absolutely! i think that album is the 'sgt. pepper' of the 80's (and xtc are the beatles of the 80's) and todd rundgren produced it! my xtc ranking would go... english settlement black sea skylarking dukes of the stratosphere album and ep (xtc's alterego - a 60's psych band and recorded w/ all 60's equipment- total concept band that yielded some of their best songs) apple venus: vol 1 (the one that starts w/ river or orchids) oranges and lemons drums and wires big express and since everyone else is cheating im going to name my top 5. mbv - loveless pixies - doolittle beatles - revolver stones - exile on main st. cure - disentigration
oooh, what are your 50 mostest favoritest compilation and anthology CD's? If you can't pick one, it's not your favorite!
Some excellent picks here. Especially Jo Mamma and MC Mark with XTC's Black Sea and English Settlement. However, I have to go with one of these two. Never have been able to pick which one is the favorite.
Okay, since you clowns are naming more than one, I'll play along; first my top 5: Radiohead - Kid A (already named in this thread by me) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion Gang of Four - Entertainment! Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks Honorable Mentions: Neil Young - After the Gold Rush Van Morrison - Common One Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs Joni Mitchell - Blue Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby Sun Ra - Lanquidity The Residents - Meet the Residents Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box Lee "Scratch" Perry - Super Ape Can - Future Days Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance Gong - You Scott Walker - Scott 4 The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace The Church - Untitled #23 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do Sonic Youth - Goo My Bloody Valentine - Loveless The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Pink Floyd - Animals Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II The Band - The Band (Brown Album) The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Who - Quadrophenia Japan - Tin Drum Talk Talk - Laughing Stock The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead The Cure - Disintegration REM - Murmur U2 - War Ultravox - Vienna The Verve - Urban Hymns Slowdive - Souvlaki Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Genesis - Selling England by the Pound ELP - Brain Salad Surgery King Crimson - Discipline Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Rush - Moving Pictures Ride - Nowhere Lush - Split Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Wire - 154 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love Love - Forever Changes The Doors - Strange Days Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? XTC - Skylarking That's 60...if I think about it hard enough, I'm SURE I can come up with 90 more albums.
Bah, I can't edit on this laptop - take out Scott Walker, Aphex Twin and Lush and sub them with these 3: John Coltrane - My Favorite Things Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson Horace Silver - Song for my Father
Brilliant choices. I first saw Mott the Hoople at Hofheinz Pavilion in June of 1970, along with Traffic and Mountain. I'm a big fan of David Bowie, but he owes a lot to the Hoople with their influence on his music. And they owe him for producing their first really big LP (Dudes), and for writing All the Young Dudes. Very overlooked by those not paying attention in the early days, and then after they were becoming big, the group essentially broke up, an old story in the biz and a bummer. One of my favorites? 1968's Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, by the Small Faces. Mind blowing at the time. I wore this LP out! Still have my original album cover, which is trying to fall apart.
What are you, some kind of smart ass? Don't make me come back there. Equal to your list you could put the whole Beatles catalog, the Whole Zepplin catalog, 3 Who albums, 3 Stones Albums, 3 Fegan/Dan's, 2 U2's, an Allman's, yes an Eagles etc etc etc...... killers for sure, all top whatevers....... not your favorite. Pick one, p***y; make a decision. It's not like it's getting engraved on your tombstone. PICK ONE (not manny really, he did pic OK Computer, it's just funny how some people won't commit)
It's "favorite" not "greatest", hoss. Although "Electric Ladyland" is a brilliant album, I like more tracks on Experienced than Ladyland. It is the same thing with Floyd and "Animals". I won't argue that Dark Side of the Moon is the greater album but going on my personal preference, I'm picking "Animals" every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Why thank you for the back-handed compliment there, Juggy. I could also include some blues albums but I am not going to list bluegrass or country just to do it because I only list stuff that I listen to. Haha, I'll rep you for this post even though I picked KID A and not OK COMPUTER, duh.
