The Heartland Not-So-Festive 50 Albums

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DEDICATED TO MR JOHN PEEL


Very well, ladies and gentlemen.

"The top 50 albums here are what?", I hear you ask, so here's your chance to know!

RULES:

1) You must nominate TEN albums.
2) Every album must be by a different artist. This is to make sure we don't end up with the same few albums and little else.
3) Anything RnB/dance/club/house (though I doubt you would) is banned from submission. You Know Why.
4) You can vote for a live/demos bootleg, if you so desire, but just remember (especially with the severe amount of Sisters bootlegs), these are much less likely to get a ton of votes.
5) Compilations are acceptable, but try to keep them to a minimum, okay?

HOW TO SUBMIT:

<Username>:

<CHOICE ONE> (Artist AND Album name please)
<CHOICE TWO> (Artist AND Album name please)
<CHOICE THREE> (Artist AND Album name please)
(Et Cetera)

Just submit an email to the address on my profile, set out like that, and your votes will be added to the database.

Votes will be accepted until MAY 25th.


Good luck, you may commence the destruction of my mail server.

[emilystrange]

may i suggest that it be dedicated to Mr Peel in some way? please?

[Andie]

may i suggest that it be dedicated to Mr Peel in some way? please?

Undertones ~ Undertones

crackin debut album...

but alas...it's not one of my top 3...

[Dark]

Of course you may, Ems. We know he liked the Sisters, and I'm sure he'd only be pleased that we were ripping off his show's feature.

[ez]

/lurk

Can you give me the artists too, please?

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><Username>: ez
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><CHOICE ONE> holiday
><CHOICE TWO> wedding
><CHOICE THREE> pressed flower



lurk

[Dark]

/lurk

Can you give me the artists too, please?

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><Username>: ez
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><CHOICE ONE> holiday
><CHOICE TWO> wedding
><CHOICE THREE> pressed flower



lurk

You could be a bit more fucking helpful.

[ruffers]

How's this going then?

(and boing for those that missed it)

[Dark]

Well, Ruffers, it's a little bit annoying.

We've had 5 people voting (including myself), and 14 albums only have one vote.
Thus the winner so far, with two votes, is...

THE SISTERS OF MERCY - SOME GIRLS WANDER BY MISTAKE.

[Obviousman]

Some girls ? A compilation album for gods sake, why don't they pick out a proper album with a bit more of a concept and all that ...

(wherewith I surely do not say some girls is crap, I like it a lot too, actually )

And it sure does surprise me that a sisters album gets listed first, here

[smiscandlon]

A compilation album for gods sake

Ben: "What’s your favourite Beatles album, then?"
Alan: "Tough one. I think I’d have to say . . . ‘The Best Of The Beatles’."

[Obviousman]

Ben: "What’s your favourite Beatles album, then?"
Alan: "Tough one. I think I’d have to say . . . ‘The Best Of The Beatles’."

[canon docre]

Who can narrow down his/her music taste to just THREE albums?
Three albums of what? I could name my 3 favourite albums of the 80s, the 90s, the 70s, the 60s or the 00s or my 3 favourite metal, punk, rock, wave, alternative etc. albums... or my 3 favourite David Bowie records, or...

... but to commit to 3 albums out of the whole musical spectrum is absolutely impossible for me. Sorry. (I racked my brain over this task the past days.)


can we not send you 50? or at least 10

[James Blast]

well my choices were so wide of the mark that only Loki, FFS Dave and Thrash Harry , would know who/what I was talking about
Mission Accomplished

[Dark]

Look, if everyone else can manage to do 3 albums. These are the three -best- albums. And yeah, I voted for Some Girls too, because it's such a great album. Bootlegs and compilations are acceptable, you know.

Upping it to ten would require me to make a new thread. Maybe later in the year, or I'm not satisfied by your laziness.

[ruffers]

A compilation isn't an album, it's a collection of tracks.

For something to qualify as an album it needs to be made, sequenced and usually produced as a coherent whole. It's like a test match.

[markfiend]

Sorry yeah, I can't limit it to three either...

[Andie]

i did eventually...but it's not easy

[Dark]

Very well. I'll redo this.

