The Albums That Never Leave You?

[The Fear]

Ok, so I failed at 12 ...!

I cannot be repressed and I can't count!
Tricky, tricky, tricky....
Here are the rules: (copy this to paste)
In your status update, list 12 albums that have stayed with you, but only 1 per band/artist.
Don't take too long and don‘t think too hard. Tag ten friends to do the same thing, including me, so I can see what you put. No compilations allowed!

AC/DC Back In Black (Love High Voltage but back in black was my introduction)
Audioslave – Audioslave
The Beatles – The White Album (which it isn’t actually called!)
Black Sabbath – Heaven And Hell
Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of A Madman
Bruce Springsteen – Darkness On The Edge Of Town (so nearly The River)
Chase & Status – No More Idols
David Bowie – no idea how you choose so will go for a strange one, Reality
Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers
EMF – Schubert Dip (such fun!)
Eminem – Recovery
The Gaslight Anthem – The 59 Sound
Motorhead – Overkill (so close to Ace Of Spades)
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
The Jam – All Mod Cons
Jimi Hendrix – Blues
Led Zeppelin – II
Nirvana – Nevermind
Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Pink Floyd – The Wall
POD – Satellite
The Prodigy – Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned (just for Spitfire!)
Rage Against The Machine – Renegades (the only covers album I’ve ever liked)
The Rolling Stones – not choosing one, all of them! lol Probably Exile On Mainstreet I guess
Suede – Suede
U2 – Unforgettable Fire
The Verve – A Northern Soul
Whitesnake – Come An’ Get It

 

[JuanPabloAngel]

U2 - The Joshua Tree
Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Nirvana - Nevermind
Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)?
Alice Cooper - Poison
Pink Floyd - The Divison Bell
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pearl Jam - Ten
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Faithless - Sunday 8pm

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JF - Apologies for the non-alphabetical order...I know how it might irritate you)

 

[Stephen Jay Hawkings]

Nice list Fear :108:


Soundgarden - Superunknown
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Carcass - Heartwork
Tool - Aenima
R.E.M - Automatic For The People
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Pearl Jam - Yield
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Vangelis - El Greco

 

[The Fear]

JuanPabloAngel - 28/2/2016 15:08

U2 - The Joshua Tree
Simple Minds - Street Fighting Years
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Nirvana - Nevermind
Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)?
Alice Cooper - Poison
Pink Floyd - The Divison Bell
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pearl Jam - Ten
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Faithless - Sunday 8pm

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JF - Apologies for the non-alphabetical order...I know how it might irritate you)

Got all but two. Got a Faithless hits but not that into them and don't have any Alice Cooper.

Nice list!

 

[The Fear]

Stephen Jay Hawkings - 28/2/2016 15:09

Nice list Fear :108:

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Carcass - Heartwork
Tool - Aenima
R.E.M - Automatic For The People
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Pearl Jam - Yield
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Dead Can Dance - Aion
Vangelis - El Greco

Yeah, a few pearlers there as well mate. RATM I nearly put but do love Renegades at the moment and think it is the only covers album I've ever liked. Even the Bowie one I thought was pretty awful (Pin Up's) apart from Sorrow.

Automatic is amazing, think I lean just 1% towards New Adventures In Hi-Fi... I did love the ball blast of Monster as well!

Joshua Tree... such memories! Running To Stand Still and Exit... perfect!

Manics have always been a fascinating band as well haven't they? Seen them live a couple of times, very good! Holy Bible was one of those that I just couldn't key into myself.

 

[Thomas Holte]

A good thread and some light relief from 100%.

A condensed list not in order of preference but music I do play all the time and music I could not be without.

A diverse catalogue and most likely some songs you have heard your parents play!

EDIT: Oh dear - I've only just read the rules JF....Sorry!

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Al Green, Best Of.
Altered Images, Best Of.
Arcade Fire, Funeral.
Association, Best Of.
Beatles, Revolver.
Burt Bacharach, Live At The Sydney Opera House.
Burt Bacharach, Painted From Memory.
Burt Bacharach, A Time To Remember.
Bread, Best Of.
David Bowie, Best Of.
Carol King, Tapestry.
Chi-lites, Best Of.
Chieftains, Essential Chieftains.
Diana Ross, Best Of.
Donovan. Best Of.
Dubliners, Any Album.
Erasure, Best Of.
Frank Sinatra, Best Of.
Four Tops, Best Of.
Gilbert O'Sullivan, Best Of.
Glen Campbell....All Albums.
Gordon Lightfoot, Best Of.
Human League, Dare.
Hot Chip, Coming On Strong.
Jam, All Mod Cons.
John Denver, Best Of.
Kaiser Chiefs, Employment.
Kate Bush, Hounds Of Love.
Kenny Rodgers, Best Of.
Kinks, Best Of.
Leonard Cohen, Best Of.
Lovin Spoonful, Best Of.
Luke Kelly, Best Of.
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On.
Michael Jackson, Collection.
Neil Diamond, Best Of.
Neil Sedaka, Best Of.
New Order, Substance.
OMD, Best Of.
Otis Reading, Best Of.
Pet Shop Boys, Behaviour,
Pogues, Best of.
Procol Harem, A Salty Gog.
Queen, A Night At The Opera.
Roxy Music, Siren.
Rolling Stones, Forty Licks.
Rufus Wainwright, Vibrate.
Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks.
Simon & Garfunkel, Book-ends.
Smoky Robinson & The Miracles, Best Of.
Soft Sell, Non-Stop Cabaret.
Squeeze, Best Of.
Strawbs, Strawbs.
Stranglers, Best Of.
Stylistics, Best Of.
Trijntje Ossterhouse, Sings Burt Bacharach.
Undertones, Teenage Kicks.
Who, Tommy.

