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I remember seeing that Attila album on a "best albums ever" list and expected to hate it but found it pretty rocking
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 17:12 |
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:20 |
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I remember seeing that Attila album on a "best albums ever" list and expected to hate it but found it pretty rocking I'm either suspect that you saw that on a "best of" list, or that the author of the list has only listened to like 5 albums.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 17:16 |
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It's definitely not as bad as some of the reviews would have you believe. I think that's the nicest thing you could reasonably say about it.
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# ? Sep 8, 2020 17:44 |
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XBenedict posted:I'm either suspect that you saw that on a "best of" list, or that the author of the list has only listened to like 5 albums. You should be suspect, it was a horrendous mis-post on my part, what I meant to say was on the "list of music considered the worst" wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_considered_the_worst#2000s-2010s
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# ? Sep 9, 2020 21:56 |
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I forget how I first stumbled across Attila but it is now one of my favorites in all its organ crashing glory as well.
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# ? Sep 9, 2020 23:05 |
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I've heard some controversy about whether this act was queerbaiting or exploitative or what have you, but I'm legit curious: Having only listened to "All The Things She Said", and finding it pretty good, is t.A.T.u. any good?
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 10:45 |
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Junpei posted:I've heard some controversy about whether this act was queerbaiting or exploitative or what have you, but I'm legit curious: Having only listened to "All The Things She Said", and finding it pretty good, is t.A.T.u. any good? The "lesbian" angle was definitely fake and made up to generate interest, but also they're pretty keen on pushing Russian propaganda (see the song "Такого как Путин"/"One like Putin" where they want to have a guy who's strong and handsome like Putin).
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 13:28 |
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The first album is a pretty solid pop album with a great Smiths cover, the two followups are OK but the Russian versions have more character, are sequenced differently and have some cool weird interludes that aren't on the Anglo versions. There's also the incredibly bizarre t.A.T.u/Rammstein mashup album put out by MTV Russia that also has some Clawfinger and Limp Bizkit mashes chucked in. If you like "Moskau" off Rammstein's Reise Reise you'll probably dig that too
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# ? Sep 16, 2020 22:44 |
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The only Eagles songs I know are "Life In The Fast Lane" and "Hotel California", where do I start with them?
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 03:17 |
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Junpei posted:The only Eagles songs I know are "Life In The Fast Lane" and "Hotel California", where do I start with them? Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) is the top selling album of all time in the US. You should probably give that a listen.
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 03:40 |
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ultrafilter posted:Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) is the top selling album of all time in the US. You should probably give that a listen. When you listen to it, I bet you come away knowing more Eagles than you though you did.
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 04:50 |
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Junpei posted:The only Eagles songs I know are "Life In The Fast Lane" and "Hotel California", where do I start with them? Peaceful Easy Feeling, New Kid in Town, Heartache Tonight, Take it to the Limit, gently caress it just watch this - 45 minutes of greatness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL_JuPcuw84
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 10:20 |
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Junpei posted:The only Eagles songs I know are "Life In The Fast Lane" and "Hotel California", where do I start with them? If you want albums instead of a greatest hits (which is a pretty good introduction), then Desperado, One of These Nights, and Hotel California.
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 12:49 |
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Couldn’t you just listen to the flying Burrito Brothers and gram parsons instead of The Eagles and be much happier?
BigFactory fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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BigFactory posted:Couldn’t you just listen to the flying Burrito Brothers and graham parsons instead of The Eagles and be much happier?
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 14:08 |
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BigFactory posted:Couldn’t you just listen to CCR instead of The Eagles and be much happier?
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 14:35 |
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I got nothing against the eagles except for their music and don henleys lovely attitude about people who work for/with him. But mostly the music.
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 15:23 |
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So this is more of a "should I continue with?", but is Sting's stuff looking at if you have all The Police albums? I'm going to assume no though, but haven't ever checked out any of his stuff. I just assumed it was much different from The Police stuff.
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 01:19 |
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IUG posted:So this is more of a "should I continue with?", but is Sting's stuff looking at if you have all The Police albums? I'm going to assume no though, but haven't ever checked out any of his stuff. I just assumed it was much different from The Police stuff. Some of it is. Ten Summoners Tales is probably his best solo work. Soul Cages is decent.
