on the lookout for other peoples recommendations.

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upahill · 21/01/2011 08:57

I'm liking most of the choices!

I remember buying Parallel lines as a teenager and have now got in on my computer.
Dito Aqualung, I love Jethro Tull and have seen them about 9 times now, the most recent being last March.

The Downward sprial is great and again I saw NIN last year.

I am not the biggest Divine Comedy fan although I did see him/ them at Manchester Academy more than a decade ago. (round about the time 'National Express' was out.) but I haven't got any of their stuff so may re listen. I only found out recentlly that Neil Hanlon did the music for Father Ted and the IT crowd!

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nogreatexpectations · 21/01/2011 12:36

Lucky you Upahill, have never seen Jethro Tull live Envy I like Nirvana Unplugged too, especially Polly.

southeastastra · 21/01/2011 12:40

kate bush - the dreaming

for being utterly bonkers, even has rolf harris in it

prettymaryk · 21/01/2011 12:51

nirvana unplugged is amongst my 50+ plays albums on itunes but i tend to overdose playing albums on a loop and i can find it hard to listen to them after that.

currently overdosing on elliott smith so i'll recommend either/or for raw melodic folk/pop (heh i hate trying to describe music :)) his next album xo is more polished but i like lo-fi.

and for an oldie elvis costello's first album my aim is true, don't think i'll ever get tired of it.

sharbie · 21/01/2011 13:19

i prefer nirvana nevermind

munkymaz · 01/02/2011 12:28

Too many to choose, can I put 3?????

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
The Cure - Faith
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself

Covers all moods and hold many memories:
Chris Cornell - first rock star crush,
Cure - first gig I was allowed to go to, on my own, in Birmingham, after MUCH fighting with my mother,
Faith No More - many, many, sillt college parties.....say no more!

horseyrider · 04/02/2011 20:17

A-ha - Hunting high and low - superb songs
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
A-ha - Scoundrel Days - another superb A-ha album
Coldplay - X & Y - so many good songs
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (I have always loved this album since I was twelve)

dearprudence · 04/02/2011 20:25

Parallel Lines, yes.
Also have a soft spot for Blur - Parklife

Udderly · 04/02/2011 20:25

Jeff Buckley - Grace
I've had it on vinyl, tape and 2 x cd. I bought it first when I was about 15 and its an album that has grown up with me through the years. I always find something new in it, my favourite song on it changes from time to time. It never gets old for me and its as comfortable now as a pair of slippers.

dearprudence · 04/02/2011 21:15

Carole King - Tapestry.

QueenofWhatever · 05/02/2011 20:12

Nick Drake, Way to Blue.

JarethTheGoblinKing · 05/02/2011 20:13

Radiohead - The Bends

Suede - Dog Man Star

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talking2walls · 05/02/2011 20:21

Good call with the Radiohead, Jareth.

Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon

Carter USM - Worry Bomb

And who could possibly forget.... Shit, I forgot.

JarethTheGoblinKing · 05/02/2011 20:25

Cheers, I was amazed it hadn't already been mentioned!

also:
Portishead - Dummy
Pulp - His n Hers

aStarWithHerOwnWays · 05/02/2011 20:28

Nomeansno - Wrong

The most complex, literate, funny, inventive, bursting-with-fuck-you-energy, amazingly musical punk album ever committed to vinyl.

talking2walls · 05/02/2011 20:31

Was going to say Radiohead's Kid A but some just don't GET it. Oh dear, how pretentios does that sound? It's just that I've NEVER been able to listen to How to Disappear Completely and still be capable of rational thought. Gets me every time.

JarethTheGoblinKing · 05/02/2011 20:38
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taffetasplat · 05/02/2011 20:59

Portishead - Dummy
Garlands - Cocteau Twins
Low - David Bowie
Oasis - (Whats the Story) Morning Glory

Listened to them all at key points in my life, I am indelibly connected to them now.

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