Name a classic al***.
Posted by: Consciousmess on 10 October 2009
Hi all,
I have been thinking over the past few days that what one person thinks of as being a great collection of lyrics, another doesn't. However, what one person thinks of as an uplifting, spine-tingling piece of music I postulate as being more universal as this is an autonomic reaction that evolved through arousal and is linked to our ancestors' hair standing on edge to alert the enemy that they are bigger than they are and that they.... back off!!
Now I apologise for the partial ramble in this post, but I like to inform the forum the origins of my questions. To me, a classic album includes albums such as the following:
Dark Side of the Moon
Swan Lake
Abbey Road
Moonlight Sonata
There are MANY more that I rate really highly, but if you could all bear in mind the criteria I opened this post with, I'd love to hear others that you classify as being classic albums.
Many thanks!!
Jon
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by luxen2
Metallica - Master of puppets
Led Zeppelin I - IV
Jingo de Lunch - Axe to grind
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Cure - Disintegration
Supertramp - Crime of the century
Slayer - Reign in blood
Counting Crows - August and everything
Long Distance Calling - Satellite bay
Coheed and Cambria - Keeping the secret of....
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Colin Lorenson
Who's Next
Mark Hollis solo
Arvo Part - Te Deum - ECM new Series
Joni - Hissing of Summer lawns
Bill Frisell - Gone, Just like a train
John Martyn - Solid Air
and many others
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Guido Fawkes
Here's a few classics
Iron Maiden - 666 The Number of the Beast
Talking Heads - 77
Pulp - A Different Class
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Ten Years After - A Space in Time
Attack, The - About Time
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Rolling Stones, The - Aftermath
Buggles, The - Age of Plastic
Curved Air - Air Conditioning
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Rutles, The - All You Need Is Cash
Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Animals, The - Animalism
Grateful Dead, The - Anthem of the Sun
Shirley and Dolly Collins - Anthems In Eden
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture And Morality
Jimi Hendrix - Are you Expierienced
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Third World War - Armageddon
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Shocking Blue - At Home
Flanders and Swan - At the Drop of a Hat
Tangerine Dream - Atem
Wimple Winch - Atmosphere
Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Trans Europe Express
Mary Black - Babes In The Wood
Half Man Half Biscuit - Back in the DHSS, Trouble over Bridgewater, Cammell Laird Social Club, Achtung Bono
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band On The Run
Jenna Wills - Barefoot and Eager
Grace Slick and Friends - Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun
Pentangle, The - Basket of Light
Lou Rhodes - Beloved
Beverley Craven - Beverley Craven
Jo Jo Gunne - Bite Down Hard
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Waking The Witch - Boys from the Abattoir
Marianne Faithful - Broken English
Bellowhead - Burlesque
Strawbs, The - Bursting at the Seams
Hollies, The - Butterfly
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Doobie Brothers - Captain and Me
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
CCS - CCS
John Fogerty - Centrefield
Gerry Rafferty - City to City.
Yes - Close to the Edge
Planxty - Cold Blow and the Rainy Night
Wallenstein - Cosmic Century
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Moody Blues, The - Days of Future Passed
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Steve Gibbons Band, The - Down In The Bunker
Rainbow - Down To Earth
Dusty Sprinfield - Dusty in Memphis
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Eddi Reader - Eddi Reader
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Country Joe and The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Delia Derbyshire - Electrosonic
Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - ELP, Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibition, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
Faust - Faust
Byrds, The - Fifth Dimension
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Pink Moon
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Flying Lizzards, The - Flying Lizzards, The
Shirley Collins & Davy Graham - Folk Roots New Roots
Love - Forever Changes
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Framed (only elpee I know about Naim kit)
Beaver and Krause - Gandharva
Garbage - Garbage
Duncan Browne - Give Me, Take You
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Gryphon - Gryphon
Electric Prunes, The - Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Altan - Harvest
Heads, Hands & Feet - Heads, Hands & Feet
Free - Heartbreaker
Medicine Head - Heavy On The Drum
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Fairfield Palour - Home From Home
Patti Smith - Horses
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Kate Rusby - Hourglass
Richard Digance - How The West Was Lost
Robert Calvert - Hype
Richard Thompson - I Want To see The Bright Lights Tonight
Led Zeppelin - III
Plainsong - In Search of Amelia Earhart
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Atomic Rooster - In the Hearing of Atomic Rooster
