The Times' Free Album Cavalcade SEMINAL ALBUMS (or, hey a bunch of GOOD ones for once)

Call them "Spare copies for knocking round the car" if you have them already...

I only have "Power, Corruption and Lies" on pre-recorded tape!

with "KW1" instead of what they eventually called it?

I have that one (as well as the CD)

All fine and dandy but the New Order album got a bells'n'whistles rerelease a week ago! Seems a weird time to give people a gratis copy

I wondered that.

CANNOT DECIDE.

Wed, Thurs and Fri all too good to make a rational choice.

There are other New Order albums I like better than PCL. But... Psychocandy! Ocean Rain! How can I choose? Oh god, my youth!

OH GOD THE TIMES OLD STODGY CONSERVATIVE PAPER IS NOW MARKETED TO PEOPLE MY AGE ON THE BASIS OF MY YOUTH THAT MEANS I'M OLD ARGH ARGH MAKE IT STOP!!!!

ah, but the Times has changed also.

(prob)

haha. i have none of these but there are two i'm potentially interested in hearing at some point so i might buy wed and thu.

I don't understand why 4/6ths of these seminal albums are from one scene / 8 year period, and why a third of them are BY THE SAME BAND (who aren't even all that great).

Oh yeah, forgot I made a poll, (it's just a nice list feature, really), should pick one I suppose.

Hmm. Not the doors, not the echos, Not Joy Div.

Leaving NewOrder, J&MC, Love.

Well, one of these albums came along just as I discovered the Velvet Underground, and saved me from continuing down the Style Council path into 'Acid Jazz' and Sade style blandness. Actually, that would never have happened anyway.

But, Psychocandy it is.

New Order and Love both did similar saving of my soul, but the gold meddle goes.

xpost we are all hanging on yr hearing of Oddessey...

I don't understand why 4/6ths of these seminal albums are from one scene / 8 year period, and why a third of them are BY THE SAME BAND (who aren't even all that great).

Demographics.

Because, essentially the Times is trying to market itself to people my age and just older. And that eight year period is when we came of age/got into music and we still have Pavlovian dog responses to those albums/artists.

I hate being freaking marketed to.

I predict the Lex will HATE psychocandy. Like, really genuinely loathe it. He might like PCL, though I'd think he'd prefer something like Brotherhood instead.

Because, essentially the Times is trying to market itself to people my age and just older

I think that this thing might actually be cunningly timed to coincide with universities going back and students possibly buying a regular newspaper for themselves for the first time.

I mean why waste money giving free copies of stuff we've already got to people of our age?

I'm kind of interested in whether Lex would like Forever Changes. I have no idea.

But yeah Forever Changes > Power, Corruption & Lies > Closer > Psychocandy >>>>>>> Bunnymen >>>>>> Doors. I have never understood the appeal of Echo & The Bunnymen.

Of course you don't, Matt. You are not and have never been a hystrionic teenage girl.

But yeah, it is totally obviously aimed at first-year students.

Phew, I feel better then.

I thought I'd never heard Forever Changes but just remembered I have it somewhere. Closer is the best album in this poll though. PCL is their electro album effectively so I could see Lex getting on board with that

Forever Changes brutally mauls everything else in this list, bar, possibly, Ocean Rain. For me.

Psychocandy.

I've only heard two of these albums all the way through; the rest, i've got my fixes of those bands from best-ofs and so on.

Based on these facts, I'm voting for Forever Changes, just because Psychocandy is by no means my favourite JAMC album.

Kudos to The Cure('s label) for not getting involved in this tawdry debacle.

But yeah, it is totally obviously aimed at first-year students

exactly. and, you know, tuesday is my favourite album of all-time ever; thursday is up there; friday hasn't aged so well but, you know, what the fuck; monday and wednesday i've not listened to in ages but each sparked a minor obsession in its own way.

good job i'm a student again, probably.

oh, and sunday can fuck right off.

given that charlie's posting here too, i should probably point out that i've no idea why i hyphenated "all time" in that context. force of habit, i suppose.

