Albums you go back to...and still as good as the first time?

[jesusbuiltmycar]

tuscaneer said:

Sim89 said:

jesusbuiltmycar said:

this morning I listened to Arc Arsenal by at The Drive In - I haven't played it in a while and it is absoultely fantastic. Still sounds as fresh as it did 9 years ago!

Fantastic, Relationship Of Command is a classic

i only found these guys when i first heard one armed scissor.all the hairs on my arms were up and i remember thinking it was like a spiritual successor to zeppelin.i was lucky enough to see them live in some dingy sthole in leeds on that tour and it was fantastic!

Never got to see them, but there are rumours of a possible reunion...

wikipedia said:

During an interview with Drowned in Sound in June 2009[2], Bixler-Zavala stated that he has been in discussions with the band's former members and suggested that they could get back together after they sort their financial business out. He added, "I wouldn't mind it. It might happen, we just have to iron out a lot of personal things. A lot of it we've dealt with already and I've apologized for a lot of things I've said and the way it ended... we'll see what happens."

I also think Deloused in the Comatorium bt THe Mars Volta is another classic.

[tuscaneer]

it looks like the drummer from mars volta is super keen to do more with the duo of him and zak de la rocha(one day as a lion).zak also has this as a bit of a priority! it could happen!

[Chris71]

Dug out my copy of Echo Park by Feeder the other day. Wasn't particularly fussed with it back in 2001, but jeez does it sound good in the car in the mornings now.

Going slightly further back (and a bit more indie) Urban Hymns by The Verve, Moasley Shoals by OCS, either of The Stereophonics first two albums and the self titled album first from Third Eye Blind all still sound sublime to me.

[pacman1]

Hey hey mamma..

Led Zep IV

Edited by pacman1 on Friday 13th November 14:58

[...Mole...]

Devil Doll - Sacrilege of Fatal Arms
Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Rush - Hemispheres
Yes - Going For The One
Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Songs From The Wood
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition, Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus

[Ferg]

The Undertones-The Undertones
It's Alive-The Ramones
Malpractice-Dr.Feelgood
Stupidity-Dr.Feelgood
Crosscuts-The Count Bishops
Out Of Their Skulls-The Pirates

[Incredible Sulk]

B Oeuf said:

Doremi by Hawkwind
+ Others

I got this out the loft a couple of weeks ago after about 30 years in a box.



Have been playing it at full volume ever since.

[Sim89]

tuscaneer said:

Sim89 said:

jesusbuiltmycar said:

this morning I listened to Arc Arsenal by at The Drive In - I haven't played it in a while and it is absoultely fantastic. Still sounds as fresh as it did 9 years ago!

Fantastic, Relationship Of Command is a classic

i only found these guys when i first heard one armed scissor.all the hairs on my arms were up and i remember thinking it was like a spiritual successor to zeppelin.i was lucky enough to see them live in some dingy sthole in leeds on that tour and it was fantastic!

You're very lucky to have seen them, I would give a lot of things.

[darreni]

Who's Next - The Who - Just superb, bought again on 200gm vynl - awesome.

Live at leeds - the Who - To music what Goodfellas, The Blues Brothers/ Spinal Tap etc are to film, you think i've seen it /listened to it a million times before, i'll just play this little bit & off to bed, but before you know it your sucked in.

Love - The Cult - the soundtrack to my early teenage years, many memories, again just a great album. I saw them play Love Live at the Albert hall a month ago, with Jamie & Mark joining them on bass & drums, a dream fufilled. Does anyone not love the opening riffs to She sells sanctuary or Rain?

Edited by darreni on Sunday 15th November 19:21

[fildigger]

Love - The Cult - the soundtrack to my early teenage years, many memories, again just a great album. I saw them play Love Live at the Albert hall a month ago, with Jamis & Mark joining them on bass & drums, a dream fufilled. Does anyone not love the opening riffs to She sells sanctuary or Rain?

Agree with you there .....The Cult's Best album........I think i might just go upstairs and get the Vinyl out! (just realised, that sounds a bit rude!)

[rlw]

Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Joni Mitchell - For the roses
Nick Drake - Five leaves left
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Roy Harper - Flat baroque & beserk
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Captain Beefheart - Strictly Personal
The Beatles - With the Beatles

[B Oeuf]

rlw said:

Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac

superb album and makes you realise how gifted (or mad) Peter Greeen really was

[2volvos]

Fear of Music - Talking Heads
Abbey Rd - Beatles
OK Computer - Radiohead
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
Infected - The The
American Pie - Don McClean
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Heroes - David Bowie (although like Talking Heads, all of his output from the 70s and 80s sounds fresh)
Southern Harmony & Musical Companion - Black Crowes
Life's Rich Pageant - REM
Oranges & Lemons - XTC

[derestrictor]

I played Led Zep II today for the first time in about 15 years; nothing less than sublime. Truly, deeply sublime. It is now 40 years sold...

On a different plane, another 'long time, no see' scenario - Diary of A Madman, Oswaldo Osbourne's second solo outing - it took me right back to 1981 and memories of a golden era for heavy rock. What an absolute corker.

[Plotloss]

pacman1 said:

Hey hey mamma..

Led Zep IV

Edited by pacman1 on Friday 13th November 14:58

Four Symbols only gets played very very very rarely but each time it utterly utterly blows me away.

[HRG]

Stairway is the first song I could recite word perfect.

[derestrictor]

IV is almost too seminal; Black Dog and Rock n Roll are to me, musically, what Star Wars and Terminator 2 are film-wise - undoubtedly landmark brilliance - just done to death.

By contrast, the song which remains the same as the doyen of hard rocking standards by any sensible analysis still has the ability to transfix and stir but overall, it's a bit like Tufnel's guitar; something so sublime it is probably best left unplayed, unthought of, even...

[Plotloss]

That's why it only comes out in times of need.

And Going to California is the gem on that album...

I'm not a rock fan, generally speaking but that's as close to musical perfection as it gets in my ears.

[derestrictor]

Matty, do you still have that Manowar CD chucked your way at a V-Max some years ago?

The one with the band resplendent in loin cloths, fur boots and iirc, the front man brandishing a battle hammer? Into Glory Ride...

To quote Thomas, "that'll learn yer."

[andy_s]

...oh, and Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman.