Recently I was linked to your channel. Your videos are helping find new discoveries. Cheers . Norman
@VinylMonkey58Ай бұрын
Cheers Norman-thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
@gerrylo9359 Жыл бұрын
Excellent music. Thanks for sharing.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Dragon-thanks for watching and commenting
@Harrispilton22 Жыл бұрын
Great stuff..cheers for the mention. Could have chose Curtis. T-Rex was a coin toss.could have gone with Tanx as well! Psychocandy’s a great shout..I never thought of that! Yep..you picked the album from 92 I forgot! ‘Looking forward to Car Button Cloth rerelease as I think that’s a lost classic! Great you’ve done the nineties & after. Mine would be ‘Now I see A Darkness’ by Bonnie Prince Billie & maybye one of the Mark Lanegan early solo albums. Really good video.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Harris-I love Will Oldham'sstuff -seen him live a good while back at The Barbican in a great show curated by Howe Gelb
@Harrispilton22 Жыл бұрын
@@VinylMonkey58got some views on this one! Always nice!
@PhilBaird1 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mal. Many great suggestions there for me to check out. Nice to see Free At Last in the 'spot the album' competition too !
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Phil-yer you've spotted a candidate for a future video
@markopena17545 ай бұрын
Just stumbled on your channel, thanks to the KZfaq algorithm-awesome, awesome list! Not familiar with Rodney Graham, so I’ll definitely check this artist out! I know the Vulgar Boatman’s debut album in/around 1992 or so, was produced by Walter Salas-Humara of The Silos’ fame. If you’re not familiar with his/their material, definitely check them out-great 80s alt country rock band with I would even say, new wave/post-punk elements. Thank you for mentioning the Vulgar Boatman. I think they’re not mentioned too often as they should be. Also, no Prefab Sprout mentions?
@VinylMonkey585 ай бұрын
Cheers Mark-thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. I remember the Silos but haven't heard them for a long time.Yes, Prefab Sprout. I did see them way back-very good.
@jaykrusac2981 Жыл бұрын
Great list, lots for me to check out for first time. I liked and subscribed
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Jay -welcome
@MortenAastad Жыл бұрын
Banging selection! Nice having a mention of Stephen Malkmus, Morrissey, Evan Dando and Jeff Mangum in one and the same list! I got quite a challange on my hands if I’m to film a response to this! Anyhow, love the video, you sir have got yourself a new subscriber! Kind regards, Morten.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Morten-I look forward to your video
@MortenAastad Жыл бұрын
@@VinylMonkey58 working on it… doing my head in! 😂
@jayhawkjd8565 Жыл бұрын
Graham Parker's Squeezing Out Sparks is almost perfect. Stunning album.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Funnily enough-just talking about GP yesterday-I'll have to seek that one out
@thomasandersen6719Ай бұрын
Squeezing out sparks is an astonishing album. Absolutely brilliant
@bullobca Жыл бұрын
Great idea and video. Ron Sexsmith's debut is great, he still doesn't get the recognition he deserves, even here in Canada. We're seeing him in Stratford Ontario next month. I've seen him several times and he's better live. Other than the debut, his albums don't quite capture how good a performer he is. Cheers from Canada.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers bullobca-I have missed Ron S every time he's toured in my neck of the woods-hopefully catch him next time
@RinoaL Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! I'll have to keep an eye out for these.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Good luck in your search-and thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
@richardyoung839 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting me on to the Peter Perrett album. Even Serpents Shine has been a long standing favourite of mine. Cheers.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Richard-thanks for taking the time to comment
@staggerlee6794 Жыл бұрын
Great vid - great selections - some stuff I am going to definitely check out that I hadn't heard of before. Notably Neutral Milk Hotel. And always nice to have a fellow Brit on these music channels for a change! Consider me subbed.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Mr Lee-your kind comment much appreciated
@mikeables Жыл бұрын
Hi there from the Seattle area. I'm 60 last week and have been finding it harder and harder to find music that is new to me that I like enough to purchase and listen to. I watch loads of videos in this top ten series and yours is the best so far. Each record, I type into my music service and sample. That Modern Lovers record hits just right. Thank you so much for making this video. All the records were good. I will have to research the main guy you mentioned to see if he had any other releases or other bands. Cheers!
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Mike-thats very kind of you to comment like that. Jonathan Richman is a great artist but I don't think he's made studio albums that do him justice in terms of sound/production etc. My favourite is JR and the Modern Lovers Live, which I think has been recently re-released
@GRT666 Жыл бұрын
This is the first video I've seen of yours. I have only a few of these so it's nice to be introduced to some others that I'll keep an eye out for.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers GRT-thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
@ianlovell67099 ай бұрын
I used to work with Jeremy Barnes from Neutral milk hotel when he moved to the UK. Great video!
