Recommend me some music please

[Boris]

My MP3 collection is getting a little stale and the last time I asked for suggested albums a couple of cracking albums that I'd never heard of were forthcoming. So a few years on I'll try again and see what others are listening to.

So... If you would care to recommend me an album that really should be in everyones MP3 player what would it be?

Currently the MP3 player has everything from Bix Beiderbecke to Lemon Jelly so my tastes are best described as eclectic therefore nothing is off limits. Except gangsta rap.

[Knobblywobbly]

Buddha Bar IX and XI - Various
In Search of Sunrise 5 (Los Angeles) - Tiesto
A Slight Case of Overbombing - Sisters of Mercy
Technique - New Order
Republic - New Order

[rgarrioch]

Any Tool album, obviously

Steven Wilson's various projects always deliver the goods, from

Other opinions are available...

[xrv_jim]

This week, iTunes informs me that I have been mostly listening too...

OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (check out the OK Go - This Too Shall Pass video on Youtube - a great 'one shot' piece with no post production trickery)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits

Jim

[Wigan Chris]

Rush - Moving Pictures (rock)
Hybrid - I Choose Noise (IDM)
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (indie rock)
Radiohead - Kid A (indie rock)
Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast (rock / prog rock)
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (prog rock)
Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone (rock)
Vibrasphere - Archipelago (electronica)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (indie rock)
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (metal)

[Whealie]

Rush - Moving Pictures (rock)
Hybrid - I Choose Noise (IDM)
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (indie rock)
Radiohead - Kid A (indie rock)
Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast (rock / prog rock)
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (prog rock)
Steve Vai - The Ultra Zone (rock)
Vibrasphere - Archipelago (electronica)
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (indie rock)
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (metal)

You shouldn't be allowed to vote. Oh, I forgot, you don't.

[tendays]

The Pixies - Doolittle + Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
Johnny Violent - Shocker
LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression Vol 1
Pinetop Perkins - After Hours
Masters of Reality - Sunrise on the Sufferbus
MC Pitman - It Takes A Nation of Tossers (definitely not gangsta rap)

[Whealie]

Scottish connections attempted from my own eclectic collection.

Stiff Little Fingers 15 and counting. The live concert at the 15th consecutive St Patrick's night concert at the Barrowlands, Glasgow. In fact I believe I have a spare copy of this on CD so could even post it.

Eddi Reader sings the songs of Robbie Burns. My love is like a red, red rose and the orginal of Auld Lang Syne will make your hair stand on end. The rest is great too.

Spotlight on the Corries - for the original of Flower of Scotland (prefer the Red Hot Chilli Pipers Bagrock for the masses version, so get that too).

The best of Spear of Destiny - includes the Flying Scotsman. Kirk Brandon recently joined Twitter and immediately started following me - no idea why, but there you go. Obviously, anything by Theatre of Hate counts too.

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine -specifically the album 30-something, which includes the song Sealed with a Glasgow kiss. My mate from Uni managed the band and I interviewed one of them once (for Local Government Chronicle, believe it or not). Saw rthem in Brixton Academy last year - "You fat *******" chanted by all of us fat bastards.

Ewan McColl singing Jock Hawk's Adventures In Glasgow (I have albums of his but this is from A celebration of British Folk).

So, moving swiftly on from that, how about Florence and the Machine? Or some Ska or reggae?

[Wigan Chris]

You shouldn't be allowed to vote. Oh, I forgot, you don't.

care to share your issue with my music Mr Chris?

[Whealie]

care to share your issue with my music Mr Chris?

How long have you got?

Genesis? I mean.....