Albums you have forgotten how good they are.

daveyclaret · Post by **daveyclaret** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:42 pm

Anyone ever heard of Home? I listen to their second album occasionally and it is stunning. They were tipped for big things but only made 3 albums in the early 70s. It’s titled just Home (odd for a second album). Great stuff, free flowing and occasionally intricate. Saw them as a support band originally but they were fantastic. Drummer and lead singer/pianist are both long dead but guitarist Laurie Wisefield went on to spend about 12 years in Wishbone Ash and still gigs. Bass player Cliff Williams has recently retired after spending 40 odd years in AC/DC (who bear no resemblance at all to Home). It’s downloadable on iTunes if anyone wants to give it a go.

I still have Home's Home album but haven't played it in a while. They were a good band and I also have what was called a concept album at the time 'The Alchemist' by them. I wasn't keen on this album and haven't played it since I bought it in the 1970s.

I remember Wally and they were expected to make it big. I read Bob Harris' autobiography a couple of years and, if I recall correctly, he was sponsoring Wally or had something to do with promoting the band.

I've recently been playing, or rather listening on Youtube, to Bob Seger's songs, Night Moves, Roll me away, Hollywood Nights, Like a Rock, Against the Wind. I saw Bob and his Silver Bullet Band live in San Antonio, Texas, in 1978. Great show, happy memories.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:52 pm

Steve1956 wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 03, 2021 5:29 pm
You are actually Mike Harding arnt you?...it never clicked but it's all just fallen into place

Mike Harding though was funny

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:39 pm

And just before sleep what better way to round off the day

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https://youtu.be/1hBWBVVFA4c

Swizzlestick · Post by **Swizzlestick** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:50 am

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:38 am

Pink Floyd albums already mentioned so I will give a honorary mention for ‘On the threshold of a dream’, Moody Blues.

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:42 am

Listened to Once Upon A Time by Simple Minds while walking the dogs Sunday

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:00 am

Hipper wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:21 pm
I had that. I still listen to about four tracks from it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfU-gFD95GE

I'll add Wally, album called Wally. Similar history to Home, a couple of albums then no more. However they had a reunion in 2009 which produced a DVD and CD. Sunday Walking Lady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmFvZE8-djc

I had both Wally albums. Saw them as a support originally but also saw them at Cats Whiskers a year or two later on a Burnley college rag night I think. Fine gentle soft rock band.
Let me guess the Home tracks you still listen to:
Western Front/Lady of the Birds
Dreamer
Rise Up (maybe).

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:04 am

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:38 am
Pink Floyd albums already mentioned so I will give a honorary mention for ‘On the threshold of a dream’, Moody Blues.

Absolutely but just about any of their first 7 albums. Still play them a lot. The production on their albums was years ahead of its time given the technology available then. The opening on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Procession) is as good an opening to an album you will ever hear in my opinion.

Mala591 · Post by **Mala591** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:10 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christians_(album)

The Christians by The Christians

Imo a very underrated/under appreciated group. A great mixture of love songs and politically thought provoking songs.

Recommended.

BennyD · Post by **BennyD** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:10 pm

Alchemy - Dire Straits.

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:22 pm

houseboy wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:00 am
I had both Wally albums. Saw them as a support originally but also saw them at Cats Whiskers a year or two later on a Burnley college rag night I think. Fine gentle soft rock band.
Let me guess the Home tracks you still listen to:
Western Front/Lady of the Birds
Dreamer
Rise Up (maybe).

Knave
Fancy Lady, Hollywood Child
Dear Lord
Baby Friend of Mine

Like daveyclaret I also bought The Alchemist but never got on with it. I never had 'Pause for a Hoarse Horse' but heard it once and there was a track on there I liked - I'll have to check that out.

Similarly with Wally, I liked their first album but never got on with Valley Gardens at the time. The album they put out for the reunion had a song on it I really like, She Said, and they do a cracking version of it live on the DVD.

