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The first two albums.
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Feb 15, 2021 09:05
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I actually really like Ammonia Avenue, one of their later records, but I will absolutely concede that it's the softest of soft rock. It makes Bread sound hard.
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Feb 15, 2021 10:05
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I like every ABBA song I've ever heard, but I haven't heard much. Are the albums worth digging into, or is a greatest hits collection enough?
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Feb 15, 2021 18:03
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ultrafilter posted:I like every ABBA song I've ever heard, but I haven't heard much. Are the albums worth digging into? Yes.
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Feb 15, 2021 18:12
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ABBA Gold is plenty.
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Feb 15, 2021 18:40
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ultrafilter posted:I like every ABBA song I've ever heard, but I haven't heard much. Are the albums worth digging into, or is a greatest hits collection enough? The question is are you comfortable not having the complete ABBA discography at your fingertips? If you are, both Gold compilations would do you well. There's a lot of good tracks on the second Gold one that would suck not to have, like the Visitors.
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Feb 15, 2021 22:45
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I love "Don't Stop Believing" and "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" but I'm not really super aware of the greater Journey discography, is there more worth looking into?
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Feb 19, 2021 08:31
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Junpei posted:I love "Don't Stop Believing" and "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" but I'm not really super aware of the greater Journey discography, is there more worth looking into? If you like those, you'll almost certainly like a number of their other singles. They had a lot of them, and they were absolutely everywhere in the first half of the eighties. I'd suggest a singles comp, but Greatest Hits 1 is missing some of the best stuff, and if you combine it with Greatest Hits 2 to get at it, there's a whole lot of unnecessary nonsense added in. Their albums inevitably sag a bit in the middle, but there's a bunch of good songs there, so... Infinity (1978), Escape (1981), and Frontiers (1983) are the three albums you want (Escape most prominently - five of the ten songs on it are among their biggest hits), the rest of their records are mostly from their early quasi-prog-rock days or are generic mush. Add the singles Only the Young, Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' and Any Way You Want It (and maybe Only Solutions from Tron) to those three LPs and you've basically got as much Journey as anyone could possibly want. And if that's still not enough, Steve Perry's first solo album is okay and Oh Sherrie and Foolish Heart are the two singles off it worth hearing hexwren fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 10:15
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Junpei posted:I love "Don't Stop Believing" and "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" but I'm not really super aware of the greater Journey discography, is there more worth looking into? You may or may not like it, but the early pre-Steve Perry journey when it was mostly just guys from Santana minus Carlos is kinda ok. Less corporate rock/more prog or wimpy jazz fusion than later journey. Try the self titled if you’re interested.
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Feb 19, 2021 13:38
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Journey were all about the singles, greatest hits is fine. Weirdly my favorite song of theirs by miles is... Wheel in the Sky? 
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Feb 19, 2021 13:44
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If you're looking for a single disc intro, Greatest Hits Live is the way to go.
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Feb 19, 2021 15:10
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sean10mm posted:
Same
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Feb 19, 2021 16:09
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sean10mm posted:Journey were all about the singles, greatest hits is fine. The best journey single is stone in love and it’s not on greatest hits, though. Feeling That Way is a cool song too if you like Chicago ripoffs. Gregg Rolie was a handsome man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg5vziU-qIs BigFactory fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 17:19
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BigFactory posted:The best journey single is stone in love and it’s not on greatest hits, though. yeah, this.
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Feb 19, 2021 19:43
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Journeychat, this is my favorite article of all time: https://harpers.org/archive/1999/03/rock-prophets/ And what is this Wherl in the Sky lameness, it's all about Any Way You Want It and Seperate Ways and Faithfully, anything where Neal Schon cranks the Overwrought knob
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Feb 20, 2021 04:15
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"Faithfully" is legitimately one of my least favorite songs of all-time lol. Absolute ear torture Journey are in general an insufferable band, but if I was forced to pick 2 songs by them as my only music consumption for the rest of time, I guess I'd be OK with "Wheel In The Sky" and "Who's Crying Now"
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Feb 20, 2021 20:39
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Journey is at the top of my “bands that wrote a metric poo poo ton of great songs that I can’t stand hearing any more because the radio beat me to death with them” list.
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Feb 21, 2021 02:10
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XBenedict posted:Journey is at the top of my “bands that wrote a metric poo poo ton of fair to middling songs that I can’t stand hearing any more because the radio beat me to death with them” list.
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Feb 21, 2021 04:18
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I had only ever known Journey as the Don't Stop Believin band but I heard Seperate Ways for the first time quite recently and it's a belter
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Feb 21, 2021 11:18
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SpiritualDeath posted:
This is the "Where do I start with ?" thread, not the "Where do I end with ? on a desert island", isn't it? Anyway, Jane's Addiction? I only know Been Caught Stealing, but they must have some other noteworthy stuff.
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Feb 23, 2021 01:26
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ExecuDork posted:This is the "Where do I start with ?" thread, not the "Where do I end with ? on a desert island", isn't it? The "meat" of the band are very much Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual. I think they're both *fantastic* albums -- if you dig those, there's a number of live releases and b-sides and the like. I'd say Nothing's Shocking has a more "experimental" feel to it, while Ritual definitely sounds a little more commercial, but not necessarily in a bad way.
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Feb 23, 2021 01:32
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And if you want more after that, you can move onto Porno for Pyros. They're more hit and miss than Jane's Addiction but Tahitian Moon might be the best song Perry Farrell ever wrote.
