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Following on from someone's recent post about 15 books that have stuck with you. Name 15 albums that have stuck with you throughout your life.

SimonCyrene 7 Sep 4
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Beatles - White album
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Police - Synchronicity
Carol King - Tapestry
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
R E M - Automatic for the People
Squeeze - East Side Story
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Presidents of the United States of America - Debut
Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon
Dave Matthews - Crash

Some nice choices in there i can relate to. Thank you ?

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Alice Cooper - Love it to Death, Billion Dollar Babies
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Sabotage, Paranoid
Gwar - America Must be Destroyed, Scumdogs of the Universe
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon
Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet or on Your Knees
Metallica - Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning
Judas Priest - Hellbent for Leather, Stained Class, British Steel

Just 15 eh?

Sorry for the 15 but it was copied from a previous post regarding books. Have to draw a line somewhere? I didn't want to do a 'best ever album' post. 15 gives an insight into the commentator's character/journey ?. Quite a heavy theme going on there. Metallica making a significant appearance too ?

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Buffalo springfield again
incidental music from egmont (by beethoven) -- maurice abravanel, utah symphony, netania davrath
sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band -- beatles
the naughty nineties -- beatrice kay
kiln house -- fleetwood mac
chicken skin music -- ry cooder
music from the age of discovery -- waverly consort
below the salt -- steeleye span
ravel's piano concerto in g/prokofiev's piano concerto #3 -- oh boy, have not physically seen this for decades, purple label, possibly peter frankl on piano?
everybody knows this is nowhere -- neil young
live dead -- grateful dead
workingman's dead -- grateful dead
american beauty -- grateful dead
have moicy -- michael hurley, unholy modal rounders, jeffrey fredericks and the clamtones

there are many, many, MANY more but i have reached 15 so i'll stop there. and that hurts because after the gold rush (neil young) should be on there too.

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Neil is amply represented with a solo n Buffalo but yeah, the more posts i read (all those wonderful albums) the more i dread having to make my own choice ( which i guess i have to do eventually in fairness ?)

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Anthrax - Among the Living
Danzig - Danzig
Dead Cross - Dead Cross (newly added to this list)
RETOX - Ugly Animals (another new addiction)
The Misfits - Earth A.D.
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Danzig - Danzig III
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Venom - Black Metal
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Guitar theme going on there perhaps ? ??. Gotta have a bit of Anthrax to blow the cobwebs away ?

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Rocket to Russia
Becoming X
The Three LP's
Monster
My Aim is True
Sea Change
Office Space Soundtrack--LOL
The Ramones
I Just Can't Stop It
London Calling
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Local Hero Soundtrack
Tigermilk
Remain in Light
Parallel Lines

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Boy am I going to be the odd one

Jimmy Buffett - all .....
The Cranberries - No need to argue
Edwin McCain - Honor among thieves
Dave Matthews - Under the table and dreaming
Son Volt - Straightaways
Luther Vandross - Your Secret Love
Neil Young - Unplugged
James Taylor - Greatest Hits
George Strait - Easy Come Easy Go
Sade - The best of
Garth Brooks - Sevens
Blues Traveler - Four
Big Head Todd & the Monsters - Sister Sweetly
Chris Ledoux - The Ultimate Collection
Tracy Chapman - New Beginning

We welcome oddness ? i recognise quite a few in there so maybe not so odd. Nice to see the Cranberries make an appearance. ?

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Dreamland - Madeleine Peyroux
Chet Baker Sings - Chet Baker
Love's Been Rough On Me - Etta James
In a Sentimental Mood- Dr John
The best of Bonnie Raitt- Bonnie Raitt
The Sound of Jazz- various artists
Respect and Other Hits - Aretha Franklin
Got you On My Mind - Madeleine peyroux & William Galison
The Little Willies- The Little Willies with Nora Jones
WN - Willie Nelson
Louis Armstrong W. C. Handy - Louis Armstrong
Heartaches- Patsy Cline
A Tribute To Tommy Duncan- Billy Mize
Billie's Blues- Billie Holiday
Sweet and Hot- Ella Fitzgerald

Lots of smokiness going on there?. Kickback and relax ... this won't hurt a bit ?

