Perfect Albums

[Wonderer67]

Here’s another

Rites of Spring

DC Hardcore, 84 ish. But really amazing.

 

[cdstefi]

I could have picked 2 or 3 other Teenage Fanclub records. Thirteen. Grand Prix. Shit, Bandwagonesque beat out Nirvana’s Nevermind for Spin’s album of year, but Songs From Northern Britain is the one I play the most often.. hard to pick a favorite song. Aint that Enough.

I love Grand Prix and Bandwagonesque.

Cool fan trivia: Teenage Fanclub were one of Kurt's favourite bands when nobody knew who he was, Nirvana played down the bill from them at their first UK festival and there's a pic somewhere of him totally fanboying with them.

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Which is the better album?

English Beat - I Just Can’t Stop It
Specials - The Specials

That’s a toss up to me, but if I had to bet, I’d actually choose the English beat.

Specials for me but cannot go wrong.

 

[cdstefi]

Warehouse: Songs and Stories by Hüsker Dü.

How can a late--period US hardcore punk double album filled with mostly three-minute pop-cum-guitar assault tracks possibly be any good? Because Bob fuckin Mould and Grant fuckin Hart, that's why.

I saw the Could You Be The One video on some show (I think back in the mists of my 80s memory the same show may have shown the Teenage Fanclub "The Concept" video, making that an absolutely vintage episode of whatever it was), and knew I had to possess the album whence it came, and I did, in all it's psychedelic Pollockesque cover glory, with a a duo of slices of vinyl within.

I know some would cite Zen Arcade or Candy Apple Grey, but I think Warehouse is a great album, packed with songs that meld cool writing and hooks with Bob's sheet metal Flying V aural mayhem.

 

[LIDiver]

Going old school (thanks to my older sister)….
Styx: Grand Illusion

 

[Carson19820]

Derek & The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Bad Company - Bad Co.
Deep Purple - In Rock

 

[MsKiddo]

Classic Queen - Queen (1992)
I have both the cassette and CD (which I bought to replace the cassette after it got a little bit too heated in the glove compartment after a family trip from PA to FL one summer). Recommend listening to—and having a family sing-along—while driving through the incomparable mountains of West Virginia.

Live at Wembley Stadium - Queen (1986): This is a fantastic live 2-CD collection. But the reason I list it is because of one song, “Love of My Life.” Performed in London, it is powerful. But if you want to hear/see/feel the true power of the song, listen or watch on YouTube the live in Budapest version or—even better—live in Rio (1985). Over two nights, Queen played to upwards of 600,000 people. In front of what was presumably mainly native Portuguese speakers, to hear that large of a crowd sing to Freddie in English was/is electrifying!! And exemplifies what we need to see much more of in this world: love. ​

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Love him. Hate him. Some downright despise him. He probably is not perfect but Mark Kozelek has released some great albums. Some under his own name or under Red House Painter or Sun Kil Moon. Hell he even has entire albums covering Modest Mouse and early ACDC. I could pick several but Ghosts Of The Great Highway is fucking flawless. Great mixture of folk and rock with songs about serial killers, boxers and dead relatives. Glen Tipton is opening track so I will share that song.

 

[StillRain]

Damien Rice - O

So perfect he’s barely written anything since and has been touring the fucking thing endlessly because he knows his idiotic fans like me will just keep on going to hear it.

I love him for his music, and I hate him for his laziness and the way he does this.

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Damien Rice - O

So perfect he’s barely written anything since and has been touring the fucking thing endlessly because he knows his idiotic fans like me will just keep on going to hear it.

I remember listening to that a lot when it came out. It was freaking everywhere. I have given it a listen in years. Going to play it this morning here in pitch black dark morning. Thank you.

 

[Gaj1962]

Hotel California. Eagles
Fleetwood mac. Rumors
Boston. Boston
Leftoverture. Kansas
Another mother further. Mother's finest
Apatite for destruction. Guns and roses

 

[StillRain]

John Farnham - Full House



The greatest Australian voice to ever sing.

 

[cdstefi]

Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie is a fantastic album; even the little filler tracks are interesting, but the killers are the rockers, replete with appealingly gonzoid drumming, gorgeous fat guitars, some of the best integrated violin ever in a rock band and of course David Lowery's brilliantly mordant lyrics.

