John Carty

From today’s Football League Paper:

#5debutalbums8589 Crime & The City Solution - Just South Of Heaven (1985) Without doubt the most underrated band of the 80's. A six track mini-album of gothic splendour. Brooding tunes of misery and desolation. Love. It. #VinylCommunity #NowPlaying

4 great albums. I refused to play any Yes for years, but the #5albums thing had me playing and really enjoying them again (and loads of other stuff that I’d been stupidly avoiding). Really like Anderson’s voice for some reason. 🙂

Good shout, Will, forgot about this one, not played it in decades. Seem to recall it was a decent album. Onto the list it goes. 👍😎

Yes, totally get where you’re coming from, the songs shine through despite the production, still a top album for me too. 👍

👍 You’ve cracked it, Cliff, it was definitely the Victoria Leisure Centre. So not outside then 🙂
The Bali Hai is a blast from the past, saw Poison Girls there.

👍😎

I saw the Redskins once, in Nottingham, with A Witness supporting (annoyingly I can’t recall the venue - may have been outside?). Maybe you were there too? The memory has gone. Great gig though, I remember that much. 😎

👍 Added to ever lengthening list. Cheers.

No problem. Excellent band.
Still got my vinyl from the 70s & 80s, gathering dust in the loft. At least 2 walking seeds albums buried up there. 😎

Yes, that’s where I first heard them too, supporting The Fall, at the Birmingham Town Hall, great gig. Took my future wife to that one, her first Fall gig, and she still married me!! 😎

Me too, also got it, and also not listened to it for a while 🙂 I might need to rectify that.

Chumbawamba - that’s one great album. Another one I’d forgotten. Thanks for the heads up 👍😎

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Walking Seeds - Skullfuck

Crazy but very enjoyable.
Genre is apparently heavy psych rock??? Dunno about that, but it’s good.
Worth a punt, people.

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Agreed, brilliant album. 👍😎

Great list, as usual. I’ve a couple of Young Gods albums, but not their debut. Added to the list. Good shout. 👍😎

Go on, take part, just this once, you know you want to, I won’t tell anyone, no one will ever know (apart from the lovely blue sky community, that is) 😉

Streetcleaner, good shout 👍😎

The Shamen, great shout, missed off my list. 👍😎
We had Fugazi’s debut as Revolver, 1990, as 13 songs was deemed a compilation, I think.

Yeah, me too.
Head of David, Dog Faced Hermans, Walking Seeds. There’ll be more, too, as my memory ain’t that good. 🙂

You’re not wrong. I’ve missed quite a few too. Should be fun, listening to this lot again 😀🎧🎵😎

Skag heaven is a fantastic album. 👍

I’m going for Step On It, as Let Them Eat Bogshed was an ep (or mini lp or whatever).

Ah, there’s 3 or 4 on there that I’ve missed, cheers 👍

No surprises, I think I was the only person voting for them in the original #5album run.

Saw Stupids a few times back in the late eighties, and you’re not wrong. Awesome live as well (I’ve still got the stage diving bruises). Probably right re MBV too, I’ve not done my homework yet 😀

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Cheers, Richard

Off the top of my head:

Bogshed
A.C.Temple
De La Soul
Big Black
Pixies
Stupids
My Bloody Valentine
Band of Susan's
SquirrelBait
Easterhouse
Redskins
A Witness
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Wedding Present

This will be a good one. Anyone else voting for Bogshed?

Hi folks the next challenge in our debut albums series is likely to be a busy one as we’re focussing on albums released between 1985-89. Voting commences on Friday 20th March, when I’ll be looking for your top 5 picks. In the meantime, please use hashtag #5DebutAlbums8589 to add recommendations.

Hi folks, thanks to everyone who took the time to vote in #5debutalbums0509 Just under 400 different albums were nominated and coming out top of the pile were Fleet Foxes with their self titled debut. Please see the top 100 chart to follow, where the top 30 progress to the semi final stage..

Me again. There’s a mistake on your bio, you’ve got the wrong Nottingham football team on there. 😉