Hmm, you’re right with Village Green, might well give it a shot. Beach Boys: great singles band, people have tried down the years to get me to listen but Surf’s Up and Pet Sounds really didn’t stir me much. […]

Loads, actually:

The Shadows
Woody Guthrie
Hank Williams
Ray Charles
Everly Brothers
Elvis Presley
Otis Redding
Beach Boys
The Kinks
The Hollies
The Small Faces
The Move
The Temptations
Aretha Franklin
Creedence […]

Well worth the two hours, thanks for posting @Neela.

Still 19 days to go.

What on Earth’s wrong with you lot? OOALH is just fine, and danceable too. And that lift of key at the end, exhilarating. IMHO.

That fabulous Miles band was actually a septet with Gaumont as visitor. Still a good call Mike.

PS You need this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Tokyo-1975-Miles-Davis/dp/B01AXLKR94/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1543626088&sr=8-2&keywords=miles+davis+tokyo+1975

So without Bruford and Howe? Choose between Kaye (The Yes Album) and Wakeman (Close To The Edge) for keyboards. The OOALH line-up might get third place at best.

Gary in Skid Row, shirley? Along with the Brush and Noel Bridgeman.

Classic Lizzy was the Bell/Lynott/Downey trio, IMO. The quartet was good but rather generic.

No big deal these days but my Dec 29th hasn’t always made me happy.

Beautifully characterised, Moose. Well the skronkiest bit in when they unleash Gato Barbieri: not a mobile player at all, with a raw flat blare of a tone, he’s thinking, how much noise can I get out of this thing? […]

Well indeed (lightning fast), in fact we don’t get to hear enough of the phase before that when he still had rawness and a lovely dirty growly guitar tone, as captured on Jack Johnson, say. Did he , ahem, swap substances?

Great man, Akkerman. Saw your post on the nutters in NI the other day but, having grown up just on the other side of the border, didn’t have anything to add: your rage was sufficient. Point is, seeing your name […]

Well done lads, enjoyable 90m of enthusiastic gushing, with Twang’s scepticism a welcome balance.

50 years ago, you wouldn’t buy the same records as your mates, albums were expensive: I was buying Traffic, King […]

Nothing wrong with any of those Stones albums, but the group were finding their feet, the material was derivative, they were brilliant at singles. This also applies to the HJHs actually, much of the early stuff […]

Agree with Beatles, Led Zeppelin, ELP, Creedence, Talking Heads, and Free.
Not though with the Stones, nor the Who.

Would add Cowboy Junkies, White Stripes, Pentangle, the Smiths.
Close: Hendrix, Abba.

Grateful […]

The quote-sovereignty-unquote nuggets show no sign of abating. Just today, it’s been unelected bureaurocrats, German empire, Project Fear, take back control, Get On With It, completely unacceptable, etc. and this […]

She sounded like a grand woman, sorry for your trouble Niall.

In common: also 1 of 6, also got a bro’ in Dundalk.

Well let me pick your brains @fitterstoke. After those first 4 albums, what is truly essential? This thread has set me off and I’d really appreciate your suggestions. Ta m8.

Of course Mike means Wagnerian veins-throbbing-in-the-neck SSHHHRRRRRRIIEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKing or else prim and polite Schubert “Lieder”. Certainly on Radio3.

Got a point you know. And I say that as a fluent German […]

Oh, go on then..

Actually Pessoa, The Least We Can Do charted at #47 in 1970 (not that this weakens your point).

Beany used to be our specialist on stuff like this: got me several times.