Zappa
Captain Beefheart
Misfits
Elton John

tarandfeathers wrote:

gcbv wrote:For all of my prog-savvy tastes, I have to admit I don't know a whole darn lot about MAGMA.

Get Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh immediately and work your way backwards and forwards from there. One of my all time favorite bands!

That one is good (and essential) but I would take Theusz Hamtaak and Wurdah Itah as better movements of that trilogy...

The best thing might be to get their DVD from 2000. It has all three movements of the Theusz Hamataak trilogy (Theusz Hamtaak, Wurdah Itah, Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh) all in one package, with great audio, and it's cheaper than all three CD's. Some may have a problem with the recent incarnation of Magma, but they are still pretty amazing.

Watching the DVD gave me some insights as to what CV is doing on the drums. For example, most of the snare rolls are single handed. He has very supple wrists...

instant_zen wrote:I heard a Dinosaur Jr. song on the radio, and I really hated it; But it's the only thing I've heard by them. Any suggestions on albums to buy?

Their first self-titled one (with forget the swan, the leper, mountain man)

You're Living All Over Me (by far, their best)

Bug

Green Mind (it's good, but not great)

I would start with YLAOM. It is one of my fondest memories. I'm very glad to have seen them back when they were very good. I even 'member seeing Nirvana open for them.

Chapter Two wrote:Still haven't heard any Polvo apart from Cor-Crane Secret, which I understand is far from their best.

That one is good. Very good. I'd have to say Today's Active Lifestyles and The Exlploded Drawing are the best ones. Shapes is very good too.

Oh... This just in -- forgot about Celebrate the New Dark Age EP. VERY VERY VERY GREAT. Calculate the irony with someone you can trust...

Oh... As far as Magma, I can't believe I or anyone has not mentioned Kohntarkosz. It is a MADDENING record. Not part of the trilogy, but I guess it was supposed to be part of the 2nd cycle of the 9 movements they intended on writing (they just release K.A. a couple of years ago, which is the first movement of this)

Kohntarkosz is a spiraling, uphill struggle to reach the ultimate understanding. To me, it seems the ultimate understanding is a sort of chaos -- definately not fans of the universal generalization.

It is one of the creepiest albums, apart from the last track, which is dedicated to Coltrane.

Ork Alarm is also a high point. More of a soundscape than a composition, it features Jannick Top's technique of parts that meet up at common denominators. This is also something you hear in De Futura...

Oh, I can't believe I didn't mention De Futura... That is the definitive Magma track.

Whatever you do, don't buy Merci... You will hate this band.

Here is where my self-important musicophile act falls through completely.

My ignorance of certain important acts is truly heretical. In my defense - I just don't have the time to buy or download.

Die Kreuzen
X
DRI
Bon Scott-era AC/DC...this is really awful, especially since I love the songs from that era that I've heard...couldn't name any of them, though...this is so unbelievably embarrassing to admit...
Crass
Didjits
The Cure
Siouxsie and the Banshees (I heard a couple songs from these loons and just got turned off...overdramatic...)
The Slits
The Raincoats
Don Caballero
Rites of Spring
Fugazi
The Fall
Fantomas
MDC
Government Issue
Youth Brigade
DOA
Meat Beat Manifesto
Neurosis
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (I love, love, love The Birthday Party but never got hugely interested in these guys...bad call?)
Nomeansno
Polvo (of all of these, this may the worst, cause I actually have an album by them that I've never listened to a note of...I think it's called "Today's Alternative Lifestyles"?)
Slayer (only heard one song, really - that awful cover of "Guilty of Being White" - so that kinda stopped me from digging any further)
Undertones
Tom Waits
Scott Walker
XTC
Yo La Tengo
ZZ Top (of course I've heard a couple songs and adored them, but never got around to buying an album of theirs...)

Wow. I am truly fucking ignorant.

MDC - Fast and dirty. Semi-political dribble. Much fun if you like quick punk songs. "Radioactive Chocolate" , "John Wayne was a Nazi" , "Cold,Stupid and hungry"

DRI - I have heard a bunch of their songs but own only a few "Beneath the Wheel"

DOA - is good if you are into that kind of thing, worth a listen

Skip the Crass unless you are a punk who is trying to be a hippy

The Cure - Just plain good

The Raincoats - alright, but probably not worth the limewire search really.

Fugazi - listen to the album Red Medicine it's my favorite one.

I can't get into:

The Beatles

Bob Dylan

The Rolling Stones

Any Nordic/Black Metal band and most metal in general

The Clash



Bands I Haven't gotten around to yet:

Pavement

J Mascis & The Fog (Tho I love Dinosaur Jr.)

Talking Heads

Lots more........

-Jay

Until a month ago any dinosaur jr.
still no beatles
no rolling stones
basically no classic rock besides jimi
no bad religion
no bowie
Might I say I stay ignorant about this in order to start long drawn out conversations with people as to why I should does that make me an asshole?

P.S. same reason I've never seen Goonies or E.T.

run joe, run wrote:This is a pretty bad one :

The Fall.

I bought Bend Sinister about 6 years ago. Never even played it.

I heard a couple of great tracks by The Fall, at someone else's house...had never heard of them before last year. Then, I bought a random record, and was pretty disappointed. Gave it away.

What's the good one? The first one (a safe bet...)?

Here's a weird one: I don't know a single word of the vast, vast majority of lyrics in my favorite songs...but I know exactly how the vocals sound like. Not a word. I'm 36, with a reasonable music collection.

SecondEdition wrote:Meat Beat Manifesto

If you like your electronics trippy, and full of groove, and want a band that actually has a good sense of humor, check them out.

SecondEdition wrote:Slayer (only heard one song, really - that awful cover of "Guilty of Being White" - so that kinda stopped me from digging any further)

Forget the cover, download Reign In Blood, you won't regret it. It's one of the best metal albums ever.

Anticpunk wrote:Skip the Crass unless you are a punk who is trying to be a hippy

Unique and unpredictable rarely apply to punk, but it did to Crass. You don't know what you're talking about.