The Musician's Canon - Another Game!
- Jackson Monk
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- bambooneedle
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Tom Waits:
Blue Valentines
Bone Machine
Rain Dogs
Blood Money
Small Change
El Vez, you included Mule twice.
The Rolling Stones (I actually prefer my Aerosmith top 5. If they had stopped in 1982 - after which they started thinking too much about who their audience was/is - the quality of their early stuff might be far more appreciated). Anyway, the stones:
Exile On Main Street
It's Only Rock And Roll
Some Girls
Let It Bleed
Beggar's Banquet
Thin Lizzy. Phil Lynott was a genius, I recommend these albums:
Chinatown
Live And Dangerous
Black Rose
Jailbreak
Johnny The Fox
Blue Valentines
Bone Machine
Rain Dogs
Blood Money
Small Change
El Vez, you included Mule twice.
The Rolling Stones (I actually prefer my Aerosmith top 5. If they had stopped in 1982 - after which they started thinking too much about who their audience was/is - the quality of their early stuff might be far more appreciated). Anyway, the stones:
Exile On Main Street
It's Only Rock And Roll
Some Girls
Let It Bleed
Beggar's Banquet
Thin Lizzy. Phil Lynott was a genius, I recommend these albums:
Chinatown
Live And Dangerous
Black Rose
Jailbreak
Johnny The Fox
- Boy With A Problem
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The Clash:
1) London Calling
2) The Clash
3) Sandinista!
4) Give 'Em Enough Rope
5) Black Market Clash
X:
1) Los Angeles
2) Wild Gift
3) More Fun in the New World
4) Under the Big Black Sun
5) Ain't Love Grand
Los Lobos:
1) How Will The Wolf Survive?
2) Kiko
3) The Neighborhood
4) Good Morning Aztlan
5) By The Light of the Moon
Dylan:
1) Love and Theft
2) Bringin it All Back Home
3) Blood on the Tracks
4) Blonde on Blonde
5) Highway 61 Revisited
1) London Calling
2) The Clash
3) Sandinista!
4) Give 'Em Enough Rope
5) Black Market Clash
X:
1) Los Angeles
2) Wild Gift
3) More Fun in the New World
4) Under the Big Black Sun
5) Ain't Love Grand
Los Lobos:
1) How Will The Wolf Survive?
2) Kiko
3) The Neighborhood
4) Good Morning Aztlan
5) By The Light of the Moon
Dylan:
1) Love and Theft
2) Bringin it All Back Home
3) Blood on the Tracks
4) Blonde on Blonde
5) Highway 61 Revisited
- noiseradio
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Ok, I'll rank them all:so lacklustre wrote:Noiseradio postedAnd where would Out Of Time be?REM:
1. Life's Rich Pageant
2. Automatic for the People
3. Fables of the Reconstruction
4. Document
5. Monster
1-5 as above.
6 Green
7 Reckoning
8 New Adventures in HiFi
9 Out of Time
10 Murmur
11 Chronic Town
12 Reveal
13 Up
14 Dead Letter Office
15 Man on the Moon Soundtrack
That makes Out of Time #9. but I love every record on that list dearly up until Chronic Town. After that, I really like, though recognize as seriously flawed both Reveal and Up. And te last two are just because I'm a completist. Though there's a few great cuts on DLO.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
--William Shakespeare
--William Shakespeare
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Oh you people are cruel
The Grateful Dead (courtesy of Elvis Costello, from his 500 Albums You Need list):
1. American Beauty
2. Workingman's Dead
3. Europe '72
4. Wake Of The Flood
And I'd personally like to add as a 5th, Live/Dead.
The Grateful Dead (courtesy of Elvis Costello, from his 500 Albums You Need list):
1. American Beauty
2. Workingman's Dead
3. Europe '72
4. Wake Of The Flood
And I'd personally like to add as a 5th, Live/Dead.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
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The Grateful Dead really aren't all that bad. For years I avoided them because I knew some people in high school who were obnoxious fans of theirs. You know, the Phish archetype. Hippies, basically.
