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four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:47 pm
The Belle Album is one of the best records of all time.

SOLID as fuck opinion

Top 15. Not an easy list.

Muddy Waters-Hard Again (I know it may be too blueshammery for some, but this record is a stone fucking solid jam. Peak Muddy.)
Ramones-Leave Home
Pink Floyd-Animals
Television-Marquee Moon
The Damned-Damned Damned Damned
Cheap Trick-In Color
Kraftwerk-Trans Europe Express
Judas Priest-Sin After Sin
The Jam-In The City
Willie Nelson-To Lefty From Willie
Radio Birdman-Radios Appear
Motorhead-Motorhead
Richard Hell and the Voidoids-Blank Generation
Dead Boys-Young Loud and Snotty
Suicide-Suicide

Good year, but it's Pink Flag if I'm just listening to one ever again.

Based on what I have I've picked up on record, my favorites, I guess, are in the list below. I also have a soft spot for Elis Regina's 1977 album and Millie Jackson's Feelin' Bitchy for nostalgic reasons. I was a kid then and remember hearing them at the parties and asados I was dragged along to.

AC/DC- Let There Be Rock
Air- Air Time
Derek Bailey- Drops
Brötzmann / Bennink- Schwarzwaldfahrt
Cheap Trick- Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick- In Color
Ornette Coleman- Dancing in Your Head
Dead Boys- Young Loud and Snotty
Eddie Hazel- Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs
Hawkwind- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
Julius Hemphill- Blue Boyé
Steve Lacy- Straws
MX-80 Sound- Hard Attack
Parliament- Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
Shoes- Black Vinyl Shoes
Suicide- Suicide
T.Rex- Dandy in the Underworld
Dwight Twilley- Twilley Don't Mind
Wire- Pink Flag
O.V. Wright- Into Something (Can't Shake Loose)

Oh man! So many good things.

Guts, John Cale
No More Heroes/Rattus Norvigicus, The Stranglers
Lust for Life/Kill City/The Idiot, Iggy Pop
Pacific Ocean Blue, Dennis Wilson
Game, Dames and Guitars, Eddie Hazel
L.A.M.F., Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
Suicide, Suicide
Baccara, Baccara
New Boots and Panties, Ian Dury
Aja, Steely Dan
Young Loud and Snotty, The Dead Boys
Love for Sale, Boney M
Damned, Damned, Damned, The Damned
Low/Heroes, David Bowie

I'm tempted to check my Discogs collection now, but the list is already long!

kicker_of_elves wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:37 am Top 15. Not an easy list.

Muddy Waters-Hard Again (I know it may be too blueshammery for some, but this record is a stone fucking solid jam. Peak Muddy.)
Ramones-Leave Home
Pink Floyd-Animals
Television-Marquee Moon
The Damned-Damned Damned Damned
Cheap Trick-In Color
Kraftwerk-Trans Europe Express
Judas Priest-Sin After Sin
The Jam-In The City
Willie Nelson-To Lefty From Willie
Radio Birdman-Radios Appear
Motorhead-Motorhead
Richard Hell and the Voidoids-Blank Generation
Dead Boys-Young Loud and Snotty
Suicide-Suicide

Back then, you could have "Dissident Aggressor" and "Last Rose of Summer" on the same record without anyone questioning your metal credentials.

Krev wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:44 pm

kicker_of_elves wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:37 am Top 15. Not an easy list.

Muddy Waters-Hard Again (I know it may be too blueshammery for some, but this record is a stone fucking solid jam. Peak Muddy.)
Ramones-Leave Home
Pink Floyd-Animals
Television-Marquee Moon
The Damned-Damned Damned Damned
Cheap Trick-In Color
Kraftwerk-Trans Europe Express
Judas Priest-Sin After Sin
The Jam-In The City
Willie Nelson-To Lefty From Willie
Radio Birdman-Radios Appear
Motorhead-Motorhead
Richard Hell and the Voidoids-Blank Generation
Dead Boys-Young Loud and Snotty
Suicide-Suicide

Back then, you could have "Dissident Aggressor" and "Last Rose of Summer" on the same record without anyone questioning your metal credentials.

70s Priest, man. Only they could make a completely un-ironic metal cover of a Joan Baez song.

So true. As much as I love 70's Priest, I think Screaming for Vengeance was their high point, though. My uncle gave me that and British Steel on vinyl as a kid, which started me on my long Priest journey. But fuck Dave Holland. Les Binks was the man.

pldms wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 6:52 am

Rocky Rockbottom wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:04 pm 10 The Pirates - Out Of Their Skulls

Yes! For that scratchy lead / rhythm style Keith Levene and Andy Gill used, go via Wilko Johnson and meet Mick Green:

Ordinarily wouldnt have been a thing I was curious about but bought the LP cheap put it on and BAM. Just rocks.

I was six years old in 1977, and the two albums I remember listening to the most were Queen “News Of the World” and Kiss “Alive II”.