Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (managed to see them in NYC for Rock The Bells 2010 performing the whole album was a dream comes true) and the second best album for me would be Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

In my top 5 Hip Hop LPs for sure. Love that lo-fi, scuzzy sound! 👌🙌

Peace peace

Roni size - new forms
Massive attack - blue lines

finally someone said Blue Lines. It's odd because in a lot of ways musically I don't rate it highly, it's kind of clumsy in parts, some of the ideas are underdeveloped, some of it almost makes me cringe. But there was just something so special about that time and the sound felt so new and yet familiar. Even though their later stuff is "better" Blue Lines has such a permananet special place in my heart.

It’s definitely the whole vibe.

Tribe Called Quest - Low-End Theory

De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising

Prodigy - Music For Jilted Generation
Leftfield - Leftism

Could list plenty but these 2 are special 😎🥳🤯👽

Leftism is immense. It's been a while, I'm gonna have to fish it out the old collection.

Got few hours in car tomorrow think I'm gonna blast it myself been a good while

Time well spent. As for The Prodigy, I saw them at Glasto in '95. They were flying high off the back of Music for the Jilted Generation. I vividly remember Keith (RIP) rolling onto the stage in a giant hamster ball. They were awesome. So much energy.

I last saw them around 2008 at Manchester arena invaders must die tour. Awesome gig. 😛

I was in the crowd too. Got a bleeding nose but was dancing so wildly I didnt realise. Everyone was freaking out and I was like...what..? It sort of strangely suited the moment.
Glastonbury 95 was epic!

ok computer

Nirvana - Unplugged in New York

Nas and Damien Marley - Distant Relatives

Damien Marley first album 🔥

dark side by pink floyd and blonde by frank ocean. i absolutely rinse both year after year :)

Full albums I've actually listened to over and over are "The Wall" & "Graceland"

Really love listening to Graceland on a fresh sativa high)

Graceland brings back memories of my mum blasting that album most days when I was a kid

Same, we had it on vinyl. Those were the days.

That's how I first heard it too when my mums friend got them the album back in the early 80s)

Graceland is one of my favourite and definitely most replayed albums too. Good choices!

Tom Waits "Blue Valentine", Ry Cooder "Bop Till You Drop" - honourable mention to Joni Mitchell "Blue", Janis Joplin "Pearl", David Crosby "If I Could Only Remember My Name", and a gazillion others...

Some really nice choices there but I'm afraid that I can't see past Raindogs.
Cheers G

Fantastic LP.

The best Waits' in a catalogue where the bar is astonishingly high.

Bone Machine 🤣

I know I’m cheating but I got
Outkast- Aquemini (and stankonia)
Fugees - The Score
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Kanye - MBDTF
Nas- Illmatic

Some absolute works of art here.

The doors,LA woman
The complete stone roses
And many many more.

stone roses excellent band mate the doors aswell cant get enough of them

Aphex Twin - Ambient Works 85-92

DJ Shadow - The Private Press

Soundtracks to a digital existence

#OneLife #WhoAreYou 💯❤️

If you don’t know…wake up! 💯❤️

i didn't know bjork was originally an anime character

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Beastie Boys - ill Communication

I’m a grump about Ill Communication. It has some great tracks on it. But the jazz filler does nothing for me.

What's going on- Marvin Gaye..almost goes as a mix album the way the songs blend into one another. So relevant to today too.

Another I've played to death over the years is Joni Mitchell- Blue. Just a sublimely chilled album.
Many more, but these two I think I have probably played the most in my lifetime so far

Future sound of London - Lifeforms
Funkadelic - Maggot brain

Since my favourite 2 have already been picked by loads of people, I'll go for...
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Portishead - Dummy

System of a down - toxicity

The Streets - Original pirate material

Great shout. Loved Original Pirate Material when it came out.

Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Massive Attack- Blue Lines

Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon.
L'Entourloop - Chickens In Your Town.

Never heard Dub Side of the Moon until today- bloody great👍- so big thanks for the heads up!!!

