I know it changes daily but mine are (today):

1. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
2. You Are The Quarry - Morrissey (and I still think he's a twat!)
3. Everyone Is Everybody Else - Barclay James Harvest
4. Goodbye Alice In Wonderland - Jewel
5. A Hangover You Don't Deserve - Bowling For Soup


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1.Never Mind The Bollocks.(My fave album,Bowie included).
2.London 0 Hull 4.The Housemartins
3.The Fine Art of Surfacing.The Boomtown Rats
4.You Are The Quarry.Morrisey
5.Raw Power.

1. Television - Marquee Moon
2. Was Not Was - What Up, Dog?
3. Microdisney - The Clock Comes Down The Stairs
4. XTC - Oranges and Lemons
5. The Fall - The Unutterable

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I played a bit of the Marquee Moon cd for the first time recently because someone was raving about it.Sweetythang I think,could be wrong.I thought it was a bit shit,although I'm not one who 'gets' music until about the fifth or so listen.I shall persevere.

In 1977 it was an incredible breath of fresh air. I guess it might sound a bit dated now but with 32 years of memories behind it, that "datedness" doesn't matter.

Another album I always associate with it, because it came out at the same time and I might have even bought them at the same time, is Talking Heads '77. That may also sound a bit dated now, but it's still brilliant.

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Well 'Bollocks',my top choice,also came out in '77,and that doesn't sound dated at all to me.

And have you been listening to NMTBHTSP since 1977?

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I see your point.I discovered The Pistols in about '85 I suppose.I think good music is good music though,I don't really go in for the 'sounds dated' thing.Buddy Holly sounds fresh to me.

Yeah, me too. I'm at a loss as to why you don't like Marquee Moon. I've loved it for 32 years. I can't conceive of not liking it.

There are some albums that I've been listening to for even longer that are "classics", eg Sgt. Pepper's that I just can't listen to at all any more. I know it's good, but I don't want to here it again thanks. But I'd happily listen to Marquee Moon anytime.

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As I said,I only played a snippet,and I don't appreciate good music immediately.I'm sure I have overlooked many a good album.I promise myself I will play MM at least three times over the next couple of weeks.I shall report back but I know it aint gonna be as good as NMTB.

You won't regret it. Once you get it, you'll love it.

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May I in turn recommend to you my #2,London 0 Hull 4? I'm sure you're familiar with some of the singles,especially Happy Hour,but the album is a pop masterpiece.Criminally underrated.

Oh I'm very familiar with that. I played it every day for about a month when it first came out. Loved it. Haven't heard it for years, though. I must dig it out.

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lee - keep playing it till ya get it.Probably the best debut album of all time.I last saw television at the bowie curated meltdown festival.Travelled down just to see them.They were fuckin awesome.Try their other two studio albums aswell - very underrated.
Mr.N

Lee - keep playing it till ya get it.Probably the best debut album of all time.I last saw television at the bowie curated meltdown festival.Travelled down just to see them,they were fuckin awesome.Try their other two studio albums aswell - very underrated compared to MM.
Mr.N

Today for me:

INXS - Kick
Ellis Beggs and Howard - Homelands (Always in my top 5!!)
Roger Taylor - Strange Frontier
U2 - War
REM - Automatic For The People

But they'll change again tomorrow.......

Kick is another album that I own but have never properly listened to.I hardly know any albums in their entirety other than Bowies'.

no particular order,


a differnet class...... pulp


the pros and cons of hitchhiking........ roger waters

think tank...................... blur.

touch ...................................eurythmics

makin movies...............................dire dtraits.

Parallel lines -- Blondie
Boys and Girls -- Bryan Ferry
North by Northwest -- Tom Robinson
Black Sea -- XTC
Secrets of the Beehive -- David Sylvian
Under the Flag -- Fad Gadget
The Golden Age of Wireless -- Thomas Dolby
Avalon -- Roxy Music
Kaleidoscope -- Siouxsie
The Dreaming -- Kate Bush
Zombie Birdhouse -- Iggy Pop
Sector 27 -- Sector 27 (featuring Tom Robinson)
Hope and Glory -- Tom Robinson
Gone to Earth -- David Sylvian
Mr. Heartbreak -- Laurie Anderson

See, I'm not JUST ABOUT BOWIE

An eclectic mix you have there, Sparkina. Good to see lots of Tom Robinson. Great songwriter.

