I'd swap Pablo Honey for Kid A. My first choice would be Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows.
I'd go The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A. My favorite Radiohead albums are Hail to the Thief and Kid A, but I think Bends and OKC are vastly superior to Amnesiac. I know it's not a leftovers album, but I still don't think it flows as an entire record the way the others do.
For me personally: Explosions in the Sky: 1) Those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever 2) The earth is not a cold dead place 3) The rescue
They did the Friday Night Lights soundtrack in between Earth and Rescue, but I don't count that an album of theirs. You could also have it start at How Strange, Innocence.
But those three are the three best records from my favorite band.
Beautiful Freak Electro Shock Blues Daisies of the Galaxy
I love how those second two are two sides of the same coin. One is all about death, loss, depression. The other is possibly the most optimistic, care free collection of songs I’ve ever heard.
From:
"So I know you're going pretty soon Radiation sore throat got your tongue Magic markers tattoo you And show it where to aim And strangers break their promises You won't feel any You won't feel any pain"
to
"I don't care for walkin' downtown Crazy auto-car gonna mow me down Look at all the people like cows in a herd Well, I like Birds"
Brilliant. I love that song. But the Blinking Lights album is the best.
As for the longest run of albums I'd give 9/10 (or more) to, nobody's beating Birkenhead's finest:
Some Call It Godcore Voyage To The Bottom Of The Road Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral Trouble Over Bridgwater Cammell Laird Social Club Achtung Bono CSI: Ambleside 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
Beautiful Freak Electro Shock Blues Daisies of the Galaxy
Thought about Eels, but I would go: Souljacker Shootenanny Blinking Lights
I was so tempted by these three especially as i love shootenanny and blinking lights but i went for the three that meant so much to me when i was young.
I have to go with Karim on this. For me Beautiful Freak weakens the other trio too much. Oh god, how amazing is the last track on Blinking Lights. So good that it became a book. E is the musical genius son of a scientific genius.
Hello, Quo, On The Level; by Status Quo Another Perfect Day, Orgasmatron, Rock'n'Roll; by Motorhead Backstreet Symphony, Laughing On Judgement Day, Behind Closed Doors; by Thunder Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak; by Thin Lizzy Just Supposin, Never Too Late, 1982; by Status Quo Melissa Etheridge, Brave and Crazy, Never Enough; by Melissa Etheridge Dev'lish Mary, Ghost Train, Continental Stomp; by The Hot Club of Cowtown All About Eve, Scarlet and Other Stories, Touched By Jesus; by All About Eve The Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave; by Iron Maiden Victims Of The Future, Run For Cover, Wild Frontier, After The War; by Gary Moore - yes I know that's 4 but the quality doesn't dip one bit from first to last How to Make Friends and Influence People, Regular Urban Survivors, Shaving Peaches; by Terrorvision See The Light, Hell To Pay, Feel This; by the Jeff Healey Band Call Of The Wild, Lee Aaron, Bodyrock; by Lee Aaron Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood, Clutching At Straws; by Marillion Slippery When Wet, New Jersey, Keep The Faith; by Bon Jovi Once Bitten, ...Twice Shy, Hooked; by Great White The Heart of Everything, The Unforving, Hydra; by Within Temptation
more than that I'd need to go look through our music library
Would have to go the other way and pick Script For A Jesters Tear over Clutching At Straws.
Hello, Quo, On The Level; by Status Quo Another Perfect Day, Orgasmatron, Rock'n'Roll; by Motorhead Backstreet Symphony, Laughing On Judgement Day, Behind Closed Doors; by Thunder Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak; by Thin Lizzy Just Supposin, Never Too Late, 1982; by Status Quo Melissa Etheridge, Brave and Crazy, Never Enough; by Melissa Etheridge Dev'lish Mary, Ghost Train, Continental Stomp; by The Hot Club of Cowtown All About Eve, Scarlet and Other Stories, Touched By Jesus; by All About Eve The Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave; by Iron Maiden Victims Of The Future, Run For Cover, Wild Frontier, After The War; by Gary Moore - yes I know that's 4 but the quality doesn't dip one bit from first to last How to Make Friends and Influence People, Regular Urban Survivors, Shaving Peaches; by Terrorvision See The Light, Hell To Pay, Feel This; by the Jeff Healey Band Call Of The Wild, Lee Aaron, Bodyrock; by Lee Aaron Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood, Clutching At Straws; by Marillion Slippery When Wet, New Jersey, Keep The Faith; by Bon Jovi Once Bitten, ...Twice Shy, Hooked; by Great White The Heart of Everything, The Unforving, Hydra; by Within Temptation
more than that I'd need to go look through our music library
Would have to go the other way and pick Script For A Jesters Tear over Clutching At Straws.