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Aus-Rotten - And Now Back to Our Programming
Chumbawamba - Anarchy!
Against Me! - Reinventing Axle Rose
Bolt Thrower - To Those Once Loyal
Minor Threat - Discography
Amebix - Arise!
Crass - Penis Envy
John Prine - Storm Windows
Utah Phillips - Song Book
Enslaved - Eld
The Coup - Party Music
Iskra - Terrist Act
Leper - Embarrassed to be Humyn
Earth Crisis - Firestorm/To The Death
Dangers - Anger
Limp Wrist - Discography

Oops 16

And I didn't even include Our Polloi or Wardruna which are 2 of my favorite bands

A lot of Indie stuff, and then up pops Prine ?. I love this post ?

Well I wouldn't call it indy because indy is a genre in and of itself. Mostly my list is comprised of metal, punk, and hardcore with some folk mixed in, and whatever you call Wardruna. Interestingly though these days I rarely listen to punk or hardc7ore, and mostly listen to metal and country.

Love John Prine though, I actually got to see him live a few years ago and it was incredible. HHe's definitely one of my favorite songwriters. It's also because of him that I became open to country music which has in turn lead me to a lot of other great music that I now love

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Empire - Queensryche
Permanent Vacation - Aerosmith
Doolittle - Pixies
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
Sixteen Stone - Bush
OU812 - Van Halen
Beautiful Lie - Thirty Seconds to Mars
Rattle and Hum - U2
Kick - Inxs
Distort Yourself - Institute
Songs From The Big Chair - Tears For Fears
Mother's Milk - Red Hot Chili Peppers
So - Peter Gabriel
Faith - George Michael

GwenC Level 7 Sep 4, 2018

Another Queensrhyche fan? They are starting to gather a little cult status ?. Nice to see Peter make an appearance. Thank you ?

@SimonCyrene I had some serious Geoff Tate love back in the day

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The Eagles : Hotel California
Led Zeppelin : 4
Moody Blues : Seventh Sojourn
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous
Bob Dylan : Slow Train Coming
Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon
America : America
Horslips : Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part
UB 40 : Signing Off
10 CC : Live and let Live
Dire Straits : Brothers in Arms
Elton John : Caribou
Mike Oldfield : Tubular Bells
Queen : A Night at the Opera
Slade : Slayed

Nice to see a bit of Horslips in there ?. Hope it encourages others to check them out. ?. Nice choices. Thank you ?

@Byrdsfan and after all he did for the Byrds! Tut tut ... ?

@SimonCyrene
Horslips revolutionised the Irish music scene and I traveled the country to see them. Great to find someone that recognized them here!! Thank you and let's hope others check them out.

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Kate Bush-the Whole Story
The The-Soul Mining
Cat Stevens-Greatest Hits
Tori Amos-Earthquakes
Fleetwood Mac-Rumors
Cocteau Twins-Heaven or Las Vegas
Indigo Girls-Indigo Girls
Laurie Anderson-O Superman
Concrete Blonde-Still in Hollywood
Depeche Mode-Violator
The Smiths-Louder Than Bombs
Cowboy Junkies-Black Eyed Man
Florence &the Machine-Lungs
Man From Lamancha-Soundtrack
Hedwig&the Angry Inch-Soundtrack

Karuk Level 6 Sep 4, 2018

Lots of nice choices in there, and names i haven't heard of in a while ... The The, Laurie Anderson, the Twins ?

Love Hedwig & the Angry Inch! Now I want to watch/listen to it.

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I can't really answer this, even my all time favorites list is much longer than just 15.

I totally appreciate that ?. I deliberately tried to avoid the 'favorite' or 'best ever' tag. ?

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Not an easy task Simon!
Throughout life? Too hard! LOL

The Cars: Candy-O
Van Halen 1
AC/DC: Powerage
Scorpions: Lonesome Crow, Tokyo Tapes (too hard to choose)
Skinny Puppy: Bites
Meat Beat Manifesto: Satyricon
FSOL: ISDN
Underworld: dubnobasswithmyheadman
Bauhaus: Swing the Heartache
Cevin Key: Dragon Experience
Juno Reactor: Transmissions
Leftfield: Middle of Nowhere
Aphex Twin: Ambient works vol ll
Polygon Window: Surfing on Sine Waves
Coil: Astral Disaster

Maybe it wasn't phrased well. I lifted it directly from a post about books. Perhaps i should have said influenced throughout your life. I have to admit i am only aquainted with a few of these albums. More research ... (actually a pleasant outcome of this post) ? Must do my own when this dies down ?

