What are your top 15 al***s of all time?

You had best give me time to work ths out, it may take some time.

In no special order

Back In The D.H.S.S. - Half Man Half Biscuit
Back Again In The D.H.S.S. - Half Man Half Biscuit
ACD - Half Man Half Biscuit
McIntyre, Treadmore And Davitt - Half Man Half Biscuit
This Leaden Pall - Half Man Half Biscuit
Some Call It Godcore - Half Man Half Biscuit
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Road - Half Man Half Biscuit
Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral - Half Man Half Biscuit
Trouble Over Bridgwater - Half Man Half Biscuit
Cammell Laird Social Club - Half Man Half Biscuit
Achtung Bono - Half Man Half Biscuit
5000 Spirits - Incredible String Band
Anthems of Eden - Shirley Collins
Folk Roots, New Roots - Shirley Collins
Within Sound - Shirley Collins

On vinyl after a quick trawl (So I can have another bite of the cherry later with the CD's)

In no particular order:

The Clash - London Calling
Oscar Peterson - Tristeza
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Juju
The Beatles - Revolver
The Persuasions - Street Corner Symphony
ZZ Top - Deguello
The Psychedelic Furs - First Album
The Who - Who's Next
U2 - Atchung Baby
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
Milcho Leviev - Blues For The Fisherman
James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim
The Carpenters - Only Yesterday ( Greatest Hits)
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
David Gilmour - First Album

ROFT,

I take it HMHB have not released 15 albums yet

Regards

Nic

nic,
good plan - top 15 vinyl & CD. Interesting as some old vinyl albums are great 30 minute masterpieces, but remastering and extended length have certainly woken up some old albums (sloppy remastering killing an equal number as well)

Neve sure with top 15s, seems to vary with day, weather, mood and age. Will think about this.

BTW - re Milcho, I seem to remember you got one of the MA recordings, they are all great.

Huw

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Originally posted by nicnaim:
Rotf,

I take it HMHB have not released 15 albums yet

Regards

Nic

That's true - I didn't think "Editor's Choice" or "Saucy Haulage Ballads" counted as they are eepees rather than fully albums. Also "Live at Manchester" is a VHS video.

There are lots of records that give me enourmous pleasure that are not by HMHB, but since I first encountered them, I just feel they are as ggod as it gets.

"5000 Spirits" by ISB has been one of my favourite records since I first heard it nearly 40 years ago and Shirley Collins is just wonderful - her voice and the songs she shings are something I can always listen to.

Of course the Beatles and the Kinks and many others should be in everybody's top 15. In fact, I could probably rattle off over 100 albums that sould be in my top 15 and I haven't even mentioned Creedence Clearwater Revival, Alice Cooper, Third World War or the Desperate Bicycles, and even neglected the master of all song writes: Syd Barrett.

There's some great records on your list BTW.

All the best, Rotf

Hi

Well Sgt Pepper would make it on but then again, I don't return to it that much, so, on the basis of the ones I return to most regularly over time

in no particular order

John Martyn... The Apprentice
Blue Nile... Hats
Scritti Politti Cupid and Psyche
Robert Plant... Shaken n Stirred
Jhelisa ... Language Electric
Joni Mitchell... Wild Things Run Fast
Donald fagen... Kamikariad
Rikki Lee Jones... The Magazine
Seal 1
Bryan Ferry... Bete Noire
James taylor.. October Road
Prefab Sprout... Steve McQueen
Steve Winwood.. Back in the High Life
Jill Scott.... Who is Jill Scott
Gary Clarke.. 10 Short Songs about Love

Enjoyed this!!

Paul

Whenever I do this I am always aware that there are so many albums that I have not heard yet. So to make things a bit easier for me these are the top 15 album I own and I look forward to future discoveries replacing some of them.

Joni Mitchell – Blue
Beck – Odelay
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood
The Clash – London Calling
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
Rolling Stones – Let it bleed
Paul Simon – Graceland
Led Zep – IV
Pink Floyd – Division Bell
Roger Waters – Pros and Cons…
Frank Zappa – Sheik Yerbouti
Motorhead – Ace of Spades
AC/DC – Back in Black
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Pronounced
Deep Purple – Machine Head

It was too hard to try and add in any classical (not that I have much anyway).

worm

In no special order....

