Albums Of The Moment – 3rd June 2008
A few albums that have been getting my attention recently.
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
It’s amazing what treasures you can find in a charity shop. I found this on sale for £3 last week in London and bought it immediately. This takes me back to my childhood as this was played a great deal (along with The Bends and OK Computer if I remember correctly) and hearing it again for the first time in over a decade was a joy. The title track is one of The Beatles’ best opening album songs and the album itself has made me fall in love with the Liverpudlians all over again.
The Dresden Dolls – No, Virginia
Considering that this a stopgap album, the fact that this has already had a number of plays is pretty damn good. It also helps when you have a girlfriend who is a massive fan of the band and is singing refrains from it all the time.
Mates Of State – Re-Arrange Us
It’s really difficult to not compare them with The Dresden Dolls, but in the end I just say that they are what they would be like if they wrote poppier songs. This is really fun to listen to and definitely fast becoming one of my favourite albums of the year so far.
Queens Of The Stone Age – Lullabies To Paralyze
I never really got why a lot of fans despise Lullabies To Paralyze. I really dig it a lot and in some ways consider it to be better than breakthrough album, Songs For The Deaf. With rockers that appeal to the mainstream (Little Sister, In My Head) and some awesome deep album cuts (Someone’s In The Wolf, Long Slow Goodbye) this is an intense and rewarding listen.
Pink Floyd – The Wall
There are three albums that signify the best of Pink Floyd. Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. It’s a more harsher, angrier album than any of Pink Floyd’s previous work and it has an endless amount of knockout songs – Another Brick In The Wall, In The Flesh, Hey You, Mother, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, The Trial…this is what double albums should sound like. Ambitious, boisterous and brilliant.
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Max
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