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[Cancelled] Electric Picnic 2020 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales / Requests **
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bodhrandude wrote: »Great lists lads
Thanks, though I sense mild disapproval at the absence of Aphex. We’ll do better next time.0 -
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Ok I'll have a go:
The Frames - Set list
Starting with an obvious one from me, it's the first album of theirs I heard and it's one of my favorite live albums. Glen has the crowd in the palm of his hand the whole gig and I've been hooked ever since!
Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
Another live album, this is also my first Rory Gallagher album and it's always a recommended one for people just starting out with his music. His legacy grows every year, truly the greatest guitarist we ever had.
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers
Their greatest work in my opinion, it brings you on a mad journey the whole way through and it does not let up. So many genre crossover but it just works.
The Bothy Band - After hours
Yet another live album to throw in here. I had thought of planxty live 2004 but seen as they have been picked I thought to go a different route. Recorded live in Paris at their peak. The combination of "Pipe on the Hob/hag at the churn" is my favorite recorded trad track.
Bob Marley - Legend
The perfect album for any occasion. Most houses have a version of it somewhere. (Hope a best of album isn't cheating)
Pulp Fiction - Original Soundtrack
(Hope a movie soundtrack isn't cheating either!)
AC/DC - Back in Black
One of the best selling albums of the 80s. Too many classics to mention on this one
Kanye West - My beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Peak Kanye in my opinion.
The Chieftains - The Long black veil
One of the best collaboration albums ever made, tracks with Sting, Mick Jagger and of course Sinead o Connors version of "The foggy dew" is absolutely haunting. (Even if Conor McGregor has kind of hijacked it.)
Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous
Keeping with the theme of live albums. Thin Lizzy at their peak, the version of Rosaline really stands out.
Phew that was fun to do, will probably have a different 10 next week 0 -
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Shamefully I wasn't even born when most of these albums were released
Being honest, for someone who is into music and goes to a good few gigs I have a limited knowledge of albums in general. I guess it is a symptom of being a part of the mp3/streaming generation. It has only been in the past few years I've properly started giving albums a go regularly, so here is my attempt! I'll try and work chronologically as best as I can (had a few beers so bare with me).
Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below: First album I ever bought when I was around ten or eleven. I remember having a cousin who was slightly older and would always ask what kind of music I liked, I never knew what to say because music was music to me, I didn't know many bands or artists. But Hey Ya changed that and Outkast were the first group I took an active interest in, once I bought the album I was only dying to tell my cousin about it. Haven't listened to it in years but it was a special feeling at EP 2014 when they headlined!
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall: Another one I would have purchased in my pre teen years, even before going to secondary school I remember getting really into disco and 70s/80s music, which in hindsight has been the staple of a large part of my music interest ever since. I wouldn't listen to MJ too often anymore, but he opened a gateway into the world of this type of music and I will be forever grateful for that.
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle: :pac: a random one but I went through a phase of being massively into hip hop, funny considering I have zero interest now. But looking back 90s hip hop had a lot of funk samples and was much different to hip hop now so again I credit it with the type of music I liked later in life. I have also had a borderline obsession with sampling ever since. These were my early years of secondary school, I remember every day I would bring in CDs for the school bus driver to play on the way home (I was the last kid off the bus). Great days!
Deadmau5 - Random Album Title: now approaching the later teens and the end of secondary school. Deadmau5 was really the introduction to electronic music for me and my friends and this album (and the follow up) were rinsed. My first friend to get a car was a 1990 starlet, I remember these tunes hopping out of it when we were driving around in his car that had four gears :pac: Was very excited to see Deadmau5 at my first festival in 2009 but missed him due to being hammered in the campsite (will always remember to cut the young lads slack at EP!).
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours: An obvious classic and probably could have gone anywhere in this chronological list as it has always been on at home being played by my parents. Ironically it probably wasn't until I left home for college that I actually started appreciating it and Fleetwood Macs music. Great pleasure to see them last summer although I didn't think it was a particularly great gig.
Todd Terje - It's Album Time: I would say my favourite artist ever. Reminds me very much of my final year of college (Inspector Norse being the obvious one) but my perception of the album has changed over the years and whenever I go back to listen to it a different song always appeals to me, which I feel is the sign of a really great album.
