Recommend an LP to a Millenial.

bumface said:
I'm still not sure what this thread is actually about because I'm a bit thick. I'm approaching fifty. Have I got this right? I'm supposed to recommend an album from my generation to a youngster?
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Yes. I believe that's the case. But it doesn't look like there's a youngster available to listen to the recommendations 🙅
 
bumface said:
I'm glad that someone else thinks that's the best Smiths album even though it wasn't really a proper album. The critics always go for 'The Queen is Dead' but 'Hatful of Hollow' is definitely superior. Captured the rawness and energy of the early gigs and it wasn't all glossy and overproduced because most of it was just made up of live radio sessions.
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Yep it’s the album that captures the true essence of The Smiths, more so than any of their studio albums in my opinion.

Maybe I’m biased as it was the first Smiths LP I owned.
I was 16 years old and had fallen out with my then, girlfriend.
The next day she turned up unannounced with a copy of Hatful of Hollow which she had bought for me.

I put it on the record player and we immediately fell in love again.
 
EI_Owen said:
Yep it’s the album that captures the true essence of The Smiths, more so than any of their studio albums in my opinion.

Maybe I’m biased as it was the first Smiths LP I owned.
I was 16 years old and had fallen out with my then, girlfriend.
The next day she turned up unannounced with a copy of Hatful of Hollow which she had bought for me.

I put it on the record player and we immediately fell in love again.
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I was always falling out with my girlfriend at sixteen but she never bought me any records when we made up afterwards. I don't think that she ever bought me anything. Not even for my birthday. Bloody cheapskate. That's girls from Billingham for you.
 
I still haven't recommended one, have I? Took me long enough to work out what this thread was supposed to be about. I'll have to have a bit of a think about that.
 
From my 18-year old self to any other 18 year old out there, this is the one. I might invest in the full box set:
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My Title has caused confusion.
What I was looking for was an opinion on the musical value of an album uncluttered by the cultural baggage of memory.
Wonderful to see "The Card Cheats' " son's list as those 5 albums have obviously proven their quality.
I choose SIREN as a lesser known ( if not completely unknown) album of a band nearly forgotten now.
Bowie and the Beatles have scores of wonderful memories and musical value but what of the lesser known bands? Are they lesser known because of lack of actual good credible musical content? Or just forgotten in the huge amount of content available.
My own two girls are Beatles and Bowie fans ( and one has a degree in music from the Royal Acadamy) and I don't think their taste is unusual in "late twenties" who have been " exposed" to older music but it saddens me that so much good music may be forgotten.
I wasn't wanting to recommend , more elicit an opinion from a millennial, but hey ho.
For the crustys who commented on Roxy Music , I still think the middle stage Roxy ( Stranded, Country Life and Siren) are classics. The Eno/Ferry first two albums ( eponymous , For your Pleasure) are wonderful evocative but are of that age and may not appeal to modern ears.The less said about the 3rd stage Roxy(Manifesto/ Avalon) the better .
People forget the influence our own Eddie Jobson had on the move towards heavy strings in Roxys 2nd stage, some wonderful passages.
Someone mentioned Duran Duran, once they got passed the New Romantic Pop sound the seemed to go where stage 3 Roxy could have , both Ordinary World and Save A Prayer are lovely pieces a music..
Anyway. As there are no under 18s on here , how about a Millenial recommending 1 Album/ CD from 2010 onwards to an old fart to freshen his musical taste?
 
Norman_Conquest said:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust would be my choice. This LP was shared with me by a lad called John Turner when I was serving my apprenticeship down Smiths Dock. John gave me a cassette recording of this LP and I went out and bought it. My original copy went missing over the years and around five years back my son bought me it for Christmas.

I think it was first released in 1972.

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Hunky Dory for me Norm 👍
 
High Violet a good choice - great album but accessible? Probably goes for anything by the national.

Got Hatful of Hollow on vinyl last week having previously had to put up with an original version, albeit scratched to hell. It's a fantastic album.

For an 18 year old? The sadist in me would say Songs of Love and Hate by Cohen or Idiot Prayer by Nick Cave. They're amazing albums but I can't imagine my 18 year old self being particularly interested in them.
 
Glover_elbow said:
I didnt mind Happy Mondays at the time but they wouldn't be my first recommendation of all time
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Its not my favourite of all time either, its probably may favourite from when I was 18/19 though, which I think is the original point, although on reflection it may not have been, really liked a lot of music back then, gold mother sticks out in my memory, sandinista, this is BAD, rumours, smiths, stone roses, trini lopez, when were heffner out?
 
The Lexicon of Love ABC. Great vocals by Martin Fry. Good use of strings and horns and some brilliant tracks - well in my opinion!
 
The Card Cheat said:
I asked my son your question he says "High Violet" by The National. Just scrapes in from 2010.
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Listed to The National album this morning ( painting the ceiling.)
really enjoyed it. Anyone's Ghost,Afraid of Everyone and Wake up your Saints being my favourite on the 1st listen.
Heard bits that reminded me of Bowie's penultimate album and one of the above)songs defiantly was influenced by Johnny Cash's version of (nine inch nails's) Hurt. High praise. Pass on my thanks, he might want to give me his appraisal of " Siren", you never know.
 
Osboro said:
Listed to The National album this morning ( painting the ceiling.)
really enjoyed it. Anyone's Ghost,Afraid of Everyone and Wake up your Saints being my favourite on the 1st listen.
Heard bits that reminded me of Bowie's penultimate album and one of the above)songs defiantly was influenced by Johnny Cash's version of (nine inch nails's) Hurt. High praise. Pass on my thanks, he might want to give me his appraisal of " Siren", you never know.
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I'll listen to it too. I have a definite Roxy Music shaped hole in my musical knowledge!
 
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