15 Albums that’ll always stick with you

Written by Gwyn Fisher 6 Comments

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.

And I reckon it qualifies for a reason to update this here blog I used to write. I took 5 minutes to come up with the list- I’m just fleshing it out a bit here. There are many more that have since occurred but rules is rules.

Metallica – Metallica

This came out when I was 16 and it has everything a young lad with a nascent interest in guitar could ask for. I’d been into Metallica for a while, but this was the first album of theirs where every track was unskippable. I can still play along with most of it. Not the lead parts mind…

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.

Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman

Soundtrack to too many places to name. Perfect for any occasion from Christmas cooking tortilla española with me little sis to the first trip to see Drsita in Amherst… Fine, fine album.

6 comments on “15 Albums that’ll always stick with you”

  4. 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!

  5. 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.
    E

  6. 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.

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