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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Up until this album my collection comprised of KTel compilations and Buddy Holly`s greatest hits Vol 1 & 2 which I had stolen from Pitsea market.
It was given to me by my cousins boyfriend and from the first play I was hooked , it didnt make any sense whatsoever and that was part of the attraction , sleeve notes with lyrics to pour over and try and analyse.
In those early days albums were only bought for birthdays and Christmas presents so there were months between new ones , as a consequence of hundreds of listens , it remains today the only album that I know the lyrics from start to finish.
Starting out with the apocolyptic 5 Years , it was the earliest time I recall questioning anything other than my immediate surroundings , the future and what it held in store , Moonage Daydream and Starman with their other-worldy lyrics , Star and Ziggy with their enticement into the rock n roll lifestyle , right on through to the closing Rock n Roll suicide and its depressing start but uplifting close " give me your hands cause you`re wonderful ".

It was also the album which brought about the music snob in me , something that I had and my mates didn`t , and it felt great .
 
The World of Twist-Quality Street

I was going to put Hunky Dory by David Bowie but it seemed a bit obvious like taking Shakespeare and The Bible to the desert island. So I chose the brilliant bizarre boho slant on the Madchester scene the World of Twist their ace take on The stones "She's aRainbow " is still ace, and the rest of it sounds unlike anything else.Sad to say we won't see them again as singer Tony Ogden has sadly past away but lovely music shows that scally scene wasn't just about strutting walks and mad for it gesturing.
 
hammerntongues said:
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Up until this album my collection comprised of KTel compilations and Buddy Holly`s greatest hits Vol 1 & 2 which I had stolen from Pitsea market.
It was given to me by my cousins boyfriend and from the first play I was hooked , it didnt make any sense whatsoever and that was part of the attraction , sleeve notes with lyrics to pour over and try and analyse.
In those early days albums were only bought for birthdays and Christmas presents so there were months between new ones , as a consequence of hundreds of listens , it remains today the only album that I know the lyrics from start to finish.
Starting out with the apocolyptic 5 Years , it was the earliest time I recall questioning anything other than my immediate surroundings , the future and what it held in store , Moonage Daydream and Starman with their other-worldy lyrics , Star and Ziggy with their enticement into the rock n roll lifestyle , right on through to the closing Rock n Roll suicide and its depressing start but uplifting close " give me your hands cause you`re wonderful ".

It was also the album which brought about the music snob in me , something that I had and my mates didn`t , and it felt great .
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Ziggy Stardust's one of my favorites too - just rocks from beginning to end. Probably my absolute favourite is Kate Bush's "The Kick Inside"; partly happy memories of uni in the late 70's, and the music is so wonderfully ethereal.
 
Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy

I'm going to go for one nobody else is likely to pick, because it had such a big effect on me when I first bought it and it still has a warm fuzzy place in my heart. Once a genuine manics obsessive, I can no longer listen to most of their albums because I've realised they're actually quite shit. The exceptions being The Holy Bible; which is fantastic but I can't actually listen to it anymore because its too fucking dark and it's not at all healthy for me; and Know Your Enemy.

This album is clumsy as fuck. It contains an inexplicable disco number, a highly ill-advised Nicky Wire lead vocal and some of the worst lyrical couplets in my whole record collection in the song 'Royal Correspondant'. But all its flaws just make me love it even more, expecially when compared to the polished commercial turds which make up the rest of the Manics' post-Richey output. Somehow, despite having no two songs remotely simillar, the album maintains a particular tone throughout. The lyrics are often either vague or overblown, but somehow the message gets through. It was the uncertain political ranting mixed with Nicky Wire's strange cynicism which first shoved my cluttered teenage brain in the direction of alternative politics. There's a long way to go from soundbite socialism to where I am now, but listening to the manics and their unfashionable politics definitely started the ball rolling, and changed my life completely.

Then of course, there's loads of tunes. Know Your Enemy also coincided with me wanting to become a musician and my attempts to teach myself to play any instrument I could lay my hands on. The first guitar riff I learnt was 'His Last Painting' from Know Your Enemy. This record dispenses with the boring string sections and clean production that made 'Everything Must Go' sell so many copies to people's dads, replacing them with everything bar the kitchen sink by way of different sounds. This shouldn't work but it does. For a while the Manics were able to make music for fun, to see what they could get away with, and they ended up with an album that's genuinely enjoyable to listen to because you can hear the mad enthusiasm behind everything they're doing. And because this is a manics album, there's great pop melodies underlying everything.

The first time I saw the Manics live was when they were touring this album, and it was the first time I saw a rock band play like they meant it, like they loved every note and every line of every song. I've seen them a couple of times since then and they've been getting steadily duller, which isn't surprising if you listen to their last few records :(

Yeah, so most people will probably hate this record but I love it :p

Honourable mentions go to:
Tom Waits- the heart of saturday night
David Bowie- ziggy stardust
Pulp- we love life
Echo and the Bunnymen- ocean rain
Spritualized- laser guided melodies
Super Furry Animals- all their albums ;)
 
Wish You Were Here by The Floyd

My best friend died in '86 from a massive brain hemorrhage when we were both 21. We used to listen to that album when we were indulging in some "substances" and it really tied us together. And I really do wish he was here cause I know we'd still be close.

I have never found another friend like him.
 
