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Having just listened to Dirk Wears White Sox, again, it got me thinking of albums that I always go back to. Not necessarily masterpieces (apart from Entertainment! & The Downward Spiral), but ones that have been a constant and always enjoyable even though I wouldn't normally put them in a list of my favourite albums. I have probably played these at least one a year or more since their release

Dirk Wears White Sox - Adam & the Ants
Entertainment! - Gang of Four
Waiting - Fun Boy Three
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Brand New Eyes - Paramore

Metallica- Master of Puppets.

Counting Crows - August
Fleetwood Max - Rumours
Johnny Panic - The Violent Dazzling
Pennywise - Full Circle
Guns - Appetite for Destruction
Metallica - Kill ‘em All
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden, Killers & Powerslave
The Offspring - Ignition
Fu Manchu - King of the Road
The Smiths - Queen is Dead
Bad Religion - Process of Belief
Tracy Chapman - New Beginnings
Ignite - both A Place Called Home and Our Darkest Day

Any Beatles album ....never get tired of listening to them

My stamp albums.

The Mindsweep wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:46 pm Having just listened to Dirk Wears White Sox, again, it got me thinking of albums that I always go back to. Not necessarily masterpieces (apart from Entertainment! & The Downward Spiral), but ones that have been a constant and always enjoyable even though I wouldn't normally put them in a list of my favourite albums. I have probably played these at least one a year or more since their release

Dirk Wears White Sox - Adam & the Ants
Entertainment! - Gang of Four
Waiting - Fun Boy Three
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Brand New Eyes - Paramore

Second Entertainment. My mate was tape op on that record.

Argus-Wishbone Ash
Rising-Rainbow
Machine Head-Deep Purple
Appetite For Destruction-GnR
Fallen-Evanescence.
Tokyo Tapes-Scorpions.
Trans Europe Express-Kraftwerk
The Heart Of Everything- Within Temptation
Heaven and Hell-Black Sabbath
The Crossing-Big Country

I listen to a lot of new stuff, but I've found that the following seem to linger on regular rotation without skipping any tracks:

The Wonderstuff - Eight Legged Groove Machine, and Hup
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, and Hell's Ditch
Inspiral Carpets - The Beast Inside
Depeche Mode - any of their run of 4 albums from Some Great Reward to Violator
Michael Jackson - Bad
The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come, and Louder Than Bombs
Morrissey - Your Arsenal, and the 2013 reissue of Kill Uncle
The Cure - Disintegration
Lana Del Rey - Norman F*cking Rockwell
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
James - Stutter, and Laid
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Johnny Cash - American Recordings IV
David Bowie - Heathen, and Blackstar
The Auteurs - New Wave
LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression Vol.1
REM - Out of Time
Prince - Purple Rain
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

I get bored of pretty much every album I love, cos I tend to play them to death.
The only albums I’ve loved for decades but never bored of - partly because they’ve always been played sparingly - is Portishead’s first and third album, This Is Hardcore by Pulp and Oddesey & Oracle by The Zombies

Great thread. I always like to see music stuff up on here as :

TV- put there to poison our minds, and politics- well.......arguing with a fool proves there are two, no?, so music rules imho.It's much too personal and important, to bicker on the internet about.

I found this hard as I'm so old I've been buying stuff for 40+ years and still am but:

Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea
British Sea Power - The decline of British Sea Power
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Slint - Spiderland
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Public Enemy - Fear of a black planet.
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Cinematic Orchestra- Every Day
Kate/Kae Tempest - Everybody Down
Kruder & Dorfmeister - K & D Sessions
Doves - Lost Souls
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
Turin Brakes- The Optimist
Beatles - Revolver
another shout for Portishead's first...
another shout for Massive Attack - Mezzanine
another shout for Metallica- Master of Puppets

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Fireball - Deep Purple
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Whatever You Want - Status Quo
Young Gifted and Black - Various Reggae Artists
A Quick One/Tommy/Who Sell Out/Quadrophenia - Who
Time and a Word - Yes
Spark To A Flame - Chris De Burgh
Ultimate Collection - ELO
Greatest Hits - John Denver
Ultimate Country Collection - Various Country Artists

I have a very wide taste in music but if I could only save a few albums then these would be first considerations....

