What's your most middle class album?

[braindancer]

St. Germain - Boulevard

<shudders>

I used to listen to this a lot. Along with the Super Discount compilation and Dimitri from Paris. All suitable for mention on this thread!

 

[danny la rouge]

None of this thread makes any sense. Is it albums we think are rubbish? Pretentious? Generic?

No, it's albums we think a middle class fondue party would have on in the background. We are nominating the one we own which best represents that category.

I hadn't thought of it myself, but had to agree that for me it is Buena Vista Social Club.

 

[killer b]

I was listening to boulevard last week. Its a decent album.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

I've got a Buddha Bar compilation somewhere. That's got to be a contender.

 

[TruXta]

How about Moon Safari by Air?

Even my Dad bought it....

Good one.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

Tell you what, this thread's doing wonders for my playlist for the dinner party I'm throwing on Saturday. And to think I was going to just go with the Mercury nominees compilation that's up on spotify. Cheers all.

 

[Idaho]

No, it's albums we think a middle class fondue party would have on in the background. We are nominating the one we own which best represents that category.

I hadn't thought of it myself, but had to agree that for me it is Buena Vista Social Club.

I don't think people have fondue parties any more. You get chocolate fondue at events, but these don't tend to be middle class.

 

[danny la rouge]

You get chocolate fondue at events, but these don't tend to be middle class.

Chocolate fountains? Or fondues? There's a difference.

 

[danny la rouge]

I don't think people have fondue parties any more.

OK, a sour dough pizza party, then. With coffee tables involved. You know perfectly well what I mean! The kind of party Nigella pretends to throw (in her case, with "friends" that are actually actors).

 

[Idaho]

That would more likely be round a dinner table, not a coffee table. A coffee table goes in the living room/lounge/front room to put drinks on when you are watching tv, etc.

I understand that you are trying to describe people who you don't like and who have different social patterns, but beyond that it's all a bit vague.

 

[eightball]

When I worked at a middle class place in the late eighties the albums of choice for management types were Peter Gabriel - So, Paul Simon - Graceland and Eric Clapton - Unplugged.

At a place I worked more recently, a couple of senior managers were impressed/jealous that I saw Crowded House at Glastonbury.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

I don't think people have fondue parties any more. You get chocolate fondue at events, but these don't tend to be middle class.

Nah, fondue's back in in a big way, but you serve them as cutesy individual pots as a posh starter. Dead simple mind, you just need a cheap bottle of white and some gruyere and emmental. I got a great recipe from Nigella, or maybe it was Jamie.

 

[Idaho]

The origin of fondue is a cheap way of eating stale bread.

 

[seeformiles]

When I worked for a bank in the 90s, every manager would have Chris Rea's "Road to Hell" album playing on their car stereo (a Ford Mondeo naturally..) - the definition of bland before Coldplay came along.

 

[danny la rouge]

I understand that you are trying to describe people who you don't like .

Where are you getting that from?

 

[Voley]

I went to one of Eric Clapton's blues night at the Royal Albert Hall and really enjoyed it. Do I win?

 

[Voley]

The crowd was much more affluent-looking when I saw BB King there, mind.

 

[danny la rouge]

I am just putting it on record that I like both fondue and sour dough pizza, since some people seem to be trying to find a reason to be offended here.

The thread is meant to be light hearted.

 

[Sweet FA]

I've got a Buddha Bar compilation somewhere. That's got to be a contender.

Along with any of those Ibiza sunset/chill compilations - Cafe del Mar etc.

 

[ChrisFilter]

No chance.

Not sure what you mean?

 

[gentlegreen]

Embarassed to say that when I was in my vaguely loved-up "dance music will save the world" phase of my late 30s, I bought some Coors albums. I also have several Simply Red - and Abba.

 

[gentlegreen]

Nought wrong with St Germain and Cafe Del Mar .. I recently bought some Sven Van Hees and Ryan Farish ... though I only tend to listen to that sort of thing in my tent...

 

[Dandred]

Manu Chao, Clandestino

 

[gentlegreen]

I think I probably have a Gypsy Kings CD somewhere.

 

[killer b]

Manu Chao, Clandestino

oh, good call. My boss went to see manu Chao the other year and said everyone else in the audience was a social worker.

 

[Cid]

Raclette is the new fondue.

 

[Lemon Eddy]

Raclette is the new fondue.

Cheese on toast is the new raclette. But you have to serve it ironically.

 

[albionism]

The 4AD Supergroup that was This Mortal Coil?

 

[flypanam]

St Etienne - named after French city. Two middle class blokes and an English rose on vocals. They are the Volvo of the music world.

I do like Foxbase Alpha and So Tough, though.

 

[krtek a houby]

Anything by Wire