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I’ve plenty of top ten albums that have always played (pun intended) a big part in my life but every now and then one turns up and it’s like where the hell did you go and why have I not listened to this for decades….
Stand up Elvis Costello My Aim is True
Frickin ace and totally forgotten till this evening when I found it (cd) in an old box of stuff and whacked it in the stereo.
streaming is great but tend to just rinse and repeat same old stuff. Can’t beat a bit of physical media from glory days gone by
whats your forgotten gem?
Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy". Stuck the CD in the stereo while I was cooking a curry yesterday - 32 minutes of genius. It's just sad that the only thing he's remembered for is Werewolves.
God, love Penthouse and Pavement, such a great album
I re-discovered two this week.
Songs From the Big Chair; Tears for Fears.
and
Eden; Everything But the Girl
both 1984, perhaps the universe is trying to tell me something
Just rediscovered and introduced to my 18 year old daughter. We’re both in agreement that it’s the work of genius
Binners, the second album is a bloody masterpiece too.
Rock music to dance to. Love it.
Done And Dusted by the Dust Junkies. Loved these guys when it came out, completely forgot they'd ever existed for years... Weirdest thing, someone posted a video in the crudcatcher offtopic section on bikeradar, of someone driving half a car around a field, and I thought, I know that background music... Figured it out, it was the breakdown in Non Stop Operation, got the album out, never stopped listening to it again, hope I never will
I can't claim I'd forgotten it existed but it had drifted to the bottom of a pile of CD's over time until the '25 years since......' thread popped up earlier this week.
Purists will sneer at compression and whatever but spotify and decent headphones on loud, and what an album Mezzanine is.
‘Take The Long Road And Walk It’ is a fine track, but I only got around to checking out the album fairly recently, tbh.
Mezzanine is a superb album, saw them on that tour. I just wish they were a bit more productive.
Same with Portishead, much the same work ethic - must be the laid-back Bristolian culture. Haven’t listened to any Massive Attack for a while, must rectify that in a minute - Apple Lossless with wired Røde studio ‘phones; should sound ok.
The Associates ‘Sulk’.
G’n’R’s ‘Appetite for Destruction’ still sounds so blimmin raw.
G’n’R’s ‘Appetite for Destruction’ still sounds so blimmin raw.
Totally agree! I was playing this last week. I hardly listen to albums now and tend to just stick Spotify play lists on although that has been changing the past few months.
I’ve plenty of top ten albums
How many? 😂
I stuck on the Magic Numbers first record the other day, forgot how summery and cheerful it is. Also, just finished reading 'Our band could be your life' so rediscovering various Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth and Mudhoney albums.
various Fugazi ... Sonic Youth ..albums
Me too! I was recently put onto an excellent (very progressive, not for everyone) album, Schlagenheim by Black Midi, and it put me in mind to revisit Sonic Youth, as well as Fugazi and NoMeansNo. I love those musical avenues.
Stone The Crows- Teenage Licks.
I had my iTunes on to shuffle every song I loaded from my old CD collection while I was off work with covid and Faith No More’s Epic came on. Had to play the whole The Real Thing album after that. Old favourite album from my school days.
Haters gonna hate, but picked up Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours recently having had it played to death in the car as a kid. It’s not all that, but there’s a lot going on.
My 18 year old daughter plays this album all the time and is absolutely obsessed with Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks. I love the fact that musically its a two way street and she introducing me to loads of new stuff (she's got me into Greta Van Fleet, amongst other things, who we went to see last summer).
Heres another one of my old classics that we've rediscovered together and she loves...
Not a bad track on it!
Love by The Cult
Didn't fully read what was posted before my comment but great minds etc Binners 😀
@DaveyBoyWonder - my first proper gig was on that tour. Manchester Apollo with Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy in full on rock god mode. Absolutely blew my 15 year old mind. I'd still say its my favourite ever gig 😀
As for great rediscovered albums, this is an absolute belter too..
Heres something to get your week off to a good start...
Billy Duffy jamming with Johnny Marr
They went to school together in Ancoats and have always been big mates
The The’s ‘Mind Bomb’
100%
From a similar point in time (a couple of years earlier I think)
Haters gonna hate
With the caveat that no musical taste is bad musical taste, anyone who can't recognise that Rumours is one of the all time greatest albums is probably best off being ignored.
Not my favourite of theirs, but it's 20 years old now and still on rotation in my Spotify 😬
Rediscovered this after easily a decade gathering dust, the sheer pell-mell out of control velocity of it and the raw emotion behind the vocals really bites, incredible piece of work.
Great bass tone too.