M83 - Saturdays = Youth: A couple of years ago I remember watching Glastonbury on BBC, M83 playing in the John Peel tent. Midnight City was the song that instantly came to mind but it looked an amazing gig and groups sound was so consistent throughout. Prompted me to dive into the M83 discography and tbh, I could probably listen to them the entire way through from first album to last. Exceptional group who perfect the dreampop/synth wave sound, this album trumps the lot however. Also this time probably marked a point where I started listening to more music that was not dance music (electronic/disco type stuff).
Arcade Fire - Reflektor Now at my first 'grown up job', commuting 1 hour+ to work every day, lot of time to myself. At this point I started listening to TXFM, which in hindsight was one of the best things I ever did in terms of music. Introduced me properly to Arcade Fire and I have such a vivid memory of their last ever show where each DJ played a few songs that they associate with the station. Reflektor might not be Arcade Fires best album but it was the one that introduced me to them, have seen them twice since and up there with the best live bands I've seen, which brings me to..
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream: Arguably the best band I have seen live! I was late to the party on this album, really regret not going to see them at EP 2015. Only time seeing them was in Kilmainham 2018, it was the perfect gig - beautiful weather, lovely crowd, with a good group of friends and a ridiculous band killing it on the stage. The definition of an album you can stick on and let play the whole way through with each tune sounding just as good as the last.
Black Marble - It's Immaterial: Now we are up to present day. A great friend of mine discovered Black Marble within the last 18 months and showed this album to us. Hands down it is the best album I have ever listened to. I returned to college a year or two ago to become a teacher, when I was first introduced to this album was during my first teaching placement (very tough and stressful at the time), listening to this album really got me through every day and the emotion I felt when it was over will always be soundtracked by this album in my memory. Truly exceptional album, probably the one on this that most of you might not have heard of, but I think the boards crowd might like this one if you want to check it out.
A ridiculously long post reading back on this but even if nobody reads it, a very enjoyable trip down memory lane going back through these albums. Each one takes me back to a time and place, which for me is what music is about! Couldn't make EP this year but gutted for everyone else if it doesn't go ahead this year. Stay safe! 0 -
Who had you lined up to see this month?
I was due to see Leif Vollebekk tomorrow night
Nick Cave next week
Sun Kil Moon in a few weeks time
Then rounding off the month with the Rory Gallagher festival
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Seathrun66 wrote: »I didn't know there was an album of that tour. Just checked and recorded in Ennis and Vicar St after rehearsals in Lisdoonvarna so you must have seen that Eanna.
I saw them in the Barbican in London in Jan 2005, no alcohol allowed inside, a staid audience and seated only so wish I'd been at the Irish gigs. Damien Duff was sitting beside me but l left him alone. Am not one to fraternise with Chelsea players.
Saw them in 2004 at the Radisson, got a freebie from the manager of the Kings Head, a pub we played a session in every Saturday in Galway, what a gig. If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)
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Loving all these lists, Talking Heads, Planxty, Bothy Band, Cocteau Twins - Victorialand and loads of others should be in my list too, but I'll stick with the one I've chosen for the moment. This is reflective of the old school Picnic audience, such a diverse taste in all our music likes, I'm probably the old hippy amongst ya's but our lists will probably change in time again when we redefine our most influential and desert island discs.
If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)
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using "influence" as the main criterion, this would be my top 10 influential albums list, in no particular order:
Nirvava: Nevermind
The first of probably a lot of early 90s albums on here. i was 14 when this came out first. I remember getting a cassette recording of it, handed around the school, everyone making a copy and teh album was in such demand, and so loved, that we'd all wait to record off the master, rather than make copy of a copy.. which always resulted in lesser quality.
Here was someone screaming the trials and tribulations of our early teenage angsty years, floating on a base of a noise that was loud, new and energetic. Such a foil to the over bloated hair metal crap that was all too prevalent at the time. I had the greasy haired undercut, the baggy strippy jumper and the dont give a **** attitude. God i miss those days
REM: Document
My first real ‘loved’ album.... brought on by the absolutely brilliant and timeless "end of the world as we know it". These songs were so high class that there is not a weak song on it. It was their last true album before they embraced the pop. Political without it being in your face (exhuming McCarthy, welcome to the occupation), fragile yet strong in songs like "the one i love" and "king of birds".. which has one of the best marching beats ... they lost so much when Bill Berry left.
David Gray: Lost songs
This album really came out of nowhere. Really a list of B sides and forgottens that he wrote before the fame that white ladder brought. The best thing about this album is, while the subject matter spans 3 years, the album was recorded in 1o days. There are startling beautiful songs on it... and if you haven't heard it i envy you for hearing it for the very first time.
