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Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada

I Care Because You Do - Aphex Twin

Cro Magnox - Ceephax

Diamond Mine - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

Double Figure -Plaid

 

ps. Danger Mouse you have excellent taste in music. Do you frequent WATMM perchance?

 

Likewise.

 

As for WATMM, no, I had to google what it was. :)

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Experts say the two most potent triggers of memory are smells and music.

 

Whenever I smell freshly cut grass it takes me back to playing football as a kid on a recently mown rec. Shoe polish reminds me of my first pair of football boots. Other smells (perfumes, etc) trigger other memories we need not go into.

 

Same with music. These are probably my five favourite albums because at the time they were released it coincided with a significant event, or time in my life and hearing them immediately takes me back to those happy times.

 

Moot - Mott The Hoople

 

Kimono My House - Sparks

 

Holland - Beach Boys

 

Discovery - Daft Punk

 

American IV, The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

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Neil Young - After the Goldrush

The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

The Beatles - Revolver

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

 

[Didn't quite make it: Van Morrison - Moondance or Tupelo Honey; Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief; Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours; Beach Boys - Pet Sounds; The Who - Who's Next; The Kinks - Something Else; Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - Andy Irvine and Paul Brady]

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Like everyone else, five is so difficult to come up with so these are five that I still regularly play ( which i suppose makes them favourites?)

 

DSOM - Floyd

The Blurred Crusade - The Church

Everyone is Everybody Else - Barclay James Harvest

The Crossing - Big Country

HMS Fable - Shack

Everyone is Everybody Else now that was a surprisingly good album. Could add June Tabor's Airs and Graces to that too

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I've spent some time reviewing this thread this evening. I am happy to report that I am now prepared to be unjustifiably judgmental about your tastes while being totally subjective myself.

 

First of all, much respect to everyone that picked Dark Side of the Moon. A true, enduring classic. I once heard some crazy story about someone listening to that album and then completely dropping out of day-to-day life. I half believe it ;)

 

Nice to see ericofarabia mention Alice Cooper's early stuff. Apart from School's Out, people tend to forget all about his early career, largely because he was one of the artists to have his identity supplanted by Desmond Child in the late 1980s (he was not alone).

 

Much respect to stug76 and ChicagoSaint for not just bringing AC/DC albums to the table, but Bon Scott albums to boot ;) If I'm honest, I'm not sure AC/DC ever produced a truly great album start to finish, and besides, it gets confusing as fúck when you take the Australian versions into account.

 

Joe Kirkup gets a mention for mentioning Shack, a band I didn't think I'd see mentioned here.

 

aintforever gets a special mention for having a very strong set of albums. 4 out of 5 are genuine classics, imo.

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Funeral - Arcade Fire (can't believe that's it's only mention)

Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me - the cure

My Aim is True - Elvis Costello

Humbug - Arctic Monkeys

Nevermind - Nirvana

 

Though there are countless others I wish I could include. I've pretty much gone for album I have listened to most, or come back to most often. Though by that logic No Love Lost by The Rifles, The Cribs - The Cribs, Discovery - Daft Punk, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey, Ok Computer - Radiohead, The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses, In The City - The Jam, Different Class - Pulp, Someone to Drive You Home - The Long Blondes, xx - The xx, Up the Bracket - The Libertines, Attack on Memory - Cloud Nothings would all be serious contenders on other days.

 

It's too much to do with how I'm feeling at the moment, or how much I've listened to a given album. I feel St Vincent - St Vincent could be in the running, but it simply hasn't been out long enough to make it a fair fight.

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Funeral - Arcade Fire (can't believe that's it's only mention)

Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me - the cure

My Aim is True - Elvis Costello

Humbug - Arctic Monkeys

Nevermind - Nirvana

 

Though there are countless others I wish I could include. I've pretty much gone for album I have listened to most, or come back to most often. Though by that logic No Love Lost by The Rifles, The Cribs - The Cribs, Discovery - Daft Punk, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey, Ok Computer - Radiohead, The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses, In The City - The Jam, Different Class - Pulp, Someone to Drive You Home - The Long Blondes, xx - The xx, Up the Bracket - The Libertines, Attack on Memory - Cloud Nothings would all be serious contenders on other days.

