Alanis Morisette-Jagged Little Pill-1995




Being dumped is no picnic in the park (duh). The ego gets bruised, and a certain skepticism kicks in, making it difficult to believe pretty words for long. Alanis Morissette knows all about this, judging from the bitter ditty "You Oughta Know," the first single from her new album.
The song is a howl of rage that starts off sweetly when the 20-year-old singer purrs out the sarcastic opening line, "I want you to know that I'm happy for you/I wish nothing but the best for you both." Picking at the scab of ruined romance as a vortex of sound builds behind her, Morissette sings "And every time you speak her name/Does she know how you told me you'd hold me/Until you died, till you died?" Then she practically shrieks [189k .aiff] "But you're still alive." It's a sound of inchoate fury, the sound of a woman scorned.

Morissette's voice skitters, yelps, soars, and bites, summoning appropriate emotions on demand. At times, Jagged Little Pill recalls the songwriting of Liz Phair, Polly Jean Harvey, and Tori Amos - even if Morissette has little in common with those artists stylistically.

The album resonates emotionally, from the naked yearning of the album-opening "All I Really Want" [225k .aiff], which tells of Morissette's search for meaning in a land that celebrates the vapid, to the quiet musing of "Perfect," [332k .aiff], which bemoans parents who "love you just the way you are if you're perfect."

On Jagged Little Pill, Morissette goes for the jugular and hits it every time. She has an inherent gift for translating emotion directly into sounds and lyrics, using her dangerously beautiful talent to cut away the usual layers of bullshit like dead skin.

All I Really Want
You Oughta Know
Perfect
Hand in My Pocket
Right Through You
Forgiven
You Learn
Head over Feet
Mary Jane
Ironic
Not the Doctor
Wake Up
You Oughta Know [Alternate Take]

The 100 Hundread greatest album as voted by Channel 4 viewers on sunday night was.

RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
U2 - The Joshua Tree
NIRVANA - Nevermind
MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
OASIS - Definitely Maybe
THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
MADONNA - Like a Prayer
GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction
THE BEATLES - Revolver
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
THE BEATLES - The White Album
QUEEN - A Night at the Opera
COLDPLAY - Parachutes
OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill
LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin IV
THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
JIMI HENDRIX - Are you Experienced
THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
JOHN LENNON - Imagine
RADIOHEAD - The Bends
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus
THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water
BJORK - Debut
THE DOORS - The Doors
ABBA - Arrival
MICHAEL JACKSON - Off the Wall
DURAN DURAN - Rio
SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
DAVID BOWIE - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
JOY DIVISION - Closer
THE ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
BLUR - Parklife
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run
BILLIE HOLIDAY - Lady Sings the Blues
THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
THE SPECIALS - Specials
THE ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main Street
FRANK SINATRA - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
THE CLASH - London Calling
THE PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground and Nico
DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
PIXIES - Doolittle
ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines
HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
PATTI SMITH - Horses
THE WHO - Tommy
LOU REED - Transformer
BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
PRINCE - Sign 'o' the Times
DIDO - No Angel
AIR - Moon Safari
ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
THE JAM - All Mod Cons
JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
MOBY - Play
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
THE POLICE - Synchronicity
JONI MITCHELL - Blue
CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly
ELVIS PRESLEY - The Sun Sessions
OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
PULP - Different Class
KRAFTWERK - Trans-Europe Express
MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines
BECK - Odelay
STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
KATE BUSH - Hounds of Love
TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On
GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - The Original Movie Soundtrack
PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme
LOVE - Forever Changes
PAUL SIMON - Graceland
NICK DRAKE - Five Leaves Left
MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty in Memphis
DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising
THE STROKES - Is this It
MADNESS - One Step Beyond...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You
NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush
PUBLIC ENEMY - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
THE EAGLES - Hotel California
JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine
THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come for Free
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
ROD STEWART - Every Picture Tells a Story
The HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare!

Not enough BEATLES albums in there for my likeing

Bob Marley-Excodus 1977



Following the assasination attempt in December 1976, Bob and Neville Garrick left Jamaica for Compass Point in the Bahamas, then onto England.

