For me it’s Crime of the Century, Dark Side of the Moon and Black and White.
Yours?
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I’ll play.
Dixie Chicken
The Royal Scam
Signs from the Wood
Quadrophenia, Never Mind The Bollocks, and The Wall
They comfort my ears – I know them inside out, and return happily.
(Carter USM – 30 Something for Coffee & Cigars in the Drawing Room)
My 3 are
Black Sea
Private Revolution
Do it Yourself
Not bad that @bejesus
Rock Follies and Rock Follies of ’77.
Beatles
Well, okay:
Ella Fitzgerald sings The Johnny Mercer Songbook; Sibelius 4th symphony; and Still Life
Abbey Rd, Astral Weeks and Ziggy Stardust.
Steely Dan – The Royal Scam. All of it except “Everything You Did”.
Thad Jones – The Magnificent Thad Jones. Specifically for “April In Paris”.
Oliver Nelson – The Blues And The Abstract Truth. For “Stolen Moments”.
Bubbling under: Horace Silver Quintet – Song For My Father.
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um.
So many others …
Good call on Oliver Nelson. **Reaches for vinyl**
I love the front cover of “The Magnificent Thad Jones”, with a very cool-looking TJ feeding the pigeons in Times Square. Marvellous.
Many…but at the moment it’s:
Apple Venus, XTC
Technique, New Order
The Lost Weekend, Monochrome Set
Rattlesnakes, Lloyd Cole (oops that’s 4…)
Technique! Me too
Rumours
Ragged Glory
Late for the Sky
Nice
Shadows and light
Liege and lief
Anything by Petula
Jackie Leven – Forbidden Songs of the Dying West
Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Alice Cooper – Schools Out
I would probably give a different answer each time I was asked but today it’s:
Prefab Sprout – Jordan: The Comeback
Josh Rouse – Nashville
Shelby Lynne – Just a Little Lovin’
this is an excellent list … saw Josh Rouse in Stroud earlier this year and he was superb
Just a Little Lovin’…Shelby Lynne…(collapse of stout party…) ❤️
You have a typo.
Just a Little Lovin’…Dusty Springfield shirley.
No typo…I meant Shelby…
I have it. I’m afraid it went on the Lovely but Pointless pile. I’ll give it another go.
Harsh, harsh verdict…
Days in Europa – the Skids
Valhalla Avenue – the Fatima Mansions
Black Love – Afghan Whigs
Pour Down Like Silver
Rules for Jokers
Tea for the Tillerman
Pour Down like Silver – very nice!
Substance
Sticky Fingers
Hejira
Ágætis byrjun
Hawks and doves
AC goes to hell
Hawks and Doves is a surprising choice. It doesn’t seem very popular among Young fans and rarely gets mentioned. I’m not a Young fan, but I bought it the week it was released out of curiosity. I was very disappointed with my purchase and would happily have swapped it for something else were it not for Little Wing, which is gorgeous. I was never tempted to buy another Young album until I heard Harvest Moon, which I really like.
Three?
Screamadelica
Common One
Sleeps With Angels
Rising Above Bedlam
Strange Angels
When In Rome…
Led Zep IV
12 Gold Bars
Diamond Life
New Gold Dream – Simple Minds
High Land, Hard Rain – Aztec Camera
Rockin’ and Romance – Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
Me too for NGD
Violator – Depeche Mode
Provision – Scritti Politti
Tubular Bells
Hunky Dory
House of Love Fontana album (the one with the butterfly)
The Fontana album is brilliant isn’t it! Great mix of singles and superb songs, a bit unfairly maligned at the time due it’s smooth production. It’s aged really well though.
TB! Quality!
Nonsuch – XTC
Selling England By The Pound – Genesis
Snow Goose – Camel
Spirit of Eden
Astral Weeks
Promises (Floating Points)
Van – Veeden Fleece
Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger
Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim – Mannenberg
Felt – Me and a Monkey on the Moon
Teenage Fanclub – Songs from Northern Britain
Lloyd Cole – Antidepressant
Stones In The Road
Wrecking Ball
HQ
Freewheelin’
Dare!
The Queen Is Dead
3 “Greatest Hits” for me:
The Best Of R.E.M. (IRS version)
History of the Byrds
Big Squeeze, the very best of
45s And Under is one of the best Best Ofs.
Big Squeeze adds the later singles, and the B sides.
A very very fine collection indeed
Otis Blue (Otis Redding, obvs.)
King of the Delta Blues Singers (Robert Johnson)
Sketches of Spain, In A Silent Way, Kind of Blue (Miles)
The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place (Explosions in the Sky)
Kid A (The Tommy York 5)
I’ve noticed that some correspondents just post the titles, while others post the title and the artist(s). H’mmm…I wonder why?
Coolcats know who the artists are without being told.
Squares, however ..
Not sure I can narrow it down to specific albums but the following
Teenage Fanclub
Prefab Sprout
Pet Shop Boys
Astral Weeks
Eldorado
Vagabonds of the Western World
Eldorado? Well, that could be the ELO album or the Neil Young EP…
It’s the ELO album.
That one could easily be on my list. It’s an escape into a dream world. Brilliant record.
And all but forgotten, which is a shame.
Too many, but here’s three –
Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball
Van Morrison Veedon Fleece
Television Marquee Moon
A Pagan Place
The Kick Inside
Pyromania
In my Tribe
Still crazy after all these years
Seldom seen kid (For Starlings and Grounds for divorce)