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I know that this probably won't get many replies, but as you know I'm a man who loves his music so what the hell!

Ever pick up an old album and forget how good it was? Man did I do that today!

Bought the album 'Charlatans - Wonderland' just over a year ago now, thought it was pretty crap when I bought it, then realised just how good it really was! Like most albums it soon got boring though. So into the CD rack it went.

Anyway, thought I'd resurrect some of my old collection and this was one of the albums I choose. My God, you've gotta buy this album! 'Is it in You' and 'If I fall' are easily two of there best songs.

I'm not really a reviewer so I'll leave it to Q magazine to explain what I mean!

"Rating: Four Stars
Reviewed: August 2001
Genre: Rock
Label: MCA
Release Date: 2001-09-10 00:00:00
Key Tracks: You're So Pretty ? We're So Pretty, What A Man Needs To Be Told, Is It In You


Alone among their baggy contemporaries, The Charlatans have survived with dignity intact. Although not immune to the crime, indulgence and sheer bad luck that has bedevilled the ex-Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, the Tim Burgess-fronted quintet seems to bounce back stronger every time. After the surprise treat of 1999's Dylan-esque Us And Us Only, The Charlatans have reinvented themselves once again: as a rock-dance act. Sound familiar? Not a bit of it.


Wonderland, their seventh album, is no bug-eyed baggy retread. Produced by Danny Sabre of Black Grape fame, it's an effortless melding of Stones and Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield and computers, all topped off with Tim Burgess's fetching new falsetto. If their last album was testament to the power of love (Burgess was then newly wed), Wonderland is testament to a more carnal power. For the first time since Weirdo, The Charlatans sound sexy and there's a breath-taking physicality from the swaggering opener You're So Pretty ? We're So Pretty through to the sleazy Is It In You? A Man Needs To Be Told is almost too much: trembly falsetto, aching steel guitar and liquid piano to weaken the toughest of knees. With every track a winner, Wonderland is a truly thing of wonder."

Anyone else have anything to recommened?

Beastie Boys : Hello Nasty

Cast : All Change

Ocean Colour Scene : (forgot the name - thier last album )

DJ Shadow : Diminishings Returns

The Prodigy : Fat Of The Land


think thats a bit random, you should see my Kazaa collection!

PS Neil, its one of the best feelings in the world aint it?

I was going to mention Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island, Roy Ayers - Hot (Live), Stevie Wonder - Superstition, and Dennis Taylor - Smile, legends in their own right but I'll stop it there.

You lot'll think I've gone barmy Just showing my age really.

Lemar's new album is pretty damn good though, better than that Alex something cr*p.

Des

Manic Street Preachers, Gold against the soul, brilliant album...

'Nuff said...

Don't worry des, theres CD's in my collection I'm not even gonna mention I own on here! (they're all good though!)

cyhliu wrote:Manic Street Preachers, Gold against the soul, brilliant album...

'Nuff said...

Quality stuff, the wonders of MP3s have allowed me to create a CD with every Manics album bar Know Your Enemy, even their Forever Delayed and Lipstick Traces albums. Plus of course Everything Must Go Single CD2- with the Chemical Brothers remix used as the theme tune to Gran Turismo. Quality driving track!

Dead Pres - Lets get free
Dan the automater - wanna buy a monkey?
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Capdown - civil disobedients
Householdname records sampler
Down by law - windward tides and wayward sails


Deltron made the window crack in my mates golf!!!!
download deltron 3030 - Virus

The Boss by James Brown. Encourages slow mellow driving and calm you down. If you have had a long hard day then The Big Payback by James Brown soothes you. If you wanna be cheered up then Candy Girl by the Jackson Five always does it for me. On days when your down, stick on a bit of David Gray or some Coldplay- helps you reflect and you end up cheering yourself up

I prefer Moseley Shoals by Ocean Colour Scene personally, rather than the newer material. Just put the stereo on loud and let those first three, crossmixed, near perfect tracks belt out.

So, it's not booty bass or hardcore dance, but it still sounds f**ing excellent on a good stereo.. The rest of the album is very hard to fault as well. So many people, even Marc & Lard, make jokes about them being not very good.. problem with that being they actually belted out two very fine albums which sold by the truckload and were poached for use everywhere, before only going a little off the boil. (Not counting the selftitled non-charting first album, because i'm lazy and haven't heard it yet)
The first three, and One For the Road, also very good for headphones when doing something unpleasant in the garden. Suddenly it's done in no time.

Different Class by Pulp... similar era.. also faultless. Definitely Maybe and Parklife not quite as good (some not-entirely-awesome patches), but while you're on the mid 90s lick they're essential. And.. though I wasn't (aware of being) into them at the time, there's not so much shame in settling for best-ofs of Stone Roses and Shed Seven. To finish off, a bit of Space (Spiders), Skunk Anansie (either Paranoid & Sunburnt or Stoosh), and why not, Offspring (Smash, Ixnay, Americana) or "A" (Monkey Kong, Hifi Serious).... & the companions to the first few (His & Hers, Morning Glory, Great Escape).

Then after a few plays they end up back on the rack again, while you play some other stuff, and for a few weeks, you forget.. randomly put them back on again... and dont take the disc / tape out for a while because its still so great and powerful.

('fraid i'd be pushed to comment on the Charlatans, but with a bit of a push to get the disc and spin it, I'd probably undergo the same "damn!" rush I felt after randomly getting Going for Gold for 4.99 and taking it home).

You can feel a bit of a bastard for saying modern music is rubbish, taking a step back to go, hmmm, actually, it's not *so* bad... then you cast your eyes 10 years to the past and think.. well.. really.. it sucks pretty hard.. and the only band to make anything worth dancing too recently have been S Club 7 of all people. Fatman Scoop and J Lo can kiss my chuddies.

Madness - divine
Nickleback - their last two albumns
50 cent - get rich or die trying
various bootlegs from a certainn bootleg website

too rite mate, nething by madness is excellent, my dad used to get bullied by neville staples of the specials!! haha my only claim to fame!!! lol

16v_po-low wrote:too rite mate, nething by madness is excellent, my dad used to get bullied by neville staples of the specials!! haha my only claim to fame!!! lol

the specials, nice!!!. The old school stuff is much better than the majority of sh!t that is around now, although i'm also listening to fatman scoop at the moment too.