How can you not love an album containing songs inspired by Gravity's Rainbow and gravity itself, McDonnell-Douglas olive drab, the mind (sic) of Ronald Reagan, pissing off rednecks, Jack Ruby, an absolutely bludgeoning psycho-metallic take on Pictures of Matchstick Men, and so much more? It's a great road trip album, and I can't hear Borderline without my foot unconsciously pressing the accelerator into the floor.

Lowery hit the jackpot again later with Cracker and Kerosene Hat, but Key Lime Pie is a masterpiece (even if Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Telephone Free Landslide Victory were better titles).

 

[cdstefi]

Still on a violins in rock theme, Bob Dylan's Desire.

Scarlet Rivera's fiddle front and centre on one of Bob's greatest bodies of songs, from the righteous, scorching anger of Hurricane (imagine what Trump and Musk would make of somebody writing something so dagger-piercing straight to the heart of institutionalised racism now), to the lightness and humour of Black Diamond Bay and Mozambique, and the poignant balladry of One More Cup Of Coffee, Oh Sister and Sara (maybe the greatest breakup song ever written, and surely the only one where the writer gets to namecheck another of his own equally brilliant epic songs, the two neatly bookending his marriage in a way only Bob would have the nerve to do).

His best album by far in my book, notwithstanding Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks. My only wish for it is that he'd included the yet-to-be-written (or released anyway) Changing Of The Guards instead of the turgid Joey. That song with the Rolling Thunder Revue band would have been even better than the Street Legal version.

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie is a fantastic album; even the little filler tracks are interesting, but the killers are the rockers, replete with appealingly gonzoid drumming, gorgeous fat guitars, some of the best integrated violin ever in a rock band and of course David Lowery's brilliantly mordant lyrics.

How can you not love an album containing songs inspired by Gravity's Rainbow and gravity itself, McDonnell-Douglas olive drab, the mind (sic) of Ronald Reagan, pissing off rednecks, Jack Ruby, an absolutely bludgeoning psycho-metallic take on Pictures of Matchstick Men, and so much more? It's a great road trip album, and I can't hear Borderline without my foot unconsciously pressing the accelerator into the floor.

Lowery hit the jackpot again later with Cracker and Kerosene Hat, but Key Lime Pie is a masterpiece (even if Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and Telephone Free Landslide Victory were better titles).

Bud I fucking love Camper and Cracker so much. David Lowery is one of the best and most under appreciated artist in history of recorded music. I would be hard pressed to name his beat album but that self titled Cracker album is fucking perfect. I have seen him live a few times with both bands and it was always wonderful. I think he currently a professor at University of Georgia.

 

[cdstefi]

Bud I fucking love Camper and Cracker so much. David Lowery is one of the best and most under appreciated artist in history of recorded music. I would be hard pressed to name his beat album but that self titled Cracker album is fucking perfect. I have seen him live a few times with both bands and it was always wonderful. I think he currently a professor at University of Georgia.

Great lyricist and writer. Up there with Iggy for me

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Great lyricist and writer. Up there with Iggy for me

Ummm…You know this probably goes without saying but you have some goddamn good taste in music.

 

[cdstefi]

I'm just shucksing at this moment

 

[cdstefi]

I'm going to cheat and put The Idiot and Lust For Life together as I think there's one absolutely killer Iggy Pop album in the two of them. Both have slight filler tracks but the good stuff in both is worth it.

Iggy's original China Girl is an incredible performance. Bowie's cover is far better known and made the chart bucks but is too polite and mannered; Iggy sings it like he means it, unhinged and crazy. The Passenger is justifiably well known among the people who know. Neighborhood Threat is a song way more people should know, and is lyrical genius. You can't fucking argue with a couplet like:
"You're so surprised he doesn't run to catch your ash, everybody always wants to kiss your trash."

 

[Wonderer67]

The song challenge today had me pull up this gem of an album. Perfect in very way.

Altho I didn’t really get it the first few times I heard it. In fact I didn’t like it at first.

 

[Wonderer67]

Q: The Stooges or Funhouse?
A: Yes.

 

[Wonderer67]

Any love for Government Issue? Band reinvented itself like five times: hardcore, metal, melodic punk, post hardcore.

This is a great record from start to finish IMO.

RIP, Stabb

 

[NeonSubtlety]

my favorites:

Sixteen stone - bush
Halocene - Bon iver
Across a wire - counting crows
Under the table and dreaming - DMB
High violet - the national

 

[FreckledSprite]

Compilations are probably cheating but:
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[Mo_Bandy]

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No I dig soundtracks a lot