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Tango · In the Long Grass

Top Albums

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Top ten without sticking five Pulp albums in it. Tricky, so I'll just pick one per band.

Ignoring compilations (like Chas n Dave's Greatest Hits), here's a quick 30, not necessarily ranked in order, and probably missing another 20 I could easily tack on...

Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
Suede - Dog Man Star
Radiohead - The Bends
Boomtown Rats - A Tonic for the Troops
Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
JJ72 - JJ72
Flys - Own
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
T. Rex - Bolan Boogie
Blur - Parklife
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!!
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Stranglers - Black & White
The House Of Love - The House of Love
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Slade - Slayed?
The White Stripes - Elephant
The Strokes - Is This It
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Arcade Fire - Reflector
XTC - English Settlement
Velvet Underground & Nico - Andy Warhol
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Razorlight - Up All Night
Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet

A fairly predictable glam/punk/new wave/baggy/britpop list I suppose...

http://boomtownrats.activeboard.com/t39482270/what-other-music-do-you-like/

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

I had forgotten The Kinks - Low Budget, James - Seven, Nirvana - Nevermind, Kula Shaker- K, Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight and Oasis - What's The Story...

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Mine won't be too popular amongst some

1. The Boomtown Rats
2. A Tonic for the Troops
3. U2 - All that you can't leave behind (probably all their albums apart the the latest)
3. The Zutons - Tired of Hanging Around
4. Razor light - Up All Night
5. white Lies - To Lose My Life
7. Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
8. U2 - How to dismantle an atomic bom
9. The Arctic Monkeys - AM
10. In the long grass (because it has Dave on it)
11. REM - Automatic for the people
12. Gabrielle - Rise
13. The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The bollocks
14. Pink - Funhouse
15. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
16. The Zutons - You can do anything
17. Cold Play - A rush of blood to the head

I probably overran by putting all of U2's albums up there. more Rats, Aerosmoth, Leonard Cohen, Rainbow will all feature but not sure which album. So many to choose from.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Need a bit more time to get full details but definitely I would include albums by:

Captain Beefheart, XTC,Clinic, Boomtown Rats, The Saints, Momus, Magazine, Scott Walker, Echo and the Bunnymen, Geneva

I'll think it through over the weekend smile

noelindublin · Loudmouth

i give all 6 Rats albums equal top placing!

Albums I rate very highly:

Capt Beefheart Trout Mask Replica 1969

Momus - the Poison Boyfried- 1989 Tender Pervert,

Band Of Holy Joy- Manic Magic Majestic-1987

Echo/Bunnymen -Crocodiles (debut album)-1980

XTC -Skylarking, Black sea, Drums and Wires- '86, '80, '79 respectively

Geneva-Further 1997

Dexys Midnight Runners- Searching For The YOung Soul Rebels-1980

Carter USM-101 Damnations, 30 Something, The Love Album, early '90's

Magazine-Real life, Secondhand Daylight, The Correct Use of Soap-late 70's

Scott Walker - all 4 solo albums late sixties

Marc Almond-Mother Fist, The Stars We Are,Stories of Johnny-

The Saints-I'm Stranded, Evernally Yours,

The Only Ones- Even Serpents Shine, Baby's Got a Gun

Clinic-Internal Wrangler, Walking With Thee, Winchester cathederal

Moondog - The Viking of 6th Avenue

Laurie Anderson-Big Science, Strange Angels

Tango · In the Long Grass

Some crackin' choices, although we'd all be terrible Desert Island Discs guests. Would belatedly add Sex Pistols -Flogging a Dead Horse (compilation, I know, cheating) and Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink. And to cheat, would replace Pogues IISFFGWG with Pogues in Paris, 'cause they are the best live band I've ever seen.

Anyway, now rectifying the realisation from these lists that I've never listened to a whole Pulp or Echo & the Bunnymen album. To Spotify!

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Tango wrote:
Anyway, now rectifying the realisation from these lists that I've never listened to a whole Pulp or Echo & the Bunnymen album. To Spotify!

