Albums to buy?

[Left-wingist]

I really don't have that much music and I was wondering if any of you had some good suggestions. Listen to Nirvana and Kasabian most the time cause I never really got around to buying a lot of music. Any suggestions?

[The Forum Idiot]

If you like Nirvana try the TEN album by Pearl Jam, also The Breeders' Pod album was one of Kurt Cobain's favourites and its my all time fave album for many reasons. I also have a particular love of Megadeth, they're well worth a look, I'd recommend Youthanasia ( a bit mainstream) and Rust In Peace (mega-heavy). If you like Megadeth then Pantera are worth a look, and their Best Of is amazing.

I also recommend you check out Joy Division (moody stuff, a bit like a better, more dystopian Nirvana), L7 (a bit over militant but oh-so-excellent female punk band), Bob Dylan ('nuff said), X-Ray Spex (the definitive punk band in my opinion, they encapsulate everything that made the movement brilliant), The Clash (fantastic punk band, London Calling is amazing), Pixies are really good but an acquired taste, as are The Vaselines. REM's Automatic For The People is an essential purchase for anything, I like Ani DiFranco a lot (although not everyone here agrees with my opinion, so check her out first) and have been listening to Bruce Springsteen quite a bit lately (his best of's pretty good, Devils And Dust is a classic album as well, especially considering how recent it is, check out Born To Run, The River, Badlands, Atlantic City and Born In The USA). Steve Earle's another one I personally love, his latest (The Revolution Starts Now) is one of my fave albums and quite frankly blew me away when I first heard it. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are pretty good, particularly Californication and BloodSugarSexMagik which are excellent, but I understand if you dislike them.

I could go on for ages, but the above bands encompass most of what I've been into lately and my personal faves.

[Arsiema]

Try
- System of a Down
- Rage against the machine
- wilco

will come back with more later:)

[Gust]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2005, 12:48 PM
Try
- System of a Down
- Rage against the machine
- wilco

will come back with more later:)
One word-


PRIMUS.

That is all.

[Postteen]

two words :

Operation:Mindcrime

By Queensryche.The best album ever.

[Left-wingist]

Any recomendations for Joy Division, Bob Dylan, and X-Ray Spex? Also thanks a lot for that list The Forum Idiot. It was almost exactly what I was hoping for.

[The Forum Idiot]

No problem, here are the albums I'd recommend by 'em:

Joy Division - Substance (its their first best of and combines a collection of their hits as well as quite a few rarities and unreleased ones, a very nice CD)

Bob Dylan - My personal favourite is Blood On The Tracks, but its really depressing and most people would recommend Bringing It All Back Home or Highway 61 Revisited, or possibly Blonde On Blonde (BoB has two stand out classics, while the others are basically good the whole way through)

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents was their only album, but their is a "sooped up" double CD version called "X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents - The Anthology" which has loads of stuff on there. They're a bit of an acquired taste and the lead singer (Poly Styrene)'s voice is a bit shrill, she's really good though. And don't let anyone fool you by saying "Identity" and "Oh Bondage, Up Yours" are their only good songs.

[JazzRemington]

If you like Nirvana and good lyrics, try anything by The Germs.

[The Forum Idiot]

Yea, the Germs are pretty cool. Only heard a couple songs but they rock. Apparently Kurt Cobain was a big fan of Gang Of Four which are pretty good as well, very different music but pretty good.

[Pawn Power]

buy? :huh:

Rip

[Anti-establishment]

Illmatic by Nas

There is no way in hell you can't love it.

[Left-wingist]

Where do you suggest I rip them from then?

[Pawn Power]

friends, internet, anyone who has music you like

[Left-wingist]

Doubt any of them do. Any good programs?

[Redmau5]

Originally posted by Anti-[email protected] 26 2005, 07:04 PM
Illmatic by Nas

There is no way in hell you can't love it.
I agree. Turn away from the darkside which is rock/metal/punk/goth and all that shit.

Rap is the only way forward !!!

[Led Zeppelin]

X&Y - Coldplay.

[Clarksist]

If you are a grunge fan (as you like Nirvana) I'd recommend a few bands based on that:

Luscero (sp?)
Alice in Chains
Meatpuppets
The Melvins

That is all for now.

[Freigemachten]

Rock Against Bush Vol.s 1 and 2 are exelent political punkish compilation CDs both with various extras, political shorts music videos, short skits and some stand up, I personaly really enjoy both

[The Forum Idiot]

Originally posted by Makaveli_05+Jul 27 2005, 01:05 AM--> (Makaveli_05 @ Jul 27 2005, 01:05 AM)
Anti-[email protected] 26 2005, 07:04 PM
Illmatic by Nas

There is no way in hell you can't love it.
I agree. Turn away from the darkside which is rock/metal/punk/goth and all that shit.

Rap is the only way forward !!! [/b]
Well, considering that both genres are dying (let's face it, gangsta rap vs pop punk and neither wins) and you want this guy into "the way forward" shouldn't we be suggesting new-wave blues and/or folk?

