The Ledge's Top 200 Albums of All Time

GarboSpeaks! · #1 07-28-2006, 03:55 AM

Dancing Lessons huh? Intersting pick. I could not even begin to name my fav Sinead song, but I too am quite a fan of hers. Just this evening I found 2 rare cd singles. Well, rare that you ever find anything if hers other than several 1000 tape copies of I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got...but GD, even THAT was a great album. Maybe my fav is I Am Stretched On Your Grave or Jerusalem. But the whole L&tC album ROCKS!
Singels found tonight were You Made me the Thief Of Your Heart & Famine b/w All Apologies. Interested to hear all the mixes.

foxyluva · #2 07-28-2006, 04:00 AM

^^^

I love 'I Do Not Want..." - a damn great album. Its a real shame that Sinead is one of those artists where the mainstream don't know her for anything else apart from "Nothing Compares" - which is such a beautiful song, but Sinead always had so much more.....

But yeah, 'Dancing Lessons' is my favourite Sinead track (possibly tied with 'Nothing Compares') I cannot stress the beauty of this song

GarboSpeaks! · #3 07-28-2006, 04:02 AM

Oh crap...I don't wanna high-jack as you put it xdwx

but a list CAN NOT be a list w/out XTC's Skylarking. OMG, WHERE is it? I need to edit................ lol

I remember someone giving me a tape that had Siouxsie on it...Dear Prudence, which actually, all these years later is my most detested SATB song, but more importantly (cause I was already into SATB) was XTC's, "Dear God" just a friggin great song. Along w/ World Destruction (John Lydon & Afrikka Bambatta) The Cure, Love Cats. Oh man...I am gonna make a comp cd, NO, make that a NEW COMP..... T A P E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

foxyluva · #4 07-28-2006, 04:06 AM

^^^^^We are going to have a disagreement here: I really dont like that album. Somebody recommended it to me, and I bought it because of what they said - and I utterly hated it

But I have kept it in the hope that it will one day grow on me....

GarboSpeaks! · #5 07-28-2006, 04:14 AM

HA! That's funny! It's WAY left field of what came out around the same time, IMO, and stands out as such. Dear God on it's own, makes it an album worth owning. But what Ballet for A Rainy Day, Grass, Summers Cauldonr..., I mean come on. It's almost like highschool, drama, theatrics in song form. There is just something endearing about it, althought andy & gang can sing (those unfamiliar w/ the album, that last description does not sum up the album, there is just this underlying element about the band). Would you rather Or Oranges & Lemons? Or REALLY earlybird XTC or none at all?

amber · #6 07-28-2006, 04:20 AM

Has anyone put any PJ Harvey albums yet? I didn't see any. I got turned on through a boyfriend, and don't really have the albums, but there was this one I thought was spectacular, the one with the song that said "Big fish little fish swimming in the water, come back here and gimme my daughter"
I loved that album (I think it was an album, and not a compilation he made) but you know me, I never buy stuff, or whatever. Anyway, I thought it was stellar. Dark, without being too creepy, and instead being darkly sensual. I noticed it because I don't like creepy things, but do like sensual things (think Tricky) and this was skirting the dark territory, but instead was brilliant, and just missed being too creepy/dark for my tastes.

Trackie? Anyone?

I'm suprised no one has put Bjork yet, either.

If I could add more, I might add:

Electriclarryland - Butthole Surfers.
But I can't.
I'd also add 2 Beck albums, especially that one. Mellow Gold? What the hell is it called? In the tradition of albums where you actually like all the songs. Truth be told, I might add all Beck albums.
And you know what? I also liked the entirety (rare) of that Cake album. That thing kicked ass!
Fashion Nugget

I know, I'm cheating, sorry. But, I only know a few albums, so, it's over now.

amber · #8 07-28-2006, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

I'm here! The PJ Harvey album you're thinking of is To Bring You My Love, which is an awesome record! The song is Down By The Water, which is very dark and sensual.

Bjork? I think Debut is probably a safe bet (it has Human Behaviour, Venus As A Boy, Big Time Sensuality on it) although I have a soft spot for Homogenic. Post is also good (It's Oh So Quiet, Army Of Me, Hyper Ballad, Isobel, etc)

Mellow Gold is Beck's debut album, and every song on that is fantastic. Also great is Odelay, but all his albums are good.
I love the Butthole Surfers btw.

And I love you.

You keep telling me the name of that pj album, and I keep forgetting! But I want it. And, I think it should be on here. Okay, I just wrote it on my pad. yeah. I just have to save this piece of paper now...

And it was the album my bf had, and I did like the whole thing. To bring you my love is excellente, I just recalled.

I actually think I was thinking of Odelay, for Beck, not Mellow Gold, which is also good, but - I thought I loved his second album. yeah.

It's weird, where I am from, these would've already been mentioned, methinks. All of them. Even Cake. BTW, do you like Cake/Fashion Nugget? I hardly ever like whole albums, or even lyrics, but that one has got me on both counts. Brilliant lyricist, IMO.

Butthole Surfers. Not something in my usual vein, but my bf played it, loved it, and I actually liked it. It's pretty f-cking good.
I'm not a huge fan of Bjork, though I think she is exceptionally talented - I was just suprised no one had mentioned her.

What is your take on Tricky?

foxyluva · #9 07-28-2006, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by GarboSpeaks!

HA! That's funny! It's WAY left field of what came out around the same time, IMO, and stands out as such. Dear God on it's own, makes it an album worth owning. But what Ballet for A Rainy Day, Grass, Summers Cauldonr..., I mean come on. It's almost like highschool, drama, theatrics in song form. There is just something endearing about it, althought andy & gang can sing (those unfamiliar w/ the album, that last description does not sum up the album, there is just this underlying element about the band). Would you rather Or Oranges & Lemons? Or REALLY earlybird XTC or none at all?

I don't know how to answer that question

I do like "Dear God" - but I hear that on the radio every now and again, so I knew of it before I bought the album. The album actually makes me feel physically ill - some music has that effect on me, and that album happens to be a prime example.....