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What are your favourite albums of all-time?
My top twenty are...
Achtung Baby - U2
Conditions - The Temper Trap
An End Has A Start - Editors
Grace - Jeff Buckley
High Violet - The National
Hotel - Moby
A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol
Hurry Up, Weâre Dreaming - M83
In Rainbows - Radiohead
The King Of Limbs - Radiohead
March Fires - Birds Of Tokyo
Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay
Odyssey Number Five - Powderfinger
A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
Under The Iron Sea - Keane
Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends - Coldplay
The Weight Of Your Love - Editors
Where You Stand - Travis
( ) - Sigur Rós
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First of all, welcome aboard MD, RhysBP !
I really don't have favourites perse! However certain albums I have are played more than others! There's just too much music out there to have a favourite! Your choices are very good but if you like a lot of different music like I do, the list will soon change!!!..lol
These albums have seen a lot of play recently!!!!
Black Sabbath - Live...Gathered in their Masses...because I recently saw them live!
Anathema - Weather Systems- one of the best albums I have ever heard!!!
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - vintage rock n roll,,,all songs are gems ...great album!
The Beatles - I am a Beatle nut!!! ..Beatles Red and Blue albums , their hits, gets regular play!
Arcade Fire - Reflektor...one of my all time favourite bands ...always release great albums with a unique sound!
Opeth - The brilliant Still Life album, saw these guys live !!! Great blend of black metal, prog rock, jazz and blues!!!..an absolute treasure!!!!
...and many many more!!!!
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Works Volume 1, Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery, Black Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, The Division Bell, Animals, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Kansas - Two for the Show
Mike Batt - Caravans, Schizophonia, Waves
Camel - Nude, The Snow Goose, Rajaz, Dust and Dreams
Jean Michel Jarre - Aero, Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields, Waiting For Cousteau
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (all versions), Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, The Songs of Distant Earth, Incantations, Discovery, Crises
Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Heavy Horses, Thick as a Brick, Songs from the Wood, Crest of a Knave, Bursting Out, Broadsword and the Beast
Supertramp - Paris, Even in the Quietest Moments, Crisis -What Crisis, Breakfast In America, Crime of the Century
Yes - Going for the One, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Yesshows
That's just the first ten I can think of! there are many, many more.
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SteveO Wrote:First of all, welcome aboard MD, RhysBP !
I really don't have favourites perse! However certain albums I have are played more than others! There's just too much music out there to have a favourite! Your choices are very good but if you like a lot of different music like I do, the list will soon change!!!..lol
These albums have seen a lot of play recently!!!!
Black Sabbath - Live...Gathered in their Masses...because I recently saw them live!
Anathema - Weather Systems- one of the best albums I have ever heard!!!
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - vintage rock n roll,,,all songs are gems ...great album!
The Beatles - I am a Beatle nut!!! ..Beatles Red and Blue albums , their hits, gets regular play!
Arcade Fire - Reflektor...one of my all time favourite bands ...always release great albums with a unique sound!
Opeth - The brilliant Still Life album, saw these guys live !!! Great blend of black metal, prog rock, jazz and blues!!!..an absolute treasure!!!!
...and many many more!!!!
Cheers SteveO!
I've only listened to Reflektor once but I really liked Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice).
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Rhys, you have a few albums listed that I have never heard of...I may check them out!
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Which ones haven't you heard? I can tell you a bit about them  mile:
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There are FIVE..Interpol, Powderfinger, Editors, Temper Trap, M83(know them but never heard them..lol)
RhysBP Wrote:Which ones haven't you heard? I can tell you a bit about them mile:
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SteveO Wrote:There are FIVE..Interpol, Powderfinger, Editors, Temper Trap, M83(know them but never heard them..lol)
Here you are SteveO. Iâve taken the time out to write some mini reviews for you.
Interpolâs Turn On The Bright Lights is eleven solid tracks of guitar rock. An applaud worthy fact about this album is that this was the bestâs debut LP. Best track is the homage to New York City, simply titled NYC. Check out the follow-up album, Antics, if you like this gem of an album.
An End Has A Start by Editors is also a good guitar rock album, except you will find a bit more piano on some songs. Best track is the opener Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors. The Weight Of Your Love, released six years afterwards, can best be summed up as opera rock. Nearly every song features a string section. Some times it works, mainly on The Weight and Sugar; some times itâs a bit too much (check out What Is This Thing Called Love).
Powderfinger are a strong example of Aussie soft rock and Odyssey Number Five is arguably their best album. Reason being a lot of their best and recognisable songs are found on this LP. The penultimate track, Thrilloilogy, runs for over six minutes but it keeps you entertained for the whole duration. A good introduction to the band if you havenât listened to any of their music before.
Continuing on from Aussie soft rock, The Temper Trapâs debut album Conditions is another good listen. A testament to how good this album is, I still canât decide what my favourite track on it is. Sweet Disposition is internationally loved and itâs easy to see why. Perhaps the good thing about the album is that every song sounds different.
Finally, M83âs Hurry Up, Weâre Dreaming is a very unique listen. It is a double disc album, so you have a plethora of tracks to listen to. There is a lot of different sounds and instrumentation to be heard, for example one track features the sounds of a train rolling by before being overtaken but the ethereal sounds of a synthesizer. As for the real music, the main highlights are Intro, This Bright Flash and Outro (which has been used on heaps of television commercials and movie trailers). By the way, I guarantee you will want to dance to Midnight City.
I hope this helps with your listening!
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Great reviews, Rhys! You should definitely do this more often please! I am familiar with Powderfinger as I believe another Aussie, Crazy Horse, has reviewed an album of theirs here. I will check out all the albums you mentioned! Looks like great stuff!...I am very impressed by the quality and quantity of music from down under! Such a small country population wise and such tremendous talent ! Makes me wonder what's in the water over there!!!!...lol..or maybe it's the scorching sun!
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SteveO Wrote:You should definitely do this more often please!
Coldplay's next album is out soon. So expect an almighty review :wink:
SteveO Wrote:Makes me wonder what's in the water over there!!!!
Birds of Tokyo and The Temper Trap are the biggest and best Aussie bands going around at the moment.
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