# Tim Booth’s six favourite albums of all time: “Never ceases to hold me”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tim-booths-six-favourite-albums-of-all-time-never-ceases-to-hold-me/
- Published: 2026-11-02T10:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T10:53:44+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tim-booths-six-favourite-albums/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Tim Booth shared six albums that shaped him.
- His picks span punk, folk, piano-led songs and ambient music.
- Brian Eno’s *Discreet Music* has stayed with him for 35 years.

## Summary

James frontman Tim Booth named six albums that have stayed with him, linking each to a personal memory or a particular emotional response. His choices range from punk to ambient music, reflecting his interest in records that offer catharsis, calm or striking performances.

The list includes Patti Smith’s *Horses*, which Booth heard during a difficult night at boarding school; Wire’s *Pink Flag*, tied to an interview he blagged as a teenager; and Pixies’ *Doolittle*, which he felt anticipated grunge. He also chose Sufjan Stevens’s *Carrie & Lowell*, Regina Spektor’s *Soviet Kitsch* and Brian Eno’s *Discreet Music*, which he said he had lived with for 35 years and still found absorbing.

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