The Great Al***s
Posted by: Guido Fawkes on 13 April 2007
We are often inundated with programmes on CH4 that do top 100s. Wondered if anybody would like to contribute to a list of truly great albums - no restrictions: if you think it's truly great then it should be in the list. Describing it's content and saying why you think it is truly great would be helpful.
quote:Originally posted by ROTF:
Tilt is a great album - why? It’s original. It’s confrontational. It’s evocative.
You're soooooooooo right ROTF!
This album is a must have and a must listen to.
I really like Kirsty MacColl's Kite album, but if I have to restrict my nomination to ne great Kirty album them I would go for Electric Landlady. Why? Because it is a strong album with two of her best songs the Latin style My Affair and the rhythmic Madison[i]. There lots of other good stuff on the album that is often over-looked like [i]All I ever wanted, Halloween and My way home. This a great album. Ah but there is no restriction to say you can only have one album by an artist, it just needs to be great to qualify - so Kite has to be in as one of the great albums.
Just listen to the excerpt from the wonderful Free World or the enchanting You and Me Baby.
Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) - a great artist and a very sad loss at only 41.
quote:Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:quote:Originally posted by ROTF:
Tilt is a great album - why? It’s original. It’s confrontational. It’s evocative.
You're soooooooooo right ROTF!
This album is a must have and a must listen to.
Absolutely, Gianluigi - the album that defies categorisation from a true genius.
From the first sounds of a train in "station to station" until the thin white duke leaves wildly on the wind - we have six songs, 3 per side, all excellent.
Apparently Bowie was so spaced out he doesn't remember this album, but for me it's the one where he finds his voice, he wasn't trying to be anyone else here. Has hints of the darkness that was to follow on his Berlin trilogy and some great funky grooves of white soul.
The standout track has to be "Stay" - as good a rock n' roll riff / opening as there is.
SJB
In their early days I thought Human League were a good band. For me their great album was Travelogue with its austere tone reminiscent of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. The line-up is Martyn Ware, Ian Marsh, Philip Oakey and Adrian Wright - no girl singers and songs about Toyotas, James Burke (remember him - The Black Hit of Space) and WXJL Tonight about a failing radio station.
Some great albums that have that Canterbury feel about them from
Hatfield and the North
Caravan
The Soft Machine
Kevin Ayres and The Whole World
Matching Mole
Robert Wyatt
The Soft Machine
Kevin Ayres
If I were only allowed to buy records by artists who came from two counties and we could count Hastings as being close enough to Kent to be in it - then I could think of no county better than Kent to be in my top two - a county that includes Birkenhead and Liverpool would be my other one.
i think oops is more appropriate 
Ryan
Ryan
Malky
Is that a long list then?
Is that a long list then?
Horslips - The Book of Invasions.
Daybreak
March Into Trouble
Trouble (with a capital T)
The Power and the Glory
The Rocks Remain
Dusk
Sword of Light
Dark
Warm Sweet Breath of Love
Fantasia (My Lagan Love)
King of Morning, Queen of Day
Sideways to the Sun
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Ride to Hell
A celtic symphony in 3 parts. The Book of Invasions is a twelfth century chronicle of the various pre-Christian colonisations of Ireland.
The race who occupied the country before our Gaelic ancestors were the Tuatha De Danann
-the Peoples of the Goddess Danann.
While their origins are unclear we do know that the Tuatha were a mystical race,
handsome and learned, elegantly dressed, expert in every art and science and supreme masters of wizardry.
In the Mythological Cycle their place is among the traditions of Immortals. In fact the Tuatha were so magnificent their existence embarrassed scholars who, when transcribing the legends centuries later did not know whether to regard them as men, demons or fallen angels.
Bravest of all peoples their leaders were wizards first and warriors second whose victories were gained more by superior
knowledge and magic than by warfare. The Agatha De Danann occupied the country and lived in relative peace from 3303 Age of the World until the coming of the Milesian warriors in 3500 Age of the World.
After their defeat at the Battle of Tailteann the Tuatha simply vanished from these islands. Tradition and popular belief has it that the Tuatha, through their esoteric powers, became the Sluagh Sidhe (Thc Fairy Host) and, taking their secrets and mysterious arts with them, entered an occult realm where they remain till this day.
This album is the peak of Horslips output. A blending of traditional airs and power chords that just gets everything right (to see how wrong it can go listen to Roisin dubh from Lizzy's Black Rose album).
Meticulously crafted with several airs reappearing throughout in different contexts.
It should have been bigger than "Riverdance" but alas was Horslips only entry in the UK album chart peaking at no 36.