Caravan - In The Land Of The Grey And Pink
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermint
Jackie Oates - Jackie Oates
Amboy Dukes, The - Journey To The Centre Of The Mind
Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy, Whateveshebringswesing
Juicy Lucy - Juicy Lucy
July - July
Steamhammer - Junior's Wailing
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
Bonzo Dog Band - Keynsham
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Dr Strangely Strange - Kip of the Serenes
Kirsty MaCall - Kite
Doors, The - LA Woman
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Fairport Convention - Liege and Leif
Chas & Dave - Live at Abbey Road with Albert Lee
Clash, The - London’s Calling
Alice Cooper Group, The - Love It To Death
Status Quo - Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Noel Coward - Mad About The Boy
Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Elton John - Empty Sky
Kevin Coyne - Majorie Razorblade, Dynamite Daze
Television - Marquee Moon
Camel - Mirage
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia - Mother Earth
Move, The - Movements
Focus - Moving Waves
C.O.B - Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart
Traffic - Mr Fantasy
Family - Music From A Doll’s House
Band, The - Music from the Big Pink
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Peter Hammil - Nadir's Big Chance
Desperate Bicycles, The - New Cross, New Cross
Walker Brothers, The - Nite Flights
Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremblin' Kind
Eloy - Ocean
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Small Faces, The - Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling
Trees - On The Shore
Barclay James Harvest - Once Again
Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground
Bothy Band - Out of the Wind into the Sun
REM - Out of Time
Harry Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show
Jo Mango - Paperclips and Sand
Steeleye Span - Parcel Of Rouges
Blur - Park Life
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Petula Clark - Petula Clark In Memphis
Wire - Pink Flag
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Magnesium Proverbs
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Prophets Seers and Sages The Angels of the Ages
Lightning Seeds - Pure
Stranglers, The - Rattus Norvegicus
Second Hand - Reality
John Miles - Rebel
Fleurs Des Lys - Reflections
Fred Simon - Remember The River
Tubeway Army - Replicas
Christy Moore - Ride On
Argent - Ring Of Hands
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Hatfield & The North - Rotter's Club
Beatles, The - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road
Rainbow Ffolly - Sallies Fforth
Sandy Denny - Sandy
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Pretty Things, The - SF Sorrow
10 CC - Sheet Music
Anne Briggs - Sing A Song for You.
Lesley Duncan - Sing Children Sing
Mike Heron - Smiling Men With Bad Reputations
John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop
John Martyn - Solid Air
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Kinks, The - Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur
Groundhogs - Split
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
Polly Jean Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Nirvana - Story of Simon Simopath
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Straight Shooting in the Dark, Come On Come On, Stones in the Road
Badfinger - Straight Up
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Cara Dillon - Sweet Liberty
Can - Tago Mago
Angie Palmer - Tales of Light and Darkness
Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream
Amon Dull II - Tanz Der Lemmings
Carole King - Tapestry
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Home - The Alchemist
Rachel Unthank and The Winterset - The Bairns
Bee Gees, The - The Bee Gees First
Artie Shaw - The Complete Gramercy Five Sessions
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
Fairground Attraction - The First OF A Million Kisses
Melanie Safka - The Good Book, Gather Me
Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Rupert's People - The Magic of Rupert's People
Modern Lovers, The - The Modern Lovers
Uglys, The - The Quiet Explosion
Specials, The - The Specials
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Spirit - The Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus
Colosseum - The Valentyne Suite
Who, The - The Who Sell Out
Françoise Hardy - The Yeah Yeah Girl from Paris
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Karine Polwart - This Earthly Spell
Martha and the Muffins - This The Ice Age
Nice, The - Thoughts of Emmerlist Davjack
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Scott Walker - Tilt, The Drift
Kate Walsh - Tim’s House
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Skin Alley - To Pagham And Beyond
Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time
Tractor - Tractor
Human League - Travelogue
Genesis - Trespass
Soft Machine, The - Triple Echo
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Manfred Mann - Up the Junction
Velvet Underground, The - Velvet Underground and Nico
Mothers Of Invention, The - We’re Only In It For The Money
George Formby - When I'm Cleaning Windows
Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons
Blossom Toes - Why Are We So Clean
New Vaudeville Band - Winchester Cathedral
Billy Nichols - Would You Believe
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
Television Personalities - Yes Darling ... But Is It Art?