 

It's too much to do with how I'm feeling at the moment, or how much I've listened to a given album. I feel St Vincent - St Vincent could be in the running, but it simply hasn't been out long enough to make it a fair fight.

 

Ha! Another Long Blondes fan.

 

Kate Jackson sounds ideal, doesn't she? You could have both, hmm?

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Funeral - Arcade Fire (can't believe that's it's only mention)

Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me - the cure

My Aim is True - Elvis Costello

Humbug - Arctic Monkeys

Nevermind - Nirvana

 

Though there are countless others I wish I could include. I've pretty much gone for album I have listened to most, or come back to most often. Though by that logic No Love Lost by The Rifles, The Cribs - The Cribs, Discovery - Daft Punk, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea - PJ Harvey, Ok Computer - Radiohead, The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses, In The City - The Jam, Different Class - Pulp, Someone to Drive You Home - The Long Blondes, xx - The xx, Up the Bracket - The Libertines, Attack on Memory - Cloud Nothings would all be serious contenders on other days.

 

It's too much to do with how I'm feeling at the moment, or how much I've listened to a given album. I feel St Vincent - St Vincent could be in the running, but it simply hasn't been out long enough to make it a fair fight.

 

Some excellent choices in there, but Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me over Disintegration and The Head on the Door?! :shakey:

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Some excellent choices in there, but Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me over Disintegration and The Head on the Door?! :shakey:

 

Haha.

 

I always struggle. The Cure are massive faves of mine I could easily have listed 5 of their albums (The 3 in your post, Three Imaginary Boys, Pornography & The Cure are all up there) but wanted only one per artist. I just really love Catch, If Only We Could Sleep & How Beautiful You Are. Not to mention Just Like Heaven & Why Can't I Be You.

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Haha.

 

I always struggle. The Cure are massive faves of mine I could easily have listed 5 of their albums (The 3 in your post, Three Imaginary Boys, Pornography & The Cure are all up there) but wanted only one per artist. I just really Catch, If Only We Could Sleep & How Beautiful You Are. Not to mention Just Like Heaven & Why Can't I Be You.

 

You could have had "The Greatest Hits". ;)

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I am surprised (but pleased at the good taste) that Marquee Moon by Television has had so any mentions.

 

By my reckoning TSW members must account for 90% of all copies sold :toppa:

 

If we hadn't been restricted to 5, I would have included "Adventure" in my top 10.

 

Everyone is Everybody Else now that was a surprisingly good album.

 

My first taste of them was "Baby James Harvest" which remains my fav.

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If we hadn't been restricted to 5, I would have included "Adventure" in my top 10.

 

My first taste of them was "Baby James Harvest" which remains my fav.

 

My first ever Live Gig was BJH in Salisbury, and the Set List was just about the same as BJH Live, which would certainly be in my Top 10.

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In no particular order...

 

Dean Martin / The Very Best of Dean Martin Volume 1 (I know, I know, that's cheating...)

Tom Waits / Alice

Townes Van Zandt / For the Sake of the Song

Millie Jackson / Caught Up

 

and then any one of Blood on the Tracks, Freewheelin' or Blonde on Blonde by Dylan, but I can't decide between them...

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Albums that I don't get bored of listening to:

 

Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne

Queen Is Dead - Smiths

Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem

Black Noise - Pantha du Prince

Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips

 

Too many others but (seeing as somebody mentioned 30 Something and given the untimely demise of Jon Fat Beast) an honourable mention to 101 Damnations - Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. That album was a precursor to 15 or so of the most adrenaline-fuelled chaotic gigs that I've ever had the pleasure of attending.

