Hard isn’t it. All tangled up in associated memories too.
This is PROBABLY a list of the twenty albums I’d miss most. In no particular order.
Beggars Banquet - Stones
Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan
Rubber Soul - Beatles
Untitled - Byrds
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Retrospective - Buffalo Springfield
Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Tapestry - Carole King
One World - John Martin
Raising Sand - Robert Plant and Alison Kraus
Automatic for the People - REM
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...-David Bowie
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Troubadour - JJ Cale
Carry on Up the Charts - Beautiful South
Build a Rocket Boys - Elbow.
Too hard...could be different tomorrow.
I think I have all of those albums - even John Martyn and Yoshimi!
Prefer Wish You were Here and Meddle to Dark Side - I know, heresy!
Otherwise a pretty solid selection, but I'd add Metallica Black Album, Richard and Linda Thompson - Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight and maybe Liege & Lief by Fairport. Oh and the meat locker album by Edgar Broughton..... and, and.... thankless task
Last edited by Geoff Parkstone; 08-05-2020 at 06:48 PM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf0OY4ZVNG4
if unfamiliar with the latter
I'm with Maddy on Bat out of hell
I'd add
U2 War
Queen a night at the opera
Police ghost in the machine
Dire straits brothers in arms
Sia 1000 forms of fear
Oh and can I have the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy by Gong counting as one pick please?
I’d spotted the John Martin/Martyn thing. That actually was my iPad thinking it knows best.
Agree about Liege and Lief and I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight...both great albums and memories.
‘Sing Brother Sing’ by Edgar Broughton was a bit of a cult 6th form album for me and they were the second live band I went to see...at Manchester University...when I was still at school. Deep Purple was the first about a week before in late 1970.
So many good music venues in Manchester back then...Deep Purple, Edgar Broughton, Matthews Southern Comfort, Spirit, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Joe Cocker, David Bowie, James Taylor, Carole King, Van Morrison, ELP, Rory Gallagher, Steeleye Span, Genesis,
Lindisfarne and Roy Harper all amongst the memories and when they were on at Manchester Uni. or Poly or Salford Uni. as long as you could convince someone to sign you in, never a problem, it was cheap and ticketless.
Last edited by ramAnag; 08-05-2020 at 08:34 PM.
Agree 100% regarding Queen and Police, Mista. I'll add Genesis too the list of overrated and obnoxious too, before anyone extols their virtues. I expect a *******ing from Moderator Andy for part of the aboce!