Its bloody awesome 👌

Once discovered, it's a beautiful thing. Enjoy!

Dub Side is great, but the Radiodread is awful!

I completely agree. They massacred it.

Wow!!!! Just WOW!
Dubside of the moon 🌙
Amazing..... how this has escaped me is beyond me 🤷‍♂️ I love darkside that much I have the prism tattood on my chest

utterly brilliant albumn Dubside, saw them do the 10th aniversary tour playing the whole albumn live its was epic.

I can safely say that Appetite for Destruction is the album I've listened to the most. Carousel by Subcircus has had well over 20 years love from me as well

1. Aphex Twin - selected ambient works
2. TLC - Crazy, sexy, cool

Ohhh tough probably Floyd dark side of the moon and the doors soft parade

+1 for dark side of the moon, and wish you were here.

Dark Side of the Moon has got to be my first pick. Millionaires by James is great when you've got some sativa running through your system.

The b-side of the sit down single is Live at the Manchester Gmex. On headphones is still the best crowd singing of a song to date.

The Baby Huey story The living legend and Radiohead The bends.

The Bends is one of the finest albums ever made in my opinion.

My favourite of theirs.

Great great album

Baby Huey good shout crate diggers classic love it

Kaleo - A/B
Audioslave - audioslave
Dre - 2001
Linden park - meteora

Yes Dre 2001 epic at the time

2 is incredibly difficult, and I can't be the only one with eclectic tastes and a butterfly mind where these will all change regularly anyway. So I'll go with:

Ash - 1977

and

Kent - Hagnesta Hill (available in English and Swedish, so surely I get to choose both?)

I once worked on a tour of Denmark and Kent played , your comment is the only other time I’ve heard of them lol

That's so cool! Is this weird? The most unbelievably amazing band that almost no-one has ever heard of, or so it seems. They filled stadia in Scandinavia.

"The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd: Released in 1973, this album is considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest progressive rock albums of all time. It features a conceptually unified theme and explores various philosophical and existential topics. Tracks like "Money," "Time," and "Us and Them" are widely loved.

"Thriller" by Michael Jackson: Released in 1982, "Thriller" is the best-selling album of all time and a cultural phenomenon. It revolutionized pop music, blending various genres and delivering iconic hits such as "Billie Jean," "Beat It," and the title track "Thriller."

The jam All mod cons
Nwa straight outta compton

Dark Side of the Moon, best album ever, bar none. 50 years old this year, same as me!
950 weeks on Billboard 200 chart! 750 of them consecutive!!
Lee 'Scratch" Perry - Open the Gate. Sadly deleted and expensive to buy, but can be downloaded online. 2 CDs of heavyweight 12". Jimmy Cliff got me listening to reggae, this album burnt it into my soul.

Up Cornwall Emmets out!! ;)

Lol, Emmet ground zero here! Happy campers can feck orf!

Mebyon Kernow 😉

Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bowie - Low

Both as fresh today as ever

My picks:
The Velvet Underground & Nico - just a classic album. Spaceman 3 "The Perfect Prescription" with an honorable mention for Ode to Street Hassle

Quality

Rumours…Fleetwood Mac
Transformer….Lou Reed

1st. Chase & Status - More than a lot (2008)
2nd. Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap (2018)

Muse - Absolution( regardless if you like the band the story of the end of the world from start to end is amazing!)

Nirvana - Unplugged in New York

This is tough but going on repeats alone I reckon these pip it,

Riding with the king - Clapton and BB King
We're new here - Jamie xx and Gil Scott-Heron

Rust in peace by Megadeth and Obzen by Meshuggah.

I second Rust in Peace, esp. Hangar 18 & Lucretia - Marty Friedman's finest hour

I absolutely love tornado of souls. One of the greatest guitar solos of all time

So glad someone has shouted out Jamie xx, amazingly talented music producer the first album with him and his sister The Xx I can’t even guess how many times I’ve listened to it, song 1 known as intro is a work of art. I’m gutted they or he have released so little but sadly he probably earns more producing for other artists who are more mainstream?
Not heard of your other suggestions but will check them out based on your clearly good taste !

