Whats your favourate none NMA album,,,,,,,,,,,?

[Shush]

Of all recent topics, this one most of all I would love to see answered by the band members, to get an idea of which  fellow musicians have been an influence.

How about it Viv, can you do a quick survey of the band ??

Feel free to customize answers to you own preference, top three none NMA albums, top five, whatever, or even just top songs.

[pjevac]

First of all any Nick Drake album for me, then The Beatles Abbey Road and then Tom Waits' Frank's Wild Years!

[Barty]

I have 3 fave non-NMA albums in no particular order:

The Nephilim - Fields of the Nephilim
Hunky Dory - Bowie
Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

Fave non-NMA songs include:

Hardfight - The Levellers
Autumn - Bombay Bicycle Club
Prayers for Rain - The Cure
Hand in Glove - The Smiths
The Great Depression - The Jam
Black - Pearl Jam
You Never Give Me Your Money - The Beatles
One - Metallica
Wrathchild - Maiden
Another Morning Stoner - And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Time - Floyd
Negative Creep - Nirvana
You Got It (Keep it Outta My Face) - Mudhoney

and loads more......

[Barty]

....oh and Gangsters - The Specials

[Anna Woman von NRW]

3 Albums:

Disintegration - The Cure
Quadrophenia - The Who (really good documentary on BBC I Player at the moment)

and...  because I just bought it and am playing it to death so who knows if it's a stayer

Inform, Educate Enteratin - Public Service Broadcasting

[Shush]

My favourite none NMA album,,,,

Generation-X by Generation-X  1978

Yes I know, Billy Idol, some cringe worthy videos in the 1980s but, he was there at the birth of the first generation of punk in 1977 being a member of the Bromley Contingent.

Generation-X 1st album was their  only real punk album. Like all good punk albums, recorded in just a few days. Has a very raw and rough sound to it. The lyrics quite good for punk, Idol talking of teenage angst. The best feature of the album, thee guitar work of Derwood. Very raw with loads of screeching feedback which he seemed to be able to get a tune out of. The critics at the time said it was as much a rock album than a punk album. But, that's punk-rock.

Best song on the album, called Listen. ere, av a listen   --  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwUik0qGxMQ

also, 100 punks   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59C7VJESeqM

and for Derwoods screaming feedback guitar, towards the end of the song,, Promises   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrc0SqXT3A

After that it went a bit tits up with their next album, Valley of the Dolls, 1978, Produced by Ian Hunter who wanted a more Rock feel to it. King Rocker the most well know from it.

Then there third and last, 1981, Kiss me deadly by which time they had done a Bolan and reduced the name of the band to Gen-X and gone Pop. That said, Dancing with myself, a good pop song.

Then Idol went to the States and became a pop Princes, and Tony James left planet earth to form zig zig Sputnick.

When I was 17 - 18, I used to listen to that 1st album every night, in bed with my massive head phones on with the album spinning around on my 1970s second hand music centre. I can still listen to it today and enjoy it just as much.

[Master Ray]

OK, fave non-NMA albums, in no partucular order...

QUADROPHENIA, The Who... saw 'em doing the whole album live a couple of months back, awesome.  I also seem to remember that it's a certain Mr Sullivans favourite album, or one of them at least.

MEAT IS MURDER, The Smiths

IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE WITH GOD, The Pogues

HEARTATTACK AND VINE, Tom Waits

THE HOLY BIBLE, Manic Street Preachers

THIS IS HARDCORE, Pulp, especially with the deluxe edition and all those extra tracks...

THE STONE ROSES, first album.

ALKALINE TRIO, From Here To Infirmity

MARILLION, Brave

THE TRIFFIDS, Born Sandy Devotional

DAVID BOWIE - Hunky Dory

NEW ORDER - Substance

[sam37]

OK today:
Fields of the nephillim, Elizium
Pink Floyd, Wish you wehre here
The Cure, Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me

[Darkness]

My top 10 today, tomorrow? Probably different...
UK SUBS - Diminished Responsibility
FLUX OF PINK INDIANS - Strive To Survive Causing The Least Suffering Possible
ANTISECT - In Darkness, There Is No Choice
THE CLASH - The Clash
DEAD KENNEDYS - Plastic Surgery Disasters
IRON MAIDEN - Killers
MOTORHEAD - Orgasmatron
MISFITS - Walk Among Us
ICONS OF FILTH - Onward Christian Soldiers
MEGA CITY FOUR - Tranzophobia
Bubbling under...
SOUNDGARDEN - Badmotorfinger
NIRVANA - Bleach

[Ron B]

 To many to Print here but If I was on  deserted Island and I had to have this as essential for surviving then These are my Favorites

 Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love.

Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time.

Porcupine Tree - Up the Downstair.

 Rush - Grace under Pressure.

 Pink Floyd - Animals.

 Of course all these bands have multiple albums that I have collected and enjoy and this does not include many great songs from bands as diverse as Gentle Giant  to Tool or Clan of Xymox  or Fields of the Nephilim that I also listen to but when you said Albums well I have to go thru the whole body of work for each album and those mentioned above are most consistent in the quality of the songs as a whole album. I left out many great bands and Albums 

[Barty]

I forgot Ritual De Lo Habitual by Jane's - good call Guillaume

Obviously NbtS too - not sure whether the rules allow it tho' 

[claireinblack]

Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers

[Guillaume]

I forgot Ritual De Lo Habitual by Jane's - good call Guillaume

Perry Farrell is a very talented songwriter, and Dave Navarro is a great guitarist..."Nothing's shocking" was also a stunning album but "And then she did..." and "Three days" on "Ritual de lo habitual" are pure genius, such beautiful, incredible, moving songs!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmvG2GZ3S7o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uj4Q4zbtfM

[Shush]

Two brilliant albums with a very unique sound. Saw Jane's addiction live in 1991. They are a great live act.

[Guillaume]

Saw Jane's addiction live in 1991. They are a great live act.

I would like to see them live...what do you think of their last two albums ("Strays" and the one released last year?)?
The other bands of Perry Farrell (Porno for Pyros and Satellite Party) were also pretty good.