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............. That the Sgt Pepper album was released. One of the greatest albums ever and still stands the test of time. Got me thinking, what is your all time favourite album?

My personal favourite is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. For me it was the whole show based around the album and the incredible lyrics, especially for the opening track Five Years that helped make this album so good.

Geo

A Day in the Life is arguably the best Beatles song.

Fave album ever is prob Radiohead- Ok Computer

it was 40 years ago today.................that Tikay recieved his birthday telegram  from the Queen




happy birthday pops

Thought this was going to be MickyP's birthday thread.

Good Choice Rich if i was your age would probably agree. But seeing as i grew up listening to the 2 greatest bands ever in the Beatles and Led Zeppelin it would have to be one of their's but can't be arsed choosing as i'd change my mind in 5 minutes.

Anyway need to get back to work, knocking off early for 5pm flight beginning to taste the guinness already  :cheers:

Have a safe flight my son.

No it isn't.........lol

;D  Oh yes it is....

Came top of 100 best albums on some TV prog last year, can't see why tbh.

Geo

Yes, SPLHCB was defining of an era, I still play it regularly, have 6 or 8 versions, & I could never tire of it.

"The one & only lonely hearts club band". So simple, so good, those boys were special. I don't go for cryptic lyrics, who of our generation could not associate with "I wanna hold your hand" or "She loves you", "She's leaving home" & so many more. It says something when the Band deemed the best of the late 90's - Oasis - were no more than a Beatles Tribute Band.

Ziggy Stardust was another defining album as was some of the Roxy Music early stuff. And Maggie May, by Rod Stewart - what a great, & prolific songwriter he was, too.

We had Pirate radio in those days (pre Radio 1) - ships broadcasting from just off Clacton & Frinton, in Essex - & bands such as The Hollies, Yardbirds (some talent in THAT group), The Animals, Stones, Freddie & the Dreamers, Gerry & the Pacemakers, even Cilla was a pop star then. The golden age of pop, for sure.

The Pirate Stations started it all really. Radio London gave better reception - "Wonderful Radio Londonnnnnnn", but Caroline was good too - "Caroline, sound of the nation, Caroline, sound of the land". Before that it was only Radio Luxembourg, "208", with awful reception, funded almost entirely by adverts by Horace Batchelor, who sold football pools tipping systems. The most memorable ads ever, so good that 40+ years on, I can still remember his address, the ads were that clever. "Horace Batcherlor, Keynsham - that's K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M - near Bristol". Jimmy Saville was the Star DJ, he did the Teen & Twenty Disc Club - "TTDC".

As the decades moved on, so the supergroups arrived, & attending their gigs was magic. Fleetwood Mac, TenCC, Genesis, Yes, Dire Straits, ELP, ELO, Queen. I'd not swap those memoroies, or that music, for anything.

You were doing OK there Tikay until you mentioned Cilla. 

Nobody - NOBODY - actually liked Cilla or her songs - "Anyone who had a heart - boom boom", but she was popular because her PR peeps put it around that she was pally with the Fab Four, & that was good enough.

PS - I land Dublin 8.50 tonight - what time you arrive?

Rage against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine, loved it when I first discovered it, and it has never worn off. And I don't normally go for that heavy stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/Rage-Against-Machine/dp/B0000028RR

I quite like OK computer also, nice album.

INXS: Listen like thieves

Fantastic post TK.

My wife was a huge Bryan Ferry fan and the family dog that we had for 18 years was named Roxy. Pure sounds generated by fantastic musicians and then mixed  together, unlike so much of the purely computer generated nonsense we often hear today.

Radio Luxemburg (208) what memories that brings back, a couple of us soldiers then, set up on HF to receive a better reception. The memories of raising and lowering the wire antenna without the barrack guard catching us.

Geo

Love RATM, but Renegades is my personal favourite!

Love that album also. When 'Battle of Los Angeles' came out I had it on repeat for a few days.

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Come on!

Yeah! Come on!

Fxxk you, I won't do what you tell me

It aint 'I wanna hold your hand' - I'll give ya that, but it has the power to stir you

;tightend;

A classic song. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4OXTZHz_D4

I get the feeling he didnt' vote for Bush

My fav Battle of Los Angeles Track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF8m3btu4Kc

What's this 'Gears of War' biznis? Looks pretty cool.

All Mod Cons by The Jam

3rd of june see's the 30th anniversary of another class album and that is Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers, a classic album and for me personally more relevant than The Beatles if only because of my age.

anything by steps, i cant pick a favorite though because they were all classics

several contenders but, on balance

Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses

Just seen this advertised - should be worth a listen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/60sseason/documentaries/sgtpeppers.shtml

My favourite album?  Not suggesting it's an 'all time great', but for me it has to be Stereophonics - Word Gets Around

You whooshed a few there Mr Bolt Sir.

Up To Here - The Tragically Hip

Crash - Dave Matthews Band

August and Everything After - Counting Crows


I cant decide.

geo the sarge, u may enjoy this  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhpr_PjKlSU

dark side of the moon -- pink floyd for me

Are you implying that steps arnt great?

I think that's called "how to murder good music". There must be a 1,000 "covers" of Sgt Pepper, all good, but that was just dire. Shoot them. I'd rather listen to The Smiths.

They are right down there with Girls Aloud, minus the GBH of course.

you dont rate girls aloud?

now i know you're winding me up ::) :tikay:

I rate them as highly as S-Club 7.

I'm just making this up as i go along, you seem to know the names of these "bands" :dontask:

It's alright, you downloaded a few westlife records, we've all got drunk and thought flying without wings was a tune at one time or another, be proud of your taste in music. :dd: ;D

I don't actually like the music of Girls Aloud, Steps & S-Club 7, but my girlfriends are of the age that thry appreciate such stuff, so one goes along with it. Needs must as the devil drives, eh?

I must be bang in trouble then, my girlfriends like Vera Lynn.

I happened upon this article about the re-recording.  I was surprised at the lengths that have been gone to to pander to Oasis.  If it were my choice I'd have told them where to go!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/05/31/bmpepper131.xml

They need bands like Oasis involved to get the wider coverage. If it was just Stereophonics and The Fray (who?) no one would give a monkey's.

They are on my facebook page, have a listen if u dont know who they are. If you watch scrubs you will recognise them!

I agree they need big names, but Oasis specifically - not necessariily.  In any case, do you really think that if the powers that be had said to Oasis - you either come to West London or you can't be on the album, that they would have chosen not to take part?  Can't see it myself.

Remarkably, there are very few bands from the past decade or so who are universally known throughout most of the population. U2, Coldplay and Oasis are three who you could imagine your grandad (insert Tikay joke here) knowing of (mostly because of Bono's charity stuff, Chris Martin marrying Gwyneth and Liam's big mouth). But Stereophonics, The Fray - even Kaiser Chiefs are not huge superstars. They did actually need Oasis, and not only because they are the band who are most obviously known as Beatles fans.

Essentially, without U2 and Oasis, this thing wouldn't be on the Nine O'Clock news.