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27 February 2017
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My top five albums which are not by the Beatles, embedded in a general list of my favourite albums, are the bold ones:
1. Revolver
2. The Dark Side Of The Moon – Pink Floyd
3. The Beatles
4. Sgt Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. Hotel California – Eagles
6. Rubber Soul
7. In Rainbows – Radiohead
8. Led Zeppelin IV -Led Zeppelin
9. Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
10. Beatles For Sale
Honourable mentions:
RAM – Paul McCartney
Alladin Sane – David Bowie
In The Court Of The Crimson King – King Crimson
All Things Must Pass – George Harrison
John Lennon /Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon
Houses Of The Holy – Led Zeppelin
Lonerism – Tame Impala
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway – Genesis
Tell Me I’m Pretty – Cage The Elephant
OK Computer – Radiohead
And every Beatles album in the universe of course!
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4.11pm
26 January 2017
Offline Ooh I love A Lad Insane
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4.16pm
27 February 2017
Offline sir walter raleigh said
Ooh I love A Lad Insane
It has some amazing piano work on it, hasn’t it? Have you played Alladin Sane or Lady Grinning Soul once?
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5.03pm
26 January 2017
Offline Martha said
It has some amazing piano work on it, hasn’t it? Have you played Alladin Sane or Lady Grinning Soul once?
Alladin Sane I have attempted but it’s almost unmemorizable because of how irratic and crazy it is.
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5.24pm
9 March 2017
Offline I love your idea @Martha of listing your favorite albums, Beatles or not, and then bolding the ones that aren’t, so i’ll do that myself.
1. The Beatles (The Beatles, 1968, Rock)
Highlights:
2. Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles, 1967, Psychedelic Rock)
Highlights:
Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
Good Morning Good Morning /Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)/A Day In The Life
3/1. A Night At The Opera (Queen, 1975, Glam Rock)
Highlights:
Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To…)
Sweet Lady
The Prophet’s Song/Love Of My Life
4. Abbey Road (The Beatles, 1969, Rock)
Highlights:
Abbey Road Medley (You Never Give Me Your Money through Her Majesty )
5/2. The Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd, 1973, Progressive Rock)
Highlights:
Breathe/On The Run/Time
Money
Brain Damage/Eclipse
6. Revolver (The Beatles, 1966, Psychedelic Rock)
Highlights:
7/3. Boston (Boston, 1976, Rock)
Highlights:
Foreplay/Long Time
Rock And Roll Band
Smokin’
Something About You
8/4. Live Killers (Queen, 1979, Glam Rock)
Highlights:
We Will Rock You (Fast Version)
Let Me Entertain You
Live Medley (Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To…)/Killer Queen/Bicycle Race/I’m In Love With My Car)
Brighton Rock
Tie Your Mother Down
9. Rubber Soul (The Beatles, 1965, Folk Rock)
Highlights:
10/5. Queen II (Queen, 1974, Progressive Rock)
Highlights:
Procession/Father To Son/White Queen (As It Began)
Ogre Battle/The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke
March Of The Black Queen
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7.28am
19 January 2017
Offline Aside from the Beatles these are my 5 favourites in no particular order. I’ve bracketed my standout tracks.
I have lots of favourite albums and it’s hard to compare them but these are ones that sprung to mind:
1. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico (Venus in Furs, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Sunday Morning)
2. Radiohead – Kid A (Idioteque, How to Disappear Completely, Motion Picture Soundtrack)
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (Manic Depression, May This Be Love, Fire)
4. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (Whole Album)
5. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left (River Man, Cello Song, Time Has Told Me)
Other favourites:
John Lennon – John Lennon /Plastic Ono Band
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (but Wish You Were Here is not far behind)
David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Radiohead – In Rainbows and/or OK Computer
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
The Strokes – Is This It
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8.09am
26 January 2017
Offline Not including The Beatles or solo, and not in any particular order:
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds – Baroque pop – (Wouldn’t It Be Nice, God Only Knows, You Still Believe In Me)
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon – space rock – (Breathe, Time, Us And Them, Eclipse)
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses – Rock, Psychedelic, Britpop, Dance, jangle pop – (She Bangs The Drums, I Am The Resurrection, I Wanna Be Adored)
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead – Rock, alternative, jangle pop – (There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, I Know It’s Over, Cemetery Gates)
Smashing Pumpkins – Melon Collie And The Infinite Sadness – Rock + many others – (1979, Tonight Tonight, Jellybelly, Zero)
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico (Sunday Morning, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Heroin)
I originally had about 11 on here, but then I realised it was only 5. I couldn’t get it down to less than 6.