There are loads of full albums I’ll listen to…naming just two, well the two most recent ones that spring to mind for me Acid Bath-when the kite string pops and Oasis - definitely maybe not a bad track on either one.

I think 2001 is the last time I listened to an album :)

Hard to pick just 2, and I see a nearly all male list below...so:

Baduizm - Erykah Badu

Hounds of Love - Kate Bush

Midtown 120 Blues - DJ Sprinkles (couldn't leave this utter classic out!)

Black Love by Afghan Whigs
Good Luck by Debby Friday

Storm of the light's bane - Dissection

Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia - Dimmu borgir

Gentlemen by the Whigs is also epic

Its an absolute epic album. That bit in Fountain and Fairfax where Happy Chichester's piano wraps around Barb's cello is heaven. Its as good an album as Black Love for sure, some fans prefer it but BL is the GOAT.

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
The Roots - Undun

Script of the Bridge by The Chameleons. Some friends told me they would bury the album with me, I'd go to sleep listening to it.
Scary Monsters by Bowie, time of life thing for me 'Teenage Wildlife'.

Mrdeeds36, yes it is, blinding track, good to hear from another fan. 'Up the down escalator' is my anthem for a crazy world today.

Light up, smile and wave.

You nailed it with the lyric mate.
They were a good band live, too.

I agree with you.

'The storm comes, or is it just another shower'

Hi Mate, Got 'Script of the bridge' playing again this weekend. The album seems more poignant than ever.
Light up and have a good weekend.

Happy Birthday mate.
I will be listening to that recommendation later today.
Smoking 'red apple' Leb, 'apple tart' Maroc hashish and just got some 'Sunset Sherbet' and 'Billy Kimber' bud, all amazing.
Happy birthday. Crispy

Hi Mr, Really liked that album, how did I miss that? Do you like 'sad lovers and giants' and 'and also the trees' ?

Great shout. I also love The Sound.

dEUS The Ideal Crash and Pretty Hate Machine NIN. Never tire of those two... There are many more but these two popped out my cheesebox first.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless. Still sounds like nothing else.

…And You Will Know us By The Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes - possibly not the best album ever. But I just love it.

Dre 2001 and Fleetwood Mac Rumours.

Fleetwood Mac especially. Playing that album on a good car stereo on a nice road in the summer. Great times....👌🎶

Cheers BB 😊👍🍻

Hissing of Summer Lawns
Slanted and Enchanted

Tony Rice - Guitar
FFAF - Hours

Probably Drake - Views and lil durk - 7220. Them albums on repeat with a hash spliff = a mood

teens of denial - car seat headrest

brighten the corners - pavement

It’s gotta be Slanted & Enchanted for me.

pavement fucking rocks, love a bit of syd barrett too

Damn, you have good taste!

Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
&
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

From Within - Pete Namlook and Ritchie Hawtin.
Graceland - Paul Simon.
👍

Cheap Thrills - Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company. Aqualung - Jethro Tull. Both are extraordinary (to me, anyway) with a good dose of THC.

Just 2 …thats tricky!!

Some have already mentioned primal scream screamadilca. I played underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman a lot as well, but I think I will actually plump for depeche mode violator and u2 Joshua tree, 2 albums that got played a lot and got me through life…

Eminem - MMLP

Redman - Muddy Waters

Bit random but....
E99 eternal - bone thugs
Favourite worst nightmare - arctic monkeys
Not sure they my face of all time but certainly remember listening on repeat to both of these

Future Sound of London - ISDN and dead cities.