Regarding Pulp,it's best to start and Intro or His 'n' Hers and go chronlogically from there. The albums before that can be a little challenging (like Freaks), and the latter ones only make sense when you know what has gone before. Hardcore is a great album but wouldn't be the best place to start...

Tango · In the Long Grass

ArrGee wrote:
Tango wrote:
Anyway, now rectifying the realisation from these lists that I've never listened to a whole Pulp or Echo & the Bunnymen album. To Spotify!
Regarding Pulp,it's best to start and Intro or His 'n' Hers and go chronlogically from there. The albums before that can be a little challenging (like Freaks), and the latter ones only make sense when you know what has gone before. Hardcore is a great album but wouldn't be the best place to start...

Grand, thanks, as the resident Pulp authority I'll trust your guidance and start at His 'n' Hers. Although looking up Hardcore tracklisting has reminded me of this actually quite good compilation album that came free with a copy of Q sometime in the early 00s - http://www.discogs.com/Various-Rule-Britannia/release/717011

noelindublin · Loudmouth

ArrGee wrote:
Tango wrote:
Anyway, now rectifying the realisation from these lists that I've never listened to a whole Pulp or Echo & the Bunnymen album. To Spotify!
Regarding Pulp,it's best to start and Intro or His 'n' Hers and go chronlogically from there. The albums before that can be a little challenging (like Freaks), and the latter ones only make sense when you know what has gone before. Hardcore is a great album but wouldn't be the best place to start...

I just know the Pulp singles and bits and pieces rather than the full albums. I'll download a few of the album tracks from Hardcore and see if I like them. Not sure if you ever saw Pulp doing Stacks and a few other tracks on Irish tv around 92/93. I was them live in Dublin around that time- I think the venue was somewhere near Vicar St, though the name escapes me.

No just found info on Pulp in Dublin. It was a programme called Rock The Garden April 1993.

http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/2April1993JMTVRocksTheGarden

-- Edited by noelindublin on Monday 2nd of February 2015 01:39:10 PM

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Tango wrote:
ArrGee wrote:
Tango wrote:
Anyway, now rectifying the realisation from these lists that I've never listened to a whole Pulp or Echo & the Bunnymen album. To Spotify!
Regarding Pulp,it's best to start and Intro or His 'n' Hers and go chronlogically from there. The albums before that can be a little challenging (like Freaks), and the latter ones only make sense when you know what has gone before. Hardcore is a great album but wouldn't be the best place to start...
Grand, thanks, as the resident Pulp authority I'll trust your guidance and start at His 'n' Hers. Although looking up Hardcore tracklisting has reminded me of this actually quite good compilation album that came free with a copy of Q sometime in the early 00s - http://www.discogs.com/Various-Rule-Britannia/release/717011

I've just downloaded The Fear/Dishes/I'm a Man from This is Hardcore. Will give a review when I get a chance to listen to the songs later. smile

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Tango wrote:
Some crackin' choices, although we'd all be terrible Desert Island Discs guests. Would belatedly add Sex Pistols -Flogging a Dead Horse (compilation, I know, cheating) and Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink. And to cheat, would replace Pogues IISFFGWG with Pogues in Paris, 'cause they are the best live band I've ever seen.

Anyway, now rectifying the realisation from these lists that I've never listened to a whole Pulp or Echo & the Bunnymen album. To Spotify!

The first two Supergrass albums are brilliant- I Should Coco and In It For The Money. Also Beatles White Album/Revolver, Sgt Peppers.

Lee · She's So Modern

Sex Pistols-Never Mind the Bollocks
Housemartins-London 0 Hull 4
The Fine Art of Surfacing
Bowie-Scary Monsters
Bowie-Diamond Dogs
Morrissey-You Are The Quarry
Iggy and the Stooges-Raw Power
Iggy Pop-Lust For Life
A Tonic For The Troops
Smiths-Strangeways Here We Come

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
I've just downloaded The Fear/Dishes/I'm a Man from This is Hardcore. Will give a review when I get a chance to listen to the songs later.