@SimonCyrene Ah, well I tried to include things where the entire album is good, IMO anyway.
Tons of pieces & parts things that are iconic to me but these are in total.

And while I"m here I'll add Test Department "Totality" to my list. LOL

@Qualia lol. There are a few insisting on an extra choice or two (which is perfectly fine). I deliberatly didn't want restrict people to 'best album ever' type of thing cos i wanted some insight into each contributors character and of course to educate myself ?

It was kind of difficult, if I were to list it again, it would change lol

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This was hard to make...lol

The Wall
The Dark Side of the Moon
A Night at the Opera
Abraxas
Madonna Bedtime Stories
Janet Jackson Janet
Bob Marley Exodus
The Downward Spiral
Sublime (self-titled)
Ænima
Tidal
S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
The Battle of Los Angeles
Make Yourself
Björk Greatest Hits

(Kid A, Radiohead!)

The top half i identify with. The bottom i will have to research ?

@SimonCyrene it doesn't all match... and bottom half is newer.

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Anymore they say best of but,
Songs from the wood
Moon tan
Thick as a brick
Yessongs
And most of the already listed.

Little bit of J T , ok i'm liking that ?

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Rush - Spirit of Radio
Angel City - Dark Room
Pink Floyd - Division Bell & Welcome to the Machine
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments
Eagles - Hotel California
Jackson Brown - Lawyers in Love
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Van Halen - Diver Down
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Steve Morse - High Tension Wires
Don Henley - End of the Innocence

Quite m.o.r. , which is fine. I personally would have least in common with this collection but i will endeavour to do better ?

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15? Makes a change, it's usually a top 3

Machine Head - Deep Purple
Brain salad Surgery - ELP
Focus at the Rainbow - Focus
Queen - Queen
Queen II - Queen
Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Mutter - Rammstein
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello
Slade Alive - Slade
Stranded - Roxy Music
Electric Warrior - T.Rex
Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
Power In The Darkness - Tom Robinson

I thought even 15 a little unfair. 15 allows a little insight into a persons make up. It also allows Tom to stand alongside Slade which is nice. And you have the personal luxury of including 3, yes 3! Queen albums ?

@SimonCyrene At the time I was absolutely devoted to them (Queen), up to their 6th album I had everything they'd put out on vinyl, had logos on my school bags etc, they were a big deal 🙂

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1Rumors, Fleetwood Mac 2 Appetite for Destruction, GNR 3 Shout at the Devil, Motley Crue 4 Pyromania, Def Leppard 5 Records, Foreigner 6 Back in Black, ACDC 7 LA Woman, The Doors 8 Nevermind, Nirvana 9 Hi Infidelity, REO 10 Grand Illusion, Styx 11 Van Halen, Van Halen 12 Live Bullet, Bob Seger 13 Alive, Kiss 14 Rage for Order, Queensryche 15 Blackout, Scorpions

Heavy metallic ring to that line-up with a little balance provided by The Doors, Seger and Mac. Queensryche is a blast from the past, nice obscure one there ?

Nir-bloody-vana! Bugger! Though, I would have gone for Bleach. I went through 4 copies of that album living in share houses during the 90's. Kept going 'missing'...

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Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
The Specials - S.T.
Pixies - Doolittle
The Cure - Pornography
Killing Joke - Revelations
The Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disaster/In God We Trust Inc.
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Stormtroopers Of Death - Speak English or Die
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Squarepusher - Selection 16
System of a Down - Toxicity

Nazi Punks Fuck Off ... i like it. Mr Biafra seemed an interesting gentleman. Some nice choices in there ?

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The Beatles - White Album
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
Steely Dan - Aja
The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Mozart - Symphony #40 in G Minor, K 550
Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
The Byrds - Sweetheart of The Rodeo
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmos Factory

... and there are soooooo many more. The Temptations, Elton John, Steppenwolf.

The Grateful Dead i'm not overly familiar with. The fact you have chosen two albums suggests i should do some research ?

@Byrdsfan i have the compilation album that shows all the different line-ups and off-shoot bands, very influential band.

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