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Albums you always go back to

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  • 19-08-2009 6:22pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 40,870 ✭✭✭✭


    No matter how much new music I get there's always a number of albums I crawl back once I'm done. All quality albums that have stood the test of time and can be played from start to finsih without fail.

    They are -

    Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
    Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
    King Adora - Vibrate You
    Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
    Muse - Origin of Symmetry
    Oasis - Definitely Maybe
    AFI - Sing The Sorrow
    JJ72 - JJ72
    Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine
    Lit - A Place In The Sun
    Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
    Goo Goo Dolls - Greatest Hits
    Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary
    Berkeley - In Moments


    So what are your albums that are constantly getting dusted off?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 thragon


    The Las.
    Floyd - Wish You Were Here.
    Iggy - Lust for Life.
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue.
    and on and on and on


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    The YYY'S- Fever to Tell
    Rufus Wainwright- Want Two
    The Beatles- Let it be
    Arcade Fire- Funeral
    Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭bowsie casey


    Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
    dEUS - The Ideal Crash
    Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
    Arcade Fire - Funeral
    Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon & Wish You Were Here


  • Registered Users Posts: 55,519 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Whipping Boy - Heartworm
    A House - I Am The Greatest
    The Donnas - Gold Medal
    Powderfinger - Odyssey #5
    Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    Heartworm-Whipping Boy
    The Stone Roses
    Stankonia-OutKast
    Alligator-The National
    Funeral-Arcade Fire
    Scary Monsters-David Bowie


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  • Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭One_Armed_Dwarf


    Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness
    Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
    Elliott Smith - Either/Or
    Talking Heads - 77
    Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
    Arab Strap - Monday At The Hug & Pint
    The Smiths - Hatfull Of Hollow
    Nick Cave & The Badseeds - Let Love In
    The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    Joanna Newsome - Y's


  • Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭A Disgrace


    A House - I am the Greatest
    Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
    Pernice Brothers The world won't end
    U2 - Unforgettable Fire
    Whipping Boy - Heartworm

    True desert island stuff...


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Elliott Smith - Figure 8
    Wilco - A Ghost is Born / Yankee
    Dexys - Too Rye Ay


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭CoachBoone


    Bright Eyes- Im wide awake its Morning. Oberst is a genius. Genius.
    Muse- Origin of Symmetry.
    Damien Rice- O
    Bellx1- Music in Mouth.
    Death Cab for Cutie- Plans

    And my lame album but I think its fantastic... Garth Brooks Greatest Hits


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭fillmore jive


    Television-Marquee Moon


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 648 ✭✭✭exiot


    The Beatles - Revolver/Rubber Soul/Sgt. Peppers/White Album (love the beatles)
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magick
    Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    The Clash - London Calling
    Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
    The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    Brand New - Devil and God/Deja Entendu
    Wilco - Summerteeth/YHF
    Elliot Smith - Either/or
    Beatles - Abbey Road
    Bonnie Prince Billie - Superwolf
    Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
    Weezer - Pinkerton/Blue
    Oasis - Be Here Now/Whats the story
    Death Cab for Cutie - Plans/ Transatlantacism
    Electric Six - Fire
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
    Spoon - Ga Ga Ga
    GZA - Liquid Swords
    Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
    Kings of Leon - Aha Shake
    Kiss - Destroyer
    Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker


  • Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Davie_m


    no particular order:
    air - moon safari
    flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
    interpol - turn on the bright lights
    looper - up a tree
    strokes - is this it


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    Muse - All albums
    KOL - Aha Shake Heartbreak
    Wolfmother - Wolfmother
    The Strokes - Room on Fire
    NIN - The Slip


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭cathysworld


    Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
    Wave Of Mutilation Best of Pixies


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,902 ✭✭✭deisedude


    Whipping Boy- Heartworm
    The National- Boxer
    Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
    Arcade Fire- Funeral
    Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak and Youth and Young Manhood
    We Are Scientists- With Love and Squalor
    Pixies- Doolittle


  • Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Shoota


    Grace - Jeff Buckley
    The Hour of Bewilderbeast - Badly Drawn Boy
    Moon Pix - Cat Power
    Word gets around - The Stereophonics (+1 Xavi :D)
    So Tonight that I might see - Mazzy Starr
    Antics, Turn on the Bright lights - Interpol
    Plans - Death Cab for Cutie
    O - Damien RIce


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    deisedude wrote: »
    Whipping Boy- Heartworm
    Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
    Arcade Fire- Funeral
    Pixies- Doolittle

    Most definitely. I also always stick on Mansun's - Six. It has to be listened from start to finish for the full proper experience.
    Manics- The Holy Bible.
    Nirvana - In Utero
    BRMC - Baby 81 & BRMC
    dEUS - The Ideal Crash


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭geuro


    Gotta be The Fourth Dimension - Around the day in 80 worlds. Absolute bloody classic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭BornToRun88


