15 Albums that’ll always stick with you
Joe off of Flickr passed on a meme on the facebooks:
15 Albums in 15 Minutes
The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.
Metallica – Metallica
Appetite for Destruction – Guns’n’Roses
It was the style at the time.
The Levellers – Levellin’ the Land
Reminds me of festivals, campfires and endless summers in deepest, darkest Somerset.
Portishead – Dummy
1st year at university. Ubiquitous but brilliant. Nothing like it has been produced since.
Manu Chao – Clandestino
Other than Santana’s collaboration album, Supernatural. This was our year in Seville’s soundtrack.
Black Box Recorder – England Made Me
Love the guitar, tunes and especially the lyrics of all these. Brutal it is, but I love how it simultaneously celebrates and rubbishes its subject matter. Sarah Nixey’s got a fine voice on her too.
Shakira – Pies Descalzos
I get all kinds of crap for liking Shakira. But face it, she’s a thousand times better than Kylie. And her gig in Guadalajara three years was one of the best I’ve been to. There. Argument settled.
The Smiths – Best of Vol. 2
The first Smiths album I bought (1992). And it’s an excellent primer…
The Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground & Nico
Paranoia, sado-masochism and violas never sounded so good.
REM – Automatic for the People
Choose any track off this one, any of em. Gold.
The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
Still my favourite Cure album. I’m all about the minimalist production.
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
Jamaica? Nah, she went by herself.
Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Best album of the noughties for my money.
Molotov – ¿Dónde jugarán las niñas?
Spanglish soundtrack to Guadalajara 1998.
Finisima la eleccion de Badly Drawn boy. No podia faltar Shakira. Buena lista!
Hmm… el primero que me vino a la cabeza fue Pink Floyd/The Wall.
Good call… the Levellers, Manu Chao and the Smiths would be in mine too 😉
Casi un mes más tarde y te contesto, perdón, Mario… pues Gracias! 😀
Hello….Alina… is there anybody in there? Pues allí está el detalle… tienes 15 minutos y puedes editar tu lista en los 15 minutos, pero luego, está grabada en piedra. Cambiaría unos y añadiría otro. Ándale, haz uno en facebook! Tag, you’re it 😉
With a nickname like yours the Lev’s’d have to be there. Cheers, Mark!
Like em all! Never heard of Black Box Recorder but, can’t fault you there either! And, yay to Shakira! She’s a Seville Soundtrack for me along with Manu Chau.
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interesting list there matey, high fidelityish…
sarah nixey certainly has a voice on her.. delightfully cool and ridiculously sexy. Well settled argument on Shakira, even if it’s all pants.
I’m off to oppress some West Papuans.