YES - Close to the Edge
Radiohead _ Ok Computer
Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
10CC - How dare you
Radiohead - The Bends
David Bowie - The man who sold the world
Dire Striats - Dire Striats
Paul Simon - Gracelands
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Jethro Tull - War Child
Mott the Hoople - M the H
Skunk Anansie - Paranoid and Sunburnt
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama

If I could only pick 1 to take on a long voyage, it would be TMWSTW by Bowie, why??, it's Heavy, it's light, it's Black, it's white, give it a listen, Mick Ronson never played better, in fact all the band played as if thier lives depended on it, under rated? you bet.

Regs G....

I’m sure I responded to something similar before and probably with totally different results, but anyway my top 15 vinyl albums for today, in no particular order, is:

1. Klaus Schulze – Moondawn
2. Sly and Robbie – Language Barrier
3. Lee Scratch Perry and the Dub Syndicate – Time Boom X De Devil Dead
4. Robotiks – My computer’s acting strange
5. Gary Clail’s Tackhead Sound System – Tackhead Tape Time
6. Napalm Death – Scum
7. Naked City - Torture Garden –
8. Dub Syndicate – Vacuum Pumping
9. Deadline – Down by law
10. Keith LeBlanc – Major Malfunction
11. Bahia Black – Ritual Beating System
12. Prince Far I and the Arabs – Cry tuff dub encounter chapter 3
13. Funkadelic – One nation under a groove
14. Last Exit – Last Exit
15. Public Enemy – Fear of a black planet

Shows a high incidence of two of my major obsessions – Adrian Sherwood and Bill Laswell. My third obsession, Pete Namlook, doesn’t appear because most of his stuff is on CD.

1. Air -Moon safari
2. Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
3. Clash Sandinista
4. Blur think tank
5. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
6. Fairground Attraction - First of a Million Kisses
7. Faithless - Sunday 8pm (includes bonus cd Saturday 3am)
8. Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
9. John Martyn - Solid Air
10. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 4
11. Leftfield - Leftism + Bonus Disc
12. Lou Reed – Transformer
13. Santana – Abraxas
14. The Doors - Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
15. Van Morrison; The Chieftains - Irish Heartbeat

I no particular order, a list that could change on a monthly basis. This is real tough to miss out so much class.

Depeche Mode – Violator
Pink Floyd – Meddle
Nirvana – Nevermind
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Gomez – Bring It On
The The – Mind Bomb
Nick Cave – The Boatmans Call
Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis
Mercury Rev – All Is Dream
New Order - Technique
Portishead – Dummy
Massive Attack – Blues Lines
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
Pixies – Doolittle
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses

My apologies to the following, you are just as important!

The White Stripes, This Mortal Coil, Mew, Tindersticks, Lou Reed & VU, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Joy Division… I could go on but you get the picture!

That's a difficult one. Although in a way 15 is an easier number than five

Divine Comedy - Liberation
Divine Comedy - Promenade
Prayerboat - Polichinelle
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Manu Chao - Radio Bemba Sound System
Erasure - Yahoo!
Richard Hawley - Lowedges
Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George
New Order - Republic
Roy Orbison - mystery girl
World Party - Goodbye jumbo
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Tom Russell - Own compilation
Gypsy Kings - Gypsy kings

This is quite difficult actually. These are probably the albums I've listened to most(well some of) but I buy so much stuff that i probably have better now but don't listen to them so much. Also I hardly listen to most of the above now

R

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Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
Kate Bush - Aerial
ELP - Tarkus
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Radiohead - OK Computer
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Boxed Set (is that cheating?)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
John Martyn - Solid Air
Gomez - Bring it On
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Jethro Tull - Live, Bursting Out
Pink Floyd, Meddle
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way

Only 15? Can't do it. No way.

Maybe if I added a zero, made it 150, but even then.

