Name one album folk should listen to at least once before they die.

@Puckish Totally !

Although 'Animals' 'The division bell' and 'The wall' are also worth a listen.

@SW-User Yep. Might be just me but i somehow rate 'earlier' Dire Straits rather than 'later'.

I'm sure that's an unfair assessment, maybe just me.

@SW-User Nice one that!

@FreeSpirit1 Currently ranked #8 on the Rolling Stone top 500 albums chart !

Will probably annoy the Punk purist since having started from a Punk perspective, this album branches out into other genres including RnB; Reggae; Pop; Rock and maybe one or two others !

But yes ! Excellent choice !

@Picklebobble2 That's why it's so good, name another Punk group wbo put out an album as good as that...not many

@Dlrannie Good choice ! Quite different from what a lot of other folk are suggesting !

@Picklebobble2 Haha and released 23 years before I was born - blame my Dad for my choice 😂😂

@SW-User Yes it marks a specific era in history because of what the songs reflect in their lyrics !

@Picklebobble2 Still pretty relevant really

@SW-User Good choice and many might argue their best work !
Apparently they spent a month in India together prior to this album’s release (The Maharishi era)

@summersong I love Blue Valentine

@summersong Both those are good examples i think.

@Vivaci Anything Bill Withers is worth a listen. And yes, 'Appetite for destruction' is probably GnR best work.

Omg yea!!! And I love your taste in music, PB. So good choice of yours too. 👌🎶😍@Picklebobble2

@SW-User Good choice ! Have you heard their earlier work ?
Tinder Box to me sounds far more polished and 'grown up' if you see what i mean ?

thanks, @Picklebobble2 yes, i've heard it all, even if it's been a long minute since hearing most of their works. this album just really resonated with me when it came out. i was encouraging everyone, and their brother, to have a listen, ad nauseam, lol i still dig hearing the whole album at once. it's almost like one long transcendent song to me.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales There's something vaguely familiar about the vocal style of this lead singer.....Reminiscent of Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) perhaps

@Picklebobble2 jerney Kaagman is her name.Earth and Fire were not big in Britain.

@eli1601 Fairplay !
Were they albums you 'discovered' or were they.....(hate this expression) part of the zeitgeist of the time ? 😖

@Picklebobble2 Actually, I was asking since Houses of the Holy, the song, was on the Physical Graffiti album.

Hmmm...maybe. It’s just pages from our history, so there’s a bit of realism in it. @Picklebobble2

@Vivaci Yeah, i get it. 😉

I knew you would! 💙🤗@Picklebobble2

@eli1601 Listening now...

@BabyLonia 24 consecutive weeks at #1 on The Billboard charts and widely regarded as Prince's seminal work.
AND annoyed Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource centre sufficiently that THAT was the first album to have Parental Advisory stickers slashed across it !

@Picklebobble2 that was because of Darling Nikki

The album is a work of art

@ChemDawg Yes. Probably one of the best live albums too !

@ChemDawg you stole my thunder. One of the best ever. Have you picked up this new release yet?