My 25 "significant" albums

quarky

CHRISB50 said:

Here is my 25. Collage to follow...

Elastica - Elastica

That almost made my list. I remember seeing them at a festival in NZ, and bought the CD straight after. Those were definitely good times!

CHRISB50

quarky said:

CHRISB50 said:

Here is my 25. Collage to follow...

Elastica - Elastica

That almost made my list. I remember seeing them at a festival in NZ, and bought the CD straight after. Those were definitely good times!

My Mrs at the time wrote a fanzine so I used to go and see them live a lot. Great band. 

lasermonkey

My 25 significant albums. Again, not necessarily my favourite 25 and in no particular order.

Cocteau Twins- Treasure
Boards Of Canada- Music Has The Right To Children
David Bowie- Low
Big Star- #1 Record
Brian Eno/Harold Budd- Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror
The Chameleons- Script Of The Bridge
Aphex Twin- Selected Ambient Works 1985-92
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Black Sabbath- Sabotage
The Velvet Underground And Nico- S/T
Buzzcocks- Love Bites
Siouxsie And the Banshees- Kaleidoscope
The Besnard Lakes- Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
Hawkwind- Masters Of The Universe
The Cure- Seventeen Seconds
Teenage Fanclub- Bandwagonesque
Iain Archer- Magnetic North
Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left
Neil Young And Crazy Horse- Live Rust
The Glove- Blue Sunshine
REM- Murmur
The Posies- Frosting On The Beater
Joy Division- Closer
Orbital- S/T
Rain Parade- Explosions In The Glass Palace

revsorg

Tasteful choices @lasermonkey - you've reminded me of This Mortal Coil...

Jonathangus

TTony

Three Dire Straits albums @jonathangus ???

Jonathangus

TTony said:

Three Dire Straits albums @jonathangus ???

Haha!  Yeah, I did think about bumping Love Over Gold, but:

The intro to Money For Nothing was my 'whoa, what's that?' moment.  The Sultans solo off Alchemy was my first gurning air guitar moment (don't mock, you've all done it).  Between the two of them is why I picked up a guitar in the first place.

And I know the track is on Alchemy as well, but Love Over Gold is there for the epic masterpiece that is Telegraph Road.  Which, if you'd asked us for our Desert Island Discs, would be on that particular list.

(BTW, like @Moss, I put the image together at Topsters.net, which makes it a doddle.)

Deadman

Man I'd love one of these but I'm just too lazy. My 25 would be something like:

The Damned - Damned Damned Damned

Penetration - Coming up for air

The Damned - Strawberries

The Jam - Sound Affects

The Smiths - Meat is murder

Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf

Pearl Jam - Ten

The Police - Outlandos D'Amour

The Clash - Give em enough rope

The Buzzcocks - Love bites

AC/DC - Highway to hell

Siouxsie and the banshees - Juju

Blur - Parklife

Stiff little fingers - Inflammable material

Elastica - Elastica

U2 - War

Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for democracy

The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4

Incubus - Morning view

Stereolab - Not music

Jimi - Axis: Bold as love

John Frusciante - Niandra Lades and usually just a t shirt

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Bloodsugarsexmagik

Kate Bush - The kick inside

New Order - Technique

quarky

Jonathangus said:

High n Dry was just so good. Practically the entire album is awesome to (try to) play on guitar too. Definitely one of my all time favourite albums, but I didn't have it on mine because it didn't wasn't as important, even if it is a favourite.

richardhomer

Right, I’ll have a go:

67-70 ‘Blue’ album - The Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Naturally - J J Cale
Five - J J Cale
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Communique - Dire Straits
461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton
No Reason to Cry - Eric Clapton
Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Grace and Danger - John Martyn
One World - John Martyn
Sunday’s Child - John Martyn
Moonflower - Santana
Daring Adventure - Richard Thompson
Across a Crowded Room - Richard Thompson
A Walk Across the Rooftops - The Blue Nile
Hats - The Blue Nile
Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk
The Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk
So - Peter Gabriel
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Hejiera - Joni Mitchell
Gaucho - Steely Dan

Deadman

Remind me never to come round your house Rich.

*runs away*

MagicPigDetective

Ok here’s mine:

Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

Nirvana - In Utero

 Verve - A Storm in Heaven

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Helmet - Betty

Adorable- Against Perfection

Led Zep II

Ride- Going Blank Again

Sugar - Copper Blue

L7 Bricks are heavy

Dinosaur Jr - Where u been

Orbital II

Iron Maiden live after death 

Super Furries - Radiator

Jimi - Radio 1

Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

Pavement - Crooked Rain 

Pink Floyd Dark side

Neil Young Live Rust

Rage against the machine 1st album

The Smiths - Queen is dead

Smashing pumpkins Siamese dream

Suede suede

Stone Roses Second coming 

richardhomer

Deadman said:

Remind me never to come round your house Rich.

*runs away*

Would you really expect ‘cool’ or ‘edgy’ from me?

mudslide73

I very much respect your inclusion of Smell The Glove @Jonathangus ;

revsorg

@MagicPigDetective how did you select Erpland? I've always thought the Ozrics play a slight variant on one song. I put one of their albums in my list because it brings me such joy when one of their songs comes up on a random playlist.

UnclePsychosis

It's really interesting looking at other people's lists and seeing where their tastes do and don't intersect with mine.

For example the vast majority of @Deadman 's picks are absolutely great. And then there's parklife in the middle which I utterly detest.

Similarly @MagicPigDetective who ruined his by adding Floyd :-D

Sorry fellas, only joshing. Weird how taste works though. 

Philly_Q

I thought I'd have a go at this and after 5 minutes I'm probably up to 50 or 60 albums...

Showing my technical incompetence here (as usual), but how are you assembling the collages of covers?

TTony

UnclePsychosis said:

Sorry fellas, only joshing. Weird how taste works though. 

But the whole point of this @UnclePsychosis is that it's not really about taste.

Probably half of the albums in my Significant 25 aren't ones that I listen to regularly.  They'd certainly not be in my Top or Favourite 25 today.  

But when I do hear them, they have a load of associated memories of events or periods in my life that I still recognise as being "significant".  They take me back to those times in much the same way that photos do for people - reawaken those memories.

Hence these would probably be my Desert Island selection because they have most meaning, rather than being my current (and likely to change) favourites.

TTony

Philly_Q said:

Showing my technical incompetence here (as usual), but how are you assembling the collages of covers?

Well, I did mine the labour-intensive way of finding the artwork in folders, downloading it when it wasn't there, equalising all the sizes, and then using Powerpoint to arrange them all, but - naturally - there appears to be an easier way ...

Jonathangus said:
(BTW, like @Moss, I put the image together at Topsters.net, which makes it a doddle.)

But if you've got 50 or 60 @Philly_Q ; you've either had a very long life, or lots of significant events in your life that had a strong musical soundtrack

quarky

Philly_Q said:

I thought I'd have a go at this and after 5 minutes I'm probably up to 50 or 60 albums...

Showing my technical incompetence here (as usual), but how are you assembling the collages of covers?

First of all they need to be square. You can open and crop in something like Paint.net to get them square. 

Then I imported them into Visio, resized them using the grab handles, and snapped them together. Then saved as PNG/JPG.