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Blueknowz
I only have 53 of them all On the Black Stuff!
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Originally posted by Blueknowz:
I only have 53 of them all On the Black Stuff!
Which 53?
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Blueknowz
ROTF, On closer inspection I have more than 53
Talking Heads - 77 1
Pulp - A Different Class 2
Ten Years After - A Space in Time 3
Rolling Stones, The - Aftermath 4
Curved Air - Air Conditioning 5
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass 6
Grateful Dead, The - Anthem of the Sun 7
Jethro Tull - Aqualung 8
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark -9 Architecture And Morality
Jimi Hendrix - Are you Expierienced 10
Wishbone Ash - Argus 11
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 12
Mary Black - Babes In The Wood 13
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band On The Run 14
Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears 15
Joni Mitchell - Blue 16
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends 17
Bellowhead - Burlesque 18
Gerry Rafferty - City to City.19
Yes - Close to the Edge 20
Moody Blues, The - Days of Future Passed 21
Oasis - Definitely Maybe 22
Country Joe and The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body 23
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - ELP 24
Love - Forever Changes 25
Garbage - Garbage 26
Jeff Buckley - Grace 27
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River 28
Free - Heartbreaker 29
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 30
Patti Smith - Horses 31
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats 32
Led Zeppelin - III 33
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King 34
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermint 35
Amboy Dukes, The - Journey To The Centre Of The Mind
Doors, The - LA Woman 36
Derek and the Dominos - Layla 37
Focus - Moving Waves 38
Traffic - Mr Fantasy 39
Family - Music From A Doll’s House 40
Band, The - Music from the Big Pink 41
Zombies - Odessey and Oracle 42
Small Faces, The - Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake 43
REM - Out of Time 44
Blur - Park Life 45
Janis Joplin - Pearl 46
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 47
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band 48
Christy Moore - Ride On 49
Beatles, The - Rubber Soul50, Revolver 51, Sgt Pepper 52, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album 53, Abbey Road 54
Sandy Denny - Sandy 55
Pretty Things, The - SF Sorrow 56
10 CC - Sheet Music 57
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing 58
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two 59
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf 60
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow 61
Carole King - Tapestry 62
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman 63
Fairground Attraction - The First OF A Million Kisses 64
Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter 65
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session 66
Who, The - The Who Sell Out 67
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On 68
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 69
Velvet Underground, The - Velvet Underground and Nico 70
Mothers Of Invention, The - We’re Only In It For The Money 71
Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons 72
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat 73
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Pedro
A few of my personal classic albums:
Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne
Lindisfarne - Back and Forth
Moody Blues - Every Good Boy
Strawbs - Bursting At The Seams
Yes - The Yes Album
The Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden
Led Zeppelin - II
Led Zeppelin - IV
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
Pink Floyd -DSOTM
Boston - Third Stage
Status Quo - Piledriver
Ten Years After - Watt
Man - Back Into The Future
Focus - Moving Waves
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Justin Hayward - The View From The Hill
Pete
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by gone
quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
Here's a few classics
Blimey, did it really take you less than 2 hours to write that lot up? Respect.
Nice to see at least some Camel and Gryphon in there....
It would take me too long....
Cheers
John
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Originally posted by Blueknowz:
ROTF, On closer inspection I have more than 53
You, kind sir, are a man of taste and you support a team that plays in blue.
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Originally posted by Nero:
quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
Here's a few classics
Blimey, did it really take you less than 2 hours to write that lot up? Respect.
Nice to see at least some Camel and Gryphon in there....
It would take me too long....
Cheers
John
Hi John
The question has been asked before so I had a head start.
