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Tweaker1 posted:So, I heard a sonic youth song on the juno soundtrack and on I'm not there, and i'm digging those songs. I divide Sonic Youth into three periods - the self-titled EP through Sister is their No-Wave influenced period, most of that stuff is pretty discordant and you'd probably have to work up to those. My favorite album from that era is EVOL. The string of albums from Daydream Nation through Washing Machine is their most commercial-sounding and popular period, I adore Goo, but Washing Machine contains possibly their best song ever, The Diamond Sea. Dirty is another excellent album, as is Daydream Nation. You really can't go wrong with anything from this timeframe. The later albums, A Thousand Leaves through Sonic Nurse are a mixed bunch - a ton of softer songs and gentler noodling. None of it is bad, but there's less songcraft here, IMHO. Their newest studio work Rather Ripped is sort of a return to the Goo era - shorter, more concise songs with obvious melodies, I liked it a lot.
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EpicHero posted:Where should I start with The Cure? That's a toughie, it really depends what your tastes are - if you like poppy music, I'd start with Boys Don't Cry* the first album, then jump forward into Head on the Door and Kiss Me, Kiss Me Kiss Me. If slow, dirgy, near-Goth music is your bag, go with Faith, Seventeen Seconds and maybe Bloodflowers But if it's howling, emotionally-wrenching Cure you're after, start with Disintegration, Wish then backtrack to Pornography. Honestly, picking up the singles compilation, Standing on the Beach might be the easiest thing, it's a good sampling of everything they did pre-Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and there's not a bad cut on it. Galore compiles their later output up to about Y2K and it's excellent as well. I'd recomend a newbie stay away from the 2003 self-titled album and The Top, I think they are the Cure's weakest discs, and I'm only lukewarm on the live albums or Wild Mood Swings either. *it was recently re-released in with it's original UK title, Three Imaginary Boys with some extra tracks.
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EpicHero posted:Thanks! I've had Galore for a while now and really enjoy tracks like Why Can't I Be You, Mint Car, and Gone!...where do you think that would put me in terms of an album? I'd go with Head on the Door and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, I think you'll enjoy both albums.
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Glass Joe posted:Where do I start with Journey, The Alan Parsons Project.. Escape was their monster, but I found it a little wimpy - at the time, only girls would admit liking it - IMHO, Departure, Evolution and Infinity are more muscular albums but still have that instantly identifiable "Journey" sound. Stay away from their first three albums, they're typical noodling prog-rock(unless you like that sort of thing), and most of their post-1980 stuff is pretty bad, excepting the song "Worlds Apart". As for APP, I, Robot is a good recomendation, but I liked The Turn Of A Friendly Card as well. After that..well, maybe Eve and Eye In The Sky. Their later albums just get blander, in my opinion.
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A Violence Gang posted:I love Randy Newman's '70s work so Zevon's been recommended to me often but I gave his self-titled a cursory listen a while ago and it didn't immediately click for me. Back to that or should I start somewhere else? To me, Zevon's studio albums are remarkably consistent in tone and quality, which is amazing to me, considering the vast amount of depravity that surrounds him - you can't really go wrong. That said, I think his strongest albums are Exciteable Boy, Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School and Sentimental Hygiene. Everybody raved over The Wnd because he poor bastard was dying as he made it, but I think it's not as strong as most of his other work.
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Yoshifan823 posted:Alright, I've got all of his Velvet Underground stuff, what do I do after if I want some more Lou Reed? I'd start with Transformer, Berlin and New York, although they're all quite different. Transformer is a glammy androgynous album, Berlin is sort of a depressing(in a good way) song cycle, and New York is Lou getting really, really pissed off at the Republican Eighties. The most Velvets of his solo stuff is The Blue Mask, IMHO, and Rock-n-Roll Animal is one of few truly great live albums of the era. PS: Metal Machine Music works better as an instrument of torture than an actual musical creation
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SMP posted:Motorhead - I've got Ace of Spades already. As a 'head fanatic since 1980, my advice to you would be Overkill, Bomber, Iron Fist, Motorhead(st) - basically, everything with Fast Eddie Clarke on it. After he left, quality becomes a bit spotty, but Orgasmatron and Motorizer have some decent tunes. Another Perfect Day has Robbo from Thin Lizzy on guitar and people either love it or hate it - I really like it, but YMMV.
