Albums That Have Stood The Test Of Time ? (1 Viewer)

bringbackrattles

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To keep our mind off tomorrow's game how about a music thread ?
I've just been listening to Automatic For The People by REM and it made me realise what a brilliant album it is.It came out in 1992 but sounds fresh and up to date. What album has stood the test of time in your opinion ?
 

wingy

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Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.
Was riding high in the charts again after featuring in either a TV programme or an online venture.
Opened it up to a whole new audience which confirms for me it must have been online and the techy generation picking up on it.
 

clint van damme

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To keep our mind off tomorrow's game how about a music thread ?
I've just been listening to Automatic For The People by REM and it made me realise what a brilliant album it is.It came out in 1992 but sounds fresh and up to date. What album has stood the test of time in your opinion ?

Plenty B, but a few of my favourites which I still listen to:

Velvet underground and Nico - Velvet underground and Nico
White light/white heat - Velvet underground
Damned - Machine gun etiquette
Physcocandy - Jesus and Mary Chain
Stone roses - Stone roses
Smiths - Queen is dead
Pogues - Run sodomy and the lash
Microdisney - 39 minutes
Pogues- If I should fall from grace with god

i think the test is if you still listen to then frequently(ish) after all these years.

Funny you should mention REM, I was listening to Monster for the first time in ages the other day.
 

bringbackrattles

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Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.
Was riding high in the charts again after featuring in either a TV programme or an online venture.
Opened it up to a whole new audience which confirms for me it must have been online and the techy generation picking up on it.
I sold Rumours last year on vinyl for a tenner to a mate. I've a feeling it may now sell for a lot more ?
 
Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (1968)
Gene Clark- No Other (1974)
The Byrds - Younger than yesterday (1967)
Beach Boys - Surfs up (1971)
The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985)
New Order - Technique (1989)
Morrissey - Viva Hate (1988)
The Smiths - Strangeways here we come (1987)
Any album by The Beatles
 

Grendel

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The Beatles haven’t stood the test of time at all - it sounds ridiculous now
 

Otis

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Dark side of the moon - Pink Floyd.
Yes, good call.

Some albums unfortunately just don't age well and were of their time, The Beach Boys Pet Sounds very much a case in point.

Very early Depeche Mode stuff sounds so tinny and that goes for a lot of 80's stuff. Some albums though just transcend that and Dark Side of the Moon certainly still sounds great to this very day.
 

ajsccfc

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Otis

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The Beatles haven’t stood the test of time at all - it sounds ridiculous now
Why did I just know you would say that.

That's a ridiculous thing to say to my mind.

She's So Heavy still sounds brilliant, as does Helter Skelter and Revolution and Hey Jude and Lady Madonna and I'm So Tired and Strawberry Fields, Old Brown Shoe, Happiness is a Warm Gun and the most wondrous Hey Bulldog ....... I could go on and on and on.

Very early stuff now sounds twee, but stuff from when they were experimenting still sounds fresh, innovative and bloody brilliant.

They are constantly and new consistently gaining new fans. My daughter loves everything from about 1965 on.
 

fernandopartridge

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I knew a few tracks off of it but only listened to the whole album a couple of years back, a bona fide classic.
I like Tango in the Night too, another quality album but sounds a bit more of its time.
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.
Was riding high in the charts again after featuring in either a TV programme or an online venture.
Opened it up to a whole new audience which confirms for me it must have been online and the techy generation picking up on it.
 

Otis

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Doolittle- Pixies
Bizzaro- Wedding present
Power Corruption and Lies- New Order
Green - R.E.M. in fact any R.E.M. album.
Been meaning to revisit New Order.

A lot of 80's stuff sounds very dated on the whole I feel, but I used to love them.
 

Grendel

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Why did I just know you would say that.

That's a ridiculous thing to say to my mind.

She's So Heavy still sounds brilliant, as does Helter Skelter and Revolution and Hey Jude and Lady Madonna and I'm So Tired and Strawberry Fields, Old Brown Shoe, Happiness is a Warm Gun and the most wondrous Hey Bulldog ....... I could go on and on and on.

Very early stuff now sounds twee, but stuff from when they were experimenting still sounds fresh, innovative and bloody brilliant.

They are constantly and new consistently gaining new fans. My daughter loves everything from about 1965 on.

I’m interpreting the thread to describe music that is timeless regardless of era.

It very clearly comes from a long ago era.
 

Otis

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I’m interpreting the thread to describe music that is timeless regardless of era.

It very clearly comes from a long ago era.
It does and like I said, the early stuff now sounds very dated and lost, but from 1965 onwards I do think a lot of their stuff is timeless. It stands up today against sommuch modern stuff around.
 

Grendel

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It does and like I said, the early stuff now sounds very dated and lost, but from 1965 onwards I do think a lot of their stuff is timeless. It stands up today against sommuch modern stuff around.

Completely disagree. It’s dated and dull
 

Grendel

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You obviously have no clue about music!

A music genre that meets the definition is one that still has relevance in today’s generation. They haven’t.

Stay locked in your 60’s yellow submarine
 

Houchens Head

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Grendulls list::
Pinky & Perky Greatest Hits.
The Best of Peters & Lee
All of Ken Dodds and Death O'Connor albums
Cilla Black sings The Beatles
 

Otis

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A music genre that meets the definition is one that still has relevance in today’s generation. They haven’t.

Stay locked in your 60’s yellow submarine
Sorry, but that is plain daft. If it has no relevance why are the likes of the Foo Fighters performing Hey Bulldog? Why are Elbow recording Golden Slumbers?

The Beatles are still having their works performed by lots and lots of modern day artists and musicians. That tells you that they obvioulsy are still relevant and that their music is timeless.
 

clint van damme

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Sorry, but that is plain daft. If it has no relevance why are the likes of the Foo Fighters performing Hey Bulldog? Why are Elbow recording Golden Slumbers?

The Beatles are still having their works performed by lots and lots of modern day artists and musicians. That tells you that they obvioulsy are still relevant and that their music is timeless.

there was some fella on 6Music the other week who was a sound engineer or a producer, something like that and he was talking about how many ground breaking techniques were used just in the recording of Tomorrow never knows.
I'm not a massive fan but some of there more experimental stuff still sounds relevant to me.
 

Otis

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I also think Grendel must be gutted that his Marillion performed three Beatles songs.
 

Grendel

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Sorry, but that is plain daft. If it has no relevance why are the likes of the Foo Fighters performing Hey Bulldog? Why are Elbow recording Golden Slumbers?

The Beatles are still having their works performed by lots and lots of modern day artists and musicians. That tells you that they obvioulsy are still relevant and that their music is timeless.

No it doesn’t. It’s paying homage. Louie Louie by the kingsman isn’t timeless is it?
 

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