The Musician's Canon - Another Game!

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 4:43 pm

Squeeze:

1. East Side Story
2. Play
3. Some Fantastic Place
4. Argy Bargy
5. Excess Moderation

Van Morrison:

1. Astral Weeks
2. Moondance
3. Hymns to the Silence
4. Enlightenment
5. Days Like This

Joe Jackson:

1. Look Sharp
2. I'm the Man
3. Laughter and Lust
4. Night and Day
5. Beat Crazy

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:04 pm

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

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:17 pm

Joe Ely

Down On The Drag
Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
Lord Of The Highway
Joe Ely
Honky Tonk Masquerade

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:52 pm

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

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:52 pm

so lacklustre wrote:Noiseradio posted
REM:

1. Life's Rich Pageant
2. Automatic for the People
3. Fables of the Reconstruction
4. Document
5. Monster
And where would Out Of Time be?

Ok, I'll rank them all:

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.

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:00 pm

REM:
1) Document
2) Reckoning
3) Murmur
4) Fables of the Reconstruction
5) Automatic for the People

Grateful Dead:

None

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:03 pm

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.

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:08 pm

To be perfectly honest, I've never listened to a Grateful Dead album in my life and probably never will. I'm being a bit closed minded about this, but what I've heard from the Dead just doesn't do anything for me.

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:15 pm

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!

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:06 pm

Having tried it, I knock it.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:27 pm

INXS

1. Full Moon, Dirty Hearts
2. Listen Like Thieves
3. The Swing
4. Shabooh Shoobah
5. Kick

The Pretenders (haven't heard the new one yet though)

1. The Pretenders
2. Last Of The Independents
3. Pretenders II
4. The Isle Of View
5. Learning To Crawl

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:39 am

Paul Weller (solo):

1. Stanley Road
2. Wild Wood
3. Paul Weller
4. Days Of Speed
5. Heliocentric

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:56 am

Ocean Colour Scene:

1. Moseley Shoals
2. One from the modern
3. Marchin' already
4. Mechanical Wonder
5. North Atlantic Drift

Kinda fit's in nice with the Weller list, them being so close and all!

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:22 am

bambooneedle wrote:Tom Waits:

Blue Valentines
Bone Machine
Rain Dogs
Blood Money
Small Change

El Vez, you included Mule twice.

Duly noted and corrected.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:40 am

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

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 6:46 pm

The Fall

1. Hex Enduction Hour
2. Bend Sinister
3. The Frenz Experiment
4. Perverted By Language
5. The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 8:01 pm

As Noise didn't:

Bowie:

1. Ziggy
2. Low
3. Hunky D
4. Heathen
5. Scary Monsters

(although it's insane to include several others)

And as my playground chum (thanks, Plaything) didn't:

Lloyd Cole:

1. Rattlesnakes
2. X aka Lloyd Cole
3. Mainstream
4. Love Story
5. Lloyd + The Negatives

Post by **BlueChair** » Wed Nov 05, 2003 9:40 pm

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

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:52 am

pip_52 wrote:Elliott Smith:

1. Elliott Smith
2. Either/Or
3. XO
4. Figure 8
5. Roman Candle

Pip, not to cause a fuss or anything, but Elliott Smith only put out five albums.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 6:06 pm

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?

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.

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 6:10 pm

miss buenos aires wrote: Pip, not to cause a fuss or anything, but Elliott Smith only put out five albums.

I know . . .

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 6:22 pm

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)

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:00 pm

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.

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:04 pm

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

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:16 pm

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)