Straight in with the more challenging material! I must admit that individually the Hardcore tracks don't always sound right in isloation but they all work together. Julian Cope albums are like that. Jehovahkill and Peggy Suicide are quite brilliant, but when I listen to the tracks on shuffle, they don't seem as great.

suss · In the Long Grass

Ok, without thinking too hard, and not necessarily in order, I'll go with...

The Stones roses debut

A Tonic for the Troops

Rum Sodomy and the Lash - Pogues

Clash - debut (import version)

The World Won't Listen - Smiths

Machine Gun Etiquette - Damned

Doolittle - Pixies

The Boomtown Rats

30 Something - Carter USM

One Step Beyond - Madness

Would/should probably have had one of All Mod Cons/Setting Sons/Sound Affects but couldn't split them, hence exclusion.

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

OK, just for a laugh, these are the albums I remember loving to listen to in late 1970s/1980s - I would have to think too hard to come up with all time faves, but this is a start!

Obviously, first 3 Rats albums

Reality Effect - Tourists

Absolutely - Madness

Blondie - debut one, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat to the Beat

Dire Straits - debut, Communique, Making Movies (ok and all the rest!)

Abba - Super Trouper (and the rest!)

Shakin' Stevens - Shaky (gulp! - a short-lived phase!)

ELO - Out of the Blue

Rainbow - Down To Earth

Men At Work - Business As Usual

Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane (and most of the others too)

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story

Feline - Stranglers

Kinks - ... Village Green Preservation Society, State of Confusion

Steel Wheels - Rolling Stones

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

Can't believe I forgot to include Queen!! Add them to the list

suss · In the Long Grass

Yeah but which Queen album? Don't think we should be counting greatest hits type stuff.

I was iffy about including World Won't listen but that was more of a mix of old and new from memory.

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

suss wrote:
Yeah but which Queen album? Don't think we should be counting greatest hits type stuff.
I was iffy about including World Won't listen but that was more of a mix of old and new from memory.

OK, fair cop!

It would have to be A Day At the Races ..

suss · In the Long Grass

On reflection I might have to include Jazz...not for the tracks though. Only for that Bicycle Race poster...saw me through my teens very nicely wink

suss · In the Long Grass

For the unititiated...was 3 times the width of album. About the only poster which was allowed space between the Rats ones. Mind you, there was more space on the ceiling biggrin

suss · In the Long Grass

Ooops...meant uninitiated..honest!

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Would/should probably have had one of All Mod Cons/Setting Sons/Sound Affects but couldn't split them, hence exclusion.

I excluded Snap! as it was a compilation, but it is an album I listen to frequently. Likewise A Secret History from Divine Comedy.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Ooops...meant uninitiated..honest!

intitiated is more honest. my ar$e. or ar$es in this case.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

ArrGee wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
I've just downloaded The Fear/Dishes/I'm a Man from This is Hardcore. Will give a review when I get a chance to listen to the songs later.
Straight in with the more challenging material! I must admit that individually the Hardcore tracks don't always sound right in isloation but they all work together. Julian Cope albums are like that. Jehovahkill and Peggy Suicide are quite brilliant, but when I listen to the tracks on shuffle, they don't seem as great.

Sometimes listening to a full album can be a bit daunting,and it's easier to take in a few tracks at a time. That way you 'absorb' them better rather then them all melting into one. I thought they were really good.I'm a Man was the best of the 3, more upbeat musically which tends to help.

The man with the same initials as Jesus Christ is just a fantastic lyricist. All the songs themes are very clear, you know just what is he talking about-none of that cryptic crossword nonsense you get form some songwriters. Anyway they are on my current playlist, pumping on my stereo and I'll download a few of the others later. I understand about listening to an album in full, and sums of parts etc, equally if you hear a song on the radio it is out of 'context' too. In the end good songs are good songs and they should work as individual units.

Nice to know anytime I get The Fear Jarvis will be there to sooth me. smile

Tango · In the Long Grass

suss wrote:
For the unititiated...was 3 times the width of album. About the only poster which was allowed space between the Rats ones. Mind you, there was more space on the ceiling

I think this may be the first time I've been able to muster any real interest in a Queen album....

