Favourite Albums

[thefutureofpolitics]

I thought I would start a post about favourite albums because I am a bit of a music obsessive. These are ten of my favourite albums, although I have many favourites:

1. Suede 'Dog Man Star'
2. David Bowie 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'
3. Sex Pistols 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'
4. Pulp 'Different Class'
5. Oasis 'Definitely Maybe'
6. The Smiths 'Hatful of Hollow'
7. Elvis Costello 'Armed Forces'
8. Pixies 'Surfer Rosa'
9. The Beatles 'Revolver'

10. Dexys Midnight Runners 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels'

There's very few albums I can listen to all the way through without becoming bored or impatient. Such as...

Thanksgiving - Boo Hewerdine

Hot August Night - Neil Diamond

The Very Best of Frank Valli and The Four Seasons

These are clichés but nevertheless...

Stars - Simply Red

The Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles.

Love 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' and 'Dark Side of the Moon'!

I have been listening to a lot of Morrissey 'Vauxhall and I' recently, another big favourite ...

I prefer the White Ablum to Sgt Pepper. The songs are so diverse on the White Album. I also love Abbey Road. My Dad plays The Beatles all the time and it rubbed off on me whilst i was growing up.

Yeah, similarly, my Mum loves The Beatles and we had Sgt. Pepper in the car. My Mum grew up with The Beatles and has loads of great memorabilia, like a first edition copy of John Lennon's 'In His Own Right' and Beatles magazines. I love The White Album and Abbey Road too. The White Album has some of my favourite Beatles songs on it, but there are so many. I love experimentation on it and some of the guitar sounds and song structures must have been absolutely revolutionary at the time ...

I've read those John Lennon penned books. Think he did two books? They are both very wacky. He was a very complex character John was.

Yes, the follow up was called A Spaniard in the Works! He really was a complex character and so fascinating. You can really tell why George Martin was drawn towards The Beatles, having produced all those comedy records in the '50s (The Goons etc), because they had great sense of homours. John's was very surreal I think ... Some of his comedic moments were up there with people like Peter Sellers. And in his more serious moments, bless him, he spoke more sense than most people today. He promoted love and peace and there are just not enough people like that these days.

I should give a mention to 'John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band' and 'Imagine' too, my two favourite John Lennon solo albums and how feckin' true is this song ... STILL!!!

After the gold rush - Neil young
In the court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Wish you were here - pink Floyd
Stone Age Romeos - hoodoo gurus
Led Zeppelin 1 - led Zeppelin
Desire - bob Dylan
Close to the edge - yes

There are others... When I get time.......

20thcentruryschizoidwoman LOVE your list!

I could be here all day but here are a few that I listen to all the time:

PIL - Metal Box, although I am also enjoying the new album What The World Needs Now
Magazine - Real Life
TRB - Power In The Darkness
Dr Feelgood - Stupidity
The Best of Jimmy Cliff
The Stranglers - Black and White
Ian Dury - New Boots And Panties
Wilko & Daltrey - Going Back Home (for Wilko, I can take or leave Daltrey)
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Willy Deville - Unplugged In Berlin
The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.

Oh I love your taste in music!!! I'm enjoying the new PIL album too and also the new Libertines album. Love the Magazine choice too ... actually, just the whole list!

Thanks! Magazine are my favourite band, always have been. I just wish they would tour again. I saw PIL a couple of weeks ago at Shepherds Bush, they were excellent. I am a huge fan of Lu Edmonds so I go for him as much as Rotten. Love The Mekons too.

wow this is difficult

1. Led Zep 4
2. Comes a Time - Neil young
3. Stranglers - Black and White
4. Any David Bowie, though probably, no still not sure...............
5. Babylon by bus
6. Smoke on the Water

After posting this I will change my mind 700 times. Arrghh no Hendrix

SymphonyofShadows So jealous of you seeing PIL live! Magazine are amazing. I was listening to The Correct Use of Soap just the other day! It is going to be a really obvious song to mention but I could listen to A Song From Under the Floorboards for hours and never get bored!

elephantoverthehill More amazing choices! My goodness, people with a good taste in music ... where have you been hiding?! And yes, I really had to think very hard which Bowie album to put on my list but went for Ziggy Stardust because it was the first Bowie album I owned.

shit - Future - I wrote Smoke on the Water. The album, of course, is called 'Made in Japan'

As for Bowie, I think I might go for 'Pin ups' ok I know it is not original material, but it is well executed. And then I could go Aladin Sain.

*Aladdin Sane

elephantoverthehill Haha, it is always the first thing anybody thinks of when they think of Deep Purple! Oh yeah, the live album!

I absolutely love Pin Ups too, it always gets overlooked (probably because it is a covers album) but he really makes those songs his own. Friday On My Mind is amazing, I like his cover of Where Have All the Good Times Gone too! All of it actually! And Aladdin Sane is one of my favourites too ... the second Bowie album I owned! Station to Station is another massive favourite!

Actually, I should really mention The Kinks on here too but not sure which album I would choose ... probably Arthur: Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire. However, Face to Face, Something Else and The Village Green Preservation Society ... oh no, it is far too difficult!

well we could go Zep 1,2.3.4 and Sabbeth and,and,and...........

I find 'See Emily play' quite provoking.

My fave...

Stone roses
Meat loaf
Queen
The jam
Bob Dylan
The who

Love them all

Xxxxxxxx

come on FakaP which albums from that list of bands? For me Queen might be 'A Night at the Opera' but I could change it.

Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
Joni Mitchell -Blue
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Gillian Welch - The Harrow And The Harvest
Rosanne Cash - The River And The Thread
Gretchen Peters - Blackbird
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars

See Emily Play was all about female masturbating, apparently. Very risqué subject for 1967. I have that song on a PF compilation in my car just now, along with Arnold Layne, Comfortably Numb, Lost For Words and so on. Proper music by proper musicians.