There's also Brian Wilsons Smile - finally completed in the 2000's after being shelved by him in the mid 1960's after he heard Sgt Pepper. It was an original concept album from which a studio version containing some of the tracks appeared as Smiley Smile. If you know your Beach Boys story you'll know what I'm talking about. The failure to complete the album co-incided with Brian Wilson having a complete breakdown from which he became a recluse for many years. The final complete version is a triumph because of the journey he had to go through to complete it. The finalised album contains tracks such as Hero's & Villains, Surfs Up and a Mike Love freee version of Good Vibrations.
Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Morning Glory - Oasis
Metallica - Metallica
Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
Any five of these depending on which ones I remember first/what mood I'm in:
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
OK Computer - OK Computer
What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
Achtung Baby - U2
The Joshua Tree - U2
London Calling - The Clash
Ramones - The Ramones
Darkness on the Edge of Town/The River/Borm to Run - Springsteen
The Harder they come - Jimmy Cliff
Led Zep IV - Led Zep
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Kind of Blue - Miles Davies
Sketches of Spain - Miles Davies
I'm cheating but as Carter said of your lifetime here goes.
1960's (I was born the week Spurs last won the league that's how old I am)
Music from Big Pink - The Band
Revolver - The Beatles
Beggers Banquet - The Rolling Stones
John Wesley Hardling - Bob Dylan
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (the 3rd album)
1970s
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dlyan
Paris 1919 - John Cale
The Clash - The Clash
Transformer - Lou Reed
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Harder They Come - Soundtracl Various artists
Catch a FIre - The Wailers
1980s
High Land Hard Rain - Aztec Camera
The Specials - THe Specials (OK it was 1979 but I think of it as 1980s)
err I gave up on music in the 80s Stayed at home with my beatles and my stones, never got off on that revolution stuff
1990s
Morning Glory - Oasis
Expecting to Fly - The Bluetones
ParkLife - Blur
Stanley Road - Paul Weller
2000s
Yoshimi Battles the pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
COles Corner - Richard Hawley
Grand Drive - Everyone
Soul Sessions - Joss Stone
Whatever people say I'm - Arctic Monkeys
Tool - "Aenima" or "Lateralus", I can't decide.
Idlewild - "100 Broken Windows" or "The Remote Part", I can't decide.
Deftones - "Around the Fur" or "White Pony" I can't decide.
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Asian Dub Foundation – Enemy of the enemy
Sigur Ros – Takk
The Pogues – If I should fall from grace with god
House of Love – The House of Love
Feeder - Echo Park Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of the Seventh Son Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) Tenacious D - Tenacious D Snow Patrol - Final Straw
if I could have a couple more...
Green Day - Amercian Idiot Foo Fighters - One By One Killers - Hot Fuss Portishead - Dummy All Stones and Sterephonics albums except for the the green rubbish one
Sacry Monsters and Supercreeps - David Bowie
Tattoo You - Rolling Stones
The Nightfly - Donald Fagan
Whatever You Want - Status Quo
Tropical Gangsters - Kid Creole and The Coconuts
All albums I bought myself as a teenager, with my own hard earned as soon as they were released.
I love these lists, my choices change every time I do them!
Today, my choices would be....
Sgt Pepper, - I remember an older brother rushing in with a copy to put on the record player the day it was released.
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust - Bowie was the coolest during my teenage years
Led Zeppelin IV - Embedded my love of rock and metal
Rumours - Just a great collection of songs
The Joshua Tree - this was when we all used to believe in Bono!
Close, but not in todays list.
So - Peter Gabriels finest
Urban Hymns - 'cos I'm a lucky man.....
Van Halen I and II - Eddie broke to mold when it came to guitars, Dave Lee Roth was one of the best frontmen ever.
The final straw - Great songwriting
Spice - OK, only joking.
That is indeed an awesome album - been trying to do some work all day yet keep thinking of albums that have been definitive within my lifetime and 5 is impossible, so as it's a football site I'll stick with the number of players in a team in no particular order!
1. Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths 2. War - U2. 3. 0898 - Beautiful South 4. Low Life - New Order 5. Disintegration - The Cure 6. Psycho Candy - Jesus and Mary Chain. 7. Generation Terrorists - Manic Street Preachers 8. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division. 9. London 0 Hull 4 - The Housemartins 10. Sparkle in the Rain - Simple Minds 11. Disc One - The Barenaked Ladies.
And I could probably come up with a Euro 2008 style bench full as well!
You mean his 2nd solo album that was just titled Barrett? Good choice, although i preferred the rawness of Madcap myself....have to dig them out again, not heard 'em for yonks.
Dinosaur Jr - Bug Neil Young - Harvest Yo la tengo - I can hear the heart beating as one Teenage fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain Allman Brothers Band - Brothers & Sisters
Psychosonic - The Sonics Give it Back - The Brian Jonestown Massacre Their Satanic Majesties Second Request - The Brian Jonestown Massacre Lift to Experience - Lift to Experience Aztec Discipline - The Kingsbury Manx Once - The Tyde Bizarro - The Wedding Present Faithless Street - Whiskeytown Hot Rail - Calexico End of Love - Clem Snide Delaware - The Drop Nineteens I am kloot - I am Kloot Jeffrey Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke Nixon - Lambchop
I'll stop now - that's much more than 5.....5 is impossible.
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief Ramones - Ramones The Stooges - The Stooges
Clem - good to see your fine taste in music remians undiminished. I am going to see Calexico headline at the Calgary Folk Festival in a few weeks time - cannot wait, am trying to locate their new LP to download as I don't think I can buy it until after the date of the gig. The Tyde - great choice!
Based on the ones that I listen to a lot (and not including Greatest Hits albums, cos that's cheating)
Workers Playtime - Billy Bragg
Violator - Depeche Mode
Seal (2nd album) - Seal
Stunt - Barenaked Ladies
Tropical Brainstorm - Kirsty MacColl
but there were loads of others on other people's lists that had me going "hmm, I'll have to dig that out to listen to again".
Depeche Mode - Violator
Puressence - Only Forever
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Curve - Cuckoo
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
Lush - Spooky
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Carcass - Necroticism
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Comments
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Morning Glory - Oasis
Metallica - Metallica
Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
Is This It - The Strokes
The Bends - Radiohead
Nevermind - Nirvana
Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
OK Computer - OK Computer
What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
Achtung Baby - U2
The Joshua Tree - U2
London Calling - The Clash
Ramones - The Ramones
Darkness on the Edge of Town/The River/Borm to Run - Springsteen
The Harder they come - Jimmy Cliff
Led Zep IV - Led Zep
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Kind of Blue - Miles Davies
Sketches of Spain - Miles Davies
Kevin Ayers Joy of a Toy
Syd Barrett
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde
Leonard Cohen Songs of
1960's (I was born the week Spurs last won the league that's how old I am)
Music from Big Pink - The Band
Revolver - The Beatles
Beggers Banquet - The Rolling Stones
John Wesley Hardling - Bob Dylan
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (the 3rd album)
1970s
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dlyan
Paris 1919 - John Cale
The Clash - The Clash
Transformer - Lou Reed
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Harder They Come - Soundtracl Various artists
Catch a FIre - The Wailers
1980s
High Land Hard Rain - Aztec Camera
The Specials - THe Specials (OK it was 1979 but I think of it as 1980s)
err I gave up on music in the 80s Stayed at home with my beatles and my stones, never got off on that revolution stuff
1990s
Morning Glory - Oasis
Expecting to Fly - The Bluetones
ParkLife - Blur
Stanley Road - Paul Weller
2000s
Yoshimi Battles the pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
COles Corner - Richard Hawley
Grand Drive - Everyone
Soul Sessions - Joss Stone
Whatever people say I'm - Arctic Monkeys
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Metallica (the unnamed black album)
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Highway 61 revisited - Bob Dylan
Forever Changes - Love
There goes rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
Electic ladyland - Jim Hendrix
If I made the list tomorrow it would probably be different.
Tool - "Aenima" or "Lateralus", I can't decide.
Idlewild - "100 Broken Windows" or "The Remote Part", I can't decide.
Deftones - "Around the Fur" or "White Pony" I can't decide.
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Slayer - Reign in Blood
plus many many others...
