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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2012 23:10:40 GMT
Nicked this from another forum
My favourite Blues album is Howlin Wolf by Howlin Wolf
My favourite Jazz album is A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
My first rock album was Electric Warrior by T Rex, but my favourite is probably either the first Velvet Underground album or Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones
My favourite punk album will always be the debut by The Clash
My favourite Reggae album is Rocking Time by Burning Spear
My favourite post punk album is Metal Box by PIL
My favourite Krautrock album is Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk
My favourite US College rock album is Murmur by REM
My favourite Australian album is Before Hollywood by The Go-Betweens
My favourite Country album is Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson
My favourite Dubstep album is Untrue by Burial
My favourite Techno album is Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin.
I'm sure you could add more, African music, European music etc
By the way, The Fall have their very own category, and that album is Grotesque(After The Gramme)
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Post by I on Apr 26, 2012 7:46:46 GMT
I don't have albums that are "the foundation" of my collection. In fact, I rarely play an album all the way through. If anything is the foundation of my collection, then it is probably 'Summertime' by The Marcels.
Reel
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Post by DJ Greedy G on Apr 26, 2012 13:36:29 GMT
"Here Comes Little Richard" on Specialty.
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on Apr 26, 2012 17:48:38 GMT
Interesting thought though like penny i'm more of an individual tunes man. I haven't listened to an LP all the way through since the 70's but i don't go very long without listening to large chunks of 'macka fat' by jackie mittoo, 'something else' by cannonball adderley (as i type this, as it goes), and 'live at the pershing lounge' by ahmad jamal (next).
'green island' by don drummond is my foundation tune.
T.
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Post by Rob on Apr 26, 2012 18:05:38 GMT
Penny makes a good point - albums are rarely worth playing all the way through.
However:
Studio One Presents Burning Spear
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed.
R
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Post by grumpy on Apr 26, 2012 18:55:16 GMT
Like everyone else of my vintage it was singles (6 shillings and 8 pence each; 3 for a pound); the very first was "The Carnival is Over" by the Seekers. Another one was "Home of the Brave" by Peanut (which I'm not quite so ashamed about): www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5sJtUKbpUBut to long-players, very specifically the foundation album was "The Rock Machine Turns You On", a cheap CBS sampler from about 1968. When I got my first holiday job (it involved chickens - they entered the place alive and exited frozen; my job was to weigh the eviscerated carcases), my earliest LP puchases (and I can remember the reverence with which I handled them) were: "Songs of Leonard Cohen" "What We Did on Our Holidays" - Fairport Convention "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" - The Incredible String Band That was early (and there were some mistakes - Donovan's Gift from a Flower to a Garden leaps to mind) My first "rock" album was Spooky Two by Spooky Tooth (I remember buying some real tosh - Lindisfarne in there somewhere) Gryffe, I notice you use the word "favourite" in your list but "foundation" in your title. Not the same thing I'ld have thought. Favourite Sudanese album is "Khartoum Blues" by Abdel Gadir Salim Foundation Sudanese album is "Sounds of Sudan" by Mohaamed Gubara, specifically the song "Noora" which would be unquestionably one of my desert island discs Favourite Dylan: Acoustic (first equal): "Freewheelin" and "The Times They are a Changin'" Electric: "Blonde on Blonde" (but sometimes "Highway 61 Revisited" Favourite album by Canadian female: "Hejira" by Joni Mitchell Foundation Uzbekistani album: "Yol Bolsin" by Sevara Nazarkhan (I missed one of England's routine quarter-final exits from a Euro-championship in order to see her at the Wardrobe in Leeds and she was mesmerising; unlike England's football XI). That's probably enough self-indulgence for now. |
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Post by mmike56 on Apr 26, 2012 19:28:02 GMT
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Spirit - 12 Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
Rico - Man From Warieka - Dub version, which One eye Neville "borrowed" NEVER to be seen/ heard again..
peace n paneered cheese
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2012 11:06:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2012 23:11:39 GMT
I would translate 'foundation' albums as those that are not especially all time favourites but those that influenced my collecting habit & were the reason I still at the age of 46 can't leave a record shop empty handed.Therefore I give you -
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition (absolute bollocks but bought to impress my older brother)
Adam & The Ants - Dirk Wears White Socks (A stonewall classic that I vowed to play everyday of my life as a stark raving mad 15 year old & did for 2 years)
Clash - London Calling (the best record ever made)
Doors - The Best Of (see aged 15. Cycled home from a youth hostel in Malvern Worcestershire to listen to it because I was "missing it".
Dictators - Go Girl Crazy (ridiculously under rated during my me against the world years)
The entire works of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (see above)
Smiths - The Smiths (mental health road to recovery)
Aswad - Live And Direct (first reggae album I bought on the day I left school from WH Smiths in Rhyl after driving there on my mums moped pissed & without a licence)
Max Boyce - The Incredible Plan (first record I ever bought for my mum at Xmas)
Howard Devoto - Jerky Versions Of The Dream (admittedly not as good as anything by Magazine but I never got a world champion blow job off my headmasters French step daughter to anything by Magazine)
Dr John - Duke Elegant (the last album I bought this afternoon)
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Post by zoki on Apr 29, 2012 9:17:12 GMT
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