10 album challenge

[OB1]

Good stuff there OB1 ..... LOVE the 'Smiff's Rocks album too ... ditto the Alice, my fave of his/theirs along with From The Inside ..... And great to see Starz!

I copied two of them from your list ;-)

I love Queen II too but it was Sheer Heart Attack that made my subs bench.

From The Inside is a really good album.

Going back to the subs bench, these ten were all contenders:

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Rising - Rainbow
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Angel - Angel
Grand Illusion - Styx
Live - Mott the Hoople
Band on the Run - Wings

Ooh yeah, a sub's bench then too ...

Escape - Journey
Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Blow Your Cool - Hoodoo Gurus
The Medicine Show - Dream Syndicate
Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen
Van Halen - Van Halen
Head Like A Rock - Ian McNabb & Crazy Horse
Tin Drum - Japan
Sheer Greed - Girl
- Blue Oyster Cult

Several of those are albums that have stayed with me.

Escape and Fire Of Unknown Origin remind me of being on holiday for a month in the US - summer of '81, as well as each one containing a track that would make my top 50 favourite songs.

Been playing a lot of Lizzy albums from the classic line-up recently.

I could have chosen any of the first four VH albums.

And what a little nugget Sheer Greed is. My friends and I saw Girl enough times in small clubs that they would recognise us. Also, I think I've told the story on here about us pushing Phil Collen's broken down car up Charing Cross Road. We also happened to be backstage at all the gigs on Kiss' 1980 tour, which Girl supported until they blew out the last gig due to Phil 'I can't stay awake cos I've taken so much Benylin' Lewis' cold. Gene 'the show must always go on' Simmons was mightily unimpressed. My friends' band would have got the support slot for the second night at Wembley Arena is not for the fact their lead guitarist was at home in Kendal :(

Never got Sheer Greed on cd, which is a real pity.

 

[OB1]

Good stuff there OB1 ..... LOVE the 'Smiff's Rocks album too ... ditto the Alice, my fave of his/theirs along with From The Inside ..... And great to see Starz!

I copied two of them from your list ;-)

I love Queen II too but it was Sheer Heart Attack that made my subs bench.

From The Inside is a really good album.

Going back to the subs bench, these ten were all contenders:

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Rising - Rainbow
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Angel - Angel
Grand Illusion - Styx
Live - Mott the Hoople
Band on the Run - Wings

Hey!

Someone else who has mentioned Styx.

I'm not alone after all.

Pomp rock at its finest.

 

[york away to this!]

This is a tough one...

In no particular order (after the seminal teen/find your way angst No.1)

1. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Black Flag - Damaged
Beastie Boys - Licenced to Ill
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash -London Calling
Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Cult - Love
Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt it (don't ask but just very memorable times!)

If allowed, one of the ten has to be the first c90 I taped off John Peel - I had a collection of dozens of these that I regrettably skipped when moving house as I didn't have a tape deck...

The list could be endless and I have edited out some of the fabulous later stuff for those early years character forming ones...

 

[MCFCTrick]

I copied two of them from your list ;-)

I love Queen II too but it was Sheer Heart Attack that made my subs bench.

From The Inside is a really good album.

Going back to the subs bench, these ten were all contenders:

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Rising - Rainbow
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Angel - Angel
Grand Illusion - Styx
Live - Mott the Hoople
Band on the Run - Wings

Ooh yeah, a sub's bench then too ...

Escape - Journey
Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Blow Your Cool - Hoodoo Gurus
The Medicine Show - Dream Syndicate
Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen
Van Halen - Van Halen
Head Like A Rock - Ian McNabb & Crazy Horse
Tin Drum - Japan
Sheer Greed - Girl
- Blue Oyster Cult

Several of those are albums that have stayed with me.

Escape and Fire Of Unknown Origin remind me of being on holiday for a month in the US - summer of '81, as well as each one containing a track that would make my top 50 favourite songs.

Been playing a lot of Lizzy albums from the classic line-up recently.

I could have chosen any of the first four VH albums.

And what a little nugget Sheer Greed is. My friends and I saw Girl enough times in small clubs that they would recognise us. Also, I think I've told the story on here about us pushing Phil Collen's broken down car up Charing Cross Road. We also happened to be backstage at all the gigs on Kiss' 1980 tour, which Girl supported until they blew out the last gig due to Phil 'I can't stay awake cos I've taken so much Benylin' Lewis' cold. Gene 'the show must always go on' Simmons was mightily unimpressed. My friends' band would have got the support slot for the second night at Wembley Arena is not for the fact their lead guitarist was at home in Kendal :(

Never got Sheer Greed on cd, which is a real pity.

Great stories re Girl mate .... They, like early Japan before them got slated by the mainstream rock crowds at the time, because of their Glammy image .... the same fans that took Hanoi Rocks, and then Motley Crue and all that followed some years later to their hearts .....