DATABASE RESETTED.
Anyone who's submitted anything, please resend.
ALBUM AMOUNT RAISED TO TEN.

But I'm keeping in the compilation rule, because out of all my CDs, Some Girls was the only one I kept in my CD player for well over a month.
FALAA was too empty, Floodland felt too repetitive (and I'd heard most of it before) and Vision Thing just didn't have the right feel about it.
Some Girls has 19 tracks on it, and was what got me into being a Sistershead, so it stays.

[James Blast]

you've lost the plot young man, I find a TSOM addiction does that to good people

[Red Orc]

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FALAA was too empty, Floodland felt too repetitive (and I'd heard most of it before) and Vision Thing just didn't have the right feel about it.
Some Girls has 19 tracks on it, and was what got me into being a Sistershead, so it stays.

Am I missing something really fuckin obvious?

Too empty? What on earth does that mean? Not quite empty enough in my humble!

Floodland - certainly repetative. That's atmosphere (sorry, just stopped to think about Joy division for a mo)

OK, Vision Thing was a bit... a bit... a bit... well, Def Leppard tbh. A 'grower' I think they call it when you listen to something and think, 'this is s**t' - but then keep listening to it anyway.

Do you mean the tracks on Some Girls got you into the Sisters, or do you mean the compilation itself? If the latter, where were you then, when everyone else was listening to the tracks that would become Some Girls?

It's bleedin' obvious that Floodland is the best 'album' ie coherent collection of work, FALAA arguably has the best song-that-appeared-on-a-proper-album on it, Vision Thing despite a few slightly under-par performers is pretty good (once you stop thinking it sounds like Def Leppard at least) and as has been posted elsewhere, Best Of and other compilations (even SOM ones) really don't belong here.

I have got it (Some Girls that is) on my CD ATM, however.

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[Andie]

(Orc suddenly has a thought that perhaps not everyone on the forum is pushing 40 and perhaps he should think before he posts. But he is proud of his typing and cannot bear to see it erased. If Orc has offended, do not be angry, for Orc is somewhat foolish sometimes. It's just his way)

it is the way of the Jedi Master...type first...think later...

welcome to the over and past it club!...James bring the man a chair

[emilystrange]

not too many of the rest of us think before we post.. *ahem*

[James Blast]

not too comfy, I hope you noticed Burn...

[Dark]

Am I missing something really fuckin obvious?

Too empty? What on earth does that mean? Not quite empty enough in my humble!

Floodland - certainly repetative. That's atmosphere (sorry, just stopped to think about Joy division for a mo)

I like it, but honestly it gets too annoying after a while. It's very hard to listen to both Floods, and as much as I like Driven Like The Snow and Dominion, they're still too long. Hence why Never Land and Torch are my favourites.

OK, Vision Thing was a bit... a bit... a bit... well, Def Leppard tbh. A 'grower' I think they call it when you listen to something and think, 'this is s**t' - but then keep listening to it anyway.

It certainly grew on me, but I'd heard the Canadian Club Remix of VT first, and thought the original was just boring in comparison, and I just don't listen to Detonation, More and sometimes not even Dr Jeep. Mind, Ribbons and WYDSM more than make up for it.

where were you then, when everyone else was listening to the tracks that would become Some Girls?

I was busy not being born yet.
I'm only 15, so I have that excuse.
And it was the tracks that got me, because I had Overbombing but thought it was too over-produced, and then when I get a CD with tracks that are raw like The Damage Done, Adrenochrome and Anaconda on it, it just got me right where it wanted me.

(Orc suddenly has a thought that perhaps not everyone on the forum is pushing 40 and perhaps he should think before he posts. But he is proud of his typing and cannot bear to see it erased. If Orc has offended, do not be angry, for Orc is somewhat foolish sometimes. It's just his way)

None taken. You bugger.

[Debaser]

Very well. I'll redo this.

DATABASE RESETTED.
Anyone who's submitted anything, please resend.
ALBUM AMOUNT RAISED TO TEN.

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Jeeeez it was hard enough choosing three....now I gotta do it again for ten??

Can you remind me what I chose last time please