Self-explanatory, really. Hats by The Blue Nile is a fantastic album, but it needs to be re-recorded in its entirety because it sounds so flipping 80s (yes, I know about Craig Armstrong).

Soul II Soul Club Classics Vol I (with a nod to charleah )

Older by George Michael (controversial)

Pretty much anything by Fela Kuti - I was listening to his 1969 sessions over the weekend and my wife thought it was one of those Jazzanova-style electro compilations I occasionally go in for

What's Going On by Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues in particualr sounds like it was recorded this afternoon

Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan - still sounds minty fresh

Arguably the greatestalbum of all time - Off The Wall by Michael Jackson (none of his other solo albums, however. Thriller's a great album, but it has dated.)

I'm sure we can think of more.

OK Computer - Radiohead... Ok, its relatively new, but it doesn't sound like a lot of other 90s albums and still sounds fresh.

im not to sure if i can put forward albums that havent dated because of the drastic increases in the quality of production, and certain years have a `sound` like the eighties.but i would like to say that dark side of the moon is an ageless recording.certain tracks have that value as well i always thought that nights in white satin has got that timeless edge.
but if i had to list albums that live on i would def` include the orbs adventures beyond the ultraworld.radiohead ok computer.apollo440 electro glide in blue.underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman.groove armada vertigo amongst others.

off the top of my head :

simple minds - *sparkle in the rain* (how they got from being quite so brilliant to quite so crap has always baffled me)

propaganda - *a secret wish* (brilliant, yet almost unnoticed album from 1985)

Iain

The Fontana album (also called Butterfly) by The House of Love. Sounds like it came out this year.

Mezzanine by Massive Attack - it's just dark enough to mean it doesn't sound like late 90s trendy Hoxton bar stuff.

Swagger by The Blue Aeroplanes. I think - I don't have this anymore. But what a great lost album.

24 Years Of Hunger by Eg and Alice. Probably the greatest pop album ever made, this. You might remember the single, Indian: "Please don't tell me I'm an Indian..." Every track on this is fantastic. I remember reading a review of this in a long-defunct magazine called 20/20, which called it the offspring of Prefab Sprout and Prince. Pretty spot on. I'm amazed at how fresh this sounds, every time I put it on (regularly).

Talk Is Cheap by Keith Richards. It would be very hard to tell this was made in the 80s, I think. Compare to Jagger's stuff at the time, like Let's Work, where it's blindingly obvious.

In a not good way - everything by Jamiroquai. Almost impossible to tell when he's recorded his stuff, as it's all Stevie Wonder influenced acid jazz circa 1992. He hasn't changed one bit.

Either Definately Maybe or What`s the story ( Morning Glory) by Oasis will stand the test of time

Iain, I salute you!

That was indeed an all time classic album and still sounds great today.

I think i've lost this tape too great album from ye olde student days - still have the box, so the tape must be somewhere. have been listening to old tapes recently as we've been doing up the kitchen, and did come across a tape with some tracks from *beatsongs* which was pretty good too.

Iain

i was a sucker for the whole ztt thing - so have loads of the 12"s too. i've never tracked down the cassette of (complete) p-machinery tho'.

for ages there were plans for another album, with claudia again, working with blokey from OMD, but it seems to have fallen through now, which was a shame.

Iain

Pet Sounds.

Just because someone has to say it, don't they?

BBG

Gregorian Chant - Men from the Monastery

Anything by the Rolling Stones

A *lot* of the Stones stuff doesn't sound dated, but some of it does: Mixed Emotions, for example. Sex Drive. 19th Nervous Breakdown. I suspect people who had never heard these songs before would be able to place the decades they were recorded in pretty easily. Shine A Light, though - that could have been recorded last week, or in 1963.

LONDON CALLING!!!!!!!!

Am i allowed to say:

M People - Search for the Hero?

Great song, nice lyrics.

Ooooh! I love that song!

Iain, a fantastic selection. I can't believe I didn't think of it as I lost my copy when I moved house two years ago and had to buy another. At the same time I bought a remixed version of it too.

Hidden away in my loft is a lot of my old vinyl and mixed in there is a load of ZTT stuff. I loved the whole indexing of it all, and I was a sucker or the whole Factory records FAC numbers too. I can't envisage another label inspiring that loyalty from me again.

There were rumours of a Propaganda reunion but i've not heard anything for a while and the Act stuff Claudia did afterwards was never as good.

Interesting to see Trevor Horn pop up recently as producer of TATU though.

i think we must have been seperated at birth!

iain

all of 2pac's after about 95.




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Morning glory by oasis still outclasses anything around at the moment.

What's going on by marvin gaye is still beautiful

Stone roses debut kind of sounds old but still worth a listen.

Anything by Metallica. Especially something like the 'Black Album'.

INXS - *kick*

Iain

Cool.

On a similar tangent, I actually dug out my old vinyl copy of The Buggles album last night. God, I used to really love them. And the album still sounds pretty damn good today.

ztt did talk about releasing a swanky trevor horn compilation - now that would have been a great record!

iain