Exile on Main Street (the greatest album ever, bar none!) - The Stones Me and Mr Johnson - EC Never Mind The Bollocks - The Pistols Pepper - The Beatles Paranoid - Sabbath Piledriver - Quo
All Mod Cons - The Jam Setting Sons - The Jam Wildwood - Paul Weller Nevermind - Nirvana The Stone Roses 1st Album What did you expect from...The Vaccines The Autumn Stone - Small Faces Well Respected Kinks - The Kinks East Side Story - Squeeze This Years Model & My Aim is True - both Elvis Costello ..could go on for hours,,,,but wont!!
Remember folks, not favourite albums, but ones without a duff track.
Surprised New Boots and Panties, Ian Dury and the Blockheads hasn't come up.
I will also give a shout for Rodrigo y Gabriela, their eponymous debut album. Also The Guide (Wommat) - Youssou N'Dour and certainly Buena Vista Social Club (eponymous album).
Too true - Michael Stipe said he would love to go back in time and remove Ignoreland and Sidewinder from that record!!!
Saw someone else put This Is My Truth... by Manics, which is funny because, for me, that record has one great track, followed by gradually worse tracks, until the final, turgid, cringe-inducing horror that is the final track. The album that made me stop listening to my then-third favourite band. Horrifying!
Velvet Underground and Nico is a great shout.
For me...
Gomez - Bring It On
Radiohead - OK Computer R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
Bit of a disappointing contribution from you Henry. I was expecting you to nominate some obscure African world music albums, at least one Jamaican reggae pioneer and a deep south American blues artist who was actually better than Elvis.
Too many people naming far too many albums and too many David Bowies. I am a massive Bowie fan but to seriously say that Low does not have a duff track is beyond me, side 2 is crap save Art Decade.
Not African, and recently abused by an English producer, but The Jolly Boys' Pop n Mento really doesnt have a duff track, is obscure World Music and is about as funny as you can get a bunch of Octogenarian Jamaicans who played for many a star of the 50's like Erroll Flynn's parties in Port Antonio. Beer Joint and Tailoring is also good though not up to Sunshine and Water http://www.mentomusic.com/TheJollyBoys.htm
South American dance favourite Miki Gonzalez has one Album which is equally good all through - Cafe Inkaterra mixing andean instruments and dance beats.
Sadly nowhere near as good as Elvis. And you are so right about Bowie
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Elizabeth My Dear nearly - nearly - does for The Stone Roses. Still my favourite album of all time.
Antics - Interpol
The Bends - Radiohead
Free All Angels - Ash
Whatever People Say - Arctic Monkeys
Me and Mr Johnson - EC
Never Mind The Bollocks - The Pistols
Pepper - The Beatles
Paranoid - Sabbath
Piledriver - Quo
Marbles - Marillion, a truly amazing album by one of the most underrated bands.
The Final Cut - Pink Floyd (Contraversially I prefer this to Dark Side)
Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
13th Star - Fish
Setting Sons - The Jam
Wildwood - Paul Weller
Nevermind - Nirvana
The Stone Roses 1st Album
What did you expect from...The Vaccines
The Autumn Stone - Small Faces
Well Respected Kinks - The Kinks
East Side Story - Squeeze
This Years Model & My Aim is True - both Elvis Costello
..could go on for hours,,,,but wont!!
Remember folks, not favourite albums, but ones without a duff track.
Surprised New Boots and Panties, Ian Dury and the Blockheads hasn't come up.
I will also give a shout for Rodrigo y Gabriela, their eponymous debut album. Also The Guide (Wommat) - Youssou N'Dour and certainly Buena Vista Social Club (eponymous album).
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Crack The Skye - Mastodon
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Never a dull moment - Road Stewart
Velvet Underground and Nico is a great shout.
Gomez - Bring It On
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
Enemy of the Enemy - Asian Dub Foundation
The Clash - The Clash
To the Faithful Departed - The Cranberries
Two Sevens Clash - Culture
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Nothing Gold Can Stay - The Duke & The King
Light the Horizon - Bedouin Soundclash
The House of Love - House of Love
Psychocandy - Jesus and Mary Chain
Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
Levelling the Land - The Levellers
Le Noise - Neil Young
Belong - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Do What You Love - Paula Darwish
Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
The Liberty of Norton Folgate - Madness
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues
Takk - Sigur Ros
Suede - Suede
Electric Warrior - T. Rex
Computers and Blues - The Streets
Who's Next - The Who
Roadsinger - Yusuf (Cat Stevens)
Tapestry - Carole King - everyone a classic
Music from Big Pink and the Band - both perfect.
Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
Bit of a disappointing contribution from you Henry. I was expecting you to nominate some obscure African world music albums, at least one Jamaican reggae pioneer and a deep south American blues artist who was actually better than Elvis.
Too many people naming far too many albums and too many David Bowies. I am a massive Bowie fan but to seriously say that Low does not have a duff track is beyond me, side 2 is crap save Art Decade.
Not African, and recently abused by an English producer, but The Jolly Boys' Pop n Mento really doesnt have a duff track, is obscure World Music and is about as funny as you can get a bunch of Octogenarian Jamaicans who played for many a star of the 50's like Erroll Flynn's parties in Port Antonio.
Beer Joint and Tailoring is also good though not up to Sunshine and Water
http://www.mentomusic.com/TheJollyBoys.htm
South American dance favourite Miki Gonzalez has one Album which is equally good all through - Cafe Inkaterra mixing andean instruments and dance beats.
Sadly nowhere near as good as Elvis.
And you are so right about Bowie
Well I was just being honest. Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" to me is the perfect album. Why would you have expected me to post that?
My NOW post was.........a joke?
Hot Fuss - The Killers