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 01:22 |
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Look up some of his solo work on Spotify or YouTube and see if you like it. I don't so I can't recommend anything in particular, but you'll get a good idea of what's popular with his fans pretty quickly.
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 01:22 |
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IUG posted:So this is more of a "should I continue with?", but is Sting's stuff looking at if you have all The Police albums? I'm going to assume no though, but haven't ever checked out any of his stuff. I just assumed it was much different from The Police stuff. Sting had a pretty good solo career. He went away from pop-rock, but there's still a lot of stuff with good hooks. All This Time is a great example of how he could write a really catchy upbeat pop song about the death of his father and not have it come out ironic or silly. You've probably heard Fields of Gold a thousand times, it's one of his most popular. It's not like without the rest of the Police, he lost his touch.
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 03:01 |
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ten summoner's tales is pretty good and if you like that you'll probably like the rest of his solo stuff he was definitely the one pushing the jazzy sophistipop sound of later police records so if you like that then definitely check it out eagles are pretty middle of the road as far as country rock goes but they're also one of the best known bands in the genre; people don't necessarily want to start with sweetheart of the rodeo or gene clark's no other if you don't want greatest hits 71-75 (you should, eagles were for sure a singles band and it's one of the best greatest hits comps of all time), the eagles s/t and hotel california are probably the two best albums from each "phase" of the band (the initial country rock thing with bernie leadon and then the slicker broader rock sound with joe walsh)
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 03:53 |
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Declan MacManus posted:eagles are pretty middle of the road as far as country rock goes but they're also one of the best known bands in the genre; people don't necessarily want to start with sweetheart of the rodeo or gene clark's no other Life's Greatest Fool is an absolute banger and that whole No Other album is great. Also Sweetheart too. Up there with Workingman's Dead/American Beauty as my favourite country rock records.
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# ? Sep 23, 2020 06:27 |
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I'm really glad I found this thread, I should have dipped into NMD long ago. I'm running a project for my nephew. I might eventually make a thread about it, but for now it's just me buying an album every week to eventually give to him as a birthday present in a couple of years. I get to listen to the music, too (obviously), and I'm taking the opportunity to explore far beyond my usual fairly limited tastes. The suggestions for Billy Joel are excellent, I had a couple of his songs stuck in my head a few weeks ago so I bought The Hits (presumably this is the first of his compilation albums, I can't remember the other choices on his website) and I'm very happy. I know absolutely nothing about several major genres of music (leaving aside for now the problems of classifying music), particularly Hip-Hop. I've been meaning to really explore some options here, starting with a dive through various Bandcamp articles. But, I also want to emphasise the role of female artists, and a bit of exploring a little while ago kept bringing me to Lauryn Hill as a major influence and ground-breaker. Where should I start with her?
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 01:59 |
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She only has one album. Before that she was in the Fugees, who only have two, only one of which anyone cares about (The Score).
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 03:06 |
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ExecuDork posted:The suggestions for Billy Joel are excellent, I had a couple of his songs stuck in my head a few weeks ago so I bought The Hits (presumably this is the first of his compilation albums, I can't remember the other choices on his website) and I'm very happy. My introduction to Billy Joel was Greatest Hits Volume I and II, which were always sold together. Now I say this because the Hits is missing Uptown Girl! What kind of greatest hits compilation looks at an artist who wrote Uptown Girl and says "yeah, we can skip that?" I'm legitimately angry! Not at you. But at them. The fools with no respect for Uptown Girl. I understand they didn't include Just the Way You Are - Billy hates that song. But loving Uptown Girl?
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 04:07 |
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Billy Joel - yeah, Uptown Girl is a great song. I'll pick up more from Mr. Joel next year, I'm trying to avoid packing the list of albums with too much from any one artist. Lauryn Hill - I was hoping somebody would confirm the Wikipedia article for her that says The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is her only studio album, thanks. I just bought it and it should be here next week. Switching gears, how about Henry Rollins? I always hear about him as "used to be the frontman for Black Flag" but I've never (to my knowledge) heard a Black Flag song, ever. He seems to be more influential as a critic and a broadcaster (i.e. he has an opinion and is willing and able to put it out there), but his background as a musician is always, ALWAYS mentioned right after his name in anything I've read about or by him.
