It’s been a couple of years.
And we have some different posters.
I feel like my list will have changed a lot and I think Gossip will fall from a 15+ year reign when I do this again.
Gossip – Paul Kelly
Big Science – Laurie Anderson
The Wall – Pink Floyd
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 – Midnight Oil
Flood – They Might Be Giants
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Eternal Nightcap - The Whitlams
Alchemy - Dire Straits
The Ghosts That Haunt Me – Crash Test Dummies
Sad But True – Tex, Don & Charlie
I’m not completely convinced on my choices from 6-10.
This is what I made in 2006.
Gossip – Paul Kelly
Big Science – Laurie Anderson
The Wall – Pink Floyd
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 – Midnight Oil
Flood – They Might Be Giants
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Bryter Layter – Nick Drake
Honey Steels Gold – Ed Kuepper
Comedy – Paul Kelly
Red Sails In The Sunset – Midnight Oil
So – Peter Gabriel
Suzanne Vega – Suzanne Vega
Purple Rain – Prince
Counting Crows – August & Everything After
Moon Safari – Air
Green – REM
Temple Of Low Men – Crowded House
Synchronicity – Police
Born In The USA – Bruce Springsteen
Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morisette
Dark Side Of The Moon – Pink Floyd
Eternal Nightcap – The Whitlams
Leisure Noise – Gay Dad
Alchemy – Dire Straits
The Swing – INXS
Beautiful Freak - Eels
Dissociatives – Dissociatives
Strangeways Here We Come – The Smiths
Graceland – Paul Simon
Vitalogy – Pearl Jam
Around The World In A Day – Prince
Rattle ‘n’ Hum – U2
Crowded House – Crowded House
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
The Ghosts That Haunt Me – Crash Test Dummies
Sad But True – Tex, Don & Charlie
Bad Love – Randy Newman
Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman
Blood Sugar Sex Magic – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Achtung Baby – U2
The Virgin Suicides – Air
Bjork – Post
Whirled! (EP) – Frente
Songs From The Big Chair – Tears For Fears
Appetite For Destruction – Guns ‘n’ Roses
Nevermind – Nirvana
Dream Of The Blue Turtles – Sting
Two Minute Warning – The Angels
MTV Unplugged In New York – Nirvana
Listen Like Thieves – INXS
Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
Copperhead Road – Steve Earl
The Bridge – Billy Joel
Back In Black – AC/DC
New York – Lou Reed
Raising Hell – Run DMC
ICON – Doug Anthony All Stars
Imagine – John Lennon
Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols – The Sex Pistols
Baby Animals – Baby Animals
The Witness Tree – Wendy Matthews
I’m Your Man – Leonard Cohen
Stop Making Sense – Talking Heads
Forever Blue – Chris Isaak
Destroyer – Kiss
Various Positions – Leonard Cohen
Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits
Oxygene – Jean Michel Jarre
Garbage – Garbage
SUPERUNKNOWN – Soundgraden
Compilations.
The Blue Album – The Beatles
Radio Songs – Cold Chisel
Crawl File – Australian Crawl
Greatest Hits Vol I - Queen
Highlights – Janis Joplin
Greatest Hits I and II – Billy Joel
Greatest Hits – The Eurythmics
Negotiations And Love Songs – Paul Simon
The Red Album – The Beatles
20 Greatest Hits – The Beach Boys
Edit: also, I’m really glad that I have this thanks to Blitz. From friggin’ 2006.
It varies on a daily basis, but the discussion would include any of the following albums:
Place Without A Postcard - Midnight Oil
Heaven Tonight - Cheap Trick
The Ideal Crash - dEUS
Spilt Milk - Jellyfish
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Together Alone - Crowded House
Flood - They Might Be Giants
Skylarking - XTC
Dare - Human League
Sleepless - Ups And Downs
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Scorn Of The Women - Weddings Parties Anything
Upstairs At Eric’s - Yazoo
The Bends - Radiohead
Soul Mining - The The
The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk
Quebec - Ween
Copper Blue - Sugar
Heap Trip In Every Key - Superdrag
Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb - Tripping Daisy
Wish - The Cure
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
Troublegum - Therapy?
Stoneage Romeos - Hoodoo Gurus
Achtung Baby - U2
So - Peter Gabriel
The Shaming Of The True - Kevin Gilbert
Self-titled (The Blue Album) - Weezer
Laid - James
Self-titled - Pretenders
Aenima - Tool
Doolittle - Pixies
Worker’s Playtime - Billy Bragg
Beautiful Freak - Eels
The Back Room - Editors
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Fear Of A Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
Kid A - Radiohead
Ok Computer - Radiohead
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Heligoland - Massive Attack
The Pod - Ween
The Mollusk - Ween
Frizzle Fry - Primus
Ghosts VI - Nine Inch Nails
OK Computer - Radiohead
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Together Alone - Crowded House
Purple Rain - Prince
So - Peter Gabriel
Animals - Pink Floyd
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
I Robot - Alan Parsons Project
Never Forever - Kate Bush
Weezer - Make Believe, Maladroit
Childish Gambine - Because the internet
Royal blood - Royal blood
Slowly Slowly - Race Car Blues
Artic Monkeys - AM
Jungle - Jungle
Klaxons - Myths of the near future
Blink 182 - California
At the drive in - Relationship of command
Janes Addiction - Strays
Children Collide - Theory of everything
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Growing up
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Nirvana - Nevermind & in utero
RCHP - Californication, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, One Hot Minute, By the Way (new album is no 5 after these)
Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf
Faith No More - Angle Dust
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
Beck - Morning Phase
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Tool - All of the albums
Tough ask, but in alphabetical order and a limit of one title per artist, here’s today’s list.
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
J. J. Cale - Naturally
Nick Cave - The Boatman’s Call
The Congos - Heart Of The Congos
Culture - Two Sevens Clash
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Los Lobos - Kiko
Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
XTC - English Settlement
I find this an almost impossible task. I could list my " all time favorites" and there’s a fair chance I’d realise I haven’t played any of them in the last 15 years.
I could list my most relistened to albums of the last decade, and still not think they belong in my “all time favourites list”…because that list defines you right, and who wants to define themselves with the experiences of middle age.
So who knows.
(I started writing a list but it got unwieldy very quickly, while not capturing the essence of albums that mean a sht load to me… I’ll be back later…)
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Pixies - Doolittle
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Midnight Oil - 10-1
Violent Femmes - s/t
Next batch of ones that get me really excited every time I take them out for a spin:
The Clash - London Calling
PiL - Metal Box
Weezer - s/t (Blue)
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Ride - Nowhere
This Heat - Deceit
The Cure - Disintegration
I was just going to name a top ten…but quickly realised that such a task is nigh on impossible (well, to be honest, I just didn’t want to). So here’s the ones that jumped out when I looked through my list of all the albums I’ve ever listened to.
They’re not in any particular order:
Disintegration - The Cure
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Animals - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd (that was some run of albums…all deserve their spot here)
Seventh Sojourn - The Moody Blues
The Doors - The Doors
Synchronicity - The Police
The Joshua Tree - U2
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Comalies - Lacuna Coil
Dark Passion Play - Nightwish
Splendor Solis - The Tea Party
Ten - Pearl Jam
A Farewell To Kings - Rush
Living In The 70s - Skyhooks
Heyday - The Church
So - Peter Gabriel
Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil
Neon Ballroom - Silverchair
The Big Don’t Argue - Weddings, Parties, Anything
Cold Chisel - Cold Chisel
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