Beuatiful south-need a little time

The song doesn't mean anything special to me I just think the lyrics are bang on

Suppose if you know the song you'll know what I mean
 
Jaseface said:
I was going to put Hunky Dory by David Bowie but it seemed a bit obvious like taking Shakespeare and The Bible to the desert island. So I chose the brilliant bizarre boho slant on the Madchester scene the World of Twist their ace take on The stones "She's aRainbow " is still ace, and the rest of it sounds unlike anything else.Sad to say we won't see them again as singer Tony Ogden has sadly past away but lovely music shows that scally scene wasn't just about strutting walks and mad for it gesturing.
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Yeah, World of Twist were great - I bought the lp when it came out, but then a few months later I was burgled and the bastards took all my fucking albums and cd's (obviously thieves with great taste!) and I never bought it again. Must try to find it on Slsk

Here's their great appearance on bbc's Snub tv show...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aHxsjPYVH8w
 
Very difficult to say as I love different styles of music (rock, soul, dance) for different reasons and moods. For a long time it was Deep Dish-Penetrate Deeper album from 1993. Nothing profound behind it, just the best deep-house music ever. Rockwise, maybe Led Zep 3.
 
BARSE - If You Can't Fuck em Cut Em Up CD

Glorious OTT punk rock with excellent musicianship and demented/hilarious lyrics , and fine singalong tunes. Touches of BUZZCOCKS and COCK SPARRER.

Listen to some of it on www.myspace.com/barsefilth

I can't really begin to tell you the lyrics,....simply nuts.
 
Lol..

Was quiet disturbing, 'spec after the 3rd loop..! :eek:

After much deliberation, me thinks the real all time fave has to be 'The Art of Noise - Moments In Love' (ambient house version) xXx

How you doin Tetris.? C U on Friday :) xXx
 
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon

I first discovered this Album when I was 14 and was quite ill and felt as if nobody understood what it was like to be at deaths door at this age. Luckily for me, my sisters boyfriend introduced me to weed and Pink Floyd - and wow!!

Listening to this, I felt for the first time that somebody else knew what I was going through and the way this is beautiful album is sequenced, finishing off with Great Gig in the Sky gave me hope that there are better places to escape to when it all seems too much and unbearable. Thank you Pink Floyd for giving me hope and utter peace!!

This album really structured my taste and development in music and inspired me to better things. I love all of Pink Floyds music, ranging from Syd barretts influence to David Gilmore's. Shine on you Crazy Diamond and The Wall are also my fav's too.

Other favourites are:-

Paul Weller - Days of Speed

Portishead - Dummy

Massive Attack - Mezanie

The Verve - A Storm in Heaven

Enigma - THe Cross of Changes

The Stranglers - All Live and All of the Night

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

The Stone Roses - A Storm in Heaven

Gomez - bring it On
 
Felix Laband Dark Days Exit

It is beautiful electronic ambient music, he is only 23 years old, but when you listen to his music you can't believe that something so complex and genius was made by someone so young ! When I listen to this album I get the chills...! This is a recommendation, also.
 
I'll also go for Ziggy Stardust - a close second though is Marc Bolan - Metal Guru reminds me of a mate who is now dead - he loved T-Rex - he was a transvestite who actually lived as a woman but was straight - he lived with my mate Margaret (who I met him through) He was called Petra and he was so very very dear to me and whenever I hear Metal Guru - or indeed - anything by T-Rex - I think of him :)
 
I'm not sure I can really pick one. There are two that stay consistently as favourites.

I guess Screamadelica doesn't really count since it's a favourite because it's mates I used to gig around with finally making some completely out of this world music. I think it would be one of my favourite albums anyway, but there's no way to tell. I just feel completely on a wavelength with it. It takes bits from all the places my head had been over the decade and a bit before it was recorded, and makes most of it make some sort of sense.

The other is Brenda Fassie's album Myekeleni. Again there's more to it than great music, though it is also one of the most brilliantly varied sets of songs ever put together by one artist. There's jazz in there, along with reggae, mbaqanga, bubblegum, drum and bass, kwela, isicathamiya, and kwaito. It's the whole world of music focused through Soweto. The added poignancy is that, like me, Brenda Fassie was asthmatic. Shortly after I bought this particular album she died from heart failure following an asthma attack.
 
Deffo one of my favs FFRR Lenny Fontana Chocolate Sensation xx mmmm ye either side you choose
 
Boo! Wake up.

I know it's not very popular but the 'Boo Radleys - Everythings alright forever' is my favourite album for nostalgic reasons. It's a lovely wash of shoe gazey noise.

wait for the horn!

Check the album if you like that sort of thing.
 

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BARSE - IF YOU CAN'T FUCK EM CUT EM UP

Great tunes, hilarious lyrics, and all done DIY on an 8 track yet great production . BUZZCOCKS meets COCK SPARRER meets KILLJOYS meets OI! but with depraved lyrics and great cover showing a royal portrait with Barse's heads on.
Gash the singer/mainman topped himself a month after it was recorded, thankfully he'd sent the tapes to Hells Tone (Finland) beforehand and it emerged the year after.

www.myspace.com/barsefilth
(although most of the tracks are from other albums)
 
keep em coming!!

Shame the geezer doing the site didn't put more from that album though ("Turn Around & Hate Me" is the only one off it...
 
Detroit City said:
Wish You Were Here by The Floyd

My best friend died in '86 from a massive brain hemorrhage when we were both 21. We used to listen to that album when we were indulging in some "substances" and it really tied us together. And I really do wish he was here cause I know we'd still be close.

I have never found another friend like him.
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Just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl, year after year...

:(
 
Leo Marjane En Septembre Sous La`pluie.....It changes from day to day.......Yesterday it was VENGEANCE by New Model Army.....
 
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