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 07:35 |
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ExecuDork posted:Switching gears, how about Henry Rollins? I always hear about him as "used to be the frontman for Black Flag" but I've never (to my knowledge) heard a Black Flag song, ever. He seems to be more influential as a critic and a broadcaster (i.e. he has an opinion and is willing and able to put it out there), but his background as a musician is always, ALWAYS mentioned right after his name in anything I've read about or by him. these are not-revolutionary opinions: If you need to hear one Rollins-era Black Flag song, I'd go with Rise Above (even though he apparently wasn't the first one to sing it, since there's supposedly a complete or near-complete set of tapes of Dez's vocals for the record). If you want to go further, go for the Damaged and Slip it In LPs. Maybe My War as well. If you want to hear the obvious starting place for digging into his solo musical career, grab a copy of Weight.
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 08:19 |
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Van Halen. I know "Jump" and "Panama", and I am vaguely aware that the David Lee Roth albums are better for in-your-face party rock and that the Sammy Hagar albums are better for power ballads, (and also that the Gary Cherone album blows), but not much else.
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 12:00 |
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Junpei posted:Van Halen. I know "Jump" and "Panama", and I am vaguely aware that the David Lee Roth albums are better for in-your-face party rock and that the Sammy Hagar albums are better for power ballads, (and also that the Gary Cherone album blows), but not much else. Gonna quote myself from a few years back when this came up since I don’t have time right now to do something even longer and more in depth: fartknocker posted:I'm gonna go just because they're my favorite band and I feel like it. fartknocker fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Sep 29, 2020 |
# ? Sep 29, 2020 12:26 |
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Were Kris Kross actually any good? Whenever I hear them referenced it always just sort of is "heh. Remember when those middle schoolers had a rap career?" and not like, any discussion of their actual skills/fame/songs. I like "Jump", for the record.
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# ? Oct 7, 2020 14:41 |
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Junpei posted:Were Kris Kross actually any good? Whenever I hear them referenced it always just sort of is "heh. Remember when those middle schoolers had a rap career?" and not like, any discussion of their actual skills/fame/songs. I like "Jump", for the record. so... hm. here's the deal. it's novelty rap, but it's produced by jermaine dupri who's on the shortlist of the greatest producers of all time. the rest of totally krossed out sounds like jump (specifically "i missed the bus" and "warm it up") and the production is legitimately good g-funk; the latter two albums from what i've listened to seem to be solid if not especially revolutionary takes on dre/death row that would be pretty in line with the rest of hip hop at the time would i say any of it's required listening? no. is it enjoyable? absolutely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1YJn1PkI4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOntgsvDddE
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# ? Oct 7, 2020 15:37 |
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BigFactory posted:I got nothing against the eagles except for their music and don henleys lovely attitude about people who work for/with him. But mostly the music.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 08:15 |
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George Michael's post-Wham! music?
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# ? Oct 20, 2020 10:08 |
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Junpei posted:George Michael's post-Wham! music? Do you have to go deeper than Faith? The rest of it all seemed to be pretty thin soup from what I remember.
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# ? Oct 20, 2020 12:14 |
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I've never heard any Barenaked ladies songs other than 90s anthem - One Week and a live version of "if i had a million dollars" What am i missing?
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# ? Oct 20, 2020 12:45 |
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I've never heard any Barenaked ladies songs other than 90s anthem - One Week and a live version of "if i had a million dollars" What am i missing? Just the other song from Gordon "Hello City". I only ever really liked their albums Gordon and Stunt, which are where those three songs come from.
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# ? Oct 20, 2020 12:53 |
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Junpei posted:George Michael's post-Wham! music? Faith has the obvious "everywhere in the late 80's" singles but Songs of Faith and Devotion Vol. I was pretty solid. After that he drops into schmaltz pretty quickly.
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# ? Oct 20, 2020 13:56 |
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I've never heard any Barenaked ladies songs other than 90s anthem - One Week and a live version of "if i had a million dollars" What am i missing? Take a look at the track listing for Disc One, their early greatest hits compilation. You probably know a few more of those songs than you realize, but if not, it's worth tracking a few down on YouTube. The highlights beyond the two songs you mentioned are "Old Apartment", "Pinch Me" and "Call and Answer", but everything on there is pretty solid.
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# ? Oct 20, 2020 14:01 |
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:20 |
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Tragically Hip? Anything really worth a deep dive or should I just stick to a hits playlist? Moving to Canada soon and I’m tired of just nodding blankly when people bring them up.
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