Rec Cwhit Things 2k17 • Page 5

anyway those are my areas of expertise so i can post a jazz list sometime

 

How do you feel about Thembi by Pharaoh Sanders?

 

Great album, probably one of his more accessible? Much more groove based and iirc its got the rhodes on it which I love

 

Not sure what it is about that record that just floors me, but I was curious if that was just me being a neophyte

 

forgot to post wonder what's next by chevelle and the egg by shiner, sorry

 

You ever listen to any Heatmiser records?

Heatmiser - Mic City Sons
The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2


ill be surprised if you havnt listened to both of those albums so im probably useless :shrugs:

 

franks wild years by tom waits

and grow up and blow away by metric

you'll thank me or be confused later i promise

 

Overlooked grunge album

Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music

 

the glow is an all timer and incredibly influential album to most artists i like, of course i've listened hahaha
heatmiser was coloso's avatar on ap, right??

 

Alice In Chains- s/t

 

Yep, it was. Definitely check out that album if you havnt already.

 

Raise your hand if you first listened to Heatmiser because Jimmy Eat World mentions them in a song!

 

I've listened to Astral Weeks about 15 times since I rec'ed it yesterday so you doofuses who haven't listened better get on it

 

*arm rises*

 

If you've never checked out John Prine, I would totally recommend doing that. His first, self-titled, album is universally praised and there's also a compilation on Apple Music called Prime Prine that's sort of a "best of" for his early work.

There's also a 41-track best of released in the 90's, called Great Days: The John Prine Anthology, but it's not on Apple Music.

 

getting into day two of this now. yesterday i did:

graceland, zombie, a love supreme, love deluxe, and southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. good start

 

I second this. He never gets enough recognition. The s/t album is perfect. One of the best songwriters ever.

 

The Kinks are another band that everyone here should check out. Hugely influential for punk and power pop, and banned from touring in the US for nearly half a decade because of their on-stage antics . . . what's not to love!?

I only really know their stuff from the 60's (thanks to my mom, that was her musical heyday) – Kinks, Kinda Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy, Face to Face (one of the first rock concept albums), Something Else . . ., The Village Green Preservation Society ("Picture Book" is where Green Day got the riff for "Warning"), and Arthur – and, from what I know about your musical taste, you'd probably like the run from Face to Face through Arthur more than the first 3.

 

Some albums I like a lot that are all "classics" in their own right, but not quite The Beatles/Dylan obvious. I've chucked in some descriptions, but they're a bit shit.

Joni Mitchell - Blue (1972); Canadian singer-songrwriter, folky sort of stuff and an absolutely phenomenal songwriter. You mentioned Bjork and Kate Bush in the OP and they both love her. A lot of that bedroom-folky pop stuff that's popular now is indebted to her.

Patti Smith - Horses (1975); One of the finest garage rock/proto-punk albums, and a pioneering woman in rock music. Make sure you check out the version with the live cover of "My Generation" that closes it, it fucking rips.

The Clash - The Clash (1977); London Calling is better, but as a first listen, I think the self-titled is the way to go. Focused, concise and just so much bloody fun.

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980); I think they're a little bit underrated, far more talented than their peers in the American scene at the time (apart from The Replacements). They were pushing boundaries, innovative in their songwriting, and genuinely pretty funny.

Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool (1950). He probably has a few better than this, but if you're not that used to jazz, then this is a great introduction. 12 tracks in 35 minutes or so, great and easy listening, and a lovely introduction to the maestro.

Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News (1964); Probably my favourite "classic" soul album, Sam Cooke could do everything and make it seem to effortless. A breeze of an album, packed to the brim with classic after classic.

Nusrat Fatteh Ali Khan - Musst Musst (1990); Pakistani singer, with an absolutely stupendous range, I can't oversell his vocals enough, they are divine. Unlike his other work, the tracks are 4-5 mins each, not 20, so way easier to digest.

Luther Vandross - Never Too Much (1981); I feel he's also a little underrated and this album is pound-for-pound as good as any pop/r'n'b record of this or any decade.

Gil Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man (1971); Hugely influential pre-cursor to hip-hop. He blended spoken word, soul and jazz together into this hugely captivating, and entirely distinctive thing.



That'll do for now!

 

tbh the dylan/beatles obvious things are necessary for me

 

Start with Rubber Soul with The Beatles and go onwards, start with The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan for Dylan and go onwards.

Do Abbey Road/Highway 61 Revisited if you just want the one best record for each.

 

Definitely do Freewheelin Bob Dylan. Thats my favorite of his

 

Beggar's Banquet, Exile On Main Street and Let It Bleed for the Rolling Stones

 

Graceland rocks so fucking much, it's silly.

 

I highly recommend Boston's debut record on the grounds of 1.) it being a cornerstone early example of people using home studios/recording, and 2.) being a kickass, huge, bombastic 70s arena rock record.