Chris Connelly’s Top 10 Favourite Albums:
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Stooges - Funhouse
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Magazine - Real Life
King Crimson - Red
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Public Image - Second Edition
Wire - Chairs Missing
discuss…
Surprises me there’s no CAN on that list.
Brilliant, Chris!
Nick Drake, Cave, and my still fave Bowie album!
Anyone who’s not into Talk Talk needs to get into them.
that Talk Talk record was made on their way out, it’s really out there, kind of minimalist but atmospheric due to it. It’s great.
Hunky Dory might be one of my least favorite bowie albums… Tender Prey might be my favorite Cave album too. Pretty close between that and Let Love In, but Murder Ballads isn’t too far behind either.
IMO that’s the last of the 3 great ‘Wire’ albums.
Pink Flag/154/Chairs Missing.
Not that they haven’t done some good stuff outside that but those are my favs by them.
Red by Crimson is excellent call as well. I’m not a big ‘prog’ guy but sometimes you run into something that ‘sets the bar’.
Hmm, I thought Station To Station was his favorite Bowie album…read that somewhere a while back, maybe here.
Laughing Stock by Talk Talk is incredible, and its predecessor, Spirit Of Eden, is equally good. Great, underrated band that will always be passed off as just another 80’s band. Mark Hollis had some talented musicians in that band. I highly recommend the Live At Montreux 1986 DVD, it’s a great live performance, and a fine exhibition of their talent.
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IMO that’s the last of the 3 great ‘Wire’ albums.
Pink Flag/154/Chairs Missing.
Not that they haven’t done some good stuff outside that but those are my favs by them.
Red by Crimson is excellent call as well. I’m not a big ‘prog’ guy but sometimes you run into something that ‘sets the bar’.
I’m a ‘phase 2’ Wire fan. I like the early material too, and have come to appreciate it more over the years, but The Ideal Copy and Bell Is A Cup have always been my favorites. Seeing the “Ahead” video on 120 Minutes is what got me into them, anyway. The new stuff is cool, though it took some getting used to.
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you forget the first beastie boys album… he LOVES them
you forget the first beastie boys album… he LOVES them
hahaha. if only for jokes like that i hope his book gets a second pressing.
and that is an interesting list. Hunky Dory is not my fave Bowie album at all, but it does have Life on Mars? which is one of the single best songs ever written.
Station to Station is awesome as well…
Surprised there’s no Scott Walker up there.
picking a fav bowie cd is damn near impossible for me… it’s always changing and bouncing between almost all of them except like, tin machine and tonight and neverlet me down
picking a fav bowie cd is damn near impossible for me… it’s always changing and bouncing between almost all of them except like, tin machine and tonight and neverlet me down
yeah, i would agree… except i REALLY like Reevs’ parts on the Tin Machine albums.
i think though that later era bowie is my fave, from hours-reality.
With bowie, i’d say:
Outside
Low
Heroes
Earthling
Man Who Sold The World
Some albums to me (Young Americans, for example) have their strongpoints, but also their “whatever”.
I don’t remember doing this top ten…it’s kind of innacurate, my top ten probably changes every day
“DOA” by Throbbing Gristle …don’t need anything else
I don’t remember doing this top ten…it’s kind of innacurate, my top ten probably changes every day
“DOA” by Throbbing Gristle …don’t need anything else
what? incorrect info on the net? howcan this be?
serious question though, where lyrically are you coming from on the newer material that you’re working on? any particular influences or common trends in the train of though?
I don’t remember doing this top ten…it’s kind of innacurate, my top ten probably changes every day
I’d be surprised if you did.
Considering I completely made it up on the spot.
“DOA” by Throbbing Gristle …don’t need anything else
Say the word and it’s there…!
Funny that, Peligro and I were listening to a bit of Red the other day, just before this was posted.
That album’s a creeper. I only liked two songs on it when I first heard it, but the whole thing really is great after a bit of time.
However, I feel it is too marred by the typical prog-rock inconsistencies to be worthy of any top-ten list. Influential, yes. Hitting all the marks… nope.
Wetton’s singing shits me to tears, some of the 70s effects haven’t aged well, and I feel some of the more digressive elements of the album inhibit the fact that there was some actual good songwriting on display here.
Crimson was probably most consistent during the eighties, with Beat, Three of a perfect pair, and Discipline.
‘Low’ is the lord and master of Bowie albums.
‘Red’ is a v. good album but does suffer a wee bit from the crappy vox. ‘Red’ and ‘One More Red Nightmare’ crush, but ‘Starless’ is king. Their 80s albums with Belew are my favourite (well ‘Beat’ and ‘ToaPP’ anyway, ‘Discipline’ material always sounded better live) still listen quite a bit to ‘In the Court…’, ‘In the Wake…’, ‘Thrak’ & ‘Power to Believe’ too.
King Crimson
Sick Morning.
I’m wheels:
My lyrics: thanks for asking, but it’s a difficult question, I suppose they are a realization of the political in both a very objective way, and at the same time, a personal way too. the records now are really one long impressionistic poem set to sound or music, I am not interested in songwriting, I’ve done that, and I still really enjoy listening to songs, but writing them is uninteresting…I’m also really uninterested in singing right now, though that’ll probably change over the years…