what dedicated listening thread should we do next

so far we did the Eagles and Billy Joel and Elton John. All of which I kinda hate but were nonetheless entertaining! Someone suggested Queen next but ugh. Should be an act with a clearly defined + manageable catalog, preferably one that's popular but not particularly critically well-trodden ground.

i suggested queen! still think it's a good/terrible idea

Maze & Frankie Beverly

that one is way better

def one I don't know at all

I would kinda be into Lou Reed solo tbh but maybe that's too well-trodden ground around here

I was also thinking Rufus & Chaka Khan.

Prince, but just official releases, no demos or side projects or remixes or anything like that.

Nah his catalog is huuuuuge and well loved

It should definitely be in the R&B/soul/funk realm, because those groups tend to be seen as singles acts, so there will be lots of unknown album cuts to discover. Rufus & Chaka Khan would be a good one. I'd vote for Earth, Wind & Fire, but they've got a lot of albums.

How about Curtis Mayfield / Impressions?

Earth Wind & Fire is a really good call.

EWF catalog isn't *too* overwhelming. Right around the same size as Joel's, though more compressed in timespan.

Billy Idol
Terence Trent D'Arby/Sananda Maitreya
Robert Palmer (maybe too prolific?)

Maybe Sparks?

Blue Öyster Cult

Those Ben Liebrand Grand 12-inch compilations would make a fucking awesome listening club imo.

Blue Öyster Cult

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, October 29, 2018 6:07 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have done this and it is a good time

David Essex albums, maybe cutting off after This One's for You (1984)

or possibly the Bay City Rollers

The Nurse With Wound record list:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_with_Wound_list

In which we listen and discuss 6 albums per week every week for a year until the full list is completed.

This guy apparently did it:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/dotadot/the_rym_dreamteams_guide_to_the_nurse_with_wound_list/

My vote: Rush

b e e g e e s

I thought of the bee gees and u know they’re dear to my heart but its kind of a huge discography

Otoh they def dont get the critical analysis/hosannas they deserve, and commercially they are certainly on the level of eagles/joel/john

The bulk of it runs from 1967(?) to 1981, and then a few scattered albums after that, no? Unless you're counting collaborative things like the Streisand album or Robin's solo things.

Commodores + Lionel Solo

dave matthews band

Aerosmith, Metallica

Heart, Jefferson Airplane/Starship

as the showrunner for the joel thread, which was a TON of fun, i have to vote for getting away from the white guys for a while. EWF would be pretty interesting to me since i know so little, but like what i've heard. i'd also be into a female country singer if one fits the profile and has a workably excerptable discography. is there an intriguing stretch of dolly parton's career? bonnie raitt's?

FWIW, "about as many albums as billy joel" can still test everyone's patience. i never did get around to going back and bumping his very last few tracks or the classical album. i did that one as every damn track in order, but that was a departure from the elton john precedent and i think it's okay to be a little more selective or pick the time period that seems like it'd be the most interesting. i went with all of billy cause (A) i'm a crazy person and (B) the "unknown" stretches of his discography were kind of spread out, with several pre-stardom albums and then several after an innocent man that nobody really pays attention to. those were sometimes really interesting and sometimes you could tell people were JUST on the verge of screaming for mercy and then there'd be either some cool interesting song popping back out, or you hit one of the smash albums and everybody knows the songs and that mixes it up a little. and then by pure luck it turned out we all liked river of dreams more than anybody had expected, it was kinda cool. but i'm not sure the same size discography would work if it's like, the first three albums are awesome and then there's nine albums back-to-back of contract filler (or w/e). BUT it could be interesting to do an artist where everyone knows those three awesome albums, and just do the three albums after that. idk.

Heart

I've never listened to Passionworks or Private Audition, so why start now? lol

bee gees would be awesome

Bee Gees or Rufus/Chaka would be the most fun for me on a personal level, but I still don't know how strictly I'd adhere to the thread or schedule. Lazy like that.

Mariah Carey
Sinéad O’Connor

Joni Mitchell? Sly Stone?

