Your Top 5 Albums

[Finnegan]

3 minutes ago, onekeithweller said:

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

 

Oh the rest are very very different I'm afraid. 

 

But @Mark will be pleased to find another post rock fan and will have a hundred recommendations for you. In fact his top five albums probably will all be post rock haha. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

One of these is not like the rest

 

I've never been able to work out if The Darkness were a parody band or not.

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, onekeithweller said:

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

Try some Mogwai

[Trav Le Bleu]

Like @bovril said earlier, would very much depend on the day.

 

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Screamadelica - Primal Scream

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Harvest - Neil Young

The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips

 

But I had a real hard time picking those five. I thought of numerous albums by The Cure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spiritualized, Radiohead, Portishead, Grandaddy, Mercury Rev, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Fontaines DC, Alt-J, Public Service Broadcasting, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Hives, New Order ... the list goes on plus more albums by the artists of the top 5

[spacemunky]

Again....could post a different top 5 on a different day, but these 5 are certainly some of my faves:

 

OK Computer - Radiohead
Abbey Road - The Beatles
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
London Calling - The Clash
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths

[Dr Marco]

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

Oasis - Definetely Maybe

Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

Mark Knopfler - Golden Heart

[Foxdiamond]

24 minutes ago, Dr Marco said:

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

Oasis - Definetely Maybe

Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

Mark Knopfler - Golden Heart

Noted that Richard Bennett played on both the Neil Diamond album I listed and your Mark Knopfler choice

[Dr Marco]

1 hour ago, Foxdiamond said:

Noted that Richard Bennett played on both the Neil Diamond album I listed and your Mark Knopfler choice

great musician for sure!

[Bellend Sebastian]

6 hours ago, Libertine said:

It's a genuinely great album. 

 

6 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

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

 

I mean I remember The Datsuns releasing records but I had almost no sense of what they were about even then. 

 

4 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I've never been able to work out if The Darkness were a parody band or not.

When I say I like the Darkness the most common reaction I get is surprise that they're still going. I saw them in July play to a crowd of a few thousand and their albums generally get into the top 20, but if you're not a fan they're very easily missed. 

 

I think the best way to understand The Darkness is to treat them as being a celebration of rock music with a pretty unashamed remit to entertain above all else. They are fantastically talented musicians and songwriters and are basically churning out pretty accessible pop/rock frequently "borrowing" styles from other rock acts which they're good enough to pull off without it just seeming like a piss poor copy. I'm never going to sit through a Whitesnake or Motorhead album but I like them enough to cheerily listen to good songs that sound a bit like them, and there's not much chance of new music from them or Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy or whoever.

 

It's all done with a confidence and ease that lets it be fun, which is probably what made them get up the nose of a lot of other bands and 'serious' rock fans. It's not a joke but why can't it be a laugh? I think it's better to be intentionally amusing than unwittingly triggering mirth when the same old bores proclaim their latest long player a ground breaking triumph when it's the same old meat and potatoes, sometimes with a few samples on.

 

If anyone gets the chance to see them live I think of all the dozens of acts I've seen over the years I'm pretty sure that a neutral would have a better chance of enjoying themselves than with anybody else, to be honest.

 

I actually had most of that written in my head from when I started the "Why I Love..." thread in the music forum, attracting effectively zero contributions from any of you buggers. It might have helped if I hadn't started it with my thoughts on Gorky's Zygotic Mynci but you know, benefit of hindsight and all that

[Foxdiamond]

15 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

 

I mean I remember The Datsuns releasing records but I had almost no sense of what they were about even then. 

 

When I say I like the Darkness the most common reaction I get is surprise that they're still going. I saw them in July play to a crowd of a few thousand and their albums generally get into the top 20, but if you're not a fan they're very easily missed. 

 

I think the best way to understand The Darkness is to treat them as being a celebration of rock music with a pretty unashamed remit to entertain above all else. They are fantastically talented musicians and songwriters and are basically churning out pretty accessible pop/rock frequently "borrowing" styles from other rock acts which they're good enough to pull off without it just seeming like a piss poor copy. I'm never going to sit through a Whitesnake or Motorhead album but I like them enough to cheerily listen to good songs that sound a bit like them, and there's not much chance of new music from them or Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy or whoever.

