Albums I must have
- Thread starter zenie
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zenie said:Being a youngster (yeh alright I know that's not that young anymore) born in the 80's I think there's a whole generation of records I've missed.
Name me some I absolutley must have a listen to before I die
Sorry if this is bullshit or has been done before........
surely best way of finding older 'classic' albums to listen to is to find reviews of music you like now and go digging..
don't just listen to something cos seems like you should have that particular record in your collection.
personally i find it pretty hard to find old stuff i like cos a lot of the production is so bad in comparison to today's music.
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
just go to your nearest second hand record shop and buy random records . I reckon you get more fun out of finding great records that way instead of just asking what people think you should listen to !
Paris Garters
Apparently back.
Violent Femmes (eponymous)
Pixies: Doolittle/Surfer Rosa
Pulp: His & Hers
PJ Harvey: All of it, but esp. Dry, Rid of Me and Songs from the city, stories from the sea
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
but definitely, definitely the pixies.
Pixies: Doolittle/Surfer Rosa
Pulp: His & Hers
PJ Harvey: All of it, but esp. Dry, Rid of Me and Songs from the city, stories from the sea
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
but definitely, definitely the pixies.
Cid
Proper break this time
zenie said:oooh I like this
I have the Marvin Gaye's, the stevie wonders, but never listened to the pizies
I take on board about what people say about finding out your best albums rather than depend on other people, but it's good to have a bit of input IMO
innit - finding this list pretty useful myself, I mean I'd love to spend my days trawling record shops, music forums etc etc but just don't have the time.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Old records
If you haven't already heard them, start with all of the Velvet Underground albums. You can't go wrong and pretty much everything else of any interest that's been done with a guitar since is influenced by them.
Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground
Loaded
VU (not strictly speaking a proper album but just as good).
There's also plenty of gold to be mined in the immediate aftermath of punk, when a rash of bands took the opportunity to do something new and different. Also loads of really great all or mostly female bands from this period.
The Slits - Cut
Lilliput/Kleenex - you can get everything they did on a compilation of the same name
Raincoats - Raincoats
Au Pairs - Playing with a different sex
Wire - Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
Mission of Burma - Vs
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Also Devo, Magazine, Gang of Four, PiL etc
A little earlier than that, German bands were producing really innovative stuff, but you have to be careful not to step over the line between Krautrock and Prog:
Neu! - any of their three albums
Can - Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi are particular favourites.
Faust - again, you won't go wrong with any of their earlier stuff.
Really this kind of list can be endless and I haven't even gone near the whole Soul end of things, the Vandellas etc or early electronic music or Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire or Kraftwerk...
If you haven't already heard them, start with all of the Velvet Underground albums. You can't go wrong and pretty much everything else of any interest that's been done with a guitar since is influenced by them.
Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground
Loaded
VU (not strictly speaking a proper album but just as good).
There's also plenty of gold to be mined in the immediate aftermath of punk, when a rash of bands took the opportunity to do something new and different. Also loads of really great all or mostly female bands from this period.
The Slits - Cut
Lilliput/Kleenex - you can get everything they did on a compilation of the same name
Raincoats - Raincoats
Au Pairs - Playing with a different sex
Wire - Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
Mission of Burma - Vs
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Also Devo, Magazine, Gang of Four, PiL etc
A little earlier than that, German bands were producing really innovative stuff, but you have to be careful not to step over the line between Krautrock and Prog:
Neu! - any of their three albums
Can - Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi are particular favourites.
Faust - again, you won't go wrong with any of their earlier stuff.
Really this kind of list can be endless and I haven't even gone near the whole Soul end of things, the Vandellas etc or early electronic music or Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire or Kraftwerk...
Negativland
Pope Handsome VII
The first four Brian Eno solo albums (Here come the warm jets, Taking tiger mountain, Another green world, Before and after science). Arty pop experiments from the early 70s, the first two Roxy Music too.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Pilgrim said:
Sweet jesus dude are you trying to ruin her enjoyment of music forever?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
But why would you want to recommend poodle haired, tight panted, fret worrying, cock rockery to anyone?
(waits for someone to recommend Topographic Oceans)
(waits for someone to recommend Topographic Oceans)
Nigel Irritable said:
Led Zeppelin were pioneers of said art form.
They blazed the trail. It wasn't their fault that a legion of blatant and progressively more embarassing imitators, too numerous to mention, chose to blacken their good name.
(Rush and Whitesnake spring to mind as particular offenders in this area, btw).
Yea, I'd vote for Led Zepplin as well.
If you temporarily emigrated (as I did) back in the age of vinyl you generally wound up taping your entire record collection to take with you. After a year, the only thing I still listened to was a couple of Doors albums, the first three REM albums and everything by Led Zepplin. Twenty years later, the only thing I still listen to is everything by Led Zepplin.
Jeff Buckley was a huge Led Zepplin fan - and vice versa - Jimmy Page said "Jeff Buckley was so good it's scary - you think he's playing in all these weird tunings but then you see him and you realise he isn't. It does your head in". Or words to that effect.
If we are going to go down the road of annoying people etc and destroying own credibility in the eyes of all - except people who know what they're talking about etc, no collection of pre-80s music would be complete without an album or two of Queen's underestimatedly insane offerings - either Day at the Races or Night at the Opera. It still gob-smacks me how on earth they got away with it - particularly given the general homophobia of the hard-rock audience that they seemed to appeal to at the time.
If you temporarily emigrated (as I did) back in the age of vinyl you generally wound up taping your entire record collection to take with you. After a year, the only thing I still listened to was a couple of Doors albums, the first three REM albums and everything by Led Zepplin. Twenty years later, the only thing I still listen to is everything by Led Zepplin.
Jeff Buckley was a huge Led Zepplin fan - and vice versa - Jimmy Page said "Jeff Buckley was so good it's scary - you think he's playing in all these weird tunings but then you see him and you realise he isn't. It does your head in". Or words to that effect.
If we are going to go down the road of annoying people etc and destroying own credibility in the eyes of all - except people who know what they're talking about etc, no collection of pre-80s music would be complete without an album or two of Queen's underestimatedly insane offerings - either Day at the Races or Night at the Opera. It still gob-smacks me how on earth they got away with it - particularly given the general homophobia of the hard-rock audience that they seemed to appeal to at the time.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Fuck yes. I remember that poll and I have to say, it is a fairly accurate description of my "best of - all time"belboid said:
Apart from maybe replacing Kraftwerk with a couple of classic Can/Czukay albums (say Monster Movie and On the Way to the Peak of Normal) and getting rid of the Doors entirely, let's say to make room for Workingman's Dead. Maybe get that really good recent Lee Perry collection on there too.
Oh yeah, and Magazine, that's got to go. What the fuck were they thinking? Lose that and maybe replace with Spirit - Future Games, or perhaps one of the early Loudon Wainwright albums.
Aiee. and Dexys Midnight Fucking Runners. No fucking way. Replace that with say Robert Johnson - Digitally Remastered.
Good Intentions
Pst Mdrn Cntxt Mnstr
That's really not a bad listbelboid said:
