One album for the rest of your life

[coppice]

silverthorn2151 said:

It's easy to confuse yourself by thinking too deeply.

Some truly excellent suggestions and I might consider 'wish you were here' 'strangers in the night' and so on.

However, the true test must be the album that popped into your head when you read the thread title and for me that's

Genesis - Seconds Out

Even if I think hard about it and mentally review albums from my life that mean a lot it still wins. Never tired of listening to it since it was released, and never will.

Oh yes you will......

[vournikas]

toon10 said:

GnuBee said:

Zero 7 - Simple Things

Chillllleeed

I bought that CD last month as my original copy has gone missing. Great album.

Back in 2013, we did a road trip to the Abruzzo region of Italy and we had Simple Things on a loop driving down the East coast of Italy. I Have Seen has to be one of the best bass lines ever.

O/T

@Malam

Good to see you still visiting this parish

[stiglet]

Sgt Pepper/Abbey Rd /White Album..maybe
Crisis/Crime......could be
Selling England / Foxtrot ....contender
Who's Next/Live at Leeds....possible
Dark Side /Wish you were here....in with a shout

Close to the Edge - Fragile.....Yes, but really it's got to be :-

swiveleyedgit said:

Today it's my new copy of this that's at the top of the list.....



the 180 gram Rhino repress from 2003, still sounds fabulous after 45 years.

When I get tired of listening to that I will hang up my headphones

[silverthorn2151]

coppice said:

silverthorn2151 said:

It's easy to confuse yourself by thinking too deeply.

Some truly excellent suggestions and I might consider 'wish you were here' 'strangers in the night' and so on.

However, the true test must be the album that popped into your head when you read the thread title and for me that's

Genesis - Seconds Out

Even if I think hard about it and mentally review albums from my life that mean a lot it still wins. Never tired of listening to it since it was released, and never will.

Oh yes you will......

Well I haven't in the 37 years since it was released and since it's unlikely I have another 37 years to go I reckon I'm right.

Mind you I'd be 92 then and could be the groovy old geezer in the special place the youngsters will be putting us in 2050 or thereabouts.

[coppice]

Fair enough- my Genesis experience was almost daily playing for about 4 years of the usual suspects and then I didn't listen to them for 30 years.I did buy Trick of The Tail again on cd and it was nearly as good as I remembered. Not a true Genesis album ,some say , as no Gabriel but I thought it was hugely underrated - and what a contrast it was to the anodyne pap they then went on to make by the million .

[silverthorn2151]

I do know what you mean. I listen to nothing really post Wind and Wuthering. Trick of the tail is a massively underrated album in my view. Haters gonna hate but they really stand out from the cohort of pretty terrific bands we had to choose from in the late 1970s.

[rix]

S10GTA said:

If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Mine would be War of the worlds, I never ever get bored of hearing it.

That shocked me...

Was listening to this yesterday for the first time in ages, saw the thread title and thought, 'I know the perfect album for the thread....'

Low and behold so did you!

It really is a beautiful piece of work.

[audidoody]

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

[anonymous-user]

coppice said:

Fair enough- my Genesis experience was almost daily playing for about 4 years of the usual suspects and then I didn't listen to them for 30 years.I did buy Trick of The Tail again on cd and it was nearly as good as I remembered. Not a true Genesis album ,some say , as no Gabriel but I thought it was hugely underrated - and what a contrast it was to the anodyne pap they then went on to make by the million .

From Trick Of The Tail till Abacab are my favourite Genesis albums with Duke being the best imho, Your Own Special Way off of Wind And Wuthering is a classic.

[anonymous-user]

dinkel said:

Phil Woods RIP

Responsible for two of the greatest sax solos in modern music, Doctor Wu - Steely Dan, JTWYA - Billy Joel.
RIP Phil Woods

[coppice]

DUKE ???? Isn't that the simply dire 'Oh woe, my missus ran off with the painter and decorator' album ?

[Dick Dastardly]

Nine inch nails, the downward spiral. I've been listening to it regularly since the mid nineties.

Close contenders would be:

Janes Addiction, ritual de lo habitual
Guns n roses, appetite for destruction
Rolling Stones, sticky fingers
This will destroy you, another language

[anonymous-user]

coppice said:

DUKE ???? Isn't that the simply dire 'Oh woe, my missus ran off with the painter and decorator' album ?

I think your getting mixed up with Face Value the first solo album by Phil Collins who was in Genesis, Duke is the favourite album of Tony Banks a founding member of Genesis who was with the band when he had to cringe at Peter Gabriel's on stage costume calamities.