Saturday, December 21, 2013

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.

1. Goo - Sonic Youth

2. Ramones - Ramones

3. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

4. Snaketide - You Am I

5. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub

6. Doolittle - Pixies

7. Shame About Ray - Lemonheads

8. Alligator - The National

9. Fever To Tell - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

10. Seven and the Ragged Tigers - Duran Duran

11. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robot - Flaming Lips

12. Harmacy - Sebadoh

13. Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys

14. Substance - New Order

15. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement

13 comments:

  1. Brendan:

    1. Closing Time - Tom Waits

    2. Vitalogy - Pearl Jam

    3. Rubber Soul - Beatles

    4. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

    5. Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams

    6. Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan

    7. In Utero - Nirvana

    8. Illmatic - Nas

    9. The Idler Wheel - Fiona Apple

    10. Pearl - Janis Joplin

    11. Sunset Studies - Augie March

    12. Hi Fi Way - You Am I

    13. Exile on Main St - Rolling Stones

    14. Darkness on Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen

    15. London Calling - The Clash

    Don't need 15 minutes, this is my list in less than 2.

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  2. Lavinia:

    1. Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos

    2. OK Computer - Radiohead

    3. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

    4. Closing Time - Tom Waits

    5. American Recordings 4 - Johnny Cash

    6. Bon Iver - Bon Iver

    7. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

    8. So Addicted - Missy Elliott

    9. Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge

    10. Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson

    11. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen

    12. Moo You Bloody Choir - Augie March

    13. The Harrow and the Harvest - Gillian Welch

    14. No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

    15. 1968 Comeback Special - Elvis Presley

    15.5 Ah Ha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon

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  3. I dropped the Beatles for the Beastie Boys....it was as a dilemma. Have to say both your lists show a lot more balance than mine. I have regrets to have missed Johnny Cash and Elvis. Lavinia's inclusion of Janet Jackson makes me more happy about Duran Duran.

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  4. Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order
    Since the Accident - Severed Heads
    Prat Culture - Scattered Order
    Half-mute -Tuxedomoon
    Tri Repetae - Autechre
    Force Majeure - Tangerine Dream
    Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
    Thunderhead - The Clouds
    Faith - The Cure
    The A List - Wire (a bit of a cheat since it's a compilation)
    Body Blow - Headless Chickens
    Too Dark Park - Skinny Puppy
    Riven - Robyn Miller (yeah, a game soundtrack)
    For the Time Being - A Slow Rip
    Computer world - Kraftwerk

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  5. Interesting addition of the Clouds. I have big regrets for not including the Hummingbirds & Plunderers given they were such a big part of my early music life. Maybe a Sydney music top 15 is in order for me.

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  6. In no particular order...
    1. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
    2. Magic Dirt - Snow White
    3. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
    4. Placebo - Meds
    5. Afghan Whigs - 1965
    6. Clare Bowditch - What Was Left
    7. The Faces - A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Dead Horse
    8. Sarah Blasko - The Overture and the Underscore
    9. Jet - Get Born
    10. Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
    11. The Devastations - Coal
    12. The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
    13. You Am I - The Cream and the Crock (best of, but it travels w me everywhere)
    14. The Gutter Twins- Saturnalia
    15. John Farnham - Romeo's Heart

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  7. I can't criticise John Farnham given I have Duran Duran...but still. John Farnham?!?!Good to see both you and Brendan showed restraint on the Ryan Adams front!

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    1. I was 14. And not cool. You're lucky I didn't include Hanson.

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  8. 1. Sigur Ros – Takk…
    2. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
    3. Flying Saucer Attack – New Lands
    4. Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
    5. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
    6. The Beatles – Revolver
    7. Crowded House – Together Alone
    8. Hunters and Collectors – Hunters and Collectors
    9. Moscow Olympics – Cut This World
    10. Ride – Going Blank Again
    11. Cure – Disintegration
    12. Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
    13. Brian Eno – Music for Airports
    14. Philip Glass Ensemble – Einstein on the Beach
    15. Soundtrack from the film 'Manhattan'

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  9. This is SD's list. Again, in no particular order:

    1. James - laid
    2. Grant lee buffalo - mighty joe moon
    3. Afghan Whigs - gentlemen
    4. Twilight singers - blackberry belle
    5. Dramarama - cinema verite
    6. At the drive in - relationship of command
    7. Nine inch nails - the fragile
    8. Deftones - white pony
    9. Placebo - without you I'm nothing
    10. Cult of Luna - salvation
    11. Spain- the blue moods of Spain
    12. God lives underwater - life in the so-called space age
    13. Marilyn Manson- antichrist superstar
    14. David Bowie- 1. Outside
    15. Magic dirt - Snow White

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  10. It's interesting that there are shared bands but different albums. I loved Dramarama! I only have the EP with Anything Anything. This is a game that keeps on giving. Remembering music and albums. Love it!

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  11. Hi Karin. Gate-crashed your Blog. Hope you don't mind. ...It's fabulous by the way! ChrisB.

    Very difficult task this. Some great selections already...

    1. OK Computer - Radiohead (Always and forever, my favourite album)
    2. Diorama - Silverchair (Daniel Johns is a musical genius)
    3. The Beatles - Abbey Road (Beatles at their best)
    4. Cake - Comfort Eagle (their Musicality is incredible)
    5. The Church - Seance (makes me want to grow my hair again)
    6. Riptides - Tomorrow's Tears (Happy Brisbane sounds, and also my Go-Betweens story!)
    7. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Too new you say. ...Talk to me in ten years time...)
    8. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog (Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder on the same album. Couldn't go wrong...)
    9. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory (Yeah sure they were dicks, but...)
    10. Django Reinhardt - Djangology (Actually, ANY Django. ...Makes me smile.)
    11. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls - Gossip (just try and drive through Melbourne without singing 'Leaps and Bounds'. ...Just try!)
    12. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (only 'Band' shirt I own)
    13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic (needed to include a bit of 'tude)
    14. Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos (someone please bring 'paisley' back)
    15. The Strokes - Is this It? (first to last - quality)

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  12. Great list Chris - and you could bring paisley back for sure!

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