Favourite albums...

Audioslave - Audioslave

 

Got a good mate who I used to go to gigs with a lot. Massive Carter fan who was at Brixton among many others. He was properly into stage diving back in the day. The tw@t knocked one of my contact lenses out with his shoe at a Placebo gig in 97. I told him I wasn't impressed and he just laughed and told me I'd never survive a Carter concert!

 

Since last night I've changed my mind about my favourite 3 albums to choose from and I now would pick:

Year of the Cat (Al Stewart), August and Everything After (Counting Crows), and The Trials of Van Occupanther (Midlake)

And go for Counting Crows.

If this thread continues I shall have 3 more tomorrow. It must be hormonal.

 

Van occupanther is a modern classic. Not usually my sort of thing bit it is so bloody good

 

Some of it is w@nk, but there are an amazing amount of artists and albums that are absolutely fupping class.

It's all subjective though - I can't f**king stand bands like Muse or Radiohead and people w@nk on about them being the best thing since sliced bread. What I don't get at all are the weirdo's whom don't listen to any music at all - how sad that must be.

 

Muse and Radiohead lumped in together?! I'm shocked!

 

Endtroducing is one of those albums that if I listen to it, I'll play it on repeat for a week. First time I listened to that we were doing buckets at a mates house in Hull....fun times!

 

Lol! Used to work ina couple of record/cd shops and you could guarantee you'd here some customer banging on about how they were the best band in the world.........I'd then slip some Chas n Dave on to pee them off.

 

Love a bit of Shakey - watched a documentary on him this morning and then had On the beach on. After the gold rush is pretty special too. Can? Oh yeah!!

 

Saw Manic Street Preacher at Cambridge Junction in 1992 and James Dean Bradfield stage dived into the crowd and almost broke my neck when he landed on me. Thankfully he was pretty skinny in those days.

Carter gigs were never an issue for me. The scariest situation I've been in at a gig was seeing Neds at Cambridge Corn Exchange. We were so tightly packed in that night that the crowd surges moved pretty much everyone, regardless of where you were standing, and it would have been a nightmare if anyone had fallen as there was little you could do but allow yourself to be moved in whatever direction you were being sent.

 

I agree, if you like putting into sound how to survive and emote in a new cold virgin land.

18 years old now.

Have you tried the Tim Smith "Harp" album? Quite soothing and better than you usually get after waiting forever for re-inspiration.

 

Jazz is a very broad genre. I’m not so keen of the free jazz stuff, which can sound ******* horrible and presumably is the type of thing you’re referring to. Yet I love the Aussie trio The Necks, whose albums are all improvised.

If you like Kind of Blue that much, it’s not a big jump to loads more classic albums. Have you ever listened to John Coltrane’s Blue Train? Or Cannonball Adderley’s Somethin’ Else? Or Sonny Clark’s Cool Struttin’? Or Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth? Give them a listen, you may be surprised.

Some of the best jazz music of the past few years has been British. If you use any of those dreadful music streaming sites, look up Matthew Halsall, a trumpeter from Manchester. All his albums are good, but maybe try Colour Yes, or Fletcher Moss Park. His stuff is quite pastoral, but I think he’s absolutely brilliant.

My favourite style of rap music is the more jazz influenced stuff. If you like rap music, listen to Guru’s Jazzmatazz. Guru’s the rapper from Gang Starr, who used a load of jazz samples in their music, but for Jazzmatazz, Guru got a load of jazz musicians, like Donald Byrd and Courtney Pine, to play whilst Guru did his thing. It’s a fab album. Another good one was done by Madlib (one half of Madvillain, the project he did with the great MF DOOM). Blue Note allowed Madlib free rein to use the label’s music and the outcome is a hip hop classic, Shades of Blue.

Honestly, a few years ago I would have said I hated jazz too. I had the albums that those who know nothing about jazz had (although I did like Chet Baker, so had several of his), but struggled to get into them, but I just decided to dive into it, be open minded and see where it got me. Winchester Tyke, of this parish, gave me some good pointers (as he also did for reggae and the blues, when I decided it was time I opened my ears to those too) to set me on my way and then using books and blogs I meandered my way through. I now have around 750 jazz albums on CD or vinyl, so it’s safe to say I liked what I found! I had done the same with rap music a few years earlier, cos again I had all the albums that those who know nowt about rap music had, and now, including downloads, I’m up to well over 2000 albums.

There’s loads of great music out there. Don’t turn your ears off to a genre just cos you’ve heard a couple of things that are rubbish. Apart from opera. That’s just shouting and squawking.

 

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What’s Going on - Marvin Gaye
New Boots and Panties - Ian Dury
Goo - Sonic Youth
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexy’s Midnight Runners

 

My closest near miss was at a Manics concert. Manchester when the bloke next to me out of the blue vomited all over the person standing in front of him just before the Manics came on stage. I'm so glad that wasn't me. Seriously, what would you do standing in sicky clothes for the next two hours? Absolutely grotesque!

 

Canned Heat Cookbook
Are we not men ? We are Devo
The Idiot .. Iggy Pop
Wheels of Fire .. Cream
Blues from Laurel Canyon .. John Mayall
Minimum-Maximum .. Kraftwerk
Movement .. New Order

 

My Mum used to be in a choir, quite a famous choir and they played the Albert Hall as part of the Proms.

I was in the gallery listening to Endtroducing on my walkman full blast feeling like the most anarchic person in the world.