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Murmur: Is there a more perfect album

  • 05-08-2015 12:39pm
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    ohnonotgmail
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    thread title says it all. I've started going back to the albums of my youth (yes, i am THAT old) and even 30 years later all the songs on this album sound fresh. what albums from your youth still sound fresh today?


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  • #2
    keith_d99
    Registered Users Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭keith_d99


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    thread title says it all. I've started going back to the albums of my youth (yes, i am THAT old) and even 30 years later all the songs on this album sound fresh. what albums from your youth still sound fresh today?

    Laughing ... a fave track of mine!

    Another album that has stood the test of time for me ...

    Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas


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    Dandelion6
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    Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain


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    Skerries
    Registered Users Posts: 12,300 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Murmur by REM?
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  • #5
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,122 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Skerries wrote: »
    Murmur by REM?

    the very one


  • #6
    Hippo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭Hippo


    I love Murmur (except maybe for West of the Fields), but returning to my youth, and at the risk of referencing an album that everyone's probably sick of hearing, Sgt Pepper's still sounds incredibly fresh. I know, it's not indie - but it certainly was alternative.


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  • #7
    NapoleonInRags
    Registered Users Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭NapoleonInRags


    Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

    Still sounds fantastic...


  • #8
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I love Murmur although I think Reckoning would be my favourite album of theirs.

    I'm a good bit younger but I guess The Bends, Definitely Maybe, Grace and Siamese Dream still sound fresh today.


  • #9
    Dickerty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    Bjork - Debut.
    Listening to her unplugged as we speak, forgot how much I loved her voice...


  • #10
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,726 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Suas11 wrote: »
    I love Murmur although I think Reckoning would be my favourite album of theirs.

    These are the 2 REM albums I still go back to the most. They did a lot of good stuff later on (maybe not so much after Bill Berry left) but those first 2 records still sound incredibly fresh.


  • #11
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    I prefer Reckoning to Murmur. Both of them are still the best albums of their career.


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  • #12
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Fables of the Reconstruction for me. Murmer is great too though. The first 5 albums from REM are all terrific. They got patchier after that, and after Automatic for the People especially.


  • #13
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    Sonic Youth -- daydream nation


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    Le Surge Eyed Amant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭Le Surge Eyed Amant


    Pixies - Doolittle


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    denlaw
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭denlaw


    The queen is dead is still fantastic... I hadn't listened to it for a few yrs till last week when i had to drive to sligo for work... Magnificent album..


  • #16
    OhHiMark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭OhHiMark


    Sigur Ros - ()


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