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Albums you have not listened to for ages and forgot how good they are

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Scoured the back of my cd colection last night and blew thew dust off 'graceland' by paul simon,didnt like the first track but the rest was foot tappingy good,forgot how good this was. Also 'blue lines' by massive attack,the opening of 'unfinished symphathy' rattled the window panes.

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Re: Albums you have not listened to for ages and forgot how good

Cure for Pain - Morphine's second album - fantastic

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Funny as I was having a text conversation with a mate of mine about this last night.  I dusted off Siamese Dream By Smashing Pumpkins.  Potentially my favourite of all time.  I'd forgotten how great that dirty sound is.

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Burned by Electrafixion, McCulloch and Sergeant in excellent form

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"Powerage" by ACDC.

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Radiohead - 'The Bends'

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Alice In Chains - 'Dirt'

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Counting Crows - 'August and everything after'

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Grant Lee Buffalo - 'Fuzzy'

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Soundgarden - 'BadMotorFinger'

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Martin Grech - 'Open heart zoo'

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Satchel - 'The family'

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Took a stroll back to my yoof with these:

 

 

both still quite brilliant

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Re: Albums you have not listened to for ages and forgot how good
bretty:
Radiohead - 'The Bends'



bretty, how could you forget how good this album is?!!
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Tumbleweed Connection by Elton John.
Band on the run by Paul McCartney & Wings.

Picked them up in DTD 5.1 format together with some other oldies and they sound timeless.
Elton really was a fanatic for quality and detail even back then and it shows.

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bretty:
Radiohead - 'The Bends'

bretty, how could you forget how good this album is?!!

I know! 

I played the granny out of it back in '96 on a daily basis and frequently after that, but I think it'd been a good five years since I played it. I listened to it at the weekend and it was like i was hearing it for the first time. 'Bulletproof (I wish I was).....Stunning. Had a lump in my throat and all sorts! 

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