Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby The Modernist » 27 Feb 2018, 10:23

I can relate to and agree with a lot of the above. Though for me that process of my tastes solidifying and forming my own personal canon happened much later, more like mid thirties. That reflects a generational thing a well as people who grew up in the 70s and 80s were mainly consuming new music. I was a bit unusual in that I did look back, but even so most music I consumed back then was new stuff. Music media then also concentrated on the new, it wasn't until the mid to late nineties you had magazines like Mojo looking to the past.

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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby Nikki Gradual » 27 Feb 2018, 12:57

By my mid-teens I was always looking backwards.
My list on this thread isn't my favourite albums by any means, but the watershed moments, the albums that opened up whole new world's of listening for me. I suppose I could have put some super-rare soul record that I adore now, but the truth was that it was hearing a greatest hits album that opened that door to me as a kid. Similarly, I didn't drive straight into Black Monk Time, it was Nuggets that ushered me into that world, and Liege and Lief that made me start on folk. That's why these are the ones listed, not because they are the best or most impressive. They also cover a very short time period from the age of 12 to about 20 I would guess. I haven't had any real watershed musical moments since then, sadly.
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby NMB » 27 Feb 2018, 13:32

Maybe not the greatest albums ever made but old friends and comfort blankets.

Ram
Pet Sounds
John Wesley Harding
Beggars Banquet
Crosby Stills and Nash
Schoolboys in Disgrace
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Grateful Dead (Skullfuck)
London Calling
Diamond Dogs

I'll probably change a couple after more thought.
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby Count Machuki » 27 Feb 2018, 14:57

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Super-Jank wrote:But you do seem to get people who constantly listen to music, they always have something on the go almost regardless of what shit it is. It's weird.

Why is it weird? :? We're music people here; i'm always trying new things, even if I go back to my wheelhouse stuff for the joy and excitement i'm guaranteed it will bring.


I'm a person who constantly listens to music. I don't find it weird at all! How else could I find something that might end up being on a list of my ultimate albums if I don't hear it first?
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby Goat Boy » 27 Feb 2018, 15:05

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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby Count Machuki » 27 Feb 2018, 15:29

Goat Boy wrote:How do you expect the Count to win another BCB cup if he doesn't?


I'm pinning all my hopes on the World Music Bobbins Cup

Really, though, why willfully suspend your curiosity? There might be all kinds of stuff out there that could move you deeply. Your old standby records aren't going anywhere...they're going to be there when you want them. Take a damn chance on something and don't be so picky, I say.
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby Moleskin » 27 Feb 2018, 15:49

Count Machuki wrote:
Goat Boy wrote:How do you expect the Count to win another BCB cup if he doesn't?


I'm pinning all my hopes on the World Music Bobbins Cup

Really, though, why willfully suspend your curiosity? There might be all kinds of stuff out there that could move you deeply. Your old standby records aren't going anywhere...they're going to be there when you want them. Take a damn chance on something and don't be so picky, I say.



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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby KeithPratt » 27 Feb 2018, 15:51

This confirms my view that most people don't veer too much from the music of their teens, twenties and maybe early thirties. It's understandable - perhaps back then too we didn't listen to as much music as is possible and repeated plays of what we did like are to expected. I mean, I played the Stone Roses album every day for about 3 years from mid 1989. I simply cannot imagine anyone doing that now.

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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby Darkness_Fish » 27 Feb 2018, 16:02

Count Machuki wrote:
Goat Boy wrote:How do you expect the Count to win another BCB cup if he doesn't?


I'm pinning all my hopes on the World Music Bobbins Cup

Don't tell anyone, but there's this Jorge Ben fella who goes down a storm in these things.
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby Goat Boy » 27 Feb 2018, 16:03

I think it's a natural thing to a large degree.

I mean look at BCBers politics ffs.
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby The Modernist » 27 Feb 2018, 16:05

Don't bring politics into it!

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Postby Darkness_Fish » 27 Feb 2018, 16:20

It's true, I always go back to those Neil Kinnock speeches of my youth, whenever I want some absolute inspiration.
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby Goat Boy » 27 Feb 2018, 16:33

I warn you not to grow old and listen to classic rock...
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby naughty boy » 27 Feb 2018, 16:37

I quite like Neil Kinnock - but ask me again tomorrow and it’ll be a completely different choice
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Postby Darkness_Fish » 27 Feb 2018, 16:49

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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby joklend » 27 Feb 2018, 18:00

I've just turned 30 so I wouldn't know a later perspective, but given that Unknown Pleasures is my only survivor from my teenage favourites (the Kraftwerk and Aphex were close but just a little bit later maybe) it does suggest some kind of re-assessment through the years. I think I've got everything out of rock music that I ever will, though.

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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby toomanyhatz » 27 Feb 2018, 18:10

Revolver
Marquee Moon
Velvets and Nico
Please to See the King
Highway 61
Farewell Aldebaran
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Whatevershebringswesing
Pet Sounds
Piper at the Gates of Dawn

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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby The Modernist » 27 Feb 2018, 19:49

joklend wrote:I've just turned 30 so I wouldn't know a later perspective, but given that Unknown Pleasures is my only survivor from my teenage favourites (the Kraftwerk and Aphex were close but just a little bit later maybe) it does suggest some kind of re-assessment through the years. I think I've got everything out of rock music that I ever will, though.


That's how I felt when I turned 30, which isn't to say I never listen to rock albums, but other genres are more exciting for me to explore.

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Postby Penk! » 27 Feb 2018, 20:11

The Modernist wrote:
joklend wrote:I've just turned 30 so I wouldn't know a later perspective, but given that Unknown Pleasures is my only survivor from my teenage favourites (the Kraftwerk and Aphex were close but just a little bit later maybe) it does suggest some kind of re-assessment through the years. I think I've got everything out of rock music that I ever will, though.


That's how I felt when I turned 30, which isn't to say I never listen to rock albums, but other genres are more exciting for me to explore.


Speaking as someone who is in his early thirties I have to say that I spent a lot of my twenties listening to other esoteric underground techno and mega obscure Brazilian grooves, but have regressed to rock of late. Now I'm 33 and listen to nothing but Whitesnake and Uriah Heep.
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Re: Your own ultimate list of albums...only ten!

Postby naughty boy » 27 Feb 2018, 20:48

Yes I myself am about to start the Zambian leg of my African trip and I hope to find some tribes there who haven’t even heard of an ‘electric guitar’ and instead make music from seeds and fruit - how exciting that would be!
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