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Famicom Bunko posted:Where might one start with the Bee Gees? I would start with the 2-CD compilation Bee Gee's Greatest Hits. Since the Bee Gees were always a singles bands, buying their albums is something only a completist or huge fan would wanna do. That album has everything from the late Sixties stuff all the way through the disco era. Alternatively, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack has a ton of disco Bee Gees songs, plus some other interesting-in-a-period-sort-of-way stuff.
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I'm gonna disagree with everyone  and recomend Goo as a good starting point, I think it flows better than any album they've done since.Or, just listen to "The Diamond Sea" over and over again until you realize that it's pure perfection.
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KY Labia Majoris posted:You got good recommendations but I'd throw in Husker Du (album Zen Arcade) as well. Good call - as long as someone's at that point, they might as well pick up Let It Be by the Replacements as well, it's not exactly "pop-punk", but it contains some elements of both genres.
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A Violence Gang posted:Decoration Day and/or The Dirty South. Those two, along with the somewhat lesser A Blessing and a Curse featured the group's best lineup, with third guitarist/singer/songwriter Jason Isbell joining the core of Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. Isbell divorced bassist/backup vocalist Shonna Tucker and left the group after Blessing. You're exactly right, but I still think Southern Rock Opera is flat-out one of the best RAWK records of the last twenty years and it's a drat crime that album isn't as commonplace as Nevermind.
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Oct 11, 2010 01:44
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m0therfux0r posted:I'm into the more guitar-centric stuff, so I'd likely want to start with a Crazy Horse-heavy album. Which one rocks hard enough/has enough melody so that I can get past his weird-rear end voice? (I'm also kind of embarrassed to ask this because I have tons and tons of music and I feel like I should have attempted this years ago.) Yeah, that's how I got into Neil, many MANY years ago - loved his guitar mayhem, not so wild about his voice. Now I'm a fan of all of it You're on the right track - "After the Gold Rush" is mostly ballads, only "Southern Man" really rocks. The logical starting point, IMO, would be "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere", it's one of the best electric albums ever made, period. Then maybe "Rust Never Sleeps" - yeah, side 1 is acoustic, but side 2 has that wonderful Old Black mega-distortion sound going on. "Zuma" is a good rocker, and "American Stars-N-Bars" has a couple of great songs - "Like a Hurricane" and "Homegrown". Everybody HATES "Re-Ac-Tor", but I like it very much and it's probably his loudest and most distorted album - it got a bad rap because the lyrics aren't really up to par. If you can find it, the import-only EP "Eldorado" marks the rebirth of Neil's noisemonger side at the beginning of the Nineties. That ought to get you started. PS: If you get the chance, check out the much-maligned "Trans" - it's a helluva lot better than its reputation and features an odd mix of uber-heavy guitar work, vocoders, and Kraftwerk-style electronica on "Computer Cowboy", "Sample and Hold" and "We R in Control".
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HateTheInternet posted:Where should I start with solo Julian Cope? Peggy Suicide. It's a perfect balance between listenability and acid head weirdness.
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Double post :P
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:I will always really love the Underwater Sunlight album though. Holy poo poo, I thought I was the only one on the planet that loves that album. I listen to it in the car regularly - ripped it from my old vinyl copy.
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A human heart posted:You should listen to Unleashed in the East, in addition to the other stuff you've been recommended. Agreed 100%. I generally am not a fan of live albums, but UitE versions of several songs are better than the originals, IMO. As for Motörhead, once you get past the three uber-classic albums, Iron Fist is very good, as is Orgasmatron. The S/T is good as well, but leans toward Hawkwind-sound, rather than the ultra-speedy classic Motörhead sound. After that, it’s hit and miss, but I can’t think of any truly awful albums. No Remorse is a good compilation.
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Stevie Nick’s first solo album is pretty good, not much filler, and she used an excellent lineup of studio musicians, along with Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers, and duets with Petty and Don Henley. The album started fairly slow-selling, but big hits Edge of Seventeen and Stop Dragging’ My Heart Around propelled it near the top of the charts for over a year. Unfortunately, as her drug addiction deepened, the albums got worse - The Wild Heart, her second solo album was definitely a step downward in quality, although the huge success of Stand Back helped sales a ton, and another stellar group of studio hands, including Don Felder, The Heartbreakers w/Petty, Steve Luckather, Roy Bittan of Springsteen’s band, Waddy Wachtel and Mick Fleetwood. After that, it’s mostly bad and gets worse as her horrific prescription benzo addiction gets it’s claws deeper into Nicks and she slowly turns into a bloated zombie.
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BigFactory posted:She cleaned up a while ago and sounds great now. Nothing but love for Stevie nicks. Yes she did, and I’m very glad to see it.
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