@VinylMonkey589 ай бұрын
Cheers Ian, and thanks for the kind comment
@Pmarshall9910 ай бұрын
Spookily similar to my favourites. Hall and Oates have never been on my radar so I will check them out.
@VinylMonkey5810 ай бұрын
Cheers Paul. In my opinion 'Abandoned Luncheonette' is head and shoulders above all their other albums
@carltwidle9046 Жыл бұрын
Hi 👋 I'm in my sixties, and i remember T Rex and his excellent Glam Rock music. My older brother bought that Electric Warrior album back in 1971. I own it on cd and it contains the neat song Hot Love as a bonus track. Tragic his death in 1977. He liked the Punk Rock 🧷 sound then. He was into the Damned. The Damned are a favorite group of mine. I liked the Smiths in the 1980s, and Morrissey is a good entertainer.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Hi Carl-thanks for sharing your memories
@David-Ellis Жыл бұрын
Nice video Mr Monkey - there are a few albums here I don't know at all - you just helped shape my play-list for the day - thank you! D
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers David -thanks for taking time to watch and comment-VM(Malcolm)
@BassLiner3172 Жыл бұрын
Been wanting that Marvin Gaye album for a while now, cool video.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers-thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
@BassLiner3172 Жыл бұрын
@@VinylMonkey58 My pleasure, thanks.
@primeanalogrecords Жыл бұрын
Very interesting idea! Great video! You are new to my feed so I subscribed!🎉
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your very kind comment
@garygee5365 Жыл бұрын
Great selection
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Gary-thanks for taking the time to comment
@saturnsabyss Жыл бұрын
Great picks! Love the inclusion of soul right up front.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers-thanks for the kind comment
@dangaines40510 ай бұрын
That Neutral Milk Hotel album rocks!
@VinylMonkey5810 ай бұрын
Cheers Dan-thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
@dat1phoenix173 Жыл бұрын
Great records! ❤
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Dat1-thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
@TheJuniorMints Жыл бұрын
All three Vulgar Boatmen albums are great. I was lucky to live in Chicago when they started.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers-I'm on the lookout for them on vinyl
@jasonarsenault3791 Жыл бұрын
I’m glad the algorithms helped me find this channel. Great video!
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the kind comment
@Robutube1 Жыл бұрын
I was pleasantly surprised to see Ron Sexsmith's eponymous album getting some love. I saw him at Middlesborough Town Hall where he was er, not optimally appreciated unfortunately. Agreed that Lebanon, Tennessee is a stand out on an outstanding album.
@multiverser9585 Жыл бұрын
I saw Sexsmith open for Nick Lowe in a small venue and I was blown away.
@GyronCinque Жыл бұрын
Cool list 👍
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
````cheers Gyros-thanks for taking the time to comment
@garyrobinson8665 Жыл бұрын
Hi just found your channel. Good stuff. Do i hear a Durham accent? Im from Durham. Most VC youtubers I come across are American. Anyway I look forward to watching more of your videos.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Gary-it's a Hartlepool accent-so yes County Durham. Hence the name Vinyl Monkey (hanger). Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
@garyrobinson8665 Жыл бұрын
@@VinylMonkey58Ah I was close. My brother lives down there. Yeah anyway you have some good records there. I especially like the jesus and mary chain psychocandy. I don't have it on vinyl just cd.
@SuperMcgenius Жыл бұрын
I have 11 lp’s on you list, will look up the ones I don’t know, cheers from Canada
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers SuperMc-thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
@stephen3511 Жыл бұрын
Know all these LP’s and own a lot of them. Gonna revisit Lemonheads, J&MC and H&O this afternoon 👍🏻
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment Stephen
@robison5396 Жыл бұрын
Great video. I was thinking this would be a very difficult one to make when i saw the title .. then you cleverly use the words ' Almost Perfect' ..is there genuinely a perfect album?. Great Van 2nd solo album, he'se at his most mystical and free. Love the Queen is Dead, their most accomplished album..Cemetry Gates is a great guitar song ( Johnny Marr does a video on KZfaq perforing a terrific instrumental version). I loved Its A Shame About Ray when it came out and played it a lot.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Rob-thanks for your kind comment
@colinwhite5355 Жыл бұрын
And as a follow-up? Artists/songs which have recognised species of fish. As a start and choosing an unjustifiably unsung rock pool species. ‘Blenny and the Jets’, ‘Blenny a tear has to fall’, ‘How Blenny more times’, ‘Coat of Blenny colours’ and,of course, ‘How Blenny lies’. A rich vein to mine, I think. Cod only knows.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Genius idea as ever Col-A whiting shade of pale/The Carps/Skate-ing away on the thin ice of a new day......endless hours of fun here
