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pointless and uncalled for
17:52 / 27.02.02
What albums do you have that are getting old but you don't let the dust settle on? The kind of album that has at least some semi-timeless qualities and can invoke the great memories of being that much younger.

I habitually stick on any of The Pixies albums as well as one of the first two Ride numbers. The Boo Radleys manage occasional airplay for things like Everythings Alright Forever.
 
 
Baz Auckland
18:00 / 27.02.02
Having lost track of recent music since about 1994 or so, the majority of my records are a bit old...

...and the fact I discovered the previously unheard of genius of T-Rex and other 70's stars last year doesn't help.

Add the Pogues, Pixies, and Tom Waits as music I'll never tire of.
 
 
Not Here Still
18:03 / 27.02.02
The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and UF Orb were two of the first CDs I ever bought, about a decade ago now.

They still get played more or less every other week, although UF Orb now sticks around 'Majestic' and I should replace it.

I certainly listen to them more than some of the Orb's later albums, I'm sorry to say...
 
 
Locust No longer
19:03 / 27.02.02
There's quite a few albums and bands that are definately old and somewhat dated but I can't let go of:

Anything by Minor Threat
Anything by Embrace
Early Cap n' Jazz
Slint
Piebald
Early Joseph Jarman
Midnight Oil
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
09:16 / 28.02.02
Eek. This will expose me as the retro deviant I possibly am.

Lately it's been all Joy Division and Smiths. Add in the Pixies, Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Ramones, The Who, the Doors, Jesus + Mary Chain, the Stones and the Stooges... and then see the dust lingering on that Strokes cd, which was the last cd I actually bought.

I don't think I've actually got round to new stuff yet. I'm still working through the back catalogue.
 
 
uncle retrospective
09:23 / 28.02.02
With me it's the God Machine. I love those two albums so much.

Orbital tend to get a good work out and the Brown album is still magic.
Oh and Paris by the Cure. the version of 100 years and the figurehead.

splendid!
 
 
The Monkey
09:23 / 28.02.02
David Bowie

Tom Waits

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Miles Davis

Te Pixies
 
 
rizla mission
09:23 / 28.02.02
the usual suspects - Ramones, Nirvana, Stooges, Velvets, Pixies, Beck..
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:53 / 28.02.02
Most Tom Waits albums would qualify. Ditto, Crow's Li-Lo-Ing, Dirty Three's Horse Stories, You Am I's Hourly, Daily, a couple of Cure albums (Faith, Pornography, Disintegration), Ornette Coleman's The Shape Of Jazz To Come, Gavin Bryars' The Sinking Of The Titanic and Charles Mingus' Mingus At Antibes.

A lot of my older stuff isn't with me at the moment, too, though.
 
 
tSuibhne
15:11 / 28.02.02
a lot of irish trad. stuff (Dubliners, Wolf Tones, etc.)
Pogues, esspecially Red Roses, and Rum, Sodomy...
Bad Brains, Live.
Pixies
Tom Waits
Fela Kuti, Upsidedown and the live album with Ginger Baker
Material, the one with William S. Burroughs

a bunch of other random stuff.

Oh, and I just picked up the entire Dischord/K catalog of The Make Up. That's still in rotation.
 
 
Cop Killer
03:54 / 01.03.02
The Stooges, Raw Power, Funhouse and this bootleg I got of theirs with "Cock in My Pocket" and "I Gotta Right." The Cramps Bad Music for Bad People has been on my record player for the past month or so. Enter the Wu-Tang is another record I never tire of. Machine Gun Ettiquette by the Damned is also great, I won't even lend it out because I can't go more than a week or so without listening to it. The Makers are one of my favorite bands that have been around in the past decade and they never get old. The same goes for the Make Up. I'm sure there's more, but it's late and stuff.
 
 
Laughing
10:00 / 01.03.02
The Violent Femmes and Depeche Mode.