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Tango wrote:
suss wrote:
For the unititiated...was 3 times the width of album. About the only poster which was allowed space between the Rats ones. Mind you, there was more space on the ceiling
I think this may be the first time I've been able to muster any real interest in a Queen album....

Not sure if you have seen the Stephenie Roche 'wonder goal', for Peamount United in Dublin. Worth a look for anyone who missed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOuMWiGMrU&src_vid=qpBvBRn4juw&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotati

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
Tango wrote:
suss wrote:
For the unititiated...was 3 times the width of album. About the only poster which was allowed space between the Rats ones. Mind you, there was more space on the ceiling
I think this may be the first time I've been able to muster any real interest in a Queen album....
Not sure if you have seen the Stephenie Roche 'wonder goal', for Peamount United in Dublin. Worth a look for anyone who missed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOuMWiGMrU&src_vid=qpBvBRn4juw&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotati

ROFLMFAO how is that in any way relevant?

noelindublin · Loudmouth

ArrGee wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
Tango wrote:
suss wrote:
For the unititiated...was 3 times the width of album. About the only poster which was allowed space between the Rats ones. Mind you, there was more space on the ceiling
I think this may be the first time I've been able to muster any real interest in a Queen album....
Not sure if you have seen the Stephenie Roche 'wonder goal', for Peamount United in Dublin. Worth a look for anyone who missed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOuMWiGMrU&src_vid=qpBvBRn4juw&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotati
ROFLMFAO how is that in any way relevant?

Only relevant in that Tango likes football,and might be interested in seeing a girl score a brilliant goal.Was continuing sporting thread of girls on bikes to girls playing football.

Tango · In the Long Grass

noelindublin wrote:
ArrGee wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
Tango wrote:
suss wrote:
For the unititiated...was 3 times the width of album. About the only poster which was allowed space between the Rats ones. Mind you, there was more space on the ceiling
I think this may be the first time I've been able to muster any real interest in a Queen album....
Not sure if you have seen the Stephenie Roche 'wonder goal', for Peamount United in Dublin. Worth a look for anyone who missed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOuMWiGMrU&src_vid=qpBvBRn4juw&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotati
ROFLMFAO how is that in any way relevant?
Only relevant in that Tango likes football,and might be interested in seeing a girl score a brilliant goal.Was continuing sporting thread of girls on bikes to girls playing football.

And it is a damn fine goal, now we wait for the first women's winner of the Puskas!

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Tango wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
ArrGee wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
Tango wrote:
suss wrote:
For the unititiated...was 3 times the width of album. About the only poster which was allowed space between the Rats ones. Mind you, there was more space on the ceiling
I think this may be the first time I've been able to muster any real interest in a Queen album....
Not sure if you have seen the Stephenie Roche 'wonder goal', for Peamount United in Dublin. Worth a look for anyone who missed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQOuMWiGMrU&src_vid=qpBvBRn4juw&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotati
ROFLMFAO how is that in any way relevant?
Only relevant in that Tango likes football,and might be interested in seeing a girl score a brilliant goal.Was continuing sporting thread of girls on bikes to girls playing football.

And it is a damn fine goal, now we wait for the first women's winner of the Puskas!

Well it got lots of publicity in Ireland anyway. I think the fact that it was more intention than luck helped. Now back to the music or we'll be in trouble. smile

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:

ROFLMFAO how is that in any way relevant?
Only relevant in that Tango likes football,and might be interested in seeing a girl score a brilliant goal.Was continuing sporting thread of girls on bikes to girls playing football.

WTF has that picture got to do with sport? You ain't looking at it properly.

Tango · In the Long Grass

To veer on topic, two modern gems I'd forgotten about - Imogen Heap's Ellipse and Perfume Genius' Put Your Back N 2 It.

Also, never really got Peter Gabriel (besides Biko) but recently New Blood proving an excellent post-breakup album (big orchestral sounds, good for anger). Must go into the back catalogue for non-orchestral versions.

And A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse - Faces, another party I'm late to, but excellent.