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He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
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8.17am
26 January 2017
Offline Necko said
I’m not even going 2 attempt 2 answer this. My answer 2 this sort of question changes so often that I May answer completely differently next week. I’LL leave these ranking type things 2 rolling Stone.
This made me extremely uncomfortable.
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
9.21am
19 January 2017
Offline @QuarryMan My Dads old band was on the same label (Black Records) as the Stone Roses when they released the Sally Cinnamon EP. He’s told me some funny stories about how they used to just trash everything and cause havoc. I’d tell you the name of my dads band but they didn’t become big so you’d probably struggle to find anything on them.
Nice list by the way. I grew up on the likes of the Smiths, Pulp, Blur and the Stone Roses.
One of my favourite albums of this era is The La’s.
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12.00pm
9 March 2017
Offline That’s so cool.
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12.43pm
14 June 2016
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We’ve been doing this thread all wrong, and probably to @sir walter raleigh’s disappointment. We’re supposed to list our top 5 albums of all time, and then say which ones aren’t Beatles albums.
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12.48pm
26 January 2017
Offline William Shears Campbell said
We’ve been doing this thread all wrong, and probably to @sir walter raleigh’s disappointment. We’re supposed to list our top 5 albums of all time, and then say which ones aren’t Beatles albums.
That is right. I was wanting to see how many people have almost all or all of their top five albums by The Beatles. You’re supposed to count Beatles albums on your list. I made the thread to see if its biased to have 4 of your top 5 be by The Beatles.
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12.53pm
14 June 2016
Offline sir walter raleigh said
That is right. I was wanting to see how many people have almost all or all of their top five albums by The Beatles. You’re supposed to count Beatles albums on your list. I made the thread to see if its biased to have 4 of your top 5 be by The Beatles.
There have been a couple doing that though with their top 10. We just need to have people do it with their top 5.
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1.55pm
11 November 2010
Offline QuarryMan said
This made me extremely uncomfortable.
Why?
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2.11pm
9 March 2017
Offline sir walter raleigh said
That is right. I was wanting to see how many people have almost all or all of their top five albums by The Beatles. You’re supposed to count Beatles albums on your list. I made the thread to see if its biased to have 4 of your top 5 be by The Beatles.
Thanks for explaining that, i was wondering why your first post contains so many albums by The Beatles despite the name of the title.
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6.27pm
14 December 2009
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sir walter raleigh said
Alladin Sane I have attempted but it’s almost unmemorizable because of how irratic and crazy it is.
Interesting (to me) that the piano was TOTALLY influenced by Cecil Taylor and I included a CT album among my top five a page or two ago!
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2.33am
26 January 2017
Offline Flyingbrians said
@QuarryMan My Dads old band was on the same label (Black Records) as the Stone Roses when they released the Sally Cinnamon EP. He’s told me some funny stories about how they used to just trash everything and cause havoc. I’d tell you the name of my dads band but they didn’t become big so you’d probably struggle to find anything on them.Nice list by the way. I grew up on the likes of the Smiths, Pulp, Blur and the Stone Roses.
One of my favourite albums of this era is The La’s.
Wow. That’s very cool! I love the Sally cinnamon EP as well, I remember figuring out it was about lesbians and being mind blown. Never got into Pulp or Blur, but The Smiths, Oasis and The Stone Roses I adore, and There She Goes by The La’s would be on my top 5 songs of all time.
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
2.35am
26 January 2017
Offline Necko said
Why?
You typing ‘2’ instead of ‘to’ or ‘too’.
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
2.52am
27 February 2017
Offline ^^Technically, he used it only instead of ‘to’ as there was no ‘too’ in that sentence.
Von Bontee said
Interesting (to me) that the piano was TOTALLY influenced by Cecil Taylor and I included a CT album among my top five a page or two ago!
Thanks for mentioning this! You just got me hooked on ‘Steps’.
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12.11pm
11 November 2010
Offline QuarryMan said
You typing ‘2’ instead of ‘to’ or ‘too’.
That was during a period where my carpal tunnel syndrome was particularly severe, so I used voice recognition software to type.
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