Best Ever Albums

Re: MY BEST STUDIO ALBUMS SINCE 1962- 111333 POSTING

RoundTheBend — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:22:47 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/30/2017 20:22

Also I have noticed you haven't created your chart yet - maybe a good place to list your albums?

Re: MY BEST STUDIO ALBUMS SINCE 1962- 111333 POSTING

bobbyb5 — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:20:50 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 12/30/2017 20:20

rkm wrote:

Do you think the Furs and Simple Minds suffered a similar fate: that their good early work is largely forgotten due to their lesser later work?

I think you're probably right. I liked Simple Minds a lot right up to New Gold Dream, which is in my top 100. Then starting right after that they decided that they wanted to be U2 or something. And then I never really liked anything again that they did. However, the later Furs albums, starting with Mirror Moves, sound a lot better to me today then they did back then in the eighties and nineties. I think a lot more of them today than I did then. And it's probably true that when people think of the Psychedelic Furs today they don't think of the early stuff but the later stuff, and that's probably why they're not as well thought of today.

Re: MY BEST STUDIO ALBUMS SINCE 1962- 111333 POSTING

rkm — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:59:14 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 12/30/2017 19:59

Do you think the Furs and Simple Minds suffered a similar fate: that their good early work is largely forgotten due to their lesser later work?

Re: MY BEST STUDIO ALBUMS SINCE 1962- 111333 POSTING

bobbyb5 — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:37:16 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 12/30/2017 17:37

111333 wrote:

bobbyb5 wrote:

I have been waiting SOOOOOO long for someone on this site to mention the Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk. I don't understand how this great album is all but forgotten nowadays. When I was growing up just about everybody knew that it was one of the greatest albums of all time. It's in my top 10 of my overall Top 100 and my number one album of the 80s. In fact I think it was the last great guitar album of the classic post-punk era. Never has there been an album with so many tracks that are a complete triumph of songwriting and guitar. It puts the indie rock of today to shame. And even though a lot of Punk and hardcore albums of that era get a lot of attention on this site, none of them come close to this. The Furs albums immediately before and after this one are pretty great also. In fact a lot of people prefer the debut album.

The rest of your list is pretty nice too

Love Spit Love is post Furs Butler and is close to perfect too- whadda ya think? Greetings from snowy Long Island-

I think Love Spit Love is about on par with the later Furs albums, none of which come close to to the first 3. Though they're not as bad as most people think. The debut, talk talk talk, and Forever now are in a different League.
You say that you're in snowy Long Island, well I'm in snowy Buffalo. And I was in snowy New York over Christmas. it's been about 8 degrees here. It's been a rough week. Unbelievably cold.

Re: MY BEST STUDIO ALBUMS SINCE 1962- 111333 POSTING

111333 — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 11:57:19 GMT

Author: 111333

Posted: 12/30/2017 16:57

sethmadsen wrote:

I can't say no to 3 REM albums.

My first list had like 8... haha.

REM is one of a very few who were GREAT for decades- There are spare fingers on one hand after counting off others- Maybe U2-

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111333 — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 11:53:22 GMT

Author: 111333

Posted: 12/30/2017 16:53

bobbyb5 wrote:

Love Spit Love is post Furs Butler and is close to perfect too- whadda ya think? Greetings from snowy Long Island-

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RoundTheBend — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:32:06 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 12/30/2017 06:32

I can't say no to 3 REM albums.

My first list had like 8... haha.

Re: MY BEST STUDIO ALBUMS SINCE 1962- 111333 POSTING

bobbyb5 — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:41:26 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 12/30/2017 04:41

I have been waiting SOOOOOO long for someone on this site to mention the Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk. I don't understand how this great album is all but forgotten nowadays. When I was growing up just about everybody knew that it was one of the greatest albums of all time. It's in my top 10 of my overall Top 100 and my number one album of the 80s. In fact I think it was the last great guitar album of the classic post-punk era. Never has there been an album with so many tracks that are a complete triumph of songwriting and guitar. It puts the indie rock of today to shame. And even though a lot of Punk and hardcore albums of that era get a lot of attention on this site, none of them come close to this. The Furs albums immediately before and after this one are pretty great also. In fact a lot of people prefer the debut album.

The rest of your list is pretty nice too

MY BEST STUDIO ALBUMS SINCE 1962- 111333 POSTING

111333 — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:51:19 GMT

Author: 111333

Posted: 12/30/2017 03:51

My Best Studio Albums since 1962 List-
The Best cut for cut albums ever recorded-
I have worked on this for 5 years-
If you give some new a try from this collection, you will be pleased:
(IN ORDER)

Psychedelic Furs, The Talk Talk Talk
REM Reckoning
Boston Boston
Springsteen, Bruce Born to Run
Stevens, Sufjan Seven Swans
Love Spit Love Love Spit Love
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Who, The Who's Next
Bowie, David Ziggy Stardust
Grateful Dead American Beauty
Indigo Girls nomads indians saints
Decemberists, The The King is Dead
Joel, Billy The Stranger
Mitchell, Joni Court and Spark
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
Stewart, Al Year of the Cat
REM Lifes Rich Pageant
Kansas Leftoverture
Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell
Toad the Wet Sprocket fear
U2 How to dismantle an atomic bomb
Counting Crows August & Everything After
Beatles, The Sgt Pepper
REM Out of Time
Jackson, Joe Look Sharp
Eno, Brian Taking Tiger Mountian
Sugar File Under Easy Listening
Steely Dan Katy Lied
Indigo Girls Indigio Girls
Hole Live Through This
10,000 Maniacs In my Tribe
Thompson Twins Into the Gap
Beatles, The Abbey Road
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Genesis And then there were Three
McLoughlin, Sarah Solace
Styx The Grand Illusion
Mitchell, Joni Blue
Stone Temple Pilots Purple
Costello, Elvis Punch the Clock
Crosby Stills & Nash Crosby Stills & Nash
Midnight Oil 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight
Rainbow Long Live Rock and Roll
Feelies, The Only Life
Jackson, Joe I am the Man
Johnston, Freddy This Perfect World
Numan, Gary Replicas
Springsteen, Bruce Tunnel of Love
U2 Achtung Baby
Sinatra, Frank September of my Years
Steely Dan Aja
Genesis Genesis
Belly Star
Dylan, Bob Blood on the Tracks