All time al***s...?

Nana

Land Of Grey And Pink - Caravan

The Clash

Working With Fire And Steel

Jim

Musst Musst-Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook.

Spine tingling

Bruce

is the magical world of the strands by michael head and the strands

Joni Mitchell - Blue.

Steve.

Damn - someone already said Land of Grey and Pink. I guess I will have to say Led Zep II instead!

alan

Good to see most people going for something main stream/well know ish for a change, rather than trying to be super cool by putting something forward that no-one's heard of.

Queen - A Day at the Races

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

And I would include Abba: The Album if side two was anything like as good as side one, which may just be the best side of any album ever.

Phil

Gavin - 'The Songs of Distant Earth'by Mike Oldfield is indeed a great album.
My choice would be 'Seven' by James, followed by 'Blue is the colour by The Beautiful South.

Since the title of the thread is 'best album of all time', I think we have to acknowledge the more mainstream albums in favour of perhaps our personal all time favourites.

If our own personal favourites were truly the best of all time as well, then they'd be mainstream too.

The reason I put forward this idea is that we would be forcing our friends to listen to the album, they would go on to recommend the album to their friends etc. The exponential growth of sales would force the album maintstream.

(And if we're being brutally honest we may well decry the artiste for 'selling out'!) :-)


Steve.

I've been thinking about this one - there are so many good ones (Unknown Pleasures, Correct Use of Soap, Close to the Edge, Disintegration etc.) but this one popped up on an old tape I found in the car - sound quality was crap but the songs, that Sax, the Hammond Organ, the subtle but insistent driving and of course Hammill's voice!!!

I just had to dig out the vinyl when I got home. My wife wasn't over impressed though - "What the hell's that row?" she said - its like being 16 again!

Classic album recorded in L.A. in 1956 by baritone sax virtuoso Chaloff with Sonny Clarke piano, Leroy Vinnegar bass and Philly Joe Jones drums. His second album for Capitol and brilliantly recorded ( mine's a re-issue on Affinity ). Definitely one of the great jazz albums. Listen to any track and be amazed.

Dave

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here or Animals or Wall.

Can't make my mind up.

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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here or Animals or Wall.

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Strange is'nt it 'cos Animals would struggle to get in my top ten Floyd albums never mind all time top ten.
Though I think 'The Final Cut' is one of their best so there you go.

Can-Tago Mago, bought on release late 71 and still a regular listen.
Interesting that VDGG has same effect on other spouses as mine-VDGG/Hammill banned when she is present-problem is I have 40+ albums to listen too-and i was bought the box set for a Xmas present!!!

Last night my wife was out, so I played 'Godbluff', rapidly followed by 'Still Life', then 'Silent Corner' (she returned during A Louse is Not a Home - "What is THAT??? ").

My daughter (aged 2) came in to the room during Sleepwalkers and started dancing and continued to dance so for the rest of the session!

VdGG were really a dance act!

p.s. there was a news item last night about the Marquee re-opening somewhere in London. The article included several posters advertising the acts who had played there including Van der Graaf!!

Van Moorrison

Astral Weeks

Quick scratch of the head and i can think of the following in no specific order, but ones to have on a desert island with a good pair of headphones a discman and one of those solar cell battery charges and batteries of course:

Stone Roses -Stone Roses
Talk Talk -The colour of Spring
Lloyd Cole and the commotions - rattlesnakes
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Can - Can
Tindersticks - Tindersticks (1)

Tarik

Pet Sounds or Mahler 8 [Solti]

throb

Easy. Has to be :

Con / Intermedia Life Action by Conrad Schintzler

(although Tago Mago is up there, and Half Machine Lip Moves and Modern Dance and 154 and Since the Accident and Suicide and oh shit, it's very difficult!)

DS

OTD - Demonic Emotions - Stuck on a space trip, Jon the Dentist rmx

Gavin,

'The Songs of Distant Earth' by Mike Oldfield.

I just received a sealed vinyl copy from an Ebay auction. Apparently, it's supposed to be pretty rare on vinyl.

Sounds good.

I'm trying to work out what the opening 2 minutes are supposed to tell me about my system.

It's got to be Pink Floyd's Meddle or that funny all-white double album thingie...

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If our own personal favourites were truly the best of all time as well, then they'd be mainstream too.

The reason I put forward this idea is that we would be forcing our friends to listen to the album, they would go on to recommend the album to their friends etc. The exponential growth of sales would force the album maintstream.

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The problem with this theory is that it is based on the assumption that everyone has the same level of intellectual and emotional depth.

Without wishing to sound too elitist, I strongly suggest that this is not the case.

Or, to use books as an example, how many people do you know that have the necessary faculties to comprehend something like Kant's "Critique Of Pure Reason" or Heidegger's "Being and Time"?

Regards,

John.