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Maybe should've included this going on sheer number of times I listened to it...

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The Damned - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
The 1st of many albums I bought by this legendary band. With the exception of their cover of The Beatles 'Help', side 3 is absolute quality, so many great tunes.



Various Artists - Top Of The Pops '80
One of my favourite years for music.

Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Hearing 'Running Free' on TOTP from this show was the beginning of my obsession with Metal music.
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My collections

1. From the Makers of - Quo
2. The Best Guitar Album in the World .... Ever!
3. Anthology - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Special mention for the 1st double album I ever bought 40 Supergreats
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Baetience, its calm

Collections is an interlude
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Korea Hammer wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 6:25 pm Maybe should've included this going on sheer number of times I listened to it...
Owned and wore it to shreds, too.

I think Head on the Wall was the first 'buy on release' of theirs I got, but I have to confess that I bailed in favour of more dance-inspired stuff by the early 90s
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I’ve already chosen a couple of complications in other parts of this thread - Trainspotting OST and As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 2, so some other choices here.

Dance Craze
This album was played to death back in the day, I had it on cassette and it is one of the cornerstones of my musical education.



Don Letts Social Classics Volume 2: Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown
Another album that gave me an introduction to a broader range of reggae artists.



Northern Soul - 20 Classics
An album full of toe tapping belters, including the hitherto rare Frank Wilson’s ‘Do I Love You’ which he decided he didn’t like the recording of, so scrapped after a handful of pressings. It’s now been reproduced many times.

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I think I've got the idea but not sure Proph :chin: Anyroads, assuming I have here's some compilation albums, and whereas I wouldn't cry if I couldnt hear a few of the tracks, and the repetition of a few from my other lists(a bonus in those cases), in the main it's a fair representation of what I really like, and there's lots of it :grin:
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“Bootleg” – Creedence Clearwater Revival – from the LP Bayou Country
“My Babe She Ain’t Nothing But A Doggone Crazy Fool Mumble” – Ian Anderson’s Country Blues Band – from the LP Stereo Death Breakdown
“I Got Love If You Want It” – Johnny Winter – from the LP The Progressive Blues Experiment
“Preparation G” – T.I.M.E. – from the LP Smooth Ball
“Walking Down Their Outlook” – High Tide – from the LP Sea Shanties
“Oh Death” – Jo-Ann Kelly & Tony McPhee – from the LP I Asked for Water, She Gave Me Gasoline
“Don’t Mean A Thing” – Floating Bridge – from the LP Floating Bridge
“Sergeant Sunshine” – Roy Harper – from the LP Folkjokeopus
“Mistreated” – The Groundhogs – from the LP Blues Obituary
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“Sic ‘Em Pigs” – Canned Heat – from the LP Hallelujah
“Hard Headed Woman” – Andy Fernbach – from the LP If You Miss Your Connexion
“T.B. Blues” – McKenna Mendelson Mainline – from the LP Stink
“Sunshine Possibilities” – Famous Jug Band – from the LP Sunshine Possibilities
“Hurry Up John” – Idle Race – from the LP Idle Race
“I’m So Tired” – Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts – from the LP I Asked for Water, She Gave Me Gasoline
“Leavin’ My Home” – T.I.M.E. – from the LP Smooth Ball
“Sugar On The Line” – Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation – from the LP To Mum – From Aynsley & The Boys

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Savoy Brown– Don't Turn Me From Your Door
A2 Shakey Horton*– Can't Help Myself
A3 John Mayall– Checkin' Up On My Baby
A4 Homesick James– Crutch And Cane
A5 Ten Years After– Going To Try
A6 Eddie Boyd– Too Bad - Pt.1
B1 Keef Hartley– Leavin' Trunk
B2 Robert Nighthawk– Lula Mae
B3 John Mayall– You Don't Love Me
B4 Savoy Brown– She Got A Ring In His Nose, And A Ring On Her Hand
B5 Champion Jack Dupree– Third Degree
B6 Ten Years After– Speed Kills

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Van Der Graaf Generator– Theme 1
1-2 Genesis– Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
1-3 Yes– Roundabout
1-4 Manfred Mann's Earth Band– Joybringer
1-5 Curved Air– Back Street Luv
1-6 Hawkwind– Silver Machine
1-7 Jethro Tull– Locomotive Breath
1-8 Focus (2)– Hocus Pocus
1-9 Emerson, Lake & Palmer– Hoedown
1-10 Atomic Rooster
1-11 Deep Purple– Child In Time
1-12 Colosseum– Valentyne Suite
2-1 Peter Gabriel– Here Comes The Flood
2-2 Mike Oldfield– Tubular Bells (Part 1)
2-3 Caravan– Winter Wine
2-4 Kevin Ayers & The Whole World*– May I?
2-5 Rare Bird– Sympathy
2-6 Procol Harum– A Salty Dog
2-7 Barclay James Harvest– Mocking Bird
2-8 Anthony Phillips With Mike Rutherford & Phil Collins– Which Way The Wind Blows
2-9 Emerson, Lake & Palmer– Lucky Man
2-10 Roxy Music– In Every Dream Home A Heartache
2-11 Electric Light Orchestra– 10538 Overture
2-12 Hatfield And The North– Mumps
3-1 Frank Zappa– Peaches En Regalia
3-2 Camel– Rhayader [From 'The Snow Goose']
3-3 Gentle Giant– Pantagruel's Nativity
3-4 Egg (2)– Germ Patrol
3-5 Matching Mole– O Caroline
3-6 Greenslade– Bedside Manners Are Extra
3-7 Steve Hillage– Meditation Of The Snake
3-8 Steve Hackett– Spectral Mornings
3-9 Be-Bop Deluxe*– Ships In The Night
3-10 Man– Keep On Crinting
3-11 Van Der Graaf Generator– A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
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Not huge on collections, although if that did include DJ mixes that then that would all change (does that count?).

