Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street Culture - Two Sevens Clash The Harder the come OST (Largely Jimmy Cliff) The Jam - Setting Suns The Clash - London Calling The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane Curtis Mayfield - Curtis Beatles - Revolver Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
And many of the albums mentioned in this thread were influenced by those two albums - Bowie, Smiths and even bands such as U2. For that era the Ferry / Eno collaboration was brilliant.
U2- War U2- Joshua tree Dire straights- Brothers in arms Abba- The Album Carpenters- The collection Beach boys - Greatest hits Hollies- Greatest hits Deep purple- Purple gold Glen Miller- Hits Alice Cooper.- Billion dollar babies.
Islands. King Crimson The Who. Live at Leeds Humble Pie. Rockin the Filmore Frank Zappa. Hot Rats Led Zep 2 Woodstock Santana. First album Can. Tago Mago Hawkwind. In search of space. Steely Dan. Can't buy a thrill Cream. Greatest hits Honourable mention to Focus. Hocus Pocus
I hit my teens in the early 90s so I was more cassettes and CDs but I'm sure most of these were on vinyl too. Music that influenced me: Terrorvision- How to make friends and influence people Nirvana - Incesticide Therapy? - Infernal Love Ash - 1977 Foo Fighters - s/t The Prodigy - Music for the jilted generation Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik Deftones - Around The Fur Reef - Glow Soundgarden - Superunknown
Neil Young - After the Goldrush Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Oasis - What's the Story.. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go Radiohead - Kid A The Libertines - Up The Bracket Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires Kanye West - Late Registration Deerhunter - Microcastle [Special mentions: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black; The Streets - Original Pirate Material; White Stripes - White Blood Cells; Dylan pre-'67; Nirvana - Nevermind; Pixies - Doolittle)
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy The Clash - London Calling Queen - Greatest Hits (I Know, I know, we shouldn't include a compilation album in this. But just fc*king listen to it. It's almost perfect. It is the best collection of pop singles there will probably ever be. It's jaw dropping amazing in its diversity, innovation and hooks. Young people who haven't been exposed to it cry when they hear it for the first time. I was on coach in New Zealand, returning from a Lesbian Wedding on a mountainside, as far away from home as it is possible to be, a two hour drive with 30 drunk people from all over the world, and we sung it, word for word, from beginning to end, without the CD, the stereo had broken, and we all knew the words, and we'll all talk about that for the rest of our lives.) Wedding Present - Seamonsters (released in the same year as Nevermind by Nirvana which is a very good album, but if there were any justice in the world, this would have gone stratospheric not Nevermind. This is Steve Albini's raison d'etre. It is simply amazing) Slow Down Tallahassee - The Beautiful Light Paul Simon - Graceland Gold-Bears - Are you Falling in Love? The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Tyrannosaurus Dead - Flying Ant Day
Yes you can. Morrissey is a cn$t. Doesn't mean he didn't produce beautiful music and it doesn't mean you agree with the disgusting bile he has latterly espoused. You are allowed to like great art without being judged on the views of the person who created that art. Anyone who does is a wn*ker. You are you, and you are judged on being you, and you can like whatever you want to like.
That should have been on my list. As i'm out of work I'm thinking of selling my rare UK pressing. Different sleeve to the other releases. https://www.discogs.com/Can-Tago-Mago/release/14652759 PS Happy Mondays fans take note where their ideas came from.
For once just shurrup. Your choices are absolutely valid, but stop trying to claim they're better than others. Can't you just stop being such a narcissist for a second. Good god.
Aarrgh! Can't believe I missed Steely Dan off my list. The Royal Scam would be my choice, with Countdown To Ecstasy as a close second.
Aargh! Again! I'm starting to think the OP is a sadist, coming up with a thread like this. Harvest would have been my choice though. Never tire of hearing that one.
Harvest is the obvious choice but when I think about the 'influence' and the diversity of Goldrush I plumped for that. I have more Neil Young records than any other artist. Was lucky enough to see him in 2014(?) in Birmingham. If you haven't heard it I would recommend Live at Massey Hall, phenomenal, just Neil and his guitar. I also love the heavy Crazy Horse stuff etc. I find it staggering how he has maintained his voice all these years, his vocals are still flawless for me
And don't get me wrong, I never tire of hearing Harvest either, incredible album. I love how he was a massive influence on Thom Yorke/Radiohead too
In no particular order... Prince - Sign O' The Times Kinks - Something Else John Coltrane - Giant Steps Bowie - Hunky Dory Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express Nick Drake - Bryter Layter Beatles - White Album Elliott Smith - Figure 8 Radiohead - OK Computer Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right
This challenge is too hard, because Elliott Smith would deffo make my top ten now you mentioned him. Figure 8 is unbelievable. Been listening to a lot of Elliott lately.