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Ovi
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Queen - News of the World
Beatles - The White Album
Clash - London Calling
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
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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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Quote from: john k on August 14, 2015, 12:43:27 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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Quote from: The Demon on August 14, 2015, 01:56:10 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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Quote from: Ovi on August 14, 2015, 02:03:43 PM
Quote from: The Demon on August 14, 2015, 01:56:10 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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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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Quote from: unreleased backgrounds 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.
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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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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"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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A look through my CDs reminded me of this:
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Quote from: john k on August 15, 2015, 01:57:58 AM
A look through my CDs reminded me of this:
What is that?
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Quote from: Ovi on August 15, 2015, 06:35:03 AM
Quote from: john k on August 15, 2015, 01:57:58 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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Quote from: Ovi on August 15, 2015, 06:35:03 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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Quote from: krabklaw 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.
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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