Best album ever. Aja or Gaucho?

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Tough call but would have to say Aja.

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Cantaloupe said:

Best album is Revolver, any fule kno that.

I've got a Linn LP12 not a Dansette.

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About 5 or 6 years ago Dylan Jones (editor of GQ) was writing a column in the Mail On Sunday magazine, this one time he was telling everybody how fantastic David Bowie is (which is normal for him) and at the same time he was slating Dire Straits. In a comment I reminded him of Tin Machine and the loads of mediocre/crap albums Bowie made, ending with 'Don't The Moon Look Pretty'.
The man should stick to telling people what shirts to wear.

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TT1138 said:

Critical opinion always seemed to be Aja, but Gaucho has always been my favourite ‘Dan album so I’m going to put forward a solid case for it!

With the exception of Third World Man every track on it is basically perfect, musically and lyrically.

Babylon Sisters has the legendary ‘Purdie shuffle’, Time out of Mind has the best ‘Dan lyrics of all time (‘tonight when I chase the dragon’) and Hey Nineteen is a song about an older man trying to seduce a teenager using drugs and alcohol set to a track that is so smooth and innocuous it’s played in supermarkets!

I’ve always felt it’s their darkest, most cynical and sarcastic album, and as a result, their finest.

I love the lyrics to My Rival...

The wind was driving in my face
The smell of prickly pear
[My rival - show me my rival]
The milk truck eased into my space
Somebody screamed somewhere
I struck a match against the door
Of Anthony's Bar and Grill
I was the whining stranger
A fool in love
With time to kill

I've got detectives on his case
They filmed the whole charade
[My rival - show me my rival]
He's got a scar across his face
He wears a hearing aid

Sure he's a jolly roger
Until he answers for his crime
Yes I'll match him whim for whim now

I still recall when I first held
Your tiny hand in mine
[My rival - show me my rival]
I loved you more than I can tell
But now it's stomping time

Sure he's a jolly roger
Until he answers for his crime
Yes I'll match him whim for whim now

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Mr Tidy said:

Never heard of Aja or Gaucho!

Nirvana with Never Mind, the Foo-Fighters with One by One, Muse with Absolution, Metallica with Metallica, Siousxie and the Banshees with Kaleidoscope, Pretenders with Pretenders would all rank up the top for me!

Well we all like different things, don't we? I wouldn't give house room to any of those albums

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jontykint said:

I think Talk Talk and Mark Hollis in particular were on a par

His solo album had a few cuts tracked through this desk in Master Rock, spent months working in there. Check out Phill Brown's book 'Are We Still Rolling?' which covers his time in Master Rock working with Mark Hollis.

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marcosgt said:

but I can listen to London Calling all day long

Sometimes I hear a song I liked many years ago but I realise it belongs in my youth, at 56 I've realised I'm not on a Highway To Hell, the 'Ice Age isn't coming.

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cherryowen said:

Anyway. Back to SD..............Larry Carlton

When I saw an advert last year 'Giants Of Rock' at Butlins in Minehead with Larry Carlton on the bill I thought I was still suffering from one of Owsley Stanley's recipes but it was true, he played at Butlins in Minehead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd5hntQTaTE

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Simes205 said:

He’s on at Ronnie’s next month.....

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 19th August 20:28