LP recommendations?

JæKæ

Just got my first few LPs last week. Loving them.
Got The National - Boxer
Lemon Jelly - 64-95
Super Furry Animals - MWNG
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum

I'm looking for recommendations on a few LPs. They would have to be consistently great, as there's no skipping on a record player.
Any ideas (preferably alternative, chilled, progressive, instrumental, rock n roll or ambient)

lordgoat

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger

indiewindy

Bakesale by sebadoh is great American indie
or field songs by Mark Lanegan I think is his best album

JæKæ

lordgoat wrote: »

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger

Going to see Ryan in January-looking forward to it. The Cardinals are with him, but he seems to be playing his own stuff, with a few Cardinals songs.

Not that keen on Easy Tiger-good but nothing compared to Heartbreaker.

lordgoat

JæKæ wrote: »

Going to see Ryan in January-looking forward to it. The Cardinals are with him, but he seems to be playing his own stuff, with a few Cardinals songs.

Not that keen on Easy Tiger-good but nothing compared to Heartbreaker.

Jesus i'm sick of heartbreaker. Ya it's a good album but his songwriting has improved so much since then. Easy Tiger is in my opinion his best ablum to date.

Just to warn ya, unless you'll well up on cold roses, jacksonville, 29 and easy tiger, you won't recognise the set list much. I saw him very recently and the only songs not from these were Resucue Blues and Dear Chicago.
And it's not that the cardinals are with him, he's part of the cardinals or jimmy and the coconuts as the like to be called. Most of the songs on Easy Tiger were written with Neal Cash and other cardinals. So he says it's only fair to give them the credit they deserve too.

Apologies for the overly long ryan rant!

John

JæKæ wrote: »

Just got my first few LPs last week. Loving them.
Got The National - Boxer
Lemon Jelly - 64-95
Super Furry Animals - MWNG
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum

I'm looking for recommendations on a few LPs. They would have to be consistently great, as there's no skipping on a record player.
Any ideas (preferably alternative, chilled, progressive, instrumental, rock n roll or ambient)

Try to buy from labels and bands who are actually into producing vinyl as a lot of people cheap on the mastering and just use the CD master for the vinyl (doesn't always produce a nice sound). If you're into instrumental music, you really can't go wrong with anything by Godspeed You! Black Emperor on vinyl. Their label, Constellation, makes the nicest vinyl in the world. Sounds amazing and put together with a lot of love and attention to detail.

Ryaller

I think "Dummy" by Portishead sounds great on vinyl.

Miguel_Sanchez

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

All great albums from start to finish.

Bubs101

Hotel Yankee Foxtrot - Wilco
No need to skip a second

lordgoat wrote: »

Jesus i'm sick of heartbreaker. Ya it's a good album but his songwriting has improved so much since then. Easy Tiger is in my opinion his best ablum to date.

Just to warn ya, unless you'll well up on cold roses, jacksonville, 29 and easy tiger, you won't recognise the set list much. I saw him very recently and the only songs not from these were Resucue Blues and Dear Chicago.
And it's not that the cardinals are with him, he's part of the cardinals or jimmy and the coconuts as the like to be called. Most of the songs on Easy Tiger were written with Neal Cash and other cardinals. So he says it's only fair to give them the credit they deserve too.

Apologies for the overly long ryan rant!

Easy Tiger is at most his 4th best work and he played When The Stars Go Blue, Answering Bell and Bartering Lines aswell with only one song from 29. And since I'm assuming we're talking about the same gig, I presume I wasn't the only one who thought he was gonna start playing Kidsmoke for a second with all that talk about Spiders

lordgoat

Bubs101 wrote: »

Hotel Yankee Foxtrot - Wilco
No need to skip a second



Easy Tiger is at most his 4th best work and he played When The Stars Go Blue, Answering Bell and Bartering Lines aswell with only one song from 29. And since I'm assuming we're talking about the same gig, I presume I wasn't the only one who thought he was gonna start playing Kidsmoke for a second with all that talk about Spiders

Was at that one too, but also another. I just think the quality of song writing has improved so much on Easy Tiger, i think on Heartbreaker he's a bit of a whinge whereas on this record he's grown up alot and if you read alot of my rants i love progression in all it's forms.

I also saw you had the last post in this form and i knew you were going to suggest Yankee and i def agree and +1 to it. I also think AGIB is amazing as one listen, and a bit strange when the late greats kick in. You won't hear em on the radio. The Kat Settes starring Butchers Blind, that's who.

xmas pressie for bubs?

http://media.musictoday.com/store/bands/241/product_medium/WCCT48.jpg

JæKæ

lordgoat wrote: »

Was at that one too, but also another. I just think the quality of song writing has improved so much on Easy Tiger, i think on Heartbreaker he's a bit of a whinge whereas on this record he's grown up alot and if you read alot of my rants i love progression in all it's forms.

