Thanks BarryQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Thanks BarryQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The Temper Trap - 'Conditions'
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Label: Infectious Records Music Ltd
Format: CD, Digipak
Record number: NFECT102CD
Country: UK & Europe
Released: August 7, 2009
Label: Infectious Records Music Ltd
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie rock, Rock, Alternative rock, Indie pop.
Another good one! I regard 'Rubber Soul', 'Revolver', and 'Sgt. Pepper' as being the the best of all the Beatles' recordings.
Close. For me it's Revolver, The White Album and Sgt. PepperQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Being a double LP, there is, IMO, a lot rubbish 'filler' tracks on the Beatles' 'White Album'.
Fair enough, whereas, in my opinion, there simply just aren't many strong tracks on Rubber Soul, at all. Each to their own.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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Prolly my fave Floyd Album
Something nice and gentle before bed.
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Difficult to say which is my favourite Floyd album. I like them all more or less, with the exception of The Wall, which to my mind is a waste of PVC. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Idlewithnodrive
Another good record with which to test your new speakers Martin. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Not played this one in years:
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Killer album!!!!! An album that never fails to blow me away when I hear it............. MEGA!!!!! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
And the same goes for all their albums (of the main original line-up)!!! :thumbsup:
John Abercrombie - Current events - ECM - 1986. Sublime as usual from this label.
Yes it's a corker - I spotted them on 'Entertainment USA' a long time before the album came out and knew they would be big. Got it the week it came out so I have the banned cover (on vinyl) - only got the CD of it the other day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them
Ah, the one with the drunken (?) girl slumped on the floor with her tits hanging out and her knickers down around her ankles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Very artistic. :doh:
Been waiting for this for a while -
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Globox - BITROT
I'm sure their are lots of other album covers with "RISQUE" photos and drawings on the front that have been listed on here, that would deserve your "Artistic" innuendo; wouldn't you agree ?? I look forward to reading them!!!! :rolleyes: :zzz:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
You list them and I'll comment (if I can be bothered :zzz:).Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them
The average American is quite often prudish, for example the naked girl with the key in her back; the "soft machine" of the eponymous group's debut LP. Originally shown uncensored, but later issues had a bikini
crudely overprinted on her.
You should see the cover they wanted to do!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Original release of "Love it to Death". Quickly reprinted sans "willy". Actually his thumb.
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Pink Floyd, A Nice Pair.
US versions had the tits "taped" over. But an unexpected censorship that happened on later releases was the picture of the WR Phang dental practice. Some of the pictures on the sleeve represented well-known phrases (a fork in the road, a nice pear, a kettle of fish, etc), but this Phang picture was removed because NHS dental practices aren't allowed to advertise.
I bet if the album was reissued now the one of the levitating Japanese warrior (a Nip in the air) would also fall victim to censorship, because that's the world we live in.
A gift from my good friend Macca. Not heard this in years, and only ever had it on cassette, but has long been on my shopping list.
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There are many covers that show bare breasts; none of them I regard as being 'risque' or offensive. Pink Floyd often had oblique references to sex, such as the title Ummagumma, a local euphemism for fucking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
What I object to are covers which suggest rape or the brutal treatment of women, such as the banned cover of the Guns & Roses' LP, and other heavy metal bands. Whereas I have no problem with depictions of a couple making love: such as that shown (as a painting) on the cover of Jabula.
Madonna Remixed Revisited. Bought this at an independent record shop in Stoke at the weekend. It is truly dreadful, sounds rough as a badger's arse. It will go on the shelf with my sizeable collection of Madonna albums, never to be played again.
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Also bought at the weekend for just 2 quid, this is more like it. Can't go wrong with Sade :)
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Not aware of that one. Did a search, but didn't find anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I.M.H.O., the only Madonna albums that stand out for me are True Blue and Ray Of Light. The latter of the two is absolutely superb!!!! The other albums are OK, I much prefer her singles more than the albums!! Only my opinion though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yeah I would agree with that. But the album I play the most is "Something to Remember", a compilation of her best-known more downbeat songs and ballads. Definitely worth having and you can get it really cheap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them
Check out the tracklist:
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''The album's original cover art was based on Robert Williams' painting Appetite for Destruction. It depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The band stated the original artwork was "a symbolic social statement, with the robot representing the industrial system that's raping and polluting our environment."
Rose stated his initial idea was for the cover art to be the photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding that was on the cover of Time magazine in 1986, but Geffen rejected the idea, saying it was "in bad taste"
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As far as I'm concerned, art is like comedy - either everything is considered sacred, or nothing is.
Some things may be offensive to some, that's tough. If it doesn't actually break any laws, then it's fine IMO.
Here you go Steve:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
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Ironically the centre labels have images of a naked woman:
otherwise it's a very good album of African music.
Label: Caroline Records – CA 2004
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1975
Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country
Style: African, Jazz-Funk
Similar to the very early Virgin Records label (the very first recording on Virgin being Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells as you probably know), but a bit more explicit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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Eric Clapton – '461 Ocean Boulevard'
Label: RSO – 2479 118
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: 1974
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Electric Blues
I used to have this LP, which I gave away as, then, I didn't like it that much. Some time later I realised that was a mistake, so I replaced it a near mint copy . :)
Steppenwolf – 'For Ladies Only'
Label: Dunhill – DSX 50110, ABC Records – DSX 50110
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Terre Haute, Gatefold
Country: US
Released: Nov 1971
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock
Inside the gatefold is a photograph of a custom-built sports car, which takes to the extreme the metaphor of a sports car being a phallic extension of its driver:
Agreed! Good one Steve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Good album, especially side 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I got the 'Nice Price' re-issue in about 1983. It's not gatefold. Just a few years later I spotted a near mint original pressing for not a lot at all, so I got it. Quite significantly better sound quality! That woke me up to the fact that the pressing can really matter.
I'd like to look further into 'alt-80s' music, so far I've picked on Dead can dance, This Mortal coil, Cocteau twins, Soft cell, Heaven 17 (ok bit more poppy there), and a few others. Seemed to be a gap between all the post punk stuff like Magazine, The fall etc, to the mid 80s stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idlewithnodrive
Another superb album!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dom66