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Given my tastes are a little different to most of the posters:

 

1. The Wailers - Burnin'

2. Misty In Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision

3. Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction

4. The Upsetter presents Max Romeo - War Ina Babylon

5. Bunny Wailer - Black Heart Man

 

Honourable mentions to Prince Buster for The Outlaw, Toots and the Maytals for Funky Kingston and Culture for Two Sevens Clash.

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Some surprisingly good choices here considering football fans tend to traditionally err on the side of indie landfill with their music taste. Big thumbs up to the Boards of Canada fans as I have them in my list too.

 

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

Burial - Untrue

Global Communication - 76'14

Broadcast - The Noise Made By People

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

 

Plenty of others could have made the list. Not least Reign In Blood by Slayer, The Ecstatic by Mos Def, It Takes A Nation Of Millions by Public Enemy, Drums & Guns by Low, What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys, Stories From The City by PJ Harvey and Ten by Pearl Jam.

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Given my tastes are a little different to most of the posters:

 

1. The Wailers - Burnin'

2. Misty In Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision

3. Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction

4. The Upsetter presents Max Romeo - War Ina Babylon

5. Bunny Wailer - Black Heart Man

 

Honourable mentions to Prince Buster for The Outlaw, Toots and the Maytals for Funky Kingston and Culture for Two Sevens Clash.

 

Amazing album.

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Yep, Lee Scratch Perry was unbelievable around this time, the Black Ark studio was churning out classic after classic!

 

Super Ape is right up there. Did you see him at the Brook a few months back? He's still a great showman.

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Given my tastes are a little different to most of the posters:

 

1. The Wailers - Burnin'

2. Misty In Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovision

3. Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction

4. The Upsetter presents Max Romeo - War Ina Babylon

5. Bunny Wailer - Black Heart Man

 

Honourable mentions to Prince Buster for The Outlaw, Toots and the Maytals for Funky Kingston and Culture for Two Sevens Clash.

 

Great choices. I love Studio One music and the Heptones 'On Top' album would be one of my top five. Reggae was mostly singles based for me - I still have the shoebox full of 45s - but others would be Prince Far I's 'Under Heavy Manners', Augustus Pablo's 'King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown', 'Exodus' and the Burning Spear live album from the Rainbow in 1977.

 

Other genres - John Coltrane - A Love Supreme ; Dylan - Blood on the Tracks ; the first Clash album; Bill Evans - 'Sunday at the Village Vanguard' - and 'Exile on Coldharbour Lane' by the Alabama 3

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Great choices. I love Studio One music and the Heptones 'On Top' album would be one of my top five. Reggae was mostly singles based for me - I still have the shoebox full of 45s - but others would be Prince Far I's 'Under Heavy Manners', Augustus Pablo's 'King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown', 'Exodus' and the Burning Spear live album from the Rainbow in 1977.

 

Other genres - John Coltrane - A Love Supreme ; Dylan - Blood on the Tracks ; the first Clash album; Bill Evans - 'Sunday at the Village Vanguard' - and 'Exile on Coldharbour Lane' by the Alabama 3

 

All good choices too. What never fails to amaze me is the amount of music Jamaica has produced, they are to music what our Academy is to football. While no reggae artist is ever likely to scale the heights of Bob Marley again, the layers below are just equally fantastic. I have been listening to the Twinkle Brothers, Countrymen while driving around today and some of the tracks are truly outstanding yet hardly anyone will have ever heard of them; which is such a waste. I'm off to the One Love festival this weekend, Rooftop Sound are playing the Sunday so putting aside our city rivalry and off to support them and looking forward to the likes of the Wailing Souls and John Holt.

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Go on then, here's mine.

 

Prefab Sprout - Swoon

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I

Roxy Music - Roxy Music (debut)

Black Box Recorder - England Made Me

Roddy Frame - Surf

 

Hideously, hopelessly white-boy, I know, but then I will forever be a hideous, hopeless white boy. I do own one of those Public Enemy records as well, though. And Born To Do It by Craig David.

