Blimey, this is a tough one. Here goes though and again in no particular order.....

Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights and/or Antics (Can't choose between 'em. I'm cheating already!)
Pixies: Doolittle
The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
Pink Floyd: Animals
Super Furry Animals: Fuzzy Logic and/or Phantom Power (Done it again!)
Beastie Boys: Check Your Head
Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible
The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Sugar: Copper Blue

That will probably change by tomorrow!

WOT, NO FUGAZI!!!

I see what you're up to, Deathside........trying to flush out the members with dodgy record collections. Hah! I'm not falling for that one! No, Sir!

Mine is sooooo dodgy that no other human being has ever perused my shelves - oo, err, missus. I'd dearly love to impress everyone with my staggering world music knowledge, but, sadly..............

So a little teaser for, shall we say, the - ahem! - "older" member (aka old scrotes/scrotesses) :

"Wierd Scenes Inside The Gold Mine" - The Doors
"Remain In Light" - Talking Heads
"Bop Till You Drop" - Ry Cooder
"Spike" - Elvis Costello
"The Sky Is Crying" - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double-Trouble
"Exile on Coldharbour Lane" - Alabama 3
"The Nightfly" - Donald Fagen
"Songs In The Key Of Life" - Stevie Wonder
"Infected" - The The
"N'awlinz Dis Dat Or D'udda" - Dr John
"96 Degrees In The Shade" - Third World

There are others that I am too embarassed to add!!

John x

PS: Punishment for piss-taking is having to listen to all my vinyls at one sitting - that is, of course, when the US Military finally send them back from Guantanamo!!

WaddockHunt wrote:

I see what you're up to, Deathside........trying to flush out the members with dodgy record collections. Hah! I'm not falling for that one! No, Sir! Mine is sooooo dodgy that no other human being has ever perused my shelves - oo, err, missus. I'd dearly love to impress everyone with my staggering world music knowledge, but, sadly.............. So a little teaser for, shall we say, the - ahem! - "older" member (aka old scrotes/scrotesses) : "Wierd Scenes Inside The Gold Mine" - The Doors "Remain In Light" - Talking Heads "Bop Till You Drop" - Ry Cooder "Spike" - Elvis Costello "The Sky Is Crying" - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double-Trouble "Exile on Coldharbour Lane" - Alabama 3 "The Nightfly" - Donald Fagen "Songs In The Key Of Life" - Stevie Wonder "Infected" - The The "N'awlinz Dis Dat Or D'udda" - Dr John "96 Degrees In The Shade" - Third World There are others that I am too embarassed to add!! John x PS: Punishment for piss-taking is having to listen to all my vinyls at one sitting - that is, of course, when the US Military finally send them back from Guantanamo!!

Don't tell anyone but I did buy Spike (Elvis Costello) - Just to bring my credibility back I bought it during the lunch break of the recording session of the Napalm Death / SOB split EP (I was driving the tour bus for the latter part of that tour)

Have to say My Aim Is True is my favourite Elvis album and would probably hit my top 50 albums (maybe even top 30)

Mine change all of the time...
Depends on who I'm with, what I'm feeling like, what I'm doing, eating, smoking or eating, what I've listened to lately or other people's suggestions! Fickle bast**d.

Listening to the Clash - 'Singles Collection', Toots & The Maytals - 'Funky Kingston' & the Counting Crows album with the red, orange and yellow cover in the car this week.
At home this weekend: Average White Band - 'Cut the Cake' & the new William Orbit album.

All time favourites probably include 'Let it Bleed' - The Stones & 'New Gold Dream' - Simple Minds but I'll listen to anything as long as it's loud, blatant, irritating and sexist!

Now, where's my copy of 'My Aim is True'?

Hmm... Well I've just discovered the joys of early Roxy Music and listening to the lyrics of "In every dream home..." found myself wondering if that's where Herr Deathside borrowed his moniker.

But anyway here's my tuppence ha'penny worth:

Funhouse - The Stooges
Radio - John Zorn
Chocolate Sythesizer - The Boredoms (check out "Anarchy in the UKK", turbonegro fans as it has all the ripped off riffs in Apocaylpse Dudes in one track) (well, almost)
Music for Airports - Brian Eno
Defunkt - Defunkt
On The Corner - Miles Davis (Miles does Sly Stone impersonations)
Bass Cadets - Autechre
Welcome to Death Valley - Kyuss
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Chairs Missing - Wire

All the usual denials apply, so no real order and liable to change as soon as I post this mail etc, etc...

No-one mentioned box sets etc which I guess is cheating a little bit, but I'm including just one at number 10 because on their own they're mainly obscure 12's I'd never find anyway so I reckon I'm allowed...

