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There's this thing going around on that social media medium known as Faceache where you are supposed to list your top ten LP's, posting the sleeve pic of one each day.
I couldn't be bothered with that but it did prompt me to think about what my favourite records would be. It's very difficult to nail it down to ten but in the end I did it from a shortlist of 32. It surprised me there's very little black music like Old Ska & Reggae, Bob Marley, Tamla Motown, Stax, Volt, Stevie Wonder and more musical genres which feature amongst my favourites as they are played often at home.
Still, I was brutally honest and this is my final choice, in no particular order, for top ten albums (well, it is as at 22nd April 2018
)
Unhalfbricking – Fairport Convention
Strictly Personal – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Led Zeppelin 1
Forever Changes – Love
Revolver – The Beatles
Black Sabbath – The 1st LP
Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
The Autumn Stone – The Small Faces
Dusty In Memphis – Dusty Springfield
And this was my initial list of 32, twas a hard job whittling this lot down to ten:
What We Did On Our Holidays – Fairport Convention
Unhalfbricking – Fairport Convention
Hot Rats – Frank Zappa
Strictly Personal – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Led Zeppelin 1
Then Play On – Fleetwood Mac
Obscured By Clouds – Pink Floyd
Ars Longa Vita Brevis – The Nice
Forever Changes – Love
Santana – The Third LP
Morrison Hotel – The Doors
Seventh Sojourn – The Moody Blues
Once Again – Barclay James Harvest
Dusty In Memphis – Dusty Springfield
Stray – The First LP
Loaded – Velvet Underground
This Was – Jethro Tull
Black Sabbath – The 1st LP
Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
Get Your Ya Ya’s Out – The Rolling Stones
The Autumn Stone – The Small Faces
Who’s Next – The Who
Blood Sugar Sex Magic – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
Revolver – The Beatles
Rubber Soul – The Beatles
Even Serpents Shine – The Only Ones
Vs – Pearl Jam
Never Never Land – Pink Fairies
Are You Experienced – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Zuma – Neil Young
And while we're all about lists, Barbarian recently posted a link to an all time top 150 albums by females, as voted for by a cross section of the UK population. I browsed through and was surprised to note that I only owned 13 of them on vinyl LP's. I do have a lot more of that top 150 on FLAC files but still...
Here's the 13 I own:
The Pretenders 1st LP (Chrissie Hynde)
The B-52's 1st LP (Kate Pierson & Cindy Wilson)
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Carly Simon - No Secrets
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Blondie - Paralell Lines
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Stevie Nicks & Christine Perfect)
Janis Joplin - Pearl
It did occur to me that bands that just happen to have female vocalists may not strictly be female artists but I suppose that would be getting a bit nit picky.
If you have any musical lists you'd like to share then please do.
I couldn't be bothered with that but it did prompt me to think about what my favourite records would be. It's very difficult to nail it down to ten but in the end I did it from a shortlist of 32. It surprised me there's very little black music like Old Ska & Reggae, Bob Marley, Tamla Motown, Stax, Volt, Stevie Wonder and more musical genres which feature amongst my favourites as they are played often at home.
Still, I was brutally honest and this is my final choice, in no particular order, for top ten albums (well, it is as at 22nd April 2018
)Unhalfbricking – Fairport Convention
Strictly Personal – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Led Zeppelin 1
Forever Changes – Love
Revolver – The Beatles
Black Sabbath – The 1st LP
Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
The Autumn Stone – The Small Faces
Dusty In Memphis – Dusty Springfield
And this was my initial list of 32, twas a hard job whittling this lot down to ten:
What We Did On Our Holidays – Fairport Convention
Unhalfbricking – Fairport Convention
Hot Rats – Frank Zappa
Strictly Personal – Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Led Zeppelin 1
Then Play On – Fleetwood Mac
Obscured By Clouds – Pink Floyd
Ars Longa Vita Brevis – The Nice
Forever Changes – Love
Santana – The Third LP
Morrison Hotel – The Doors
Seventh Sojourn – The Moody Blues
Once Again – Barclay James Harvest
Dusty In Memphis – Dusty Springfield
Stray – The First LP
Loaded – Velvet Underground
This Was – Jethro Tull
Black Sabbath – The 1st LP
Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
Get Your Ya Ya’s Out – The Rolling Stones
The Autumn Stone – The Small Faces
Who’s Next – The Who
Blood Sugar Sex Magic – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Silent Alarm – Bloc Party
Revolver – The Beatles
Rubber Soul – The Beatles
Even Serpents Shine – The Only Ones
Vs – Pearl Jam
Never Never Land – Pink Fairies
Are You Experienced – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Zuma – Neil Young
And while we're all about lists, Barbarian recently posted a link to an all time top 150 albums by females, as voted for by a cross section of the UK population. I browsed through and was surprised to note that I only owned 13 of them on vinyl LP's. I do have a lot more of that top 150 on FLAC files but still...
Here's the 13 I own:
The Pretenders 1st LP (Chrissie Hynde)
The B-52's 1st LP (Kate Pierson & Cindy Wilson)
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Carly Simon - No Secrets
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Blondie - Paralell Lines
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Stevie Nicks & Christine Perfect)
Janis Joplin - Pearl
It did occur to me that bands that just happen to have female vocalists may not strictly be female artists but I suppose that would be getting a bit nit picky.
If you have any musical lists you'd like to share then please do.
That being said, I know what you mean about Liam. Noel is the one with the talent, and I'm a fan of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