Anyway, the one that jumped out...

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Mixes are permitted :thup:
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prophet:marginal wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 1:24 pm Mixes are permitted :thup:
I really wanted to put Villalobos'Fabric mix on my list but I thought I might've included it before.
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Predictably....

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Sex Pistols: Kiss This
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Well in that case...

Future Sound of London - EarthBeat (1992)



Jeff Mills - Live At The Liquid Room - Tokyo (1995)



Richie Hawtin - Richie Hawtin - Decks, EFX & 909 (1999)



John Maus - A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material (2012)



Deepchord Presents Echospace - Live In Detroit [Ghost In The Sound] (2017)

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Good choice Proph. The whole package, the jumbled but perfect selection, the rich images, the mysterious handwritten memoirs and the tantalising 'Volume 1' is worthy of the band. If only all collections had as much thought behind them.

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And I wore the grooves on the vinyl out on Dance Craze back in the day. The framed cover still hangs in my man-cave to this day 8-) plus I had a TDK90 with Staring At The Sea copied on it and loved it immensely. So with those three down I'd have to go with...

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The inclusion of non-album singles as well as all the best bits of Pepper, White and Abbey Road capture The Beatles at their creative best. Not just a greatest hits though, key album tracks and 'B'-sides are on there and the selection is faultless aside from not squeezing 'Hey Bulldog' in. Any collection that opens with Strawberry Fields and closes with The Long & Winding Road is worth a listen.

For live collections I'd plump for my hometown heroes and the clearest expression of punk energy ever captured on record:
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For multi-artist collections I'll head deep into Appalachia and a collection that reminds of one hell of a road trip I completed from Pennsylvania to New Orleans all through the backwoods of Shenandoah, the hill-billy Appalachians across the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and down the Mississippi deep into Dixie.....nothing but local radio on the dials and fiddles and banjo's in the bars at night, I'll never forget it and this collection comes close to capturing the breadth and depth of American music that's a million miles away from the corporate product relentlessly churned out.

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Bluegrass, New-Grass, Country, Cajun-Country, Gospel, Southern Soul, Chicago blues, New Orleans jazz, Teanjo, Zydecco and finally some Hawaiian ukulele & steel are all on there. It's a trip man! A trans-continental trip through the roots of almost all the music we listen to today.
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Right.

Going to kick off with a controversial one which... well, doesn't strictly exist for the mass market:

Various Artists - The Pink Toothbrush '92 (~2002)


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I compiled these tracks and burnt them to a CD-R something like 20 years ago and I know that's outside of the remit but it's a real piece of physical media in my collection (if obviously nobody else's), and it remains to this day one of my favourite compilations of all time.

The others are:

Liam Howlett - Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One (1999)


Beastie Boys - Anthology: The Sounds of Science (1999)


Various Artists - The Wild Wild World of Mondo Movies Music (1990)


Misfits - Misfits (1986)


Oh-so-close this time went Some Girls Wander By Mistake, the 1992 compilation of The Sisters of Mercy's EPs and singles from 1980-1983; The Complete Recordings: The Centennial Collection by Delta blues genius Robert Johnson; a couple of blues various artists compilations: White Lightning and Stoned Alchemy; Off the Bone by The Cramps; B-Side Babies by Adam Ant; Cowpunk (a compilation of cowpunk numbers, surprisingly); Cheapo Crypt Sampler (a compilation of tunes by artists on the Crypt Records label circa. 1994); and All the Stuff (And More) Volume One by the Ramones.

The original motion picture soundtrack for Repo Man (Cox, 1984) would've been the first album on the list for me here without a doubt but I already used it for my 80s selection and I didn't want to repeat a choice.




EDIT I've only just looked back and noticed the "only 3 compilation albums" rule. :oops: Aaaaand I reckon I'm going to just plow ahead and pretend I never saw it.
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last.caress wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:02 pmI compiled these tracks and burnt them to a CD-R something like 20 years ago and I know that's outside of the remit but it's a real piece of physical media in my collection (if obviously nobody else's), and it remains to this day one of my favourite compilations of all time.
Track listing, please?
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Don't forget this one Elsie, arguably better, truer, rawer more vibrant versions of the songs on their single 90's masterpiece album (I know it's hard to believe, but true) and I think you'll agree that this is the more essential purchase of the two :newthumb:
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Up the Junction wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:24 pm Track listing, please?
If you click the burger menu on the YouTube link itself (top right), you get a list of all the tracks in that playlist. Whenever possible I always link to the full album rather than just a sample track.

In any event, here's the exact same compilation in Spotify form:



I've also got a slightly larger, more comprehensive version of the same Spotify playlist - a deluxe edition, I suppose - but I'm not submitting that here for my desert island because the 20-track version is the one I created as a physical CD and the one I've owned all these years:



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Junco Partner wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:28 pm Don't forget this one Elsie, arguably better, truer, rawer more vibrant versions of the songs on their single 90's masterpiece album (I know it's hard to believe, but true) and I think you'll agree that this is the more essential purchase of the two :newthumb:
But... The La's, though? Why is everyone loved up with these one-hit-wonder middle-of-the-pack jingly janglers from the planet Meh? They're like Shampoo without the charisma.
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last.caress wrote: Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:34 pmIn any event, here's the exact same compilation in Spotify form
Interested to see this as I did something similar many years ago. Kudos for inclusion of L7 and Daisy Chainsaw. My versh was a little more 'Madchester' centric, mind.

But you cannae leave Soul Limbo off, man!
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