TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

Ok, so the Top 10 RT songs thread is going nicely, how about everyone's Top 10 RT Albums ? Again, post-Fairport only, here's 10 for starters :

1. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
2. First Light
3. Daring Adventures
4. Hand Of Kindness
5. Hokey Pokey
6. Mock Tudor
7. Dream Attic
8. You ? Me ? Us ?
9. Henry The Human Fly
10. Electric (snuck in at number 10 but still thinking about it)

As before, ask me again in about 20 minutes and I might've changed my mind  :)

1. I want to see the Bright Lights Tonight.
2. Henry the Human Fly.
3. Hokey Pokey.
4. Amnesia.
5. Rumor and Sigh.
6. Shoot out the Lights.
7. First Light.
8. You? Me? Us?
9. Hand of Kindness.
10. Mock Tudor.

in that order....at the moment.

Oops, I forgot about Amnesia when putting my list together  :)

Love lists but can never be definitive and put them in order, so again, in no particular order my choices would be-

1. Rumor & Sigh
2. 1000 Years Of Popular Music
3. Amnesia
4. Mock Tudor
5. Shoot Out The Lights
6. Dream Attic
7. Hand Of Kindness
8. Small Town Romance
9. Daring Adventures
10. Pour Down Like Silver

1. Henry The Human Fly
2. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
3. In Concert, November 1975
4. Shoot Out The Lights
5. Pour Down Like Silver
6. Rumor And Sigh
7. More Guitar
8. Mirror Blue
9. Hokey Pokey
10. Two Letter Words

But I really don't know his latter-day albums well enough yet to be doing this properly.  I'll do the real top 10 in another few years!

Jules

1. Mock Tudor
2. Hokey Pokey
3. Henry The Human Fly
4. Dream Attic
5. Daring Adventures
6. Rumo(u)r and Sigh
7. Hand of Kindness
8. More Guitar
9. Shoot Out The Lights
10. Sweet Warrior  

There's not many would have Hokey Pokey as their favourite R&L album.  I always think of it as the comparitive lightweight amongst the first three.

Jules

I think I'd agree, some cracking songs on it though, particularly Heart Needs a Home and Never Again. Then again, I really rate Old Kit Bag, certainly on a par with Mock Tudor or any subsequent studio album, but no one else seems to agree. I find it perplexing that they can't see that they are wrong!  :)

In no order:

Electric
Live At The BBC
Mock Tudor
Hand Of Kindness
Shoot Out The Lights
Sunnyvista
First Light
Pour Down Like Silver
Hokey Pokey
Bright Lights

Hard to know what to leave out but, in no particular order:

Hand Of Kindness
Daring Adventures
Amnesia
Mirror Blue
Mock Tudor
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Shoot Out The Lights
The Old Kit Bag
Sweet Warrior
(guitar, vocal)/Pour Down Like Silver/Henry The Human Fly =  ;) :)

Yeras ago i picked up v cheap a cd, 'The End of the Rainbow' (An introduction to Richard and Linda Thompson) on Island Remasters.
Before the i pod it was perfect fot the car.
Roll over Vaughan Williams
The poor Ditchling Boy
When I get to the Border
Withered and Died
Bright Lights Tonight
Down where the Drunkards roll.
The end of the rainbow
The Great Valerio
Hokey Pokey
Never again
A heart needs a home.
For shame of doing wrong
Night Comes in
beat the retreat
Dimming of the day
Calvary Cross (live)

This and Mock Tudor still get a lot fo plays.

Yes!

Here's mine:

Henry The Human Fly
IWTSTBLT (can't be bothered typing I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight)
Pour Down Like Silver
Shoot Out The Lights
Across A crowded Room
Rumor And Sigh
Mock Tudor
Old Kit Bag
Electric (early days, but I do like it more than the previous 2 studio efforts)
In Concert, November 1975 (if only for the tracks that appeared on Guitar,Vocal)

If it was studio albums only I'd probably put Daring Adventures in there in place of In Concert. Hand Of Kindness has some great tracks on it, but I really don't get on with Tear Stained Letter. Haven't got First Light or Sunnyvista.