I also saw you had the last post in this form and i knew you were going to suggest Yankee and i def agree and +1 to it. I also think AGIB is amazing as one listen, and a bit strange when the late greats kick in. You won't hear em on the radio. The Kat Settes starring Butchers Blind, that's who.

Yep-AGIB is class. I had just ordered that this morning actually! Along with Tonights the Night (Neil Young) and Turn on the Bright Lights (T'interpol)
I looked up Ryan's setlist on his forum. There's lots of songs from his first two albums. And I like a few cardinals songs (the not-too-country ones). So it should be a crackin gig.

Bubs101

lordgoat wrote: »

I also saw you had the last post in this form and i knew you were going to suggest Yankee and i def agree and +1 to it. I also think AGIB is amazing as one listen, and a bit strange when the late greats kick in. You won't hear em on the radio. The Kat Settes starring Butchers Blind, that's who.

xmas pressie for bubs?

http://media.musictoday.com/store/bands/241/product_medium/WCCT48.jpg

I'm getting too predictable .

Also, I probably will get the shirt. The one on WilcoWorld wasn't in my size. Nice Find

Grr. Only women and Children. Just like the Titanic

JæKæ

Without wanting to turn it into a Ryan Adams thread, just one other thing:
Check out his Live IN Jamaica dvd. It's excellent. Listen to him jam with Toots on 'Hard Time Situation'

lordgoat

JæKæ wrote: »

Without wanting to turn it into a Ryan Adams thread, just one other thing:
Check out his Live IN Jamaica dvd. It's excellent. Listen to him jam with Toots on 'Hard Time Situation'

Wasn't too gone on it. But it was an odd change!

And the country ones are the best. From what i hear as well, the next album could well just be A Cardinals album.

AGIB on vinyl is a beautiful experience! Especially for the first guitar in At least that's what you said. Make sure you have it up nice and loud to do it justice.
BBBBRRRRRRUUUUNNNNGGGGGGGGG

DerekD Goldfish

MBV-Loveless
Wire -Chairs Missing *
PIL - Metal Box*
Cabaret Voltaire- Red Mecca
John Coltraine - A Love Supreme
Neil Young - On the beach
The Cure- Disintegration
Television-Marquee Moon

*A crowd called 4 beards did great re-issues of these recently so you could probably pick up new unplayed copies easily enough.

Edit and some Tom Waits and Scott Walker
Swordfishtrombone and Scott 4 respectivly

mise_me_fein

Van Halen I
Van Halen II
Amy Winehouse - Frank
Anthrax - We've Come for you all
Sublime - Sublime

Stereomaniac

Bleach by Nirvana.

boomar

Double vinyl of Wilco's Blue Sky Blue. Nice.

nlgbbbblth

indiewindy wrote: »

Bakesale by sebadoh is great American indie
or field songs by Mark Lanegan I think is his best album

make sure to try and get the limited edition of Bakesale with the free 7".

If you're on a 1988 vibe try

Happy Mondays - Bummed
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Fugazi - Fugazi
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Fall - The Frenz Experiment
The Fall - I Am Kurious Oranj
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

all good sounding LPs. Public Enemy's is a little quiet as it crams 60 minutes on a single LP.

funktastic

'Loveless' was originally released only on CD (I think) although you can get a reprint off e bay now. There are nice heavy 180g re-prints of Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' around (they're in spindizzy in Georges St Arcade in Dunblin), also 180g vinyl 'Blood on the Tracks' & new release of Joshua Tree

Other good LPs- Galaxie 500 - 'On Fire'
REM - 'Murmur', 'Reckoning', 'Fables' and 'Life's Rich Pageant'
And The Beatles 'White album'.
U2 - 'Achtung Baby' although the pictures on the cover in the re-print are badly out of focus and the record has no inner with lyrics/pics etc

nlgbbbblth

funktastic wrote: »

'Loveless' was originally released only on CD (I think) although you can get a reprint off e bay now.

Loveless released on vinyl, cassette and CD.
I bought the LP in Borderline on the release date - sometime during November 1991.

In my bedsit, I and a friend, Mick, used to drink a flagon of Linden Village [from cups] while playing it full blast before heading out to Panic or Sonic Boom in McGonagles.

Loveless, Bandwagonesque and Screamadelica all came out within a few weeks of each other.

funktastic

Yeah I was thinking it would have been strange if it wasn't released on vinyl. Getting hard to track the original down now.
Got a lovely vinyl copy of the 'Fall' EP by Ride recently and 'The Stone Roses' whose cover really puts the CD version to shame.

cranks

As stated at the outset in 2007:

JæKæ wrote: »

I'm looking for recommendations on a few LPs. They would have to be consistently great, as there's no skipping on a record player.
Any ideas (preferably alternative, chilled, progressive, instrumental, rock n roll or ambient)

With no offence meant to OP, forget the preferablys for now. Just what album is a no-skip album for you?

1st 2 that spring to mind for me:

Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker
New Order - Movement

Miguel_Sanchez

The recommend me an album thread is enough I think.

No need to bump 5 year old threads.