Your 5 favorite albums

It really is a nice album! Just reissued too.

Did not know this, thanks for the tipoff! Just ordered the vinyl.

Off the top of my head:

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Slint - Spiderland

pixies - bossanova
thinking fellers union local 282 - strangers from the universe
studio - west coast
miles davis - in a silent way
jerry garcia - garcia

Sowiesoso (cluster)
Out of the Cool (gil evans)
Purple Rain (prince)
Debussy: Preludes, Books I and II (paul jacobs)
The Concert Suites (Bernard Herrmann)

sleater-kinney - call the doctor
the-dream - love vs money
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
diddy-dirty money - last train to paris
fall out boy - folie a deux

"It really is a nice album! Just reissued too."
"Did not know this, thanks for the tipoff! Just ordered the vinyl."

would be curious to hear the new vinyl just to see if they made any improvements or if they just made it louder or whatever. my original pressing is not that loud. and if i crank it up it doesn't sound the best. i've never actually heard the CD. i should find an old CD. or a new one.

i got an old CD copy of their last album recently and it sounded good. totally forgot about that album. glad there are new reissues of How It Feels...though! now new sad sacks can revel in it.

Looking forward to glenn's summation of this thread, even though it doesn't directly benefit Spotify (and even though Julianna Hatfield seems to be lagging). Thread should be renamed "Blue Nile discovered by Americans."

NIGHTTIME by Killing Joke
WHITE NOISE by Cop Shoot Cop
FUNHOUSE by the Stooges
SPIRIT OF EDEN by Talk Talk
PAUL'S BOUTIQUE by the Beastie Boys

i can't believe i don't own a copy of night time. i really should have one. even on cd.

still waiting for an official instrumental version of paul's boutique. i'll be first in line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtRPeeTEtVs

Dock Boggs - Legendary Singer and Banjo Player
Idaho - Year After Year
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - s/t
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

The problem is, I don't have five favourite albums, it's more like 1,300 favourite albums or something... and am I fuck ranking them and posting 'em all here.

dude just suck it up and post 5 albums you like its very simple, you coulda been done already. we all have 1300 favorite albums.

it's like, don't think too hard about it. name a couple albums you've been playing nonstop, and then name a few more that you hold in high regard. obviously it's impossible to have only five or whatever

Your 5 faves of the moment

andy irvine and paul brady record for the win! so good. as are 13th floor and black sabb. i don't know what an idaho is.

https://youtu.be/-Ek_8WZ-Oa4

Sorry, that didn't embed

and am I fuck

idk are you

I love that Idaho album

Me too.

Okay then, I'll do ten that I really wanna hear right now and be done with it...

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Dazzle Ships
Ultravox - Systems of Romance
The Human League - Dare
Tubeway Army - Replicas
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
David Bowie - Station to Station
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
Soft Cell - This Last Night In Sodom
Visage - Visage
John Foxx - Metamatic

and Brad, do be quiet.

Hmmm... Ah!

If you were forced to delete 5 which ones would remain?

Yes - Close To The Edge
Emperor - Anthems To Welkin At Dusk
Devil Doll - Sacrilegium
Swans - Various Failures (compilation of an era)
The Cure - Disintegration

If lots of people hadn't chosen Scott Walker's Tilt, I would have chosen that.

xpost:

I wouldn't delete 5, I'd add another 1,290, but I'm not going to do that! :)

Darn, almost got ya

Michael Farneti ‎– Good Morning Kisses
Sade - No Ordinary Love
Eagles Nest Three - Three In The Nest
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Norma Bengell - Ooooooh! Norma

Oh go on then. I have four definite favourites that mean as much to me as music possibly can:

Cardiacs - Sing to God
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Weakling - Dead as Dreams

#5 could be whatever I'm enjoying most at the time which these days is:

Coaltar of the Deepers - Yukari Telepath

the irvine/brady is so good!

5 albums of music i like:

the band - the band
gene clark - no other
michael hurley - long journey
grateful dead - american beauty
shirley & dolly collins - love, death & the lady

these are always at least top 20:

fiona apple - the idler wheel
pj harvey - dry
replacements - let it be
eno - another green world
prince - sott

though in a desert island situation it'd be hard not to include the dirty dancing soundtrack tbh

i having no fucking idea but...

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
John Coltrane - Coltrane
Closer Musik - After Love
Throwing Muses - House Tornado
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More

Various - Sorted: 40 Madchester Baggy Anthems
Various - Live Forever: The Best of Britpop
Various - Greatest Ever Indie Anthems: The Definitive Collection
Various - The Best Heavy Metal Album in the World...Ever!
Leni Riefenstahl - Triumph of the Will (Original Soundtrack)

― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Saturday, October 1, 2016 1:08 AM (three days ago)

GREAT LIST M8!!

Cardiacs - Sing to God
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Current 93 - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Rosa Yemen - Rosa Yemen

This thread is just too amazing. So many great lists and The Blue Nile appreciation was a nice surprise.

We should do songs next.

<3 Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre <3

I heard it for the first time at the start of this year and it just has everything.

agree

great thread y'all

this mortal coil - filigree & shadow
flamin' groovies - supersnazz
don cherry - brown rice
alice coltrane - transcendence
fred neil - s/t

kinda interested in how fluid people's lists are here

3 of the 5 albums i posted would be in my top 5 at any time in the past 15-20 years.

SAW 85-92 i played endlessly in high school but somehow my perception of it has completely blossomed and overwhelmed me in the past few years.

hangman's beautiful daughter i just listed because i was listening to it at that moment and was vibing to it pretty hard.

I love this thread. No snark just people listing albums they like. Its nice!

I'm making my way through it starting at the very top with Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks. This albumis errr, hard work so far tbh. I mean I WANT TO LIKE IT, I love the Beach Boys and the crazy intent this is aiming for but...

On fluidity: London Calling and Purple Rain are etched in stone. The other three could be any other three albums from a list of 20 or so albums that I love.

"This albumis errr, hard work so far tbh. I mean I WANT TO LIKE IT,"

it's willfully difficult and it came make some people wonder if its worth the effort. i think i kinda appreciate it more than like it.

Song Cycle isn't that much work? I can imagine finding it twee and annoying but it's not a piece that you're going to unlock through study.

otm

it's pretty blurry though. you do sort of have to adjust for aural drunk-vision.

Bizarrely (perhaps) I've always found it to be a real singalong album.

Melodies are catchy and words are fun.

i like "song cycle" but man "by the people" is pretty obtuse.

Yes, but that's the only one.