Floydy's All-Time Top 1000 Favourite Albums

I haven’t been able to find it.

You are racing through some good music Floydy so I will just mention these 2 iconic songs that deserve a mention.

Midge Ure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/VaTERxV47Mg

Tom Petty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/s5BJXwNeKsQ

Not to worry bud, I may come across it someday. It would be great to have on CD.:cool:

Midge Ure’s solo debut is classic 80’s pop isn’t it? I bought his solo best of a few years ago, loads of great stuff on that :slight_smile:

I absolutely love that Tom Petty track, solo. From Into The Great Wide Open and that’s an album you will see in the top 300. In fact I’ll probably be posting that video again come the time :cool:

Hard to choose between Midges If I was or Dancing with tears in my eyes but as you say If I was is the eighties sound although his dancing and dress sense certainly was not and one thing he has still not lived down to this day.:wink:

Again with Tom, choosing Learning to fly against I wont back down is a tough one as both are brilliant.:smiley:

Have I mentioned before I’ve seen Lynyrd Skynyrd ?:slight_smile:
great night that was.

A lot of people think this hit sounds the same as Sweet Home Alabama.

Werewolves of London

More great albums. Thanks Floydy. The only one I disagree with in this selection is Keane. I bought the cd but was never ‘keen’ on it tbh. Loving the rest though.

I Won’t back Down is one of Tom Petty’s best songs. When Sam Smith brought out his first single ‘Stay With Me’, I saw the similarity between the tune to Petty’s song, and after a couple of years instead of a costly libel hearing, it was settled out of court and Petty was awarded a songwriting credit on Smith’s track. Why do they do it?

Digressing aside, ‘I Won’t Back Down’ is on Tom Petty’s Full Moon Fever album which is featured quite high in my list as my favourite Petty album.

Great song bud :slight_smile:
They are similar, so much so in fact that Kid Rock recorded a few years back as a celebration to his own youth listening to Skynyrd’s track:

Each to their won of course, Longdogs. I quite enjoy Keane’s music myself and Tom Chaplin has a great voice. Saw him supporting Jeff Lynne’s ELO last year in fact.
However, no more Keane albums, so you can be rest assured with that.:cool:
Thanks for your continued input bud, pleased to see there are still some albums you guys are liking as we move forward with the real classic albums from now on :slight_smile:

This may be of interest . As the comments below the video clip say, eerily possessed to comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/CPB0h7g9JwA

Wow solo, that was amazing wasn’t it? As I said, Chaplin is a great singer.
Strange but probably true when Brian May mentioned that Queen had never performed that song live before…I’m thinking they did it at Live Aid? Could be wrong.

Unfortunately there won’t be any time for any albums today as I’m out tonight to see a band called Black Delta Movement with their first album launch (see ‘Pub Rock’ thread). More tomorrow though, and by all means keep on posting your vids :slight_smile:

I hope you had a good night.

I would like to pick another from 711 Nashville Skyline

Dylan and Cash
Girl from the North Country
https://youtu.be/g77wH68dFC8

Morning mate :slight_smile:
I haven’t seen that video before PS, looks like it was recorded in Johnny Cash’s sitting room maybe?
Great track which I should have picked when the album was featured. In those earlier posts I tended to only pick one song per album, dunno why really.
Let’s have another from the album before we carry on:

Nursing a slight hangover after last night’s gig, time for a few while the Neurofen does its biz…

No.394: “Hemispheres” by Rush (1978)


Making their mark just four years after forming as one of Canada’s biggest musical forces and exports, Rush released this short but superb album. The highlight for me being this 10-minute instrumental ‘La Villa Strangiato’:

No.393: “Ommadawn” by Mike Oldfield (1975)


This third album from the multi-instrumentalist was marginally better than it’s predecessor Hergest Ridge as it didn’t tend to meander as much as that album did. Branching out to feature most of Oldfield’s family members and even some African tribesmen drumming, this actually had a single released from it in the shape of the pleasant ditty ‘On Horseback’.
Annoyingly, as with the aforementioned Hergest Ridge, most of Mike Oldfield’s videos are blocked but I did find this live excerpt from 1980:

A quickie from me so as not to interrupt your latest list flow.

May and Taylor both hated It’s a Hard life which may explain Mays comment because Freddy performed it live in Rio. :023:

No.392: “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” by U2 (2000)


The monolithic band which features Bono, Edge, Clayton & Mullen and their millennium release. A strong set of songs featuring the instant classic Beautiful Day and many other ‘anthems’ designed to illuminate the huge stadiums that U2’s sound is made for.

Morning Solo,
You’re fine mate, I always scroll back a bit after each track I post so as not to miss any that find their way in :slight_smile:

Thanks for clearing that one up. Strange why they didn’t like the track though.

No.391: “Nobody’s Heroes” by Stiff Little Fingers (1980)


Jake Burns’ incendiary socio-political post-punk band from Ulster known as SLF with their best record. Still a great band live, it just a pity they didn’t come onto the punk scene until a couple of years after the heyday. They would have been a serious threat to The Clash with Burns’ excellent lyrics and melodic anthems, instead of the cartoonish exploits of the Sex Pistols which we did get.
Three songs from this angry, explosive album. Take it away, Kid Jensen!..