What Album Is So Good...

[stephec]

I used to like what we called hard rock, and punk.

Most of it now grates on me.

I remember John Peel speculating if, say, a Led Zep fan graduated to Val Doonican with advancing age.

I've not gone that far, but I now prefer the Carpenters to Iron Maiden.

You can still like them both.

I've always been a fan of British metal like Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, and Motorhead. Now though I don't mind a bit of easy listening like Sinatra and the rest of the rat pack style of music.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I used to like what we called hard rock, and punk.

Most of it now grates on me.

I remember John Peel speculating if, say, a Led Zep fan graduated to Val Doonican with advancing age.

I've not gone that far, but I now prefer the Carpenters to Iron Maiden.

I often wonder(*) if Radio 2 would end up playing the sex pistols and such as the punks of yesterday got to that certain age.

(*) I have a lot of unused mental capacity at times.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Mazzy Star - Among My Swan.

I've been listening to that album regularly since I bought it 15 years ago, and never tire of it.

 

[Herbie]

Yesterday Ghost released their third album Meliora. I think it's so good that I'm now listening to it for the fifth time in two days! Earlier this Muse released Drones and Faith No More released Sol Invictus, both of which I similarly played over and over because I liked them so much.

This got me thinking about other albums that have had a similar effect on me. There haven't been that many. Slayer's Reign In Blood, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters are three that string to mind.

Has this year been that exceptional for music? What albums have you had this experience with?

Public Service Broadcasting..... Race for Space....I played it constantly. Also. Mumford and Sons new one

 

[andyfraser]

You can still like them both.

I've always been a fan of British metal like Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, and Motorhead. Now though I don't mind a bit of easy listening like Sinatra and the rest of the rat pack style of music.

You're right, they aren't mutually exclusive. My dad was a massive Sinatra fan. It rubbed off. I was listening to Sinatra and classical before I discovered metal.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Off the top of my head that I played to death & still listen to
Rainbow Difficult to Cure
The Specials & More Specials
The Housemartins London 0 Hull 4
Paul Simon's Graceland
Flood by They Might be Giants
This is the Sea by The Waterboys
White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
Casanova by The Divine Comedy
Beautiful freak by eels
Raintown & Riches double album from Deacon Blue
Maximo Park, Our Earthly Pleasures & A Certain Trigger.
Lungs by Florence & the Machine

At the moment I'm listening to Rockland by Katzenjammer quite a lot.

 

[YahudaMoon]

Played this over and over for months...

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With the perspective of history I can now see that the album had a very unfortunate title.

I really don't understand why you would want to listen too this, or have it in your possession no matter how good the music is

Only place for this stuff is the land fill

 

[Gravity Aided]

Rolling Stones-Exile on Main Street
Steely Dan-Can't Buy a Thrill
Dire Straits-Dire Straits
Talking Heads- More Songs About Buildings and Food, True Stories
Badfinger-Ass
Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker-Hooker n' Heat
B.B.King- Live at Cook County(Chicago) Jail
These are the ones i remember playing the grooves off of.

 

[EltonFrog]

Crime of the Century-Supertramp
Led Zeppelin II
Madman Across The Water - Elton John

Amongst the first Albums I owned and played to death.

Edit: there used to be a time when I would have several of the albums in the top 40, I haven't owned an album that's charted for years, I'm getting old.

 

[Drago]

I really don't understand why you would want to listen too this, or have it in your possession no matter how good the music is

Only place for this stuff is the land fill

You're right, so I donated it to the local Barnados charity shop.

 

[EltonFrog]

You're right, so I donated it to the local Barnados charity shop.

Naughty.

 

[clid61]

The Cure - Pornography

 

[Paul139]

Mazzy Star - Among My Swan.

I've been listening to that album regularly since I bought it 15 years ago, and never tire of it.

Just had a listen on iTunes.. That's right up my boulevard.

 

[Doyleyburger]

Currently listening to the 'sons of anarchy' soundtrack at the moment. Very good indeed

 

[John the Monkey]

Apart from the Squarepusher one, that looks like a trawl through my collection there! On that basis, I'm going to get 'Hard Normal Daddy' right away as our tastes seem strikingly similar.

"This is Squarepusher" is worth a listen too - I think you can preview both over on youtube.