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Live albums are ok though I think ;)

 

Now look what you've gone and done!!!

 

Can't even limit them to just 5, but here goes in no specific order.

 

BJH Live, as mentioned above, my first Live Gig was BJH at Salisbury Guildhall and the play list was virtually exactly the same as this album. The Live Version of Mocking Bird is so superior to album version.

 

Made In Japan - The Live Version of Smoke on The Water is right up there in Best Songs Ever category. Take away the all too common (for that era) OTT drum solo on The Mule though.

 

Climax Blues Band - Live FM. Some average tracks, but stuff like 7th Son, So Many Roads and Country Hat make up for them.

 

The Song Remains The Same - as with Made In Japan, take out The marathon drum Solo on Moby ****, but things don't get much better than Dazed and Confused live.

 

Rage Aainst The Machine - Live at The Grand. Just non stop raw aggression from start to finish. Brilliant.

 

Honourable Mentions go to amongst others -

 

Space Ritual by Hawkwind. 4 sides of sheer Space Cadet drug fueled chaos! You have to check out Sonic Attack. Seen them 4 times Live. Awesome.

 

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Live. Vambo Rules!!

 

Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous. Stand out track Still in Love with You.

 

Frampton Comes Alive. Take out some of the dross and it would make a damn good single album. Side 4, Lines on my face and Do You Feel Like I Do, make it worth getting.

 

Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps. Think there may be a few Young Live Albums but I think this is the pick (but could be wrong!!)

 

Take out RATM and the next youngest of that lot is probably 35 - 40 years old ...... Oh My God :rolleyes:

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Now look what you've gone and done!!!

 

Can't even limit them to just 5, but here goes in no specific order.

 

BJH Live, as mentioned above, my first Live Gig was BJH at Salisbury Guildhall and the play list was virtually exactly the same as this album. The Live Version of Mocking Bird is so superior to album version.

 

Made In Japan - The Live Version of Smoke on The Water is right up there in Best Songs Ever category. Take away the all too common (for that era) OTT drum solo on The Mule though.

 

Climax Blues Band - Live FM. Some average tracks, but stuff like 7th Son, So Many Roads and Country Hat make up for them.

 

The Song Remains The Same - as with Made In Japan, take out The marathon drum Solo on Moby ****, but things don't get much better than Dazed and Confused live.

 

Rage Aainst The Machine - Live at The Grand. Just non stop raw aggression from start to finish. Brilliant.

 

Honourable Mentions go to amongst others -

 

Space Ritual by Hawkwind. 4 sides of sheer Space Cadet drug fueled chaos! You have to check out Sonic Attack. Seen them 4 times Live. Awesome.

 

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Live. Vambo Rules!!

 

Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous. Stand out track Still in Love with You.

 

Frampton Comes Alive. Take out some of the dross and it would make a damn good single album. Side 4, Lines on my face and Do You Feel Like I Do, make it worth getting.

 

Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps. Think there may be a few Young Live Albums but I think this is the pick (but could be wrong!!)

 

Take out RATM and the next youngest of that lot is probably 35 - 40 years old ...... Oh My God :rolleyes:

 

Yes, this is a superb album. There are three or four albums of his one could choose as his best. I picked After the Goldrush. First of his I bought (right after it came out). He's always found a way to combine sweet, harmonious folky stuff with hard, edgy electric rock. Rust Never Sleeps is a great example of that sort of combination. And the song "Powderfinger" is fantastic. Love him.

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I picked After the Goldrush. First of his I bought (right after it came out).

 

Jeez there's one for the three in a row thread... Tell Me Why/After The Gold Rush/Only Love Can Break Your Heart or Only Love Can Break Your Heart/Southern Man/Till The Morning Comes or Don't Let It Bring You Down/Birds/When You Dance I Can Really Love.:lol:

 

I played that album every day for more than a year 1970/71.

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