..so what is YOUR all time favourite al*** ?
Posted by: Steveandkate on 19 April 2005
With the discussions about the channel 4 top 100, can you name your all time favourite..?
I was put on the spot when disagreeing with OK Computer being at the top, and have still not come up with just one album. I have been buying music for 25 years, and have roughly 4500 albums/cd's - choosing 50 is not too hard, and maybe my top 1 would have to be one of the compilations I make for myself.. is that a cop out or what ?
Given how so much of what I get from music is emotional, does it not depend on where your head is at when listening - I mean, driving in London requires a different sort of music to what I might listen to late at night when cuddled up with my wife or one of the kids..
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by jezaranski
pixies - surfer rosa
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Martin D
Still Joni Mitchell Hijera for me
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Simon Matthews
Aja - Steely Dan
Always a pleasure to crank this one up.
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Shayman
New Boots and Panties - Ian Dury
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by domfjbrown
Probably "L.A. Woman" by the Doors - I got this on CD waaay back in 1991 (about 2 months after getting a CD player) and it lived in the player almost constantly for 6 months!
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Rasher
Hard to choose
Either Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness or
Liberace - An Evening At The Piano (it's got Chopsticks on it you know)
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Chris Kelly
"Naturally" J.J. Cale
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Naimed-In-NY
Darkness of the Edge of Town by the Boss.
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by bornwina
I'd struggle with a top 10 but Forever Changes by Love is quite easily number 1
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by bjorne
So Alone by Johnny Thunders.
At least this week...
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Bruce Woodhouse
Musst Musst: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan/Michael Brook
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Matt F
No question in my mind:
This is the Sea – The Waterboys
Them at their best. From the magical build up to the powerful first track, you are taken on a wonderful journey of fast, slow, soft and vigorous songs. Tales of love, hope, faith and anger. The weakness of man carried by the strength of his spirit. Great playing, brilliant lyrics and not a bad track on there. An antidote to the plethora of mind numbing, manufactured ready-meal music that so readily spills out of our TVs and radios on a daily basis.
If you don’t own a copy get one – I think it’s even available on 180g vinyl for the LP lovers.
Matt.
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by woodface
Mine would probably be Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, as out of all the acknowledged classics this is the one I listen to the most.
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Tam
Woodface - you beat me to it. Kind of Blue is stunning (and quite why it didn't make that list is c4 beyond me - probably tells you more about the people who wrote shortlist).
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by bhazen
Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles; could be almost any Beatles album really, I choose this one because it's perhaps the most 'colourful' and melodic. Also, how can you not love an album with "The Fool on the Hill", "I Am the Walrus", "Hello, Goodbye", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Penny Lane", and "All You Need is Love" on it?
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by pe-zulu
If we talk about pop-rock, my choice is
The Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the sky.
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by willem
Henry Cow - Western Culture
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by fred simon
How is it possible to answer such a question? And why would one even want to do so?
There's too much beautiful music in the world, of so many genres and eras, to choose one, much less ten. Which do I like better: Hejira or Kind of Blue (to use two examples posted earlier which are among my favorites)? Impossible to say, and, more to the point, pointless to say.
And if I could somehow choose one of the above, how could I choose between it and the Beatles' Revolver, or Coltrane's A Love Supreme, or Jarrett's Facing You? Hell, how could I even choose between Facing You and Jarrett's Personal Mountains? Or Revolver and Rubber Soul?
Impossible, not even desirable, to answer.
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Not For Me
Easy:
Intermedia Life Action by Conrad Schintzler
The zenith of all music, and human creativity bar none.
DS
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by kuma
I don't think I can pick just one.
When I was younger, there was a time I listened to nothing but the Edgar Winter's Jasmin's Nights Dreams' (on an auto-repeat for several months. I wore out 3 copies since I played it so much.)
I don't think I can do that again.
I need a variety these days so it needs to be a compilation.
But it is difficult to make a *mix* disc out of a record.
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Steveandkate
Fred Simon and Kuma,
You have both said what I was trying to say...
How could you choose one, and why would you.
Maybe that was where I was meandering when I said about making a compilation of my music, for me - I spend hours choosing and editing, and then listen for days, even weeks, adding or removing tracks till it is the perfect album...till the next one...which is even better..
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by AndyFelin
quote:
Originally posted by David Slater:
Easy:
Intermedia Life Action by Conrad Schintzler
The zenith of all music, and human creativity bar none.
DS
David,
Is this album still available as I've done some searches but can't find it anywhere.
Andy
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by Rasher
quote:
Originally posted by fred simon:
How is it possible to answer such a question? And why would one even want to do so?
Well, because it's fun?
My CD collection has now reached 800, which is a small collection in comparison with most here I would imagine, but what is it that makes me go into my music room and pull out a particular CD to put on? I dunno!! Something guides me, and it's different most of the time, but there are always those that I go back to: for me Mahavishnu, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Chemical Bros, Aphex Twin & Neil Young. Can't tell you why though.
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by fred simon
quote:
Originally posted by Rasher:
quote:
Originally posted by fred simon:
How is it possible to answer such a question? And why would one even want to do so?
Well, because it's fun?
Well, sure, it's fun to listen to and think about one's favorite albums, of which there are many, dozens in my case.
But to decide which
single one of
all them is my all-time favorite is not fun at all, and would be excruciating if somehow forced to do so.
I mean, really ... why does there have to be one favorite? And for anyone who is intelligent and has broad interests (and I assume this describes everyone posting here), how could there possibly be just one?
Posted on: 20 April 2005 by J.N.
'Can't Buy a Thrill' - Steely Dan.
Probably because it was the album that introduced me to the timeless enigmatic beauty of the songs of Becker and Fagen, that I still love just as much (and play regularly), 30 years on.
John.