    Oasis-All their albums
    The Beatles-Rubber Soul/Revolver/The White Album
    Blur-13/Blur
    The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses
    Manic Street Preachers-This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
    U2- U218:The Singles
    Coldplay-Viva La Vida/Parachutes
    The Fugees-The Score
    Eninem-The Slim Shady LP
    Travis-The Singles Collection
    Wings-Band On The Run
    Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am/Favourite Worst Nightmare


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    New Order - Low Life
    The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
    Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
    The Smiths - The Smiths
    The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
    The The - Mind Bomb


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
    Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
    Flaming Lips - Yoshimi battles the pink robots
    Guns N Roses - Appetite for destruction
    New Order - Substance
    Prefab Sprout - Steve Mcqueen
    Primal Scream - Screamdelica
    Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
    REM - Automatic for the people
    Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea
    They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
    Talking Heads - 77
    Radioheads - The Bends
    Ash - Intergalactic Sonic 7s
    Doves - Last Broadcast
    Housemartins - Now Thats What I call Quite Good
    Pulp - His N Hers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 novocaine1


    eels - electro shock blues
    jeff buckley - grace
    tool - lateralus
    mogwai - happy songs
    pink floyd - dark side
    the beatles - abbey road
    spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen
    manics - holy bible
    van morrison - astral weeks


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    Pink Floyd - DSOTM
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
    NIN - The Downward Spiral
    The Postal Service - Give Up


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Tindersticks - 2nd album
    Smog - Knock, Knock
    Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
    The Postal Service - Give Up
    Pixies - Doolittle


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,783 ✭✭✭handsomecake


    rhcp-californication
    arctic monkeys-whetever people say i am thats what im not
    wave of mutilation-the pixies greatest hits
    kings of leon-aha shake heartbrake,youth and young manhood,because of the times
    air-moon safari
    bloc party-silent alarm
    the frames-set list
    ian brown-music of the spheres
    the killers-hot fuss
    m83-saturdays=youth
    nirvana-never mind
    REM-automatic for the people
    aimee mann-magnolia soundtrack
    sia-colour the small one,some people have real problems


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭PrivateEye


    Moving Hearts- Moving Hearts
    Cat Power- Jukebox
    The Clash- Give 'Em Enough Rope
    Alkaline Trio- Maybe I'll Catch Fire
    Alkaline Trio- From Here To Infirmary
    The Pogues- Rum Sodony And The Lash
    Publc Enemy- Fear Of A Black Planet
    The Postal Service- Give Up
    The Streets- Original Pirate Material
    Bad Religion- Recipe For Hat
    Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles
    Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
    Minor Threat- Minor Threat
    Ronnie Drew- The Last Session
    Big Black- Songs About Fcking
    Jawbreaker- Dear You
    Girl Talk- Feed The Animals
    Sleater Kinney- All Hands On The Bad One
    She and Him- Volume One


  • Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Placid_Casual


    Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
    Manics - The Holy Bible
    The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
    Joni Mitchell - Blue
    The Clash - London Calling
    Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
    More R.E.M. albums than I care to mention
    Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
    Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
    Elliot Smith - XO
    Fionn Regan - The End Of History
    Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway
    Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
    The Killers - Hot Fuss (my guilty pleasure)
    The La's
    The Velvet Underground & Nico
    Whipping Boy - Heartworm
    Mansun - Six
    The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
    Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

    I know they're pretty recent but Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective (Merriweather Post Pavillion) can probably go on the list to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭gerrydonnelly


    This is going to get me thinking all night but off the top of my head:

    Electric ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
    Dub Side of the Moon - Easy Star All-Stars
    Countryman - Willie Nelson
    Poetic Champions Compose - Van Morrisson
    Us and Us Only - The Charlatans
    Stormcock - Roy Harper
    Open The Gate - Lee "Scratch" Perry
    Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
    Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar - Frank Zappa

    But when all else fails I return to

    Save Our Children - Pharoah Sanders, Jazz but not as we know it, it's like pictures painted with sound and is guaranteed to chill you out when you are having a bad day.
    Xavi6 wrote: »
    No matter how much new music I get there's always a number of albums I crawl back once I'm done. All quality albums that have stood the test of time and can be played from start to finsih without fail.

    They are -

    Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
    Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
    King Adora - Vibrate You
    Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
    Muse - Origin of Symmetry
    Oasis - Definitely Maybe
    AFI - Sing The Sorrow
    JJ72 - JJ72
    Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine
    Lit - A Place In The Sun
    Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
    Goo Goo Dolls - Greatest Hits
    Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary
    Berkeley - In Moments


    So what are your albums that are constantly getting dusted off?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭Black NG-60-90


    My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
    Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
    Arcade Fire - Funeral
    Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
    The Cure - Disintegration
    Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
    Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
    Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
    The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
    Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
    Neil Young - Harvest Moon
    Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers
    At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command


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