Or maybe someone could do it for me? Here's a list ... almost any album featuring music from any of these people will do:

* Alison Krauss/Union Station
* Anders Widmark with Sara Isaksson
* Andrea Zonn
* Annie Lennox
* Aretha Franklin
* Arvo Part
* Art Lande
* Bach
* Bartok
* Beatles
* Ben Folds
* Bjork
* Bill Evans
* Bill Frisell
* Bob Dylan
* Brad Mehldau
* Brahms
* Brian Wilson
* Burt Bacharach
* Cesaria Evora
* Charles Lloyd
* Charles Mingus
* Charlie Haden
* Chopin
* Copland
* CSN&Y
* Debussy
* Donny Hathaway
* Eberhard Weber
* Egberto Gismonti
* Elliott Smith
* Eva Cassidy
* Fred Hersch
* Grieg
* Herbie Hancock
* Hindemith
* Iain Matthews
* Ivan Lins
* James Brown
* James Taylor
* Jan Garbarek
* Jefferson Airplane
* Jesse Harris
* Jimi Hendrix
* John Abercrombie
* John Coltrane
* Jonatha Brooke/The Story
* Joni Mitchell
* Keith Jarrett
* Larry Goldings
* Leonard Cohen
* Lyle Mays
* Marvin Gaye
* Mendelssohn
* Miles Davis
* Milton Nascimento
* Mompou
* Mysterious Voices of Bulgaria
* Nickel Creek
* Norah Jones
* Oregon
* Paul Bley
* Paul McCandless
* Pat Metheny
* Pete Seeger/Weavers
* Peter Gabriel/Genesis
* Police/Sting
* Ralph Towner
* Ravel
* Rickie Lee Jones
* Satie
* Shawn Colvin
* Shostakovich
* Simon & Garfunkel
* Stravinsky
* Steely Dan
* Steve Reich
* Stockhausen
* Terje Rypdal
* The Band
* Tom Jobim
* Wayne Shorter
* Weather Report
* Woody Guthrie
* Zappa
* and many, many, many others ...

Thanks,
Fred

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Originally posted by JWM:
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Jimi Hendrix - Purple Boxed Set (is that cheating?)
.....

No it's not cheating. If I were on Desert Island Disc - I'd want to take Rubble with me - it's a 20 CD set.

Some great music and interesting choices. I love Nick Drake's music, but find Pink Moon very difficult to enjoy - I think it is an excellent album, but there is more than a hint of sadness about it and is seems almost too personal. I am interested that you should choose it over Five Leaves Left. I've always thought Nick a fantastic guitarist even if he did use the most odd tuning patterns (he apparently used to detune his guitar in different ways for different songs to get excactly the sound that he wanted).

I must try the JT album in your list - I'm not familiar with much live Tull: I've concentrated on the studio albums, which is remiss of me, as their reputation live is second to none.

Rotf

BTW - one of favourite elpees is called Bobby's Dazzlers and is a set of highlights from the 1978 cup final.

the Beatles, Abbey Road
John Lennon, Imagine
Procol Harum, Grand Hotel
the Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord
the Rolling Stones, December's Children
the Kinks, Singles Collection
Pink Floyd, Meddle
King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King
the Yardbirds, Roger the Engineer
the Hollies, Greatest Hits
the Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man
Chet Baker, My Funny Valentine
Jade Warrior, Floating World
Badfinger, Straight Up
XTC, English Settlement
Tears for Fears, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
the Who, Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy
Buddy Holly, From the Original Master Tapes
Jethro Tull, Benefit
the Verve, Urban Hymns
Oasis, Don't Believe the Truth

...and not necessarily in that order.

quote:

Originally posted by ROTF:
I love Nick Drake's music, but find Pink Moon very difficult to enjoy - I think it is an excellent album, but there is more than a hint of sadness about it and is seems almost too personal. I am interested that you should choose it over Five Leaves Left. I've always thought Nick a fantastic guitarist even if he did use the most odd tuning patterns (he apparently used to detune his guitar in different ways for different songs to get excactly the sound that he wanted).

Pink Moon vs Five Leaves - it was/is a very close call! And my choice may be different tomorrow!

I adore "Five Leaves" - hearing it for the first time as 12 year old on the original Witchseason pressing (belonged to a friend's sister - we nabbed it and a whole load more vinyl, including Rory, to listen to whilst she was at univ) is an indespensible part of my musical upbringing. I love Danny Thompson* too (my wife went to school with his son, the drummer Danny - that's pretty lame name-dropping!) and Robert Kirby's arrangements.

