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Brownie posted:Where do I start with Ennio Morricone? The guy has so much stuff out I don't really know what to do. Even his list of compilations is like 3 pages long. Not quite what you're asking for, but the soundtrack he did for The Thing perfectly covers symphonic horror music for me. Evocative themes and enough stylistic shifts that it doesn't become boring. Here's a couple of tracks off of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY7SAwNBnio -Humanity (part 2) Slow minor chords with a heartbeat pulse that flips into a frantic high organ version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpuRm7UWtMU -Despair Full orchestra playing around with several levels of tension and emotion
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I'm pretty sure all his music from Basterds is just from other movies. That's how it seems to be with most Tarantino.
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Brownie posted:Where do I start with Ennio Morricone? The guy has so much stuff out I don't really know what to do. Even his list of compilations is like 3 pages long.
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7734 posted:Imaginations from the Other Side, is in my opinion, a tie with Nightfall as far as their best album. Definitely check it out Follow the Blind is definitely worth a listen if you're already familiar with Blind Guardian. At the very least, check out the track Valhalla. It's on the live album as well.
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Where do I start with The Beach Boys? Where do I stop? Also I only have Elton Johns Rocket Man compilation but I'd like to have more - what should I get.
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Where do I start with The Beach Boys? Where do I stop? Where to start depends largely on how much you're into the early rock sound the band did on their first albums. Honestly, to me, their early albums are full of filler, so a one-two combo of Sounds of Summer and The Warmth of the Sun should cover basically everything worthwhile from those first albums. Otherwise, the first Beach Boys album that's front-to-back brilliant is Today!. If you start from Today!, basically every album the band released from there to Holland is worth listening to. The dividing line is 15 Big Ones, which is a huge pile of poo poo. After that album, basically the only things worth listening to are Love You (though that opinion is contested since it's a rather bizarre album) and any song written by Dennis Wilson (which is not contested since Dennis Wilson rules).
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Sprat Sandwich posted:
Definitely get Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. After that, you should probably check out Madman Across the Water.
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Where do I start with Crystal Method? I heard a couple of their songs on Pandora and I liked it but couldn't really catch any names since I was driving.
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Metroixer posted:Where do I start with Crystal Method? I heard a couple of their songs on Pandora and I liked it but couldn't really catch any names since I was driving. The essential is Vegas, it has most of their classic hits on it. If you like that one, go ahead and get Tweekend and Legion of Boom. Their most recent one, Divided By Night is take-or-leave imo but it was pretty popular still I think.
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What are the definitive Johnny Cash albums? Where do I begin with the man in black??
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Wodka posted:What are the definitive Johnny Cash albums? Where do I begin with the man in black?? The definitive Cash album is 'At Folsom Prison', however 'Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar', 'Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous', and 'Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash' are all fairly essential albums that contain his most famous singles. Cash isn't any sort of specialty of mine, so other people might have insight to which of his post-Sun Records era albums are good.
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Sprat Sandwich posted:Where do I start with The Beach Boys? Where do I stop? Ignore everything the other guy said until you start with Pet Sounds. If you aren't in love by the end of the first track you have no soul.
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wlokos posted:Ignore everything the other guy said until you start with Pet Sounds. If you aren't in love by the end of the first track you have no soul. Quoting for truth. Start with Pet Sounds, don't get anything chronologically after Surf's Up. You really can't go far wrong with anything made before then.
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Where should I begin with Tom Waits? I liked the song "Chocolate Jesus" and an interview I saw with him, so I thought I'd check him out, but the man has more albums than I have dollars. What album(s) should I start with?
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Wampa Stompa posted:Where should I begin with Tom Waits? I liked the song "Chocolate Jesus" and an interview I saw with him, so I thought I'd check him out, but the man has more albums than I have dollars. What album(s) should I start with? The two most commonly recommended entry-points are Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs (which would be my choice).
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Rubber Biscuit posted:Quoting for truth. Start with Pet Sounds, don't get anything chronologically after Surf's Up. You really can't go far wrong with anything made before then. See I completely disagree with this. If nothing else, I think Holland is a fantastic album and I consider it to be their last truly classic album (well okay, I like Love You too, but I realize that one's contentious).
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TheNintenGenius posted:See I completely disagree with this. If nothing else, I think Holland is a fantastic album and I consider it to be their last truly classic album (well okay, I like Love You too, but I realize that one's contentious). Hrm, Holland does have some interesting stuff going on and I do give it the odd listen from time to time but i'm glad it wasn't one of the first Beach Boys albums I bought. It definately takes a bit more getting used to than, say, Today! or Sunflower.
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Where do I start with Tegan and Sara?
