My 25 "significant" albums

TTony

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!

shaunm

Nice! I would love to do that for my office. 

@TTony  did you once say you worked in insurance or have I imagined it?

TTony

I did once work in insurance @shaunm, so I possibly mentioned it, and you probably didn't imagine it



Getting canvases done is ridiculously cheap now.  That's a 2ft square canvas (roughly), and would cost <£30.

shaunm

I thought so, it’s what I do so I remembered it. 

Thats really great value. I am going to look into it. Do you have a link? 

Thinking up my 25 albums would be a mammoth task 

MagicPigDetective

Great idea, how did you do it, I wouldn’t know where to start

stickyfiddle

I like that. I don't know everything there, and not sure MrsF would like the idea as much as me, but I like it.

I wonder what my own "25" would be. I got to 8 quite easily, but then I have to start thinking a bit harder.

Help!
(What's the Story?) Morning Glory
The Joshua Tree
Born to Run
Led Zeppelin II
A Rush of Blood to the Head
Origin of Symmetry
Kid A

TTony

@shaunm
MyPicture.co.uk - but do NOT pay the standard prices because they keep bombarding my inbox with discount offers!

@magicpigdetective
Simple as a simple thing.
1.  Decide which albums you want to include (actually, that bit was reasonably hard).
2.  Source the album images.  Amazon is good, but there are plenty of sites about that provide album artwork for free.
3.  Use your drawing application of choice (I probably did it in Powerpoint!).
4.  Arrange the individual album images in a suitable layout.
5.  Save as a jpg or pdf or whatever - highest resolution possible.
6.  Upload to the site, pay your money, wait a week, take large package from courier, unwrap, and put on wall.

AlexC

Good project with an interesting result. Eclectic taste too - always good to,see. I'd quite happily spend time with any of those albums.

shaunm

I could do 25

Technotronic - Trip on this

 Neil Young - Hawks & Doves 

Led Zeppelin - 1 

Led Zeppelin - 4 

Led Zeppelin - 3 

Deep Purple - Made in Japan 

Audioslave - Audioslave 

Black Keys - Brothers 

Jeff Buckley - Grace 

Hendrix - Live at the Fillmore east 

John Mayer - Continuum 

Cat Stevens - The very best of 

Free - Heartbreaker

 Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals

 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 

REM - Monster 

REM - Automatic for the People 

Bon Jovi - Keep the faith 

Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way

 Lenny Kravitz - Circus 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Calafornication 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium 

Spin Doctors - Pocket full of Kryptonite 

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Albert King - In Session Sessions 10 - The Subliminal Sessions 

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 

Elbow - Leaders of the free world 

Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid 

The Hijacked - The Hijacked 

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 

Kula Shaker - K 

Gomez - Bring it on 

White Denim - D 

Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love 

Oasis - Be Here Now 

Makaveli - The Don Killuminati 

Fugees - The Score 

John Coltrane - Love Supreme 

Cream - Live volume 2

TTony

shaunm said:

I could do 25

You need to practice counting

shaunm

TTony said:

shaunm said:

I could do 25

You need to practice counting

I could do 25 

but it I couldn’t stop

Moss

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

darcym

I really enjoy these threads a.) it shows some nice art ideas b.) it shows some albums that I should consider listening to, it would be really interesting if you had any comments for some of the specific albums as to why, especially if it relates to musical content on the album

iseverynamegone

Great idea. My significant 25 would be so different to my current favourite 25. 

quarky

Awesome idea. I might steal it

TTony

quarky said:

Awesome idea. I might steal it

Do it!

There's stuff on my canvas that I'd probably not put on my top 25 today - nor even my top 250 probably - but they still have some sort of meaning to my life and that's really the point.

My "top" 25 would change regularly - something new and brilliant gets released and in it goes, pushing something else out of that top 25.

But my significant 25 has remained fairly static for the last 10-ish years (Cowboy Junkies' Studio would be the last new entrant).  Maybe that means my life has been more settled and less dramatic in the last decade than previously?

TTony

darcym said:

it would be really interesting if you had any comments for some of the specific albums as to why, especially if it relates to musical content on the album

Most of them don't relate to the musical content, it's more that the album was the soundtrack to an event (or period) in my life that I now see has having been significant.  I guess some are both life-soundtrack and musical content, but you'd generally find the life events backstories very boring!

Chuffola

Thanks @TTony - that's taken care of a windy Sunday afternoon for me.

Brilliant idea - would never have thought of it.

Another reason to love this place.  Well done.

RobDavies

I could make an entire canvas of Derek Riggs' Iron Maiden stuff.....

Thank you for this fantastic idea!

Reverend

RobDavies said:

I could an entire canvas of Derek Riggs' Iron Maiden stuff.....

Thank you for this fantastic idea!

I could.
And that would be my significant 25 

axisus

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