 

[The Fear]

I hate people who can't follow the rules, I mean, it clearly says 12 albums for a.... ooooooops ... my bad ! lol

Yes, but greatest hits, that is a cheat ... !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[holtelower]

1. Pulp - Different Class
2. George Michael - Faith
3. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
4. Kaiserchiefs - Employment
5. UB40 - Labour of Love 1
6. FGTH - Liverpool
7. ELO - Time
8. Alex O'Neal - Hearsay
9. Specials - More Specials
10. Pogues - Rum Sodemy and the Lash
11. Simply Red - Picture Book
12. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

Not the "coolest" of lists - but I still play all of these albums , and they all have special memories of life.

Thought Best of albums were cheating so didn't add any, however, its probably worth mentioning the album that probably got me interested in listening to music (along with Bowie - Space Oddity) when I was about 5 was "Neil Diamond - Best of" so that deserves a mention

CHANGED

Cannot believe I missed The Queen is Dead out my first list - I feel ashamed !!!.

 

[Stephen Jay Hawkings]

The Fear - 28/2/2016 15:20

Manics have always been a fascinating band as well haven't they? Seen them live a couple of times, very good! Holy Bible was one of those that I just couldn't key into myself.

Yeah, I've probably seen them live more than any other band! I think Gold Against The Soul, The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go are my favourites, 3 classics back to back. Holy Bible was one of the first albums I ever got into, it's still probably the darkest album I know of, Richey was losing his marbles and the lyrics are genuine. And when the songs aren't about his mental state, there's some cheerful tunes about the Holocaust and serial killers too!

 

[Melon Donkey]

1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2. Oasis- Whats the story morning glory
3. Supergrass- I should coco
4. Embrace- The Good Will out
5. The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
6. The Verve - Urban Hymns
7. Inxs - Kick
8. REM- Automatic For The People
9. Green Day- American Idiot
10. Blur- Parklife
11. Johnny Cash - The Man comes around
12. Pulp - Different Class

Difficult one this!. Had to go for the era where i can truly say that it was my era ( however brief it was!), like my folks say the 60's were their era. Therefore brit pop heavy list it is.

Best off albums which would be on there had they been allowed:-

Stevie Wonder - only recently discovered but by god what a genius.
The beatles - red and blue albums
The Kinks
Buddy Holly
John Lennon
Madness.

Also soundtracks that are so bad that they are brilliant that take me back
Rocky 4 and Top Gun !

 

[chicovilla]

Massive attack - Blue Lines
Portishead - Dummy
Bob Marley - Exodous
U2 - Joshua Tree
Bombay dub orchestra - Bombay Dub Orchestra
Oasis - Definately Maybe
Sex pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Air - Moon Safari
Renaissance -Sasha & John Digweed
Prodigy - music for the jilted Generation
Primal scream - screamadelica
stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Happy Monday's - pills n thrills and bellyaches
The Clash - London Calling
Soul II Soul - Club classics vol. one


Some Albums have memories of my youth, others still get played regularly.

 

[Guest]

Great thread;

1. Led Zep IV
2. Misplaced Childhood
3. Appetite For Destruction
4. A Hundred million suns
5. Brothers in Arms
6. Hopes and Fears
7. Hot Fuss
8. Just enough education to perform
9. Soft Cell live
10. The White Room
11. X&Y
12. Hysteria

 

[glensider]

1 - The North Star Grassman and the Ravens - Sandy Denny
2 - What We Did on Our Holidays - Fairport Convention
3 - Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills
4 - In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
5 - Trilogy - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
6 - Mud Slide Slim and The Blue Horizon - James Taylor
7 - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - The Small Faces
8 - Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
9 - Gone to Earth - Barclay James Harvest
10 - Candles in the Rain - Melanie
11 - After the Goldrush - Neil Young
12 - First Under the Wire - Little River Band

 

[Pride of Lions]

1. - Grave New World - The Strawbs
2. - Forever Changes - Love
3. - Pictures at an Exhibition - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4. - Division Bell - Pink Floyd
5. - Live in America (released in the UK as 'Cook') - Premiata Forneria Marconi
6. - Sixty Six to Timbuktu - Robert Plant
7. - White Sugar - Joanne Shaw Taylor
8. - Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty
9. - Future Legends - Fruupp
10. - August - Eric Clapton
11. - Ennismore - Colin Blunstone
12. - Breathless - Camel

That was really tough....... keeping the list down to 12 that is.