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Moeru posted:Where do I start with Tegan and Sara? I think So Jealous is excellent and none of the other albums are quite as good, but that's just me. I feel like they each have a few good songs, but as whole albums they aren't quite as strong as So Jealous.
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Wampa Stompa posted:Where should I begin with Tom Waits? I liked the song "Chocolate Jesus" and an interview I saw with him, so I thought I'd check him out, but the man has more albums than I have dollars. What album(s) should I start with? Rain Dogs, but don't expect to love it right away.
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The Duck of Death posted:Rain Dogs, but don't expect to love it right away. This is a good note because I don't know about everyone else but it took me awhile to really get into Rain Dogs.
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Where do I start with Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares? I know I start with drukqs for Aphex Twin, but are there any other essential albums? No clue on Venetian Snares.
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SMP posted:Where do I start with Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares? I know I start with drukqs for Aphex Twin, but are there any other essential albums? No clue on Venetian Snares. For Aphex I might suggest Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 and the Richard D James album. There are amazing tracks on every single album he's put out, though.
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SMP posted:Where do I start with Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares? I know I start with drukqs for Aphex Twin, but are there any other essential albums? No clue on Venetian Snares. Depends on what kind of music you want out of Aphex, but I'd go with Selected Ambient Works 85-92, the On EP, the Donkey Rhubarb EP, and the RDJ album. Venetian Snares I am less familiar with but I would probably recommend Rossz csillag alatt született and Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole.
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insomne posted:Rossz csillag alatt született loving brilliant album. You also need the sequel, My Downfall.
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What are the essential Bathory albums? Known about them forever, but have never got around to listen to them. Oddly enough Quorthon died on my birthday.
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7734 posted:What are the essential Bathory albums? Known about them forever, but have never got around to listen to them. Oddly enough Quorthon died on my birthday. Blood Fire Death is definitely essential. People like the one before that as well.
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7734 posted:What are the essential Bathory albums? Known about them forever, but have never got around to listen to them. Oddly enough Quorthon died on my birthday. Do the self titled as well as the ones above. 
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I've been meaning to get into Sleater-Kinney for about 5 years now but never remember. Tell me where to start.
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Where should I start with Erykah Badu? I've only listened to some of New Amerikah.
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Captain Charisma posted:I've been meaning to get into Sleater-Kinney for about 5 years now but never remember. Tell me where to start. My favorites starting with the angriest and going poppier, Call The Doctor -> Dig Me Out -> The Hot Rock -> All Hands on the Bad One One Beat is a little different too but not much. Really, just buy the cheapest one, you'll be fine.
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Can anyone give me advice on where to start with The Mekons?
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Can anyone give me advice on where to start with The Mekons? Fear and Whisky is the best one still in print, but if you can get Rock n' Roll start with that.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Can anyone give me advice on where to start with The Mekons?
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What albums from The Kinks are worth listening to?
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SMP posted:What albums from The Kinks are worth listening to? A lot of them, but The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society is an incredible album.
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Where do I start with Death in June?
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Since you've all been so helpful so far, here are three more bands I really need to get into, all kind of in the same vein. Each has a pretty massive discography. Where should I begin? Boris The Melvins Sunn O)))
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SMP posted:What albums from The Kinks are worth listening to? I haven't given a fair number of their albums a listen myself, but at the very least I'd say to listen to the albums they produced from Something Else by The Kinks up to Muswell Hillbillies. As stated, Village Green Preservation Society would be the best starting point, though I think my favorites from that period would be either Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) or Muswell Hillbillies. - Anyway, I figure I might as well ask this thread for advice on a couple artists. Neither of these is a case of "where do I start?" as much as "where do I go from here?", though. First, I've been meaning to ask for quite a while, but where do I go with Kate Bush? I have Hounds of Love and absolutely love that album to death, but I have no idea where to go from there. Second, since I've listened to almost every Elvis Costello album up to Blood and Chocolate (the exceptions being Almost Blue, Punch the Clock, and Goodbye Cruel World), I wanted to know which Costello albums (if any) are worthwhile starting with Spike onward. Anything interesting to say about the Costello albums I skipped would be interesting to read as well.
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Wampa Stompa posted:Since you've all been so helpful so far, here are three more bands I really need to get into, all kind of in the same vein. Each has a pretty massive discography. Where should I begin? Boris: Well, you've sort of got two different sounding bands here, boris and BORIS (their distinction). boris is the more wierdo white noise, drone stuff, while BORIS is all ROCK THE gently caress OUT HELL YEAH. Akuma No Uta is mostly BORIS but has a bit of boris as well, so I'd suggest starting there. Sunn 0))): the latest, Monoliths and Dimensions is really great, really crushing - basically out-Sunns all other Sunn stuff. If you're coming into them via the various black metal connections, Black One might be worth checking out too.
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