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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: RedRover45 on August 26, 2014, 09:17:19 pm
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I know we're currently running top three songs but what about albums. I would suggest we don't include 'Best of' or 'Greatest Hits'.
My three are
Reckless - Bryan Adams
New Jersey - Bon Jovi
Definitely Maybe-Oasis
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Possibly not the 3 finest albums of all time but these are 3 I keep coming back to.
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
RATM - RATM
Love, Ire and Song - Frank Turner
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Master of Puppets- Metallica
Bat out of Hell- Meatloaf
Duke- Genesis
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Ziggy Stardust -David Bowie
Argus-Wishbone Ash
English Boys, Working Girls-Deaf School
And my criteria for this...? All from the 70s, still play them today and all so good i have bought them twice, vinyl and then CD or Download!!
And for thise unfamiliar with Deaf School, nothing to do with that place opposite the Racecourse but the finest exponents of the Art Rock genre.
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Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld by The Orb
Chill Out by The KLF
OK Computer by Radiohead
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Ok computer by radiohead
so tonight by mazzy star
Nevermind by nirvana
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Three lost classics of quintessentially 1980s British pop music
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic: The Sundays. Every track sounds like the perfectly crafted pop song that you heard years ago and forgot.
Manic, Magic, Majestic: Band of Holy Joy. Searing, raw tales from the losing underbelly of the Thatcher years. Asymmetric lovers wandering the streets with no money in your pocket, but still knowing that they're better than the Kitsons in the GTi. No-one wrote the soundtrack of that age better than Jonny Brown and his mates. A mate of mine once said that Jonny Brown sounded like his need to tell his story exceeded his vocal capability to do so. Which is exactly how music from the soul should sound. If there has ever been a more desparate song that Killy Car Thieves, or Where it Hurts; or a more spellbindingly beautiful song from the gutter than Nightjars, I've never heard them. And they were mates with Vic Reeves.
A Walk Across the Rooftops: The Blue Nile. Stripped down to pin pricks of sound, but perfectly crafted to turn dank Glasgow nights into soaring Greek epics. Crystal sharp.
I could listen to each of those non-stop for a weekend and never grow tired of them
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I have been listening to a lot of my old electronic stuff lately, so...
Computerworld - Kraftwerk
Bytes - Black Dog Productions
Power, Corruption and Lies - New order
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Violator - Depeche Mode
OK Computer - Radiohead
August and Everything After - Counting Crows
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The Fall- This Nation's Saving Grace
Cocteau Twins- Head over Heels
XTC- English Settlement
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Dance Craze Soundtrack - The Specials, Bad Manners, Madness + others
Sign O The Times - Prince
Infected - The The
Not even any room for any Parliament or Funkadelic may have to rethink.
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Abbey Road - The Beatles
Hatful of Hollow - the smiths
Head over Heels - Cocteau Twins
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Infected - The The
Bloody hell, forgot that one. I love that album.
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Maybe not everyone's cup of tea but 3 that had a huge impact on my teenage years
If you want blood - Ac/dc
Overkill - Motörhead
Led zeppelin iv
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Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
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Underated album.....Working man's cafe by Ray Davies , and it was a freebie with a newspaper.
Best blues album....Last of the Jelly Roll Kings by Frank Frost and Sam Carr
Thirdly , Disraeli gears by Cream
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Ahh The Cocteau Twins.
I always preferred them when they stopped being goths and started making pop music. From Treasure to Heaven or Las Vegas, they were simply wonderful. My favourite was Blue Bell Knoll.
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I stopped at Treasure.. But Head over Heels takes some beating. I prefer a lot of the relatively early "indie" stuff from around '82-'84...
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Trying not to repeat any here (2 of nightporter's would (be right up there - known him a long time and our tastes are very similar) so...
U2 - joshua tree
REM - automatic for the people
PULP - different class
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Al,
I like U2 Joshua Tree, what I think lifts it up is the involvement of Brian Eno.
Brian Eno is a far greater talent than U2. For me, It is his injection of creative genius as producer that really lifts that album.
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The Number of the Beast - Maiden
Back in Black - AC/DC
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush .... The Ninth Wave on side 2 is as good a collection of music as has ever been comitted to vynil IMO
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The Holy Trilogy from Simple Minds before they settled for making stadium anthem w**k.
