Music RedCafe's Favourite Albums Of All Time Contest (Round 3)

1. Grin and Bear it - The Ruts
2. Levitation - Hawkwind
3. Vengeance - New Model Army
4. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
5. Appetite for Destruction - Guns and Roses
 
1. s/t - The Smiths
2. The Joshua Tree - U2
3. Pretenders - The Pretenders
3. Script of the Bridge - The Chameleons
4. Murmur - R.E.M.
4. Solid Gold - Gang Of Four
5. New Day Rising - Hüsker Dü
5. Sparkle In The Rain - Simple Minds
5. Surfer Rosa - Pixies

@Dirty Schwein album change in #4, #5

@Dirty Schwein changed my list again.

Leaving out bands like The Waterboys, The Psychedelic Furs, The Jam, Jane's Addiction, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo & The Bunnymen, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Wire, No Means No, Dead Kennedys, The Pogues, The Specials, The Damned, Pixies, Simple Minds... I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown.
 
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My list is:

The Wall - Pink Floyd
Back In Black - AC/DC
Nirvana - Bleach
Like A Virgin - Madonna
Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
Ride The Lightning - Metallica
Reign In Blood - Slayer
Madonna - Madonna
Thriller - Michael Jackson
So - Peter Gabrial
Lets Dance - David Bowie
Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Moving Pictures - Rush

The top 5:

The Wall - Pink Floyd
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Ride The Lightning - Metallica
Madonna - Madonna
Lets Dance - David Bowie
 
Robbo's Shoulder said:
C'mon guys, not enough love (well none apart from me) for The Fall in here.
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Good band but no great albums, imo. Lots of great music in Mark E Smith's catalog but there's a lot of junk to sift through too. I always find it hard to recommend a particular album by The Fall to friends and would tend to just suggest selected songs.
 
Gazza said:
Good band but no great albums, imo. Lots of great music in Mark E Smith's catalog but there's a lot of junk to sift through too. I always find it hard to recommend a particular album by The Fall to friends and would tend to just suggest selected songs.
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I kind of get what you mean and if anyone asks for a gateway into The Fall I always suggest stuff like Leave the Capital, Cruisers Creek etc but Hex Enduction Hour is a masterpiece from the opening "The Classical" through "Jawbone and the Air Rifle" Hip Priest" Fortress/Deer Park" "Winter" and so on and so on.

Totally get they're either sugar or shite to most mind.
 
Robbo's Shoulder said:
C'mon guys, not enough love (well none apart from me) for The Fall in here.
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Gazza said:
Good band but no great albums, imo. Lots of great music in Mark E Smith's catalog but there's a lot of junk to sift through too. I always find it hard to recommend a particular album by The Fall to friends and would tend to just suggest selected songs.
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Robbo's Shoulder said:
I kind of get what you mean and if anyone asks for a gateway into The Fall I always suggest stuff like Leave the Capital, Cruisers Creek etc but Hex Enduction Hour is a masterpiece from the opening "The Classical" through "Jawbone and the Air Rifle" Hip Priest" Fortress/Deer Park" "Winter" and so on and so on.

Totally get they're either sugar or shite to most mind.
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This Nation's Saving Grace would get my vote.
 
Disintegration :The Cure
Sparkle in the rain:Simple Minds
So:Peter Gabriel
The Stone Roses: Stone Roses
Waterboys:Fishermans Blues.
 
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Berbaclass said:
My list is:

The Wall - Pink Floyd
Back In Black - AC/DC
Nirvana - Bleach
Like A Virgin - Madonna
Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
Ride The Lightning - Metallica
Reign In Blood - Slayer
Madonna - Madonna
Thriller - Michael Jackson
So - Peter Gabrial
Lets Dance - David Bowie
Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Moving Pictures - Rush

The top 5:

The Wall - Pink Floyd
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Ride The Lightning - Metallica
Madonna - Madonna
Lets Dance - David Bowie
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The Wall was 70s
 
1. Remain In Light - Talking Heads
2. The Smiths - The Smiths
3. 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

I don't really have any more. I've got loads of artists I love from this era but just haven't really listened to many full albums and I'm not going to put compilations on here.
 
