had no idea there were other sigue sigue sputnik fans here.

Excellent band.

shit...just one?...the eternal battle for me is washing machine vs. super ae vs. the 36 chambers

This is a great album. I really don't care for anything else I've heard by them though.

white light white heat is suppose

It's an impossible question. And, as every mathmetician will tell you, the correct answer to an impossible question is more likely to be a Fall album. So I say Perverted by Language.

I think I have two, because they represent the two completely different sides of me....

 

 

Bad Moon Rising though Atlantis by Sun Ra is a very close second.

I don't consider anything "of all time" but I'm listening to this a lot:

This has been my favorite album since Ibought it 20+years ago


it's my desert island record.
all my emotions are encapsulated by some sonic portion of this lp if that makes sense.

Edit: I didn't know we could choose 2... #2 is:

If ever there was an album that changed the way I looked about art, then it was this one. It has everything. You want to dance? Stick on 'High 5' or 'The New Pollution'. You feel sorry for yourself? 'Jack Ass', 'Ramshackle', 'Readymade'. Need to rock to it? 'Novacane', 'Minus', 'Devils Haircut'. You feel like you just want to sing along? 'Sissyneck', 'Where Its At'.

There's an unrivalled assortment of textures and sounds on this album. Soulful organs (courtesy of Keyboard Money Mark), searing guitar noise, lofi blues fingerpicking, FAT grooving basslines, beautiful sampling of sex education film dialogue, James Brown, everything.. it's just a party for the ears.

The packaging art is fantastic- great collages of terrible 1970s wallpaper patterns, Spanish colonial folk paintings, and just plain weird shit like a giant egg repenting for its masturbation sins. Also the lyric "Dropped my anchor in the dead of night, packed my suitcase and threw it away" is THE BEST.

Really don't think I can pin down a single "favourite", or even two.

As boring an answer as it is, I'd say the single "greatest" album is the Velvet Underground & Nico, but that's a slightly different question.

The Day The Earth Met Rocket From The Tombs is certainly a contender, but again, picking an after-the-fact release doesn't seem appropriate.

Fuck it, I'll go with this for now:



But even with them, I can't really pick between the two albums...

Only one? Fuck you I'm not even going to begin thinking about it.

D'you know, I think I bought this album the week it was released (I could certainly tell you the girl I was with and the other records I bought in that stint) and I never got to like it. I've listened to it loads, but I just don't like it. Strange, innit?

It might be Bitch Magnet's Umber, or it might be Loop's Heaven's End. Or possibly High Rise's Live. Or The Sisters of Mercy's First and Last and Always, although that one's more because I always associate it with a particularly excellect period in my life than because of anything musical.

I'd much rather be doing a top ten.

Miles Davis- Live-Evil

or

The Breeders- Pod

(or)

Delicatessen- Skin Touching Water

i don't care if it's a comp.