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 Tim61

Joined: 3/2/2007
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Posted: 4/14/2007 1:42:27 PM
Following on from Sammi's post about the Greatest Films, what are the everyones views on the Albums ??

Here are a few of my favourites

Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Lionel Ritchie - Can't Slow Down
Queen - Innuendo
Robbie Williams - The ego has landed
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
Paul Simon - Graceland
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters

I Wonder if This Will Get DELETED ???

Tim
 For_u_mite

Joined: 3/5/2007
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Posted: 4/14/2007 2:18:23 PM
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
Queen - A night at the Opera
Queen - A Day at the Races
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Bread - The Sound of Bread
Buddy Holly & Crickets - 20 Golden Greats
Earth, Wind & Fire - The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire Vol. 1
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Human League - Dare
Duran Duran - Duran Duran
ABC - Lexicon of Love
Yazoo - Upstairs at Erics
Ultravox - Quartet
Black Uhuru - Tear it Up
Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent
Wham - Fantastic
Level 42 - True Colours
Simply Red - Picture Book


etc etc etc (I'll be back)
 kylieskool

Joined: 5/20/2006
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Posted: 4/14/2007 2:37:57 PM
It has got to be ub40.guns n roses,meat loaf oh and fleetwood mac
 -robster-

Joined: 12/6/2005
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Posted: 4/14/2007 4:10:35 PM
Thompson Twins - Into the Gap
Sade - Diamond Life
Dire Straits - Brothers in arms
Wham - Make it big
Tears for fears - Songs from the big chair
 Outdoor2

Joined: 4/1/2006
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Posted: 4/14/2007 9:34:06 PM
Sgt. Peppers? Released in '67....(one of the best of all time)

Graceland is a great album, but I think The Rhythm Of The Saints is better....more innovative....

Here's a few I like....

Frank Zappa-Joe's Garage I, II, & III
Yes-Fragile, and The Yes Album
Genesis-A Trick Of The Tail (the only good 1 without Gabriel)
Peter Gabriel-I and III
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Second Helping
Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon
Bob Dylan-Blood On The Tracks
George Harrison-The Concert For Bangledesh
Eric Clapton-461Ocean Boulevard
Lou Reed-New York
ELP-Ladies and Gentlemen....
The Who-Who's Next
Traffic-The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Tom Petty-Full Moon Fever
Cat Stevens-Teaser And The Firecat
Cat Stevens-Tea For The Tillerman
John Lennon-New York
 xxOff My Rockerxx

Joined: 1/13/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 2:29:39 AM
My personal favs are :-

Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
Oil On Canvas - Japan
Dare - Human League
Into The Gap - Thompson Twins
 Arse_Potatoes

Joined: 4/9/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 2:34:38 AM
The Waterboys-This Is The Sea
Love And Money-Strange Kind Of Love
Gary Barlow-Take Me To Your Larder
 Pedro 1976

Joined: 3/23/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 3:35:26 AM
"master of puppets" by Metallica

"ride the lightning" by Metallica

"the number of the beast" by Iron Maiden

"Michael Lee Firkins" By Michael Lee Firkins

"Mind's eye" By Vinnie Moore

"surfing with the alien" by Joe Satriani

and many more.................................................
 ~Student Nurse~

Joined: 7/29/2006
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Posted: 4/15/2007 4:26:44 AM
Bros - Push

Rick Astley - (cant remember what it was called)

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Alexander O Neil - Critcise

New kids on the Block - (Cant remember this one either!)
 Jules1970X

Joined: 2/28/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 5:54:32 AM
Dare-Human League
Cliff Richard-Mistletoe and wine(OMG!!! I bought that)
SpandauBallet-Through the barricades
Tears for fears-The Hurting
The smiths-
Howard Jones-
Flock of seagulls

