Re: Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums

Oh great stuff mate. It's always a treat when we can actually chat to these music stars. Normally they are very accommodating too and love to relay old stories they are asked about.

Re: Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums

Saw him a few times in his days of smoking heavy weed which he reckoned used to open his doors of perception.

At that time if you didn't smoke cannabis yourself you hadn't a cat in hells chance of understanding what the heck he was on about and I am sure that ex puffers only glorify him to exonerate themselves for past misdeeds

In his past life he said he was a poet so I will leave you with that thought

Re: Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums

Phew! That PIL album took about 20 minutes to assemble and sort out. Sometimes you just need more information to make the post look right.
This one is more straightforward:

No.271: "Setting Sons" by The Jam (1979)
Staying in 1979 (my favourite year for music, incidentally), The Jam were truly on a roll now with their tales of life on the streets, wise men and wide boys about town and general thuggery. Crashing into the top 10 with 'The Eton Rifles', schooldays never seemed better. The other song I've chosen is 'Saturday's Kids', which is all you need to know about those nostalgic football afternoons. A great song.

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Nice recollections, Solo. I only know about what I've read of course.
I'll catch up with that video late. Thanks for posting

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I used to dabble with weed myself, and I think one of the reasons I liked Donovan is that he is Scottish too and obviously partook. My favourite track of his is the menacing Hurdy Gurdy Man.



Good call on The Jam, another great band.

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These albums are getting all mixed up today, no matter.
And if I'd noticed that this album was right next to the previous one, I'd have placed them together in the same post. Too late to mess around editing. Here's The Jam again...

No.270: "All Mod Cons" by The Jam (1978)
Just as good, if not better (well, it is because it's a place higher!), All Mod Cons showcased all the fire and bile that we were coming to expect from these three angry mods with the punk-y attitude. As well as featuring a brilliant cover version of The Kinks' 'David Watts', which suited this band perfectly, the album finished with my favourite of all Jam singles 'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight' - a brilliant piece of songwriting.

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Just wish I'd come in later tbh, I'm going back and forth here like a madman trying to keep up with everything happening all at once lol!

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No.269: "Van Morrison, His Band and the Street Choir" by Van Morrison (1970)
Here's the Belfast troubadour yet again. Coming hot off the heels of his earlier 1970 release 'Moondance', which we will see much late, this rather less popular record nevertheless contained some of his wonderfully evocative jazz-leanings and some decent songs. If you listen to very early Bruce Springsteen you can easily tell the influence than this era of Van Morrison had on The Boss' first albums.

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Another great Van Morisson album (although not his best, the standard is so high). This is a favourite of mine along with Moondance and Into The Music, Astral weeks etc. but I'm getting ahead of myself.

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No.268: "Scary Monsters" by David Bowie (1980)
Featuring the groundbreaking video to 'Ashes To Ashes' (included below), Scary Monsters set a whole new trend for Great Britain. The video to that song would impress so many young teens and cause many new bands to follow in Bowie's footsteps. In a nutshell, Bowie created the New Romantics scene with that single flash of genius. Ever the chameleon.