Funkadelic

Ooh or Love / Arthur Lee

Country ladies tend to have huuuuuge discographies (dolly included), as well as significant chunks that just arent available on the internet. So it would be a challenge, i think. Much as they deserve it.

I’m not into EWF personally but maybe i will just poll the nominees so far

metallica or joni would be fun. too bad we bailed on sun ra. not that I contributed but I was listening.

Commodores + Lionel Solo

― ... (Eazy), Monday, October 29, 2018 10:07 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was my very first thought

speaking of sun ra, i’ve been thinking about starting that back up around january

wu-tang

Dire Straits

Country ladies

Well, Bobbie Gentry - six albums plus one with Glenn Campbell. FWIW.

*Glen

However, I would suggest Minnie Riperton. A sadly limited but varied and largely awesome discography.

Slave
War
Robin Trower
Legendary Pink Dots
my dream one is Boredoms though that prob misses widely the point

I get frightened just looking at the extent of the Legendary Pink dots bandcamp page. A primer would be good tho.

Wire
Yes
Kate Bush
Yellow Magic Orchestra

^any of those^

or Monster Magnet

Serge Gainsbourg

Jimmy Giuffre

Geri Allen

Henry Threadgill

+1 on Serge!

Actually I'd be happy with anything that isn't a white AOR act from the 70s.

Bread.

... oops, didn't read the post immediately above!

Sly and the Family Stone

i agree with whoever said Earth Wind and Fire

I think that means Camaraderie is voting for Metallica.

I think I've listened to every Rush album and I went through every pre-80s Joni album when we did the ballot poll. Might have listened to most BOC albums too. Still, I'd be happy to do any of those again.

yeah rush (pre-'90s), boc, and joni would also be retreads for me but they're all delightful catalogs

i think ewf is the strongest case here, and i've never actually gone through all of their albums

Hm, Michael Jackson only has 10 solo studio albums, 12 if you count posthumous releases.

No beef with EWF

perfectly happy to defer bee gees to some far future date, but I do think given their evolution it would be really fun, and their discography isn't really that nuts ni terms of size

I would definitely follow along with EWF.

MJ wd be super interesting to me but maybe the deeper albums are already better known around here? I thought about Madonna too but I get the sense I am in the extreme minority in not even knowing all her singles, let alone the album cuts.

War
Robin Trower
Legendary Pink Dots
my dream one is Boredoms though that prob misses widely the point

― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, October 30, 2018 2:47 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I get frightened just looking at the extent of the Legendary Pink dots bandcamp page. A primer would be good tho.

― Walter Wegmüller Fruit Corner (Noel Emits)

come on over to the main LPD thread anytime, I will give u many opinions

Donna Summer might be interesting.

I just went through a EWF binge after reading Maurice White's book, and as much as I like them I think it would be a hard slog, because there are none of the obvious missteps or just plain crap songs that made the Eagles or Rod Stewart or Billy Joel fun to comment on. You need the good and the bad. How about Marvin Gaye post WGO, or Aretha?

Marvin Gaye post WGO

very short and nothing sucks in this run either

Yeah but some of it is pretty WTF

I think the artists I would be most interested in are probably those well known by most of y'all (Madonna, Prince) but I'm game for EWF

Marvin Gaye too definitely

Queen is a good choice imo, they have the same super popularity, huge hits mixed w/stuff that hardly anyone knows

no Leo Sayer no credibility

also ppl hate them with at least as much fury as ppl hate billy joel or the eagles xp

yup

also FYI what dedicated listening thread should we do next (the poll)

this thread should probably be locked just for convenience

Joni Mitchell

Cher

an electrical clerk of works once gleefully sung at me: "Oh what a feeling, when your rough as fuck trunking is hanging off the ceiling". Obv you had to be there.

i have to vote for getting away from the white guys for a while

^^^

but also, having happily survived the eagles and billy joel excursions, i think a big part of what made both of them work was having a moderator who was insanely committed to the idea. the moderator/subject match is crucial.

this is why i volunteered for metallica, it'd be a lot of fun for me

Any reason a few of these can't run simultaneously?

Metallica would be fun for me too since they're the biggest metal band that I've hardly listened to at all.