 

It's all done with a confidence and ease that lets it be fun, which is probably what made them get up the nose of a lot of other bands and 'serious' rock fans. It's not a joke but why can't it be a laugh? I think it's better to be intentionally amusing than unwittingly triggering mirth when the same old bores proclaim their latest long player a ground breaking triumph when it's the same old meat and potatoes, sometimes with a few samples on.

 

If anyone gets the chance to see them live I think of all the dozens of acts I've seen over the years I'm pretty sure that a neutral would have a better chance of enjoying themselves than with anybody else, to be honest.

 

I actually had most of that written in my head from when I started the "Why I Love..." thread in the music forum, attracting effectively zero contributions from any of you buggers. It might have helped if I hadn't started it with my thoughts on Gorky's Zygotic Mynci but you know, benefit of hindsight and all that

Some people get a bit sniffy if heaven forbid a rock band should be  showbiz as well.

[Daggers]

Today's Top 12, because fvck top fives and fvck forever

• UK Subs - Another Kind Of Blues
• SLF - Nobody's Heroes
• The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
• Kate Bush - Never For Ever
• 10cc - Deceptive Bends
• Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
• Michael Oldfield - Tubular Bells
• Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
• Killing Joke - Killing Joke
• Morphine -Cure For Pain
• NMA - No Rest For The Wicked
• Nick Cave - Push The Sky Away

 

[Daggers]

4 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Screamadelica - Primal Scream

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Harvest - Neil Young

And these four

[Daggers]

2 hours ago, spacemunky said:

Abbey Road - The Beatles
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
London Calling - The Clash

And these three

[Dr Marco]

yep! classics!

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

I'll shove another five in then now that precedent's been set...

 

The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

Jeffrey Lewis and Jack Lewis - City and Eastern Songs 

The Fall - Fall Heads Roll

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe

 

 

 

[Daggers]

And fvck everyone for not including This Nation's Saving Grace

[Bellend Sebastian]

1 minute ago, Daggers said:

And fvck everyone for not including This Nation's Saving Grace

That was the first Fall album I got actually, after hearing John Peel play "Spoilt Victorian Child", still sing under my breath when someone's kid (and sometimes my own) has been acting the twat to this day.

 

I am a monster myself as I prefer late period Fall

[Daggers]

1 minute ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I am a monster myself as I prefer late period Fall

Heathen

 

I've had late night town centre fights over less*

 

*I've not had a late night town centre fight for at least thirty years**

 

**I've not had a late night town centre fight over a Fall album preference ever***

 

***Or any late night town centre fights

[The Syrup]

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Radiohead - OK Computer 

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

I would add, almost all Grandaddy, Pixies, The Cure, New Order, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, Radiohead, REM, Ash, Portishead, My Bloody Valentine (I knew I'd forget one! Loveless!) albums.

 

 

 

To date, all Fontaines DC albums are superb.

[Wakeyfox]

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

 

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

 

El-P - Cancer 4 Cure

 

Jamie T - Panic Prevention

 

Arctic Monkeys - WPSIATWIN

[Daggers]

[Finnegan]

5 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

 

!!!

[Finnegan]

5 hours ago, Daggers said:

 

If this were truly Lemmy, the entire mountain in the background would need to be covered in Marshall stacks 

[SpacedX]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

 

If this were truly Lemmy, the entire mountain in the background would need to be covered in Marshall stacks 

I requested an audition with an at the time, reasonably well known band in London in 1989 and tracked them down to a nightclub called Gossips. They entertained my interest - patronised me, but unbeknown to me already had a guitar player lined up. I sat at the bar with Lemmy, who was propping it up and he told me not to waste my time on a bunch of egotistical prima donnas. He bought me a few drinks - top shelf - and was happy to dredge up stories about Hawkwind and his past at my behest - no pretence, self-deprecating as ever, whilst showing a genuine interest in my ambitions. I shit you not - 15 years later I walked into the Rainbow on Sunset LA and he was in his customary position at the bar. I headed over grinning and iwithout really looking up he said, "What the **** kept you? You owe me a single malt pal. Double neat. Your round". Absolute salt of the Earth that bloke. RIP.