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Inspired by a lazy evening with Late For The Sky and this thread...

Judas Priest - British Steel
Journey - Escape
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Psychedelic Furs - Midnight to Midnight
The Cars - s/t
Queens of the Stone Age - s/t
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
The White Stripes - Elephant
Tubeway Army - Replicas
ABBA - Gold*

*okay, a compilation feels like cheating, but what the hell

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

Beauty and the Beat should probably be in there somewhere too...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

I realize "Coke Albums" does disco a real disservice. Feel free to nominate singles as well.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

crap. I left off Liquid Swords...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Sly and the Family Stone - "There's a riot goin' on" of course.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Surely a lot of cocaine must have gone into making The Rapture's "Echoes" sound the way it does.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

Is this "Records that were made on.." or "Records that sound OK on.." ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

or "Records that remind you of...."?

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Is that VICE "cocaine mix tape" piece (the one in the Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll book) on line anywhere?

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Also, according to John Harris' "The Last Party", Oasis' "Be Here Now" (I think) was recorded on coke, which apparently didn't help.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Actually, a copy of the VICE piece (or something that looks very much like it) seems to be here.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Every album he made after 1972

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Pretty much every Duran Duran album, and didn't some magazine call the Power Station "the cocainiest album EVER". I laughed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Station To Statoin is more of a cocaine album than Aladdin Sane.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

but why? in what way?

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Cuz Bowie was coked to the gills during much if not all of the recording? Cuz the title song and "Stay" are suffused with a frosty paranoia only the finest Columbian powder can create?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Alfred is correct wrt Station to Station, but Aladdin Sane won out on the strength of "Panic In Detroit."

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Actually, a copy of the VICE piece (or something that looks very much like it) seems to be here.

Note to Vice editors: please make sure your hip, hip writers know what "penultimate" means. Fuckin' rookies.

(But thanks for sharing the article.)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Brilliant Trees

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

The Great Escape
Echo and the Bunnymen

― D. Bachyrycz, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

disturbers - kefu qan (evil days)
get the hater - s/t
brougham - le cock sportif
joe dubbs and anonymous - rossi nights and malibu mornings
z-man - 4 hours of sleep
gingerbread man - the candy house
shapeshifters - adopted by aliens
disturbers - negusa negast
modest mouse - good music for people who like bad music
themselves - the no music
victor vaughn - vaudeville villain
split lip rayfield - should have seen it coming
mobb deep - hell on earth
existereo - dirty deeds and dead flowers
project blowed compilation
welcome to the afterlife comp.

― Robin Samples, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

and i don't use coke

― Robin Samples (Robin Samples), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I can always hear the, uh, influence more on live albums. This ('70s-centric, as it should be) list is equal parts music inspired by and meant for skiing.

Bowie - Station to Station
Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners
Talking Heads - The Name of this Band is Talking Heads
Johnny Cash - at Folsom Prison (more of an amphetamine album maybe?)
Bob Dylan - Live 1975
The Cars - s/t
The Suburbs - Love is the Law
Steely Dan - Aja
Sly - There's a Riot Goin' On
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Ain't nothin' like the real thang baybay, so glad we got the real thing...

― Coke is It (the real thing), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I do not sniff the coke I only smoke...

― Pato Banton, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Black Sabbath IV, for "Snowblind" but also for the notes wherein they thank the COKE-Cola Company of LA.

― imbidimts, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dischord.com/store?action=showRel&relNumber=100

― mike a, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners

That's not coke, it's SPEED.

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Billy Joel - Glass Houses
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, a bunch of my picks were probably amphetamine albums. But I just like amphetamine music more. Dylan Live '66 vs. '75, etc.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Wonderland soundtrack. With the exception of the Jonathan Davis title track. Bad Company, Roxy Music, Billy Joel...it's all there.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

the only track i can think of that reminds me of a coke high is Selected Ambient Works II disc 2 track 2

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Guns'n'Roses - Use Your Illusion Vol. 1 & 2

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

duh-duh-duh; duh-duh-duh; duh-duh-daaaah daaaah...

oh yes...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

Remain in Light

― Smetric, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Line Up

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003TBB.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

also

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000I2UC.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― BeeOK (boo radley), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

Haha - yeah, good call on JAMC 'Automatic'

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

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