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It's hard to come up with a definitive list but this week it's

1. Hot Fuss - The Killers
2. The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
3. Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon
4. VU and Nico
3. Prince - lovesexy

VU and Nico
Songs for Drella - Lou/Cale
The Visitors - Abba listening to it at the moment I love that album so much!
Casting Shadows - Wolfsheim
Big Science Laurie Anderson.



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lets see...

• Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
• Lexicon of Love - ABC
• Flesh and Blood - Roxy Music
• Actung Baby - U2
• Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow - T. Rex

There's no Smoke without fire.

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
U2 - Zooropa
Prince - Parade
Beck - Odelay
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

1.The Jam-All Mod Cons.
2.U2-Achtung Baby.
3.Sex Pistols-NMTBHTSP.
4.The Jam-Sound Effects.
5.Arctic Monkeys-Whatever People Say I Am Thats What I'm Not.


Cheers,
Jack

I don't really listen to albums in their entirety that much as iTunes let's me build my own. I do this quite a bit with Bowie's stuff starting with Lodger...

Philip Glass - The Hours
I love this album and its sweeping sense of time and kitchen floors...

Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Rockin. Lead hats and Spiders...

Macy Gray - A smattering from her four separate albums mushed together as one.
If you pick through it all you put together one heck of a satisfying soul set...

Yoko Ono - A smattering from all her albums but leaning on Approximately Infinite Universe.
She's just great. Try out her "Looking over from My Hotel Window" or "Kite Song" if you're not in the know... Her new stuff this year is gonna be good.

Bjork - Dancer in the Dark
This album covers everything I love about Bjork, and the shortness makes for a tightness- no fat.

If I could trade out Glass for another Artist Album it would be:

Le Loup - The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millenium General Assembly
Worth a serious listen. A sort of folksy rendition of the same ideas Bowie was working on for Outside. The track "We Are Gods! We Are Wolves!" should not disappoint.

>Philip Glass - The Hours
>I love this album and its sweeping sense of time and kitchen floors...


I love this album too, it is definatelly in my top 10
My favorite soundtrack by far, and The Hours might be my favorite movie too.

I'm going to see Glass twice next year, very much looking forward to that.

Bettina

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at the moment...

White Lies - debut
Killing Joke - NIght Time
Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
Cuddly Toys - Trial & Crosses (re-issue)

KING OF THE LEPER COLONY
Bring on the Ravers, Send in the Clones
http://www.deadheaven.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/deadheavenuk


LEON TOOK ME OUTSIDE......
EXILED & OUTCAST!
still naughty at 40!

Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
Pulp - Intro
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Lou Reed - Berlin
Blondie - Parallel Lines

> Le Loup - The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millenium General Assembly
Worth a serious listen

I downloaded that last year and I remember liking it a lot on my mp3 player for a while. As we speak I am digging it out again with the intention of giving is a serious re-listen in the light of your recommendation.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I remember We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! now. I love the way the rhythym is built up with synths and handclaps.

I also love Outside Of This Car, The End Of The World, again for its remarkable rhythmic construction.

1.the velvet underground and nico - THE VU
2.funhouse - iggy and the stooges
3 the slider - t.rex
4.for your pleasure - roxy music
5.psychocandy - the jesus and mary chain
6.gone to earth / blemish - david sylvian
7.trans europe express - kraftwerk
8.never mind the bollocks - the sex pistols

Grinning Cat - Susumu Yokota
Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno
Luxa - Harold Budd
The Idiot - Iggy Pop
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Being There - Tord Gustavsen Trio
Bless You - Lulu Rouge
Transparencies - Roger Eno/Plumbline

my in-car tunes at the mo are:

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
The best of the Specials
The best of Duran Duran
The best of Psychedelic Furs
Gary Numan - Scarred (live)

KING OF THE LEPER COLONY
Bring on the Ravers, Send in the Clones
http://www.deadheaven.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/deadheavenuk


LEON TOOK ME OUTSIDE......
EXILED & OUTCAST!
still naughty at 40!

