Albums you go back to...and still as good as the first time?

Albums you go back to...and still as good as the first time?

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Nom de ploom

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4,890 posts

180 months

Wednesday 4th November 2009
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stuck in a hotel room flicking down the music folder and I find a collection ranging from metallica to faithless to abba to morrisey. got me thinking that every now and then i listen to an old album and it feels like the first time every time...

nominees please.....

(given my taste is mostly rock / HM but i'm eclectic...) and it's always going to be a personal choice but a few of mine are...

Appetite for Destruction (this is now 23 years old!!!!!!)

graceland - wierd choice perhaps but always sounds original.

hysteria def leppard - if you can forgive the blokes from sheffield singiing in American accents - superb album. no filler all killer.

seventh son... sooo well done and saw them at donnington that year. legendary donnington.

Dokken - beast from the east, post Kiss what american rock needed a real guitar hero driven us rock band and live too. always sounds so good.

master of puppets - revolutionised thrash / hard rock. metallica played to stadiums in america before they had sold a record in europe. this album was produced so well it makes you wnat to put the cans on and lose yourself.

pump - aerosmith - not "a 70's great" but a brilliant comeback LP, never fails to impress on re-airing.

i'm sure i'll think of some more




R60EST

2,364 posts

188 months

Wednesday 4th November 2009
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I only listen to it once in a blue moon , mainly because it reminds me of my very early teens , and stayed with me well into my 20's



ELO - Out of the Blue.

A cassette recording of it was originally given to me by my cousin who had every ELO album going.

I went on to buy that album and most of the stuff they did

Kinky

39,779 posts

275 months

Wednesday 4th November 2009
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Back in Black
Bomber
John Wesley Harding
Kill 'em All
Pyromania
Breaker
Blizzard of Ozz
Diary of a Madman
Wasted in America
Too Fast for Love
Plug it in
Pros and cons of Hitchhiking
Present Arms

chevy-stu

5,392 posts

234 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Rage Against the Machine's 1st self titled 1992 album
Red Hot Chili Peppers - 1991 Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Nirvana - Nevermind 1991

Compared to the other Albums like Pearl Jam's TEN, G n' R's Use your Illusion, Metallica Black album and other rock records released those years these are the only ones that don't sound 17 or 18 years old now..

Landlord

12,689 posts

263 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Portishead - Dummy.

Animal

5,311 posts

274 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie

Asterix

24,438 posts

234 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexys

Really enjoy Superunknown by Sound Garden every thime I go back to it.

GnuBee

1,277 posts

221 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Perhaps more an illustration of eclectic taste but my nominees would be:

Underworld - A Hundred Days Off
The Libertines - The Libertines
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep In the North Sea

gbbird

5,193 posts

250 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Metallica - And Justice For All
Iron Maiden - 7th Son
Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
3 Colours Red - Pure
Led Zep - II
Rainbow - Long Live Rock n Roll
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Spain - Blue Moods of
Leatherwolf - the 1st self titled
Whitesnake 87



V8mate

45,899 posts

195 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Deep Purple - In Rock

derestrictor

18,764 posts

267 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Heaven & Hell, Black Sabbath.

andrewis

31 posts

218 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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If You Want Blood - AC/DC
Van Halen - Van Halen
Beast From the East - Dokken

Stablelad

3,815 posts

210 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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So many Queen albums but for me the ultimate turn-back-the-clock moment is Jazz.

UFO - Strangers In The Night
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Van Halen's 1st
Rainbow - Rising
ELO - New World Record

sooo many more.

Good thread!

dougc

8,240 posts

271 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Nirvana - Nevermind
Zero7 - Simple Things
Underworld - Everything Everything
The Prodigy - Experience

shirt

23,229 posts

207 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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van morrison - astral weeks



VR6time

1,656 posts

216 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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dougc said:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Zero7 - Simple Things
Underworld - Everything Everything
The Prodigy - Experience
Agreed with all of the above, I have the DVD of Everything everything, its one of those Timeless gigs. Would have cut of limbs to be there.

KaraK

13,265 posts

215 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - S&M
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinte Sadness
Matchbox Twenty - Yourself or someone like you

danrc

2,770 posts

216 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants

ratbane

1,384 posts

222 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Genesis - Seconds Out
Led Zeppelin - IV
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Rush - Hemispheres
Van Halen- Van Halen
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Roy Harper - Flashes from The Archives of Oblivion
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Wishbone Ash - Argus

TedMaul

2,092 posts

219 months

Thursday 5th November 2009
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Tattoed Beat Messiah by Zodiac Mindwarp. Holy Gasoline is just a great track
Live After Death - Iron Maiden - I think the Churchills Speech intro is superb, if a tad dated
Inside the Electric Circus - WASP. I just love it
August and Everything After - Counting Crows
Holy Diver - the god that is Ronnie James Dio
v2.0 - Garbage
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Smash - Offspring