First up, Supergrass's "Pumping On Your Stereo." Just the single!
Second, Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights, because I love songs and albums about divorce! Listening to it now. Initial thoughts: Richard Thompson sings like John Cale. ew!
From wiki:
In 1987, Shoot Out the Lights was ranked #24 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100
Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years" and in 1989 it was ranked #9 on Rolling
Stone's list of the The 100 Greatest Albums of the 80's. In 2003, the album was
ranked number 333 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of
all time.
Seems like an awful lot of critical fluctuation on this one. Hmmm...
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I love R<, although I'd take I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight over Shoot Out the Lights. And RT does kinda sing like John Cale.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts (if you have any) on Fairport Convention.
I will seek out Brigt Lights Tonight.
Re: Fairport Convention, I have only heard a smattering of singles from various comps. What is a good starting place?
In all honesty, my familiarity with their catalogue is limited. Many will tell you to start with Liege and Lief, but as far as I'm concerned that's when they started getting boring by basically abandoning American music as source material. That said, I'd offer up the opener, "Come All Ye," as the definitive Fairport recording.
Their second and third albums are the ones I truly can't live without. What We Did On Our Holidays and Unhalfbricking are both wonderful, and as a Dylan fan you should find much to appreciate. The BBC compilation Heyday, although pretty ramshackle, has some great stuff, too.
Basically, like a lot of people, I'm partial to the Sandy Denny-era albums. But I break with critical consensus regarding Liege and Lief, and see it not as a radical leap forward but as an interesting idea dully executed, inexplicably praised, and then turned into a career track.
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