Anyway, Bread's first album, called Bread, is an interesting album and is always good for a revisit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNGeC4dRb5I

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:53 pm

Probably not to a lot of people’s taste but Leo Sayer’s “Just a Boy” was an exceptional album and showed what he could have produced if the money men hadn’t got their claws into him.

KateR · Post by **KateR** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:32 pm

Rochdale Cowboy wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 03, 2021 3:36 pm
All these albums like ten years after, led zep etc, was the stuff all the dull crowd listened to at school, whereas the cool kids were into soul and going to the wheel and the birdcage in Ashton under lyne.

wasn't there a Birdcage in Briefield at one time long ago?

KateR · Post by **KateR** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:40 pm

I listened to Rumours again recently, which I did play so many times back in the day, as my son often says to me, it really is a great album.

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:41 pm

Marquee Moon - Television

Just a work of genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvgP8M ... el=sipsun8

ceborame · Post by **ceborame** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:29 am

Kate Bush - The kick inside

The Enclosure · Post by **The Enclosure** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:57 am

Miles Davies- Kind of Blue
Blood on the tracks - Bob Dylan
Crime of the Century- Supertramp

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 7:11 am

Misplaced Childhood -Marillion

RMutt · Post by **RMutt** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 8:10 am

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:41 pm
Marquee Moon - Television

Just a work of genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvgP8M ... el=sipsun8

To be fair that album should really be in a thread with the title ‘ Albums some other people might have forgot how good they are’ You don’t really forget the best. I suspect a few of those have crept into this thread. It’s the ones just bubbling underneath you forget sometimes. I played Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo the other day, I hadn’t played it for ages and I genuinely had forgot how good it was.

CharlieinNewMexico · Post by **CharlieinNewMexico** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:09 am

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:41 pm
Marquee Moon - Television

Just a work of genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvgP8M ... el=sipsun8

Amazing album

CharlieinNewMexico · Post by **CharlieinNewMexico** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:16 am

Albums I have I don’t play a lot but when I do I’m reminded why they are still around :

Marquee Moon for sure
Ocean Rain (Echo)
Kilimanjaro (Teardrop)
And another shout out for the early Marillion stuff which I was never really into but definitely appreciate in a conceptual kind of vibe.

CaptJohn · Post by **CaptJohn** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:51 am

I loved all the old Motown hits albums but one album that has stood the test of time is "Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy" from the Who. Some great tracks.

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:55 am

I was never into Yes...but this morning I had it on as a bit of background music...I like it..I like it a lot.

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Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 11:07 am

ceborame wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:29 am
Kate Bush - The kick inside

To be fair I would include every Kate Bush album to this list,one of the greatest female artists ever.

karatekid · Post by **karatekid** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:24 pm

David Bowie - Scary Monsters , simply outstanding .
PinK Floyd - The Final Cut , very underated album and imo one of their finest.
Linkin Park - One more Light
Morrissey - You are the Quarry

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:26 pm

Be Bop Deluxe: Futurama. Only I have never forgotten about it. It's brilliant. Years ahead of its time.

Dougall · Post by **Dougall** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:50 pm

Quicknick wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:26 pm
Be Bop Deluxe: Futurama. Only I have never forgotten about it. It's brilliant. Years ahead of its time.

Slightly more commercial, but Sunburst Finish was also a terrific album!
I saw Be Bop Deluxe a couple of times at uni in the late seventies, and I rate Bill Nelson as something of a genius, but he's generally pretty unknown!

jos · Post by **jos** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:09 pm

It Bites - Once Around The World

Top musicians at their finest.

This is the way to start a gig!

https://youtu.be/5KhkknHkB0s

Dougall · Post by **Dougall** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:14 pm

SalisburyClaret wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 03, 2021 5:30 pm
Has the second best guitar solo of all time, Neil then sings a bit then plays the best guitar solo of all time.

According to Guitar magazine

On the album Unplugged?!

Jamesy · Post by **Jamesy** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:17 pm

Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 03, 2021 4:23 pm
Im not being funny but if you think that all that dull soul rubbish was cooler than Boomania then you weren't going to the cool school buster!