Empires and Dance
Sons and Fascination
New Gold Dream
For a couple of years, they were beyond astonishing.
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BST
Simple minds were another act I liked but they were much better before they began to turn into U2.
I liked their early years.
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Empires and Dance is one of the most astonishing albums ever made. It's like a mad-nightmare of a Europe on the edge of nuclear annihilation. Full of fascination, confusion, bewildering changes of pace and style. One moment optimistic and danceable. The next broodingly dark. Like a mixture of Cabaret and Threads. This Fear of Gods is a candidate for the finest track of the whole period. Kraftwerk meets Joy Division in an Istanbul bazaar.
How the hell they could go from that to Alive and f**king Kicking in half a decade is a question that philosophers will struggle with for centuries. Mortgages to pay I guess.
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To be fair to Jim Kerr, it did get him in Patsy Kensitt's undergarments, so not all bad.
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Aye but that were no great achievement in them days. There were more people could claim that than were at the legendary Donny-Dover match at OBV.
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I'm only jealous.....
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I've got me own little carnal memory.
Late 80s. She was going out with Dan Donovan from Big Audio Dynamite. Went to see them at the Leadmill. The band, including a still pert Patsy came in through the front entrance and walked through the crowd to the stage. Young Patsy rubbed her svelte torso against mine as she pushed past.
Great days.
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She was OK BST, but I always preferred C Grogan. Mind you, the blonde singer of the Primitives wasn't too bad either...
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Not bad lads, but still couldn't hold a candle to Wendy James of Transvision Vamp. Wish I could have found out if she was as dirty as she looked ....
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mine, as said above bought on tape then CD.
Mozza - Bona Drag
Radiohead - the bends (cant abide ok computer (the album your told to like!!)
Manson - attack of the grey lantern.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wendy james mmmmmmmmmmmmm!
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Wendy James. Have you seen her now? She looks like Pete Burns. As does Beatrice Dalle.
Tracy Tracy from the Primitives hasn't aged too badly.
Mind, time isn't kind to any of us. I've gone from looking like Matt Goss to looking like Davros over the past 30 years.
Clare Grogan must be on the monkey glands because she looks as shimmeringly winsome as ever.
My personal favourite was Tracie Young who sang on Speak Like a Child with The Style Council. Apparently she's now a female Alan Partridge on Radio Basildon or summat like that.
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Hmm
Recent pic of Ms Grogan pushing 50.
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/lornethomson/6042338974/in/set-72157627307056891/
I could be happy...
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Hate to burst your balloon and all that, but:
(http://i2.cdnds.net/14/18/618x452/showbiz-clare-grogan.jpg)
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Kin ell Lipsy, what exactly do you want?
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I'm not too fussy, just not this:
(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/49448/2413657-skeletor.jpg)
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That's not far off what Wendy James looks like now.
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She's hardly aged a day... *looks down, shuffles feet*
(http://oi53.tinypic.com/waq2b7.jpg)
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Hate to burst your balloon and all that, but:
(http://i2.cdnds.net/14/18/618x452/showbiz-clare-grogan.jpg)
Christ on a bike, has she had a stroke or summat?
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No Rob, but I have...
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I wouldn't even handle that with a Barclay's now, my hand would turn over and go to sleep.
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Claire Grogan until she sings. Totally forgot this track until i saw it on some vintage music channel. Its like there was a helium leak in the studio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5nrSlNSAc
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That is some way short of their best work though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO37FT2gT20
I preferred them when they were darker and more Banshees-influenced.
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Hate to burst your balloon and all that, but:
(http://i2.cdnds.net/14/18/618x452/showbiz-clare-grogan.jpg)
Christ on a bike, has she had a stroke or summat?
I know, it's grim when those that we may have a harboured a wee stiffy for start showing signs of aging. Fortunately, none of us are getting any older... *raises eyebrow and conveniently ignores small looming landmark of impending middle age that's about to be celebrate by yours truly at this weekend*
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(http://files.list.co.uk/images/2012/05/21/altered-i.jpg)
hmmm...............
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That picture could be 10 years old.
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Wonder if she was playing away a couple of weeks back?