Hello, Quo, On The Level; by Status Quo Another Perfect Day, Orgasmatron, Rock'n'Roll; by Motorhead Backstreet Symphony, Laughing On Judgement Day, Behind Closed Doors; by Thunder Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak; by Thin Lizzy Just Supposin, Never Too Late, 1982; by Status Quo Melissa Etheridge, Brave and Crazy, Never Enough; by Melissa Etheridge Dev'lish Mary, Ghost Train, Continental Stomp; by The Hot Club of Cowtown All About Eve, Scarlet and Other Stories, Touched By Jesus; by All About Eve The Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave; by Iron Maiden Victims Of The Future, Run For Cover, Wild Frontier, After The War; by Gary Moore - yes I know that's 4 but the quality doesn't dip one bit from first to last How to Make Friends and Influence People, Regular Urban Survivors, Shaving Peaches; by Terrorvision See The Light, Hell To Pay, Feel This; by the Jeff Healey Band Call Of The Wild, Lee Aaron, Bodyrock; by Lee Aaron Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood, Clutching At Straws; by Marillion Slippery When Wet, New Jersey, Keep The Faith; by Bon Jovi Once Bitten, ...Twice Shy, Hooked; by Great White The Heart of Everything, The Unforving, Hydra; by Within Temptation
more than that I'd need to go look through our music library
Would have to go the other way and pick Script For A Jesters Tear over Clutching At Straws.
Hello, Quo, On The Level; by Status Quo Another Perfect Day, Orgasmatron, Rock'n'Roll; by Motorhead Backstreet Symphony, Laughing On Judgement Day, Behind Closed Doors; by Thunder Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak; by Thin Lizzy Just Supposin, Never Too Late, 1982; by Status Quo Melissa Etheridge, Brave and Crazy, Never Enough; by Melissa Etheridge Dev'lish Mary, Ghost Train, Continental Stomp; by The Hot Club of Cowtown All About Eve, Scarlet and Other Stories, Touched By Jesus; by All About Eve The Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave; by Iron Maiden Victims Of The Future, Run For Cover, Wild Frontier, After The War; by Gary Moore - yes I know that's 4 but the quality doesn't dip one bit from first to last How to Make Friends and Influence People, Regular Urban Survivors, Shaving Peaches; by Terrorvision See The Light, Hell To Pay, Feel This; by the Jeff Healey Band Call Of The Wild, Lee Aaron, Bodyrock; by Lee Aaron Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood, Clutching At Straws; by Marillion Slippery When Wet, New Jersey, Keep The Faith; by Bon Jovi Once Bitten, ...Twice Shy, Hooked; by Great White The Heart of Everything, The Unforving, Hydra; by Within Temptation
more than that I'd need to go look through our music library
Would have to go the other way and pick Script For A Jesters Tear over Clutching At Straws.
Beautiful Freak Electro Shock Blues Daisies of the Galaxy
Thought about Eels, but I would go: Souljacker Shootenanny Blinking Lights
I was so tempted by these three especially as i love shootenanny and blinking lights but i went for the three that meant so much to me when i was young.
I have to go with Uboat on this. For me Beautiful Freak weakens the other trio too much. Oh god, how amazing is the last track on Blinking Lights. So good that it became a book. E is the musical genius son of a scientific genius.
Get it right please. I saw him at the Royal Festival Hall when he got a lookalike of the Queen to sit in the royal box. Agree that book and film are excellent.
Beautiful Freak Electro Shock Blues Daisies of the Galaxy
Thought about Eels, but I would go: Souljacker Shootenanny Blinking Lights
I was so tempted by these three especially as i love shootenanny and blinking lights but i went for the three that meant so much to me when i was young.