I remember I was going to marry Tony Hadley hahaha....So so sad!!!
 ~Rivet~

Joined: 3/12/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 7:13:52 AM
Darkside - Floyd
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Songs From the Big Chair - Tears For Fears
Pleasure Dome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Anything by Level 42, The Police, Madness, Lynard Skynard and The Eagles.
 andy-mac

Joined: 9/16/2006
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Posted: 4/15/2007 12:07:31 PM
no wonder the songs that get to the no1 spot get there with these choices
y as no1 mentioned the great u2 albums
 Tim61

Joined: 3/2/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 12:14:54 PM
Many thanx for everyones contribution to my post,



SpandauBallet-Through the barricades

I love that song one of my favourites from Spandau


I remember I was going to marry Tony Hadley hahaha....So so sad!!!


Awwww how cute, but as you say Jules how sad

Tim
 Tim61

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Posted: 4/15/2007 12:23:14 PM
y as no1 mentioned the great u2 albums


Just for you Andy mac

U2 - The Joshua Tree

Tim
 stonecastle

Joined: 2/14/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 12:35:48 PM
Here are my favourites:
1978 Boomtown Rats - A tonic for the troops.
1979 Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning.
1982 The Exploited - The Troops of Tommorrow.
1982 Abrasive Wheels - When the punks go marching in.
1982 The Skeptix - So The Youth.
1984 Conflict - Increase The pressure.
 browolf

Joined: 4/7/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 12:41:59 PM
the cult - love
fleetwood mac - rumours
skid row - slave to the grind
queensryche - operation:mindcrime
led zeppelin - physical graffiti
the cure - Disintegration
slayer - reign in blood
 Ians-4

Joined: 5/22/2006
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Posted: 4/15/2007 2:01:08 PM
Jeff Waynes War Of The Worlds.......Big at the time and still survives
 wilbury

Joined: 1/7/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 2:16:56 PM
Rumors Fleetwood Mac

Brothers In Arms Dire Straits

Vol 1 The Traveling Wilburys

Full Moon Fever Tom Petty

Maybe not the greatest but, still stand the passage of time now & played regularly by me.
 PottyGent

Joined: 2/27/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 2:40:31 PM
Two from the seventies that haven't been mentioned:

Hunky Dory - David Bowie (deffo my fav Bowie LP)

Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder (also like Talking Book)

With regard to Trick of the Tail I slightly prefer And Then There WereThree.
 Jules1970X

Joined: 2/28/2007
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Posted: 4/15/2007 2:52:42 PM
Tim Im sure Tonny would have...had I been a little older than 12 haha
 Tim61

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Posted: 4/16/2007 8:42:21 AM

Tim Im sure Tonny would have...had I been a little older than 12 haha


ohhh a school girl crush then Jules awwwww

he was doing a show on cable saturday about the 50 top crooners & he even voted himself in at number 5
I know this much is Trueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Tim
 kinkycommando

Joined: 3/18/2006
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Posted: 4/16/2007 9:14:57 AM
P1ssed and Proud........Peter and The Test Tube Babies

Still sounds as good as it did then....a bit like Hovis but with attitude!!!!

thats the only one I can think of as I am too old to remember any more pmsl.
 yeahdutch

Joined: 12/4/2007
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Posted: 1/11/2008 6:36:07 AM
The Waterboys - This Is the Sea (1985) (With one of the BEST songs EVER: The whole of the moon!)
ZZ TOP - Eliminator (1983) + ZZ TOP - afterburner (1985) (and all other albums of ZZ TOP)

My taste of music is really geat !
 bona dea

Joined: 12/3/2007
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Posted: 1/11/2008 6:43:32 AM
Dark Sidde of the moon - Pink floyd
Another brick in the wall.....

And dire straits - brothers in arms... Money for nothing (what a track)
 SpotlightsOnMe

Joined: 8/27/2007
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Posted: 1/11/2008 6:54:55 AM
Dark Side of The Moon
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Brothers In Arms
Deep Purple in Rock
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