ATB Rotf
Posted on: 10 October 2009 by Mat Cork
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by Consciousmess
quote:
Here's a few classics
Iron Maiden - 666 The Number of the Beast
Talking Heads - 77
Pulp - A Different Class
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Ten Years After - A Space in Time
Attack, The - About Time
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Rolling Stones, The - Aftermath
Buggles, The - Age of Plastic
Curved Air - Air Conditioning
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Rutles, The - All You Need Is Cash
Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Animals, The - Animalism
Grateful Dead, The - Anthem of the Sun
Shirley and Dolly Collins - Anthems In Eden
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture And Morality
Jimi Hendrix - Are you Expierienced
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Third World War - Armageddon
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Shocking Blue - At Home
Flanders and Swan - At the Drop of a Hat
Tangerine Dream - Atem
Wimple Winch - Atmosphere
Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Trans Europe Express
Mary Black - Babes In The Wood
Half Man Half Biscuit - Back in the DHSS, Trouble over Bridgewater, Cammell Laird Social Club, Achtung Bono
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band On The Run
Jenna Wills - Barefoot and Eager
Grace Slick and Friends - Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun
Pentangle, The - Basket of Light
Lou Rhodes - Beloved
Beverley Craven - Beverley Craven
Jo Jo Gunne - Bite Down Hard
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Blood Sweat & Tears - Blood Sweat & Tears
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
Waking The Witch - Boys from the Abattoir
Marianne Faithful - Broken English
Bellowhead - Burlesque
Strawbs, The - Bursting at the Seams
Hollies, The - Butterfly
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Doobie Brothers - Captain and Me
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
CCS - CCS
John Fogerty - Centrefield
Gerry Rafferty - City to City.
Yes - Close to the Edge
Planxty - Cold Blow and the Rainy Night
Wallenstein - Cosmic Century
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Moody Blues, The - Days of Future Passed
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Steve Gibbons Band, The - Down In The Bunker
Rainbow - Down To Earth
Dusty Sprinfield - Dusty in Memphis
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Eddi Reader - Eddi Reader
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Country Joe and The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Delia Derbyshire - Electrosonic
Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - ELP, Tarkus, Pictures at an Exhibition, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
Faust - Faust
Byrds, The - Fifth Dimension
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, Pink Moon
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Flying Lizzards, The - Flying Lizzards, The
Shirley Collins & Davy Graham - Folk Roots New Roots
Love - Forever Changes
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Framed (only elpee I know about Naim kit)
Beaver and Krause - Gandharva
Garbage - Garbage
Duncan Browne - Give Me, Take You
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Gryphon - Gryphon
Electric Prunes, The - Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Altan - Harvest
Heads, Hands & Feet - Heads, Hands & Feet
Free - Heartbreaker
Medicine Head - Heavy On The Drum
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Fairfield Palour - Home From Home
Patti Smith - Horses
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Kate Rusby - Hourglass
Richard Digance - How The West Was Lost
Robert Calvert - Hype
Richard Thompson - I Want To see The Bright Lights Tonight
Led Zeppelin - III
Plainsong - In Search of Amelia Earhart
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King
Atomic Rooster - In the Hearing of Atomic Rooster
Caravan - In The Land Of The Grey And Pink
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermint
Jackie Oates - Jackie Oates
Amboy Dukes, The - Journey To The Centre Of The Mind
Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy, Whateveshebringswesing
Juicy Lucy - Juicy Lucy
July - July
Steamhammer - Junior's Wailing
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
Bonzo Dog Band - Keynsham
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Dr Strangely Strange - Kip of the Serenes
Kirsty MaCall - Kite
Doors, The - LA Woman
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
Fairport Convention - Liege and Leif
Chas & Dave - Live at Abbey Road with Albert Lee
Clash, The - London’s Calling
Alice Cooper Group, The - Love It To Death
Status Quo - Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Noel Coward - Mad About The Boy
Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Elton John - Empty Sky
Kevin Coyne - Majorie Razorblade, Dynamite Daze
Television - Marquee Moon
Camel - Mirage
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia - Mother Earth
Move, The - Movements
Focus - Moving Waves
C.O.B - Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart
Traffic - Mr Fantasy
Family - Music From A Doll’s House
Band, The - Music from the Big Pink
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Peter Hammil - Nadir's Big Chance
Desperate Bicycles, The - New Cross, New Cross
Walker Brothers, The - Nite Flights
Laura Cantrell - Not the Tremblin' Kind
Eloy - Ocean
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Small Faces, The - Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling
Trees - On The Shore
Barclay James Harvest - Once Again
Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground
Bothy Band - Out of the Wind into the Sun
REM - Out of Time
Harry Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show
Jo Mango - Paperclips and Sand
Steeleye Span - Parcel Of Rouges
Blur - Park Life
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Petula Clark - Petula Clark In Memphis
Wire - Pink Flag
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Magnesium Proverbs
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Prophets Seers and Sages The Angels of the Ages
Lightning Seeds - Pure
Stranglers, The - Rattus Norvegicus
Second Hand - Reality
John Miles - Rebel
Fleurs Des Lys - Reflections
Fred Simon - Remember The River
Tubeway Army - Replicas
Christy Moore - Ride On
Argent - Ring Of Hands
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Hatfield & The North - Rotter's Club
Beatles, The - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road
Rainbow Ffolly - Sallies Fforth
Sandy Denny - Sandy
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Pretty Things, The - SF Sorrow
10 CC - Sheet Music
Anne Briggs - Sing A Song for You.
