My favourite albums - a long list

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So Dr C's 17 albums made me think I'd do my own. Unfortunately my shortlist wasn't at all short, and I couldn't bear to edit it down to 17, so I thought I'd better do a new thread for it. Actually, there are two lists - a lot of favourites, things I listen to frequently, aren't proper albums, they are comps/box sets, so I thought I'd separate them out. Proper albums first:

1. Pulp - Different Class
2. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
3. Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
4. Mott the Hoople - Mott
5. ABC - The Lexicon of Love
6. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
7. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
8. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing....
9. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
10. Prince - Parade
11. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
12. Underworld - Everything, Everything
13. Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea With
14. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
15. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
16. Culture - 2 Sevens Clash
17. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
18. Pavlov's Dog - At The Sound of the Bell
19. Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
20. Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos
21. Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
22. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
23. Clash - The Clash
24. Prince - Purple Rain
25. Trammps - The Legendary Zing Album
26. Kelis - Kaleidoscope
27. Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
28. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
29. Buzzcocks - Love Bites
30. KLF - The White Room
31. Lou Reed - Transformer
32. Pulp - Pulpintro
33. Prince - Sign O The Times
34. Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
35. P.M. Dawn - Of the Heart, Of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
36. Pet Shop Boys - Very
37. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
38. Dave Clarke - Archive One
39. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
40. XTC - White Music
41. Talking Heads - 77
42. Q-Bert - Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik
43. Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme)
44. Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
45. Al Green - Gets Next To You
46. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
47. Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
48. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
49. Orbital - Snivilisation
50. Dr Dre - The Chronic
51. Prince - 1999
52. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
53. RZA - Ghost Dog OST (Japanese Version)
54. Wedding Present - George Best
55. Rod Stewart - An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
56. TLC - CrazySexyCool
57. Misty in Roots - Live At The Counter Eurovision 1979
58. Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers
59. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
60. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
61. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
62. Streets - Original Pirate Material
63. TLC - Fanmail
64. Teebee - Through The Eyes Of A Scorpion
65. Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
66. Mahlathini - Thokozile
67. Portishead - Dummy
68. Roxy Music - Stranded
69. Eddie Hinton - Letters From Mississippi
70. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
71. Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut
72. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
73. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
74. T. Rex - The Slider
75. Cheb Khaled - Hada Raykoum
76. Outkast - Stankonia
77. Method Man - Tical
78. Al Green - Call Me
79. Irma Thomas - Down At Muscle Shoals
80. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
81. Ghostface Killah - Ironman
82. Chaba Fedaile & Cheb Sahraoui - N'Sel Fik
83. Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
84. Art Tatum - 20th Century Piano Genius
85. Slade - Slade Alive!
86. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
87. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
88. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
89. Undertones - The Undertones
90. Velvet Underground - 1969 Velvet Underground Live
91. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
92. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
93. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
94. Sam Cooke - Live At the Harlem Square Club, 1963
95. Temptations - All Directions
96. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
97. One Dove - Morning Dove White
98. Jonny L - Magnetic
99. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live!
100. Stooges - Raw Power
101. Howard Tate - Get It While You Can
102. David Bowie - Young Americans
103. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
104. Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
105. Television - Marquee Moon
106. Prodigy - The Prodigy Experience
107. Al Green - The Belle Album
108. Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
109. UltraViolence - Life of Destructor
110. Orbital - Brown Album
111. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
112. Wedding Present - Tommy
113. Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
114. Nicolette - Let No-One Live Rent Free In Your Head
115. Brian Wilson - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
116. Chaba Zahouania - Nights Without Sleeping
117. Tricky - Maxinquaye
118. Tatu - 200 Km/h In The Wrong Lane
119. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
120 Willie Nelson - Teatro

And comps/sets:

1. Al Green - Al
2. James Brown - Star Time
3. Louis Prima - Buona Sera
4. Phil Spector - Back To Mono
5. Prince - The Hits
6. James Carr - The Essential James Carr
7. Pet Shop Boys - Discography
8. Marvin Gaye - Very Best Of
9. Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold
10. Shangri-Las - 20 Greatest Hits
11. Chic - Best Of
12. Tom Waits - Bounced Checks
13. Who - Thirty Years Of Maximum R&B
14. Lee Perry - Archive Series
15. Faces - Best Of
16. Four Tops - The Singles Collection
17. Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
18. Underworld - 1992-2002
19. Hank Williams - Legend Of Country Music
20. Joe Tex - I Gotcha (His Greatest Hits)
21. Monkees - 20 Smash Hits
22. Aretha Franklin - 20 Greatest Hits
23. Little Richard - The Little Richard Story
24. Rod Stewart - Sing It Again Rod
25. Temptations - Compact Command Performances: 17 Greatest Hits
26. Otis Redding - Star Collection
27. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Anthology
28. T. Rex - The Ultimate Collection
29. Solomon Burke - Home In Your Heart - The Best Of
30. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up: The Singles Anthology 1970-90
31. Willie Nelson - 20 Golden Hits
32. Dyke & The Blazers - Funky Broadway: The Very Best Of
33. Elmore James - King Of The Slide Guitar
34. Patsy Cline - Best Of
35. Ann Peebles - Greatest Hits
36. Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives & Sevens
37. Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
38. Saint Etienne - Casino Classics
39. DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike
40. Ramones - Anthology: Hey Ho Let's Go!
41. O.V. Wright - Gone For Good
42. Inner City - Good Life: The Best Of Inner City
43. Roy Orbison - The Golden Decade: 1960-1969
44. Neil Young - Decade
45. Tammy Wynette - Best Of
46. Only Ones - Alone in the Night
47. Ronettes - The Best Of The Ronettes
48. Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Greats
49. Robert Johnson - Delta Blues
50. Sam & Dave - The Best Of Sam & Dave
51. Subway Sect - A Retrospective (1977-1981)
52. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Voodoo Jive: The Best Of
53. Gang Starr - Full Clip: A Decade Of Gang Starr
54. Sly and the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
55. Slade - Wall of Hits
56. Billy Ward & The Dominoes - 21 Hits
57. Walker Brothers - No Regrets: The Best Of
58. Mighty Sam - Nothing But The Truth
59. Darlene Love - Masters
60. Wreckless Eric - Greatest Stiffs

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I like your list, but...

man, your fingers must be bleeding...

Elvis is Dead, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

surely you could've just taken that top 17, unless this isn't in order? great list anyway, predictably

Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

how predictable

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

party at Martins!!

train to Gondwana, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin did you just have your database output that?

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

martin - recommend a few tracks from 'Mott' for the downloader please

zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"Whizz Kid" !

Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i couldn't get into Jonny L's 'Magnetic' album at all at the time so i dismissed it, maybe i should hear it again tho vague memories don't suggest it really stands out as better than any Photek album or whatever

Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mott: All The Way From Memphis, Ballad Of Mott, Hymn For The Dudes.

Magnetic is a great album - Uneasy, Viper, 20 Degrees are great tracks.

No, my database doesn't include scores or anything that would allow me to output a list of favourites.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)


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