[*To digress, one of my greatest musical joys was when he came on stage at the Gomez Cambridge Cornex gig to play 'In Our Gun' - Mrs JWM and I had only said on the way "wouldn't it be funny if DT turned up..." Sadly few of the assembled crowd realised just WHO he is!!]

But there is something about the utterly desperate "Pink Moon", and the stripped down sound of the man and his instrument. (And perhaps one ought to have every human emotion represented in one's selection of 15?)

And I love the live Tull (as well as studio Tull). More or less wore out my copy of "Live! Bursting Out" on my Trio 1033B and Ortofon FF15EmkII at univ in the early '80s, late at night listening to it endlessly whilst trying to write extended essays about Athens and Sparta!

James

Delighted to hear about 'Bobby's Dazzlers'. My best is the VHS video of the '78 cup final...

A mix between desert island CD''s and some that has been very important in my life.

1. Ramones "Rocket To Russia"
2. Metallica "Master of Puppets"
3. Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
4. Slayer "Reign In Blood"
5. Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"
6. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan "Musst Musst"
7. Linde Consort "Bach - Brandenburg Concerts 1-6"
8. Velvet Underground "Velvet Underground & Nico"
9. Beatles "Rubber Soul"
10. Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers"
11. Leftfield "Leftism"
12. Bob Marley "Exodus"
13. Cramps "Bad Music for Bad people"
14. Jokke & Valentinerne "Prisen for Popen"
15. Los Nemus del Pacifico "Me Gusta Todo"

OK, it may be different next week but I could happily listen to these a few times more...

1.Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
2.More Adventurous - Rilo Kiley
3.Who’s Next - Who
4.Hunky Dory - Bowie
5.Stone Roses - Stone Roses
6.Another Time, Another Place - Bryan Ferry
7.London Calling - The Clash
8.The Small Price Of A Bicycle - Icicle Works
9.Laid - James
10.Parallel Lines - Blondie
11.Up All Night - Razorlight
12.Power In The Darkness - Tom Robinson Band
13.Born Too Loose - Johnny Thunders
14.The Undertones - The Undertones
15.Swagger - Blue Aeroplanes

Oh and Electric Ladyland, Oh Bollox...

Here are 15 that I would find it impossible to part with:

The Beatles 'White Album'
Joy Division 'Unknown Pleasures'
Velvet Underground & Nico 's/t'
Robert Wyatt 'Rock Bottom'
Talk Talk 'Spirit of Eden'
Neil Young 'Tonight's the Night'
Love 'Forever Changes'
Spritualized 'Ladies & Gentlemen we are Floating in Space'
My Bloody Valentine 'Loveless'
Kate Bush 'Hounds of Love'
John Lennon 'Plastic Ono Band'
Radiohead 'Kid A'
Miles Davis 'In a Silent Way'
Sly & the Family Stone 'There's a Riot Going On'
The Byrds 'The Notorious Byrd Brothers'

Paul

Albums that influenced me when growing up to be this middle aged person...

Sex Pistols - Never mind the bollocks
Clash - London Calling
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Ramones - Ramones
U2 - Boy
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the firecat
Lou Reed - Transformer
Lou Reed - The blue mask
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Velvet Underground - White light/white heat
Joy Division - Closer
Depeche Mode - A broken frame
Roxy Music - Avalon
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Metallica - Black album
/m

in no particular order...

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Blue Mitchell - Down With It
Crazy Penis - The Wicked is Music
Stock Hausen and Walkman - Organ Transplants
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Big Boss Man - Humanize
The Muppet Show - Cast Album
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Lou Donaldson - Aligator Boogaloo
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Dimitri from Paris - Sacrebleu
US3 - Broadway and 52nd
Marcos Valle - Samba 68

After a quick look, I got:
Abbey Road – The Beatles
Graceland – Paul Simon
Stand Up – Jethro Tull
Outrospective – Faithless
Tarkus – ELP
Nothing’s Shocking – Jane’s Addiction
Evil Empire – Rage Against the Machine
Dr Octagonecologist – Dr Octagon
The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem
Breakfast in America – Supertramp
Machinehead – Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin IV – Led Zeppelin
Wynton Marsalis – Wynton Marlsalis
CSN – Crosby, Stills and Nash
Vivid – Living Colour