No.69: “Quadrophenia” by The Who (1973)
Ignoring the dreadfully gloomy sleeve, the music contained inside this great album is right up there with The Who’s top albums, in fact this is really on a par with Tommy as their finest work and the single 5:15 is just about the greatest hooligan anthem you will ever hear!
Later a very popular film (1979), this is a classic album.
Sleeve image, other images:
Videos:
Concert video:
From the film “Quadrophenia”:
Interview (Russell Harty Show 1973):
Personnel:
• John Entwistle – bass, horns, vocals
• Roger Daltrey – lead vocals
• Keith Moon – percussion, vocals
• Pete Townshend – guitars, keyboards, banjo, cello, vocals
Apologies for the lack of natter in my opening spiel on this album, I’ve severely run out of time. Talk later on 
I had no idea there were so many contributors on ‘The war of the Worlds’. I used to listen to this album a lot but it had been recorded for me onto a cassette.
5:15 is great as are most of the tracks on Quadrophenia.
Chris Spedding on War of the Worlds.He has worked with nearly
EVERYBODY including the Wombles.
Do you remember Motorbikin ?
I remember distinctly when I first heard the album. I was doing my trade training at RAF Hereford where I bought the album in the town, and played it also on headphones from the double cassette. Scared me to death!:shock:
Motorbikin’ was a great little single wasn’t it? I heard that Chris Spedding played some of the guitar parts to the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks album as well. Wouldn’t surprise me actually 
Love 5:15 yes. I was having a few beers yesterday afternoon and looking in vain for a decent pub jukebox to play that on full blast to no avail though!
Wow Floydy, you are working hard on this thread.
It amazes me on some of the stuff posted, it is before mine and your time, oh and Dreamy. I was influenced by many in music. I then collected stuff from those eras.
Keep up the good work, I’m still learning.
Hi Sweetie Pie.
Who or what is “Dreamy?” 
Anyway, thanks for popping in again, it’s good to know that I’m educating somebody out there new to some of these albums
After a whole day painting a garden fence and gate in the glorious sunny weather and feeling pretty sunburnt I might add, followed by a well-deserved half a dozen cans of Wainwright bitter sitting on my garden swing catching more rays, we carry on.
How ironic that this album appears next…Joy Division and sunshine simply do not go together!
No.68: “Still” by Joy Division (1981*)
Betcha thought I didn’t like this ban,d huh?
*Not a compilation as such due to all tracks being unreleased at the time. Still was a double album consisting of rare outtakes, early recordings and a second disc which featured the band in a live performance.
Joy Division only had the chance to release one official album during their career together as a band (the legendary ‘Unknown Pleasures’), with a second one completed (‘Closer’) and released the week after frontman Ian Curtis’ suicide in May 1980. Factory Records released Still as it tied up some loose ends and acts as some kind of fan’s completion album, released as it was in 1981 as the remaining members were beginning their second musical outing as New Order. The second disc suffers somewhat from a rather wonky production (there are many bootlegs which are better live documents than this), but the first record features some amazing pieces of music. It makes you wonder just how famous this band could have become following ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ and the incredible ‘Atmosphere’ singles if Ian Curtis had still been alive. The completed New Order debut single ‘Ceremony’ indicates great things which were sadly not to be. There are no colour photographs of Ian Curtis and no videos for this album’s songs, though I do have some audio clips.
I find Joy Division’s music incredible, unnerving and utterly brilliant.
Sleeve image, other images:
Videos:
No.67: “Body & Soul” by Joe Jackson (1984)
Hot on the heels of the great Night And Day of 1983, Joe Jackson released what I think is an even better album. No big singles or anything commercial to push this album commercially, it stands out as a true portfolio of the man’s songwriting talent instead. A very underrated record.
Sleeve image, other images:
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo759np9-nM[/YT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6TtXte2Hw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5q2LZ_80wc
Full concert video (1986; 1hr.50mins):
Interview:
Doesn’t Joe look like “Jigsaw” from the Saw movies nowadays?
Solo - I was sorely tempted to mention this album two days ago when we talked about ‘Don’t Get Weird On Me babe’ but I relented…
No.66: “Rattlesnakes” by Lloyd Cole & The Commotions (1984)
Songwriter’s heaven! One of the greatest (debut or otherwise) albums of the 1980’s this was one I listened to constantly when I would go to darkened nightclubs dancing the night away to such sounds as New order, The Cure and The Smiths. Lloyd Cole’s great singles ‘Perfect Skin’, ‘Rattlesnakes’ (which, Solo, I can’t post now! ;)), and the tremendous ‘Forest Fire’, which always closed the night at my favourite haunt in Hull “Spiders”. Happy days indeed!
