what dedicated listening thread should we do next

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

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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.