Greatest Album Ever - Group E (Vote for your top 2)

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

Good group.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Wasn't Born to Run in a previous group too?

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Wasn't Born to Run in a previous group too?

No that was Born in the USA mate 

[ZonkoVille77]

Gone for Pink Floyd and Tom Waits.

If it was 2001 by Dre I'd have gone for that instead of Tom Waits.

[johnsusername]

Born to Run and Dark Side of the Moon are proper top tier records - both perfect without a weak point.

[Edward.]

Hard choice. 

[The Midnight Rambler]

Always felt Born to run was always a bit over produced. ‘Thunder Road’ for example sounds so much better on the live 78 box set. It’s not my favourite but still sails through.

Dark side should’ve probably been given a buy till the semi’s.

 

[SasaS]

14 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Wasn't Born to Run in a previous group too?

 

13 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

No that was Born in the USA mate 

He should really make up his mind.

[Harry's Lad]

Tramps like us, Baby we were Born to Run. Fucking boss from The Boss.

Oh, and Dark Side of the Moon.

[SasaS]

Imagine if Springsteen had songs like this. Maybe Mook would change his opinion of him.
 

 

[Bruce Spanner]

2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Imagine if Springsteen had songs like this. Maybe Mook would change his opinion of him.
 

 

 

‘They try so hard to break out their little world’

 

In a single line Waits says more than some who have albums worth of material.

 

Glorious.

[Bjornebye]

32 minutes ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

Gone for Pink Floyd and Tom Waits.

If it was 2001 by Dre I'd have gone for that instead of Tom Waits.

Of all the Hip/Hop rap albums going All Eyez On Me by Tupac didn't get a single vote, neither did the Score by the Fugees and quite frankly I'm shocked at myself. 

[Mook]

2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Imagine if Springsteen had songs like this. Maybe Mook would change his opinion of him.
 

 

I can appreciate Tom Waits' talent but that phoney Howlin' Wolf voice he puts on I can't get on board with. Nighthawks At The Diner would be my preference if I had to listen to one of his albums.

 

I abstain on this group, don't like any of the albums.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Mook said:

I can appreciate Tom Waits' talent but that phoney Howlin' Wolf voice he puts on I can't get on board with. Nighthawks At The Diner would be my preference if I had to listen to one of his albums.

 

I abstain on this group, don't like any of the albums.

You know fuck all about music. One track, narrow minded biff. 

[SasaS]

20 minutes ago, Mook said:

I can appreciate Tom Waits' talent but that phoney Howlin' Wolf voice he puts on I can't get on board with. Nighthawks At The Diner would be my preference if I had to listen to one of his albums.

 

I abstain on this group, don't like any of the albums.

I think that has always been his voice. I nominated Blue Valentine, and agree on Nighthawks as an album, only that was somewhere between studio and live so not sure if eligible here.

[Bruce Spanner]

5 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I think that has always been his voice. I nominated Blue Valentine, and agree on Nighthawks as an album, only that was somewhere between studio and live so not sure if eligible here.

First two albums are more ‘normal’ but have hints of it. It’s later, and especially when Kath comes along, that the ‘character’ is developed fully.

 

I’d put Waits above pretty much everyone, a true individual.

 

No idea where the Howlin Wolf comparison comes from though.

 

Edit: Just listened to ‘Smoke stack lightnin’’ and can see it, but I don’t think it’s anything to do with it.

[TheHowieLama]

 

[Bruce Spanner]

 

 

It’s an absolute masterpiece, and it’s not even his best album!

[SasaS]

Just now, Bruce Spanner said:

First two albums are more ‘normal’ but have hints of it. It’s later, and especially when Kath comes along, that the ‘character’ is developed fully.

 

I’d put Waits above pretty much everyone, a true individual.

Someone said that fhe albums up to Rain Dogs are "American" and those that follow are more "European", with Kurt Weill  and other influences. I find his later albums more "arty" if not a tad pretentious, but there is always a couple of great songs on each one. So if I had to choose, I'd go for the early albums.

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, SasaS said:

Someone said that fhe albums up to Rain Dogs are "American" and those that follow are more "European", with Kurt Weill  and other influences. I find his later albums more "arty" if not a tad pretentious, but there is always a couple of great songs on each one. So if I had to choose, I'd go for the early albums.

Depends on my mood.

 

My favourite is, and always will be, ‘Small Change’ time and place type shit. But if I put on either of the first two albums I’m gonna be in complete awe before going on the best night out ever because the words resonate so much...

 

You go from this...

 

To this...

 

 

 

To this...

 

 

In the space of twenty minutes or so, these songs hold their own against anything, ever.

 

And then the second album starts with...

 

 

And he’s not even breaking sweat yet.

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

He found his band starting with Heart Attack - that run of albums through to Frank's I think has everything - style, lyric, character. His sound.

[SasaS]

 

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19 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Depends on my mood.

 

My favourite is, and always will be, ‘Small Change’ time and place type shit. But if I put on either of the first two albums I’m gonna be in complete awe before going on the best night out ever because the words resonate so much...

 

You go from this...

 

To this...

 

 

 

To this...

 

 

In the space of twenty minutes or so, these songs hold their own against anything, ever.

 

And then the second album starts with...

 

 

And he’s not even breaking sweat yet.

 

 

Im not really sure you have got the concept of this tournament? Its the album tournament. 

 

The album in question is Rain Dogs. 
 

 

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