Your Top 5 Albums

[Parafox]

Music taste is mostly subjective and my own tastes can vary depending on my state of mind but right now and for some years, my top 5 favourite albums are, in no particular order:

 

Songbird, Eva Cassidy.

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatles.

Bat Out of Hell, Meatloaf

Rumours, Fleetwood Mac

Greatest Hits, David Bowie.

[bovril]

Would probably change depending on the day you asked me but 5 off the top of my head that I've played loads are:

 

The Velvet Undergound

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 

Stone Roses (yeah I know)

TCQ - People's Instinctive Travels...

Sufjan Stevens - Can't choose 1, maybe Illinois

 

Dunno if they are my 'top' but they seem to be the ones the algorithms think I like the most...

Edited 23 August 2024 by bovril

[bovril]

Rumours is a great album obviously. 

[Izzy]

Difficult to pick a top 5 but I could listen to these albums over and over...

 

Shed Seven - Going for Gold

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

 

 

 

[Foxdiamond]

Neil Diamond -Hot August Night

Cat Stevens-Teaser And The Firecat

Gerry Rafferty-City To City

The Doobie Brothers-Toulouse Street 

The Beatles-No1s

[Bellend Sebastian]

The Darkness - Permission To Land

British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

 

Crikey, this was difficult. Picking ten would have been a lot easier but where do you stop?

 

Should probably be shot in the face for picking a solo Moz album over a Smiths one but there you go

[bovril]

2 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

The Darkness - Permission To Land

British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

 

Crikey, this was difficult. Picking ten would have been a lot easier but where do you stop?

 

Should probably be shot in the face for picking a solo Moz album over a Smiths one but there you go

The Decline of BSP is great. Probably the only indie type band from that era I still regularly listen to. Great live band too.

[Bellend Sebastian]

6 minutes ago, bovril said:

The Decline of BSP is great. Probably the only indie type band from that era I still regularly listen to. Great live band too.

I find it interesting that 3 of my fave albums (The Darkness one and Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs that didn't quite make the cut but would deffo be in my top ten) came out in 2003 and were all debut albums.

 

I was 28 that year so it's hardly a case of youth bias but it really does feel that the musical landscape has changed so much since then

[SpacedX]

In no particular order here are ten, because I cheated (actually 11, I couldn't count)

 

'The Hounds of Love' Kate Bush

'Sticky Fingers' The Rolling Stones

'Blood on the Tracks'' Dylan

'Revolver' The Beatles

'Hejira' Joni Mitchell

'Pet Sounds' The Beach Boys

'Music from the Big Pink' The Band

'Electric Lady Land' Jimi Hendrix 

'The Queen is Dead' The Smiths

'Wish You Were Here' Pink Floyd

'Physical Graffiti' Led Zeppelin

'Pink Moon' Nick Drake

'Disintegration' The Cure

'London Calling' The Clash

 

EDIT: 14 now, cause I added another three

Edited 23 August 2024 by SpacedX

[Izzy]

3 minutes ago, SpacedX said:

 

'Electric Lady Land' Jimi Hendrix 

 

Was that the album with all the nude women on it?

 

My Dad had a Hendrix double LP and I spent far too much time as a kid looking at the cover 

[SpacedX]

2 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Was that the album with all the nude women on it?

 

My Dad had a Hendrix double LP and I spent far too much time as a kid looking at the cover 

Yes. It got re-packaged at some stage. 

[onekeithweller]

Groundhogs - Split 1971

Traffic - Welcome to the Canteen 1971

Family - Bandstand 1972

Matt Johnson - Burning Blue Soul 1981

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden 1988

 

On the bench:

 

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks 1977

Nirvana - Unplugged 1994

 

Anyone got any recommendations from the last 30 years? 

[Mark_w]

Pixies - Doolittle
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
P.S. Eliot - Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

[foxfanazer]

Bloc Party- Silent alarm 

 

Blink 182 - Dude Ranch

 

Jimmy eat world- Bleed American

 

J.I.D- The Forever Story

 

Nirvana- Nevermind 

 

The smiths- Strangeways here we come 

 

Edited 24 August 2024 by foxfanazer

[pSinatra]

Johnny Cash - American Recordings

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Pixies - Doolittle

Rage Against the Machine - RATM

[Crinklyfox]

Dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd

Argus - Wishbone Ash

To our childrens childrens children - Moody Blues

Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

Bridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel

[kingfox]

1) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

2) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

3) Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

4) The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

5) Taylor Swift - Folklore 

[Finnegan]

15 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

The Darkness - Permission To Land

British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars

 

Crikey, this was difficult. Picking ten would have been a lot easier but where do you stop?

 

Should probably be shot in the face for picking a solo Moz album over a Smiths one but there you go

 

One of these is not like the rest

 

[Finnegan]

1 hour ago, kingfox said:

1) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

2) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

3) Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

4) The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

5) Taylor Swift - Folklore 

 

I wasted that joke far too soon on @Bellend Sebastian

 

[Finnegan]

I mean like bovril says, this is sort of impossible and likely to change every two minutes but based on my recent listening I'd say something like (in no particular order.)

 

 

GY!BE - Lift Yr Skinny Fists... 

RATM - Evil Empire 

The Boss - Born in the USA

Flogging Molly - Swagger 

Bad Religion - Suffer 

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

36 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

One of these is not like the rest

 

I think I can say with a high level of confidence it's the album I've listened to more than any other, which can make some people furious, admittedly

[Libertine]

1 minute ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I think I can say with a high level of confidence it's the album I've listened to more than any other, which can make some people furious, admittedly

It's a genuinely great album. 

[Finnegan]

Just now, Bellend Sebastian said:

I think I can say with a high level of confidence it's the album I've listened to more than any other, which can make some people furious, admittedly

 

I was a massive Datsuns fan when I was in sixth form. I hated The Darkness with a passion for taking a slightly similar niche but then just camping the glam up to a thousand and being absolutely everywhere whilst nobody had really even heard of the Datsuns

 

[ozleicester]

Today it would be...

Rubber Soul - Beatles
The Stranger - Billy Joel
A night at the opera - Queen
Back in Black - ACDC
Unit - Regurgitator
 

[onekeithweller]

37 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

I mean like bovril says, this is sort of impossible and likely to change every two minutes but based on my recent listening I'd say something like (in no particular order.)

 

 

GY!BE - Lift Yr Skinny Fists... 

RATM - Evil Empire 

The Boss - Born in the USA

Flogging Molly - Swagger 

Bad Religion - Suffer 

 

Love GSYBE so I’ll give your other selections an ear, thanks