All time al***s...?

Nana

Working With Fire And Steel

Jim

Musst Musst-Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook.

Spine tingling

Bruce

Joni Mitchell - Blue.

Steve.

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

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!

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

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...

Wow, this is getting heavy!

John,

I notice you are a student - you wouldn't be attending Mick's Alma Mater* would you



*The University of Life for those less well educated amongst you.

going back to the topic...
Not Available - the Residents
Music for a new society - John Cale
Pet Sounds and Smile [even in various bootleg forms]
and whilst possibly not a real contender for best album best live album could well be something like the Dead's DP 4 or 8

There doesn't seem to be much cross over between rez fans and the naim forum!

-- Leopold [hey my first post]

Ignoring Jazz and classical these albums spring to my mind..

Steely Dan - aja
Marvin Gaye - What's going on
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
John Martyn - Solid air
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Beatles - Rubber soul
Jackson Brown - Late for the sky
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Tom Waits - Raindogs
Nightmares on Wax - Smokers delight
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Van Morrison - Into the Music
Leftfield - Leftism

Sorry, difficult to stop.....

Tempo

Reading your post made me realise my smiths ommision.

The queen is dead is IMO the best british band album of the 80's . Saw Morrisey at the Albert Hall last week and he was really entertaining, especially when he dusted off a couple of classic Smiths tunes. This band were a one off.

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?

Still growing on me after many thousands of plays.

Its so difficult at least on desert island disks you choose 5 or 10. But it would have to be between 2112 Rush and DSOTM Floyd.

Howard

It has to be Pink Floyd's "The Wall" for me.

Regards

NB