Music Reccomendations

[Don't Back Down]

Hey everyone I have a request. Can you all post albums (aside from BB/BW) that are worth looking into? Thanks!

[Joel5001]

Uh . . . okay.  This could take a while.

[harmolodic]

Great recent stuff worth looking into:

A Band Of Bees - Free The Bees
Doves - Some Cities
John Mayer Trio - Try!
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity?
Stevie Wonder - A Time 2 Love
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Paul McCartney - Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Beyond The Sound Barrier
Greg Osby - Channel Three
Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970


Older stuff worth tracking down:

Cactus - Restrictions
Savoy Brown - Hellbound Train
Johnny Winter - Second Winter
Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction
Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing (3-disc box)
James Brown - Sex Machine
Chicago At Carnegie Hall, Vol. I-IV
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Lou Reed - Berlin
Twilight Singers - She Loves You
Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today


If you really want, I can just send you an excel file of my whole darn collection and you can just go by that! 

[dogbreath]

Well, there's so many ... you could start with, gee ... uh ... how about ...

... anyone? My mind's a blank.

[trumpet sounds]

Old_Master_Painter,

What do you like besides Beach Boys/Brian Wilson? Or is that it so far? Or, what do you not like?

[Don't Back Down]

trumpet_sounds: I'm pretty much open to any thing. I just want to dive deeper into stuff like blues, classic rock 'n roll (50's, 60's, etc.). I have some jazz collections of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, The Dorseys, that type of stuff. I'd also like to get into more piano music, whether rock 'n roll piano, blues piano, ragtime piano, etc. etc. I'd like to look into some Queen stuff too, listened to Bohemian Rhapsody (sp?) again the other day and it's great. So stuff like what I just mentioned. Thanks!

Harmolodic: Thanks man! I'll look into those

[GP1138]

OMP, the entire "Night at the Opera" LP is wonderful.

[harmolodic]

Harmolodic: Thanks man! I'll look into those

No problem -- and if you're particularly into piano, grab that disc by the Bad Plus immediately! They are hands down the most exciting new jazz piano trio out there.

[JRauch]

  Can´t wait til Ian posts on this thread. It´s gonna be the longest post ever!

[Chris D.]

Recommendations:

Steely Dan -- The Royal Scam, Countdown to Ecstacy, Aja, Gaucho
The Damned -- Strawberries (very 60s)
The Residents -- Not Available, Meet the Residents, Duck Stab/Buster and Glen
Pulp -- Different Class
Lou Reed -- Berlin (have to second this one)
Chris Stamey -- It's Alright, Travels in the South
Dr. Dooom (yes, three "o"s) -- First Come, First Served
Paul McCartney -- McCartney II
Pete Shelley -- Homosapien
The Pixies -- Bossanova
Frank Black -- Frank Black, Teenager of the Year, Cult of Ray
Gorillaz -- Demon Days
Cheap Trick -- In Color (and Black and White)
Captain Sensible -- The Universe of Geoffrey Brown
Gwen Steffani -- Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
The Stooges -- Raw Power (remix)
Crass -- Penis Envy
Prince -- Parade
N.E.R.D. -- In Search of...
Sonic Youth -- Goo
The Folk Implosion -- Step Inside the Folk Implosion
Wu-Tang Clan -- Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
The Flaming Lips -- Clouds Taste Metallic
Edwyn Collins -- Gorgeous George
Public Image Ltd. -- Flowers of Romance
Television -- Marquee Moon, Adventure, Television
Pere Ubu -- The Modern Dance
Parliament -- Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome, Mothership Connection, Motor Booty Affair
Blur -- Parklife, 13
Throwing Muses -- Throwing Muses, Chains Changed EP (both on In a Doghouse 2-disc)
REM -- Life's Rich Pageant
Stephen Foster
Belle and Sebastian -- Tigermilk
Morrissey -- Vauxhall and I
XTC -- Skylarking, Mummer

[Jason]

Buy or trade for Os Mutantes' catalog - NOW.

[the captain]

Some (but not all) of the albums I consider essential, barring those already listed (I think, although I can't guarantee 0 duplication):

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead, A Kind Of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Miles Smiles, In a Silent Way, Filies de Kilimanjaro, Bitches Brew (then everything else).

Thelonius Monk: anything.

Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground, Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) and VU.