I kept waiting for you to get to the bit where you went "Friday I'm in love...."

and Sunday's gone.

bit gutting if you recently bought one of these albums (as i did).

These versions will come in shitty card slipcases though.

Yeah, so they can knock around your glove compartment and get messed up, and you're not spoiling your lovely Deluxe packaging/extraCD versions...

Good point.

I'm looking at that list and wondering if there's going to be a readers' offer of a raincoat in next Saturday's paper.

I kept waiting for you to get to the bit where you went "Friday I'm in love...."

bollocks. a great opportunity missed :)

I went down to wh smiths just to get forever changes for my dads car.

That Doors album is pretty good.

Oh hey, I totally should have voted Closer.

i thought today's free album with The Times was Love - can someone confirm what today's offer is?

the order given in the culture magazine with sunday times was totally wrong !

answer: today Joy Division

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4892942.ece

I don't have that on CD

See, I missed out on the "Free Love" owing to complications.

So, do I save my vouchers and send off, (£1.99), just phone now and buy them (£5.99), or get my free psychocandy as I'm away from home and could use some candy talking but that won't be on it wont it never mind it's just a figure of speech...

Irrelevant question that has allways bugged me:
Anyone know if these CDs and any other free newspaper cds are normal quality cds or just mp3s burned onto a cd after the newspaper has obtained permission?...

the wind is screaming through the trees for my..

OK, so that one isn't on there either, but still....

Someone go back in time to 1985 and tell them "One day, WH Smiths will give this album free with copies of "The Times" " and you too could sound like (insert metacritic from NME name here)

So what day is PCL out on? Would be handy to have this on CD.

Thursday:

Thursday - New Order: Power Corruption and Lies
Friday - Echo and the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/commercial/article4867507.ece

Am thinking I would like PCL on CD too, at least until I get around to buying the remasters!

I have my "Love" - (wee oot)...

And my psychocandy.

Life is good.

I can't believe I just managed to make a choice.

I voted for THE BERNARD.

There is BERNARD in the shops now.

Must remember to buy this today

rupert murdoch thanks you all kindly.

Nice of him, not such a bad chap after all

Human League and Paul Young are better than most of these. Anyway, "Forever Changes" is great of course.

All fine and dandy but the New Order album got a bells'n'whistles rerelease a week ago! Seems a weird time to give people a gratis copy

Pretty certain it is the old un-remastered version.

odd:

All the tracks are copyright Centredale ltd, except for 5-8-6 which is copyright Factory Records!

Hmmmmmm...m.mmmmmmmmm

You can only get the CD in WH Smiths?

yes

All the tracks are copyright Centredale ltd, except for 5-8-6 which is copyright Factory Records!

what the fuck? i assume that was the same with all the london/centredate (it's date, isn't it?) re-releases. i don't have any of those, though </snob>. can anyone check?

Echo and the Bunnymen today, and so it ends...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Well, I played four of these on the drive back on Friday, and a joltime it was.

The ones I didn't:
Closer- wanted toget home cheerful
Strange Days- didn't have it with me.

Found I was pondering my vote, but after playing, realised I voted correctly. Psychocandy.

If the Doors lived and died as cut-out bin unknowns Strange Days would be worshipped by just about every serious rock/punk/indie fan on the planet. Great album. It's either that or Forever Changes for me. Probably the former.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Blimey, is that the time?

poor ocean rain

Really expected Psychocandy to fare better. Still 0 for Ocean rain seems about right.

In this company, it could only fare so.

If the Doors lived and died as cut-out bin unknowns Strange Days would be worshipped by just about every serious rock/punk/indie fan on the planet. Great album.

OTM. I think it probably suffered a bit from a split vote with Love for the '60s rock fans. Forever Changes is a great album, no question, but Strange Days is not far behind.

The Times shoud do this again sometime!