Lou Reed

Gotta love JAMC and Jackson Browne it would be Johnny Cash for me every time though I do like a bit of Julian Cope.

 

I did cheat she's got one if those monitor things so I hooked up an iPod and she's been listening to a mixture of jangly Scottish pop ( likes the Pastels and Orange Juice dislikes Joseph K) or reggae since she was born and the indoctrination is working well though she has started liking the annoying song from Frozen so I'm gonna have to think of a replacement can't be having that. Undoubtedly she will end up loving 1D or similar though.

 

Thats good work Gordon. I once decided to listen to every album by Bowie and The Fall in chronological order. Blimey some of the middle period of both bands was hard work especially the 80's Bowie stuff.

 

That's one of the plus points of it being in alphabetical order, particularly for people like Bowie, who had a few bad albums, and Dylan, who pretty much had a bad decade. Although by the time I get to the Stones I might regret downloading so many 'Live at...' albums. There's only so many times you can listen to what sounds like a pub band with a Mick Jagger impersonator murdering the same songs. And of course, each live album will feature the most terrifying words ever uttered in a theatre or stadium anywhere, "and now Keef's gonna sing one".

 

There are very few established artists whose back catalogue I could listen to the entire way through without wanting to do myself harm. The Jesus and Mary Chain, who, over the course of 6 studio albums, a couple of dozen singles and a glut b-sides released about 3 duff songs.
Apart from the two talky tracks The Velevet Underground released an almost perfect 4 album set before disbanding, but then there was that album in their name after all the original members had left, plus every tin pot demo recording someone has found in a cupboard which some bright spark decided to release, and those could turn a very pleasurable experience in to a bit of a chore.
The Clash were going well for a long time, but Combat Rock, a couple of songs aside, is nothing to write home about, and Cut The Crap just plain didn't.
Apart form that...

There are a number of much smaller groups who I tend to like for which such an experience would be brilliant, but they tend to just release a few singles or a couple of albums at most. As it should be imho. Bob Dylan was brilliant, but if he'd made Desire his last album would we have really missed out on anything? And even then you could afford to lose a lot of what happened after Blonde on Blonde and before Blood on the Tracks.

 

Theres a documentary all about Lou Reed's Transformer album on sky arts 1 tonight at 7

 

Finally reached it and I'm listening to Perfect Day right now. Ironic really, cos Metal Machine Music ensured mine wasn't a perfect day at all.

Transformer is his best album by far though, although Wild Child is my favourite song.