MattW Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Fine choice. There were regular discussions in grunge rock circles... "Pearl Jam, Nirvana or Soundgarden?". Soundgarden hands down for me. Chris Cornell what a voice, what a rock god. In early 1996 I swapped Prodigy 'Music for the Jilted Generation for a friend's copy of Soundgarden 'Superunknown'. Sadly, the family home got burgled and my CD collection and Hi Fi were some of the items stolen*. As the Soundgarden album got nicked I told my friend he could keep the Prodigy one. He wasn't all that keen on Soundgarden and I never got into that album at the time other than the track 'Black Hole Sun' . * The burglars were a bit choosy - they chucked my 'Beach Boys' Greatest Hits album on the floor yet they took a Salt & Pepa CD single & a Reel2Real one too: "I like to move it move it" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 * The burglars were a bit choosy - they chucked my 'Beach Boys' Greatest Hits album on the floor yet they took a Salt & Pepa CD single & a Reel2Real one too: "I like to move it move it" Are you sure it wasn't a visit from the taste police? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail the Tripod Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 These are all great albums: Stone Roses - Stone Roses Levelling the land - The levellers Fat of the land - The prodigy Strangitude - Ozric Tentacles Selected ambient works 85-92 - Aphex Twin If you like the stone roses this is truly an audio visual treat on youtube: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 One of my favourite albums and one that has always brought me much joy is Ivor Biggun - The Winker's Album (misprint). As blue as it comes (misprint) but a collection of some really good songs. Winkers Album.jpeg That takes me back! Fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starla Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 For those who mention Siamese Dream, no one ever says they like disarm, why? As a non muso I can only work from a gut feel and disarm really really pushes those buttons. Disarm is a brilliant track, but Siamese Dream is 9 brilliant tracks put together, so choosing one above the others is a tough call. That's why I class it as a great album. I've just listened to Soma, stupidly good too. They did do a track on another album called Starla, which isn't bad either. In early 1996 I swapped Prodigy 'Music for the Jilted Generation for a friend's copy of Soundgarden 'Superunknown'. Sadly, the family home got burgled and my CD collection and Hi Fi were some of the items stolen*. As the Soundgarden album got nicked I told my friend he could keep the Prodigy one. He wasn't all that keen on Soundgarden and I never got into that album at the time other than the track 'Black Hole Sun' . * The burglars were a bit choosy - they chucked my 'Beach Boys' Greatest Hits album on the floor yet they took a Salt & Pepa CD single & a Reel2Real one too: "I like to move it move it" Common sense burglary. Take Soundgarden, leave the Beach Boys. No brainer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starla Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Edit. Double post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Modest Mouse- "Good News For People Who Love Bad News". My favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I remembered I'd picked up a copy of NME with their "500 greatest albums of all time" - so for some debate, this is what they think - lack of time and inclination prohibits typing out the full list but the top 10 is: 01. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986) 02. The Beatles - Revolver (1966) 03. David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) 04. The Strokes - Is This It (2001) 05. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966) 06. Pulp - Different Class (1995) 07. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989) 08. Pixies - Doolittle (1989) 09. The Beatles - The Beatles (1968) 10. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I remembered I'd picked up a copy of NME with their "500 greatest albums of all time" - so for some debate, this is what they think - lack of time and inclination prohibits typing out the full list but the top 10 is: 01. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986) 02. The Beatles - Revolver (1966) 03. David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) 04. The Strokes - Is This It (2001) 05. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966) 06. Pulp - Different Class (1995) 07. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989) 08. Pixies - Doolittle (1989) 09. The Beatles - The Beatles (1968) 10. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994) Anything with Oasis near the top can`t be taken seriously IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Anything with Oasis near the top can`t be taken seriously IMO. They're certainly controversial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 They're certainly controversial. To be fair I have never sat down and listened to this album right through, at the time I was too old to be excited by them, my musical tastes growing up revolved around Ritchie Blackmore, ac/dc etc. Oasis were only ever going to sound like a plodding pub band in comparison. Rock and Roll star, Cigarettes and Alcohol etc. were blasting out in every club you went into at the time, but is was background music to me, it just sounded derivative and done many times before. It`s not that long ago that I realised that Live Forever was an Oasis song (I even hated their name when I first heard about them!) hearing it on the credits of the movie The Faculty (which I had seen before but not paid attention to the music at the end before) It`s only reading your post that I find it was actually on that first album. Mmmm...might have to give it a proper listen, but I seem to remember thinking that some solos etc. sounded out of tune at the time, and that the album really was a cobbled together exercise by a very third rate pub band. There is a theory that they got the media attention because Kurt Cobain had died, and the music