when an artist like Coltrane has 15 or 20 albums that are considered classic/essential, I tend to put off listening to their work for fear of starting in the wrong place.
With you. I've listened to so much other R&B/soul/funk from the same era but I haven't gone much further than James Brown's singles.
― I cop this squat in the name of slack (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
what was the one coltrane album? just listen to blue train.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
no! Just jump straight in with Ascension. Go hard or go home
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
i am a john coltrane fan who has listened to ascension only one or two times
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
I've listened to it a lot but it's not exactly a great showcase for him.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
start with giant steps imo
― niels, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
wtf listen to all of them in any order at all
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
yeah you can start pretty much anywhere with Coltrane
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
Ole!
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Africa/Brass
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
I never listened to a Kate Bush album until last year.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
I’ve never knowing heard Kate Bush
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
I've never listened to a Kate Bush album. Or a Bruce Springsteen album. Could go on all night with this...
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
mithering shites and born to the runs, innit.
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
I didn’t hear jailbreak, aja, pirates or visitors until this year
― Music is confidence (Ross), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
There’s so much good new music it’s hard to make time for everything and there’s no shame in it.
― Music is confidence (Ross), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
At least half these confessions are true for me.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
I realized at some point that “essential” is a marketing tactic used by the film, music and publishing industries. They create a sense of neverending “work” to be done with these lists of books you have to read and albums you have to listen to and in reality there are always way too many of them to get to and that’s the whole point.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
Man Alive otm
Create yer own canon
― Music is confidence (Ross), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:01 PM (eight hours ago)
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 4:23 PM (six hours ago)
Africa/Brass is the one I've heard. dog latin is probably right -- I feel like I'd be better off starting with a couple of his freest, heaviest albums and then working my way back to the (slightly) more obvious stuff
and yeah, man alive otm
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link