Top ten al***s

Posted by: Philw307 on 29 March 2006

Hi, this topic has probably been started before, but I couldn't find anything too recent on the search, so lets start afresh and lets see your top 10 albums.

Here is mine to start -

1) Deacon Blue - Raintown
2) Radiohead - The Bends
3) Bjork - Debut
4) David Gray - White Ladder
5) Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love
6) U2 - Achtung Baby
7) Van Morrison - The Best of (Vol 1)
8) The Verve - Urban Hymns
9) Keane - Hopes and Fears
10) Pearl Jam - Ten

Quite a varied selection, number 11 would of course be Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, but unfortunately I did say it was a top 10 and not a top 11.

Posted on: 07 May 2006 by Stan

quote:
Originally posted by fred simon:
quote:
Originally posted by Stan:
10. Sting - Ten summoner's tales (Played from track 2)

Now, see, track one (If I Ever Lose My Faith In You) is the one track on that album I couldn't live without ... one of Sting's best songs ever.

What's not to like?

Fred

Hi Fred,

Sorry for the delay in posting, but i just read this comment.

I'm a BIG Sting fan and love pretty much everything Sting does (and have all his/Police albums), but when i listen to that album i instinctively skip track one. I guess for me it feels like the odd one out from that album. I don't mind it on the compliations. Can't explain it really!! Maybe its something to do with the music video??!!

Watching him live was an amazing experience.

Incidentally, i have to thank you for pointing me to Eva Cassidy. Love her voice.

Take care,

Stan

Posted on: 07 May 2006 by Huwge

10 albums that I would miss if someone pinched them:
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Guy Clark - Old No.1
Lisa Ekdahl - 1st album
Kathleen Ferrier - Sacred arias by Bach & Handel
Beecham conducting Schubert symphonies 3, 5 & 6
Fitzwilliam Quartet playing Shostakovich 8 & 15
The Clash - London Calling
Milt Jackson - Memories of Thelonious Sphere Monk
Allman Brothers live at the Filmore East
Gram Parsons - GP / Grievous Angel

But to echo Gianluigi, I would miss any of my collection especially my Pinky & Perky e.p.

Posted on: 07 May 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

quote:
Originally posted by Huwge:
But to echo Gianluigi, I would miss any of my collection especially my Pinky & Perky e.p.

Music is like walking in a big city: you meet all.
That's the way i like it.
People have their dopes to get stoned on, i get stoned on music.
And i'm hungry and more hungry again!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Posted on: 07 May 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

The doctor says: music's good for health.
Makes you older when you get bank statement.

Posted on: 07 May 2006 by HR

quote:
Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Hi Phil!
I don't like lists.
And don't like artists to be closed into a certain range.
I think that radios lists are a fake and people who buy records following those lists don't like music but follow the market.
So i don't have a list of favourites but i do like all the records i have.
Most of all i like all the records that i don't have!

I am with Gianluigi on this. The only lists I do are grocery lists, and even those are always incomplete. I often forget to put something on the list, or change my mind at the store and get something that was not on the list...

Even if I could put together a list of top 10 albums (which I feel it is quite impossible to do), I know that this list would vary a lot, depending on my moods and the day that I wouild be asked to compile it.

One thing that would not change about my lists: they would always include works of Bach and of Bill Evans.

Regards

Haim

Posted on: 08 May 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

quote:
Originally posted by HR:
The only lists I do are grocery lists, and even those are always incomplete.

I do simply forget them home.

Posted on: 08 May 2006 by Guido Fawkes

quote:
Originally posted by HR:
I am with Gianluigi on this. The only lists I do are grocery lists...

Regards

Haim

Top ten groceries - interesting concept here's mine

Scallops
King Prawns
Cod Roe
Asparagus
Brockley
Carrots
Parsnips
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Cherries

Who said I was sad?

Obssessed by lists, Rotf

Posted on: 08 May 2006 by HR

quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
quote:
Originally posted by HR:
I am with Gianluigi on this. The only lists I do are grocery lists...