Stone The Crows- Teenage Licks.
Ooh that takes me back.
Cheers @binners ! Opened the thread for a little inspiration and remembered i really like The Music album (Getaway is the best track though ;))
I saw The Music in Truro and supporting were The Subways, whose Young For Eternity album i haven't listened to in ages. That's today's listening sorted.
I finally got my Brennan B3 and have been digitising all of my old CD's - played Mayhem by Imelda May at the weekend, I forgot I even owned it, it was great.
and Yes I know I could have streamed it, but - sound quality and it would never have crossed my mind to say Alexa play Imelda May.
This is absolutely the point @NJA I would never of thought of playing Elvis Costello on Apple music.
@SC-XC I've got LOADS of top tens! Top ten punk, top ten indy, top ten rock.....even top ten violin sonata (1 Maurice Ravel Sonata No.2 in G Major)
I have also just found Psychocandy and Barbed Wire Kisses on vinyl in the same box - stopped listening to Mary Chain after they put out rubbish like Munki but forgotten they did some good stuff first
And Rumours is absolutely fantastic but that can't be called a forgotten classic - I listen to the Mac all the time - In fact I was listening to Splinter Group on the way to work
EDIT Just put on Barbed Wire Kisses - there is that cover of Surfin USA! Thats got to go in my Top 10 Covers
The D.O.A/Jello album, Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbours.
Not listened to it in years... .both more and less extreme than remembered.
Top notch hatred, as expected.
Musically less of a blunt weapon than previously.
Metal has become thrashier over the years, Punk more melodic.
Still hits really hard, still a shock, but less tiring and harsh than I remember.
And all the above....
Still listen to The Beta Band.....
Came to post The Cult. Electric but beaten to it. Completely boneheaded AC/DC pastiche but astonishingly good despite that. Makes me grin every time I sort through the vinyl collection and find it.
Oh yeah,the first 2 Muse albums. Not that I'd really forgotten them, it just got to that point that I knew them both so well I just never really played them. And then more recent Muse albums kind of killed them and built a patio over them and I didn't want to listen to any Muse at all. But they are so damn good. Though the Hullabaloo live album is probably still the best way to listen to em.
Mindfunk - Dropped.
I didn't so much forget it as forget how good it is.
You probably should never have the word "funk" in your band name unless you play funk.
Soft Machine: 5th
Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother
Miles Davis: Get up a with It
& Live Evil
More recently -
Kruder & Dorfmeister: DJKicks
Showing my age!
Dust by Screaming Trees and Rancid And Out Come The Wolves are two I’ve revisited recently. The former is one of the best albums of the whole Seattle scene in my opinion. The latter is the only good album Rancid released. Not a bad track on it and deserves to be ranked with the top punk albums.
Just tonight, Thank Christ for the Bomb, Groundhogs.
And Rory Gallagher Live in Europe. I'm 15ish again.
I recently thought about some albums I used to listen to in the 90s and hadn't heard for ages, looked these up on YouTube:
The offspring - smash
Spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
The prodigy - music for a jilted generation
Therapy? - troublegum
Elastica - Elastica
Not sure how they rank compared to some of the classics above but it took me back.
Soft Machine: 5th
Blimey, another Softs fan.
Funnily I seldom play 5th. Usually Third, Six, Bundles and Live in Paris. With an occasional play of 1 and 2.
None, they all get an airing from time to time.
Played this recently for first time in many years.
Contemporaries of Scotland's best known soul band in 70s the Average White Band, not as well known, but this was a fine album, even if it sounds a little of its time now:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/cado-belle-mw0000704998
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray .
The Triffids - The Black Swan
Moby - Play
Son#2 dug them out my cd collection the other week.
👍
This popped up in my Instagram feed as I follow a number of post punk pages.
I remember seeing them on the Tube, Muriel Grey introduced them as the ugliest band in rock and roll.
I have seen mentioned a few times The The! Soul Mining if you haven't listened to you should!
Just tonight, Thank Christ for the Bomb, Groundhogs.
Ooh that's reminded me of Split. Must put it on later.
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
2 LP's I recently picked out the cupboard after a very long absence and really enjoyed again.
Was browsing the listings for Record Day last week, saw there was a picture disc for Violent Femmes/Violent Femmes. Not many more incongruous selections for a picture disc imo, but never mind.
Can't remember the last time I heard the whole album, so pulled it out, dusted it down and played both sides. Not sure whether it was nostalgia or what, but still sounded fantastic to my ears.
@vinnyeh, love that album, it gets play regularly at ours. Blister in the sun was a floor filler at the local indie disco in the mid 80's.
