Legend by Bob Marley, Thriller and Off The Wall by Michael Jackson and Sign Of The Times by Prince. The Chronic by Dr Dre is excellent as well. Marc Bolan's stuff is pretty good. There are lots more that are pretty good.
Pretty much all of the music I listen to would fall into that category.
When I was a kid I was totally obsessed with Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds and I memorised the entire narrative of it.
"No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.
No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets.
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes.
And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us"
Dun Da-dun dah...
If my brain wasn't filled with that crap, I bet there'd be room for stuff like my bank details and internet passwords.
Pretty much all of the music I listen to would fall into that category.
When I was a kid I was totally obsessed with Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds and I memorised the entire narrative of it.
"No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.
No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets.
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes.
And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us"
Dun Da-dun dah...
If my brain wasn't filled with that crap, I bet there'd be room for stuff like my bank details and internet passwords.
The words spoken by Richard Burton, just give it so much meaning
Fantastic three minute long boy meets girl pop songs..........for when you get a bit jaded with Sergeant Peppers, Pink Floyd and Beethoven.......and just want something simple and sing-a-long
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse.
The Black Album - Metallica
Swim - Feeder
Bleach - Nirvana
Generation Terrorists - Manic Street Preachers
The Lost Boys Soundtrack
52nd Street, Songs in the Attic and The Stranger, all by Billy Joel.
The best of the Carpenters
I didn't buy an album or CD for years until I heard Keane, bought Hopes & Dreams and regularly listen to it. It never grows old for me.
There are some albums, considered to be classics, that didn't interest me much when I was younger but which I have discovered as my taste changed and, perhaps, matured. I now listen to them regularly.
Two of those are Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John. Better Off Dead... what a great song!
Single-wise, I could never get tired of hearing Hotel California by The Eagles. To me it is one of the best records ever made.
I listen to a lot of music from years ago but I cannot go more than a week or so without listening to ASTRAL WEEKS - Van Morrison. It, to me, is just sublime especially the tracks Madam George and Ballerina.
Everything that Bowie has ever done I regularly listen too plus Obscured by Clouds by Pink Floyd, Vagabonds of the Western World by Thin Lizzy, Queen & Queen II by Queen, Optical Race - Tangerine Dream plus load more
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Blondie, 'Parallel Lines' 1978.
Both made around the same time as me ;-)
When I was a kid I was totally obsessed with Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds and I memorised the entire narrative of it.
"No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.
No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets.
And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes.
And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us"
Dun Da-dun dah...
If my brain wasn't filled with that crap, I bet there'd be room for stuff like my bank details and internet passwords.
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
get played all the time round my house and have been for over 40 years
The words spoken by Richard Burton, just give it so much meaning
Discovery - ELO
Sergeant Pepper - Beatles
Fantastic three minute long boy meets girl pop songs..........for when you get a bit jaded with Sergeant Peppers, Pink Floyd and Beethoven.......and just want something simple and sing-a-long
The Black Album - Metallica
Swim - Feeder
Bleach - Nirvana
Generation Terrorists - Manic Street Preachers
The Lost Boys Soundtrack
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Ten - Pearl Jam
Nevermind - Nirvana
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Dirt - Alice In Chains
The Cramps - 'Smell of Female' Not a bad track on it. Probably my favourite live album.
I also love Was Not Was 'Are You OK' but that does sound a bit 80's.
Honorable mention to Malcolm McLaren's 'Fans' - a gateway into Opera but I do prefer the arias on there in their 'natural' state these days.
Another vote for War of the Worlds, Parallel lines & Legend.
I'm rediscovering lots on Spotify too. Little embarrassed to admit Belinda Carlyle's Runaway Horses falls into that Category
Odysey by the Zombies
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Kite - Kirsty Maccoll
Queen is Dead - Smiths
Banarama - Greatest Hits
The best of the Carpenters
I didn't buy an album or CD for years until I heard Keane, bought Hopes & Dreams and regularly listen to it. It never grows old for me.
There are some albums, considered to be classics, that didn't interest me much when I was younger but which I have discovered as my taste changed and, perhaps, matured. I now listen to them regularly.
Two of those are Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John. Better Off Dead... what a great song!
Single-wise, I could never get tired of hearing Hotel California by The Eagles. To me it is one of the best records ever made.
I love listening to The Wall by Pink Floyd. I can sing every song and know every word.
Who's Next - The Who
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Fire and Water - Free
To Our Childrens Childrens Children - The Moody Blues
Plus stacks of others. This is my era of music
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos
City to City - Gerry Rafferty
Any of the first 5 Queen albums
Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here
Led Zep I
Super Trouper - Abba
Purple Rain...& others.
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Portishead - Dummy
Peter Gabriel - So
Lamb - Lamb
System of a Down - Toxicity
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
The Beautiful South - Solid Bronze