It's a bit of a coin toss with me in regards to JD's two albums. I have a marginal preference for Unknown Pleasures but I love both albums to bits.

There is just an eerie, skeletel feel to UP which makes it timeless in my eyes. It's the sound of late 70's Britain in a nutshell. Damp,rotting and decaying as the Victorian industrial revolution came to a crashing halt bringing down the North of England with it.

I love Closer almost as much, but it's difficult to separate the music contained within from the personal situation which occured in the immediate aftermath of its recording (even now, 32 years after the event), particulary when listening to side 2.

They are both immense artistic statements however, made by bloody-minded people, the like of which would probably be nigh on impossible to make today.

Side 2 is a depressing listen and you have to wonder what was going through all their minds to come up with that.

Kudos to Factory too for allowing it to be made. Unlikely that we'd see anything like theses days

Jeez, good thread, but a tougher task than finding a decent half back for next season - here's a few that initially sprang to mind:

U2 - Boy
Joy Division - Closer
The Cramps -Smell of Female
Psychedlic Furs - Forever Now
The Cult - Dreamtime
The Smiths - The Smiths
Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside
The Associates - Sulk
Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
REM - Automatic For The People
Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Ash - 1977
Shed Seven - A Maximum High
Verve - Urban Hymns
Coldplay - Parachutes

Can't believe nobody has given a shout to Primal Scream's - Screamadelica!
A true masterpiece and a defining album of its time.

morrison hotel by the doors with ease

The Strokes - Is This It?
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Fever To Tell
Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Kanye West - Graduation
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
FatBoy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby
The Cribs - The Cribs
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
K-Os - Yes!

Together Alone Anouk
Get Yer Ya-Yas Out Rolling Stones
Mr Wonderfull Fleetwood Mac
One foot in the Blues ZZ Top
Fretwork Bjorn Berge

Legend - Lennon
London Calling - The Clash
Sandinista - The Clash
This is the Modern World - The Jam
Setting Sons - The Jam
Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order
The Specials - The Specials
Spike - Elvis Costello
Legend - Marley
A Trick of thr Tail - Genesis

parallel lines, blondie

I like my music too and I have quite an eclectic collection but picking the ones I've listened to most at different times in my life in no particular order and excluding some awesome greatest hits albums to focus on the original albums:

1) Michael Jackson - Thriller
2) Meat Loaf A Bat Out of Hell
3) Various - Saturday Night Fever
4) Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
5) Carole King - Tapestry
6) Barbra Streisand - Memories (I know!)
7) Shania Twain - The Woman In Me (I know! I know!)


Frank Sinatra - Duets
9) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
10) Queen - A Kind of Magic
11) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
12) Police - Reggatta de blanc
13) The Clash - London Calling

1.Word Gets Around- Stereophonics, my favourite band and still one of the best debut albums ever.

2.Performance and Cocktails - Stereophonics, last phonics album I'll put in cos I could get boring, but got some classic tunes on and gave us Bartender and the Thief, the best live song I've ever heard.

3.L.A Woman - The Doors, I was born two years after Jim Morrison died, but can remember hearing Light my fire when I was young and I was hooked, this album because it was their last studio album and is most probably their most bluesy ( if that's a word ) as well, he also epitamised the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll lifestyle. When I got married in 2001 I took my wife to Paris on the pretense it was romantic, when I really only wanted to visit his grave, one of the best moments of my life, except our divorce afterwards



4. We'll live and die in these towns - The Enemy, saw them as a support band to Stereophonics and never seen a crowd react like they did, seen them a few times since, fantastic live and could listen to Away from here, over and over. If you get a chance listen to the new album, Streets in the sky.

5. Sunny Side Up - Paulo Nutini, could also have had These Streets. Just a fantastic voice, soulful and vibrant and great live, although he is usually pi$$ed



6. Do It Yourself - The Seahorses, although not a massive Stone Roses fan, I saw these live and loved them. John Squire and Chris Helme although only producing one album just did it for me, blinded by the sun and Love is the law, just quality. Still go to watch Chris Helme around York every now and again, to remember good times.

7. Crazy Love - Mickey Bubbles, everyone loves cheesy pop and this is mine.

8. Angels and Enemies - Sound of Guns, only got into them in the last six months, but what a cracking sound. Fooking great live with big anthemic tunes.

9. The Best of Suede - Suede, Just anything by Suede, the more the better. Brett Anderson



10. Baby I don't care - Transvision Vamp, Wendy James, my teenage crush, spent hours listening to them on my personal stereo !!!!! and hours looking at her posters



Hope it's not too boring, could most probably do 50 albums.

