Albums Thread - 2015

[Pogue Mahone]

Beastie Boys would be another hip hop group in with a shout of meeting the criteria:

1986 Licensed to Ill
1989 Paul's Boutique
1992 Check Your Head
1994 Ill Communication
1998 Hello Nasty

Agree with this.

Is Hello Nasty really 17 years old? Unbelievable.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Paul's Boutique is an interesting one. It was wildly criticised upon release but now it's seen as a classic. Best described as way ahead of its time IMHO.

And Licensed to Ill was derided as novelty guff, not to be taken seriously. I love it - probably, still, my favourite Beasties album.

Paul's Boutique is a brilliant album.

 

[spring hall convert]

Beastie Boys would be another hip hop group in with a shout of meeting the criteria:

1986 Licensed to Ill
1989 Paul's Boutique
1992 Check Your Head
1994 Ill Communication
1998 Hello Nasty

Definitely. Great run.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Public Enemy released 4 good albums (3 classics) then a remix and rarities album and everything after that was mediocre.

Run out of ideas for Hip Hop.

De La Soul, Jungle Brothers etc all seem to only have 2 or 3 decent albums in them.

 

[Staly]

The Top
The Head on the Door
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me
Disintegration
Wish

You not counting Mixed Up then?

 

[spring hall convert]

EDIT: Wrong thread

 

[Staly]

Grotesque
Slates
Hex Enduction Hour
Room To Live
Perverted By Language

 

[Trufflehound]

Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, Road to Ruin, It's Alive/End of the Century*


* delete as applicable depending on the inclusion of live albums, or not...

Went a bit wrong after that though. Pleasant Dreams and Subterranean Jungle were both awful.

 

[Tarpon]

Joni Mitchell: pick almost any run of five for me. Most would probably go with the 'classic' period I guess:

1969 Clouds
1970 Ladies of the Canyon
1971 Blue
1972 For the Roses
1974 Court and Spark

 

[hans kraay fan club]

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You not counting Mixed Up then?

No. Deliberately. It would be a stretch to deem it a proper studio album, wouldn't it?

I not care for it much either, tbh.

 

[Whitechapel]

Public Enemy released 4 good albums (3 classics) then a remix and rarities album and everything after that was mediocre.

Run out of ideas for Hip Hop.

De La Soul, Jungle Brothers etc all seem to only have 2 or 3 decent albums in them.

I think Kendrick Lamar is well on his way to it, in 20 years he'll be remembered as a legend IMO. Section.80 & Good Kid, m.A.A.d city are both 9/10 albums. His 3rd album comes out this year and I can't f*cking wait. If its half as good as GKMC then it'll probably be my AOTY. He seems to be getting better & better too. His Verse on Control is arguably the best Hip-Hop verses of my lifetime. If you haven't heard it before then skip to 2:55 on the song below.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

I think Kendrick Lamar is well on his way to it, in 20 years he'll be remembered as a legend IMO. Section.80 & Good Kid, m.A.A.d city are both 9/10 albums. His 3rd album comes out this year and I can't f*cking wait. If its half as good as GKMC then it'll probably be my AOTY. He seems to be getting better & better too. His Verse on Control is arguably the best Hip-Hop verses of my lifetime. If you haven't heard it before then skip to 2:55 on the song below.

Honestly, other than individual albums I haven't followed Hip Hop for 10 years at this point, but I've heard Kendrick Lamar from his appearance on the Flying Lotus album this year. I'll listen to this track when I get home!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'm very much enjoying The 2 Bears recent long player. It certainly livens up a dreary January.

 

[spring hall convert]

Back to this Panda Bear album. Sounds a lot better, loud on a good system rather than on headphones.

 

[Machiavelli]

Early thread diversion. I've been having a massive Bowie revival recently.

Is there a better 5 album run by anyone than Station to Station, Low, "Heroes", Lodger and Scary Monster?

Digging this inparticular at the moment.

Digging is the right word for that tune

 

[Pogue Mahone]

The man is a genius. It's like he assimilated all previous rock music culture, added his own twist and just spewed it out for well over a decade.

Absolutely this.

I always remember the advert that accompanied the release of Scary Monsters, at a time when people were quite polarised about what they were 'allowed' to like.

It stated "There's Old Wave, there's New Wave, and there's David Bowie".

 

[spring hall convert]

I suspect the first great album of the year is going to come from those ex-Women types Viet Cong. Check out this beauty, it's like a cross between Women and Interpol. Gorgeous noise



They are playing The Green Door soon. I saw Women live twice and they were both fantastic gigs, I can't see why this would be any different. Gives me an excuse to post this as well, from Public Strain, one of the most underrated albums of the decade IMHO.

 

[Buzzer]

The Viet Cong album has me intrigued. I've seen great reviews all around for it so definitely on my shopping list. Talking of album of the year (!) Those people at God Is In The TV have said that the Diagrams album 'Chromatics' will be one of the contenders. Normally I'd ignore such presumption when we're only halfway through January but I do tend to take notice of their reviews. I'm going to buy it soon and then give a review on here. I've only heard one tune so far, Phantom Power, and it sounds sort of Belle and Sebastian but with a bit more welly.

Looking forward to the Wave Pictures forthcoming album, they played a set on the Marc Riley show recently and it's as witty, as English, as engaging as ever from what I heard. And the Charlatans album will be must-buy if only to satisfy the the inner Dad Rock within me.

 

[Buzzer]

And fresh off the press is the news that Spiritualized are recording a new album and produced by Martin Glover from Killing Joke.

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new...ing-new-album-produced-by-killing-joke-member

 

[spring hall convert]

And fresh off the press is the news that Spiritualized are recording a new album and produced by Martin Glover from Killing Joke.

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new...ing-new-album-produced-by-killing-joke-member

Excellent, I'll look forward to a tour as well. I wasn't mad keen on the last record but they were still fabulous live.