press needed someone to latch on to, but no doubt they worked hard (practised 7 nights a week at one point?) and put themselves out there with plenty of swagger, so they deserve success IMO, but not to be held up as musical geniuses. No.10 in the 500 best albums is laughable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTMark Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 It`s not that long ago that I realised that Live Forever was an Oasis song (I even hated their name when I first heard about them!) hearing it on the credits of the movie The Faculty (which I had seen before but not paid attention to the music at the end before) One of my all-time favourite films. "I always wanted to do that." "Casey, when did you become Sigourney Weaver?" And possibly my favourite Oasis tune.. (I wouldn't describe myself as an Oasis fan per se, not really my genre) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedantic Tw@t Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I remembered I'd picked up a copy of NME with their "500 greatest albums of all time" - so for some debate, this is what they think - lack of time and inclination prohibits typing out the full list but the top 10 is: 01. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986) 02. The Beatles - Revolver (1966) 03. David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) 04. The Strokes - Is This It (2001) 05. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966) 06. Pulp - Different Class (1995) 07. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989) 08. Pixies - Doolittle (1989) 09. The Beatles - The Beatles (1968) 10. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994) To be fair I like most of that list (The Smiths are my favourite band, love Bowie, adore VU, Pulp, Pixies are great, grew up on Stone Roses), but then I am a white boy from England. If the Telegraph posted their 500 Greatest MPs of all time 475 would be Tories, with 25 tokens. Music is music. Music is subjective. Given this "The Greatest Album ever" could only be judged on a nexus of Accesibility (how many people like it) and Musicality (how much essence of music it has). Therefore Beatles mixed with Miles Davis would be the ideal music. Since they don't mix you are forced to choose: listen to Sergeant Pepper's and Kind of Blue on loop until you decide which side you're on - easy or wonderful. Everything else is a gradation on that scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I remembered I'd picked up a copy of NME with their "500 greatest albums of all time" - so for some debate, this is what they think - lack of time and inclination prohibits typing out the full list but the top 10 is: 01. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986) 02. The Beatles - Revolver (1966) 03. David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) 04. The Strokes - Is This It (2001) 05. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966) 06. Pulp - Different Class (1995) 07. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989) 08. Pixies - Doolittle (1989) 09. The Beatles - The Beatles (1968) 10. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994) These list are always dominated by what is current and fresh. I really like The Queen is Dead and Doolittle (for example) but they're too recent to that ?1996 list to be considered objectively. Strip out everything within the previous decade and you have: 02. The Beatles - Revolver (1966) 03. David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) 05. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966) 09. The Beatles - The Beatles (1968) Which is getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedantic Tw@t Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 These list are always dominated by what is current and fresh. I really like The Queen is Dead and Doolittle (for example) but they're too recent to that ?1996 list to be considered objectively. Strip out everything within the previous decade and you have: 02. The Beatles - Revolver (1966) 03. David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) 05. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966) 09. The Beatles - The Beatles (1968) Which is getting there. Fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Fail. You mean there's no Steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedantic Tw@t Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 You mean there's no Steps? . Sure there is. Between 1. The Beatles and 2. everyone else.... hurray... the Beatles are still the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eight Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 As for a slightly different category of album - "the best album you've never heard of" - I would proffer this entry: Sunhouse - Crazy on the Weekend. Amazing album from a bunch of nobodies...* In a similar vein - "Yes!" by Do Me Bad Things. Probably one of the most bizarre albums I've heard. Defies categorisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FrQeIJm41dk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpectrumFX Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 GUNS N Roses debut album has been named the greatest album ever by a judging panel tired of lying to themselves http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/appetite-for-destruction-wins-best-album-of-all-time-if-were-honest-2014062688000 Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle: Video not playing properly for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpectrumFX Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Video not playing properly for me. Have you tried turning your computer off, and turning it back on again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6lY3VaaI0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6lY3VaaI0 I think it is crap! There! I have said it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 I think it is crap! There! I have said it Fair enough....post it on the 'crappiest album ever' thread.....or start a new thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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