Daggers Posted 3 December 2010 Share Posted 3 December 2010 You only get one. Just one album. No changing your mind and adding another in its' place - just one. What one album would you recommend to the world and why? Just one mind. The one. Let's be Muso about this; give us details about its' construction and why it was a total shift in the world of music. Who inputed into it? What went before and what came after? How did it mesh into your life? What amazing events unfolded to its beat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 3 December 2010 Share Posted 3 December 2010 For me, the most insanely beautifully crafted album I think I've ever heard. Was always a fan of Thrice before Vheissu, a massive fan, in fact, but this album completely blew me away. Before they were always an adequate, listenable, post-hardcore / screamo group, but the invention, execution, scope, sound, and diversity on this record is what sets it apart from my other favourite albums (Deftones' 'White Pony', Nine Inch Nails' 'The Fragile', Placebo's 'Without You I'm Nothing'). Tracks like Image of the Invisible, Of Dust and Nations and Red Sky can go from subtle, soothing, soft delicacy to absolutely pounding, scratching, epic, brutal, monstrous noise, and then back again, without ever seeming forced or out of place. It's a collection of songs so well put together and phenomenally created that it's difficult, for me, to see why Thrice aren't better recognised outside of the genre they excell so outrageously at. It's an album that requires patience to be appreciated but there's no denying the sheer gorgeousness of it. I've not grown tired of it in the five years since it's been in my CD rack, and I've genuinely not heard anything that's captured me in such a way since, released before or after it's creation. If I've managed to spell all that right in the state I'm in then I deserve a medal, because right now I'm having to concentrate like an absolute twat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 4 December 2010 Author Share Posted 4 December 2010 Kate Bush - Never For Ever It harks back to a time when my view of the world was basked in innocence. A time when I never believed in emotional pain or the depressive realisation that the world kisses all of us with Baudelairian ennui, given enough onslaught. A time when I never realised that a whole wealth of beasts could emanate from a woman's muff on a record sleeve - I just accepted that it did. The Japanese didn't though, and promptly banned it. Amazing for a nation who adore schoolgirl and tube-rape porn. Bush had managed to delight the avid listeners to the Sunday evening Top 40 rundown with singles from her first two albums - but this was the one where she let herself fly free, producing it herself. She wasn't going to write - she was one the verge of quitting music altogether but for the visit of a family friend, Peter Gabriel...one of the few musicians pushing boundaries at that moment in time, having left Genesis two years earlier. It was an incredible piece of work. She used the Fairlight synth which in turn influenced a host of early 80s stars. And Gabriel, who'd owned one of the first, went on to use it on his 1982 eponymous album. Roy Harper featured on the album, a man who is responsible for influencing Zeppelin, The Who, Jethro Tull and Floyd: The ailing heart of prog rock was carried into this musical tome and given new life in pop song timeframes. Delightful, ethereal melodies danced with driven musical styles It's the soundtrack to a coming of age for me. While all the internal "Rargh" hormonal angst was turning itself into punk, the part of me which delighted in the sweetness of childhood clasped strongly to this. It's the music which accompanies nighttime fondles, long car journeys and more than one transatlantic flight. I adore this record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted 4 December 2010 Share Posted 4 December 2010 When The Stone Roses burst on the scene,it came as a breath of fresh air to me as dance music had been the main for the previous few years,here were a band who were to be st the forefront of the 'Madchester' scene, along with Happy Mondays,Inspiral Carpets and James, these were bands you could actually dance to! I myself was never a hardcore raver or even into house music, but had just moved along with the times waiting for bands like these to come along,indie music to me,would never be the same again thanks to the 'Baggy' sound i have extracted these quotes from a review on another vsite: On first listen, The Stone Roses is a strangely old-fashioned album. Brown's multi-tracked vocals (he was never a strong singer) mix pleasantly with Squire's chiming Rickenbacker to produce a very mellow, 60s West Coast vibe. But if you get insisde the heart of songs like "I Wanna Be Adored" and "I Am The Resurrection" there's that unmistakeable swagger and defiance that was to prove such a template for Oasis a few years later. It's also this strange friction between old and new that makes this album so durable. Certainly it was Squire who took the band into essentially 'freak-out' territory, especially on the wah-wah'n'drum work out at the end of "I Am The Resurrection", and it was he who sank the follow-up with his adoration of Jimmy Page. But as an accurate picture of how working class hedonism fused dance and rock in the dying days of the 80s, this album is unbeatable. Listen and enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 4 December 2010 Share Posted 4 December 2010 Screamadelica - Primal Scream Primal Scream... what had they ever done? They were a minor indie band with a pub rock sound. How could they ever release an album that would transcend boundaries and rip down barriers between the tradition barriers that kept rockers and clubbers firmly on seperate sides of a huge musical chasm? But in 1991 that's exactly what this album did. I certainly blew me away. From the release of Loaded as a single and that great Peter Fonda sample, "We wanna be free, we wanna be free to do what we wanna do, and we wanna get loaded, and we wanna have a good time," it was one great big love-in of musical genres, an orgy of blues, jazz, rock, folk, soul and house. Starting bluesy, going dub, moving house, tripping out and coming down... that was just side one! Side two picked you back up, reminded you that blues, gospel, jazz, etc, were just labels and that music is music and that if it's good it's good - and that when it's great it can be truly great. And then at it's finale it let you down oh so gently. Of course that was back in the days when albums had two sides and it was obviously thought out, with a start and beginning to each side that might seem strange on CD today, but worked perfectly then. Not just a collection of songs, it was a journey that gave you music, it gave you joy, it expands your horizons and seems fresh as a daisy, even today. Without this album I might still have been a rock fan who poo-pooed any band with a keyboard, who laughed at remixes and sampling and decried musical cross-overs. But I say thank you Bobby for helping me see the light. We're gonna have a good time, we're gonna have a party! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsJohnMurphy Posted 4 December 2010 Share Posted 4 December 2010 1970!! 1970!!!! Forty years ago!! Astonishing! Sassy! Sexy! Raw! Exciting! Everything rock music should be, everything it isn't now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finchy Posted 5 December 2010 Share Posted 5 December 2010 Distortion and raw emotion, it's what music is all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James. Posted 9 December 2010 Share Posted 9 December 2010 I love this album more than any other. People often mock the idea of having a favourite album, saying that you can't possibly choose just one album above all others. Well you can. And this is mine. It is perfect. People also mock the Mercury Music Prize. But they got it spot on when this beat the likes of Definitely Maybe in 1995. Yes, that's right, this album was released over 16 years ago - August 1994 to be exact. But it could have been made yesterday and it wouldn't sound out of place. Like Blue Lines by Massive Attack - another Bristolian masterpiece - this album is truly timeless. It will never sound dated and it will always sound beautiful. Trip hop didn't really exist before Dummy was released and the fact they felt the need to invent a genre just showed how important the album was. Personally I'd rather not pigeon hole it - it is simply fantastic music. It's a wonderful combination of moody beats and fragile vocals. It's dark, it's atmospheric and it's painfully beautiful at times - no more so than on Roads - a song that to this day sends shivers down my spine. You will never hear a vocalist like Beth Gibbons, if she doesn't provoke any emotion inside you then you are probably dead. Perhaps now more than ever, with the likes of The XX around, this album sounds as fresh as it did when it was first released. Now is a great time to discover or rediscover Portishead. Everyone should own this album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleronnie Posted 9 December 2010 Share Posted 9 December 2010 So many to choose from, but how about:- Arguably the greatest soul album ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted 9 December 2010 Share Posted 9 December 2010 very difficult to choose just the one album, and i know it's very new but most of my collection is from 2004 at the oldest (only a couple of muse albums, some foo fighters, nirvana and madness from before then). Very hard to put a finger on why it is perfect but i'd say it's the way it seems to have been put together with cold, calculating logic - dismantling the best tracks of the past decade, finding what made them so good and using that to create something which can be both haunting and relaxing at the same time. Tracks like Doubt, This Momentary, Halcyon and Counterpoint are all deserving of the air-time they got as singles (unlike some of the rubbish in the charts nowdays) but then where most would flesh the album out with average tracks that never really capture the imagination, acolyte featured tracks like Red Lights, Submission and Remain - all of which would be lead singles for other bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsJohnMurphy Posted 