Berbaclass said:
Weird that I could have sworn it was 1980 :lol:
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It was Nov 79. Surprised me too during the 70s list. Also I was sure Nirvana was 90s but looked it up too and indeed it was 89
 
Every album by The Smiths mentioned except Strangeways, which would possibly have been my pick. Some sickos even picking compilation albums over it.
 
Solius said:
I thought about Hatful of Hollow but since it's a comp I immediately discounted it like a normal person.
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The messier part is that it initially wasn't released everywhere. From Wikipedia:
Hatful of Hollow is a compilation album by English rock band the Smiths, released on 12 November 1984 by Rough Trade Records. The album features tracks from BBC Radio 1 sessions, their first single "Hand in Glove" (a different mix of which had been included on their first album) and two new singles and their B-sides. It was eventually released in the United States on 9 November 1993 by Sire Records, who had initially declined to release the album in the US. Sire instead released Louder Than Bombs in the US in 1987—which is effectively a hybrid of Hatful of Hollow and a subsequent UK compilation album The World Won't Listen plus some tracks which do not appear on either.
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The Smiths just have such a messy catalogue.

But then there are also albums that got released with different track listings (order and songs included) in different countries, so, well, anyway.
 
people listing compilation albums are a different breed...weirdos! :)
 
oneniltothearsenal said:
people listing compilation albums are a different breed...weirdos! :)
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It should be prohibited. Or next thing someone will include some 90‘s techno compilation by 20 different bands in their list.
 
HTG said:
It should be prohibited. Or next thing someone will include some 90‘s techno compilation by 20 different bands in their list.
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Exactly something I was thinking of! In Order to Dance had some amazing techno compilations
 
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Might start early on next week's its gonna be the most difficult of the lot for me by far.
 
The Cat said:
Might start early on next week's its gonna be the most difficult of the lot for me by far.
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I started last night and have managed to whittle it down to just 19 albums so far.
 
I'm convinced most of you haven't actually listened to HoH or know the background to it
 
1. Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
2. Queen - A Kind of Magic
3. Dio - Holy Diver
4. Bon Jovi - New Jersey
5. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
 
Songs from the big chair - Tears For Fears.
Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout.
Synchronicity - Police
Unforgettable Fire - U2.
Infected - The The.
 


"me want the punnanee" at 20 seconds made me howl. How have I not come across this before :lol:
 
GnR Appetite
Metallica And Justice For All
Metallica Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Tom Petty Full Moon Fever

alternates
Van Halen 1984
AC/DC Back in Black
MJ Thriller
Iron Maiden Number of the Beast
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
 
  1. The Smiths - The Queen is dead
  2. Prince - Purple Rain (shame it didn’t have “Sign o’ the times” on it)
  3. U2 - Joshua Tree
  4. The Cure - Disintegration
  5. Kate Bush - Hounds of love (even though side.2 is odd, side.1 is excellent and Kate Bush was f.f.f.f.f.fit)
Odd one as 80s is probably my favourite decade and I thought I’d have dozens of options, but didn’t.. think it’s because I (mainly) like a few songs from hundreds of artists, as opposed to a smaller bunch of artists where I like every song/album they did… also couldn’t afford albums at the time so had to cherrypick singles.
 
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oneniltothearsenal said:
  1. Some Great Reward- Depeche Mode
Honorable Mentions
Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
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Nice. I’m saving myself for at least one (obvious) and maybe two DM albums in the 90s round.
Berbaclass said:
Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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That’s a very good shout. Relax got the headlines but Pleasuredome and Two Tribes better for me… a very good album
Bondi77 said:
Songs from the big chair - Tears for fears
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Did you know they’re releasing an album… mainly older stuff (from shows) but a few new songs too.

https://shop.tearsforfears.com/products/songs-for-a-nervous-planet-cd-tff
 
BeforeKeanetherewasRobson said:
Nice. I’m saving myself for at least one (obvious) and maybe two DM albums in the 90s round.
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The 90s is all electronica for me, though we called it techno back then. I think Some Great Reward is their best though.

Tears for Fears is a great shout though, I might revisit my list.
 
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Surfer Rosa - Pixies
Doolittle - Pixies (I can't choose one or the other, have to have both)
Graceland - Paul Simon
Bad - Michael Jackson (Thriller loses out because The Girl is Mine is shite)
 
Gonna be working like hell next week so have done my 90's list as I knew it would be tough. Have left off about 50 albums after a lot of deliberation.
 
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