Having something against rock which you probably haven't even tried much of is a bit stereotypical. I try to be open-minded to genres but you clearly don't. Do you even know what goth started off as? And from what he's said he likes I think its pretty clear that rock/metal/punk/goth is his kinda thing.

But while on the subject of rap, Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show and It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back are amazing.

[Pawn Power]

Doubt any of them do. Any good programs?

soulseek you can download whole albumes

[themaskedavenger]

Originally posted by The Forum Idiot+Jul 27 2005, 03:11 AM--> (The Forum Idiot @ Jul 27 2005, 03:11 AM)
Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2005, 01:05 AM

Anti-[email protected] 26 2005, 07:04 PM
Illmatic by Nas

There is no way in hell you can't love it.
I agree. Turn away from the darkside which is rock/metal/punk/goth and all that shit.

Rap is the only way forward !!!
Well, considering that both genres are dying (let's face it, gangsta rap vs pop punk and neither wins) and you want this guy into "the way forward" shouldn't we be suggesting new-wave blues and/or folk?

Having something against rock which you probably haven't even tried much of is a bit stereotypical. I try to be open-minded to genres but you clearly don't. Do you even know what goth started off as? And from what he's said he likes I think its pretty clear that rock/metal/punk/goth is his kinda thing.

But while on the subject of rap, Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show and It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back are amazing. [/b]
Rap is mainly materialistic and capitalistic. How can you even deem its the only way forward.

Yea theres stuff like Public Enemey, NAS, and Tupac. But those are few and far between.

[JazzRemington]

Originally posted by Revolution is the [email protected] 27 2005, 12:47 PM

Doubt any of them do. Any good programs?

soulseek you can download whole albumes
Don't forget Bit Torrent, which you can use to more easily get full albums.

[Pawn Power]

Don't forget Bit Torrent, which you can use to more easily get full albums.

Thats a good one too

[bolshevik butcher]

Gnagsta raps pretty shit. Raps meant to be about rebellion. Stuff like public enemy and nwa is good.

[Clarksist]

Rap is mainly materialistic and capitalistic. How can you even deem its the only way forward.

Yea theres stuff like Public Enemey, NAS, and Tupac. But those are few and far between.


How is Tupac not capitalistic?

What's funny is that his mother was a Black Panther. And then he is involved in one of the most publicized african-american splintering fued of pop culture.

Tsk tsk.

[Invader Zim]

If you like Kasabian, then i suggest you look into Kings of Leon, Starsailor, Idlewild, The Music, Razorlight, the Libertines, Manic Street Preachers and bands like that. Soft rock/indie rock.

If you like Nirvana, then I can think of a lot of bands you make like, Silverchair, Alice in Chains, Mad Season, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, etc.

[atlanticche]

temple of the dog
alice in chains - dirt
mother love bone
radiohead (anything you can find)
the eels(whichever album it is with saturday morning on)
no hope in new jersey (when their album comes out)
the ga ga's (if you like that kind of sleazy thing)

[Regicidal Insomniac]

I don't care what you're into, Manic Street Preachers' 'The Holy Bible' is required listening. After that I suggest looking into Sonic Youth (particularly the album 'Dirty'), The Weakerthans (if you can find them, make a bee-line for 'Left & Leaving'), Against Me! (specifically 'Reinventing Axl Rose'), and any piece of Radiohead.

[Vallegrande]

:) Anyone ever wonder what the literal definition of "Album" is? 'A white thing'. lol. Isn't that interesting? We never hear about "Negrums".

[The Forum Idiot]

Lol, I'm sure that album originates from latin and means something else or something.

[Don't Change Your Name]

or possibly Blonde On Blonde (BoB has two stand out classics, while the others are basically good the whole way through)

False. At least 8 out of the 14 songs are classics.



But to answer the topic, go here (http://starling.rinet.ru/music/index.htm). I'm just too lazy to help you, that's why.

[Redmau5]

Originally posted by Clenched [email protected] 27 2005, 09:17 PM
Gnagsta raps pretty shit. Raps meant to be about rebellion. Stuff like public enemy and nwa is good.
You just contradicted yourself. NWA was one of the first, and one of the most hardcore, gangsta rap acts.

[The Forum Idiot]

Originally posted by El Infiltr(A)[email protected] 28 2005, 08:48 PM

or possibly Blonde On Blonde (BoB has two stand out classics, while the others are basically good the whole way through)

False. At least 8 out of the 14 songs are classics.



But to answer the topic, go here (http://starling.rinet.ru/music/index.htm). I'm just too lazy to help you, that's why.
To be fair I've only listened to it a couple times, but you're probably right. My favourites though are Rainy Day Women 12 And 35 and Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands.

[celtopunk]

I still don't recall seeing a Clash album here...

So here goes...

The Clash - London Calling
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Joe Strummer - Rock Art & The X-Ray Style
X- Beyond and Back
Billy Bragg - Back to Basics
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegtables
Chumbawamba - Pictures of Starving Children/Never Mind the Ballots
Social Distortion - Live atthe Roxy
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Bad Religion - Suffer
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Also something from the following: Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix

Enjoy!!!!

