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Juttman posted:Where do I start with Neil Young? I have no idea where to start. If it means anything, I prefer folky acoustic music over electric hard rock. (The two genres it mentions on his wikipedia article) Start with the album "Live at Massey Hall (1971)" (CD or DVD). It will give you a really good feel of his music and go from there to After the Gold Rush. edit: I just realized this is one of the highest rated albums I've ever seen on Amazon. appropriate review stolen from Amazon: "This is a tremendous CD which I whole-heartedly recommend. Neil Young announces before the fourth song that he will be playing "mostly new songs tonight." Five of the new songs would appear on the following year's "Harvest" album, which for my money, is Neil Young's finest. Did the audience realize just how extraordinary was this batch of new songs? Did Neil himself have any inkling of the phenomenal acclaim and acceptance "Harvest" would receive? The songs are all performed solo by Neil, twelve on guitar, six (counting track 7 as two) on piano. (Unplugged, if you will, decades before that term was coined and turned into a marketing tool.)" It continues but this is enough for this post. johnny sack fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Apr 18, 2009 |
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For Neil Young, don't forget Zuma. It has 'Cortez the Killer' on it, which is just astonishingly good. And the Harvest hater in this thread is an official mental. That album is gobsmackingly good in every conceivable way.
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Where should I start with The Replacements?
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Twain of Pain posted:Where should I start with The Replacements?
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Twain of Pain posted:Where should I start with The Replacements? I definitely think that you should get Tim first and that was my starting point, and then get Let It Be.
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pipian posted:Where should I go for similar music to glam after having binged through Bowie, T. Rex and Roxy Music? Have you heard of Jobriath?
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Final Fantasy Baseball posted:I definitely think that you should get Tim first and that was my starting point, and then get Let It Be. I started with Let It Be and I usually suggest that first, but I suppose there is something to be said about starting with the best album first because after that it can only go down.
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Does any one know where I should start with Thrice? I heard they're pretty much divided up in to old Thrice/new Thrice so where to start? I'm checking out Vheissu right now and I'm really digging it. Where to next?
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Rotten rear end Joe posted:Does any one know where I should start with Thrice? I heard they're pretty much divided up in to old Thrice/new Thrice so where to start? I'm checking out Vheissu right now and I'm really digging it. Where to next? The Artist In The Ambulance was the first album I ever heard by them and it still remains the only one I really love. That one's just so powerful, and for some reason the others just don't do much of anything for me. Vheissu only had a few tracks that really grabbed me. The Alchemy Index, at least the first two parts of it (Fire and Water), is pretty decent but it doesn't come close to having the effect on me that Artist In The Ambulance did. And as for the first two albums, well I've only heard bits and pieces so I'm not too clear on those. When I saw them live back in 2007 with Brand New, the best stuff they played was from Artist In The Ambulance and Alchemy Indexes 1 & 2, in my opinion. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Apr 21, 2009 |
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Which albums should I pick up from Muddy Waters?
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Where should I start with The Residents? Also, anyone know any groups/people similar to Gary Wilson?
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pipian posted:Where should I go for similar music to glam after having binged through Bowie, T. Rex and Roxy Music? If you're still looking at this thread, I'd also recommend Japan. They definitely took the Roxy Music path to music, starting out really funky and angular with Adolescent Sex and eventually smoothing out their sound with albums like Quiet Life. Also, David Sylvian basically stole Bryan Ferry's vocal stylings along the way. They're not exactly glam, but it's a good next step in music history.
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Where should I start with A Tribe Called Quest?
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RollingBoBo posted:Where should I start with A Tribe Called Quest? There's like four hiphop groups ever whose best album wasn't their debut... Tribe wasn't one of them imo but start with Low End Theory or People's &c.
