I’m off on holiday tomorrow and will have basically no internet for over a week. So naturally I’m downloading all the media I can think of, just in case of downtime.
Thought it might be fun to solicit some musical suggestions from you lot to help expand my mind. So here we are. What’s your ultimate all-time #1 album?
My tastes are pretty eclectic* so feel free to suggest basically anything, and maybe I’ll update after holiday and judge what I thought of them all. Or maybe not, you know, that sounds like potentially quite a lot of effort.
Cheers in advance!
* mostly on the alternative / rock side of things but also love various kinds of dance sub-genre on occasion and of course the genre-that-isn’t-a-genre-at-all, Eurovision
Obviously impossible but probably Music has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada or Journey in satchidananda by Alice Coltrane
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory!
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, probably my most enduring album (i.e. the one I’ve liked for the longest period of time while other tastes have come and gone).
If you want an album with a narrative Jeff Wayne’s war of the worlds is pretty brilliant and so the ‘the point’.
Master Of Puppets. Greatest pure metal album ever made.
Obviously
The Prodigyhas to make the list.‘Thick as a Brick’ Jethro Tull.
More of a grower than an immediate album but, once you tune in, there’s so much going on I never get bored.
Seems like I’m gonna have plenty of listening time while we travel, so let’s see how long it takes for this one to stick!
Sorry - I can only narrow it down to three:
The Race For Space - Public Service Broadcasting
**American Idiot **- Green Day
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Two great choices, and I assume from those that the Green Day album is good too lol, I’d stopped listening to them by that point I think. Fun fact we once saw Public Service Broadcasting live, completely by accident, they were just doing a random gig on a stage in Newcastle city centre. Was mint.
Daft Punk - Discovery
with The Strokes - Is This It a close 2nd.
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants - beautiful music and very easy to listen to endlessly.
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Something by The Rumjacks. I generally listen to them on the phone or computer, so I’m not sure which songs are from which albums.
On a more personal note, One By One, by Chris Summerill. He’s a friend, but the track Away We Go is genuinely one of my favourite songs. Ideal for sitting in the sun with a beer 👍
Disintegration, The Cure. Not only does it have some of their most beautiful songs on, the production is incredible.
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
I wouldn’t listen to any album forever, but Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing is great for listening to again and again.