Lesley Duncan - Sing Children Sing
Mike Heron - Smiling Men With Bad Reputations
John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop
John Martyn - Solid Air
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Kinks, The - Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur
Groundhogs - Split
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
Polly Jean Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Nirvana - Story of Simon Simopath
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Straight Shooting in the Dark, Come On Come On, Stones in the Road
Badfinger - Straight Up
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Cara Dillon - Sweet Liberty
Can - Tago Mago
Angie Palmer - Tales of Light and Darkness
Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream
Amon Dull II - Tanz Der Lemmings
Carole King - Tapestry
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Home - The Alchemist
Rachel Unthank and The Winterset - The Bairns
Bee Gees, The - The Bee Gees First
Artie Shaw - The Complete Gramercy Five Sessions
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
Fairground Attraction - The First OF A Million Kisses
Melanie Safka - The Good Book, Gather Me
Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Rupert's People - The Magic of Rupert's People
Modern Lovers, The - The Modern Lovers
Uglys, The - The Quiet Explosion
Specials, The - The Specials
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Spirit - The Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus
Colosseum - The Valentyne Suite
Who, The - The Who Sell Out
Françoise Hardy - The Yeah Yeah Girl from Paris
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Karine Polwart - This Earthly Spell
Martha and the Muffins - This The Ice Age
Nice, The - Thoughts of Emmerlist Davjack
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Scott Walker - Tilt, The Drift
Kate Walsh - Tim’s House
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Skin Alley - To Pagham And Beyond
Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time
Tractor - Tractor
Human League - Travelogue
Genesis - Trespass
Soft Machine, The - Triple Echo
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Manfred Mann - Up the Junction
Velvet Underground, The - Velvet Underground and Nico
Mothers Of Invention, The - We’re Only In It For The Money
George Formby - When I'm Cleaning Windows
Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons
Blossom Toes - Why Are We So Clean
New Vaudeville Band - Winchester Cathedral
Billy Nichols - Would You Believe
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
Television Personalities - Yes Darling ... But Is It Art?
I sincerely respect the time and effort you devoted to typing these albums, Rotf!!!
Without being picky, however, are they REALLY classic albums.... or just albums you personally really like???!!!
Regards,
Jon
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
or just albums you personally really like?
What defines a classic? All of these albums should stand the test of time IMHO. I haven't listed all the albums I like, as that would be 10 times as long at least.
If you just want a few then I would suggest that you explore
Eldorado,
This is the Ice Age and
Anthems of Eden, but I can't guarantee you'll like these albums.
If my list was put up for critical review by Record Collector then most, if not all, would get 5 stars. I'd also say that for the most part you will not play one of these albums and think that is a copy of ..... the reason I tend not to like much 50s music is that all seamed generated by a production line; an event that recurred in the 80s and even today with dreadful garbage like X-Factor.
Why do you think
DSOTM is a classic? I presume you mean the album by Pink Floyd and not the very fine album by Medicine Head. What is classic about DSOTM? It sold a lot: true. It is a good elpee: true. But it isn't as original as
Anthems of Eden, lyrically it is no match for
Cammell Laird Social Club and, IMHO, is nowhere is captivating as at least one other record by The Pink Floyd. So why do you claim it is classic, what makes it so?
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac outsold DSOTM, but is it a classic or an embarrassment to the name Fleetwood Mac and an example of the one of the most tedious forms of AOR? I leave you to judge.
I'd be curious if you could pick a couple on my list and explain why they are not classics. I'm having trouble understanding the term.