I have to go with Uboat on this. For me Beautiful Freak weakens the other trio too much. Oh god, how amazing is the last track on Blinking Lights. So good that it became a book. E is the musical genius son of a scientific genius.
Get it right please. I saw him at the Royal Festival Hall when he got a lookalike of the Queen to sit in the royal box. Agree that book and film are excellent.
yeah i think he meant you. but beautiful freak had songs like susans house, Novocain for the soul, My beloved monster and the sublime You're lucky day in hell. i think as fans we are all winners.
Velvet Underground and Nico White Light/White Heat Velvet Underground
He wanted to include Transformer Berlin Sally Can't Dance
But I wasn't having that "Yes" I said "I appreciate you paying the wages and outing that crook Southall and all that but Sally Can't Dance isn't Coney Island Baby, mate" which fair play to him he accepted.
He said that when he learnt Lou, his big hero, had played the Valley that was the clincher in him buying the club.
Southall is a big Queen and Phil Collins fan which says it all.
This is a good thread. These sometimes descend into people listing the most obscure record in their collections but that hasn’t happened so far and there is some really good and familiar stuff coming up.
I think you mean ‘that they can google’
I think its the opposite, the obscure are hider to find, the logarithms always sign post back towards more popular bands. My taste in music can often be quite obscure, but its through listening to a lot of radio stations, playlists, going to festivals and trying out recommendations from friends or people on here, offering band names I haven't heard of.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik One Hot Minute Californication
for RHCP. Includes their best two albums and One Hot Minute is def superior to Stadium.
One Hot Minute and Stadium Arcadium are so different they could have been made by different bands. I think Stadium Arcadium is a masterpiece though, Wet Sand is one of my all time favourite songs.
Love of mine, someday you will die But I'll be close behind and I'll follow you into the dark No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white Just our hands clasped so tight, waiting for the hint of a spark
If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied And illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark
OR:
How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound But in a language that you can't read just yet
You gotta spend some time, love You gotta spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart
Comments
Explosions in the Sky:
1) Those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever
2) The earth is not a cold dead place
3) The rescue
They did the Friday Night Lights soundtrack in between Earth and Rescue, but I don't count that an album of theirs. You could also have it start at How Strange, Innocence.
But those three are the three best records from my favorite band.
It's wasted on Large Addick though.
Some Call It Godcore
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Road
Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral
Trouble Over Bridgwater
Cammell Laird Social Club
Achtung Bono
CSI: Ambleside
90 Bisodol (Crimond)
Would have to go the other way and pick Script For A Jesters Tear over Clutching At Straws.
Say what now?!?!
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2
3
Different folks, different strokes!
From Here To Infirmary
Good Mourning
Crimson
Coheed and Cambria:
The Second Stage Turbine Blade
In Keeping Secrets Of Planet Earth:3
Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV
Cypress Hill:
Cypress Hill
Black Sunday
III: Temples Of Boom
Music for the Masses;
Violator;
Songs of Faith and Devotion
Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat
Velvet Underground
He wanted to include
Transformer
Berlin
Sally Can't Dance
But I wasn't having that "Yes" I said "I appreciate you paying the wages and outing that crook Southall and all that but Sally Can't Dance isn't Coney Island Baby, mate" which fair play to him he accepted.
He said that when he learnt Lou, his big hero, had played the Valley that was the clincher in him buying the club.
Southall is a big Queen and Phil Collins fan which says it all.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
One Hot Minute
Californication
for RHCP. Includes their best two albums and One Hot Minute is def superior to Stadium.
This Year’s Model
Armed Forces
Get Happy!!
(Trust)
(Imperial Bedroom)
Magazine:
Real Life
Secondhand Daylight
The Correct use of Soap
John Martyn:
Bless the Weather
Solid Air
Inside Out
Narrow Stairs
Codes and Keys
Pure poetry:
But I'll be close behind and I'll follow you into the dark
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight, waiting for the hint of a spark
And illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
OR:
The potential of you and me
It's like a book elegantly bound
But in a language that you can't read just yet
You gotta spend some time with me
And I know that you'll find love
I will possess your heart