Originally Posted by The Walrus

Mine was These Days. As I said in the other thread, that wasn't actually through choice ... I probably would have picked Crush first. But my aunt, who was and still is a big fan, brought it for me and told me it was their best album. For a while I was a bit bewildered by it, it didn't contain any of the big hits (I vaguely new SFTP and SBTI from One Wild Night, but hadn't payed much attention to them), and sounded really different to what I'd come to expect from the likes of It's My Life / Prayer / Wanted / Bad Name. It was only much later, when I'd picked up more of the albums and got a better idea of their wider catalogue that I began to appreciate it as a truly amazing album, and along with NJ and KTF, one of their best