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Feb 23, 2021 06:10
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Awesome, thanks to both of you. The instability and band-members-swapping among bands from L.A. is interesting to me, and the Jane's Addiction / Porno for Pyros story is a great example (I've also recently been reading about Tool / A Perfect Circle and Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave). The side-effect of a wikipedia dive through these bands is I get to listen to a bunch of songs I haven't heard for years while I'm procrastinating at work.
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Feb 24, 2021 01:39
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Maynard and Danny jamming live with Rage on Public Enemy always hits. Also they all did a cover of "Doctor Love" by Kiss, pretty sure it's Maynard, Tom Morello, Timmy C and someone from Porno for Pyros and it is a total bop, and I am not a massive Kiss Fan. Edit I'm wrong it's Billy Gould and Brad Wilk!
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Feb 24, 2021 01:52
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of Montreal? They've got kind of an intimidatingly large discography, and I'm not sure where to dig in. I started listening to Hissing Fauna today at work, and am digging that so far. Otherwise the only other material I'm familiar with is the song "Let's Do Everything for the First Time," which I adore.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:17
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ExplodingChef posted:of Montreal? I was hardcore on them through Skeletal Lamping, and then kind of dropped off. You can’t go wrong with Satanic Panic in the Attic, Sundlandic Twins, and Hissing Fauna.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:49
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James Brown?
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Feb 27, 2021 13:31
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Siivola posted:James Brown? Live at the Apollo vol 1 is his earlier stuff that you might not be as familiar with, but it’s good. Vol 2 is later on and has a lot of his hits and more funk. If you had to pick one, I might go with Vol 2 since it is bigger and a little more comprehensive, but both together are a good starting point.
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Feb 27, 2021 13:41
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Siivola posted:James Brown? Brown was an astonishing singles artist and this really is a case where the compilation box is the right answer. "Star Time" is one of the best compilations ever made.
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Feb 27, 2021 16:41
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Foo Fighters? And Nirvana while we're at it
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Feb 27, 2021 18:01
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Nirvana had all of three studio albums. Nevermind or In Utero are probably where anyone starts. If you dislike one, I don't think the other will convince you. With live albums and compilations, everything issued after the 90s strikes me as an after-the-fact cash-in. If you like Nirvana you'll at least want to give the unplugged one and Incesticide a spin, some really good stuff on there. They're like Joy Division: legendary status, if you really really like them you can go in almost infinitely deep with unreleased takes and demos and B-sides, but not actually all that much output in their time.
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Feb 27, 2021 18:15
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Man with Hat posted:Foo Fighters? And Nirvana while we're at it Incesticide is the best nirvana album.
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Feb 27, 2021 18:31
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Thanks for the Nirvana tips! My Lovely Horse posted:Nirvana had all of three studio albums. Nevermind or In Utero are probably where anyone starts. If you dislike one, I don't think the other will convince you. This actually made me think of Joy Division, a band I've heard one fantastic song of but nothing else. What's the best album to start with them? Also I very recently saw the video your avatar is from because of your avatar so thanks for that as well. Edit: Thanks for all the tips. I should've probably checked before asking about Nirvana and Joy Division, I had no idea they had five albums total between them, I just meant to ask about foo fighters and the rest were kind of add-ons. Man with Hat fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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Feb 27, 2021 18:59
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They literally have 2 albums just pick one then listen to the other
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Feb 27, 2021 19:00
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Nevermind was the album that killed hair metal. If you only listen to one recording from Nirvana, that's the one to go with. In Utero probably would've had a similar effect if they released it first, Bleach is an underrated album, and if you really want more Unplugged and Incesticide are the best choices. For the Foo Fighters, just go in chronological order and stop when you lose interest.
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Feb 27, 2021 19:02
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For Nirvana, if you like live music, absolutely check out Unplugged, as it’s fantastic and highly regarded for a reason. Live at Reading is also very good for how they normally sounded in concert.
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Feb 27, 2021 19:10
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BigFactory posted:Live at the Apollo vol 1 is his earlier stuff that you might not be as familiar with, but it’s good. Vol 2 is later on and has a lot of his hits and more funk. If you had to pick one, I might go with Vol 2 since it is bigger and a little more comprehensive, but both together are a good starting point. Feels Villeneuve posted:Brown was an astonishing singles artist and this really is a case where the compilation box is the right answer. "Star Time" is one of the best compilations ever made. 
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Feb 27, 2021 19:17
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Man with Hat posted:Foo Fighters? And Nirvana while we're at it Foo Fighters' Colour and the Shape is my all time favorite album, and the first CD I bought myself. You can go back to the first if you like it, and want a bit heavier. Go chronological until Sonic Highways. Concrete and Gold was a letdown, and sadly I still have not checked out the album, that came out a few weeks ago. Their albums wane and ebb, but Wasting Light was an amazing comeback. Sonic Highways was also made with an HBO TV series, an episode per song written in and preformed in various parts of the USA, and is worth watching for local music history.
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Man with Hat posted:This actually made me think of Joy Division, a band I've heard one fantastic song of but nothing else. What's the best album to start with them? Also I very recently saw the video your avatar is from because of your avatar so thanks for that as well.  As it happens I posted about Joy Division previously and I'd still say the same: My Lovely Horse posted:Unknown Pleasures is as good a point to jump in as any. It's iconic, easy to procure, and if you don't like Unknown Pleasures you won't like much of what else Joy Division have to offer.
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