Thanks Bettina and 96dbNibbler.


They are indeed wonderful. Look forward to hearing about the Glass concert.


If you'd like to hear Le Loup's current live sound, try these links:

http://daytrotter.com/article/1536/le-loup

http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2007/10/16/live-at-cmj-le-loup-live-performance-podcast/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90191045

Thanks Thylacine, I missed that Daytrotter (I have a lot of them). Listened to the album twice last night and I'd forgotten just how much I liked it. I'll check out those other links too.

EDIT: Ooh! There's a new Cass McCombs session at Daytrotter too. Must grab that.
EDIT2: Double ooh, there's also a White Lies SXSW session. Lovely.

1. Gone To Earth - David Sylvian

2. Quiet Life - JAPAN

3. Tilt - Scott Walker

4. Bryter Layter - Nick Drake

5. Steel Wheels - The Rolling Stones

(Substitute)
6. Human Menagerie - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel


Gone To Earth & Tilt will prolly remain in my top 5 forever, with the others changing, depending on mood.
Always loved that Stones album.
Like Bowie`s later stuff, its often dismissed for no other reason than they were `gettin on` a bit when it was recorded.

Love On.
Craig

wow, tintoy... grinning cat in your top five? i must say it is amazing, but that is quite a bold (and cool) statement. incidentally, on one of the best tracks of the album (i'm sure you'll know which one i mean if you read this)...well, i was stoned...but i thought the techno claps were taken from a sample of a dancer (spanish style, a la andy warhol). i was so stoned, in fact that i thought it was all mixed and morphed up to make the sample more difficult to identify. it's just a techno clap sound. if you don't know what track i mean i'll look up the title.

wokwok even without substances! Best tracks for me are Sleepy Eye (used in the film Basquiat) and Cherry Blossom. Amazing CD. Are you talking about Cherry Blossom?

A lot of Bowie recommends have gone on to be among my fave albums. I think for every ten things he recommends there's only one I seriously don't get (never got the Gnarls thing at all).

1. Scott Walker - Tilt (BOWIE recommend)

2. Arcade Fire - Funeral (BOWIE recommend)

3. Tricky - Maxinquaye

4. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

5. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

Bubbling under:

Tap Tap - Lanzafame (BOWIE recommend); Elvis Costello - This Years Model; John Cale - Paris 1919; Dinosaur Jr - Bug.

It changes all the time. Today it's...

1. Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo
2. Neil Young - Neil Young
3. Kate Bush - Aerial
4. Tori Amos - Abnormally attracted to sin
5. Kristeen Young - The Orphans

http://www.myspace.com/damerose

I'm sure I'll forget something important, but, anyways, in no particular order:


Milton Nascimento - Clube da Esquina 2

Björk - Vespertine

Bauhaus - Press the Eject and Give me The Tape

Pixies - Doolittle

T-Rex - T-Rex

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Jethro Tull - Slipstream (it's a video, but I love the live pieces and the set list, I listen to it oftenly)

Brian Eno & Laraaji - Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance

Syd Barrett - Barrett

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"Gone To Earth & Tilt will prolly remain in my top 5 forever, with the others changing, depending on mood."


Craig, Black & Blue is my fav Stones album closely followed by Some Girls.

I downloaded and listened to "Tilt" a few times. I had hoped to enjoy a new experience in music but it's complete bollocks. Sorry but to quote Peter Kay. "you can't polish a turd!"

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In response to: "Gone To Earth & Tilt will prolly remain in my top 5 forever"

Yes, tonyday, 'Tilt' is definitely up there! Along with David Sylvian's 'Secrets Of The Beehive'!