9 December 2010 Share Posted 9 December 2010 So many to choose from, but how about:- Arguably the greatest soul album ever made. I love this record. It's one of the few albums that you have to listen to as a whole. A social commentary that still sounds as relevant today as it did 40 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini Logic Posted 9 December 2010 Share Posted 9 December 2010 The chain gang vocals on The Earth Will Shake are something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini Logic Posted 9 December 2010 Share Posted 9 December 2010 I'd have to go for this on the basis that it's one of those albums you tell people about and a week later they come back to you and say how its changed their life... A sample for those that care - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 9 December 2010 Share Posted 9 December 2010 I'd have to go for this on the basis that it's one of those albums you tell people about and a week later they come back to you and say how its changed their life... A sample for those that care - Is that the album where I will Follow You In To The Dark is on? That's the only song I've ever heard by Death Cab, but if the rest of their songs are like that, then I might delve in to the rest of their stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AoWW Posted 9 December 2010 Share Posted 9 December 2010 Kate Bush - Never For Ever I got into art college by shamelessly adapting plagiarising that album cover. I was gonna say that. *sulks* Spose I'll have to think of something else now. And Daggers is insisting on us being all analytical about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooh_tommy_wright Posted 10 December 2010 Share Posted 10 December 2010 Brighten the corners by Pavement. Can't be arsed with pasting massive fook off pictures and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip j fry Posted 10 December 2010 Share Posted 10 December 2010 infected by thethe,still totally relevent.'this the 51st state of the usa'.matt johnson=genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 10 December 2010 Share Posted 10 December 2010 Does it really have to be just one album? Aren't rules meant to be broken? Just how rock n roll is sticking to the rules? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 10 December 2010 Author Share Posted 10 December 2010 Does it really have to be just one album? Aren't rules meant to be broken? Just how rock n roll is sticking to the rules? Fvck rock'n'roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted 12 December 2010 Share Posted 12 December 2010 infected by thethe,still totally relevent.'this the 51st state of the usa'.matt johnson=genius. Good shout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 12 December 2010 Share Posted 12 December 2010 Massively important album for me, personally. I'd always been a musical person, my whole family are, but prior to the age of about fourteen I never really knew what that meant. I had a big love of very euphoric music, trance and euro dance, cheesey, big beats and club anthems that were very uplifting but hugely lacking in any kind of substance. It was just accessible, the chart music of the time - it wasn't the music I'd chosen, I didn't know where to find it. At the start of my GCSEs I fell head over heels in to a massive crush on my then best female friend. Her tastes in just about everything were entirely alien to mine; punk, ska, metal, et all and to this day I still owe her a hell of a lot for my first exposure to a completely different musical culture. I became completely obsessed, hoarding records and band t-shirts, reading X-Ray, Q and NME. I got a bass, joined a band, dived head-long in to music and have never looked back. But the very, very first record I remember buying with my own money, with my own inclination, was Evil Empire by Rage Against The Machine from Rockaboom. To this day, I have no idea why I picked it up and not the far more lauded Battle For Los Angeles but it was one of the best decisions of my life. Having grown a broadly eclectic taste, I've had umpteen favourites since that day but I still consistently return to it. It's one of the most brilliantly raw, passionate and angry albums and one of the most persistently undervalued of all time. Slotted between the much adored self titled album (which made the actual 1001) and the commercially gargantuan Battle of LA, Evil Empire is the forgotten record. It lacks catchy vocals, poppy riffs or repeated obscenity but it's powerfully, vocally poetic; unavoidably, rampantly political and massively impactful. This album quite literally, with no exaggeration and no hyperbole, changed the course of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain King Posted 12 December 2010 Share Posted 12 December 2010 Feeder - Comfort In Sound Their first album since their drummer comitted suicide, and the album that really developed my taste in music. Reminds me of a time when I was at college with the easy life and no responsibilities. Uploaded with ImageShack.us"] Uploaded with ImageShack.us[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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