I was at a Cheap Trick gig in Dublin some years ago, and Def Leppard's Joe Elliot was stood next to me at the bar .... I told him I totally blamed him for Girl's demise after he nicked Collen off them ... He did apologise, lol.

 

[tonea2003]

This is a tough one...

In no particular order (after the seminal teen/find your way angst No.1)

1. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Black Flag - Damaged
Beastie Boys - Licenced to Ill
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash -London Calling
Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Cult - Love
Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt it (don't ask but just very memorable times!)

If allowed, one of the ten has to be the first c90 I taped off John Peel - I had a collection of dozens of these that I regrettably skipped when moving house as I didn't have a tape deck...

The list could be endless and I have edited out some of the fabulous later stuff for those early years character forming ones...

glad someone else gives the stranglers a shout

 

[OB1]

Ooh yeah, a sub's bench then too ...

Escape - Journey
Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Blow Your Cool - Hoodoo Gurus
The Medicine Show - Dream Syndicate
Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen
Van Halen - Van Halen
Head Like A Rock - Ian McNabb & Crazy Horse
Tin Drum - Japan
Sheer Greed - Girl
- Blue Oyster Cult

Several of those are albums that have stayed with me.

Escape and Fire Of Unknown Origin remind me of being on holiday for a month in the US - summer of '81, as well as each one containing a track that would make my top 50 favourite songs.

Been playing a lot of Lizzy albums from the classic line-up recently.

I could have chosen any of the first four VH albums.

And what a little nugget Sheer Greed is. My friends and I saw Girl enough times in small clubs that they would recognise us. Also, I think I've told the story on here about us pushing Phil Collen's broken down car up Charing Cross Road. We also happened to be backstage at all the gigs on Kiss' 1980 tour, which Girl supported until they blew out the last gig due to Phil 'I can't stay awake cos I've taken so much Benylin' Lewis' cold. Gene 'the show must always go on' Simmons was mightily unimpressed. My friends' band would have got the support slot for the second night at Wembley Arena is not for the fact their lead guitarist was at home in Kendal :(

Never got Sheer Greed on cd, which is a real pity.

Great stories re Girl mate .... They, like early Japan before them got slated by the mainstream rock crowds at the time, because of their Glammy image .... the same fans that took Hanoi Rocks, and then Motley Crue and all that followed some years later to their hearts .....

I was at a Cheap Trick gig in Dublin some years ago, and Def Leppard's Joe Elliot was stood next to me at the bar .... I told him I totally blamed him for Girl's demise after he nicked Collen off them ... He did apologise, lol.

My best friends and I were / are huge Kiss fans so we liked glam; plus T.Rex were my first fave band...

I remember Japan tanking when they supported BOC. I quite liked them then and loved Quiet Life from the off but like them a lot more now.

Like(d) Hanoi a lot and I have the Leathur Records version of Crue's first.

 

[DelToro]

I copied two of them from your list ;-)

I love Queen II too but it was Sheer Heart Attack that made my subs bench.

From The Inside is a really good album.

Going back to the subs bench, these ten were all contenders:

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Rising - Rainbow
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Angel - Angel
Grand Illusion - Styx
Live - Mott the Hoople
Band on the Run - Wings

Hey!

Someone else who has mentioned Styx.

I'm not alone after all.

Pomp rock at its finest.

Bingley Hall 1981 - great show.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

This is a tough one...

In no particular order (after the seminal teen/find your way angst No.1)

1. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Black Flag - Damaged
Beastie Boys - Licenced to Ill
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash -London Calling
Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Cult - Love
Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt it (don't ask but just very memorable times!)

If allowed, one of the ten has to be the first c90 I taped off John Peel - I had a collection of dozens of these that I regrettably skipped when moving house as I didn't have a tape deck...

The list could be endless and I have edited out some of the fabulous later stuff for those early years character forming ones...

glad someone else gives the stranglers a shout

Ahem.... look on page 3

 

[tonea2003]

This is a tough one...

In no particular order (after the seminal teen/find your way angst No.1)

1. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Black Flag - Damaged
Beastie Boys - Licenced to Ill
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash -London Calling
Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Cult - Love
Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt it (don't ask but just very memorable times!)

If allowed, one of the ten has to be the first c90 I taped off John Peel - I had a collection of dozens of these that I regrettably skipped when moving house as I didn't have a tape deck...

The list could be endless and I have edited out some of the fabulous later stuff for those early years character forming ones...

glad someone else gives the stranglers a shout

Ahem.... look on page 3

sorry mate missed that, got some good albums on your list

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

Exactly. You don't tend to get Michelin stars at McDonalds

Certainly the best Irish band ever.

The Undertones? Stiff Little Fingers? Thin Lizzy? Dana? Erm, Johnny Logan?

Westlife beat them all hands down.