ATB Rotf
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by Huwge
I'm having trouble with the concept of Swan Lake being a classic album, is it just because of the genre?
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by droodzilla
quote:
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac outsold DSOTM, but is it a classic or an embarrassment to the name Fleetwood Mac and an example of the one of the most tedious forms of AOR? I leave you to judge.
It's a pop classic. If it helps, just think of it as being by a different band to the Peter Green incarnation of FM.
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by BigH47
It's a better album than DSOTM.
What is wong with AOR anyway someone has to to it, just like some virtually unknown bands do comedy records.
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by Guido Fawkes
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It's a better album than DSOTM
The Medicine Head or PF version? This is getting very confusing.
It'll always be a contentious subject to define what is and what isn't good or great music.
AOR has never been mine cup of horlicks. There was too much of it around when I was at college and then The Clash, The Stranglers and The St Winifred's School Choir (three more to file under 'T') came along and the rest, as they say, was history.
Peter Green and Danny Kirwan were another matter though - two wonderful musicians - however, Danny is a lost soul who I doubt will ever recover and to think he wrote
this beautiful song - my favourite song by any incarnation of FM.
At least Danny wasn't a Jeremy Spencer.
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by fatcat
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Originally posted by ROTF:
I'd be curious if you could pick a couple on my list and explain why they are not classics. I'm having trouble understanding the term.
A classic is THE album that the majority of fans of group or artist regard as their most outstanding recording. The same applies to mucalal genres. I am only familiar with about 10% of the artist on your list, I would agree they are classics.
However Rainbow’s Down To Earth is not a classic. What about RAINBOW RISING
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by Guido Fawkes
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However Rainbow’s Down To Earth is not a classic. What about RAINBOW RISING
I just love Graham Bonnet's vocals. However, I'd happily accept Rainbow Rising - what a great band they were.
Thanks for the definition: 'tis a bit clearer now.
I wonder then about
Eldorardo, it was not ELO's most popular album, but it is such a wonderful record in every respect: almost faultless.
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by BigH47
I think you may have answered your own question.
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by Guido Fawkes
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I forgot the defining band of that era, Nirvana.
Nirvana were in my list
The Sex Pistols were a bit too X-Factor for me - preferred the Television Personalities singing
Where's Bill Grundy Now.
And I'd never forget Bob - he was one of my heroes
He was the spirit of the age.
BTW I'm sure I mentioned Blur and Oasis.
In a recent interview in Record Collector John Lydon cited Sir Keith Emerson as
a great bloke.
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by fatcat
Little Feat – Feats don’t fail me now
The Goats – Tricks of the shade
Todd Rundgren – Wizard a true star
Roy Buchanan – Second Album
Rush – 2112
Montrose – Montrose
Luther Vandross – Give me a reason
Steeley Dan – Aja
Boz Scaggs – Fade into light
Posted on: 11 October 2009 by Spoonboy
Of ones that I own:
Metallica - Metallica
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Pink Floyd- Wish you were here
Prince- Purple Rain
Yes- Close to the edge
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Manic Street Preachers - Everything must go
Oasis- What's the story
Radiohead- the bends
Van Halen- Van Halen
ACDC- Back in Black
Posted on: 12 October 2009 by fred simon
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Originally posted by ROTF:
I'd be curious if you could pick a couple on my list and explain why they are not classics. I'm having trouble understanding the term.
As truly flattered and grateful as I am for your pick of my album
Remember the River, I'd honestly say that it might be too recent (2004) to be judged a classic; more importantly, too obscure to be a classic, at least in the sense of true classics you've listed like
Kind Of Blue,
A Love Supreme,
Blue,
Are You Experienced, and
Rubber Soul ... I do think universality and overwhelming consensus are factors in the definition. In the case of
Remember the River, hope springs eternal.
And Jefferson Airplane's
Surrealistic Pillow? Absolutely a classic. Kantner, Slick, and Frieberg's
Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun? Not so much.
All best,
Fred
Posted on: 12 October 2009 by Ghettoyout
There was a time when I used to decide what my album of the year was. Looking at the lists so far, I think these have been missed:
Music Has The Right to Children - Boards of Canada
Spanking Machine - Babes in Toyland
Dolittle - Pixies
Bring Yo Ass to The Table - Left Lane Cruiser
Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement
Ghettoyout
