i don't normally do these kind of things.... well sometimes I do...
today i just fancied making a list! :)
10 favourite albums of mine..ever...
ok... subject to change... you know...
1. Roxy Music - For your pleasure....
Greatest influence ever on a young lad...and a grown man for that matter.....
listen and see if you can see any of attrition in that album.... :)
and you should… !
2. David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
the realization that there is something more… this album…along with Roxy was the greatest reason ever to be alive in the early 70’s
3. Velvet Underground and Nico
What an important influence on me at 16…I discovered them through Lou Reed’s solo material like “Transformer”…but the Velvets really did didn’t they… you have to know this album….
4 Sex pistols – never mind the bollocks
This was the start of my life… I was right in being angry with all the shit around me…… I queued up to buy this the day it was released…and I was an hour late so it had sold out and I had to go buy it the next day.... how rubbish is that...!
as an 18 year old boy it made me realise that there was something i could finally believe in...that i was not alone
5. Crass - Feeding of the 5000
Crass told me the way to go.....like nothing ever before.... and i made my own way...
i listen to this album as much now as i did in 1979....more than any album….i even got an attrition track on one of the Crass compilations a couple of years later…. it still means so much to me...
6 Joy Division - Unknown pleasures.....
of bloody course it is!.... this is the sadness of post punk anger... and we need this too.... in order to move on.... I could have seen them play in 1980 but I had no money and decided to wait for their next show…there was never a next show…… L I am really sorry for you Ian…. I wish I was there at the time in any way to help…. L
7. Songs of Leonard Cohen ..... and this led me to this immense piece of work... from the 60's and still as relevant today...when i was young people used to say this was "slit your wrists" music...as was Joy Division apparently..and some people said that of my music too...actually it was something to help us through the darkest times...
8. Kraftwerk...oh any of the 70's albums.... in amongst the later punk rock singles John Peel played Kraftwerk's Showroom dummies.... i was transfixed on how music could be made with wierd electronic sounds.... something changed that night...
9. The Human league - Reproduction... my first exposure to live electronics was the Human League supporting Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1979.... both those bands were so seminal in my life... and that first HL album is still so important to me.... as is the first Banshees album....
10. oh shit 10. is never enough….. Magazine…secondhand Daylight…actually any of the first two albums… they taught me that words are everything…they crawl out from underneath God and taunt us… :)
Oh yes…
Well I think I need a part two as there are later…and earlier albums…. That we need to know about! J
So….
Will work on that too…
See you soon…
Martin!
www.attrition.co.uk