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DarthBalls

New Order - Technique
Prince - Sign o' the Times
Living Colour - Vivid
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

NB - I set myself a pretty strict rule that it had to be an album that I first got and listened to in the 80s, other wise I'd have seemed like the coolest pre-teen ever as I was born in 1974. Frighteningly enough I did like Michael Jackson's Thriller when I was at primary school (that's how he works you know)!
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Blarno · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

Most of my faves are from the 70's or 90's, but I'll have a go:

Metallica - Master Of Puppets.
RHCP - Mother's Milk.
Slayer - Reign In Blood.
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love.
Faith No More - The Real Thing.
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kraftwerk · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:11 am Post subject:

01. Brian Eno and David Byrne - My LIfe in the Bush of Ghosts
02. Kraftwerk - Computerworld
03. Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
04. King Crimson - Discipline
05. The Blue Nile- A Walk Across the Rooftops

Thriller contains at least four bona fide classics, so no need to justify. Vivid was a big favourite at the time, as was the follow-up. I particularly liked their version of Talking Heads' Memories Can't Wait. I went right off them after seeing them at Barrowland in, what, 1993? Their jazz credentials to the fore, they just couldn't play a straight version of any of their tunes and ruined most of them with incessant noodling. Now, I like a noodle as much as, maybe even more than, the next man, but this was just awful.
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DarthBalls · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:45 am Post subject:

If that was the Stain tour then I was at the same Living Colour gig - I'm sure it was 1993.

They did go very noodly once Doug Wimbish replaced the mighty Muzz 'The Fireman' Skillings. I enjoyed that Barrowlands gig as Wimbish and Vernon Reid are two of my favourite musicians and I'd just started learning bass at the time and flashy playing impressed me then. I hated it when any of the bands I was in got all noodly - I used to piss them off by writing tunes with no room for guitar solos.
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Blarno · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:48 am Post subject:

Stain was 1994.

Living Colour are fucking awesome. Time's Up is an astonishing album.
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kraftwerk · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:51 am Post subject:

It's a regret that I missed Vernon Reid play at the Jazz Cafe a few years ago. Charles Shaar-Murray wrote a love letter review of it in The Times.
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franki68 · Petrolhead Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 2379

Here's my usual 5 (25 that is)

Prince, Sign of the times and purple rain
Faith no more ,epic
Neil Young ,Freedom
R.e.M ,Green,document,reckoming,murmur
Talking Heads,Stop making sense
The PIxies,Surfer Rosie and Doolittle
Michael Shencker Group,One night at Budokan
Iron Maiden,Iron Maiden,killers and Number of the beast
Niggaz with attitude,Straight outta compton
New MOdel Army,Vengance,NO rest and Green and grey
MJ,Thriller
Violent femmes,violent femmes

And I cannot believe the following have not been mentioned

ACDC,BAck in Black
The clash,London Calling
The Smiths,The queen is dead
The stone roses,The stone roses

and last but by no means least..Guns and roses,Appetite for destruction

franki68 · Petrolhead Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 2379

I saw living colour but it was not memorable to be honest I think it was on the times up tour but may have been later,vivid is brilliant in parts and reid an astonishing guitarist.

DarthBalls · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

Stuntman · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

franki68 · Petrolhead Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 2379

I actually had a guilt dream last night..I left of

The redskins..neither washington nor moscow ..and looking at stunts list cannot believe I left off the soft cell album.

Kings of the wildfrontier was also my first album and I recently bought it on cd...but it isn't as good as my memory told me it was.