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nick the stripper wrote:I really only listen to four albums obsessively, the rest of the time I listen to various tracks by various artists that take my fancy at the time.

Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
David Bowie - Station to Station
Shriekback - Oil and Gold
The Doors - LA Woman

Deduct a point for not reading the question properly.

Honestly, you just can't get the staff these days...

The five most non-Sisters listened to are pretty easy to pick. Without any doubt, these five had recieved the most hammering on the Spig turntable/cassette deck/cd player over the years.

1. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
2. The Smiths - Hatfull of Hollow
3. The Chameleons - Strange Times
4. The Cult - Love
5. Echo & The Bunnymen - Songs To Sing & Learn

I wouldn't want to give a definitive order, as along with F&L&A, they have alll been on heavy rotation.

Honorable mentions also to the following, which have also entertained me above and beyong the call of duty.............

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Paint Your Wagon
New Order - Substance Disc 1
The Specials - the Specials
The House of Love - First Album
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Paris Angels - Sundew (stop laughing at the back, I love it....so shoot me )

Finally, some of the latecomers, which would possibly feature in one of the above catagories if you asked me the question again in 10 years time

Mansun - Attack of The Grey Lantern
Embrace - The Good Will Out
The Charlatans - Tellin Stories

To all of the above pieces of Black plastic, silver plastic or even (hells bells) 'orrible lengths of brown tape, the Spigster salutes you for your long & welcomed companionship.

Over the years ;

1 : Sepultura - Chaos AD.
2 : Sepultura - Roots.
3 : Sex Pistols - NMTB.
4 : Bowie - Changes.
5 : Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar.


Currently ;

1 : The Gathering - If Then Else.
2 : Mortiis - The Smell Of Rain.
3 : Nice Cave - Best Of.
4 : Nick Cave - Murder Ballads.
5 : Sisters - Frankfurt 2003. Point off for me too but its on everyday & had to be mentioned!!!

Are you all guys being absolutely honest with it ? Are these really the LPs you were constantly listening to when you were 13 or 14, and only had a handful of records that meant the world to you ? These are generally the one who get played the most in the long run. Time to get the skeletons out of the closet, ladies and gentlemen.
No reinventing oneself allowed.

Badlander wrote:Are you all guys being absolutely honest with it ? Are these really the LPs you were constantly listening to when you were 13 or 14, and only had a handful of records that meant the world to you ? These are generally the one who get played the most in the long run. Time to get the skeletons out of the closet, ladies and gentlemen.
No reinventing oneself allowed.

Well, when I was 12 or 13, I only listened to swedish music. But no one heard about these bands outside of Sweden. Well maybe Gyllene Tider (Per Gessle from Roxette).

Purple Light wrote:3 : Nice Cave - Best Of.

Sorry but...is that Nick's cheerier younger brother?

Adam & The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox
Penetration - Coming Up For Air
Human League - Travelogue
Stranglers - The Raven
X-ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents

Child of the late seventies or what.

DerekR wrote:

Purple Light wrote:3 : Nice Cave - Best Of.

Sorry but...is that Nick's cheerier younger brother?

Nice Cave and the Good Seeds - Birthing Ballads

weebleswobble wrote:

DerekR wrote:

Purple Light wrote:3 : Nice Cave - Best Of.

Sorry but...is that Nick's cheerier younger brother?

Nice Cave and the Good Seeds - Birthing Ballads

I'm so old I really can't do a top 5 'ave it! :

• The Who - Live at Leeds
  The Who - Quadrophenia
  Yes - The Yes Album
  Yes - Close to the Edge
  Yes - Relayer
  King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
  King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
  King Crimson - Red
  Genesis - Trespass
  Genesis - Live
  Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
  Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido
  Hawkwind - Space Ritual
  Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
  Hawkwind - The 1999 Party
  The Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
  The Pink Floyd - Wish You were here
  The Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
  Roy Harper - HQ
  The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
  Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
  Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
  Echo and the Bunnymen - Porcupine
  Shriekback - Care
  Shriekback - Oil and Gold
  The Chameleons - Strange Times
  Pop Will Eat Itself - This is the Day, this is the Hour, this is This!
  Play Dead - Company of Justice
  Curve - Cuckoo
  Megadeth - So far, so good... so what?
  Michael Nyman - Drowning by Numbers
  Michael Nyman - Gattaca
  Celtic Frost - Vanity/Nemesis
  Type O Negative - October Rust (nice to see some other votes for this one)
  Ministry - Psalm 69
  The Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers + Qveers
  The Revolting Cocks - Linger Ficking Good
  Voivod - Angel Rat
  Suede - Dog Man Star
  Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern (nice to see some other votes for this too)
  Spiritualized - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
  Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

and since then it's been going back through my back catalogue

Curve - Cookoo
I'd forgotten about that, time to dig out tapes.

