Album of your Choice! Tell us about an album of your choice from your past! It doesn't have to be your favourite, it doesn't have to be new or old or cool - it just has to have some significance in your life, mean a lot to you - and you think people might to hear it! Here's Mine : House of Pain - House of Pain - 1992 Reminds me of Summer 1992, about the same time we got the Renaissance Live tape. Everynight, stoned, doing buckets with my mate and his brother, driving up the moors on the hot nights to chill, over looking leeds/bradford airport, listening to this CD over and over again. Reminds me of my MG Metro Turbo i had with pepper pot alloys and 'Ark' stick i bought from Jumbo Records in the back window. Skipping college to go sit in various pubs around the local vicinity while i was going thru my "i love castlemaine XXXX" stage... Clubbing at the warehouse and the gallery in leeds and trippy drives home, once again listening to House of Pain or Funkdoobiest with 7 people in a metro. Even bought 'jump around' on 12" imported vinyl.. at the back of my collection somewhere... Summer '92 was excellent - and this CD takes me back. My mate died in '95 - hung himself after about of depression - so this always reminds me of good times RIP Rich so - come on - tell us yours!
Cream - Creamlive 2000 This is the 1st Dance cd i ever bought and contained tunes like Carte Blanche, Lange - Follow me, Ralph fridge - Angel & Spiller groovejet (original mix) Reminds me of when i lived in Germany and the hot summer we had that year We used to pump this out full belt and that was a time when i was in the 'honeymoon period' on the pills so its safe to say it made me rush my balls off There was this one and the Cream - Ibiza arrivals with tunes like Airwave on that made me fall in love with Trance
NWA - Straight outta compton. Was the first ever album i was given a listen to when i went from middle school to high school that wasnt either POP music, or commercial rave compilatations. I had never ventured outside of the charts at this point of my life and going to a big bad high school where people suddenly went from chavvy looking west end newcastle types .... to people from darras and ponteland. Although the album had nothing in common with me, it just sounded like nothing i had ever heard before and i gradually learned all the words to a few of the tracks. I think it pretty much summed up moving from a faceless middle school to what would be the last stage of being a kid ..... As much as ive stuck to dance music more or less since i was about 10 years old, its albums like this and Nirvana - Nevermind that are proper waypoints in my life. Bit cheesy - but whenever i put it on, it reminds me being a spotty, school uniformed little brat thinking he was cool with 'music with swear words in it'
Best bought album Euphoria Limited Edition Matt darey This quality cd got me back into trance! First Album Mix 95 (or something) quality house,acid trance! Got me into house and trance Last bought Alex Gold xtravganza (2001 good tunes) single A calming experiance, quality if iam getting high are going through a bad period!
Axis Mutatis The Shamen 1995 ....... 95 was a bad year for me as my dad was very ill, but at the time this cd somehow managed to keep me fairy positive through it all. It makes me cry whenever i listen to it now
Electronica - 1996 Stakker, Future Sound of London, Olive, Groovebird, Brainbug, Origin Unknown, Apollo 440 etc Walked into HMV having listened to BBE, Seven Days & One Week over and over on Metro. It was my first compilation I bought aged 11, so canny memories. A week or so later I bought System F - Out of The Blue on single and I've since been hooked on Trance Also the first single CD I ever bought.
Two albums at different stages in my life that still hold there place as two of the best cd's I've bought over the years. Ministry of Sound "The Annual II" (Pete Tong & Boy George) - 1996 When House music was house music. This was one of the first house albums I bought at a time when I was listening to hardcore (I was 13) and I still have this on my mp3 now. It featured tracks like Make The World Go Round, Keep on Jumpin', Professional Widow, Insomnia, Born Slippy and Arms Of Loren etc - It's just a shame the Ministry comp's aren't as good these days. Renaissance "Awakening" (Mixed By Dave Seaman) - 2000 I bought this when the prog sound was starting to show up in a lot of trance dj's record boxes and it is far from the "boring" stuff that was released around 2002-04. Anybody who slates the progressive sound should give this a try.
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon me personally, cant stop listeing to this album all the way through and cant get sick of it, it still sounds fresh today, they started/pioneered effects etc withtin there music. First time i listened to this album was in the dark with my headphones on and was blown away! probably the best concept album ever produced.
It is fuckin' outstanding like.. Don't know why I didn't mention that one, it definitely has special significance for me.
gatecrasher black, i fucking loved this album, first trance compilation i ever listen to, it was class, my mate was in the cue on the album cover to, which was mint
KLF - The White Room my first ever album purchase at the age of 9 Tracks like Last Train to Trancetal, 3am Eternal and What Time Is Love still sound awesome today Primal Scream - Screamdelica reminds me of being 18 and doing load of buckets, not being able to speak but just laying there listening to Come Together and "thinking is it" Oasis - Masterplan the whole album is sick from start to finish, was our album at uni for getting pissed to before going out Stanton Warriors - Stanton Sessions / DJ Hype & The Ganja Kru - Tru Playaz EP proper jump about the sitting room in 2000 moment
Pink Floyd - The Wall I was given this when i was a young'un by an uncle, I'd never seen the film, so it was sort of a film through music
probs another one of the best concept albums ever written! Roger Waters goes overboard with the whole war theme 'AGAIN' tho! some classics songs on it tho!
