Oddly enough, I did something similar tonight. Listened to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album. Sounds just as good today as it did in 1977. Might have to go and have a lie down now too. Stevie Nicks...
My favourite album is Seamonsters by The Wedding Present. An album that The Melody Maker famously claimed was akin to getting your eardrums sandblasted. Which is a very cool thing to write, but suggests the album isn't very good. I disagree, quite strenuously. Hot on the heels of that is Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain. I love what I call indie, that has nothing to do with what most people call indie. And I love Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. And I love Paul Simon's Graceland. And I hear very little difference between Paul Simon and Fleetwood Mac and The Velvet Underground and The Wedding Present and The Mary Chain and Allo Darlin and Martha and Gold-Bears - they're all wonderfully written, intense pieces of music, with amazing lyrics, it's just the production is different. And the intro to Second Hand News is just, just, wow... When times go bad When times go rough Won't you lay me down in the tall grass And let me do my stuff
absolutely superb. grew up with it. remember being terrified as a kid, running home through wombwell woods, thinking a tripod was gonna grab me and smash me against a tree! the novel is brilliant.
It's not often these days that I listen to a whole album from start to finish, but when I do it's invariably one of the classics from my youth, and one with no fillers. So any of the following will do it for me, I love them all... Bowie - Hunky Dory Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny Eagles - Hotel California Khan - Space Shanty Killing Joke - Killing Joke Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish Cocteau Twins - Treasure Steely Dan - The Royal Scam Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream The Jam - All Mod Cons Joy Division - Closer Neil Young - Harvest ... and Rumours of course. Probably forgotten a few.
I lived in Woking for a while. And regularly used to walk with some friends and their dogs in the sandpits on Horsell common where they landed
I’m on a 6 month free trial of Apple Music at the moment. Just listened to Parallel lines for the first time in ages and A Night at The Opera. Whilst driving up to Wombwell this evening I’d forgotten how good they were. Hunky Dory is one of the next on the list. Think I’ll add The War of The Worlds as well Other recent classics were A Kick Inside and Rumours As an aside the new Abba album Voyage is quite good too
Springsteen - Born to Run Dire Straits - Making Movies Eagles - Hotel California Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Santana - Inner Secrets JJ Cale - Five plus anything else he did Genesis - A Trick of the Tail Steely Dan - Gaucho plus anything else they did Men At Work - Men At Work Graham Parker and the Rumour - Heat Treatment Bozz Scaggs - Silk Degrees Blondie - Parallel Lines AC/DC - Back In Black Alison Moyet - Alf Just off the top of my head. There's so much amazing music out there. We're very lucky to be living at a time when we can access it all.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellowbrick road Tears for Fears - Songs from the big chair & The seeds of love Def Leppard - Hysteria
Did you listen in the dark? As teenage boys in the 1970s,we used to love listening to albums in the dark. It's a great thread this,so many memories of the albums and tracks. Listening to music and the radio,is so much better than TV,even though thete are many many channels.