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A Top 20-something

Postby Walk In My Shadow » 01 Feb 2021, 18:33

A minute to think, no looking through the library, forgetting tons and tons of candidates. No particular order.

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Rolling Stones - Beggar's banquet
Sammy Walker - s/t
Van Der Graaff Generator - Still life
Peter Hammill - The silent corner and the empty stage
Graham Parker - Howlin' wind
Free - All of them (including box sets, boots)
Taste - s/t
Rory Gallagher - s/t
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road
Decemberists - The hazards of love
Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine
Jethro Tull - Stand up
Wu Tang Clan - 36 chambers
Black Uhuru - Red
Anderson East - Delilah
Delines - Colfax
Frankie Miller - The rock
Fairport Convention - Liege and lief
Traffic - John Barleycorn must die
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Mink DeVille - Coup de grace
Drive by Truckers - The dirty south
Stephen Stills - s/t
Midnight Choir - Amsterdam stranded

So. If I can convert just 1 BCB'er to just 1 of these, I'll die a happy man.
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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby robertff » 01 Feb 2021, 19:20

Walk In My Shadow wrote:A minute to think, no looking through the library, forgetting tons and tons of candidates. No particular order.

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Rolling Stones - Beggar's banquet
Sammy Walker - s/t
Van Der Graaff Generator - Still life
Peter Hammill - The silent corner and the empty stage
Graham Parker - Howlin' wind
Free - All of them (including box sets, boots)
Taste - s/t
Rory Gallagher - s/t
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road
Decemberists - The hazards of love
Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine
Jethro Tull - Stand up
Wu Tang Clan - 36 chambers
Black Uhuru - Red
Anderson East - Delilah
Delines - Colfax
Frankie Miller - The rock
Fairport Convention - Liege and lief
Traffic - John Barleycorn must die
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Mink DeVille - Coup de grace
Drive by Truckers - The dirty south
Stephen Stills - s/t
Midnight Choir - Amsterdam stranded

So. If I can convert just 1 BCB'er to just 1 of these, I'll die a happy man.



What, just one from each artist? I could do almost 20 from a single artist.


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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby Jock » 01 Feb 2021, 19:23

robertff wrote:
Walk In My Shadow wrote:A minute to think, no looking through the library, forgetting tons and tons of candidates. No particular order.

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Rolling Stones - Beggar's banquet
Sammy Walker - s/t
Van Der Graaff Generator - Still life
Peter Hammill - The silent corner and the empty stage
Graham Parker - Howlin' wind
Free - All of them (including box sets, boots)
Taste - s/t
Rory Gallagher - s/t
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road
Decemberists - The hazards of love
Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine
Jethro Tull - Stand up
Wu Tang Clan - 36 chambers
Black Uhuru - Red
Anderson East - Delilah
Delines - Colfax
Frankie Miller - The rock
Fairport Convention - Liege and lief
Traffic - John Barleycorn must die
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Mink DeVille - Coup de grace
Drive by Truckers - The dirty south
Stephen Stills - s/t
Midnight Choir - Amsterdam stranded

So. If I can convert just 1 BCB'er to just 1 of these, I'll die a happy man.



What, just one from each artist? I could do almost 20 from a single artist.


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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby soundchaser » 01 Feb 2021, 19:32

I always loved Graham Parker’s Squeezing Out Sparks, so I’ll go for your GP choice first.

Quite a bit here I’m unfamiliar with to check out, though.

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby Walk In My Shadow » 01 Feb 2021, 19:34

I know, my friends, I know. I could do that as well.

But I just thought 'what's the best album I like from a single artists'.

And, remember, I only thought for a minute about this.
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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby Walk In My Shadow » 01 Feb 2021, 19:36

soundchaser wrote:I always loved Graham Parker’s Squeezing Out Sparks, so I’ll go for your GP choice first.

Quite a bit here I’m unfamiliar with to check out, though.



