[Music] National Album Day

[pasty]

It’s National Album Day today, themed with great British artists.

What’s your go to default album when you can’t quite decide what you want to listen to?

I usually end up listening to Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood.

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[kevo]

It varies over time. I tend to get stuck listening to one album continually for weeks, even months. It was This Could Be Texas by English Teacher and it's currently Sucker by Ian Sweet.

If you asked me what my favourite most-played albums are, I'd have to include The Decline by British Sea Power, a highly eccentric debut album full of great tunes and brilliant lyrics. It also reminds me of seeing their wild early shows.

My 'go to' album when I get home from a night on the shandy is Closer by Joy Division (because I'm a happy chap). I seriously think it's one the greatest albums ever made, almost more high art than music.

 

[Superphil]

Marauder by Blackfoot
Camembert Electrique by Gong
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by Bowie.

 

[Weststander]

Disintegration …. and I didn’t know of its wonderful existence for 30 years. It’s stunningly beautiful.

 

[BN9 BHA]

The Specials self titled debut album.
This album was actually released on this day in 1979

 

[Comrade Sam]

The Specials self titled debut album.
This album was actually released on this day in 1979

My daughter is visiting Warwick today. She's not impressed with the Concrete Jungle of Coventry

 

[happypig]

Give 'em Enough Rope by The Clash
LA Woman by The Doors
Setting Sons by The Jam
Help by The Beatles

Depending on where I am or how I'm feeling

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I don't listen to it very often but Born to Run is exceptional. But that's American....

So...limiting to one album per artist, and amaximum of 10 picks (I mean, come on....)

Caravan - For girls who grow plump in the night
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
Comsat Angels - Sleep no more
Modern Eon - Fiction Tales
Joy Division - Still
Hatfied and the North - Rotters club
The Clash - Sandinista
Matching Mole - Matching Mole
Soft Machine - Bundles

 

[Barrow Boy]

Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock
Go West - Bangs and Crashes
Erasure - The Innocents

 

[Bodian]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Leftism by Leftfield

 

[Bodian]

This …. and I didn’t know of its wonderful existence for 30 years. It’s stunningly beautiful.

The reviews of their new one seem to be of the opinion that it's the best since then. I've pre-ordered it - so, I'll let you know!

 

[Pevenseagull]

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Must have listened to it several times more than any other album.

 

[BN9 BHA]

My daughter is visiting Warwick today. She's not impressed with the Concrete Jungle of Coventry

I’ve never been there, doesn’t look very exciting from photos I’ve seen.

 

[Weststander]

The reviews of their new one seem to be of the opinion that it's the best since then. I've pre-ordered it - so, I'll let you know!

I won't get to first listen to it until 2054!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I can’t say I have any moments where I can’t decide which album to listen to…I listen to around 4 a day most days….but my two favourite British albums are London Calling and Beggars Banquet

 

[TugWilson]

My daughter is visiting Warwick today. She's not impressed with the Concrete Jungle of Coventry

After what little was left of Coventry when Jerry had finished , the chance was there to create a very modern city unfortunately concrete was the "very modern material" - hence sh!thole , great shame . Cathedral has fantastic acoustics though apparently .

 

[TugWilson]

If i need to calm down it would be Ommadawn -Mike Oldfield or maybe Oxygen or Equinoxe -Jean Michel Jarre . If i am wired it would be Wish You Were Here , otherwise it would be Animals or maybe some E.L.O. .

To HWT , my choice would be Armed Forces - Elvis Costello

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I’ve never been there, doesn’t look very exciting from photos I’ve seen.

Imagine an entire town built in the style of Newhaven post office.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

So...limiting to one album per artist...

The Clash - Sandinista

This feels like cheating.