My 25 "significant" albums

TTony

axisus said:

I only like 4 of your choices! And only one might make my 25. If I was living by myself I'd have album art everywhere, but I'm married so, no ... Just no

I don't necessarily like them @axisus, they're the 25 with most meaning.  My top25 liked albums would be very different.

axisus

TTony said:

axisus said:

I only like 4 of your choices! And only one might make my 25. If I was living by myself I'd have album art everywhere, but I'm married so, no ... Just no

I don't necessarily like them @axisus, they're the 25 with most meaning.  My top25 liked albums would be very different.

Fair enough. I think that my two lists would be practically the same to be honest

revsorg

These are my 25 meaningful albums.  I got a bit carried away. 

Octahedron

revsorg said:

These are my 25 meaningful albums.  I got a bit carried away. 

I love love love that Philip Sayce album. Just saying.
And also that Rammstein album, actually, funnily enough. I remember they did Mutter and that was a stellar classic - and then they did Rosenrot and that was a huuuuuge disappointment and then they came back with Reise Reise and smashed it out of the park! And then they've never done anything good since. :P

quarky

Great to see Page and Plant on there. I made a collage of 15 so far, and that is on mine. It is actually the album that got me into Led Zep.

tone1

TTony said:

The walls of my new office were looking rather bare, and so I did a couple of canvases of "things" that meant something to me.

One was guitar-related, and another was music (CD) related.

A 5x5 matrix of album covers that have been "significant" to me during my life in one way or another.  Not my "best" or "favourite" albums, not even the ones that I play most often, and certainly not anything that wins trendy or cool points, but probably my "desert island" albums.  It's the music that has most meaning for me.

Each one has a significance, a whole series of memories, for different events in my life that I now see as significant.

Having done that, I thought that perhaps we get too caught up in what's technically good, what's popular, what the critics say we should be listening too, and none of that is really the point of music.

The point should be what it means to us, individually.

Just thought I'd share, but not sure why!

Are you gonna hang it on your front door in hope that Phil Collins scares the Kids off at Halloween? 

quarky

Managed to put some together. Nowhere near as eclectic as some on here, but they are all part of the story for me. It was great fun putting this together actually, thanks for the inspiration!

https://i.imgur.com/HnnITZf.jpg

BintyTwanger77

Moss said:

Because I'm pro and all that (and yes I'm aware this is 50)

You have immaculate taste.

rustneversleeps

Nice to see a bit of Neil there.

underdog

I've got a couple of canvas to get printed, similar idea to the CD covers but I'm going to pick the best of the pearl Jam tour posters, and maybe also one with the GnR ones too.

Veganic

revsorg said:

These are my 25 meaningful albums.  I got a bit carried away. 

The wrong Rainbow album.
The wrong Sabbath album.
The wrong U2.
The wrong Bowie.
The wrong Scorpions.
The wrong Van Halen.
The wrong Genesis.
The wrong The Clash.

It's like you are really trying to fuck with my mind.

(Not serious, your choice is your choice, but you knew that obv.)

revsorg

So you're saying I chose the right Klaus Wunderlich album.  That's a relief.

Veganic

revsorg said:

So you're saying I chose the right Klaus Wunderlich album.  That's a relief.

I'll be checking Klaus out on youtube. I'll get back to you.

Philly_Q

I'm trying to understand why @revsorg's "25" albums come out in a different order when people quote him.

Nice to see Winger in there.

revsorg

I spent 6 weeks in Montreal in 1990 and listened to that Winger album constantly while I was there.  It really evokes a time for me.

Rainbow's Down To Earth isn't their best album, but they opened at Castle Donington in 1980 with Don Airey playing the intro to Eyes of the World.  The sound.  And the lights.  Made such a strong impression on me - the best start to a concert ever.

Philly_Q

revsorg said:

Rainbow's Down To Earth isn't their best album, but they opened at Castle Donington in 1980 with Don Airey playing the intro to Eyes of the World.  The sound.  And the lights.  Made such a strong impression on me - the best start to a concert ever.

I was there too.   And I'd probably also pick Down To Earth as "my" Rainbow album, simply because it was the first one I bought.

fields5069

Velvets' Live 1969! Great choice.

CHRISB50

Here is my 25. Collage to follow...

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
X-Ecutioners - X-Pressions
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam -Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Screaming Trees - Shadow of the Season
The Jam - Sound Effects
Fleetwood Mac - Pious Bird of Good Omen
Fleetwood Mac - Boston Blues
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against the Soul
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Ride - Going Blank Again
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
These Animal Men - (Come on Join) The High Society
Elastica - Elastica
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish

revsorg

One of my self-imposed rules was that any band can only feature once.

fields5069

Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Pulp - Different Class
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
JAMC - Psychocandy

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Velvet Underground & Nico
Lou Reed - Transformer
Pixies - Doolittle
Free - Fire And Water

Radiohead - Amnesiac
McAlmont & Butler - The Sound Of
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
A CD I can't remember the name of - the source tracks from US3's Hand On The Torch - Grant Green, Herbie Hancock etc.
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory

David Byrne - The Complete Score From The Broadway Production of The Catherine Wheel
Sigur Ros - Aegis Byrjun
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
Damien Jurado - Visions Of Us On The Land
Scott Walker - Scott 4

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command
A Silver Mt Zion - Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists
The Divine Comedy - Promenade