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Rubber Biscuit posted:Grateful Dead? It's been mentioned before, but the Dead were notoriously known for their absolutely jammy live shows. If you want to dive right into that, you might try Europe '72. If a studio LP is your game, American Beauty or the Skeletons from the Closet compilation offer decent starting points. I am by no means a Dead Head, so I suppose someone that has a better pair of Birkenstocks and maybe smells like patchouli can offer some advice.
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May 3, 2011 20:37
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DEAR RICHARD posted:Blackwater Park is the most accessible. Work your way in both directions from there. Thanks for this. I just picked up Blackwater Park and it pretty much blew me away.
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May 4, 2011 01:26
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After being a big fan of funky post-punk/new wave bands like Gang Of Four, Au Pairs, Talking Heads, Josef K, and The Pop Group for a couple of years, I would like to get into the kind of funk that influenced these bands. Anyone have recommendations? The only funk albums I've listened to are Mothership Connection and Maggot Brain, and I liked them both.
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May 4, 2011 04:05
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X-Ray Pecs posted:After being a big fan of funky post-punk/new wave bands like Gang Of Four, Au Pairs, Talking Heads, Josef K, and The Pop Group for a couple of years, I would like to get into the kind of funk that influenced these bands. Anyone have recommendations? The only funk albums I've listened to are Mothership Connection and Maggot Brain, and I liked them both. If you're interested in funky afro-beat music, which was a HUGE influence on Talking Heads during their Remain in Light era, you gotta check out Fela Kuti. He has a pretty big catalog. Zombie is his most well known, and one of his best. I personally love Gentleman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ykpwr8K3M4
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May 4, 2011 07:57
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X-Ray Pecs posted:After being a big fan of funky post-punk/new wave bands like Gang Of Four, Au Pairs, Talking Heads, Josef K, and The Pop Group for a couple of years, I would like to get into the kind of funk that influenced these bands. Anyone have recommendations? The only funk albums I've listened to are Mothership Connection and Maggot Brain, and I liked them both. Try The Brothers Johnson. One of their guitarists, Alex Weir, is the awesome sweaty guy in Stop Making Sense. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4bV013KEk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ipH9Ws-zs&feature=related BeigeJacket fucked around with this message at 11:21 on May 4, 2011 |
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May 4, 2011 10:50
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I'm working on a mix of New York City based artist and want to include Patti Smith, but where do I start?
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May 26, 2011 03:38
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screenwritersblues posted:I'm working on a mix of New York City based artist and want to include Patti Smith, but where do I start? You start with Horses, then you play Horses some more. Then you play Easter for a day, before putting Horses back on.
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May 26, 2011 13:48
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Wyatt posted:You start with Horses, then you play Horses some more. Then you play Easter for a day, before putting Horses back on. There's much truth in this. But I would expand it and say the first four albums are essential, which means you should also check out Radio Ethiopia and Wave after your last round of Horses.
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May 27, 2011 00:26
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a kitten posted:What's a good place to start with Husker Du and/or Bob Mould? I think I've liked everything I've heard by them over the years but, for whatever reason I never followed through and started buying albums. Maybe now's the time to fix that. With Bob Mould there's really 3 eras to take into account. Husker Du Sugar Solo albums. There is "some" overlap between the three sonic wise, but he has a fairly diverse catalog to choose from. With Husker Du it depends on you are looking for. If you can find it I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend finding the live CD The Living End. It covers the bands history very nicely and you would be able to zero on particular things you like. If you can't find it. Then Zen Arcade, New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig are your best bets. If you want Harder/Faster/Punk check out Everything Falls Apart, Land Speed Record and Metal Circus. Or the later more singer/songwriter poppy stuff on Candy Apple Grey and Warehouse: Songs and Stories With Sugar. You cannot fail with Copper Blue and Beaster. I highly recommend the Besides compilation as well. File Under Easy Listening is also good, but I wouldn't call it essential as most of the high points are on the aforementioned Besides comp in one form or another. Solo Work. Oi. I'll just go in order. Because Bob's solo stuff is all over the place. Workbook: Singer/songwriter acoustic matieral. This album was very much a reaction to Husker Du ending and him wanting to write differently. Excellent. Highly Recommended Black Sheets of Rain: A electric response to Workbook. Pretty much a Proto-Sugar album. Very dark both in sound and subject matter. Also Highly Recommended. Self Titled: Very much a post-Sugar CD. You can tell he was washing his hands of the type of songwriting he did with Sugar and was attempting to move on. Stiff sounding because of the elementary drum machine he used. Some gems but not essential. Last Dog and Pony Show Great but underrated CD. Very much a record in line with his other solo CDs up to that point as well as giving clues as to what would come later. Highly Recommended. Modulate: Bob's "Electronic Inspired" album. This is probably the most polarizing and hated album he ever put out. You will probably be hated for speaking of it's existence much less giving it any praise. There are some great songs on here but unless you are already familiar with his previous work it will be a chore to listen too. Body of Song - District Line - Life and Times: His three most recent albums. All excellent. All recommended.. Great guitar driven indie-pop mixed with workbook-esque acoustic songs. Misc: Poison Years: Compilation Virgin put out during Sugar's somewhat successful run in the 90s. Outside of the 5 live tracks taken from the Workbook tour, nothing special. LiveDog: Live CD recorded during the Last Dog and Pony Show tour. Amazing. Like Husker Du's The Living End it gives a a decent overview of Bob's solo career to that point. With a Sugar song as a encore to boot. Highly Highly Recommended. Live At ATP 2008: As the title suggests. Bob's set from the All Tomorrows Parties festival in 2008. Weird mix of Sugar, Husker Du and Solo Material. Decent, but kinda meh imho. Circle of Friends DVD: Awesome awesome show recorded at the First Avenue in Minneapolis during the Body of Song tour with the best backup band ever. Highly Highly Recommended. Sorry for the wall of text. I'm something of a Bob Mould fan.  edit: typo. That Guy From Pearldiver fucked around with this message at 22:09 on May 27, 2011 |
