Flyingpig437

1. Pink Floyd-Dark side
2. Beatles-Sgt.Pepper
3. Beatles-Revolver
4. Air-Moon safari
5. Bowie-Hunk dory
6. Smiths-Queen is dead
7. The orb-Adventures beyond...
8. Jimi Hendrix experience-Are you experienced
9. Kate Bush-Lionheart
10- Pixies-Doolittle

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The Floyd,Beatles, Bowie and Jimi Hendrix besides being great albums with almost 100% brilliant songs on them are the ones that I read about in a book called 100 greatest albums, before such lists were all over the place. Sgt. Pepper was #1. Revolver #17. Dark side about 16 Hunky dory about 29 and Hendrix strangely about 87, I think. This was in 1987 and I'd not taken any intrest in older music from 60's and 70's before. These albums opened my mind to listenting to anything...even if it wasn't in the charts!!!That was a revolution for me.

Air is an album that I love 'cause it's nothing like anything else i'd been listening to when i first heard a song from it. I got it and all the other songs were as good as that one. It made me realise how much i'd been stuck in my ways listening to guitar based bands. So, this is a perfect little deviation from my usual tastes.

I first heard the Orb in the 90's but didn't listen to it much. I got a copy again around 2003. Why is it important to me? Err...I just like it and value it for being so good and so different.


The Smiths were the band that broadened my musical tastes away from old stuff as aforementioned and all the chart **** in the late 80's. Although they'd split a year before i got into them. I'd heard a few of the song on this album before I got it and remember the first time i got it and went home and put it on and never felt more confident that what i was about to hear was going to be brilliant. The richness and quality of these songs is astounding. It's the only Smiths album I still care about because it's got so much tragi-com in it whereas the other albums just seem too dour. Johnny Marr's guitar work is the best I've ever heard. It'd be higher but the variety of instrumentation isn't up there with the albums above it so it's a bit one dimensional by comparison.



Kate Bush-I love most of Kate Bush's stuff but this is the one that made the list 'cause the critics brainwashed me into thinking HOunds of love is the best but for all the highlights of that album this one is more moving to me and showcases her amazing vocal talents in more wild and crazy and moving ways. So, picking this is because I love it and it reminds me to free myself from the conventional critical thinking on what artists albums are their best.


The Pixies Doolittle is there 'cause it was the first...and last stone cold classic that i still love that I bought contemporaneously with it's release. It sounded so fresh and effervescent and a bit silly but still full of energy and power. NOthing like it.