Phyxie's Desert Island Discs
Appetite for destruction :: Guns'n'Roses
One of the best all-time hard rock albums. Growing up through teenage angst, Axl was every angry young man's hero. Whether it was the energy, the fuck-you attitude that resonates so well with teenagers or just the amazing guitar work of Slash, it still stands the test of time. I hadn't heard this in years and downloaded it from ITunes on a whim last week. It rocked me out just like the first time I heard it. Not a bad song on the album, and now I feel like putting on a bandana and sticking two fingers up at the world.
Check your head :: Beastie Boys
Ahh the Beasties. What to say about the Beasties that hasn't been said already. Not much, truthbetold. Another album that was played back to back to back to back on a CD90 minute tape copied from my old friend Si in Chester. The skateboarding every single fucking day period of my life, such good memories. 3 month long school holidays, sunshine and mini-ramp skating in the park, Beasties blaring from the car stereo on the way and way back. This album as such a mix of styles, sounds, lyrical madness and two tunes which were absolutely monster in the local alternative clubs at the time. So many nights spent pretending to be Michael Diamond.
When we were young :: Dusted
A change of pace, let's slow it way way down. Let's also dangerously use the word 'electronica'. It's so widely used and abused but this is the real deal. This album is a work of fucking art. It takes slow beats, synth, emotion, thoughtful lyrics and cools them out gently over some ice cubes and pours them for you in a tall glass. I think I've listened to this album on repeat over 5 times in a row just chilling out in days of summer, post-partying, or just plain maxing and relaxing. Dusted are one of the few acts putting out quality music for people who care about music, without the media-hype and pop-mass-appeal.
Ritual de l'habitual :: Jane's Addiction
The best alternative rock album ever. Perry Farrel, another freak hero of mine growing up, the mad, bad, wiry, philosophical, instigator on the microphone with Navaro laying down some of the most amazing riffs. 3 days has to be the favourite track, building, building into an orgy of noise, violence, and aural delight. Squeal to me all night long, Perry.
Deltron 3030 :: Deltron 3030
Hiphop is a recent diversion for me (last two years). Before then I only really listened to some Public Enemy with a mild interest. It was really this album by Deltron, combining Del's futuristic science fiction lyrics laid down over Dan the Automators' infectious grooves that caught me and threw me head over heels into the scene. I like intelligent, well thought out lyrics that take me to places and provoke thought. Deltron3030 certainly does that, and you can see the heavy influences from neuromancer, asimov, snow crash and other cyberpunk classics. Del has this great laid back flow that's like honey for your soul, along with a great sense of humour. Essential hiphop listening.
Henry's Dream :: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ooh ooh, goth days. Not gothic, goth. Did I use the correct definition of the words? Fucking goth snobs, get yor head our of your pretentious backsides and drink some blood or something. I grew up with this guy James (still a best friend) and his sister Vicki used to be older and cooler than us - going to clubs before we did, listening to cooler music than we did. Needless to say, James got a lot of free copies of great friggin' music off her which we used to listen to as we played video games in his room. This album just blew me away the first time I heard it. From beginning to end, it takes you on a dark, dismal, depressing story full of hellfire and brimstone, love and betrayal, murder and power. So wonderfully depressing, I love it! And thus began my Nick Cave addiction. I have everything he's ever published, but this album in particular stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of a complete creative work.
The Stone Roses :: The Stone Roses
How can you grow up in England and not be thoroughly mad about the Stone Roses. Manchester hay-day music at it's finest, exponents of the indie scene before there was one, in the beginnings of shoe-gaze music and brit-pop there were the Stone Roses. Massively popular, and their first album was always the best. Timeless pop music that still beats the shit out of everything out there today. Full of love, spice, happiness, weirdness, full-volume-stereo, drunken-pub-singing songs, awesome.
The Eight Legged Groove Machine :: The Wonderstuff
The Stuffies! Another hand-me-down from Vicki, and a band that I will forever mourn I never got to see in concert. I'm as crazy about the stuffies as B is about Pearl Jam, I think. Again, we're talking alternative/pop music, but with the wittiest, dryest, snydest lyrics I can remember. More drunken raucous singing. Vioins. Bass Thing Bob. They never made the breakthrough over on into the USA or I think they would still be around today. Watching their final concert in the UK on video a tear almost fell from my eye, the end of an era. I think I must have something for first-albums by groups as this is another one. Legs is just a great pop album from start to finish, and Miles Hunt's touch is all over it. Regardless of what you think of his selfish, arrogant attitude, he writes some damn find pop songs. Sing the absurd...
