20 Best Albums

[Rita_Poon]

The darkness should've done a helluva lot better after that 1st album. Imo

The record companies wouldn't touch them, so they self financed it and got all the royalties themselves and toured it. They made monstrous amounts of money and Hawkins sadly let rock & roll* take it's toll on him. (drugs*)(good lad!)

This is where some of the money came from...

 

[Kurt.]

Not a massive music buff like some, but some albums have stuck with me over the years, my first proper album I listened to was james, Gold Mother, still my favourite. Then Nirvana released Never Mind, it resonates as I was about 15/16 at the time hanging around with good mates. And after that would probably be White Ladder, David Gray.
Shout out to Steve wonder too for songs in the key of life, but I also have a wild card which I loved, Elton John, sings from the west coast ?

 

[chrismpw]

Light Flight is on Pentangle's album Basket of Light, which is stuffed full of good songs.

Fantastically well recorded, too, from an audio nut's point of view.

 

[summerisle]

Fantastically well recorded, too, from an audio nut's point of view.

Jacqui McShee had such a wonderful crystal clear voice.

 

[Littlesue]

Frank Sinatra - Song for Swinging Lovers
Beatles - Abbey Road
Carole King - Tapestry
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
David Bowie - Ziggy
Sex Pistols - Never mind the B******s
T Rex - Slider
ELO - Discovery
Madness - Madness
Gregory Issacs - Night Nurse
Dexy's - Searching for the Soul Rebels
The Beat - Just Can't Stop It
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Manics - Lifeblood
Stereophonics - Grafitti on the Train
Noel Gallagher - High Flying Birds
Hard Fi - SOCCTV
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Green Day - American Idiot
The Enemy - Live and Die in these Towns

 

[Rob17896]

Genesis foxtrot
Genesis selling England by the pound
Genesis nursery crime
Genesis the lamb lies down
Brian eno here come the warm jets
Roxy music for your pleasure
David Bowie young Americans
David Bowie hunky dory
Stevie wonder all his albums.

Selling England by the Pound
A Trick of the Tail
Foxtrot
Nursery Cryme
Nude
The Snow Goose
A Nod and a Wink
Voyage of the Acolyte
Fragile
I can see your house from here
Close to the Edge
Revolver
McCartney (1)
Abbey Road
Magical Mystery Tour
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Please Don't Touch
Rubber Soul
Born to Run
Momentum

 

[verreauxi]

Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here
Frank Zappa-Hot Rats
Naked Raygun-Throb Throb
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
Herbie Hancock-Headhunters
The Orb-U.F.Orb
Ween-Chocolate and Cheese
Atmosphere-Lucy Ford EP
Majesticons-Beauty Party
Nick Warren-GU ReyKjavik
Tribe Called Quest-People's instinctive travels and paths of rhythm
Adam and the Ants-Dirk wears white sox
Tom Waits-Raindogs
Aphrodite's Child-666
Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker-Live
Funkadelic-Maggot Brain
Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
The Flaming Lips-The soft bulletin
Bob Marley-Exodus

 

[coollino]

I've only heard oscillations by Silver Apples, is the album of a similar bent ?

Sure is, still amazes me that they did it in the 60's. It sounds so ahead of it's time

 

[coollino]

The darkness should've done a helluva lot better after that 1st album. Imo

They seem to be fairly big again now, the singer has a podcast which I think is pretty big

 

[COYBL25]

The darkness should've done a helluva lot better after that 1st album. Imo

Hawkins couldn’t handle the fame and went nuts.

Brilliant live.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here
Frank Zappa-Hot Rats
Naked Raygun-Throb Throb
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
Herbie Hancock-Headhunters
The Orb-U.F.Orb
Ween-Chocolate and Cheese
Atmosphere-Lucy Ford EP
Majesticons-Beauty Party
Nick Warren-GU ReyKjavik
Tribe Called Quest-People's instinctive travels and paths of rhythm
*Adam and the Ants-Dirk wears white sox*
Tom Waits-Raindogs
Aphrodite's Child-666
Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker-Live
Funkadelic-Maggot Brain
Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
The Flaming Lips-The soft bulletin
Bob Marley-Exodus

Brilliant

 

[bicycleheader]

Dylan - Blood on The Tracks
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Neil Young - On The Beach
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Willie Colón - The Hustler
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Deftones - White Pony
Nada Surf - Proximity Effect
Replacements - Let It Be
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
REM - Reckoning
Nick Drake - Bryter Later
Radiohead - OK Computer
ZZ Top - Tree Hombres
Taylor Swift - Midnights
Bad Bunny - Debi Tirar Más Fotos

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Frank Sinatra - Song for Swinging Lovers
Beatles - Abbey Road
Carole King - Tapestry
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
David Bowie - Ziggy
Sex Pistols - Never mind the B******s
T Rex - Slider
ELO - Discovery
Madness - Madness
Gregory Issacs - Night Nurse
Dexy's - Searching for the Soul Rebels
The Beat - Just Can't Stop It
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Manics - Lifeblood
Stereophonics - Grafitti on the Train
Noel Gallagher - High Flying Birds
Hard Fi - SOCCTV
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Green Day - American Idiot
The Enemy - Live and Die in these Towns

The Enemy another good band.
Bit like The View...
All this simon Cowell pete waterman stuff killed these kids

 

[coollino]

The Enemy another good band.
Bit like The View...
All this simon Cowell pete waterman stuff killed these kids

Heroin killed The View

 

[jazzy]

Heroin killed The View

Yeah but video killed the radio stars