Not like DA to pop his head above the parapet to declare his hostility to Soul music?

Jamesy · Post by **Jamesy** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:24 pm

And on that subject, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On album is right up there as a classic album.

Devils_Advocate · Post by **Devils_Advocate** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:58 pm

Jamesy wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:17 pm
Not like DA to pop his head above the parapet to declare his hostility to Soul music?

I think even you have to admit that the Northern Soul scene wasn't a patch on Boomania!

RMutt · Post by **RMutt** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:02 pm

Dougall wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:14 pm
On the album Unplugged?!

I think he's got that mixed up. It's an organ solo on the Unplugged version isn't it?

Jamesy · Post by **Jamesy** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:09 pm

Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:58 pm
I think even you have to admit that the Northern Soul scene wasn't a patch on Boomania!

Ah yes, Betty Boo. Timeless stuff indeed and she had longevity in the music industry. Around 6 months if my memory serves me correctly.

Dougall · Post by **Dougall** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:11 pm

RMutt wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:02 pm
I think he's got that mixed up. It's an organ solo on the Unplugged version isn't it?

I'd have to check, but that's what I thought it was!

Quicknick · Post by **Quicknick** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:27 pm

Dougall wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:50 pm
Slightly more commercial, but Sunburst Finish was also a terrific album!
I saw Be Bop Deluxe a couple of times at uni in the late seventies, and I rate Bill Nelson as something of a genius, but he's generally pretty unknown!

I saw them twice, as well. In 1975 at Huddersfield Bierkeller, probably my favourite ever gig. And Preston Guild Hall the year after, when they performed the whole of Sunburst Finish.

I agree with you. Nelson is a genius. There is some good stuff on You Tube with him performing just over 10 years ago. He looks different. Don't we all! I'll just find it for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQxx978499U

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 2:59 pm

Hipper wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:22 pm
Knave
Fancy Lady, Hollywood Child
Dear Lord
Baby Friend of Mine

Like daveyclaret I also bought The Alchemist but never got on with it. I never had 'Pause for a Hoarse Horse' but heard it once and there was a track on there I liked - I'll have to check that out.

Similarly with Wally, I liked their first album but never got on with Valley Gardens at the time. The album they put out for the reunion had a song on it I really like, She Said, and they do a cracking version of it live on the DVD.

Anyway, Bread's first album, called Bread, is an interesting album and is always good for a revisit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNGeC4dRb5I

Baby friend of mine was brill. Fantastic slide guitar from Wisefield.
Bread were a fine band. Only album I had though was Best Of.

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 3:02 pm

jos wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:09 pm
It Bites - Once Around The World

Top musicians at their finest.

This is the way to start a gig!

https://youtu.be/5KhkknHkB0s

Great band. We were short listed to support them on tour back in the mid 80s but didn’t get the gig. Three of the guys in our band were from Whitehaven where It Bites came from. Our keyboard player (sadly now dead) knew their keyboard guy.

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 3:11 pm

daveyclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:42 pm
Anyone ever heard of Home? I listen to their second album occasionally and it is stunning. They were tipped for big things but only made 3 albums in the early 70s. It’s titled just Home (odd for a second album). Great stuff, free flowing and occasionally intricate. Saw them as a support band originally but they were fantastic. Drummer and lead singer/pianist are both long dead but guitarist Laurie Wisefield went on to spend about 12 years in Wishbone Ash and still gigs. Bass player Cliff Williams has recently retired after spending 40 odd years in AC/DC (who bear no resemblance at all to Home). It’s downloadable on iTunes if anyone wants to give it a go.

I still have Home's Home album but haven't played it in a while. They were a good band and I also have what was called a concept album at the time 'The Alchemist' by them. I wasn't keen on this album and haven't played it since I bought it in the 1970s.

I remember Wally and they were expected to make it big. I read Bob Harris' autobiography a couple of years and, if I recall correctly, he was sponsoring Wally or had something to do with promoting the band.