UB40 - Signing off

Whatever people say I am that's what I'm not by Arctic Monkeys and Constant Dikestar by Dirty Dike 🤟

Mmm Food or Madvillain by MF DOOM and The Low End Theory by ATCQ.

https://youtu.be/k9ynZnEBtvw?si=8Or1hoDghBzPiMRn best album ever in my opinion sounds like it was released yesterday, led zepplin 3 love this album right now ❤️☮️

Third World - 96 Degrees in The Shade (1977)
Micheal Hurley- Snockgrass (1980)

Honestly I have so many favourite albums. Its hard to choose just 2 🤔

Dre's 2001 deffo top 10 for me. Its tough a one, but Hybrid Theory and Slim Shady LP are what I settled on after starring at my PC screen for 20 mins internally debating the question lol The first Buffy soundtrack sat on repeat for about 3 years in my teens too haha

So recently discovered an artist called honestav and his album hara-kiri is one of these albums for sure

Reading the comments, we’re such a bunch of mixed people here haha (GOOD) I think I saw every genre. I don’t really have 1 album I like but it’s one song from a few if you get me.

For me it's got to be lupe fiasco lasers album deluxe edition. And Hopsin No shame album. Can listen to every song on both and never get bored

There are many, but you have to be realistic with cut off times and occasionally lenient with the pressure on vendors. The ‘need for speed’ causes more disputes on here than virtually any other issue.

The cardinal sin is when you pay for NDD etc and it doesn’t get sent that way. But most vendor’s seriously try to get that order out in line with their service promise.

Great NDD providers in my experience include The Gentleman Dealers, Dr Greenthumb, Dr Terpy and Canadian Imports (but check latest posting days)..

Hi Pollypuff

Spot on again my friend :-)

There is no way a seller can guarantee 100% once the parcel is in the system, many things can happen which are outside of the seller's control.

I see SD more as a way for the seller to see what happened with a parcel if it goes missing. Easier to agree on a refund if the seller can see you didn't get it (so a must for big orders).

As it stands I just received an order today which I ordered SD on Wed last week - posted on Thu according to seller.

I assumed that the Coronation had been wreaking havoc with RM services but looking at the enveloppes they used 1st class not SD.

I've just dropped them a message according to the LB etiquette. Probably an oversight on their behalf.

I remember all too well how I used to get my wares - and what I used to go through - before discovering LB.

As long as it arrives - and the quality and quantity match the order - I'm not fussed.

Cheers

This exactly. If I paid for a NDD service and did not receive it, I would send a note to the vendor and see if they could make it right somehow, if it was that serious to get NDD.

But I also remember back some time ago (lol), when I had to go to the gas station pay phone, page my dude, hope that he calls back quickly, and then wait. Sometimes he’d come in 20 min, sometimes 3-4 hours. And even as of present day, prior to LB, dealing with bs about meeting here or there or where or when… So I have a fairly high pain tolerance for waiting, especially given how incredible it is that finally a place like this exists. But to give the op his due, I would have something to say to the vendor if I paid for something and didn’t get it. But let them make it right for you.

I totally agree. Some Biggas would react less angrily if they got a dog turd in their package than they do to NDD not arriving NDD! 😂

I know this is controversial and beside the point but I tend to order long before I run out so that does tend to help with the stress.

But I’m still the same as every other Bigga at the end of the day…checking for the post 15 times, grilling the Postie like it’s his fault and total disbelief that my fucking package hasn’t arrived the day after I ordered it!! 😖💥😖

But then it all comes good eventually and the world is back on its axis! 😶‍🌫️

I Hear You !

Hi Gortport

Totally agree - this place is like heaven :-)

I know they'll make it right, they're pros and have top ratings, my number one vendor.

Cheers

Hi Biggas

As it turned out the seller did make it right and then some.

In fact I was not upset about the SD not being SD but one of the order items was missing which was my main reason for messaging them.

They resent it with SD and added some freebie edibles :-)

Big massive hats off to DIUK for sorting it out with class, talk about customer service.

Goes a long way to prove that comms is what you need when things don't go as planned. That and sticking to top vendors.

Cheers

With you all the way Dukey!…the only orders I’ve had not ever arrive were sent (or not sent, being the point) by RM first class.
Tracking helps us all. I don’t need the numbers I just need the seller to check it when it’s late.
But you need to get what you pay for and where sellers offer premium postage that’s what you should get…👍👍