Cinema - Ludovico Einaudi (don't knock it until you've tried it!)
Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson
Whats the story (morning glory) - Oasis
London Calling - The Clash
The Breakthrough - Mary J Blige

Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different kitchen
AC/DC Highway to Hell
Stranglers Black and White
Cranberries - No Need To Argue
Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now

Songs for the deaf a great shout as is revolver. I’ll add abbey road and sgt pepper.

Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - The Bends
Pearl Jam - Vs
RHCP - Californication
David Bowie - rise and fall of ziggy stardust
Arctic Monkeys - whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not
The Band - Music from the big pink
Beach Boys - Pet sounds
Brian Wilson - smile
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Foo fighters - there’s nothing left to lose
George Michael - Listen without prejudice
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Kings of Leon - Youth and young manhood
Lauryn Hill - the miseducation of…
Illmatic - Nas
Otis Redding - Otis blue
Paul McCartney - Band on the run
Sia - 1000 forms of fear
Talking Heads - Remain in light
A tribe called quest - midnight marauders
Vampire weekend - vampire weekend
Warpaint - Warpaint and radiate like this

Quiet a lot tbh

OTF Photography Ltd wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 8:49 pm Songs for the deaf a great shout as is revolver. I’ll add abbey road and sgt pepper.

Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - The Bends
Pearl Jam - Vs
RHCP - Californication
David Bowie - rise and fall of ziggy stardust
Arctic Monkeys - whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not
The Band - Music from the big pink
Beach Boys - Pet sounds
Brian Wilson - smile
Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Foo fighters - there’s nothing left to lose
George Michael - Listen without prejudice
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Kings of Leon - Youth and young manhood
Lauryn Hill - the miseducation of…
Illmatic - Nas
Otis Redding - Otis blue
Paul McCartney - Band on the run
Sia - 1000 forms of fear
Talking Heads - Remain in light
A tribe called quest - midnight marauders
Vampire weekend - vampire weekend
Warpaint - Warpaint and radiate like this

Quiet a lot tbh

Dave Grohl (on drums) finest hour I reckon mate (Songs for the Deaf)

I came v close to putting any of these into my list actually as well:

Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - The Bends
RHCP - Californication (or By the way)
David Bowie - rise and fall of ziggy stardust (or Hunky Dory)
Arctic Monkeys - whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not
Father John Misty - Fear Fun (or Dark Comedy)
Talking Heads - Remain in light
A tribe called quest - midnight marauders (or Low End Theory)

Live in Yugoslavia - Anti Nowhere League
Dirk Wears White Sox - Adam & the Ants
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
The Clash - The Clash
Black Celebration. - Depeche Mode
From Elvis in Memphis - Elvis
Curse of the Higsons - The Higsons
Dig the New Breed. - The Jam
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
Vermin in Ermine - Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners
Warrior Rock - Toyah

All played in the last month.

Edit, oops, I somehow omitted Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned.

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Beatles -Abbey Road
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill

Any album by The Beatles
Any album by 10cc
Any album by The Eagles
Pet Sounds by the beach boys
Breakaway by Gallagher & Lyle
Look Sharp by Joe Jackson
No Doubt first album, which I've forgotten what is called

Beck - Guero
The Cure - Mixed Up
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
Fire Engines - Fond
Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

I gave away my albums and now listen mainly on Tidal. It's all about individual tracks now for me, a mixture of old favourites and new artists

Everything by The Damned - plus the new album out next week. Saw them last night in Brighton, on a mini Sutton - Brighton - Gillingham road trip

Back in the DHSS - Half Man Half Biscuit.

Omygawd wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 9:01 am Back in the DHSS - Half Man Half Biscuit.

Had tickets to see them in Cambridge on Saturday but had to abandon due to no train service back from Sutton

The Beatles - Best Of
David Guetta - The Remixes
Now That's What I Call Acid House vol. 89
(It's not the 89th volume, it's a reference to the year 1989).

Led Zeppelin - the first four albums. I think they lost something after that and became pale imitations of what they started.