[Katie Wilson]

I'm going through a bit of Bowie at the moment - it's hard when you listen to the same stuff all the time but I'm gonna try and come out my comfort zone

[Wicked Deeds]

I was just a kid when Postcard records released "Hard Land Hard Rain" the album was mostly written when Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera was 15 years old.  He's since gone on to show the music world that he is a true genius. He's now in his 50's and his latest album "Seven Dials" and recent album "Surf" demonstrate to any songwriter what the craft is all about. He should have been a huge star, though he did enjoy some time in the spotlight.  smart, heartfelt, unique. His music has enhanced and graced my life!

Paul

[PaulAds]

I’m 100% in agreement with Paul @Wicked Deeds here...Roddy is about as good as it gets...I've seen him solo and with his band and the gigs were totally different and absolute amazing too.

Hard to single things out, but “Surf” is amazing...and so is “the North Star” and so is...etc 

Great songwriter, great singer and a great guitarist too.

[pompeyjazz]

Yep. Roddy is as good as it gets

[Wicked Deeds]

Cheers fellas. Here's something to get the day of to a good start.  "Spanish Horses". Live.  If you can't get past the sound quality, you'll see what Roddy Frame is all about.  For my money, one of the best, most inspiring guitarists and certainly songwriters around!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4AtkJGx-M4c

Paul

[Jamie]

Not in any particular order

King crimson-in the court of the crimson king
Genesis-Foxtrot
Beatles-Sgt pepper
Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon
Steely Dan-Aja/Can’t buy a thrill
Beatles-White album
Yes-Close to the edge
David Bowie-Aladdin Sane
Gaz Coombes-Matador
Neil Young-After the gold rush

And on......and on.......and on......!

[RealKevM]

(It's Good) To Be Free by Oasis - it was free on a tape with an issue of the Melody Maker in 1994 - the whole sound and attitude totally blew me away.

Good pick with that Bon Jovi album @tboswell - 'Runaway' blew me away too. Infact it's still a great song.

[PopTodd]

The first time that I heard Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 (which was just a couple of years ago), I could not believe that I had gone so long without hearing it. It became an instant desert island disc.

[Wicked Deeds]

For heaven's sake, please somebody make sure that "Like Lovers Do  by Lloyd Cole is played at my funeral.  My soul/spirit is bound to hang around for one last listen before I cast  of  this mortal coil. 

If it's could be arranged for all of Lloyd Cole's albums to take the final journey with me, starting with Rattlesnakes, then I will be eternally grateful!

Wicked

[tboswell]

@RealKevM

Good pick with that Bon Jovi album @tboswell - 'Runaway' blew me away too. Infact it's still a great song.

Not sure I did recommend that. But some of those songs they wrote with Desmond Child should blow anyone away!

[PaulAds]

How depressing 

Loads of stuff I can't stand here...or stuff I've heard that means absolutely nothing to me...

I love how it gets us all in such different ways!

[PopTodd]

Also, Tom Zé.
A friend of mine told me that I needed to hear this guy and he put on this 'Best Of...' collection that David Byrne released on his Luaka Bop label. And this was the first song that I heard:

Turned my world upside down.
Never heard anything like it.

[jacksimmons]

Here are some of my favourite albums that you could maybe start chipping away at. All of these blew my mind when I listened to them or left me reeling or gave me goosebumps or made me cry or all of the above.

60s
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Beatles Abbey Road
Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Zombies Odessey and Oracle
Sagittarius Present Tense
Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Millennium Begin
 
70s
David Bowie The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And the Spiders From Mars
(and honourable mention Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane & Diamond Dogs)
Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
Electric Light Orchestra Discovery
Bee Gees Spirits Having Flown
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
ABBA Voulez Vous
Blondie Parallel Lines
Jon Mitchell Blue
Queen A Night At The Opera
Clash London Calling
Cat Stevens Tea For the Tillerman

80s
Buggles The Age of Plastic
Madonna Like A Prayer
Paul Simon Graceland
Pet Shop Boys Please
Smiths Queen Is Dead
Billy Bragg Worker's Playtime
Prince Purple Rain
Smiths Strangeways Here We Come
Bob Marley Legend
Michael Jackson Bad
ABBA The Visitors

90s
Belle & Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister
The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
Green Day Dookie
Green Day Nimrod
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead The Bends
Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory

2000s
Bright Eyes Lifted, or the Story Is In The Soil
Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit
Brian Wilson SMiLE
of Montreal Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer
Green Day American Idiot
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
of Montreal Satanic Panic In The Attic
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes

2010s
Take That Progress/Progressed
Lady Gaga The Fame/the Fame Monster
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell
of Montreal False Priest
Foxygen We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Foxygen Hang
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Vaccines Come of Age
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid
MGMT Little Dark Age

I'm sorry. I got a little carried away.

[Katie Wilson]

Wow I'm going to have my work cut out here - one day I want to start an album club - a bit like a book club but with an album - someone picks an album everyone has a month to listen to it and maybe read a bit about the artist and then after a month at the next meeting everyone shares their views

[Katie Wilson]

Lovin a bit of Neil young