And Pink Floyd.
 
 
deja_vroom
10:10 / 01.03.02
Nirvana.

And Pink Floyd!
 
 
suds
10:31 / 01.03.02
nirvana and the pixies still sound incredible. and i always play the breeders, too.
i also gotta love my old riot grrrl music; which is just the most fun to write essays to and dance to and scream to. thats bikini kill, team dresch, bratmobile, heavens to betsy, god is my co-pilot, y know.
it's weird that someone here mentioned slint. i always forget that they are, in fact, an *old* band. they never sound old, you know?
man.
makes me feel old.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
10:41 / 01.03.02
quote:Originally posted by Cop Killer:
The Stooges, Raw Power, Funhouse and this bootleg I got of theirs with "Cock in My Pocket" and "I Gotta Right."

Yeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
I love Raw Power so much I can't always manage to listen to it. It's... too much.

Once I played it full blast when I had a party at my house. Someone from three doors down came to complain. That album is loud.
 
 
Laughing
10:48 / 01.03.02
Of course, when I really want to feel young and stupid, I listen to The Offspring, specifically "Smash" and "Ignition".
Or maybe some old Black Crowes.
 
 
rizla mission
11:19 / 01.03.02
quote:Originally posted by Sweet Jane:

Once I played it full blast when I had a party at my house. Someone from three doors down came to complain. That album is loud.

it's DOUBLE LOUD .. you're lucky God didn't come down and complain.. \m/
 
 
Captain Zoom
14:42 / 09.03.02
the two Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys albums.
Chumbawamba's Anarchy and Shhh.
Guns n Roses Use Your Illusion 1 and 2.
(Go on, laugh. I'll set Axl on ya.)
All Pink Floyd.
Ween's God Ween Satan: The Oneness (recently remastered and re-released) is one of the best albums of all time.

Zoom.
 
 
A
06:04 / 10.03.02
the Beatles up to Revolver, Hermans Hermits, Donovan, Violent Femmes, Pixies, cub, Screeching Weasel, Ramones, the Melniks, Lawnsmell, Raooul and the Modern Lovers all get a spin more than once a month. there are probably more, but those ones all jump out at me.
 
 
Cop Killer
04:11 / 11.03.02
quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
Guns n Roses Use Your Illusion 1 and 2.
(Go on, laugh. I'll set Axl on ya.)
Zoom.

I wouldn't laugh, but for me it's Appettite For Destruction all the way, it's in my top five of all time.
 
 
ill tonic
22:03 / 12.03.02
Anything by THE PIXIES , JANES ADDICTION, TOM WAITS or THE BEATLES.

What is it with The Pixies -- they still sound as fresh now as they did when the band was together?

Another album that never gathers dust is
DARKSIDE OF THE MOON .
 
 
Cherry Bomb
08:36 / 13.03.02
Ween Chocolate and Cheese

How could one ever get sick of "Mr Would You Please Help My Pony?"

Ween The Mollusk
If only for "Waving My Dick In the Wind"

(Dance Jimmy/ I'm doin' the best I can, goddamit!)

Pixies Trompe Le Monde, and of course Surfer Rosa. But every time I hear the guitar riff on Trompe le Monde that goes from "Palace of the Brine" to "Letter to Memphis" I just think, "They were about to break up - and DAMN do they sound tight!"

Tribe Called Quest "Low End Theory" will never get old.

"Back in the day when I was a teenager, before I had status and before I had a pager..."
Oh yeah.

Actually probably the Sugarcubes "Life's Too Good" I'll always like as well.
 
 
higuita
12:19 / 13.03.02
AC/DC - Who made who (a controversial choice over Back in black I know...)
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Anything by Alice in Chains
Cardigans - Life
Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper

Can't argue with Appetite for Destruction, and I'd throw in Sabbath's We sold our souls for Rock n Roll, if it weren't for the fact it's a compilation and probably doesn't count.
 
  
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