But really, they do have some great stuff. Don't knock it 'til you try it!
But really, they do have some great stuff. Don't knock it 'til you try it!
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
- noiseradio
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- bambooneedle
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- so lacklustre
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John Hiatt -
1. Crossing Muddy Waters
2. Slow Turning
3. The Tiki Bar Is Open
4. Bring The Family
5. Walk On
Randy Newman -
1. Good Old Boys
2. Bad Love
3. 12 Songs
4. Sail Away
5. Land of Dreams
Leonard Cohen -
1. Songs of Leonard Cohen
2. Songs of Love & Hate
3. I'm Your Man
4. 10 New Songs
5. Song From a Room
1. Crossing Muddy Waters
2. Slow Turning
3. The Tiki Bar Is Open
4. Bring The Family
5. Walk On
Randy Newman -
1. Good Old Boys
2. Bad Love
3. 12 Songs
4. Sail Away
5. Land of Dreams
Leonard Cohen -
1. Songs of Leonard Cohen
2. Songs of Love & Hate
3. I'm Your Man
4. 10 New Songs
5. Song From a Room
- Boy With A Problem
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- Otis Westinghouse
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What's Heathen doing there, Otis? Surely an album like Aladdin Sane or Station To Station should be in there before Heathen, no?
Bruce Springsteen:
1. The River
2. Born To Run
3. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
4. Nebraska
5. The Wild, The Innocent, The E-Street Shuffle
John Lennon (solo):
1. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
2. Imagine
3. Mind Games
4. Double Fantasy
5. Walls And Bridges
Bruce Springsteen:
1. The River
2. Born To Run
3. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
4. Nebraska
5. The Wild, The Innocent, The E-Street Shuffle
John Lennon (solo):
1. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
2. Imagine
3. Mind Games
4. Double Fantasy
5. Walls And Bridges
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
- miss buenos aires
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- Otis Westinghouse
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Well it's an absurd exercise, and of course those two, and Young Americans, which I think is generally underrated, and Diamond Dogs and Heroes should all be there, and you could also add Reality and The Man Who Sold The World to the list, and maybe others. But I do think Heathen is extremely good, and it was nice to recognise the recent renaissance in this list.BlueChair wrote:What's Heathen doing there, Otis? Surely an album like Aladdin Sane or Station To Station should be in there before Heathen, no?
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The Beautiful South...
1. Choke
2. Blue is the colour
3. 0898 beautiful south
4. Welcome to the beautiful south
5. Miaow
Albums that Paul Heaton has been involved with...
1. Choke (with The Beautiful South)
2. London 0 Hull 4 (with The Housemartins)
3. Blue is the colour (with the Beautiful South)
4. Fat chance (solo album as 'Biscuitboy aka Crackerman')
5. The people that grinned themselves to death (with The Housemartins)
1. Choke
2. Blue is the colour
3. 0898 beautiful south
4. Welcome to the beautiful south
5. Miaow
Albums that Paul Heaton has been involved with...
1. Choke (with The Beautiful South)
2. London 0 Hull 4 (with The Housemartins)
3. Blue is the colour (with the Beautiful South)
4. Fat chance (solo album as 'Biscuitboy aka Crackerman')
5. The people that grinned themselves to death (with The Housemartins)
- Jackson Doofster
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LC - I loved the first BS album, but i think they've gone downhill since. Parts of BITC were great (Have Fun and One God etc) but the rest was banal IMHO.
Love Heaton's voice, but he always gives me the feeling that he's under-achieving.
Ps. "The People who grinned...." was a great record.
Love Heaton's voice, but he always gives me the feeling that he's under-achieving.
Ps. "The People who grinned...." was a great record.
"But they can't hold a candle to the reciprical war crimes which have plagued our policy of foriegn affairs."