Pink Floyd: Wish you were here
I could have included many Floyd albums here, but i think WYWH is their zenith, with the title track being the zenith of their creativity. Its so simple its perfect. Today, you will not find an opening track to an album that has no lyrics until over 9 mins. My first two Floyd albums to hear were DSOTM and The Wall, but WYWH stays with me more, i hear new stuff every time i hear it... songs like welcome to the machine and have a cigar are just sonically amazing.. the band at their very best... before Roger became over powering.
Whipping Boy: Heartworm
The best irish album of all time, even better than the Phil spectre inspired 'loveless'
there is a truth and pain in this album that is very hard to match anywhere. i recall actually crying after listening to the hidden track at the end for the first time. Lyrically phenomenal album, and musically strong enough to carry them. The words to "when we were young" could have been taken straight from my teenage years.... The first time that you stole, You stole rubber lips and tenners, Bought a radio then ran away for ever, Never felt so good, never felt so good with you, When we were young we had no fear, Of love nor sex nor warnings, Everyone was hanging out, everyone was sorted
Prayer Boat: polichinelle
Early 00s Irish album from a vastly underrated band. They weren’t around for a long time, but what they did in that period is create sensitive and beautiful songs. Think of an unplugged radiohead. Im still a huge Emmett Tinley fan, who continues to release solo albums of beautiful introspective songs. Probably the best know song on this was “saved” which contains the timeless lyris “There's no sadder song than this one, you wake up alone in my arms”
Engine Alley: a sonic holiday
The first irish band apart from U2 that I though had an international feel to them. The weird and wonderful songs, full of quirky lyrics and quirkier videos. Loads of songs that people hear again and think, yeah I remember that !! Song for someone, mrs winder, infamy, diamond jill and crazy jane… still bring a smile to me every time I hear them. The sight of their girl drummer Emmaline playing hard in thigh highs was etched into my pubescent brain. Lucky enough to catch the in feile in early 90s and again a couple of times over the last few years. Canice and Brian have lost none of their swagger and aura.
Neil Young: Harvest
The ultimate Sunday morning album….. breezy and full of singalong happiness. It has its dark side of course with “the needle….”. Its probably fav Young album of that early 70s era, though theres not a weak album amongst them. Brings back memories of the first house I lived in with my mates… crazy times. Its not all ‘americana’ either with songs like ‘a man needs a maid’ and ‘alabama’ pushing the boundaries. There is a myrid of different styles on this, but all neatly sewn together with shakeys pitch perfect voice.
Porcupine Tree: Fear of a black planet.
If I had to choose one PT album it would be this one. Prog rock with more rock than prog..and prog in the truest meaning of the word progressive. I was lead here after saturating on Pink Floyd and what a discover Porcupine Tree were. Probably the best unknown band in the UK for the last 25 years. Wilson has it all in this album… the soaring synths, the shredding chords, the outer wordly lyrics and the naval gazing dissection of normal life…. All with a sense of dread that is palpable through the whole album. . Anesthetize is the perfect song to show this… over 17 mins of a journey to the dark side of yourself.
U2: achtung baby
I have to include a U2 album in here, as they were with me all the way from being a baby to being a fully formed adult. They progressed along their path as I did mine, ever present on the always on radio stations of my childhood. Achtung baby is their best album. Who would have thought that a band that was a world leader in 1989, who created some of the best songs of the 80s, could go off and “dream it all up again” and return to become even bigger. Achtung baby is their masterpiece in my opinion. It broken into 1990 determined to drag all that chart dross out of its slumber and over bloated cocaine filled excess. Those opening distorted notes of zoo station promise something special.. and what comes after does not disappoint. The fly, whos gonna ride, throw your arms, until the end of the world, ultraviolet….. every song different but brilliant. And like wish you were here by the floyd, I think U2s career hits their zenith with “one”. Such a brilliant song that is perfect due to its simplicity … or is it that other way round? The 1990 was a year of promise after a hard 80s for most people. With this album U2 gave a glimpse of a future that could be exciting and innovative. And in many ways the 90s were.
Notables that didn’t make the list would be Pearl Jams ‘ten’, REM ‘Automatic for the people’, Pixies ‘Doolittle’, Bruce Springsteen ‘Ghost of Tom Joad’, Bob Markey “Exodus” , Paul Weller “Stanley road”, Grant lee Buffalo “fuzzy”, Blue Nile “walk across the roof tops”0
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