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by Regicidal [email protected] 27 2005, 11:42 PM
I don't care what you're into, Manic Street Preachers' 'The Holy Bible' is required listening.
Simply because its one of the darkest, most political and most angry albums ever released by a band with a modicum of talent. However I prefer Generation Terrorists.

[Hampton]

Rap is mainly materialistic and capitalistic. How can you even deem its the only way forward.

Two things: You are listening to the wrong hip hop. And two, so what if it was? I see no problem with that being the case. Here's a tip: don't look for every album to change your life, listen to the music for the music. But look at it from the rappers perspective, when you come from nothing you like to live like you have something. Percentage wise most will never be famous of have lots of money or kill someone but they like to live it in their music.

Rap from its first day has been materialistic, it's nothing new.


Gnagsta raps pretty shit. Raps meant to be about rebellion. Stuff like public enemy and nwa is good.

Ehh...like it was said...NWA IS gangsta rap.


How is Tupac not capitalistic?

What's funny is that his mother was a Black Panther. And then he is involved in one of the most publicized african-american splintering fued of pop culture.

What is the point? Panthers fought other black groups in Oakland and other parts of California for the use of the name Black Panthers and were also rivals of the United Slaves organization and then later battled within themselves.

If anything, he was following their lead.

[Mujer Libre]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2005, 10:06 PM
temple of the dog
alice in chains - dirt
mother love bone
radiohead (anything you can find)
the eels(whichever album it is with saturday morning on)
no hope in new jersey (when their album comes out)
the ga ga's (if you like that kind of sleazy thing)
OMG, The Eels!!! :o I haven't heard anything of theirs in years. I used to really like them, but couldn't buy albums and stuff then... Then they kinda drifted away. *runs to download*

My list of albums to get hold of:
Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation - The Mighty Rearranger
SOAD- Mesmerize
and the new Rammstein album due out later this year; basically Reise Reise 2
Some Asian Dub Foundation

Other albums I'd definitely recommend getting a hold of:
Muse- Origin of Symmetry and Showbiz. OoS is one of those albums that doesn't feel like it's made up of individual songs, you just play it from start to finish.
Rammstein- Sehnsucht!!! My favourite album at the moment.
As people have said, Radiohead.
Mezzanine by Massive Attack or anything by Tricky if you're into good electronic music.
And for the rappers, just to show I love all genres... Black Sunday by Cypress Hill

[Ian]

If you like hardcore:
Epics in Minutes by Fucked Up
40 oz. of Hardcore by No Redeeming Social Value

[adreamofequality]

immortal technique revolutionary vol 1 and revolutionary vol 2

dead prez lets get free and RBG

[HastaLaVictoriaSiempre90]

System of a down- toxicity

Mtallica-master of puppets, kill em all, ride the lightning

Ion maiden-# of the beast, edward the great

Black sabbath- We sold our souls for rock'n'roll(greatest hits)

Led zep-any album

Sayer- any album


there is so much more i just cant think of them all.

I think all rap,hip-hop, whatever you call it sucks. you dont have to agree with me.

[Redvolution]

Here's just a few recommendations (artist and albums)-

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Clash - London Calling
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
The Mars Volta - De-louse in the Comatorium
Led Zeppelin - House of the Holy
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
Interpol - Antics
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Elliott Smith - XO
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Radiohead - Kid A


Could go on quite some more but those are some of my favorites. Enjoy! :lol:

[The Grey Blur]

Greatest hits of:

Clash
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Dylan
The Who
The Jam
The Sex Pistols
Van Morrison
Willie Nelson
Edith Piaf
Bob Marley
Pete Tosh
Led Zep
Black Sabbath
Captain Beefheart
Velvet Underground
Leonard Cohen
Lou Reed
The Beatles/Lennon/McCartney
Jeff Buckley
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
Rage Against The Machine
U2
Fleetwood Mac
Eva Cassidy
The Pogues
Frank Zappa
Nancy Griffith
Elvis Costello
Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel
Marvin Gaye
Luther Vandross
Sam Cooke
Metallica
Megadeath
Pantera
Jay-Z (Reasonable Doubt or The Blueprint or The Black Album)
Nas (Illmatic, Stillmatic, God's Son)
KRS-ONE
Public Enemy
Rakim (Is there a greatest hits? not sure)
David Bowie
Tom Waits
Loudon Wainwright
Queen
Dire Straits
Thin Lizzy
The Fugees
Eminem (Marshall Mathers Lp or The Eminem Show)
Notorious B.I.G
2Pac
The White Stripes
Prince
R.E.M
The Ramones
Mobb Deep (The Infamous)
Ry Cooder
Warren Zevon
Bruce Springsteen
Jerry Lee Lewis
Muddy Waters
James Brown
Oasis
Immortal Technique (The Revolutionary Vol. 2)

....can't think any more, brain shutting down, anything of the list... brilliant.....zzzzz

[Seeker]

First of all, don't buy anything that you can get for free.

I would highly recommend downloading Tool's album Lateralus.