 

[Villan Of The North]

In no particular order.

1.Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
2.The Gift - Midge Ure
3.The Chase -Marit Larsen
4.Brave New World - Iron Maiden
5.Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
6.I'm Alive - Jackson Browne
7.Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
8.1987 - Whitesnake
9.Laughing on Judgement Day - Thunder
10.Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors - Fish
11.Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
12.Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf


Queen are one of my favourite bands but I didn't include them as I love their compilation albums most and the rules say no compilations. Other than that, another issue for me was limiting to one album per band/artist.

 

[Villan Of The North]

Darn it, I didn't get any ELO in my list.

Edit: Or Ozzy

 

[The Fear]

I'm doing well in these lists apart from Glensider, only got 1 (In the court of king crimson) and Pride, only got 3 (division bell, 66 to timbuktu but that's a greatest hits so he's a naughty boy!! and Clapton August)

Melon Donkey - 28/2/2016 22:13

4. Embrace- The Good Will out
11. Johnny Cash - The Man comes around

Had the Embrace one but didn't stick with me and it went. Not got any Johnny Cash

holtelower - 28/2/2016 20:04

6. ELO - Time
7. Alex O'Neal - Hearsay

Got ELO hits, not got O'Neal. Surprised you pick Liverpool over their first, interesting that, their first was close to my list their second would be nowhere near!

chicovilla - 28/2/2016 22:34

Portishead - Dummy
Bob Marley - Exodous
Bombay dub orchestra - Bombay Dub Orchestra
Air - Moon Safari
Renaissance -Sasha & John Digweed

Some stunners there in your list, only ones I've not got are above, Bob Marley I've only got Legend

Green Tea - 28/2/2016 23:30
2. Misplaced Childhood
4. A Hundred million suns
9. Soft Cell live
10. The White Room
11. X&Y

Villan Of The North - 29/2/2016 08:35

1.Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
3.The Chase -Marit Larsen
5.Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
6.I'm Alive - Jackson Browne
9.Laughing on Judgement Day - Thunder
10.Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors - Fish
11.Selling England by the Pound - Genesis

Few real favourites of mine in your list, Midge The Gift is outstanding, Maiden I love. Not got the above, I'm a fan of Genesis but found their early albums dated badly so I'm 'and then there were three' onward really

 

[The Fear]

Stephen Jay Hawkings - 28/2/2016 21:13

The Fear - 28/2/2016 15:20

Manics have always been a fascinating band as well haven't they? Seen them live a couple of times, very good! Holy Bible was one of those that I just couldn't key into myself.

Yeah, I've probably seen them live more than any other band! I think Gold Against The Soul, The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go are my favourites, 3 classics back to back. Holy Bible was one of the first albums I ever got into, it's still probably the darkest album I know of, Richey was losing his marbles and the lyrics are genuine. And when the songs aren't about his mental state, there's some cheerful tunes about the Holocaust and serial killers too!

First time I went liking them but not having massive expectations, I won the tickets and went because Ian Brown was their special guest support. But thought them excellent. Then saw them, think it was their hits tour, at the 02 so nice intimate venue. Might try and re-visit the Holy Bible one day but I have problem got enough favourite 'intense' albums perhaps!

 

[Villan Of The North]

Villan Of The North - 29/2/2016 09:35

In no particular order.

1.Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
2.The Gift - Midge Ure
3.The Chase -Marit Larsen
4.Brave New World - Iron Maiden
5.Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
6.I'm Alive - Jackson Browne
7.Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
8.1987 - Whitesnake
9.Laughing on Judgement Day - Thunder
10.Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors - Fish
11.Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
12.Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf


Queen are one of my favourite bands but I didn't include them as I love their compilation albums most and the rules say no compilations. Other than that, another issue for me was limiting to one album per band/artist.

This 12 albums restriction is a real bummer, I want to add Marchin' Already - O.C.S

 

[Thomas Holte]

Right then I'll start again with the 12 albums that have been played most throughout my time and a couple newer ones - not in any order of preference:

1, The Association - The Association Live.

2, Beatles - Revolver.

3, Procol Harem - A Salty Dog

4, Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding.

5, The Jam - All Mod Cons.

6, The Undertones - Listening In ( BBC Radio Sessions 1978-82)

7, The Dubliners - 30 Years A - Greying

8, West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein Conducts Kiri Te Kanawa
& José Carreras
9, Glen Champbell - Meet Glen Campbell.

10, Soft Sell - Non-Stop Cabaret.

11, Strawbs - Strawbs.

12, Roxy Music - Siren.

On reflection it's pretty hard to keep it at 12 and I have left out so many great collection albums from the likes of Neil Diamond, OMD, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Smoky Robinson & The Miracles I really could go on and on!
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