Not that old, but I've been enjoying this since it turned up when unpacking recently...
I know they're reasonably big, but they should be more popular than Taylor Swift IMO.
especially since Mark Stewart died last week (and nobody seems that bothered), "Y" by the pop group. Dug it out in his honour the other day.
Not an easy listen but a mighty record.
(esp the re-release with the bonus of she is beyond good and evil - bought that album on CD when my single became unplayable)
(+1 for Spiritualized, and an added Longpigs - the sun is often out)
My somewhat eclectic choices include -
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Ogden's Nutgone Flake by the Small Faces</span>
Simple Man by Klaus Nomi
Sheik Yerbouti by Frank Zappa
(The latter probably NSFW)
Sheik Yerbouti by Frank Zappa
Utterly brilliant.
Don't often listen to albums nowadays but have music playing all the time
Recently refound hawkwind.
Crikey. Just found Truth Jeff Beck. Rod Stewart on vocals. The vinyl is 3mm thick.
Not that it is an album anyone could forget t but it had been a while until I listened to it a couple of weeks ago…
Nevermind!
You know it’s good. Then you listen to it and remember… it is ****** incredible!
Burned by Elextrafixion (AKA half the Bunnymen).
Not as bad as you might expect for late period McCulloch
A few recent ones:
Black Crowes - Shake your money maker
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Seahorses - Do it yourself
Beck - Odelay
Chemical Brothers - Exit planet dust
Roni Size Reprazents - New forms
Manics - Generation terrorists
Ogden’s Nutgone Flake by the Small Faces
Ah yes, that gets a regular airing ofor me. Stanley Unwin FTW!
Stanley Unwin FTW!
"Are you all sitting comftybold two square on your botty"?
Until recently hadn't listened to the full album since the 90s:
Lot of tracks that make a lot more sense to an older, more disillusioned me..
Silverchair - Frogstomp.
I forgot just how good they were, and so young at the time as well.
+1 for Silverchair. My son got me into them, along with Live, Offspring and Tool.
Kids eh?
Not very hip or cool but I put old new borrowed and blue by Slade on the stereo the other night.
Must be because I grew up not far from wolvo but I still like them.
@martinhutch you're spot on with So. I bought the cassette (along with a Cutting Crew album) to take on French exchange trip in 1986 and I found myself on a remote farm with bugger all to do except listen to my walkman. Great album.
just amazing really. what a band.
Put "The Black Album" by The Damned on yesterday. Forgot what a complete masterpiece it is. Not a duff track on there.
Also gave "Metal Box" by PiL a run out a couple of weeks ago. Again, utter brilliance.
@wordnumb From memory, they were originally call Mindf*ck but the label made them change it. But yes, terrible name!
People Who Fell From the Sky was also a phenomenal album. That's one CD that I hold on to dearly as it's not on any streaming services. Possibly uploaded to YouTube. How they went from C*ck Rock Cheese to Sludgy Doomy goodness then disappear is a mystery.
Correction, it is! Oof! those first two tracks!
Spitspatspot sed> it’s not on any streaming service
Yeah, more people are now realising this fact of streaming services, a lot of more idiosyncratic stuff will not be available. There was a piece in the Guardian this week about classic films you can't stream, soon it'll be anything less popular just won't be worth the server space. Many good records and films will be totally forgotten existed to death.
Just to keep this brilliant thread alive...just fished out Argus, Wishbone Ash. The very first time a girl broke my heart. At 18 it took ages to get over her, all my fault, I was a ****, but hey. Yanks on my heart strings 50yrs later.
Following a conversation with a colleague this afternoon chatting about a school funk band I was in, I've managed to find a mate who had the mp3 of the album we recorded on an old computer. Still holds its weight! Had some very talented mates at school (a few of them are still musicians).
Coming up 20 years old now! Haven't heard it for at least 18...
Embrace -good will out
My vitriol-finelines
Wilt-medicine man
Editors-the black room
All got a play recently for the first time in over a decade
@chakaping there incredible live too mate and had Taylor come on for a song .
That's a great album
Not a well known album by any stretch, but I saw one of my favourite singer/songwriters the other evening, Gemma Hayes, and she played a song for the first time in fifteen years recently, and listening to it I realised the lyrics had a very strong personal connection, about loss and grief, which I mentioned to Gem afterwards. I checked in my Music Library after I got home and realised that it hadn’t shown up after I linked my iTunes library to iCloud, and I’d completely forgotten the album. It’s called Hollow Of Morning, from 2008, and I listened to it last night for what must be quite a few years.