Bob was on a creative high, as though the shooting had only strengthened his resolve; Bob was also now working closely with Tyrone Downie who was becoming more prominent as the group arranger than Family Man had been. By the end of February Bob was ready to lay the tracks down and the group moved to Basing Street to record. Songs had flown out of these sessions, many of them inspired by events around the shooting. The new album was to be called Exodus, decreed Bob, even though that was one of the only songs he hadn't yet written.
It has been nearly twenty five years since Bob Marley gave us the gift of Exodus, and album so magnificent in scope that Time magazine named it the album of the century. "Every song is a classic, from the message of love to the anthem of revolution," Time wrote of Exodus. "But more than that, the album is a political and cultural nexus, drawing inspiration from the Third World and then giving voice to it the world over."

Natural Mystic
So Much Things To Say
Guilitiness
The Heathen
Exodus
Jamming
Waiting In Vain
Turn Your Lights Down Low
Three Little Birds
One Love / People Get Ready

I don't care if you're not a fan of their music, but I'm hoping you at least appreciate or respect them; I mean, they made rock music what it is today, along with maybe the Rolling Stones and Elvis!

:D Yay for Radiohead!

I don't care if you're not a fan of their music, but I'm hoping you at least appreciate or respect them; I mean, they made rock music what it is today, along with maybe the Rolling Stones and Elvis!

Agreed

Hey DN, how bout some more hip-hop added to best albums. You got Marshall Mathers LP (good call)
but I got some more for ya:

Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Eric B. and Rakim- Raid in Full
NWA- Straight Out of Compton
Run DMC- King of Rock, Raising Hell
Beastie Boys- License to Ill, Paul's Boutique, Ill Communication
Dr. Dre- The Chronic
Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to Die

*I didn't put down 2pac although he's one of my fav's. I figure Pat talks enough about him and people may get tired of it. Out.

I'll get round to them

2Pac-The Don kliuminati 1996




Bomb first (my second reply)
Hail mary
Toss it up
To live & die in L.A.
Blasphemy
Life of an outlaw
Just like daddy
Krazy
White man'z world
Me and my girlfriend
Hold ya head
Against all odds

Nice choice. This was his LAST album although some of the songs he did not want on their from what I have heard. The first song sets the tone for what the cd and 2pac was about when he was bailed out by Suge Knight: angry, cocky, and charasmatic. I think Me Against the World is also great too.

Nice to see Pills, Thrills and bellyaches in there, Amazing album. When they went to record the next they went to somewhere in the region of bangkok which was crack central really, the mondays decided they would get some (alot) using the record companys money, the record company nearly or did i believe go bankrupt

Are we going to see any of The Doors albums soon De Niro? that would be great also:

the who - quadrophenia
the who - who are you
the jam - all mod cons

would also be great

Im getting lots of requests i'll get round to them

Tommy-The Who 1975



Overture (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
It's A Boy (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
1921 (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Amazing Journey (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Sparks (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Eyesight To the Blind (The Hawker)(SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Christmas (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Cousin Kevin (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
The Acid Queen (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Underture (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Do You Think It's Alright? (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Fiddle About (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Pinball Wizard (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
There's A Doctor (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Go To The Mirror! (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Tommy Can You Hear Me? (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Smash The Mirror (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Sensation (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Miracle Cure (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Sally Simpson (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
I'm Free (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Welcome (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Tommy's Holiday Camp (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
We're Not Gonna Take It (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
See Me Feel Me/Listening To You (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
I Was (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Christmas (Out-Take 3) (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Cousin Kevin Model Child (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Young Man Blues (Version 1) (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Tommy Can You Hear Me? (Alternate Version) (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Trying To Get Through (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Sally Simpson (Out-Takes) (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Miss Simpson
Welcome (Take 2)(SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Tommy's Holiday Camp (Band's Version) (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
We're Not Gonna Take It (Alternate Version) (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
Dog's - Part 2 (SACD 5.1 & Stereo/compatible CD Stereo)
It's A Boy (SACD & CD Stereo Only Demos)
Amazing Journey (SACD & CD Stereo Only Demos)
Christmas (SACD & CD Stereo Only Demos)
Do You Think It's Alright?(SACD & CD Stereo Only Demos)
Pinball Wizard (SACD & CD Stereo Only Demos)
Pinball Wizard

Thsi si another album i love dearly. i still believe quadrophenpia and who's next are better albums but tommy is amazing

Beatles-Hard Day's Night-1964



A Hard Day's Night
I Should Have Known Better
If I Fell
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
And I Love Her
Tell Me Why
Can't Buy Me Love
Any Time At All
I'll Cry Instead
Things We Said Today
When I Get Home
You Can't Do That
I'll Be Back

The soundtrack to go with the film,some mellow and fun songs on there.