- Jackson Doofster
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Lloyd Cole (in response to Otis)
1. Rattlesnakes
2. Mainstream
3. Love Story
4. Easy Pieces
5. Don't Get Wierd...
Bruce
1. Wild, Innocent, E St........
2. Tunnel of Love
3. Born to Run
4. Nebraska
5. The Rising
Beatles
1. White Album
2. Revolver
3. Abbey Rd
4. Rubber Soul
5. Sgt Pepper
1. Rattlesnakes
2. Mainstream
3. Love Story
4. Easy Pieces
5. Don't Get Wierd...
Bruce
1. Wild, Innocent, E St........
2. Tunnel of Love
3. Born to Run
4. Nebraska
5. The Rising
Beatles
1. White Album
2. Revolver
3. Abbey Rd
4. Rubber Soul
5. Sgt Pepper
"But they can't hold a candle to the reciprical war crimes which have plagued our policy of foriegn affairs."
- Otis Westinghouse
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Stones:
1. Exile
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Get Yer Ya-Yas out.
Actually, those are the only 3 I know. So I am here under false pretences. I just wanted to see Charlie and the boys in here. I would add Let It Bleed for fame's sake, but that will have to be for someone who knws them better.
Next up, Hungup and XTC.
Van, though GOOT has been there:
1. Astral Weeks
2. St Dominic's Preview
3. Moondance
4. Too Late To Stop Now
5. Veedon Fleece
(see! they're all early ones)
Radiohead:
1. Bends
2. OK Computer
3. Amnesiac
4. I Might Be Wrong
5. Hail To The Thief
(Kid A disqualified cos I still haven't got it, Pablo Honey was never going to be in the running)
Damien Rice:
1. O
(but give him time)
Joni:
1. Hejira
2. Hissing of Summer Lawns
3. Shadows and Light
4. Mingus
5. Blue
(please disagree, I only know these, really, but do believe the first two are the big ones)
Notice how I like to get one live LP in there, but not for Bowie, cos the offficially available ones ain't the business.
Ron S:
1. Cobblestone Runway
2. Ron Sexsmith
3. Whereabouts
4. Other Songs
5. Blue Boy
(see! I'm bullshitting again, cos I don't have the last two yet)
Neil Young (to be different to the earlier list):
1. Zuma
2. Sleeps With Angels
3. Harvest Moon
4. Tonight's The Night
5. Decade (OK it's a compilation, but a very special one)
1. Exile
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Get Yer Ya-Yas out.
Actually, those are the only 3 I know. So I am here under false pretences. I just wanted to see Charlie and the boys in here. I would add Let It Bleed for fame's sake, but that will have to be for someone who knws them better.
Next up, Hungup and XTC.
Van, though GOOT has been there:
1. Astral Weeks
2. St Dominic's Preview
3. Moondance
4. Too Late To Stop Now
5. Veedon Fleece
(see! they're all early ones)
Radiohead:
1. Bends
2. OK Computer
3. Amnesiac
4. I Might Be Wrong
5. Hail To The Thief
(Kid A disqualified cos I still haven't got it, Pablo Honey was never going to be in the running)
Damien Rice:
1. O
(but give him time)
Joni:
1. Hejira
2. Hissing of Summer Lawns
3. Shadows and Light
4. Mingus
5. Blue
(please disagree, I only know these, really, but do believe the first two are the big ones)
Notice how I like to get one live LP in there, but not for Bowie, cos the offficially available ones ain't the business.
Ron S:
1. Cobblestone Runway
2. Ron Sexsmith
3. Whereabouts
4. Other Songs
5. Blue Boy
(see! I'm bullshitting again, cos I don't have the last two yet)
Neil Young (to be different to the earlier list):
1. Zuma
2. Sleeps With Angels
3. Harvest Moon
4. Tonight's The Night
5. Decade (OK it's a compilation, but a very special one)