Favourite album?

[tor]

I agree Harvest is a rare piece of work and we can almost smell the dirt, wood, straw & grass.

Neil Youngs Harves Moon is also a great album.

[oddson]

...My favorite album is Tinderbox from Siouxie and the Banshees....

Cities in Dust is a classic track.

I always found it funny how punk started as a reaction to art/prog rock and ended with PIL, Banshees, Shriekback, XTC, etc. doing their own over-the-top productions. I guess you can only do three-chord gtr-bss-drm speed pop for so long before you start making things complicated. It's also hard to stay that angry.

[AngularMomentum]

If I could play three chords like Steve Jones does...I would play those forever.

Thinderbox indeed has some stuff, like City's in Dust that was very commercial. I did not follow much of the other (post) punk bands, for me Banshees was and is something special. What is funny is that most of the bands, when I was a kid, thought where American in fact all came out of the UK.

[trogluddite]

It's also hard to stay that angry.

He he, yes, I had to laugh when I saw Johnny Rotten on the TV trying to sell me butter!
I read in an interview recently that even Steve Albini has chilled out enough to spend his idle hours watching funny kitten videos on YouTube - though he did do a very good impression of an irate 16 year-old when I saw Shellac a couple of months back!
Anyway, getting back on-topic, I just got the latest CD of my fave live act du jour, and I just can't stop playing it - so I guess this is my favourite album ('til the next one!)...
TrioVD - Fill it up with Ghosts
...I don't think there are many styles that they don't squeeze in somewhere, but I guess you could call it heavy-prog-jazz.
All instrumental, something I've come to appreciate more and more as I get older - I tend to feel with lyrics these days that either (a) I agree with what's being said, so I'm not being made to think, (b) They distract me from the music because I want to argue back, or (c) Na-na-na Do-doo-do-wop-di-dum Baby - Oh, shut up if you've nothing to say! Though I make an exception for Half Man-Half Biscuit because they make me LOL.

[tektoog]

I was a big fan of Pixies in the 90's, Bossanova being my favourite album.

More recently I got these albums playing on regular basis in my car:

- Jakalope - It Dreams - (2004) (was co-produced by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails ) I like it for the pop flavour mixed with some heavy electronic programming.

- Iamx - The Alternative - (2006) very deep and depressing..mix between electro sounds and accoustic...

- Gusgus - 24/7 - (2009) Add this song is the best tune of the album for me, but the album is very well produced...big sound and hard work on the mastering...

- The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation (of course !) That was my introduction to raves ... the entire album seems like anthem today (Voodoo people and No good are real master pieces considering the time they've been made...almost 20 years ago now !!! crazy...)

[Acrobat]

this guy is doing very interesting things too, I've seen him live in Rome last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74spJD2oEPg

[Acrobat]

...My favorite album is Tinderbox from Siouxie and the Banshees....

Cities in Dust is a classic track.

I always found it funny how punk started as a reaction to art/prog rock and ended with PIL, Banshees, Shriekback, XTC, etc. doing their own over-the-top productions. I guess you can only do three-chord gtr-bss-drm speed pop for so long before you start making things complicated. It's also hard to stay that angry.

I had a girlfriend who was really in love with Siouxsie, she was part of her youth. When an artist is part of your youth, he got impressed so deep in your mind. Music has a real strange power on people.

[AngularMomentum]

True, I have the same thing with Frank Zappa.

[AngularMomentum]

He he, yes, I had to laugh when I saw Johnny Rotten on the TV trying to sell me butter!

Yuk, zit faced Johnny selling butter. I have just seen the add on ITV when Harry Hill was on. I like him very much though, Rotten cracks me up, smart guy too.

How about Iggy selling car insurance?? Right.....

[aliasant]

this guy is doing very interesting things too, I've seen him live in Rome last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74spJD2oEPg

Thanx Acrobat.
That sounded really nice and the video was very interesting too.
Going to have to get more of that.

[trogluddite]

How about Iggy selling car insurance?? Right.....

He he, the best bit is that, as a musician with a previous history of debauchery, the company concerned would never insure him - so he's unable to obtain the very product he's advertising!

[AngularMomentum]

That's funny, lmao!

[pall]

A very old jazz standard composition;

Harlem Nocturne - Alto Sax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wjg_mTA ... re=related

[AngularMomentum]

Nice, you playing that?

[tor]

Ha ha.. in my youth I borrowed a Selmer tenor sax with a nr4 tounge. You had to have the lounges of a elephat to get sound out of it. So sax never became my instument.

Ever heard Mark Hollis from Talk Talk? This is his solo project. The three last albums that Talk Talk made is also very interesting and beautyful albums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAMw-oYjHuE