What are your top 5 Albums of all time?

[Crackle]

Mike Westbrook: Citadel/Room 315 (with John Surman - the best British jazz album ever? Certainly tremendously satisfying, even in squeezed-onto-an-LP form - in fact probably all the better for losing the usual Westbrook prolixity)

So that's actual music then, ahhh! So that band I heard weren't actually tuning up, got it.

 

[NickM]

So that's actual music then, ahhh! So that band I heard weren't actually tuning up...

This bit, you mean?

 

[Chris James]

There are several of my favourites already listed, so I'll try to pick diferent stuff, and in differing styles (albeit they are all quite introspective)

Tallulah -The Go-Betweens
Joy 1967-1990 - Ultra Vivid Scene
I Am Kloot - I Am Kloot
Love Travels at Illegal Speeds- Graham Coxon
Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way? -The Field Mice

Although the last one is a compilation so not sure if that constitutes cheating.

If I am cheating then I may as well keep going and nominate a sixth favourite.

Get Lost -Magnetic Fields

 

[Crackle]

This bit, you mean?

That wasn't too bad but even so, just a little bit discordant for me, still too many instruments all trying to muscle in and have their say. It's like a load of people in a room all talking at once. I've tried listening to Jazz but it just doesn't do it for me, quite the opposite in fact, it quite literally makes my head ring and sets my teeth on edge That's not to say there aren't jazz tracks I've heard that I've liked but they are probably more jazz 'influenced' than true jazz. Each to their own though, that's what makes the world go around. Except Jamie Cullum, who should be discouraged to play any instrument whatsoever

 

[Ashtrayhead]

Lordy. There's some great suggestions on here, particularly Arvo Part, Stone Roses, The Cure, Daivd Holmes (I have 'bow down to the exit sign' and 'this film's crap let's slash the seats') etc.

To pick 5 off the top of my head:

Different Trains (composed by Steve Reich) - played by Pat Metheny
Front by Front - Front 242
DE9 Transitions - Richie Hawtin
Lightweights and Gentlemen - Lau
Infected - The The

Good call!!

 

[Wolf04]

I could probably whittle it down to my top 100 at a push. Here's five that were important to me for one reason or another.

Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
The London Sessions - Howlin' Wolf
Harvest - Neil Young
Stones In The Road - Mary Chapin Carpenter

 

[Ashtrayhead]

My 5 are:-

Deep Purple - In Rock
Uriah Heep - Return to Fantasy
Front 242 - Evil , and Off (although 2 I count as one because they were released in the same year!)
Enigma - MCMXCa.D.
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey

 

[Fnaar]

This bit, you mean?

I love jazz (especially from/inspired by 30s, 40s 50s, mebbe a bit of 60s), but modern jazz is mostly cak (he said authoritatively)... that coukld be incidental music to a bad cowboy film, or perhaps Casualty

 

[simonali]

I tried jazz, but couldn't get into it. I ebayed all the albums I bought except one that I decided to keep. Majesty Of The Blues by Wynton Marsalis tis called. Saying that, I might possibly still have A Love Supreme by Coltrane on vinyl somewhere.

 

[theclaud]

I tried jazz, but couldn't get into it.

Maybe you didn't inhale...

 

[Chromatic]

Like many it will vary with time but here are 5 (+1 that I wanted to add) that are currently on the 'that's a good one, I'll play that' list.

Faust IV - Faust
Soon Over Babaluma - Can
Deluxe - Harmonia
Uberfällig - Günter Schickert
Half Machine Lip Moves - Chrome
The Contino Sessions - Death in Vegas

 

[Lardyboy]

This week I'll be mostly listing

Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Revolver - The Beatles
London Calling - The Clash
Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Next week it will be different.

 

[Chromatic]

Haven't heard those recommended by many people. Picnic on a frozen river/Giggy Smile popped up on my iPod today and were followed by Krautrock. Wonderful.

They would be recommended by me. I remember first hearing Krautrock, great stuff. Did think about recommending it in the recent thread about great introductions, suggesting getting a cd copy of Faust IV, turning your amp up to 11 then starting Krautrock. What an intro that is, no messing, straight into it.

 

[Dave5N]

I obviously like dull! And they're not obscure just because you've not heard of them.

They're obscure to me, mate.

 

[Dave5N]

Like many it will vary with time but here are 5 (+1 that I wanted to add) that are currently on the 'that's a good one, I'll play that' list.

Faust IV - Faust
Soon Over Babaluma - Can
Deluxe - Harmonia
Uberfällig - Günter Schickert
Half Machine Lip Moves - Chrome
The Contino Sessions - Death in Vegas

ANyway, looks like you just lost out to Chromatic