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g2DeMxJjUVo/UI4I4auZRLI/AAAAAAAAyZY/XKwf-zl49IA/s1600/clare-grogan-05.jpg)
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Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
David Bowie - Station To Station
Agreed about Simple Minds BST
All downhill after Waterfront (which is a great song from a shite album)
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Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
David Bowie - Station To Station
Agreed about Simple Minds BST
All downhill after Waterfront (which is a great song from a shite album)
Nice to see someone else who loves "The Nightfly." A wonderful, idiosyncratic album.
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Sex Pistols - Never Mind The b*llocks
Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From
Once a punk, always a punk. Albeit an old, creaky one!
The opening of 'Holidays in the Sun' still makes the hairs on my neck stand up!
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Hang on. I'm a member of the VSC. Why is it saying I'm not? That was twelve quid well spent!
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The opening of 'Holidays in the Sun' still makes the hairs on my neck stand up!
Best thing the Pistols ever did, IMHO.
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Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
David Bowie - Station To Station
Agreed about Simple Minds BST
All downhill after Waterfront (which is a great song from a shite album)
Nice to see someone else who loves "The Nightfly." A wonderful, idiosyncratic album.
It certainly is.
Got in on vinyl,cd,180gram vinyl re-issue and dvd-audio cd!
"New Frontier" in surround sound is awesome!
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Hard to pick three, but tonight's choices are
1. Lets Get Out Of This Country by Camera Obscura
2. I Just Cant Stop It by The Beat
3. Showcase by Aswad
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Harrogate.
I listened to Just Can't Stop It a few months ago for the first time in 20-odd years. Utterly superb. The Beat were the craftsmen of Two Tone. Doffing their caps to Prince Buster and Dancehall but putting a thoroughly modern take on it. "Best Friend" is right up there with the very best singles of the 80s.
And the lyrics. Genius. From Stand-down Margaret which was the most skilfull put down of the era, to Two Swords, telling the lefties to reel it in and spread the love instead of the ANL approach of sticking the boot into the NF.
"Two Swords flashing at each other.
Only sharpen one another.
And in the long-run, even HE's your brother.
Said even though the Kitson's a Nazi, Nazi.
Even though the Kitson's a Nazi, Nazi.
Even though the Kitson's a Nazi, Nazi."
Summed up an entire philosophy in a fruggable chorus. Utter Genius.
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I saw The Beat live once. They were terrific.
Love "Mirror in the Bathroom."
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Great group, how Save It For Later got through censorship and had airplay was incredible!
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IR
Ha! I saw that too. But I thought I was just a testosterone fueled teenager who saw sex in everything.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=10987
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Aye but that were no great achievement in them days. There were more people could claim that than were at the legendary Donny-Dover match at OBV.
SHIT .... trust me to get it the wrong way round ( as usual )
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Billy
I Just Cant Stop It was the first album I ever bought ( along with Signing Off, UB40). Still stands up 34 years on. Always thought they were under rated. There was some good stuff on their next two albums to. Save It For Later is in my top 5 songs of all time.
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HR
We're similar vintage. Those two albums were in the first 3 that I ever bought, as a 13 year old, with One Step Beyond by Madness being the first, a few months before.
Signing Off is an album I haven't thought of in a good long while. I lost interest totally in UB40 when they went all MoR in the mid-80s, but in the early days, they were something special. I still think their reggae version of Strange Fruit is better than Billie Holliday's.
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Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The Courteeners - St Jude
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
I like my compilation albums though, e.g. Queen: The greatest hits, The sound of the Smiths, Oasis - Stop the Clocks, Feeder - the Singles and Stereophonics - Decade in the Sun to name a few.
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BST
I'm 49!
Agree about UB40. Signing Off and the follow up Present Arms still stand up today. Then they starting doing covers and lost their way. (Although they did introduce me to a lot of old reggae singers that I'd never heard of). Who You Fighting For (2005) and TwentyFourSeven (2008) are a return to form and worth a listen.
Everyone loves Madness, but my guilty pleasure from that era is Bad Manners!
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As said before, difficult to pick three...
Oasis Defo maybe
Guns N Rose appetite
Green Day 21st Century
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These Days by Bon Jovi
All You Can Eat by Steel Panther
The Strange Case of... by Halestorm
All cracking albums