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I like midnight marauders the most. You also may want to check out j. period's best of q-tip mixtape. http://www.jperiod.com/q-tip/
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HAI posted:There's like four hiphop groups ever whose best album wasn't their debut... Tribe wasn't one of them imo but start with Low End Theory or People's &c. I'll remember this. On the same vein, is there any group similar to N.E.R.D.? I absolutely love them.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:The Artist In The Ambulance was the first album I ever heard by them and it still remains the only one I really love. That one's just so powerful, and for some reason the others just don't do much of anything for me. In my opinion Vheissu is their best album, but I agree that The Artist in the Ambulance is the best place to start. That way, if you want more experimental Thrice, you can move forward (Vheissu, Alchemy Index) and if you want more straight up punk/hardcore Thrice, you can move backward (The Illusion of Safety). Or, like me, you can do both.
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alansmithee posted:Where should I start with The Residents?
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Yeah, I was going to say that The Commercial Album is probably the best bet, as it's what helped me get interested in the group. It's 40 songs, all around a minute long, and they're all pretty straightforward as far as the Residents go. Duck Stab/Buster and Glen probably wouldn't be a bad starting point either.
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Hopefully no one asked this already: Where do I start with George Clinton/Parliament? What about Ozzy/Black Sabbath/Dio?
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Where do I start with George Clinton/Parliament? Parliament's Mothership Connection and Funkadelic's One Nation Under a Groove are the easiest entry points, and contain the most popular work by both groups. My personal favorite is the first, Funkadelic's self-titled album.
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I realize you probably are more interested in Dio when he's with Black Sabbath, but I recommend getting the anthology, Stand Up and Shout. It's a 2-disc compilation of Dio's career - when he was with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and solo. If you like the music on either of these discs, then you can venture out and pursue the original albums. It's as cheap as $5.50 on Amazon (used), so it's quite a decent deal for 2 discs full of music. For Black Sabbath, as was said, start with their first 2 albums. When you listen to them, keep in mind in what year these albums were made. There was no heavy metal before these albums were released.
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I've heard some good tunes from Gordon Lightfoot. I've always loved If You Could Read My Mind, it's a beautiful song. Just recently I heard The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald and Affair On 8th Avenue, and I really like the sound. I've heard more songs than that, but I can't remember the specific titles. I guess you could say that I like the more sad and/or folky tunes, and I don't care much for the country ones. I don't mind them, but they haven't appealed to me yet. Going by these songs, should I start with a specific album, or should I just pick any of or the other?
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FitFortDanga posted:Parliament's Mothership Connection and Funkadelic's One Nation Under a Groove are the easiest entry points, and contain the most popular work by both groups. My personal favorite is the first, Funkadelic's self-titled album. Maggot Brain is fantastic too, if only for the mind-blowing title track (although "You and your folks...", Hit it and Quit it, and Super Stupid are all awesome too).
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Where do I start with The Legendary Pink Dots?
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Pissing Art posted:Where do I start with The Legendary Pink Dots? Crushed Velvet Apocalypse is so very silky solid the entire way through. From there, go forwards or backwards. Whatever you find available. They have such a huge output, every album is going to have a gem or two.
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I notice there's two guys with David Byrne avatars on this page alone so maybe they'll be able to help me! Bit of a specific question, this... I saw Mr Byrne live last week and since then I've been on a big Talking Heads trip. I've found, though, that I infinitely prefer the Remain in Light stuff to any of their other albums. I've been massively digging the Remain in Light tracks on The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads-- can't stop listening to the live versions of Houses in Motion and Born Under Punches at the moment-- and I'm wondering if there are any other live recordings of Remain in Light stuff out there (apart from Stop Making Sense which has a paltry two tracks). In particular I'd love to hear a live version of The Overload. Are there any bootlegs or something you could point me to? Popcorn fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Apr 25, 2009 |
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Popcorn posted:I notice there's two guys with David Byrne avatars on this page alone so maybe they'll be able to help me! Bit of a specific question, this... I've been thinking about whether I've ever heard "The Overload" performed live by Talking Heads (or even any of the last 3 songs of the album), and I haven't come up with a single answer for you as far as that is concerned. However, there are plenty of live performances of the first 5 tracks of Remain in Light. Go to YouTube and look up Talking Heads Live in Rome for some more Adrian Belew live-era stuff (here's one to get you started - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQjy02eqOk). If you really (really) want to hear a live version of "The Overload" then find Phish's 1996 Halloween show. They performed Remain in Light in its entirety.
