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The first two albums.
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Feb 15, 2021 08:05
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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 09:05
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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 17:03
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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 17:12
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ABBA Gold is plenty.
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Feb 15, 2021 17:40
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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 21:45
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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 07:31
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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 09:22 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 09:15
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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 12:38
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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 12:44
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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 14:10
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sean10mm posted:
Same
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Feb 19, 2021 15:09
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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 16:28 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 16:19
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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 18:43
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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 03:15
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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 19:39
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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 01:10
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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 03:18
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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 10:18
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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 00:26
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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 00:32
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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 05:10
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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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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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