Ha ha ha!!  It took me a few seconds to work out what you'd done there.  Very funny.

Jules

Badum-tish! Here all week, etc

I think it sounds the least dated of the early trio (good work, production team). There are also parts where it sounds positively joyful, although I wouldn't necessarily drop Never Again into the middle of a party compilation. Brechtian, on occasion.  

I've included the compilation album (guitar,vocal) as it was the first RT/Fairport album I ever heard though quite a few of the tracks on it have been included on remastered R&L cds.

1. The Old Kit Bag
2. Rumor & Sigh
3. (guitar, vocal)
4.  I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
5. You? Me? Us?
6. Mock Tudor
7. Daring Adventures
8. 1000 Years of Popular Music
9. Front Parlour Ballads
10. Mirror Blue

I seem to have completely missed the live album More Guitar - don't know how that could have happened!  :o  I didn't know that Kenny Aronoff had played with RT. I love the John (Cougar) Mellencamp albums he played on and Iggy's Brick By Brick.

Chronologically speaking:

1....Bright Lights....
2.(guitar vocal)
3.Shoot Out The Lights
4.Hand Of Kindness
5.Amnesia
6.Rumor And Sigh
7.Sweet Talker
8.You?Me?Us?
9.Celtschmerz
10.Mock Tudor

Colin, I should hide quickly, Mellencamp's not keen on that 'C' word being mentioned!  ;D   I don't he's used it for about 30 years!

I think some of his 80's/90's stuff is great, and Aronoff is highly underated isn't he?

Fantastic idea!  It seems that we are able to include live albums, right?

1. I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
2. Live from Austin, TX
3. Pour Down Like Silver
4. Mock Tudor
5. Live at the BBC
6. Henry the Human Fly
7. Shoot out the Lights
8. In Concert, November 1975
9. Electric
10. Sweet Warrior

Runner up: Front Parlour Ballads

In no particular order:

The Old Kit Bag
Rumor and Sigh
I Want to See
Hand of Kindness
The live SoTL set
Across a Crowded Room
The acoustic set of Dream Attic
Smalltown Romance
Mock Tudor
Amnesia

Tough task. My punt:

1. Hokey Pokey
2. Mock Tudor
3. I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight  
4. In Concert November 1975
5. Mirror Blue
6. 1000 Years of Popular Music
7. Shoot out the Lights
8. Rumour & Sigh
9. Electric
10. Industry

Only heard "Electric briefly - I suspect it'll creep up the list after more exposeure.

I haven't even heard 10 RT albums in total, I don't think, but I still think Henry the Human Fly is the best.  :)

No votes for Bones of All Good Men, then.

Until now!  

I love that album's blend of medieval & (electric) rock.

 ;)  Head and shoulders above the rest - imho.    

Yep!...Count me in as well...I love that album, and Peggy, Simon, and DM are staggeringly good ! 8)

Struggling with a top 10, but "Mock Tudor", "Rumor and Sigh", "Bright Lights", and "In Concert 1975" would always be in there no matter what !

My favourite and most played though would have to be "Watching The Dark" ...but as it's a compilation (including the Fairport years) it probably doesn't count... :-\

I have a tale to tell about that album--I had it before it was released!

I got married back in February 1998. Some months before the event, we realised that Fairport were playing Cambridge (where we then lived) on the evening of our wedding day, so we did the obvious thing and bought tickets. I then wrote to Simon to ask if we might have a song dedicated to us that night. I happened to mention, as well, that my intended was a baroque musicologist.

Simon wrote back, promising a dedication, provided that his memory held up. In addition, having learnt of my future wife's musical leanings, he enclosed as a wedding present a cassette of Bones of All Men, some time before its release. Not only that, on the night he remembered the dedication: we had Royal Seleccion No. 13 played for us!

What a great story!  No wonder we love this band  [;-)

Ditto what Will said....terrific story!

I looked for the "Like" -button when I read Peter's story and also Will's comment....
No wonder.... [;-)

Am I the only one who thinks this is funny?  Forgot about amnesia?? Geddit??
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I may have thought it was funny.Can't remember.

I got it.  I presumed Dan did that on purpose.  Made me chuckle.

Jules