Wish, the magazine that gets tucked inside my copy of The Australian on the first Friday of each month, included a "High Five" (as they called it) of all-time favourite albums from some musicians and industry-folk. Some of them also nominated a guilty pleasure—a CD to which they were sheepishly attracted.
It didn't take much of a leap to figure that this should step up as Cacophony's next Top 5. Before we get there though, some Top 5's from some folk you may know:
Tex Perkins
1. Sticky Fingers: The Rolling Stones
2. Loaded: The Velvet Underground
3. Tonight's the Night: Neil Young
4. Raw Power: Iggy & the Stooges
5. Clear Spot: Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band
Guilty Pleasure
Jesus Christ Superstar (Soundtrack)
Marcia Hines
1. Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Beatles
2. Tutu: Miles Davis
3. Face Value: Phil Collins
4. Talking Book: Stevie Wonder
5. Luther Vandross: any album
Arnold Frollows
1. Kind of Blue: Miles Davis
2. What's going on: Marvin Gaye
3. Astral Weeks: Van Morrison
4. Hejira: Joni Mitchell
5. The Harder they Come: (Soundtrack)
Guilty Pleasure
Hotel California: The Eagles
Sarah Blasko
1. Debut: Bjork
2. To Bring you my love: PJ Harvey
3. Amnesiac: Radiohead
4. Dirty: Sonic Youth
5. Talking Heads: 77 Talking Heads
Guilty Pleasure
Neither Fish nor Flesh Terence Trent d'Arby
Simon Elliott
1. U2: The Joshua Tree
2. Making Movies: Dire Straits
3. Gossip: Paul Kelly
3a: Rumours: Fleetwood Mac (just following on the with the loose lips)
4. Enlightenment: Van Morrison
5. The Bends: Radiohead
Guilty Pleasure (not really, just one more)
Brood: My Friend the Chocolate
So: Peter Gabriel
Simon's twin
1. David Grey: White Ladder
2. Oh, Mercy: Bob Dylan
3. Mercury Falling: Sting
4. Woodface: Crowded House
5. Glo: Delirious?
Guilty Pleasure
Difficult Loves: Weddings, Parties, Anything
So—step right up and swing hard. No wrong answers (other than those listed above).
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Top 5: All-time favourite albums
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I have a post dedicated to my guilty pleasure albums, including A Flock of Seagulls nad Bright Eyes.
Also to a different post you have, I too suffer from writers block. I thought it was because I was to happy but then my lone term girlfriend dumped me and I still couldn't find any inspiration. HAH
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i was all prepared to be a saint before your blog address took me to a dead end. I'm prepared to take another's word that I'm still considered a saint.
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very difficult to do, first of all - only 5 allowed, thats tough. second of all, is favourite mean classic, or latest fad, a tough one also.
i'd stab at this:
rush of blood to the head - coldplay
joshua tree - U2
the soul cages - sting
grace - jeff buckley
the bends - radiohead
honourable mentions
alone with everybody - richard ashcroft
plans - deathcab for cutie
heartbreaker - ryan adams
gold - ryan adams
lovers live - sade
supply and demand - amos lee
amos lee - amos lee
the secret sun - jesse harris
while the music lasts - jesse harris
parachutes - coldplay
the last broadcast - doves
human conditions - richard ashcroft
achtung baby - u2
autumn flow - lior
guilty pleasures (and there are many)
temperamental - everything but the girl
pulse live - pink floyd
back in black - acdc
we cant dance - genesis
all of john mayer's catalogue
blue sky mining - midnight oil
five star laundry - motor ace
blueprints for the blackmarket - anberlin
mutemath - mutemath
pollichinelle - the prayerboat
rage against the machine - RATM
poses - rufus wainright
nothing is sound - switchfoot
alright donkey, that'll do!
I'm with Garrick a bit.
1)Rush of blood to the head - Coldplay (just a top album full of audio delights and some exquisite song writing)
2) A Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (best jazz album ever!!)
3) No time like the Future - Incognito
4) Brand New Day - Sting
5) Fallen - Evanesence (such haunting music and lyrics with such giftedness vocally & musically. Amy Lee can write too)
Guilty Pleasure - Comedy Album: Russell Fragar's greatest hits. It's a very short album, 1/2 a song.
Actually, I found it hard to leave out anything by George Benson, Tenderness by Al Jarreau or Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. Woodface by Crowded House would be close too.
Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams
Selma Songs - Bjork
Under the Table and Dreaming - DMB
The Bends - Radiohead
Son of Evil Reindeer - Reindeer Section
Honorable Mentions:
Anything by Bob Dylan
Nevermind - Nirvana
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes
Come on, Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Guilty Pleasures:
Rent the Musical Soundtrack
Live Through This - Hole
I'm a bit confused at how Simon got 2 of my albums on his 'hi-five' but anyway, here goes...
Radiohead - The Bends
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape
Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
Dinosaur Jr - Where you been?
Let's face it, we're all thieving swines suffering from a lack of imagination. Either that or 'The Bends' by Radiohead is a blimmin' good album.
i'd agree with sherri - silent alarm is a fantastic album. i also forgot to put in synchronicity by the police. currently listening to richard ashcrofts new album "keys to the world" and its also well up there on my list.
i'd agree with a few of you that woodface is a great album. i am a big fan of all things finn and have probably over 40 neil/tim/enz/crowdie related albums. all their albums carry a lot of cred, i can't wait to hear "time on earth" but the crowdies aren't so big on this continent, so i don't imagine hearing it for a while yet.
i think i've well and truely blown my top 5, probably numbering into the top 50 by now, but what the hang.
Syncronicity is a wicked cool album. Good call Garrick.
The new Crowded House recording is good but it didn't meet my expectations. I did have high expectations though and that's probably stuffed it for me. Maybe I need to go in with an open mind and lacking expectations and hear afresh.
you never know - sometimes the best musical offerings have a longer gestation period.
Russell Fragar, for example.
See I was going to be circumspectly silent because I ONLY do guilty pleasures - but I feel like I have to post. I was just working on a Top 5 of my own: Reasons to Love Puddle-Deep Pop.
1) It makes you slam it to the left when you’re having a good time and shake it to the right ‘cause you KNOW that you feel fine.
2) Being a pop fan will ensure my Total Aural Dominance with the under-12 girl-child crew. Maybe familiarity with Daddy’s guitar-toting balladeers will do them more good in the long run but, well, no-one’s seen Posh Elliot smile yet, have they? I think she’s chosen her team…
3) Concede and auto-tune, I say. Think how many wasted hours would have been saved if no-one ever had to debate the merits of Bob Dylan’s various stages of vocal calamity…
4) You try writing a catchy ear-worm of a hook.
5) Agents and managers and minders and marketers are people too, and you can support a whole industry of them, just by buying Fergie’s latest. And if you buy Britney’s you’ll be keeping food on the table of a half dozen magazine editors, which; just look at the poor emaciated darlings…
Anyway, here’s my Top 5: the albums I pull out because I know they’ll do what I want them to do:
1) Spice World – Spice Girls
2) Justified - Justin Timberlake
3) To Hal and Bacharach – Various Australian bands doing Burt Bacharach covers
4) Fever – Kylie
5) Swing When You’re Winning – Robbie Williams
Hey, there's nothing wrong with Fever...is there? Not last time I listened to it (we might give it a run this afternoon actually).
And who are we to stand in the way if Justin wants to get all theological on our asses?
okay so it seems im the only alternative punker in the group
top five:
1. Regina specktor
2. Good Charlotte
3. Fall out Boy
4. Xavier Rudd (anything when i in a quiet reflective mood)
5. diorama- silverchair
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