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May 27, 2011 20:59
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/\/\/\well hey therea kitten posted:I grabbed Husker Du's New Day Rising and Zen Arcade the other day and I really love them both, so thank you for the suggestions. Going to hit up some record stores on Saturday to see if I can round up a couple Sugar albums too since I do love Mould's voice and used CDs are ridiculously cheap nowadays. His second solo album was called Black Sheets of Rain, and I've always enjoyed it even though it's dark as hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbQ7-w6JefA
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May 27, 2011 21:00
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I'm a decent Bob Dylan fan, I have stuff like Planet Waves, Blood on the Tracks, a bunch of the bootleg series and a bunch of other albums from him. I want to get more, but have no clue which ones would be considered to be essential. I'm thinking that Blonde on Blonde is one of them, but what else is considered to be essential?
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May 31, 2011 22:57
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screenwritersblues posted:Bob Dylan Well, as you mentioned, Blonde on Blonde. Also: The Times They Are A-Changin' and The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan are his two 'yeah, folk music' albums, while Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited are the two 'yeah, gently caress folk music' albums of his you should really own. I really like Another Side of Bob Dylan, but that ones a bit more subjective. Those are the peak of his '60s output. Since you've got Blood On The Tracks, there's a decent case for not bothering with any other albums. That said, Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding have their charms (the former being more slapdash than the latter), while Desire also has some very good stuff. I've never been a huge fan of The Basement Tapes, but plenty are, while the best of his recent albums (that I own) is Love And Theft.
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May 31, 2011 23:40
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Only thing I'd add to that is New Morning, which I think is in the same ballpark as Desire -- take care of the classics first but once you've got those it's well worth checking out. "Day of the Locusts" is among my favorite Dylan songs.
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Jun 1, 2011 00:09
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I'm sure it's been asked before, but where do I start with Siouxsie and the Banshees?
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Jun 3, 2011 05:25
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Once Upon A Time, Kaleidoscope and Juju are probably your best bets.
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Jun 3, 2011 07:37
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Another set of queries that may be a little common, but I was curious where some of you would think the ideal place to start with Roy Ayers, Al Green and soul music in general. . I'm just getting into it. I'm sure I've heard all of the hits that everyone else has through some sort of ambient osmosis. I love Funkadelic. This may sound silly, but I enjoyed a lot of the songs on the Jackie Brown soundtrack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown:_Music_from_the_Miramax_Motion_Picture Beaucoup Cuckoo fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Jun 25, 2011 |
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Jun 25, 2011 08:15
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For years I've had the Oasis song "Half the World Away" in my collection, and it struck me tonight how much I like that song. I don't think I've ever heard another Oasis song. What's a good album to check out, with that song in mind?
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Jun 26, 2011 04:26
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Chinaski posted:For years I've had the Oasis song "Half the World Away" in my collection, and it struck me tonight how much I like that song. I don't think I've ever heard another Oasis song. What's a good album to check out, with that song in mind? What's the Story Morning Glory? is a solid starting point for something in the same "era" as that song. "Half the world away" was a theme song for some British tv show according to Wikipedia, and originally a b-side to "Whatever" which was off the first album. I went with What's the Story Morning Glory? since it has some supremely excellent tracks. However, since the A-Side to the song you are enamored with was on their first album, Definitely Maybe that is a quite viable alternative. If you find yourself immediately in love with the band after those two albums, then move forward in the discography. However, I always felt their quality took a sharp drop after those first two LPs, although they regain some of their power with b-sides and deep album cuts from later releases. The third album Be Here Now might be interesting to you just to hear what a fuckton of coke and a "We Are the Gods of British Music" mentality will do to a record.
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Jun 26, 2011 14:59
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Chinaski posted:For years I've had the Oasis song "Half the World Away" in my collection, and it struck me tonight how much I like that song. I don't think I've ever heard another Oasis song. What's a good album to check out, with that song in mind? I'd actually recommend the B-sides collection 'The Masterplan' if you really like that song. None of their albums really sound too much like that, and although the quality's a bit patchy, it's as solid a B-sides collection as I've ever bought. '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' would be my next recommedation, though. It's more typical of their overall sound, which could be a good or a bad thing.
