So perhaps I will try and redo this list however many years later.
Or perhaps I can just add 10 more. I still love all of them. I realised that I should have included Clouds in the Aus album list when I was considering adding it here. There’s so many that I could include, but I also don’t want to discard any of the above.
The following could replace 9 or 10 depending on my mood
Dummy - Portishead
Penny Century - Clouds
Jar of flies/Sap - Alice in Chains
Proto - Holly Herndon
The King is dead - the Decemberists
MTV Unplugged - Nirvana
Have developed a late respect for PM after Get Back and also appreciating his psych-out guitar solos on Taxman / Good Morning and drums on Dear Prudence.
So weird.
I bought Louder Than Love for my brother (he was more metal than me), without knowing anything about it or them, too.
I think the guy at Au Go Go might have said, these guys are cool…
Also, sorry…irrelevant but a bit triggered, I’m going to stick up for 3WM.
The era you’re talking about, it was All Hit Music 3WM. So…suited teenage me very nicely.
Pretty much all of the content/programming was local, apart from Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 and the football from 3KZ.
I think they had a sixties show/night, maybe Thursdays?
But that was cool, too, because you want to know your rock history.
It’s true that they would never play anything current from the independent chart, so yeah Triple J was very welcome when it arrived.
But all things considered I think as a commercial AM (by gosh we noticed the difference in sound quality when we got in range of Melbourne’s FM stations) radio station, it was better and far more contemporary than a lot of radio stations these days.
IMO, the current saturation of 80’s and 90’s on the radio (and on television as backing tracks to sports, current affairs, advertising) far exceeds the amount of 60’s tracks played back in the day, and I personally find that…kind of…kind of awful.
Nice dude. Fear and Takes a Nation are pretty close for me too, but fear edges it out as the bomb squad went to another level production wise, and theres no whistling kettles
A few other worthy mentions that i was sad didnt make it:
Tool - Lateralus
Kendrick - To Pimp a Butterfly
The Garden - Mirror Might Steal Your Charm
XTC - Skylarking
The Isley Brothers - Go for Your Guns
So I’m thinking that before finalising my best 22 I need to run some trials. In an ideal world I’d take every record/cd/purchased streamed album in my collection, conduct a “draw” and then play them off grand slam style until there was only one remaining, but that would take years. Especially when I turned it into a podcast!
Given I have no time for that, i’m just going to try an play an album that I haven’t listened to in ages every day.
Yesterday I decided the logical place to start was with the first cd I ever owned, Out of Time by REM.
Classic album, killer tracks everywhere. Radio Song the weakest, mainly due to that odd rap bit. (And yes, I will always like Shiny Happy People).
Rating 83%
Today’s album. Hmm, not sure but it will be something that I’d forgotten I owned probably…
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
10 -Pearl Jam
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Throwing Copper - Live
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen
Under a blood red sky - U2
Automatic for the people - REM
Hotel California - The Eagles
The Eminem Show - Eminem
I can’t really split them. They are & were all go to listening at different times in my life & for different moods.
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