Stay Positive Posted 28 November 2011 Share Posted 28 November 2011 If you're as sad as me and have too much time on your hands, post your own top 40 of the decade...and if you can, try to leave it at one album per artist (I've enforced that rule upon myself to prevent almost my entire list being made up of Neil Young and Tom Waits albums... 1) The Specials - The Specials (1979) 2) Neil Young - Harvest (1972) 3) Tom Waits - The Heart Of Saturday Night (1974) 4) The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978) 5) Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman (1970) 6) Madness - One Step Beyond (1979) 7) Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (1978) 8) The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (1979) 9) John Martyn - Solid Air (1973) 10) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971) 11) Slade - Slade In Flame (1975) 12) David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972) 13) The Saints - (I'm) Stranded (1977) 14) Bob Dylan - Desire (1976) 15) The Jam - All Mod Cons (1978) 16) XTC - Drums & Wires (1979) 17) Blue Ash - No More No Less (1973) 18) Slaughter and The Dogs - Do It Dog Style (1978) 19) Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (1970) 20) The Stranglers - No More Heroes (1977) 21) Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Armed Forces (1979) 22) Van Morrison - Moondance (1970) 23) Ozark Mountain Daredevils - It'll Shine When It Shines (1974) 24) The Ramones - The Ramones (1976) 25) Big Star - #1 Record (1972) 26) The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials (1979) 27) Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) 28) Wire - Chairs Missing (1978) 29) The MC5 - Back In The USA (1970) 30) Richard Hell and The Voidoids - Blank Generation (1977) 31) The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (1979) 32) The Doors - Morrison Hotel (1970) 33) Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Scream (1978) 34) T.Rex - The Slider (1972) 35) The Undertones - The Undertones (1979) 36) Television - Marquee Moon (1977) 37) Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson (1971) 38) Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (1978) 39) The Who - Who's Next (1971) 40) Blondie - Parallel Lines (1978) (just missing out: Lou Reed - Transformer, Montrose - Montrose, Fleetwood Mac - Rumours, Bob Marley and The Wailers - Catch A Fire, Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks, Peter Tosh - Legalize It, The Flys - Waikiki Beach Refugees, Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell, Gang Of Four - Entertainment, The Carpettes - Frustration Paradise) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Honcho Posted 28 November 2011 Share Posted 28 November 2011 Haven't got time to go through e40 albums but I'd say: Anything produced by John Leckie, Martin Hannett, Colin Thurston, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Chris Parry, Bill Price, Chris Thomas, Steve Lilywhite, Conrad Plank and many many more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay Positive Posted 28 November 2011 Author Share Posted 28 November 2011 Haven't got time to go through e40 albums but I'd say: Anything produced by John Leckie, Martin Hannett, Colin Thurston, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Chris Parry, Bill Price, Chris Thomas, Steve Lilywhite, Conrad Plank and many many more Good shouts all, especially Leckie. That man has produced many of the greatest albums of all time. I actually heard a demo of The Stone Roses debut album before he'd got his hands on it and it was pitiful until he'd worked his magic. Brilliant producer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 29 November 2011 Share Posted 29 November 2011 70s are not my favourite era - I'd struggle to do 40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay Positive Posted 1 December 2011 Author Share Posted 1 December 2011 70s are not my favourite era - I'd struggle to do 40 Surely you can stretch to ten, at least, Trav? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 1 December 2011 Share Posted 1 December 2011 I thought about it for fifteen minutes and realised that apart from a few obvious albums already in your list, my 70s music collection is largely selected singles. I was a child listening to my mum and dads 50s/60s music at this time and the 70s passed me by and I've only revisited it for Neil Young's and Tom Waits' albums really. I'd like to champion Pink Moon by Nick Drake and Transformer by Lou Reed as stonking albums from the 70s as yet unmentioned though (aside from Neil Young's/Tom Waits' back catalogue and some from your list.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay Positive Posted 1 December 2011 Author Share Posted 1 December 2011 I thought about it for fifteen minutes and realised that apart from a few obvious albums already in your list, my 70s music collection is largely selected singles. I was a child listening to my mum and dads 50s/60s music at this time and the 70s passed me by and I've only revisited it for Neil Young's and Tom Waits' albums really. I'd like to champion Pink Moon by Nick Drake and Transformer by Lou Reed as stonking albums from the 70s as yet unmentioned though (aside from Neil Young's/Tom Waits' back catalogue and some from your list.) I did mention Lou Reed actually - he was my first "didn't quite make it". Good call on Nick Drake though. I like his music a lot but aside from a compilation I've never actually owned any of his albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay Positive Posted 30 December 2011 Author Share Posted 30 December 2011 Just bumping this one so that when it sinks with the other two threads, at least they'll be together and hence easier to find... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 30 December 2011 Share Posted 30 December 2011 As much as you try, nobody likes the 70s, just leave it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay Positive Posted 30 December 2011 Author Share Posted 30 December 2011 As much as you try, nobody likes the 70s, just leave it! I dread to think how few replies I'll get when i do the 60's. Perhaps I won't bother going as far back as the 50's anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted 1 January 2012 Share Posted 1 January 2012 Just a few of mine from the 70s Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks The Specials - The Specials The Police - Regatta De Blanc PIL - First Issue The Clash - London Calling Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream Joy Division -Unknown Pleassures The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette THe Skids - Scared To Dance The Ruts - The Crack The Stranglers - No More Heroes Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Armed Forces Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Blondie - Parallel Lines The Jam - Setting Sons David Bowie - Young Americans The Who - Quadrophenia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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