Regards

Haim

Top ten groceries - interesting concept here's mine

Scallops
King Prawns
Cod Roe
Asparagus
Brockley
Carrots
Parsnips
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Cherries

Who said I was sad?

Obssessed by lists, Rotf

Roft Le Triste,

Does your obssession mean:

That your favourite film is Schindler's List?
That your favourite composer is Franz Joseph Lis(z)t?

At list I am trying to be serious.

Regards,

Haim

Posted on: 09 May 2006 by JoeH

Top ten albums are easy:

Back in the DHSS: Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB)
ACD: HMHB
Cammel Laird Social Club: HMHB
Some Call it Godcore: HMHB
This Leaden Pall: HMHB
Voyage to the Bottom of the Road: HMHB
Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral: HMHB
Trouble over Bridgewater: HMHB
Editor's Recommendation: HMHB
Achtung Bono: HMHB

Posted on: 09 May 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

quote:
Originally posted by HR:
That your favourite film is Schindler's List?
That your favourite composer is Franz Joseph Lis(z)t?
At list I am trying to be serious.

Posted on: 09 May 2006 by Guido Fawkes

quote:
Originally posted by JoeH:
Top ten albums are easy:

Back in the DHSS: Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB)
ACD: HMHB
Cammel Laird Social Club: HMHB
Some Call it Godcore: HMHB
This Leaden Pall: HMHB
Voyage to the Bottom of the Road: HMHB
Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral: HMHB
Trouble over Bridgewater: HMHB
Editor's Recommendation: HMHB
Achtung Bono: HMHB

So you don't rate McIntyre, Treadmore And Davitt or Saucy Haulage Ballads then?

I guess Everything's AOR after all.

Posted on: 09 May 2006 by Guido Fawkes

quote:
Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
quote:
Originally posted by HR:
That your favourite film is Schindler's List?
That your favourite composer is Franz Joseph Lis(z)t?
At list I am trying to be serious.

Favourite film: Ken Russell's Litzomania

Posted on: 09 May 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

Favourite actress.
List Taylor.

Cheers ROTF!

Posted on: 09 May 2006 by Guido Fawkes

JoeH - I recommend these videos

Back Again In The D.H.S.S. VHS Video (PVC1), 1987 recorded Live at the System, Liverpool '86 and at The Bull & Gate, London, 4/2/86.

Live At Derby Werehouse VHS Video, 1992.

Manchester Univerity Students Union Debating Hall, 30.11.01 VHS Video (Mykite Productions/Probe Plus), 13 December 2002

If you haven't seen them, I think Geoff still has copies of the Manchester gig.

All the best, Rotf

Posted on: 09 May 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

We should start a new discussion:
"What are you list-ening to right now?"

Posted on: 09 May 2006 by Guido Fawkes

quote:
Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
We should start a new discussion:
"What are you list-ening to right now?"

Posted on: 10 May 2006 by JoeH

quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
So you don't rate McIntyre, Treadmore And Davitt or Saucy Haulage Ballads then?

I guess Everything's AOR after all.

The thread's top ten, not top twelve!

Posted on: 10 May 2006 by JoeH

quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
JoeH - I recommend these videos

Back Again In The D.H.S.S. VHS Video (PVC1), 1987 recorded Live at the System, Liverpool '86 and at The Bull & Gate, London, 4/2/86.

Live At Derby Werehouse VHS Video, 1992.

Manchester Univerity Students Union Debating Hall, 30.11.01 VHS Video (Mykite Productions/Probe Plus), 13 December 2002

If you haven't seen them, I think Geoff still has copies of the Manchester gig.

All the best, Rotf

Thanks, I'll check them out.

Footnote: In one of those 'might have been' episodes, many years ago my late aunt offered my wife and me a house just up the road from what is now Probe Plus. We turned down her kind offer, as Mrs H is a confirmed Southerner, but in retrospect it might have been a good idea to have accepted!