@richardmurphy9006 Жыл бұрын
Great Northern Soul
@VinylMonkey5811 ай бұрын
Cheers Richard
@oppothumbs1 Жыл бұрын
Rating 1 to 10: Astral Weeks - 10 Curtis - 8 (changed from 5) What's going on? - 8 Blood on the Tracks - 9 The Modern Lovers - 9 Psychocandy - 8 (only one great song) The Smiths - 9 Lemonheads - 9 Any Ron Sexsmith album - 3 Any Nick Cave -3 Don't know the rest. the rest are 10s 1 Forever Changes - Love 60s 2 Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield 60s 3 Live Rust Concert - Neil Young 70s 4 Decade - Neil Young 70s 5 Tim - The Replacements 80s 6 Let it Be - The Replacements 80s 7 Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements 80s 8 Don't Tell a Soul - The Replacements 80s 10 This Years Model - Elvis Costello and the Attractions 70s 11 Get Happy! Elvis C and the Attractions 12 Moments - Boz Scaggs 70s 13 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie 70s 14 Revolver - The Beatles 60s 15 Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan 60s 16 The Doors - The Doors 60s 17 Best of the Smiths Part I - The Smiths 90s 18 Hunky Dory - Bowie 19 The X Album - Lloyd Cole 90s 19 Where you Been - Dinosaur Jr 90s 20 Heat Treatment - Graham Parker and the Rumour 70s 21 After the Goldrush - Neil Young 22 Are you Experienced - Jimi Hendrix 60s 23 Banana album - Velvet Underground and Nico 60s 24 Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols 70s 25 Avalon - Roxy Music 80s 26 Eponymous - R.E.M. 80s Like it more than Murmur 27 Aliens Lanes - Guided By Voices 90s 28 Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs 80s 29 A Hard Days Night - The Beatles 60s 30 My Aim is True - Elvis Costello 70s 31 Shazam - The Move 60s 32 Music from Big Pink - The Band 60s 33 The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen 70s 34 Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service 60s 35 Zuma - Neil Young 70s 36 Harvest - Neil Young 36 I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo la Tengo 90s 37 My Favorite Things - John Coltrane 60s 38 Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 50s 39 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco 2001 40 Shazam - The Move
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Wow-thats some list-I agree some great ones in your list of '10's. Bit of a harsh score you've given Curtis in my humble opinion-and in the end of the day that's all this is-a bit of fun and opinions-Thanks for taking the time to share yours
@oppothumbs1 Жыл бұрын
@@VinylMonkey58 Yeah my 5 was harsh .. what was I thinking? But I don't like Mayfield as I did with The Impressions.
@jabbahursty Жыл бұрын
i was crazy for "astral weeks" for many years, back when we listened to albums we loved until we literally wore them out
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers Hollywood-I'm still crazy (for it) after all these years. Thanks for taking the time to comment
Bloody hell Anarchitek that's some comment. Not going to argue about the place of Dylan in the history (and present) of music. Thanks for your 100-I will further analyse it when I have some time and seek out any I'm not familiar with. Thanks for taking all the time to comment so comprehensively
@TheAnarchitek Жыл бұрын
@@VinylMonkey58 I started listening (paying attention) to Rock in the spring of 1960, when Alley Oop came out, by Dante & the Evergreens, the Hollywood Argyles, and Dyna-Sores, between May 30 and June 6. I heard the Beatles seminal hit, She Loves You, in Fall, 1963, around the time of the JFK assassination. I was hooked!
@bwpm1467 Жыл бұрын
Trouble Will Find Me strikes me as the most 'perfect' album by the National.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers bwpm - another fine album. I play SWB more prob because I have that on vinyl, and only have TWFM on cd
@rodneymacomber633710 ай бұрын
Do a video of “krout rock”
@VinylMonkey5810 ай бұрын
Hi Rodney-thanks for the suggestion. I do have a few Krautrock albums-though maybe not enough to justify a video?
@fizzlebomber674 Жыл бұрын
a band in lunch and yet? huh?
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Sorry fizzle -you've lost me there?
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Doh -just got that-bloody hell I'm getting even slower in my old age :(
@davidfraser6950 Жыл бұрын
Vinyl-Take your time with the videos.Need to look into your camera as 20 minutes isn't enough with the information and knowledge you have on music.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Cheers David-maybe you're right-though a better alternative might be to narrow the scope of each video.My first 20 or so videos focussed on 3 0r 4 albums in each one
@kenjones6441 Жыл бұрын
I’ve heard all your selections and none come in my top 200 never mind my top 10. Any list not including Steely Dan’s Aja is not worth bothering with.
@VinylMonkey58 Жыл бұрын
Ouch! I guess that means me and you have differing tastes Ken. A bit surprised NONE of my 20 make your top 200-but hey ho-each to their own. Not wanting to be pedantic-but these are not my 20 'best' albums, only a few would make that list. Thanks for sharing your opinion-just a bit of fun and distraction in the end.