John Lennon-Rock And Roll 1975



All the advertisements scream "you should have been there." Oh, John, I really with I could have been there. This is nostalgia exactly the way it should be handled, with careful thought and impeccable performance.

Side One starts with "Be Bop-A-Lula." I close my eyes and sit back in my chair and think of how it must have been in 1961 and 1962, the first times that John Lennon and his band (you remember them?) got on the stage of the Jacaranda or The Cavern or the Star Club in Hamburg and played those songs. I can almost feel the closeness of the girls who waited in queues all day pushing towards the stage to see better as the walls sweat with the intense body heat of the crowd. I can see the other bands standing under the archways of the Cavern Club marveling at the amazing dexterity of this band, a group of guys from the streets of their own town making music the way they imagined only black American groups could make it.

John Lennon has taken a collection of his favorite rock and roll songs and interpreted them beautifully. It's Lennon's answer to Bowie's Pin Ups album. These are the songs Lennon grew up listening to. This is the music he learned from, the music he had to play, the songs that drew him into a rock and roll band. He has included "Stand By Me" (his latest single), "Ready Teddy/Rip It Up," "You Can't Catch Me," "Ain't That A Shame," "Peggy Sue," "Slippin' and Slidin'" and "Ya Ya."

You can tell Lennon really enjoyed this album. He's one gentlman who seems to have come to complete terms with his past and he's done it all beautifully.

Be-Bop-A-Lula
Stand By Me
Rip It Up (Medley)
You Can't Catch Me
Ain't That A Shame
Do You Want To Dance
Sweet Little Sixteen
Slippin' And Slidin'
Peggy Sue
Bring It On Home To Me (Medley)
Bony Moronie
Ya Ya
Just Because
Angel Baby
To Know Her Is To Love Her
Since My Baby Left Me
Just Because (Reprise)

David Bowie-Zigg Stardust and the spiders from mars-1972



1 FIVE YEARS (Bowie)
2 SOUL LOVE (Bowie)
3 MOONAGE DAYDREAM (Bowie)
4 STARMAN (Bowie)
5 IT AIN'T EASY (Ron Davies)
6 LADY STARDUST
7 STAR
8 HANG ON TO YOURSELF
9 ZIGGY STARDUST
10 SUFFRAGETTE CITY
11 ROCK N' ROLL SUICIDE

Great album .

Ps: speaking about bowie, where are the velvet underground haha.

Angie.

man you've got nice albums there. my favorites so far are Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks and The Clash's London Calling. I used to think The Clash's first album was their best, but lately I started listening to London Calling again and, well, it is a masterpiece of human history. I might say that never a band achieved the qualilty and the originality that The Clash did in this record. take a look at the bands that came out in the late 80's and since the 90's. everybody tried to mix different styles, but in most cases, it ended up being just lack of a true style. and not to mention that one of the greatest bands of the past few years, The Libertines, almost sound as a cover of The Clash.

I don't believe the libertines sound like a cover of the clash, for one the libertines aren't the most ovarated punk band to walk the face of the earth and they had a poet as a frontman

I love the libertines too, in special pete LOL. Great band, even morrissey likes them haha.


Angie.

I have see them a number of times, brilliant and have once attened doherty's flat for one of his guerilla gigs, lovely bloke BUT now I pitty the man as said in 'what a waster' he's pissed it all up the wall. with his stupid behaviour but apprently he is still off heroin which is a good thing and has met with carl for the first time in nearly a year. If you like the libertines you might like the others, find a download of 'stan bowles' which is about Pete doherty and the lead singer dominic is a great guy who i have met on a number of occasions going to their gigs

I like the Libertines too, I just said that they sound VERY like The Clash.

Yes they get that alot, although personnally I can't hear it

U2-October

Soz i didn't mean for it to fit the whole page

Now that is a good album..U2 are a great band..
Check out those hair cuts tho..did The Edge still have hair back then?

I think this was there second album,they look so young

John Lennon-Imagine 1971



Imagine
Crippled Inside
Jealous Guy
It's So Hard
I Don't Want To Be A Soldier Mama
Gimme Some Truth
Oh My Love
How Do You Sleep?
How?
Oh Yoko!

Great album that is but ot as good as George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass", which is amazing, best album any of the beatles made after they went solo in my opinion.