Badlander wrote:Are you all guys being absolutely honest with it ? Are these really the LPs you were constantly listening to when you were 13 or 14, and only had a handful of records that meant the world to you ? These are generally the one who get played the most in the long run. Time to get the skeletons out of the closet, ladies and gentlemen.
No reinventing oneself allowed.

i won't go as far back as 13 or 14 years old...but i will let you into a Sixteen year olds listening pleasures (circa 1980)

Crass ~ Feeding The 5000/Stations Of the Crass
Clash ~ Give 'Em Enough Rope/London Calling
Damned ~ Damned, Damned, Damned/Music For Pleasure
Stranglers ~ Black And White/No More Heroes
The Ruts ~ The Crack
The Jam ~ In The City
Blondie ~ Plastic Letters
Siouxsie ~ The Scream/Join Hands


mainly tho it was assorted 7" singles that infected my room...paper rounds didn't pay to much when you had ciggies to buy as well

during 81 with money from the YOP job and DHSS, albums played a bigger part in my listening...

heheheheheh you were a YOP Andie LMFFAO!

James Blast wrote:heheheheheh you were a YOP Andie LMFFAO!

6 months of hell...freezing my ass off fitting sun roofs to s**t 70's cars with vinyl roofs....

tho i did learn how to hotwire an E-Type

James Blast wrote:heheheheheh you were a YOP Andie LMFFAO!

Haw you ya FUD!!!, I was a YOP, for about a month, then it changed to YTS

YTS, you guys so funny

James Blast wrote:YTS, you guys so funny

£27.50 a week was not to be laughed at in they days
!

scotty wrote:

James Blast wrote:YTS, you guys so funny

£27.50 a week was not to be laughed at in they days
!

I only got £25, and had to work on the veg counter at TESCOS

scotty wrote:

James Blast wrote:YTS, you guys so funny

£27.50 a week was not to be laughed at in they days
!

Bloody Oi!™...i was only getting £25

Burn wrote:

scotty wrote:

James Blast wrote:YTS, you guys so funny

£27.50 a week was not to be laughed at in they days
!

Bloody Oi!™...i was only getting £25

That's because you were a Lieth Scaffie & and I hail from the affluent Rosewell area

scotty wrote:

Burn wrote:

scotty wrote: £27.50 a week was not to be laughed at in they days
!

Bloody Oi!™...i was only getting £25

That's because you were a Leith Scaffie & and I hail from the affluent Rosewell area

aye...and a wee bit afore ye too IIRC

Rosewell, didn't aliens land there?

James Blast wrote:Rosewell, didn't aliens land there?

That was Pilton I think..

Ocean Moves wrote:

nick the stripper wrote:I really only listen to four albums obsessively, the rest of the time I listen to various tracks by various artists that take my fancy at the time.

Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
David Bowie - Station to Station
Shriekback - Oil and Gold
The Doors - LA Woman

Deduct a point for not reading the question properly.

Honestly, you just can't get the staff these days...

It would of only been three albums if I hadn’t named the sisters.

I’ve never been much of an album man. I like sorting out the songs I like from bands and then making personal compilations.

James Blast wrote:Rosewell, didn't aliens land there?

Yep, and we've met the evidence!

I loved that "Attack Of The Grey Lantern" album too, when I was 13 I listened to it nonstop (along with Suede and the Manics). I went off it after about a year and the tape vanished but I'd like to hear it again, just for a little Blast from The Past .

I remember reading something in *splutter!* the NME (for I did buy it, I must confess, when I was that age) about the singer from Mansun, describing his style of singing as "a bit "who tightened the nipple clamps?"" Can't really argue with that, but they did have some good songs. I liked that "Legacy" one they released the year after as well.