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Once I've gone through 36 chambers and Wu-Tang Forever, should I bother with the rest of their group career or go straight to solo albums? edit: Just saw some posts about this on the last page, yay Kikkoman fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Apr 27, 2009 |
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Kikkoman posted:Once I've gone through 36 chambers and Wu-Tang Forever, should I bother with the rest of their group career or go straight to solo albums? The W has a couple of nice tunes.
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Raccoon Leaf posted:I've been thinking about whether I've ever heard "The Overload" performed live by Talking Heads (or even any of the last 3 songs of the album), and I haven't come up with a single answer for you as far as that is concerned. Actually, I've been watching/listening to those Rome videos all week. (Sorry, I should have mentioned that in the first post.) They're absolutely loving amazing-- so much joy and nervous energy. Belew's performance is wonderful. Speaking of Adrian Belew, based on those videos I am potentially a fan of his guitar work. He seems to have been in millions of bands. Anyone know where I can find more like abstract guitar stuff he did with Talking Heads? quote:If you really (really) want to hear a live version of "The Overload" then find Phish's 1996 Halloween show. They performed Remain in Light in its entirety. That actually sounds bizarre enough to be worth looking up. Thanks! fake edit: I just found it on Youtube and actually this is weirdly cool. Popcorn fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Apr 27, 2009 |
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Uncle Meat posted:Which albums should I pick up from Muddy Waters? Your best bet would be to start off with his 'At Newport' live album, which is one of the first blues live LPs and has a great selection of some of his finest and earliest guitar work. His 'Hoochie Coochie Man' album is also a selection of some live work and is well worth a purchase. As for studio albums, his comeback LP 'Hard Again' is spectacular and really well produced too. His 'Electric Mud' album mixes the Blues with Psychedelic Rock and is pretty awesome too. I don't mean to sound pretentious, but if you can get anything of his in vinyl form I can assure you it'll be worth the effort as it has a beautiful sound to it.
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How do I start with Lou Reed and possibly Velvet Underground? I have Transformer and really like the song Satellite Of Love. What albums have a similar sound to that song?
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Popcorn posted:Speaking of Adrian Belew, based on those videos I am potentially a fan of his guitar work. He seems to have been in millions of bands. Anyone know where I can find more like abstract guitar stuff he did with Talking Heads? The holy trinity of King Crimson: Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. You can also check out his first three solo albums, or Desire Of The Rhino King which collects the best songs from them. After that point, his music becomes more "mainstream", but still very innovative guitar-wise. I'm a big fan of Mr. Music Head.
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Polegrinder posted:How do I start with Lou Reed and possibly Velvet Underground? I have Transformer and really like the song Satellite Of Love. What albums have a similar sound to that song? Disregarding the similarities to Satellite that you're requesting, you should start with "& Nico" just because it's the best album.
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Halloween posted:Disregarding the similarities to Satellite that you're requesting, you should start with "& Nico" just because it's the best album. Thanks. I got that album and like it, reminds me of Sonic Youth. I'll probably end up buying the other two albums they released before Lou Reed left.
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Polegrinder posted:Thanks. I got that album and like it, reminds me of Sonic Youth. I'll probably end up buying the other two albums they released before Lou Reed left. Other three albums. Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat, and Loaded. Also VU has some pretty good tunes on it. And if you like the Nico songs, her album Chelsea Girls is loving awesome.
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FitFortDanga posted:Other three albums. Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat, and Loaded. Also VU has some pretty good tunes on it. And if you like the Nico songs, her album Chelsea Girls is loving awesome. I actually prefer the Lou Reed songs over the Nico tracks, her voice just didn't do it for me. And sorry, I forgot about Loaded.
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FitFortDanga posted:The holy trinity of King Crimson: Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. Don't forget The Power To Believe, the most recent King Crimson album. Both Belew and Robert Fripp contribute pretty awesome riffage on that one.
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