As I said, if you find just 1 unfamiliar and like, my job is done.
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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby soundchaser » 01 Feb 2021, 19:36

Walk In My Shadow wrote:I know, my friends, I know. I could do that as well.

But I just thought 'what's the best album I like from a single artists'.

And, remember, I only thought for a minute about this.


Well, it is your thread, you can do what you like :D.

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby Rorschach » 02 Feb 2021, 09:47

OK. I'll try the Drive By Truckers. I really don't fancy any of the others that I don't already know.
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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby soundchaser » 02 Feb 2021, 11:50

So I tried a Sammy Walker song called Catcher In The Rye, which was nice, but totally early Bob Dylan.

And one Bob is enough for me.

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby soundchaser » 02 Feb 2021, 12:03

Hey Lord! Don’t Ask Me Questions. Yes, the Graham Parker is great.

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby The Fish » 02 Feb 2021, 14:25

Not for me

VDG Generator/Hammill/Tull/Wu Tang

Should like more than I do

Magnolia Electric Co

Sounds interseting on first listem

Midnight Choir

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby Walk In My Shadow » 02 Feb 2021, 14:45

soundchaser wrote:So I tried a Sammy Walker song called Catcher In The Rye, which was nice, but totally early Bob Dylan.

And one Bob is enough for me.



I always say that's the Dylan album Bob himself never made.
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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby soundchaser » 02 Feb 2021, 15:05

Walk In My Shadow wrote:
soundchaser wrote:So I tried a Sammy Walker song called Catcher In The Rye, which was nice, but totally early Bob Dylan.

And one Bob is enough for me.



I always say that's the Dylan album Bob himself never made.



Okay, I’ll give it more of a chance.

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby John_K » 02 Feb 2021, 18:30

Peter Hammill was my 'find' of 2020, maybe I'll try Graham Parker this year...

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby Spock! » 02 Feb 2021, 20:42

Howlin' Wind is my favourite GP album, followed by Heat Treatment then Squeezing Out Sparks. Lucky enough to see GP & Rumour play in a small venue (Bulmershe Teacher Training College) around the time Howlin' Wind came out. An absolute stormer of a gig.



Anderson East is completely new to me. As I type have just started listening & first impression is good, very Fame /Muscle Shoals. Thanks!
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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby C » 02 Feb 2021, 20:45

Rorschach wrote:OK. I'll try the Drive By Truckers.


My brother is a massive fan of this lot!

He's seen them loads of times too





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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby kath » 02 Feb 2021, 20:57

Walk In My Shadow wrote:A minute to think, no looking through the library, forgetting tons and tons of candidates. No particular order.

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Rolling Stones - Beggar's banquet
Van Der Graaff Generator - Still life
Peter Hammill - The silent corner and the empty stage
Free - All of them (including box sets, boots)
Taste - s/t
Rory Gallagher - s/t
Jethro Tull - Stand up
Fairport Convention - Liege and lief
Traffic - John Barleycorn must die
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Stephen Stills - s/t


i'm all in on these. i don't know how many will make my list... as i haven't exactly started my list... but i know two of em will, at the least

p.s. damn, i keep forgetting to listen to the decemberists, and i KNOW in my bones i need to.

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby Matt Wilson » 02 Feb 2021, 21:39

I own ten, a whopping 50% of your picks.

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby John_K » 03 Feb 2021, 01:40

For anyone yet to dip their toe into the world of The Delines, I can heartily recommend,

Providing you like your country from the other side of the tracks...

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Re: A Top 20-something

Postby Rorschach » 03 Feb 2021, 08:18

C wrote:
Rorschach wrote:OK. I'll try the Drive By Truckers.


My brother is a massive fan of this lot!

He's seen them loads of times too.


I've always liked the sound of them, but never got round to listening. I played that album yesterday and wasn't sure what to make of it. I'll definitely try it at least another two times and see if it grows on me. I have this idea that they have a very large back catalogue so it would be quite handy to find that I do like them.
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