Desert Island Album
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Last night while I was making dinner I was listening to the Tom Robinson show on 6 Music, he had a 2 hour playlist of "shoegaze" music - it was brilliant, I've always been a bit of a closet shoegazer You can't beat a bit of chiming guitars with feedback. Took me right back to living in Camden in the early 90s.
Ride, The Verve, Mazzy Star, Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine... all excellent stuff. And a new one on me, a Japanese band called Plant Cell, with song called "Spirit who dwells on or in a mountain"
Ride, The Verve, Mazzy Star, Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine... all excellent stuff. And a new one on me, a Japanese band called Plant Cell, with song called "Spirit who dwells on or in a mountain"
Will check out some of the other shoegaze bands. Have you listened to Kurt Vile ? (nice Pitchfork performance video on YT).
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Yes, I do like Kurt Vile. He recorded some good stuff with another favourite of mine, Courtney Barnett.
#18
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Hadn't heard of CB. Just listened, a bit too much of an edge for me, but like the colab with KV. May explore further. On a completely different track... Go Go Penguin ?
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@ Hawk...you may be interested in this from today's Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...-of-1970s-rock
#20
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Thanks for the link BristolUK - I had already read it & was thinking that Space Ritual should be in in there. (Or Live Chronicles)
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In no order at all, cuz my tastes are fairly mainstream, but span a lot of musical styles
Jesus & Mary Chain - Stoned and Dethroned
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D Major
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take 5
Neil Diamond - Gold (Live at the Troubadour 1970)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Any good, extended "bootleg" tape from a Grateful Dead concert
Any Otis Redding album
Santana - Abraxas
And a sympathy vote (doesn't quite belong in a Top 10 list) for a superb rocking/blues album that nobody ever seems to have heard of, and which I stumbled across quite by accident:
Masters of Reality - Sunrise on the Sufferbus
Jesus & Mary Chain - Stoned and Dethroned
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D Major
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take 5
Neil Diamond - Gold (Live at the Troubadour 1970)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Any good, extended "bootleg" tape from a Grateful Dead concert
Any Otis Redding album
Santana - Abraxas
And a sympathy vote (doesn't quite belong in a Top 10 list) for a superb rocking/blues album that nobody ever seems to have heard of, and which I stumbled across quite by accident:
Masters of Reality - Sunrise on the Sufferbus
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In no order at all, cuz my tastes are fairly mainstream, but span a lot of musical styles
Jesus & Mary Chain - Stoned and Dethroned
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D Major
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take 5
Neil Diamond - Gold (Live at the Troubadour 1970)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Any good, extended "bootleg" tape from a Grateful Dead concert
Any Otis Redding album
Santana - Abraxas
And a sympathy vote (doesn't quite belong in a Top 10 list) for a superb rocking/blues album that nobody ever seems to have heard of, and which I stumbled across quite by accident:
Masters of Reality - Sunrise on the Sufferbus
Jesus & Mary Chain - Stoned and Dethroned
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D Major
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take 5
Neil Diamond - Gold (Live at the Troubadour 1970)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Any good, extended "bootleg" tape from a Grateful Dead concert
Any Otis Redding album
Santana - Abraxas
And a sympathy vote (doesn't quite belong in a Top 10 list) for a superb rocking/blues album that nobody ever seems to have heard of, and which I stumbled across quite by accident:
Masters of Reality - Sunrise on the Sufferbus
Top 10 is a lot easier but the original post was the harder 1 album
As for Masters of Reality, I prefer their eponymous debut personally, even though it lacks Ginger baker's drumming
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I generally coloured outside the lines as a kid.
If I had to pick one though, it would be Stoned and Dethroned. Not the best music or musicianship on the list (a high bar), but the most consistent "album" from start to finish, and an album-length earworm that has been with me since it came out. YMMV, obviously (and that is the point of such threads)
But the more I listen to it, it's Ginger Baker that takes the band--on this album--from very good among many, to the verge of greatness. (In an artistic sense; they went nowhere commercially.)
If I had to pick one though, it would be Stoned and Dethroned. Not the best music or musicianship on the list (a high bar), but the most consistent "album" from start to finish, and an album-length earworm that has been with me since it came out. YMMV, obviously (and that is the point of such threads)
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I find with the Spotify shuffle feature I can be in the car and the songs segue from a Monty Python song, to a Marvin Gaye song, to Judas Priest, to Steely Dan to Throbbing Gristle.
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There are a few big name albums I could mention - Hysteria by Def Leppard, GnR's Appetite, Whitesnake's 1987, Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation, Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, etc, but for something a less well known, but IMHO every bit as extraordinary as those well known multi-platimun smashes, my choice would have to be a toss-up between Great White's "Once Bitten ..." which is an overlooked gem of the blues rock genre, and Tesla's debut album "Mechanical Resonance", which I think is arguably the best "true debut" album (not featuring any seasoned performers) I have ever heard.
The title track of Once Bitten:
The Tesla album has many strong tracks, but this was one of the singles from it:
The title track of Once Bitten:
The Tesla album has many strong tracks, but this was one of the singles from it:
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#28
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A bit too "Gilles Peterson" for me I'm afraid... not a big fan of acid jazz stuff in general. With the honourable exception of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAdPFM3u5fM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAdPFM3u5fM
oooooo yeah. Love me a bit of JTQ. Seen them live a couple of times. James was kind enough to sign a CD for me at the last time I saw them
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#30
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It might be obvious that I too love a bit of the Acid Jazz Another fave of mine is Corduroy.