comfort music

[jdmufc]

maybe the title is a little misleading but what i mean is.....

what is the music that you always return to??????

we all have music that we have listened to for years although sometimes you can go for years without listening to it, but eventually you will always dig out that old album and give it a spin.....

for me.....

stone roses......the stone roses

prince.....sign of the times

the jam......snap

the who......who are you

 

[pillory]

The return-to record I've owned the longest is probably Run, Sodomy & the Lash by the Pogues. After that there's Mercury Rev's first three, GZM's Barafundle and Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief, and after that I started buying a hundred records a year. The records I return to most frequently nowadays are Blowout Comb (Digable Planets), Just Another Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan) and cLOUDDEAD's first.

 

[The Flying Potato]

any aerosmith song

 

[jdmufc]

The return-to record I've owned the longest is probably Run, Sodomy & the Lash by the Pogues. After that there's Mercury Rev's first three, GZM's Barafundle and Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief, and after that I started buying a hundred records a year. The records I return to most frequently nowadays are Blowout Comb (Digable Planets), Just Another Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan) and cLOUDDEAD's first.

without sounding like a complete feckwit.......i aint heard of any of those....what kind of music is it??

 

[jdmufc]

any aerosmith song

my missus loves areosmith.......i´d never really listened to them before i met her and they have kinda grown on me.......more-so when i´m drunk

 

[pillory]

without sounding like a complete feckwit.......i aint heard of any of those....what kind of music is it??

You must have heard The Pogues?

For some reason a lot of the stuff I listed is quite folkish in various ways (Fairport, GZM, Pogues, Vashti). Mercury Rev were insane indie junkies. Digable Planets and cLOUDDEAD are hip hop, the latter in a very spaced-out way.

 

[jdmufc]

You must have heard The Pogues?

For some reason a lot of the stuff I listed is quite folkish in various ways (Fairport, GZM, Pogues, Vashti). Mercury Rev were insane indie junkies. Digable Planets and cLOUDDEAD are hip hop, the latter in a very spaced-out way.

yeah...sorry i didnt see the pogues.....bit spooky that as i´m currently listening to "irish rover"

 

[MikeUpNorth]

I never get bored of these albums...

Radiohead - The Bends
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
John Martyn - Bless the Weather
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

 

[jdmufc]

my choices in my above post were all albums.......as for individual songs......
i love "white lines" because i went on a school holiday to switzerland in about 82´and that was THE song that everyone was listening to.
i´ve also got a thing for "rappers delight" from when they used to play it at the hacienda and it was deemed cool to know all the words!!

 

[Rood]

i had to think about this but i think the ones i return to most often are:
orbital - insides
aphex twin - selected ambient works
snoop doggy dog - doggystyle
the stone roses - the second coming
mobb deep - the infamous
oasis - definitely maybe

i guess these albums are all from a similar era and remind me of those days...

 

[Tumbling-Dice]

I put this together for a music group a few years ago.

16 essential albums in my humble opinion




from left to right, top to bottom ..

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On

Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Santana - Abraxas

Portishead - Dummy

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

The Beta Band - 3 EPs

Jamiroquai - Return of the Space Cowboy

Nick Drake - Bryter Later

Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet



You could add another four to that and get my 'top 20 comfort albums'

Bob Marley - Catch a Fire

Television - Marquee Moon

Radiohead - The Bends

Muddy Waters - Hard Again

 

[Leg-End]

Bruce Springsteen - The River
Nils Lofgren - Acoustic Live
Radiohead - The Bends
Feeder - Echo Park

If I can listen to any of these I am happy.

 

[Doevle]

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

 

[LizardKing]

Any Doors song or album - no exceptions.
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Dr. Dre - 2001

 

[I_live_cement]

Pixies - Anything
Frank Black - Frank black, Teenager of the year, Pistolero
Radiohead - Pablo Honey, The Bends, Ok Computer
Nas - Illmatic, Stillmatic
Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon
Johnny cash - early stuff
The Smiths - Anything
White Stripes - Elephant
Stone Roses - Stone Roses

 

[Pimpmofo]

Green Day - Dookie
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Jimmy Buffett - Meet Me In Margaritaville
The Doors - The Best Of The Doors
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Nelly - Country Grammar

 

[sammymc]

let there be rock -AC/DC
buffalo springfield again - buffalo springfield
beggars banquet - the rolling stones
paranoid - black sabbath
If only i could remember my name - david crosby
stand up - jethro tull
On the beach - neil young
the tumbler - john martyn
1983 - richie havens
spine of god - monster magnet
led zep - led zep


fecking loads really

 

[Laphroaig]

The return-to record I've owned the longest is probably Run, Sodomy & the Lash by the Pogues. After that there's Mercury Rev's first three, GZM's Barafundle and Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief, and after that I started buying a hundred records a year. The records I return to most frequently nowadays are Blowout Comb (Digable Planets), Just Another Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan) and cLOUDDEAD's first.

I've been listening to this on a bi-daily basis lately. Good list otherwise too.

I'll always keep returning to Current 93's entire back catalogue. A lot of Nick Cave's albums, but especially Murder Ballads, Boatman's Call and No More Shall We Part. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's I See A Darkness, well and a couple of his other ones. I sene I could easily go on and name 20 other albums so I best just stop.