Help me to help me.

Trotter

Im home sick for the day and Ive just spotted that Ive a €15 itunes voucher.

I need some recommendations! I was looking at the Channel 4 top albums of all time list and Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon seems to be up there on that and all other lists.

Whats the most outstanding album that I need to have in your opinion!? My musical tastes are very broad.. everything from Christy Moore to Il Divo!

Im going to buy one in the next few hours, just to keep things interesting and avoid watching daytime TV.

Basq

Hmmmm..

Radiohead 'OK Computer'
Radiohead 'The Bends'
Elliott Smith 'XO'
Jeff Buckley 'Grace'
Smashing Pumpkins 'Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'

.. that's all off the top of my head which are must have albums!

Trotter

basquille wrote:

Hmmmm..

Radiohead 'OK Computer'
Radiohead 'The Bends'
Elliott Smith 'XO'
Jeff Buckley 'Grace'
Smashing Pumpkins 'Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'

.. that's all off the top of my head which are must have albums!

Good Lord.. theres no Radiohead albums on i-tunes!!! Madness.

Killaqueen!!!

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here
Queen - Queen / Queen 2 / A Night at the Opera / (anything else)
U2 - The Joshua tree
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Muse - Abdolution
Johnny Cash - ANYTHING!
Bob Dylan - ANYTHING!
Travis - Singles
Bob Marley - Natty Dread / Catch a Fire / (anything else)
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 4
The Beatles - Abbey Road

LOADS more my friend!

Trotter

Cool Keep em coming, Im off all day wednesday too so Im holding off til then!

Why is Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - always on the top 5 lists? Whats good about it?

casanova_kid

Neil Young- Tonight's The Night
Bright Eyes- I'm wide awake, it's morning.

almv

Sign O the times - Prince

slipss

basquille wrote:

Hmmmm..

Radiohead 'OK Computer'
Radiohead 'The Bends'
Elliott Smith 'XO'
Jeff Buckley 'Grace'
Smashing Pumpkins 'Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'

.. that's all off the top of my head which are must have albums!

lol Jesus, good selection, now all you need is a large bottle of whiskey, 100 paracetemal, a bath full of warm water and a pack of razor blades

slipss

I'd say maybe Bob Marley-Babylon By Bus
or maybe Dune-Dune/Live (I know the're crap but ye just have to love them)

Basq

slipss wrote:

lol Jesus, good selection, now all you need is a large bottle of whiskey, 100 paracetemal, a bath full of warm water and a pack of razor blades

Fair enough then.. two to combat these:

OK Go - OK Go
OK Go - Oh No

- quite bubbly alt-pop i've just gotten a hold of recently but both fantastic albums!

tman

Killaqueen!!! wrote:

Bob Dylan - ANYTHING!

he's released an awful lot of filler material in fairness.
you can't go wrong with the "Desire" album though

i'm quite fond of "Razorlight - up all night" at the mo
bought it as a crimbo pressie for a relative but ended up keeping it... don't think it's even left my cd player since before Christmas:p
that's more of a random recommendation though, rather than something that should be in every collection.

in terms of electronica;
Goldie - Timeless (i've rediscovered this gem recently... the first track is simply breathtaking )
Daft Punk - Homework
Chemical Brothers - Exit planet dust
Orbital - Insides / Brown
Leftfield - Leftism

grumpytrousers

Trotter wrote:

Im home sick for the day and Ive just spotted that Ive a €15 itunes voucher.

I need some recommendations! I was looking at the Channel 4 top albums of all time list and Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon seems to be up there on that and all other lists.

Whats the most outstanding album that I need to have in your opinion!? My musical tastes are very broad.. everything from Christy Moore to Il Divo!

Im going to buy one in the next few hours, just to keep things interesting and avoid watching daytime TV.

Christy Moore to il Divo, y'say?

If you want an album that constantly does well in those 'best of the best' lists, then I'll go and suggest Exile on Main St by the Rolling Stones. Forget Satisfaction. Cock, instead, a leer at the sprawling 18 tracks of the debauched drug addled upstarts when they were still considered dangerous and years before they'd become the showband they are today. It all depends on what floats your boat, obviously, but it really is an album that would contain something for pretty much everybody. Killer opening track (quoted in the sig, btw:D), a wee bit of country music, old folky kind of stuff, electric 12 bar blues, gospel and a few heads-down-take-no-prisoners rock'n'roll tunes. it's going for under a tenner on i-tunes, and with 18 tracks, it's great value too!

Obv if you're more into the reflective introspective singer-songwriter stuff, this ain't for you...but if you want an accessible, hummable, dirty sounding album, then (your illness notwithstanding), this could be just what the doctor ordered...

Trotter

We are 100% getting places now!! Grumpytrousers, I think you're winning, but a friend of mine is hassling me that if I dont listen to dark side of the moon, he's going to go mad at me.

grumpytrousers

then it's up to you mate! DSOTM is certainly a popular album...I own it, and it never worked its magic on me, although I'm sure i'm in the minority on this. It's a 1973 Pink Floyd album...it's (although I'll be shot for saying this) prog rock. It's the kind of thing that inspired Radiohead, and you can take that *any* way you want it!

Exile, on the other hand, is about getting drunk, laid and high...

casanova_kid

tman wrote:

he's released an awful lot of filler material in fairness.
you can't go wrong with the "Desire" album though

i'm quite fond of "Razorlight - up all night" at the mo
bought it as a crimbo pressie for a relative but ended up keeping it... don't think it's even left my cd player since before Christmas:p
that's more of a random recommendation though, rather than something that should be in every collection.

in terms of electronica;
Goldie - Timeless (i've rediscovered this gem recently... the first track is simply breathtaking )
Daft Punk - Homework
Chemical Brothers - Exit planet dust
Orbital - Insides / Brown
Leftfield - Leftism

I don't know about 'Desire' for a recommendation, better off with "Blood on the Tracks", "highway 61 revisited" or "Blonde on Blonde".

Trotter

And the winner is.............








PINK FLOYD! Dark side of the Moon!

I just got too curious about what all the fuss was about. Ive listened to half of it so far.. its .. challenging!!

Andy-Pandy

Trotter wrote:

Good Lord.. theres no Radiohead albums on i-tunes!!! Madness.

They will not, as they say there albums are complete works, and that they will not alow the tunes to be sold/distributed as seperate peices, or something to that effect.