One album for the rest of your life

One album for the rest of your life

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Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Thursday 25th June 2015
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qube_TA said:
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene

The album changed my life, had never heard anything like it. He never bettered it either.

I've played it a billion times, bought it on every format it was ever released on.

It's perfect.
I used to listen to that while playing or programming my ZX81.

Hub

6,411 posts

197 months

Thursday 25th June 2015
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CAPP0 said:
That's a very very tough call! Already some good suggestions. I could make loads more!

But the one which sprang to mind instantly, albeit it probably wouldn't be on many other people's list, would be Attack of the Grey Lantern by Mansun. It's certainly one of my all-time faves. But I could have a top 10 very quickly!
No no no! It would have to be their second album 'Six' over AOTGL - tough to get into, but it was my favourite album for ages. Cringy lyrics aside, there is so much there that you can hear different things each time (though take out the awful operatic interlude thing). I abandoned it for a while but have listened again a few times recently.

Condi

17,084 posts

170 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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Tri-State by Above and Beyond

knight

5,204 posts

278 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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Sharted said:
Quadrophenia - The Who.

Would make me feel 15 for the rest of my life.
That's a great choice smile the first album I ever paid money for smile

spyder dryver

1,329 posts

215 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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MarshPhantom said:
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Good call.

I was thinking Royal Scam.
But then there's Nightfly.
Or Joni's Court and Spark.
Damn it!
I'll go for...
Peter Case- Torn Again.


CAPP0

19,530 posts

202 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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Hub said:
CAPP0 said:
That's a very very tough call! Already some good suggestions. I could make loads more!

But the one which sprang to mind instantly, albeit it probably wouldn't be on many other people's list, would be Attack of the Grey Lantern by Mansun. It's certainly one of my all-time faves. But I could have a top 10 very quickly!
No no no! It would have to be their second album 'Six' over AOTGL - tough to get into, but it was my favourite album for ages. Cringy lyrics aside, there is so much there that you can hear different things each time (though take out the awful operatic interlude thing). I abandoned it for a while but have listened again a few times recently.
Ha ha ha - I dip into Six and Little Kix from time to time, and they're good, but Mavis invariably wins out!

dinkel

26,884 posts

257 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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W124 said:
Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis - 'Somethin' Else' - best record ever made by a country mile. Nothing comes close.
Good call. I'd pick Money Jungle by Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Duke Ellington.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,246 posts

149 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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This Year's Model - Elvis Costello.
Or maybe one of Bowies holy trilogy, Hunky Dory, Alladin Sane or The Rise & Fall.
Possibly The Clash (first album) or Never Mind The bks
maybe Rumours by Fleetwood Mac or Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet.
No, Mixed Up by The Cure.
Or The Hardline According to Terence Trent Darby
Or something by Kate Bush.

No, forget all those, Island Life by Grace Jones. Or maybe I'll go back to This Year's Model by Costello.

The Hypno-Toad

12,247 posts

204 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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Funnily enough I was just thinking about this earlier this evening and then I spotted this thread.

Right. Brace yourselves...

Ok well it can't be:
Lexicon Of Love - ABC
Welcome Home - Til Tuesday
because they are just too '80s.

It can't be:
Kimino My House - Sparks
because that's just too '70s.

It can't be:
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
because I can't be thinking that I'm still working in a pizza restaurant trying to chat up the most beautiful girl I've ever met in real life at the end of our shift, drinking strong coffee before we lock the doors.

It can't be:
Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout
because although it has the best 'a' side (remember them?) in the history of popular music, it sort of loses interest in itself around about Moving The River.

It can't be:
First album - Rickie Lee Jones
because you need to be especially mellow to properly appreciate that one. And I'm usually not.

It can't be:
Parallel Lines - Blondie
because although its brilliant, its just too frantic for most occasions.

Which brings us to...
Parade - Prince
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Bellybutton - Jellyfish
24 Years Of Hunger - Eg & Alice

All fantastic in their own way. hmmmm....... scratchchin


actually tonight its...

Walking Wounded - EBTG
because its a work of brilliant genius.


TheChampers

4,093 posts

137 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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This is really tough, I'm torn between two, one new by someone "old", one old by a group who ceased to release anything a long time ago.

Floodland - The Sisters Of Mercy or Splinter - Gary Numan.

I'll go with Numan, the album's been in the cd player in my car for 2 and 1/2 years and ain't coming out any time soon; a brilliant album, close call, Floodland is a masterpiece of its kind.

tedmus

1,882 posts

134 months

Friday 26th June 2015
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stuartmmcfc said:
Pills 'n' thrills and Bellyaches
The Happy Mondays
Good shout that.

Super Furry Animals - Radiator for me.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
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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.

strummerville

1,014 posts

126 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
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London Calling - The Clash. Bought it as a vinyl album on day of release, still not bored by it.

robsco

7,822 posts

175 months

Saturday 27th June 2015
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The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths.

DirrieMore

902 posts

141 months

Sunday 28th June 2015
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For all my dystopian tastes from Abba through Mogwai to Wagner via Roxy Music and the Ozric Tentacles I fear my first choice may have me ducking brickbats..

Dancing with Strangers by Chris Rea.

Mirrorball by Neil Young and Pearl Jam runs it a close second.

+1 for Oxygene changing my life; Queen Live in '86 for me the greatest gig.

mp3manager

4,254 posts

195 months

Sunday 28th June 2015
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Marvindodgers said:
It Bites - Once Around The World
Good call, one of my favourite albums but for me it would have to be...


Patch1875

4,893 posts

131 months

Sunday 28th June 2015
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Narrowed it down to

Guns N Roses - Appetite
Nirvana - Nevermind
Bob Marley - Survival
Inks - Kick

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Sunday 28th June 2015
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Actually as per thread title

ELO Out of the Blue


On reflection I thought it would be Floyd or Led Zep. But no, it would be Out of the Blue.

Johnspex

4,330 posts

183 months

Sunday 28th June 2015
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knight said:
That's a great choice smile the first album I ever paid money for smile
That's the one I'd choose but it would mean I'd have to go without WGFA which is clearly the greatest Rock song ever made. Perhaps if you choose Quadrophenia, the other guy chooses Who's Next and I choose Live at Leeds we'd have the perfect desert island list.

Now can you light fires and the other guy build a house?

Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Sunday 28th June 2015
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