Special mentions to Shed Seven, Weller and The Jam, Simon and Garfunkel, The Stranglers, Free, Thin Lizzy, ELO, Squeeze, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Amy Winehouse, The Cure and many, many more

The only album that was 'leftovers' was be here now. The rest of the albums only got such a bad reception because they didn't live up to the first two but there still great albums

Just a few of mine
Anything by the Beatles post 67
All Oasis
Stone Roses-Stone Roses
Give 'Em Enough Rope-The Clash
Combat Rock-The Clash
Never Mind The Bollocks-Sex Pistols
Sound Affects-The Jam
In the City-The Jam
The Gift-Jam
Dusty in Memphis-Dusty Springfield
Hunky Dory-Bowie
Fun House-The Stooges
Damned Damned Damned-Damned
Urban Hymns-Verve
You've come a long way baby -Fatboy slim
Any Prodigy

Bit o/t but iron maiden and pearl jam are confirmed for download at donnington next year

Seen Maiden at the Hallam arena Sheffield, really realy good, not a fan of Peral Jam and thought they were a bit boring. Also saw NIN at Leeds and wasn't really a fan but they were proper awesome live. trent Reznor is a front man of the highest calibre.

I saw maiden at motor point last year . Never really heard much of them until I got with the missus and now she has broadend my musical horizon haha maidan , sabath ,ac/dc , pearl jam , matalica all class . Led zep will never be beat imo tho

Closer-Joy Division - personal life soundtrack
Infidels-Bob Dylan
Physical Graffiti-Led Zeppelin
The Clash-The Clash
Pretenders-Pretenders
In Rainbows-Radiohead
Scarlet's Walk-Tori Amos
Greatest Hits-Slade
Cohen Live Leonard Cohen
The wild the Innocent..-Springsteen
Station To Station -Bowie
Diamond Dogs-Bowie
Ten-Pearl Jam

Fridays tunes-:



Daisies of the Galaxy - The Eels
Greatest Hits - Tupac Shakur
Sulk - Associates
Penthouse and Pavement - Heaven 17
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours - Manics

Metallica - Black Album
AC/DC - Black Ice
Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
Rainbow- Straight Between The Eyes
Whitesnake - 1987
Dio - Holydiver
Rush - 1ST Album
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Europe - Last Look At Eden
Seether - Disclaimer II
Evanescence - Fallen
Nightwish - Once
Dan Reed Network - Slam
The Members - At a Chelsea Nightclub
The Clash - London Calling
U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Elvis Costellom - My Aim Is True
The Police - Outlandos D`amour
Pretenders- 1st Album
Icehouse - Man Of Colours

Jeez, I know following a team can be so frustrating and heartwrenching (particularly Fc

), but having that album as a personal soundtrack is one intense choice (and that is coming from someone who has loved it since 1980).

Chris28 and myself had a brief discussion about JD earlier in the thread and agreed that you have to be a certain kind of person to be able to see the beauty of Closer through the pain and anguish of the circumstances surrounding its recording and release.

Just stay away from any clothes-lines mate

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None of the post Morning Glory albums are particulary bad per se (even the overblown mess that is Be Here Now has its moments) although I would stop short of calling any of them great. Most of them are a decent enough listen, trotted out in the well established Oasis sound (even the two post split releases) with the odd cracking tune sprinkled here and there.

The problem with all of the Gallaghers post 1996 work (as you point out above) is that they are forever destined to live in the shadow of the first two Oasis albums which cut such a blaze of glory through British popular youth culture during 94-96 (the so called Britpop years) meaning it was virtually impossible for Noel Gallagher to maintain those standards whilst continuing to exert an influence over British rock/pop as a whole.

He certainly isn't the first rock star to be confronted with this dilemma (the second half of Led Zeppelin's career suffered in the same way for instance), but ultimately the Gallaghers post 1996 work is a pleasant enough listen without quite having the white knuckle ride feel of those first two iconic releases and I'm afraid they suffer accordingly.

I'm pretty sure you will heartily disagree with all of the above, as many others doubtless will

, but for what it's worth that's my opinion.

quadrophenia- the who
unknown pleasures- joy division
closer- joy division
purple rain- prince
rumours- fleetwood mac
cockney rejects-live n loud
stone roses- stone roses
delicate sound of thunder- pink floyd
never mind the - sex pistols
the clash- the clash
madstock- madness
the specials- the specials
the joshua tree- u2
white ladder- david gray
9th symphony- beethoven-furtwangler
tubular bells- mike oldfield
you could go on and on couldnt you

I understand where you're coming from, it is extremely dark and can be a unhealthy indulgence in a way, but I do rate it as a really beautiful work of original art in a way no other great album is.

Blimey, you must be a happy camper.

Agree with most of that I love every album they made though. Just the bit about they should have split after knebworth that I disagree. Even if they only made one good song after that they were still amazing live. Noel said himself he probably wasted about 2 albums worth of material on b sides which he regrets I think, particularly the masterplan