Sleeve image, other images:
Videos:
Full concert videos:
No.65: “Three Sides Live” by Genesis (1982)
Four sides actually, though the final side was in the studio. This is the later trio’s tour document following the Duke and Abacab albums of the early eighties, some of their best post-Gabriel-fronted work. I’ve never been able to fathom out why I enjoy this album so much, I think it’s just the way the songs interlope with each other old and new and the sheer musicianship of the band in full flow. Never tire of hearing it.
Sleeve image, other images:
Videos:
Interview:
Personnel:
Genesis
• Phil Collins – drums, lead vocals
• Tony Banks – keyboards, backing vocals
• Mike Rutherford – guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
• Steve Hackett – guitar on “it.”/“Watcher of the Skies”
Additional musicians
• Daryl Stuermer – guitar, bass
• Chester Thompson – drums, percussion
• Bill Bruford – drums on “it.”/“Watcher of the Skies”
Track listing:
Side one
No.64: “Let It Bleed” by The Rolling Stones (1969)
Hyde Park. Altamont. Woodstock. 1969 was the year that The Stones endured plenty of eventful episodes. To them though, it’s just another day, they are a way of life and they will live forever of course – in music and it seems, in their invincible selves too.
It’s no secret anymore at this stage in the list, Let It Bleed is my favourite album by this band originally from Dartmouth. Look at the track listing below. Such an unbeatable array of songs, each and every one a classic track (perhaps not ‘Country Honk’?). No more need be said in words, I’ll let you do the rest…along with these images and song selections from this greatest of all rock and roll bands.
Sleeve image, other images: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51OYuijbFwL._SY355_.jpg popsike.com - vinyl record price guide
Videos:
Extra video(s):
Full concert videos:
Interview:
Documentary:
Track listing:
Personnel (and track numbers):
The Rolling Stones
• Mick Jagger – lead vocals (all but 7), backing vocals (1, 3, 8), harmonica (1, 6), acoustic guitar (9)
• Keith Richards – electric guitar (all but 3), acoustic guitar (2, 3, 5, 7, 9), backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 8), bass guitar (4), lead vocals (7)
• Brian Jones – congas (6), autoharp (7)
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar (1, 2, 5-9), autoharp (5), vibraphone (8)
• Charlie Watts – drums (all but 9)
• Mick Taylor – slide guitar (3), electric guitar (4)
Additional personnel
• Ian Stewart – piano (5)
• Nicky Hopkins – piano (1, 4, 7, 8), organ (7)
• Byron Berline – fiddle (3)
• Merry Clayton – co-lead vocals (1)
• Ry Cooder – mandolin (2)
• Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone (4)
• Jimmy Miller – percussion (1), drums (9), tambourine (8)
• Leon Russell – piano and horn arrangement (4)
• Jack Nitzsche – choral arrangements (9)
• Al Kooper – piano, French horn and organ (9)
• Nanette Workman – backing vocals (3, 9) (not actress Nanette Newman as credited on the LP)
• Doris Troy – backing vocals (9)
• Madeline Bell – backing vocals (9)
• Rocky Dijon – percussion (9)
• The London Bach Choir – vocals (9)
In the list:
064-Let It Bleed-1969
156-Beggars Banquet-1968
189-Exile On Main Street-1972
195-Aftermath-1966
212-Sticky Fingers-1971
634-Steel Wheels-1989
No.63: “The Wild, The innocent & The E Street Shuffle” by Bruce Springsteen (1974)
That ‘tache on the sleeve didn’t suit him, no. 1974 and the man who would very soon be renamed “The Boss” released his second album with a group of friends slowly growing into what would soon become the E Street Band, although a few swaps and changes would also be made before the majesty of Born To Run and all that followed.
For “The Wild…” album though, very much its predecessor “Greetings From Asbury park, N.J.”, it didn’t take off at all. In fact the album bombed big time and Bruce was ready to give it all up. It has sold copious amounts since though since his fame, and as definitely a fans’ favourite, still commanding tracks such as the classic ‘Rosalita’ to be played almost every night at his 3-hour+ shows.
Sleeve image, other images:
And a 16-minute epic version of the track ‘Kitty’s Back’:
Full album audio. A recent concert:
Track listing & Personnel:
Personnel[edit]
• Bruce Springsteen – guitars, harmonica, mandolin, recorder, maracas, lead vocals
• Clarence Clemons – saxophones, backing vocals
• David Sancious – piano, organ (including solo on “Kitty’s Back”), electric piano, clavinet, soprano saxophone on “The E Street Shuffle”, backing vocals, string arrangement on “New York City Serenade”
• Danny Federici – accordion, backing vocals, 2nd piano on “Incident on 57th Street”, organ on “Kitty’s Back”
• Garry Tallent – bass, tuba, backing vocals
• Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez – drums, backing vocals, cornet on “The E Street Shuffle”
• Richard Blackwell – conga, percussion
• Albany “Al” Tellone – baritone saxophone on “The E Street Shuffle”
• Suki Lahav - choir vocals on “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” and “Incident on 57th Street” (uncredited)