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Jun 28, 2011 23:36
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Where should I start with KMFDM? I love Megalomaniac and Drug Against War if that helps.
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Jul 5, 2011 08:18
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Reive posted:Where should I start with KMFDM? Their early 90s stuff was their really strong period, so I'd go with Naive, Money, Angst and Nihil (or just Naive and Angst if you want to start small).
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Jul 5, 2011 14:01
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Reive posted:Where should I start with KMFDM? In addition to the original albums, there's a lot of good stuff on their best-of collection titled Retro.
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Jul 5, 2011 17:47
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ultrafilter posted:In addition to the original albums, there's a lot of good stuff on their best-of collection titled Retro. Greatest poo poo is a good compilation too, at least in my opinion. There's plenty of tracks on those two discs from enough points in their history that if there's a chance you'd like any era of KMDFDM at all you will learn which ones. Some people don't like compilation albums, but a band as long-lasting at KMFDM really warrants one. What about Daft Punk? I like the Tron Legacy soundtrack if that means anything.
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Jul 5, 2011 22:17
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Hbomberguy posted:What about Daft Punk? Discovery. Discovery. Discovery.
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Jul 5, 2011 22:21
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Hbomberguy posted:Greatest poo poo is a good compilation too, at least in my opinion. There's plenty of tracks on those two discs from enough points in their history that if there's a chance you'd like any era of KMDFDM at all you will learn which ones. Some people don't like compilation albums, but a band as long-lasting at KMFDM really warrants one. I would say that Alive 07 is a perfect introduction to Daft Punk, because it features so many of their songs and is one of the greatest live sets of all time. If you don't want a live album, then definitely go for Discovery.
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Jul 5, 2011 22:23
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Dog Faced Hermans? Half Man Half Biscuit? Motorhead? Where do I go with Sun City Girls after Torch Of The Mystics/Horse Cock Phepner/330,003 Crossdressers...
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Jul 6, 2011 06:09
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dailydares posted:Where do I go with Sun City Girls after Torch Of The Mystics/Horse Cock Phepner/330,003 Crossdressers... Grotto of Miracles. As soon as possible!
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Jul 8, 2011 22:55
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Where do I start with George Harrison's solo work? I've only heard a couple of his solo songs, i.e When We Was Fab and Got My Mind Set On You and I liked them. I've downloaded Cloud 9 but I haven't listened to it yet. What else should I check out?
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Jul 16, 2011 00:46
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A Sober Irishman posted:Where do I start with George Harrison's solo work? I've only heard a couple of his solo songs, i.e When We Was Fab and Got My Mind Set On You and I liked them. I've downloaded Cloud 9 but I haven't listened to it yet. What else should I check out? All Things Must Pass, without a doubt.
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Jul 16, 2011 01:26
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A Sober Irishman posted:Where do I start with George Harrison's solo work? I've only heard a couple of his solo songs, i.e When We Was Fab and Got My Mind Set On You and I liked them. I've downloaded Cloud 9 but I haven't listened to it yet. What else should I check out? After the above All Things Must Pass recommendation, you might want to transition to the somewhat darker Living In The Material World as a mostly solid followup. Cloud 9 is a bit uneven with some unfortunate 80's flavors that I don't care much for, but there is still some great material there. If you like that, I'd throw in the posthumously produced final album Brainwashed for solid example of his later works.
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Jul 16, 2011 06:19
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I've been listening to a lot of A Tribe Called Quest lately and every time Scenario comes on I think that I'd like to listen to some more Busta Rhymes. So should I start with solo stuff, if so which album, or a Leaders of the New School album?
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Jul 27, 2011 17:08
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Get When Disaster Strikes immediately. The mood is a lot dirtier than than Scenario but it's Busta at his creative best IMO and nothing else compares to it.
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Jul 27, 2011 22:00
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How about The Fall for someone who hates compilation albums?
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Jul 28, 2011 09:22
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I'd get The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (with the bonus tracks), one of their early 80's "peak" albums. The Real New Fall LP is fairly new (from 2003) but I feel it also represents the band well. Even if you hate comps, you might want to make an exception for a band that has released like 30 studio albums and a zillion EPs. I kinda feel like everyone's going to give you a different answer on this.
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Jul 28, 2011 16:38
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HateTheInternet posted:How about The Fall for someone who hates compilation albums? The second and third discs of the Peel Sessions box. It's a series of EPs, you shouldn't complain.
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Jul 28, 2011 18:06
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Nickelback? ... Okay, not. How do I Radiohead properly?
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Jul 29, 2011 02:21
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Suicide Watch posted:Nickelback? Suicide Watch posted:How do I Radiohead properly? OK Computer and Kid A are the undisputed classics, start with those and let them grow on you.
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Jul 29, 2011 04:01
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I think the best place to start with Nickelback is maybe a lobotomy.
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Jul 29, 2011 04:12
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Quick question that someone in here may be able to answer. There is a electronic/dj bloke whos name escapes me, but it was similiar to R2D2. Anybody have any ideas? It's just not coming to me.
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Jul 29, 2011 06:22
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