1. Miles Davis 'In a Silent Way'
2. Bob Dylan 'The Times They Are a-Changin''
3. The Band 'The Last Waltz'
4. Beastie Boys 'Paul's Boutique'
5. Talking Heads 'Remain In Light'
6. Talking Heads 'Speaking In Tongues'
7. The Pharcyde 'Bizarre Ride to The Pharcyde'
8. Massive Attack 'Blue Lines'
9. The Jam 'The Gift'
10. David Mancuso Presents 'The Loft Vol 2'

Tough one but these are my solid foundations and always on loud in our house.....Ramones 1st album, Clash 1st album, AC/DC High Voltage, New York Dolls 1st album, Sex Pistols Bollocks, Slade Slade Alive, Joy Division Unknown Pleasures, Heartbreakers LAMF, Stooges Raw Power, Culture Two Sevens Clash....my missus says we not really stuck in a 70's timewarp we have newer stuff too....

WaddockHunt wrote:

I'm chuffed that Talking Heads made it in to yours.

Not a lot to choose between those two albums but both have a similair feel and sound as fresh as ever. Bought them both second hand in mint condition about 10 years ago from the Notting Hill Record Exchange for a fiver each! What you call value for money.

Never had a real chance to catch David Byrne live but I'll keep an eye open in the future. Shame they don't make them like that any more.

Talking Heads, huh?

Byrne, being a smart cookie, used people like the keyboardist Bernie Worrell (Parliament/Funkadelic/Brides of Dr Funkenstein et al) from the George Clinton/Bootsy Collins stable for those two albums. There's also a pretty big New Orleans "deep fried" funk influence from bands like The Meters too (what a stupid definition that is... but check "Just kissed my baby" to see what I mean, its got to be in anyones top five tunes if they're lucky enough to have heard it).

Sorry went all anorak there for a mo. What I meant to say was they've just re-issued "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" this week which is a seminal - and possibly wanky (if you'll excuse the pun) - trip back to the late '80s when Byrne joined up with Eno and a few thousand tape recorders.

And if we're getting into manipulating tape and dub excursions, well hell, let's shout for the Lee "Scratch" Perry triple CD that came out a few years back. Anyone who buries his recordings and burns his own studio down must know something we don't about pissing off KKKapitalists (and the way they try to fuck up our mental health). It really isn't too much of a stretch to see that kind of attitude in some of the early Basic Channel/Chain Reaction/Rhythm and Sound techno stuff that came out of Berlin in the '90s too.

I'll shut up now.

Udo Bukowski wrote:

Talking Heads, huh? Byrne, being a smart cookie, used people like the keyboardist Bernie Worrell from the George Clinton/Bootsy Collins stable for those two albums. Byrne joined up with Eno and a few thousand tape recorders. It really isn't too much of a stretch to see that kind of attitude in some of the early Basic Channel/Chain Reaction/Rhythm and Sound techno stuff that came out of Berlin in the '90s too.

If I remember rightly, and this is bearing in mind that my vinyl has been in storage since July, Brian Eno produced Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light. Bernie Worrell has done some great wobbly/dubby funk stuff in his own right too. I had an old tape from a Kiss FM show around Christmas 1991 that Andy Weatherall presented with Bobby Gillespie and they were playing some of his stuff along with Depth Charge, The Chi-lites and Tyron Davis.

Trojan have done a couple of Lee Perry Box Sets - triple CD's in Fopp were £7.00 a go - they might be the CD's you were talking about - from the early Upsetter ska days through to when he'd done way too much

And as for Basic Channel - they did one of my all time favourite trax - some dubby loop that just goes on and on and on and on... "4 o' clock music" - though unfortunately those days have almost completely disappeared now...

Anoraks of the world Unite.

Hahaha... We have nothing to lose but the nasty nylon fur around our hoods!

I do believe you're right about Eno on those albums, and Bernie Worrell did make a solo album in the early eighties which I don't think has ever been re-released which is pretty shameful when you think about the large number record labels that only seem to survive by plundering their back catalogue.

As for Perry I was thinking of "Arkology" which is the box set celebrating the legendary studio and features rare and version mixes of Junior Murvin, The Congoes and so on.

Hardwax, home of Basic Channel and those other labels, is still about, hiding away in Paul Ufer Weg in Berlin... took me bloody ages to find it the first time I went. You have to wander into a courtyard and up a staircase to find a steel door covered in stickers behind which is electronic music fan heaven. And some comfy sofas. Who knows maybe they'll set up another "Fuck Parade" to oppose the return of the Love Parade after it's two/three year hiatus.

Unknown Pleasures and Raw Power had a chance with my own Top 10/11/12.... Raw Power for Search & Destroy if nothing else. The scuzziest, dirtiest track ever to be committed to vinyl.