Hmm..at the moment

I Am Kloot - I Am Kloot
The Fall - The Unutterable
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Echo and the Bunnymen - Porcupine
Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But Shook Them Loose

Ever changing, and these lists are brilliant (by the way) but (in no particular order)...

Radiohead - the Bends
Suede - Dog Man Star
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Lloyd Cole - Don't Get Weird on me Babe
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

At present:

1. Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
2. Lust for Life - Iggy (although strictly speaking not a non-Bowie album I suppose)
3. Garbage - Garbage
4. Sticky Fingers - Stones
5. Electric Warrior - T.Rex

It'll be different tomorrow.

Songs in the Key of Life
Live from London - Al Jarreau
The Wall
Band of Gypsies
AllnAll - EWF


Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere angel.

10. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Mash-up culture and Musique Concrete taken to it's logistical extreme.

9. Def Leppard - Hysteria
The pop-rock template. Def Leppard was the first band that I really sought out on my own.

8. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Most romantic low-fi record ever made. Upholds my belief that indie isn't dead. Just yet.

7. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Music imploded when I first heard this.

6. U2 - Zooropa
I bought The Joshua Tree like any other 5th grader trying to get into music. Achtung Baby ushered me into high school, but Zooropa best sums up the 90s for me: Slick, romantic, confusing, dark and foreboding.

5. Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
The perfect marriage of art, pop and the bizarre.

4. Faith No More - The Real Thing
King For A Day is the better album in my book, but The Real Thing was the beginning of the end of my hair metal phase. Everyone says Nevermind killed the 80's. For me, it's when I first heard "Epic" and bought this cassette.

3. Radiohead - Kid A
Killed the 1990s musically and, concurrently, any nostalgia I had for college.

2. Pixies - Death To The Pixies
You damn right I'm including comps! Weirdly enough, I encountered them so late - after college - which makes it harder to understand why I love them so much. I never thought I'd play a CD to death at 24.

1. The KLF - The White Room
Ended my belief that only bands made good records, a good thing to discover at 16 and still musically young. I also understood after the KLF that a little mystery went a long way to creating a lasting impression.

Eclectic enough? No? OK, well the list will change next week anyway.

Close calls: Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) and XTC's Skylarking. See, the list is changing already.

in alphabetical order:

Blemish - David Sylvian
Dead Bees on a Cake - David Sylvian
Gone to Earth - David Sylvian
Secrets of the Beehive - David Sylvian
Snow Borne Sorrow/Money for All - Nine Horses
Tin Drum - Japan

Berlin - Lou Reed
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen
Singles - Suede
The Throne in the... Le Loup

Ecletic? Me? Noo... Not albums, but music:

1) Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
2) Kokkonen: The Last Temptations
3) Salonen: Piano Concerto
4) Wagner: Parsifal
5) Reed: Transformer

Mr. Esa-Pekka Salonen is coming to Helsinki with his new orchestra, the London Philharmonia, in August. He is a remarkable composer, as he says, conducting is just something he does on the side, it helps to pay the bills. Yeah, sure. Numbers 1 and 3 will be performed, in addition to La Mer by Debussy.

By the way, we are going to see Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson in August, too!

1. Telekon Gary Numan
2. Vienna Ultravox
3. Slaughter on 10Th Ave Mick Ronson (so under rated)
4.Revenge Eurythmics
5 Rock N Roll Animal Lou Reed (surley the best live album ever,knock spots of all DB live official albums

In no particular order and off the top of my head today.

Sally cant dance Lou Reed.

Psycomodo Cockney Rebel.

The Wall Pink Floyd.

Funhouse The Stooges .

Zooropa U2.

Psychomodo was a regular in my formative years....

