Cool mate, let me know what you discover!
Just to avoid repetition, and not to be interpreted as having a go at anyone/anything, here are my Top 25 albums since 2015. No particular order, apart from Nos. 1 & 2.
David Bowie - Blackstar
The Twilight Sad - It Won’t Be Like This All The Time
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Tame Impala - Currents
Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
Alt-J - This Is All Yours
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Thundercat - It Is What It Is
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Anderson.Paak - Ventura
The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
The Horrors - V
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Fleet Foxes - Shore
Anathema - The Optimist
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
Christine and the Queens - Chris
Israel Nash - Lifted
Anna von Hausswolf - Dead Magic
FKA Twigs - Magdalene
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
Bob Dylan - Rough And Rowdy Ways
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Some fascinating selections here - lots of the mentions are albums that I have but haven’t played for ages, or had completely forgotten about! Others that I’ve never met anyone else who owned, until coming to this forum; and very many (artists and albums) that I’ve never heard of…
But leaving aside classical/baroque/orchestral etc, which would be a different list…
these are the ones that seems to have played the most in the past year,
(keeping to one title per artist):
801 (Manzanera, Eno etc): 801 Live
Air: Moon safari
Allman Brothers: The road goes on forever (a compilation - is that allowed?)
Al Stewart: The year of the cat
Bob Dylan: Desire
Boz Scaggs: Silk degrees
Carmel: Everybody’s gotta little soul
Chris Rea: Deltics
Everything but the girl: Baby, the stars shine bright
Frank Zappa: Hot rats
Gary Burton: Dreams so real (or maybe Whiz kids… or Passengers…)
Genesis: A trick of the tail
Jah Wobble and Momo: Maghrebi jazz
Keith Jarrett: Hymns and spheres
Led Zep: III
Madeleine Peyroux: Careless love
Niebla and Forcione: Celebration
Pat Metheny: Watercolours (or maybe American garage…)
McLaughlin de Meola, de Lucia: Friday night in San Francisco
Moraz and Bruford: Music for piano and drums
Renaissance: Turn of the cards
Style Council: Cafe bleu
Syriana: The road to Damascus
Weather Report: Heavy weather
Wishbone Ash: Argus
But there are plenty of other old favourites that just haven’t had an airing recently.
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Not considering classic and jazz, and not in order:
Beatles: Sgt Pepper, White album, Abbey Road
King Crimson In the court of the Crimson King
Genesis Selling England by the pound
Allman Bros live at Fillmore East
George Harrison All things must pass
Doors The Doors
Bowie Ziggy Stardust
C, S, N & Y Deja vu
Led Zeppelin III
Cream Wheels of fire
Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon
Caravan In the land of grey and pink
Zappa The Grand Wazoo
Moody Blues On the threshold of a dream
ELO Eldorado
Traffic John Barleycorn
Elton John Madman across the water
Stevie Wonder Songs in the key of life
Yes Close to the edge
Velvet Underground & Nico
Steely Dan: Aja, Two against nature
Beach Boys Pet sounds
…and many more…
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My current 25 favourite albums …
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
- Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
- King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
- King Crimson - Larks’ Tongue In Aspic
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
- Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid
- Burzum - Filosofem
- Opeth - Morningrise
- Mercyful Fate - Melissa
- The Stooges - Fun House
- Scorpions - In Trance
- Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
- John Coltrane - Lush Life
- Herbie Hancock - Thrust
- Helen Merrill - Helen Merrill with Clifford Brown
- Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
- B.B. King - Live In Cook County Jail
- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Sonny Boy Williamson - Down And Out Blues
- Magic Sam - Live At The Avant Garde
- Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
- The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
- Suede - The Blue Hour
- Roxy Music - Roxy Music
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Kind of interesting when you look at other people’s selections and realise that there are so many albums that I haven’t listened to for some time. So hard to pick 25 but here we go in no particular order…
- Peter Gabriel 3…melts face
- Tears For Fears…Sowing The Seeds Of Love
- Lloyd Cole…Don’t Get Weird On Me Babe
- Dave Matthews Band…Before These Crowded Streets
- Genesis…A Trick of the Tail
- Prefab Sprout…Steve McQueen
- Thomas Dolby…Aliens Ate My Buick
- Michelle Shocked …Captain Swing
- Laurie Anderson…Mister Heartbreak
- Joe Jackson…Live in New York
- Pink Floyd…The Wall
- Talk Talk…Colour of Spring
- XTC…Nonsuch
- Yello…Flag
- Talking Head…Once in a Lifetime
- Flaming Lips…Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Jonny Lang…Lie To Me
- David Bowie…Heathen
- Until The End of the World…soundtrack
- Rusted Roots…When I Woke
- Various Artists…Women & Song
- Ry Cooder…Bop til you drop
- REM…Automatic For The People
- Chris Rea…Road to Hell
- Supertramp…Brother Where You Bound
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This has been much more difficult than I would have believed possible, and carries the usual caveats; many are likely to change at a moment’s notice.
WARNING: contains nuts (‘old chestnuts’).
- The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
- The Beatles - Love
- Paul Simon - Graceland
- Yes - Close to the Edge
- George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
- Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
- Billy Joel - The Stranger
- Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
- George Benson - Give me the Night
- Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
- Genesis - Seconds Out
- 10cc - Sheet Music
- Judie Tzuke - Sports Car
- Kate Bush - Never for Never
- Pink Floyd - The Wall
- Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
- Dire Straits - On Every Street
- Supertramp - Crime of the Century
- Peter Gabriel - PG1
- Sting - Mercury Falling
- Dolly Parton - The Grass is Blue
- Kathy Matthea - Lonesome Standard Time
- Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
- Eva Cassidy - Songbird
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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Ju Ju
Velvet Underground –The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Clash – London Calling
Joy Division – Closer
Cocteau Twins – Treasure
Brian Eno – Apollo
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
Nick Cave – Tender Prey
Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies
Stooges – Raw Power
Brian Eno / David Byrne – My Life in Bush Of Ghots
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Associates – Sulk
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Joy Divison - Unknown Pleasures
Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
Sigur Rós - ( )
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Suicide - Suicide
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Prince - Sign Of The Times
Love – Forever Changes
Stone Roses – Stone Roses
No particular order
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bill haley live in london. i was there at the hammersmith palais. great evening
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Who - Quadrophenia
The Jam - Sound Effects
Dennis Brown & Gregory Isaacs - Judge Not
Womack & Womack - Love Wars
Bobby Womack - The Poet II
Bobby Womack - The Poet
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
Chet Baker - The Touch of Your Lips
John Coltrane Quartet - Ballads
Miles Davis Quintet - The Legendary Prestige Sessions
Paul Weller - Paul Weller
Paul Weller - Stanley Rd
The Who - Who’s Next
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get it On
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Survival
Black Uhuru - Black Uhuru
Gregory Isaacs - More Gregory
Don Carlos - Pure Gold
Curtis Mayfield - There’s No Place Like America Today
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
And not necessarily in that order especially the top 5.
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