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« on: August 14, 2015, 11:35:49 AM »

Queen - News of the World
Beatles - The White Album
Clash - London Calling
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2015, 12:43:27 PM »

Four off the top of my head:

Robert Fripp----Exposure
Appletree Theatre----Playback
Mercury Rev----Deserter's Songs
Family----Music in a Doll's House
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2015, 01:56:10 PM »


Mercury Rev----Deserter's Songs

Great album, but each song is in basically the same style and sound. 

I'd nominate a few suggestions:

The Beatles - Revolver, The Beatles
The Clash - Sandinista!
Elvis Costello - Spike! (similar sound across the LP, but diverse styles of writing)
Just about any album by They Might Be Giants

Not sure any single VU/Lou Reed album is amazingly diverse, but he sure had a diverse career.
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2015, 02:03:43 PM »

Not sure any single VU/Lou Reed album is amazingly diverse, but he sure had a diverse career.

Could be another interesting topic.
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2015, 02:37:38 PM »

Not sure any single VU/Lou Reed album is amazingly diverse, but he sure had a diverse career.

Could be another interesting topic.

If I were going to name a VU album as among the most diverse albums (which I wouldn't), it would probably be Loaded. They're all rock and roll of some nature, but I think they cover more territory than any other VU album does in terms of subgenres.

Zappa/Mothers, Freak Out! and Uncle Meat (among others).
Most Zeppelin albums are pretty diverse--I'd say more than many albums listed here.
Of Montreal, A Satanic Panic in the Attic.
Tom Waits, Mule Variations always felt like a lot of disparate things to me.
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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2015, 03:50:00 PM »

I second "The Beatles".
"20/20"
"Sign o' the Times"-Prince
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" goes through quite a few different genres for a uniformly mellow album.

Any comedy album where lots of genres are parodied.

EDIT: "69 Love Songs" by the Magnetic Fields. Even if the diversity is arguably superficial.
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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2015, 03:59:37 PM »

I second "The Beatles".
"20/20"
"Sign o' the Times"-Prince
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" goes through quite a few different genres for a uniformly mellow album.

Any comedy album where lots of genres are parodied.

EDIT: "69 Love Songs" by the Magnetic Fields. Even if the diversity is arguably superficial.

heh. I swear I was thinking about Sign O' the Times and 69.... So why didn't I include them? No idea. I'm an idiot. Or I'm lying now. You decide! (Really, I did think of them.)
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2015, 06:10:33 PM »

Billy Preston- Everybody Likes Some Kind Of Music
The whole concept of the album is that each song is in a different genre, so you literally cannot get any more diverse than that.

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« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2015, 06:21:27 PM »

"Sticky Fingers" by the Stones is pretty diverse.  Rock and Roll ("Brown Sugar"), Rock ("Sway"), C&W ("Dead Flowers"), A touch of Latin ("Can't You Hear Me Knocking?"), Blues (I've Got the Blues"), Country Blues ("You Gotta Move"), Ballad ("Wild Horses"), Dark and Death Oriented ("Sister Morphine"), Spacey mood piece/Oriental ("Moonlight Mile"), R&B ("Bitch").

I stretch the descriptions  a bit I know but you get the point.  I would not have thought of the Stones as "diverse" on first take, but fact is they made music in many ways.
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« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2015, 01:57:58 AM »

A look through my CDs reminded me of this:

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« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2015, 06:35:03 AM »

A look through my CDs reminded me of this:



What is that?
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« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2015, 06:37:21 AM »

A look through my CDs reminded me of this:



What is that?

It's the Beta Band's 1999 self-titled debut.

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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2015, 06:46:34 AM »

What is that?

Clicking on the image gives you a link to a review. Perhaps i should have pointed that out----sorry! 
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2015, 10:10:07 AM »

Billy Preston- Everybody Likes Some Kind Of Music
The whole concept of the album is that each song is in a different genre, so you literally cannot get any more diverse than that.


Very clever - even the title & cover speak volumes. I never heard any Billy Preston album, only individual songs. This seems like a good start. I like mishmash of styles & genres.
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