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1.Marquee Moon - Television
2.The Idiot - Iggy Pop
3.Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths
4.Black and White - The Stranglers
5.Secondhand Daylight - Magazine
tomorrow it could be...
1.Another Green World - Brian Eno
2.Around The World In A Day - Prince
3.Siren - Roxy Music
4.In Rainbows - Radiohead
5.The Flat Earth - Thomas Dolby
All amazing albums by amazing artists.
Live music - ya can't beat it - get out there..
Mr.N

Thylacine8 and I were discussing Le Loup in this thread some weeks ago.

I see from their myspace page that they've got a new album, Family, out next month (can't wait) and they're giving away a free mp3 sample, an excellent song called Beach Town.

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It is a fantastic song. Further up in these posts I believe I also put up some links to live sessions by them. Very excited about this release.

Oh, and Yoko's new album rocks.

Very excited about this release.

Family leaked onto the blogs in the last couple of days and I'm enjoying it immensley.

I've also been using the lovely cover as my work PC wallpaper for the last two or three weeks. It causes great interest:





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Please try not to reproduce son as this can lead to boredom reiterated.

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
2. The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

http://www.scottfullermusic.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/scottfullermusic

For me right now it has to be -

1/ Dog Man Star - Suede
2/ Years of Refusal - Morrissey
3/ Endless Wire - The Who
4/ American Ceasar - Iggy Pop
5/ The Liberty of Norton Folgate - Madness

Happy In Galoshes-Scott Weiland
Lightbulb Sun-Porcupine Tree
Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
Rubber Soul/Revolver (it was a tie)-The Beatles
Discipline-King Crimson


Changes every day! LOL

'You start out wrinkled and you cry...you end up wrinkled and you die.'

"Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
Rubber Soul/Revolver (it was a tie)-The Beatles"

Interesting hey appear in nearly every Top Albums poll I have seen, yet they do not appear in mine!



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'Interesting hey appear in nearly every Top Albums poll I have seen, yet they do not appear in mine'

Why is that interesting?

'You start out wrinkled and you cry...you end up wrinkled and you die.'

1/ Kingdom Of Rust - Doves

2/ You Cross My Path - The Charlatans

3/ Tonight - Franz Ferdinand

4/ Eureka - The Bible ( just re discovered this again on CD after having it for years on vinyl )

5/ Crime Of The Century - Supertramp

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Whose rolling on the floor laughing now?
Supertramp.

<< Whose rolling on the floor laughing now? <br> Supertramp. >>

Well I'd agree that Supertramp generally were rubbish but as for their Crime Of The Century album, well! it was an absolute master piece, the trouble was they fell into the age old trap of making their first album so good they could never match it with subsequent releases.

Go and have a listen to it it's brilliant, inventive, perfectly recorded, arranged and sung, and has totally stood the test of time. in fact there just isn't a duff track on it or any part of it that's duff.

To me anyway

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"Interesting hey appear in nearly every Top Albums poll I have seen, yet they do not appear in mine!"

That's cos your naff..nobody ever tell you that..!




Tits and Explosions

"That's cos your naff..nobody ever tell you that..!"



This explains why you have such little command of the English language. 'Cos you're a great fat Northern bastard, chucky!




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ineligible question.
Favorites are dependant on desire;
and desires are fickle-fucks.
but I got a hundred or fifty or so
I like best. That's all I can hold
to my heart at any one length of time.
But saying that; anything except ************
is good and I cannot bear a lot of repetition.

Todays choice in no particular order

Fun House. The Stooges.
Live at Earls Court . Morissey.
Pschomdo. Cockney Rebel.
Appetite for destruction . GnR.
Rock n Roll Animal . Lou Reed.

Andy, it really is a daily choice. But today:

1. Young Americans - David Bowie
2. Switch - Golden Earring
3. Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers
4. The Duckworth Lewis Method - The Duckworth Lewis Method
5. Blue October - Foiled

Today's are:

1. REPO! The Genetic Opera (soundtrack)
2. Season of Poison/We are Pilots (Shiny Toy Guns)
3. Alive 2007 (Daft Punk)
4. One of the Boys (Katy Perry)
5. 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)

:D

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Waking to the wrong reality.