Lou Reed: Transformer (and the aforementioned Berlin)

The Beatles: everything

Tom Waits: Blue Valentine, Rain Dogs, Bone Machine, Black Rider, Alice, Blood Money

Captain Beefheart: Safe as Milk, Strictly Personal, troutmaskreplica

Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Water

Bob Dylan: Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Basement Tapes, Blood on the Tracks, Love and Theft

Leonard Cohen: Songs, Songs of Love and Hate

Randy Newman: the first several albums

Bruce Springsteen: pretty much everything through the mid-80s, anyway, if not more.

Led Zeppelin: the entire catalogue

Queen: Queen II through The Game

Get it? This can go on forever. A little context would help, as I have a LOT more. It is just too tough to narrow this down.

[Chris D.]

One thing I would add -- if you're looking into a new band, look at their most praised and most hated albums to get a sense of what they're about.  Often the most hated albums are as good as the "essential" ones.

[I. Spaceman]

Can´t wait til Ian posts on this thread. It´s gonna be the longest post ever!

Nah, just three:

The Stooges' Funhouse, Elvis' Artist Of The Century and Robert Johnson's The Complete Recordings.

[Jeff Mason]

One thing I would add -- if you're looking into a new band, look at their most praised and most hated albums to get a sense of what they're about.  Often the most hated albums are as good as the "essential" ones.

I can see it now -- a thread called "Summer In Paradise is as good as Pet Sounds and Smile -- Deal With It!"

 

Ian, only those artists?  Essential all, but I would have to add in a few like Village Green I would think...

[Chris D.]

I can see it now -- a thread called "Summer In Paradise is as good as Pet Sounds and Smile -- Deal With It!"

 

How about Summer In Paradise is Smile?

[Jeff Mason]

Well, VDP IS on accordian, so there is THAT connection...

 

[I. Spaceman]

One thing I would add -- if you're looking into a new band, look at their most praised and most hated albums to get a sense of what they're about.  Often the most hated albums are as good as the "essential" ones.

I can see it now -- a thread called "Summer In Paradise is as good as Pet Sounds and Smile -- Deal With It!"

 

Ian, only those artists?  Essential all, but I would have to add in a few like Village Green I would think...

Yeah, but everyone else is gonna say those.
I mean, should I say, "Forever Changes and Odessey And Oracle OWN!!! Get those, dude!"
I prefer to let everyone else state the obvious.
To my ears, everything I love about music can be boiled down to the things I mentioned.

[trumpet sounds]

Waka Jawaka - Frank Zappa

Close To The Edge - Yes

Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake

[Chris D.]

I mean, should I say, "Forever Changes and Odessey And Oracle OWN!!! Get those, dude!"

You forgot Big Star.

[mike thornton]

badfinger-magic christian through straight up
zombies-zombie heaven
led zeppelin-box set and small box set
beatles-rubber soul and revolver
mason williams-phonograph record
duran duran-duran duran (i didn't believe they were capable of this one)
the damned-(pick anything)
van dyke parks-clang of the yankee reaper
monaco-music for pleasure
dave brubeck quartet-time out
pink floyd-dsotm and anything with syd
moody blues-dofp
julian bream-plays granados & albeniz
miles davis-especially sketches of spain and kind of blue
fundamental youth-anything you can find

this is a good start. see above posts for excellent suggestions...

[mark goddard]

go get the newly discovered Thelonius Monk Quartet with john Coltrane at Carnegie Hall !!!!!!.....i have been listening to this non stop for 2 week's. recorded in Nov. of 1957 , last february while digitizing the voice of america acetates owned by the library of congress. They found a box marked Carnegie Hall 1957......lo and behold it was a unreleased  tape of the early and late show of these two giant's. Very Rare stuff and the Quality is UNBELIEVABLE !!

In fact Monk's playing will astound you !!!

[no]

Doug Sahm -- "Doug Sahm & Band"

Not the easiest thing to find.

Heatwave -- "The Best Of..."

Rod Temperton, who wrote many tunes for that freak MJ, is the main writer.

[hrtshpdbox]

Lou Reed -- Berlin (have to second this one)>

Sure, because it's such an uplifting collection of tunes.  And also because you can get it from the cut-out bins for a dollar-sixty-nine (oh, not anymore, sure, but you could at one time, but if you get a time machine don't go back and buy like 20 copies as an investment, because your girlfriend will just forget to pay the storage bill when you're out of town and you'll lose them, and everything else you own, you miserable sod - at least if you're like me, or actually are me, in which case you have my sympathies, and where the hell is my heart-shaped billboard icon anyway, dammit, and why is it 55 degrees in January, it was very nice candlelight and Dubonnet on ice).

[harmolodic]

Good to see you back!

And you won't hear me questioning 55 degrees (or 59 in my case) in January. Oh, how I don't miss the northeast...