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[Cancelled] Electric Picnic 2020 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales / Requests **
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Seathrun66 wrote: »I didn't know there was an album of that tour. Just checked and recorded in Ennis and Vicar St after rehearsals in Lisdoonvarna so you must have seen that Eanna.
I saw them in the Barbican in London in Jan 2005, no alcohol allowed inside, a staid audience and seated only so wish I'd been at the Irish gigs. Damien Duff was sitting beside me but l left him alone. Am not one to fraternise with Chelsea players.
Saw them in 2004 at the Radisson, got a freebie from the manager of the Kings Head, a pub we played a session in every Saturday in Galway, what a gig.
If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)
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Loving all these lists, Talking Heads, Planxty, Bothy Band, Cocteau Twins - Victorialand and loads of others should be in my list too, but I'll stick with the one I've chosen for the moment. This is reflective of the old school Picnic audience, such a diverse taste in all our music likes, I'm probably the old hippy amongst ya's but our lists will probably change in time again when we redefine our most influential and desert island discs.
If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)
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using "influence" as the main criterion, this would be my top 10 influential albums list, in no particular order:
Nirvava: Nevermind
The first of probably a lot of early 90s albums on here. i was 14 when this came out first. I remember getting a cassette recording of it, handed around the school, everyone making a copy and teh album was in such demand, and so loved, that we'd all wait to record off the master, rather than make copy of a copy.. which always resulted in lesser quality.
Here was someone screaming the trials and tribulations of our early teenage angsty years, floating on a base of a noise that was loud, new and energetic. Such a foil to the over bloated hair metal crap that was all too prevalent at the time. I had the greasy haired undercut, the baggy strippy jumper and the dont give a **** attitude. God i miss those days
REM: Document
My first real ‘loved’ album.... brought on by the absolutely brilliant and timeless "end of the world as we know it". These songs were so high class that there is not a weak song on it. It was their last true album before they embraced the pop. Political without it being in your face (exhuming McCarthy, welcome to the occupation), fragile yet strong in songs like "the one i love" and "king of birds".. which has one of the best marching beats ... they lost so much when Bill Berry left.
David Gray: Lost songs
This album really came out of nowhere. Really a list of B sides and forgottens that he wrote before the fame that white ladder brought. The best thing about this album is, while the subject matter spans 3 years, the album was recorded in 1o days. There are startling beautiful songs on it... and if you haven't heard it i envy you for hearing it for the very first time.
Pink Floyd: Wish you were here
I could have included many Floyd albums here, but i think WYWH is their zenith, with the title track being the zenith of their creativity. Its so simple its perfect. Today, you will not find an opening track to an album that has no lyrics until over 9 mins. My first two Floyd albums to hear were DSOTM and The Wall, but WYWH stays with me more, i hear new stuff every time i hear it... songs like welcome to the machine and have a cigar are just sonically amazing.. the band at their very best... before Roger became over powering.
Whipping Boy: Heartworm
The best irish album of all time, even better than the Phil spectre inspired 'loveless'
there is a truth and pain in this album that is very hard to match anywhere. i recall actually crying after listening to the hidden track at the end for the first time. Lyrically phenomenal album, and musically strong enough to carry them. The words to "when we were young" could have been taken straight from my teenage years.... The first time that you stole, You stole rubber lips and tenners, Bought a radio then ran away for ever, Never felt so good, never felt so good with you, When we were young we had no fear, Of love nor sex nor warnings, Everyone was hanging out, everyone was sorted
Prayer Boat: polichinelle
Early 00s Irish album from a vastly underrated band. They weren’t around for a long time, but what they did in that period is create sensitive and beautiful songs. Think of an unplugged radiohead. Im still a huge Emmett Tinley fan, who continues to release solo albums of beautiful introspective songs. Probably the best know song on this was “saved” which contains the timeless lyris “There's no sadder song than this one, you wake up alone in my arms”
Engine Alley: a sonic holiday
The first irish band apart from U2 that I though had an international feel to them. The weird and wonderful songs, full of quirky lyrics and quirkier videos. Loads of songs that people hear again and think, yeah I remember that !! Song for someone, mrs winder, infamy, diamond jill and crazy jane… still bring a smile to me every time I hear them. The sight of their girl drummer Emmaline playing hard in thigh highs was etched into my pubescent brain. Lucky enough to catch the in feile in early 90s and again a couple of times over the last few years. Canice and Brian have lost none of their swagger and aura.
Neil Young: Harvest
The ultimate Sunday morning album….. breezy and full of singalong happiness. It has its dark side of course with “the needle….”. Its probably fav Young album of that early 70s era, though theres not a weak album amongst them. Brings back memories of the first house I lived in with my mates… crazy times. Its not all ‘americana’ either with songs like ‘a man needs a maid’ and ‘alabama’ pushing the boundaries. There is a myrid of different styles on this, but all neatly sewn together with shakeys pitch perfect voice.
Porcupine Tree: Fear of a black planet.
If I had to choose one PT album it would be this one. Prog rock with more rock than prog..and prog in the truest meaning of the word progressive. I was lead here after saturating on Pink Floyd and what a discover Porcupine Tree were. Probably the best unknown band in the UK for the last 25 years. Wilson has it all in this album… the soaring synths, the shredding chords, the outer wordly lyrics and the naval gazing dissection of normal life…. All with a sense of dread that is palpable through the whole album. . Anesthetize is the perfect song to show this… over 17 mins of a journey to the dark side of yourself.
U2: achtung baby
I have to include a U2 album in here, as they were with me all the way from being a baby to being a fully formed adult. They progressed along their path as I did mine, ever present on the always on radio stations of my childhood. Achtung baby is their best album. Who would have thought that a band that was a world leader in 1989, who created some of the best songs of the 80s, could go off and “dream it all up again” and return to become even bigger. Achtung baby is their masterpiece in my opinion. It broken into 1990 determined to drag all that chart dross out of its slumber and over bloated cocaine filled excess. Those opening distorted notes of zoo station promise something special.. and what comes after does not disappoint. The fly, whos gonna ride, throw your arms, until the end of the world, ultraviolet….. every song different but brilliant. And like wish you were here by the floyd, I think U2s career hits their zenith with “one”. Such a brilliant song that is perfect due to its simplicity … or is it that other way round? The 1990 was a year of promise after a hard 80s for most people. With this album U2 gave a glimpse of a future that could be exciting and innovative. And in many ways the 90s were.
Notables that didn’t make the list would be Pearl Jams ‘ten’, REM ‘Automatic for the people’, Pixies ‘Doolittle’, Bruce Springsteen ‘Ghost of Tom Joad’, Bob Markey “Exodus” , Paul Weller “Stanley road”, Grant lee Buffalo “fuzzy”, Blue Nile “walk across the roof tops”0 -
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