One of the best all-time hard rock albums. Growing up through teenage angst, Axl was every angry young man's hero. Whether it was the energy, the fuck-you attitude that resonates so well with teenagers or just the amazing guitar work of Slash, it still stands the test of time. I hadn't heard this in years and downloaded it from ITunes on a whim last week. It rocked me out just like the first time I heard it. Not a bad song on the album, and now I feel like putting on a bandana and sticking two fingers up at the world.
Check your head :: Beastie Boys
Ahh the Beasties. What to say about the Beasties that hasn't been said already. Not much, truthbetold. Another album that was played back to back to back to back on a CD90 minute tape copied from my old friend Si in Chester. The skateboarding every single fucking day period of my life, such good memories. 3 month long school holidays, sunshine and mini-ramp skating in the park, Beasties blaring from the car stereo on the way and way back. This album as such a mix of styles, sounds, lyrical madness and two tunes which were absolutely monster in the local alternative clubs at the time. So many nights spent pretending to be Michael Diamond.
When we were young :: Dusted
A change of pace, let's slow it way way down. Let's also dangerously use the word 'electronica'. It's so widely used and abused but this is the real deal. This album is a work of fucking art. It takes slow beats, synth, emotion, thoughtful lyrics and cools them out gently over some ice cubes and pours them for you in a tall glass. I think I've listened to this album on repeat over 5 times in a row just chilling out in days of summer, post-partying, or just plain maxing and relaxing. Dusted are one of the few acts putting out quality music for people who care about music, without the media-hype and pop-mass-appeal.
Ritual de l'habitual :: Jane's Addiction
The best alternative rock album ever. Perry Farrel, another freak hero of mine growing up, the mad, bad, wiry, philosophical, instigator on the microphone with Navaro laying down some of the most amazing riffs. 3 days has to be the favourite track, building, building into an orgy of noise, violence, and aural delight. Squeal to me all night long, Perry.
Deltron 3030 :: Deltron 3030
Hiphop is a recent diversion for me (last two years). Before then I only really listened to some Public Enemy with a mild interest. It was really this album by Deltron, combining Del's futuristic science fiction lyrics laid down over Dan the Automators' infectious grooves that caught me and threw me head over heels into the scene. I like intelligent, well thought out lyrics that take me to places and provoke thought. Deltron3030 certainly does that, and you can see the heavy influences from neuromancer, asimov, snow crash and other cyberpunk classics. Del has this great laid back flow that's like honey for your soul, along with a great sense of humour. Essential hiphop listening.
Henry's Dream :: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ooh ooh, goth days. Not gothic, goth. Did I use the correct definition of the words? Fucking goth snobs, get yor head our of your pretentious backsides and drink some blood or something. I grew up with this guy James (still a best friend) and his sister Vicki used to be older and cooler than us - going to clubs before we did, listening to cooler music than we did. Needless to say, James got a lot of free copies of great friggin' music off her which we used to listen to as we played video games in his room. This album just blew me away the first time I heard it. From beginning to end, it takes you on a dark, dismal, depressing story full of hellfire and brimstone, love and betrayal, murder and power. So wonderfully depressing, I love it! And thus began my Nick Cave addiction. I have everything he's ever published, but this album in particular stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of a complete creative work.
The Stone Roses :: The Stone Roses
How can you grow up in England and not be thoroughly mad about the Stone Roses. Manchester hay-day music at it's finest, exponents of the indie scene before there was one, in the beginnings of shoe-gaze music and brit-pop there were the Stone Roses. Massively popular, and their first album was always the best. Timeless pop music that still beats the shit out of everything out there today. Full of love, spice, happiness, weirdness, full-volume-stereo, drunken-pub-singing songs, awesome.
The Eight Legged Groove Machine :: The Wonderstuff
The Stuffies! Another hand-me-down from Vicki, and a band that I will forever mourn I never got to see in concert. I'm as crazy about the stuffies as B is about Pearl Jam, I think. Again, we're talking alternative/pop music, but with the wittiest, dryest, snydest lyrics I can remember. More drunken raucous singing. Vioins. Bass Thing Bob. They never made the breakthrough over on into the USA or I think they would still be around today. Watching their final concert in the UK on video a tear almost fell from my eye, the end of an era. I think I must have something for first-albums by groups as this is another one. Legs is just a great pop album from start to finish, and Miles Hunt's touch is all over it. Regardless of what you think of his selfish, arrogant attitude, he writes some damn find pop songs. Sing the absurd...
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