There is a very good quality re-master done in Abbey Road in 2000 which is well worth getting. Apparently the master tapes were nearly disintegrating while being processed so luckily it was done while they were still intact as this is a masterpiece of an album.
SJB
quote:Originally posted by Sloop John B:
Horslips - The Book of Invasions.
Daybreak
March Into Trouble
Trouble (with a capital T)
The Power and the Glory
The Rocks Remain
Dusk
Sword of Light
Dark
Warm Sweet Breath of Love
Fantasia (My Lagan Love)
King of Morning, Queen of Day
Sideways to the Sun
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Ride to Hell
A celtic symphony in 3 parts. The Book of Invasions is a twelfth century chronicle of the various pre-Christian colonisations of Ireland.
The race who occupied the country before our Gaelic ancestors were the Tuatha De Danann
-the Peoples of the Goddess Danann.
While their origins are unclear we do know that the Tuatha were a mystical race,
handsome and learned, elegantly dressed, expert in every art and science and supreme masters of wizardry.
In the Mythological Cycle their place is among the traditions of Immortals. In fact the Tuatha were so magnificent their existence embarrassed scholars who, when transcribing the legends centuries later did not know whether to regard them as men, demons or fallen angels.
Bravest of all peoples their leaders were wizards first and warriors second whose victories were gained more by superior
knowledge and magic than by warfare. The Agatha De Danann occupied the country and lived in relative peace from 3303 Age of the World until the coming of the Milesian warriors in 3500 Age of the World.
After their defeat at the Battle of Tailteann the Tuatha simply vanished from these islands. Tradition and popular belief has it that the Tuatha, through their esoteric powers, became the Sluagh Sidhe (Thc Fairy Host) and, taking their secrets and mysterious arts with them, entered an occult realm where they remain till this day.
This album is the peak of Horslips output. A blending of traditional airs and power chords that just gets everything right (to see how wrong it can go listen to Roisin dubh from Lizzy's Black Rose album).
Meticulously crafted with several airs reappearing throughout in different contexts.
It should have been bigger than "Riverdance" but alas was Horslips only entry in the UK album chart peaking at no 36.
There is a very good quality re-master done in Abbey Road in 2000 which is well worth getting. Apparently the master tapes were nearly disintegrating while being processed so luckily it was done while they were still intact as this is a masterpiece of an album.
SJB
ROTF,
nothing like rubbing salt in the wounds...
Oh, and cheers for the support on the other thread.
Ryan
nothing like rubbing salt in the wounds...
Oh, and cheers for the support on the other thread.
Ryan
quote:Originally posted by ryan_d:
ROTF,
nothing like rubbing salt in the wounds...
Oh, and cheers for the support on the other thread.
Ryan
You're welcome - which CD player is best is like which music is best - to me it's all opinion. Earlier in this thread there was a debate about being able to say an album was definitively great - I still can't figure that out. I just wanted to know what everybody thought were the great albums - I guessed I wouldn't have heard them all and it is often worth checking out.
Apologies to ewemon - I've been there myself. I gave away my copy of the Beatles Let It Be - the original vinyl in a box with a book. It wasn't quite GSTQ, but I could have bought a decent LP12 with what it's worth now - still I let my decent LP12 go for a song in the 90s, which just goes to show how stupid I can be.
quote:Originally posted by ROTF:quote:Originally posted by ryan_d:
ROTF,
nothing like rubbing salt in the wounds...
Oh, and cheers for the support on the other thread.
Ryan
You're welcome - which CD player is best is like which music is best - to me it's all opinion. Earlier in this thread there was a debate about being able to say an album was definitively great - I still can't figure that out. I just wanted to know what everybody thought were the great albums - I guessed I wouldn't have heard them all and it is often worth checking out.
Apologies to ewemon - I've been there myself. I gave away my copy of the Beatles Let It Be - the original vinyl in a box with a book. It wasn't quite GSTQ, but I could have bought a decent LP12 with what it's worth now - still I let my decent LP12 go for a song in the 90s, which just goes to show how stupid I can be.
All I can say re yours is ouch!!!!!
I gave away my whole record collection to a couple of friends as I got fed up handling albums. I would hate to tell you how much it was worth now as I used to get pre- release copies of just about anything. In amongst that lot were white labels of all the Floyd albums from Wish onwards. A white label of Clapton's Slowhand which by the way was one of the first disc to have a signal embedded in the grooves that meant you couldn't record it onto cassette or Reel to Reel. They didn't release it that way.
My collection when I gave it away was well over 6000 albums, 2500 singles. I couldn't be bothered going through all the hassle of selling it on eBay.
I currently store my, wait for it LP12 in a drawer unused.
The madness continues.