I've recently been playing, or rather listening on Youtube, to Bob Seger's songs, Night Moves, Roll me away, Hollywood Nights, Like a Rock, Against the Wind. I saw Bob and his Silver Bullet Band live in San Antonio, Texas, in 1978. Great show, happy memories.

I think, I could be wrong, that Harris had something to do with production on their first album (Wally)I keep thinking about a track on there that had the lyrics:
Horses for courses
Men and companion side by side
But can’t recall the title. I think it had something to do with the charge of the light brigade.

Silkyskills1 · Post by **Silkyskills1** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 3:30 pm

During my student days, 1970-73, I acquired a low budget album called 'Nice Enough To Eat'. It was a compilation of various bands but I absolutely played it to death. King Crimson, Spooky Tooth, Quintessence and Blodwyn Pig were some of the bands on it, with Spooky Tooth's 'Better by You, Better Than Me being an absolute Better. Do compilations count?

Hipper · Post by **Hipper** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 4:17 pm

We've talked of the band Home.

I've just listened to their first album, Pause for Hoarse Horse, and there's this song on there that may interest some:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pJYEVn ... wW&index=4

It seems Mike Stubbs, lead guitarist of Home and lyricist of this song, had a brother called Willie who played in a band with Jimmy Page (Led Zep). Jerry Donahue, who played with Fotheringay and Fairport, is also mentioned in the lyrics. An explanation is given in the YouTube comments by Alistair Saldanha, about half way down. Interesting!

Stalbansclaret · Post by **Stalbansclaret** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:04 pm

karatekid wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:24 pm
David Bowie - Scary Monsters , simply outstanding .
PinK Floyd - The Final Cut , very underated album and imo one of their finest.
Linkin Park - One more Light
Morrissey - You are the Quarry

You Are The Quarry is a superb album I agree. Many great tracks and I particularly love You Know I Couldn't Last where Morrissey lets rip about the transience and hollowness of fame "The teenagers who love you, they will wake up yawn and kill you" and many other great lines in that track.

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:49 pm

houseboy wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 3:02 pm
Great band. We were short listed to support them on tour back in the mid 80s but didn’t get the gig. Three of the guys in our band were from Whitehaven where It Bites came from. Our keyboard player (sadly now dead) knew their keyboard guy.

We met through a mutual friend, and I used to meet up with Francis and busk in Keswick. Then one week he says' I cant come next week mate, I'm off on a European tour'. They were on TOTP that week.

minnieclaret · Post by **minnieclaret** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:13 pm

Jamesy wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:24 pm
And on that subject, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On album is right up there as a classic album.

Too great to be forgotten.

jos · Post by **jos** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:14 pm

@dougcollins
Francis does solo/duet ‘house’ gigs now. (As well as tours with a band) He comes back from the US from time to time and you can book him to play in your house. Although it usually ends up being a hotel where forty or so people can share the cost. They are great fun.

minnieclaret · Post by **minnieclaret** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:17 pm

Atomic Rooster..Death Walks Behind You.

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holdyourfire · Post by **holdyourfire** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:25 pm

Queen 2 excellent album

ClaretAL · Post by **ClaretAL** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:59 pm

Hysteria Def Leppard - Wnet to the in the round concert which was for adrenalize but had all the Hysteria tracks in the show, absolutely amazing live.

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tally · Post by **tally** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 8:53 pm

I was never into Yes...but this morning I had it on as a bit of background music...I like it..I like it a lot.

THAT Album was the first LP that I had the privilege of listening to on a real HIFI System and it blew my mind away and I then realized my 30 watt Sony amp was just middle of the road GEAR and my Wharfedale Dentons were no where near ther real deal.....mindblowing changing times for me

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Fri Nov 05, 2021 9:14 pm

karatekid wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 05, 2021 12:24 pm
Morrissey - You are the Quarry

Wow, that certainly fits in with the premise of the thread. Not played it for quite a while, but what an album. I saw him on the album tour in Halifax. I'll have to play it tomorrow night after we've set our fireworks off. BTW, his latest album isn't bad either.

I'll add one: Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins.