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I'm new to this site. Spent a good few houres poring over it and i might stay up to watch France v England in the rugby. Anyway I just thought i'd submit this and see what people reckon. The Top 10 are, well, just that,(though not ranked in any order), and the rest are other records i can't do without.

1 The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
2 Bob Dylan - Bringing it all Back Home
3 Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to see the Bright Lights
Tonight
4 Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
5 The Flying Burrito Bros. - The Gilded Palace of Sin
6 Anne Briggs - A Collection
7 Joni Mitchell - Hejira
8 Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
9 Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
10 Elvis - From Elvis in Memphis

11 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
12 Gene Clark - No Other
13 Steely Dan - Aja
14 Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
15 Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel
16 Sandy Denny - No More Sad Refrains:The Anthology
17 The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
18 Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend
19 Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
20 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
21 The Band - Music from Big Pink
22 Elvis - Sunrise
23 Gene Clark - Flying High
24 James Brown - 40th Anniversary Collection
25 Fairport Convention - Full House
26 Pentangle - Light Flight
27 Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
28 The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
29 Steeleye Span - The Hills of Greenmore:Anthology '69-'72

I could mention what Mahler and Handel i like but would anybody be interested?

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome. Your tastes are excellent.

But can you be a little bitch about them?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Where's Dizzee Rascal?

― ILM (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello, Pete S! The Captain Beefheart kinda sticks out from the rest, like it's crazy and noisy and stuff, and the other stuff isn't? But I haven't heard a lot of that stuff so whaddo I know. Is the James Brown 40th Anniversary collection like a box set?

Why has Kenan turned into Dr. Evil from Austin Powers??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

blahblah@hotmail, that either 1) A pretty off-target generalization of the ILM hive-mind 2) A series of picture books or 3) a brilliant idea for Dizzee's web site! "Dizzee-Cam" - where YOU see what DIZZEE sees, 24/7 and vote on what kind of gum he should buy at the cornershop

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Cause he was chased out of ILE and now lives in a Big Boy statue.
Come back, Kenan!

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

a big boi statue.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

I'm not evil, I'm just a little bitch sometimes. See?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete S., What do you think of "Hey Ya" by Outkast

― Aaron A., Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I like rhythmic inventiveness - i've always thought that James Brown and Captain Beefheart have a lot of similarities! James Brown often threatens to take us into some really abstract, dense territory just like Beefheart. Same with the folk bands - the interplay of different angular rhythms and odd time signatures; i love it!

The James Brown is just a 2 CD career overview, and as such is amazing. Deleted now i think...

Yeah i can bitch. Virtually everything Elvis ever did is shit. The Band's 2nd album is like a PhD thesis on the Old West. Err... That's it.

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! Sun Sessions rule, everything else should be promptly defenestrated.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaron A -Hey ya's the new one isn't it? I've seen the video a few times; fantastic! It's definitely the best hip-hop record out at the moment. Outkast are never less than intriuging.

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

More favourite rekkhodz, plz. Kthx.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

What are you asking, Francis?

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete, you're not one of those cerebral rock fans looking to rub shoulders with failed music journalists, are you?

The second Band record is looser, wilder and just plain more exciting than Big Pink. And the lyrics are actually more like a hokey (and fun) historical novel than the American studies syllabus a lot of Band fanatics pretend they are.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't worry, Pete. If you plan to stick around, you'll figure it out eventually. I just want people to chime in and list their fave records too.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Keith (is Orville typing for you?), what do you mean "cerebral rock fans"? Oh , i've just got it, it's the Guardian thing isn't it. Er,..well, you've cued me up so here i go: Are you a failed music journalist?

I like the 2nd lp too, but i got it years ago and never bought the 1st one till recently. I just think it's more approachable, more soulful.. and i don't know how you can call the 2nd lp "loose".. the arrangement are very strict, and really frame the songs..in my opinion.

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Keith (is Orville typing for you?)"
That strange man with the scary bird always shows up when I google myself. Does he make more sense somehow if you're English?

"Are you a failed music journalist?"
Not yet.

Funny, "The Band" feels way more approachable to me, much less chilly than "Big Pink," which I admittedly haven't listened to in years.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

no Nick Drake?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Big Pink.

Some of my favorite records:

Aretha Franklin - 30 Greatest Hits
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Al Green - Call Me
John Coltrane Quartet - Live at Birdland
Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh
Plug - Drum n' Bass for Papa
OutKast - Aquemini
Erule - Listen Up (12")
Prince - Erotic City (12")

and lots and lots of other stuff.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

He's one of those that you know, in theory, you should but.. i've never really got it.
Keith - it strikes me that i might feel differently about the 2nd album if i was American. But then again ihave no particular opinion on The Kinks' musings on Empire..
Keith Harris and Orville are British institutions. Yes, a man fisting a duck. (Prince Charles??)

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know Pete, you seem pretty into American rootsish stuff. But I see what you're saying. I think I might feel differently about the Steeleye Span and the Pentangle if I was British. In any case, someday I'll give Big Pink another spin.

As far as Orville goes, I'm kind of funny about real birds, even.

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Sunday, 16 November 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to say there are better Steely Dan records than Countdown To Ecstacy but then i remembered its all a matter of opinion anyway.

― its me again ! (its me again !), Sunday, 16 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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