Asian Dub Foundation – Enemy of the enemy
Sigur Ros – Takk
The Pogues – If I should fall from grace with god
House of Love – The House of Love
Feeder - Echo Park
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of the Seventh Son
Metallica - Metallica (Black Album)
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
if I could have a couple more...
Green Day - Amercian Idiot
Foo Fighters - One By One
Killers - Hot Fuss
Portishead - Dummy
All Stones and Sterephonics albums except for the the green rubbish one
Tattoo You - Rolling Stones
The Nightfly - Donald Fagan
Whatever You Want - Status Quo
Tropical Gangsters - Kid Creole and The Coconuts
All albums I bought myself as a teenager, with my own hard earned as soon as they were released.
Today, my choices would be....
Sgt Pepper, - I remember an older brother rushing in with a copy to put on the record player the day it was released.
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust - Bowie was the coolest during my teenage years
Led Zeppelin IV - Embedded my love of rock and metal
Rumours - Just a great collection of songs
The Joshua Tree - this was when we all used to believe in Bono!
Close, but not in todays list.
So - Peter Gabriels finest
Urban Hymns - 'cos I'm a lucky man.....
Van Halen I and II - Eddie broke to mold when it came to guitars, Dave Lee Roth was one of the best frontmen ever.
The final straw - Great songwriting
Spice - OK, only joking.
Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Dragnet - The Fall
Let's do top 100 next time.
Definitely Maybe
Morning Glory
Fat of the Land
Urban Hymns
Locked On, Nailed On...FACT!
Dark side of the Moon-- Pink Floyd
Rum Sodomy and The Lash--- The Pogues
Has one of best track runs of any album - nos 5, 6, 7: A pair of brown eyes, Sally MacLennane, Dirty Old Town...
... and the final track Waltzin Matilda is brilliant.
1. Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
2. War - U2.
3. 0898 - Beautiful South
4. Low Life - New Order
5. Disintegration - The Cure
6. Psycho Candy - Jesus and Mary Chain.
7. Generation Terrorists - Manic Street Preachers
8. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division.
9. London 0 Hull 4 - The Housemartins
10. Sparkle in the Rain - Simple Minds
11. Disc One - The Barenaked Ladies.
And I could probably come up with a Euro 2008 style bench full as well!
Brilliant choice - it's still my favourite JAMC album
You mean his 2nd solo album that was just titled Barrett? Good choice, although i preferred the rawness of Madcap myself....have to dig them out again, not heard 'em for yonks.
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Neil Young - Harvest
Yo la tengo - I can hear the heart beating as one
Teenage fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain
Allman Brothers Band - Brothers & Sisters
Give it Back - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Their Satanic Majesties Second Request - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Lift to Experience - Lift to Experience
Aztec Discipline - The Kingsbury Manx
Once - The Tyde
Bizarro - The Wedding Present
Faithless Street - Whiskeytown
Hot Rail - Calexico
End of Love - Clem Snide
Delaware - The Drop Nineteens
I am kloot - I am Kloot
Jeffrey Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane
Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke
Nixon - Lambchop
I'll stop now - that's much more than 5.....5 is impossible.
Bandwagonesque & Grand Prix are all time faves. Songs from Northern Britain still an excellent choice.
Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Ramones - Ramones
The Stooges - The Stooges
Clem - good to see your fine taste in music remians undiminished. I am going to see Calexico headline at the Calgary Folk Festival in a few weeks time - cannot wait, am trying to locate their new LP to download as I don't think I can buy it until after the date of the gig. The Tyde - great choice!
Workers Playtime - Billy Bragg
Violator - Depeche Mode
Seal (2nd album) - Seal
Stunt - Barenaked Ladies
Tropical Brainstorm - Kirsty MacColl
but there were loads of others on other people's lists that had me going "hmm, I'll have to dig that out to listen to again".
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - African dub chapter 3
Tom Waits - blue valnetine
Art Blakey - Smack up
The Sex Pistols - Spunk.
Depeche Mode - Violator
Puressence - Only Forever
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Curve - Cuckoo
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
Lush - Spooky
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Carcass - Necroticism
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Massive Attack - Blue Lines