NSC's 100 essential albums

[countryman]

Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life It is good for any mood.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

A thing of infinite beauty, utterly blew me away when I first played it and still does today.

 

[fire&skill]

'Help!' by The Beatles is very popular round ours at the moment.

 

[Cheggers]

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions...
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde, Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, The Freewheelin'
The Jam - All Mod Cons
White Stripes - White Blood Cells

 

[cmonbarrybringonwoody!]

Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
Apollo 440 - Electroglide in Blue
Portishead - Summy
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Bomb the Bass - Clear
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Money Mark - Mark's Keyboard Repairs
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Michael Mayer - Immer 3
Radiohead - OK Computer
Smiths - Strangeways
Nina Simone - Remixed and Re-imagined
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
Grease OST
Michael Jackson - Bad
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Nick Cave - Nocturama
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Elliott Smith - View from a Basement on a Hill
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Sigur Ros - Aegetis Byrjun
Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
Squeeze - 45s and under
Specials - Specials
New Order - Substance (or Technique)
Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Verve - Urban Hymns
Calvin Harris - I Invented Disco
Menahan Street Band - Menahan Street Band
JJ - No 2
The XX - XX
Carole King - Tapestry
Johnny Cash - At San Quentin Prison
Human League - Dare
Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Madonna - True Blue
Beatles - White Album
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pipettes - Pipettes
Grace Jones - Compass Point Sessions
King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Waterboys - To The Sea
Unkle - Never Never Land
Ian Brown - Solarized
Beth Orton - Trailer Park

There's probably loads more but those are the ones that I've thought of in the last 15 minutes that I would add.

loads of excellent choices there! plus one of my good mates co produced the pipettes album, good taste

 

[jakarta]

A thing of infinite beauty, utterly blew me away when I first played it and still does today.

Their best album, lovely stuff from a bunch of stoned Sweaties, who would have thought it?

 

[larus]

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That, my friend, is a great choice

 

[brakespear]

edited.

Think of something else......

....'Spilt Milk' by Jellyfish.

 

[GNF on Tour]

can i add:

100% Columbian - Fun Lovin Criminals
All Change - Cast
Ble Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins
God Shuffled his Feet - Crash Test Dummies
Beautiful Freak - Eels
The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan / Tubeway Army
Dookie - Green Day
Babe Rainbow - House of Love
Shabooh Shoobah - INXS
Attack of the Grey Lantern - Mansun
Earth Sun and Moon - Midnight Oil
Moby - 18
Peter Gabriel - So
Doolittle - Pixies
9 - Public Image Ltd
The Bends - Radiohead - (should be a shoe in for anyones top 100)

 

[Leosayer]

Soul mining the the
The stone roses
All mod cons the jam
London calling the clash
The queen is dead the smiths
Low life new order
Joshua tree U2
Revolver Beatles
Pet sounds beach boys
What's going on Marin Gaye
Berlin Lou reed
Darkness on the edge of town Bruce Springsteen
London 0 hull 4 housemartins

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

In order (imo only):-

Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars
Heros
Station to Station
The Man Who Sold The World
Low
Young Americans
Space Oddity
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Scary Monsters
Lets Dance
Heathen
White Noise
Pin Ups

Ziggy Stardust beats Low?

In your dreams fellas. Bowie by 1976 hated the Ziggy/Alladin phase, the screaming girls and glam copyists. he took on the image of the nazi/occultist Thin White Duke, moved to LA and had a serious cocaine problem, he couldn't remember recording Station to Station, his postcard from a coke-induced plastic California. He moved back to Europe, worked with Brian Eno, dropped the silly stage personas and effectively grew up. The result was 'Low', a gothic, truly original masterpiece.

Any Bowie geek (like me) will agree, Ziggy was a good album, but it has aged poorly, and is really showing it's age now - as is the character 'Ziggy Stardust' himself. But it has nothing on Low, it doesn't even get near Hunky Dory or Station to Station. Low is timeless, and the cover (a still from The Man Who Fell To Earth) is one of the most iconic images in popular music. It launched the 'wedge' haircut, and coincided with the end of donkey jackets, flares, and big sideburns among the youth of our big cities. The casuals/scallies took it on and the rest is history.

Low isn't just a music album, it's a watershed in the history of popular culture.

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

No "Thriller" by Michael Jackson??

 

[spring hall convert]

Mr Xenophon, sir. You sound like a person of excellent tastes - these would be in my top 20

I can't be arsed to check the whole thread but I'll add:

Airplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
American Gothic - David Ackles (99% of people won't have heard of this but it's one of the great albums of the 70s)
Back in the USA - MC5
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
154 - Wire
Marquee Moon - Television
The Ramones - The Ramones
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix

two albums that are massively influential on modern music
Man Machine - Kraftwerk
Tago Mago - Can

and finally my number one album of all time, the unique and utterly looney tunes Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart

Low, White Heat, Tago Mago, 154, Trout Mask Replica and Marquee Moon all seconded

The Fall - Hex Education Hour
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
HEALTH - Get Colour
Swans - White Light From The Mouth of Infinity
Women - Public Strain
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Arcade Fire - Funeral
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Portishead - Dummy
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Suicide - Suicide
The Stooges - Raw Power
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
The Pop Group - Y
Lift To Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads

 

[Funnell]

Sorry if some of these have been said already
Arcade Fire - funeral
Weezer - Pinkerton
Kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
Grimes - visions
Deftones - white pony
Eminem - the Marshall mathers lp
Rage against the machine - evil empire
The libertines - up the bracket
The strokes - is this it
Radiohead - in rainbows
Jay z - the blueprint

 

[El Presidente]

The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan / Tubeway Army

I saw Gazza in concert Tuesday night!

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Ive never subscribeed to single music. Music is all about albums and classic albums are ones where you cannot find one buff track. At different times in my life I would have said any of the following:

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Big Country - In a big country
Simple Minds - Celebration (although really a compilation)
Three days Grace - One -X
Feeder - Yesterday went too soon
Gin Blossoms - Congratulations, Im sorry
Rush - Permanent Waves
Ultravox - Rage in Eden
Japan - Tin Drum
Deacon Blue - Raintown
Def Leppard - High and Dry
Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast

But I think the winner in terms of still being able to play it more than twenty years later and still losing myself in it is....


Marillion - Fugazi

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

can i add:

100% Columbian - Fun Lovin Criminals
All Change - Cast
Ble Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins
God Shuffled his Feet - Crash Test Dummies
Beautiful Freak - Eels
The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan / Tubeway Army
Dookie - Green Day
Babe Rainbow - House of Love
Shabooh Shoobah - INXS
Attack of the Grey Lantern - Mansun
Earth Sun and Moon - Midnight Oil
Moby - 18
Peter Gabriel - So
Doolittle - Pixies
9 - Public Image Ltd
The Bends - Radiohead - (should be a shoe in for anyones top 100)

Picked up two bands Id forgoptten there but Id go with:

Diesel and Dust for Midnight Oil

and

Warning for Green Day

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Reign in Blood by Slayer has to feature; 10 brutal songs played at a ferocious pace. For me this is the stand out album from the thrash genre and serves as the limit at which you can perform so fast and intense without sounding like a parody.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Grimes - visions

This only came out a few weeks ago. Can you truly say it is essential listening so soon?

 

[W.C.]

I saw Gazza in concert Tuesday night!

cool! did he play this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1urq4Vb0XM