You don’t often hear people talking about old music. Its always “have you heard the latest…” or “I just got the new…. album”, which don’t get me wrong is a great thing. Discovering new albums and hearing bands progress over time compliments what music is about. But not this post. I was in Real Groovy this week and as well as some new music I picked up some great old stuff for next to nothing.
It got me thinking about classis albums that I would never trade…. (I should probably never say never but….)
Here’s what I thought were classic albums from my collection, classic for a number of reasons, a lot of the time it was the artists break through album, sometimes their debut, other times just a dam fine collection of songs.
Badly Drawn Boy – About a Boy
Band of Horses – Everything All The Time
Basement Jaxx – Remedy
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
Beck – Odelay
Ben Harper – Welcome to the Cruel World
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl
Blur – Parklife
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
Coldplay – Rush of Blood to the Head
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
Damien Rice – O
David Gray – White Ladder
Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
Dimmer – You’ve Got to Hear the Music
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
Doves – Lost Souls
Elbow – Asleep in the Back
Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape
Groove Armada – Vertigo
Ian Pooley – Since Then
Jeff Buckley – Grace
John Coltrane – Blue Train
Josh Rouse – Home
Jurassic 5 – Quality Control
Killers – Hot Fuss
Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Moby – Play
Nightmares on Wax – Carboot Soul
Norah Jones – Come Away with me
Oasis – What’s the Story Morning Glory
Pearl Jam – Ten
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon
Portishead – Dummy
Powderfinger – Oydessey Number Five
Prince – Diamonds & Pearls
Prodigy – Fat of the Land
Pulp – Different Class
REM – Automatic for the People
Radiohead – The Bends
Red hot Chilli Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Ryan Adams – Love is Hell
SJD – Southern Lights
Shihad – The General Electric
Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
Sola Rosa – Solarized
Soundgarden – Super Unknown
St Germain – Tourist
Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
Supergrass – In It For The Money
Supergroove – Traction
The Black Seeds – On the Sun
The Chemical Brothers – Dig your own hole
The Strokes – Is this it
The Verve – Urban Hymns
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
Thievery Corporation – Mirror Conspiracy
Travis – The Man Who
Turin Brakes – The Optimist
U2 – The Joshua Tree
Zero 7 – Simple Things
Ok so there is a bit of a mix there and will have missed some classics without a doubt….
What is in your collection that you consider to be a classic?
I just realised I missed Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA. Sorry Brucey.
Great list Brendan, one omission fittingly missing from the top of the list as it’s in alphabetical order (in my opinion) is Arcade Fire-Funerals, incredible album. Great job again!!
Ummm a look through my iTunes brings up these favourites…
Rage Against the Machine – Self titled
Janes Addiction – Kettle Whistle (kind of a greatest hits but the first I heard of them, bought all their earlier albums after.
Pulp – Different Class
Cypress Hill – Black Sunday
Nirvana – Nevermind
Fatboy Slim – You\’ve come a long way baby
Eagle of Death Metal – Peace Love Death metal
Fat Freddys Drop – Based on a True Story
Salmonella Dub – et al except Heal Me
Shapeshifter – Soulstice
The Chemical Brothers – Push the button
Kings Of Leon – Aha Shake Heart break
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie MOuntain
Black Seeds – keep on pushing
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – B.R.M.C.
The Beatles – Abbey Road
Battles – mirrored
The Arcade Fire – neon Bible
David Bowie – et al
Faith No More – Album of the year
Fly My Pretties – Live At Bats
Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters/THe Colour and the Shape
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Fun Lovin Criminals – Loco
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Jurassic Five – Power in numbers
Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
Kora – Kora
Led Zeppelin – Remasters
Little Bushmen – The Onus of Sand
Manu Chao – radio Bemba Sound System
The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
Metallica – Black Album
Muse – Blackholes and REvelations
N*E*R*D – Fly or Die
The Offspring – Smash
Pendulum – HOld YOur Colour
The Phoenix Foundation – Pegasus
Pitch Black – Ape to Angel
The Prodigy – Fat of the Land
Queens of the Stone AGe – Songs for the Deaf
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
Radiohead – Ok Computer
The Rapture – Echoes
Red HOt Chilli Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex magic
Regurgitator – …Art
Jesus Rodriquez – Cold Fact
Ronny Jordan – The Antidote
Shihad – Shihad & The General Electric
SJD – Southern Lights
The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
Soundgarden – A-Sides
The Strokes – et al
Sublime – Sublime
Tool – Aenima
A Tribe called Quest – The anthology
Weezer – The Blue Album
The White Stripes – Elephant
Wolfmother – Wolfmother
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
Phew… Its awesomely refreshing going through your collection like that, keen as to listen to some stuff I haven\’t listened to for a while!