classic soul that isn't Stax or Motown. Never got the "digging for obscure 45s that sound like the Delfonics and cost $600" bug I guess. I like many of the Numero comps covering this ground when I hear them, though, and may someday decide to follow some of those threads all the way to debtor's prison
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
metal, and I plan on keeping it that way
― subway Stalinist (sleeve), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
Kraftwerk doesn't really have a whole lot to do with the other bands you mentioned. Same scene but there's not really much in common musically. unless you're just talking the first 3 records which have been more or less written out of their history
Yellow Magic Orchestra, except for a few Ryuichi Sakamoto things.
this on the other hand is just unforgivable!!!
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
Chris L is in luck, because this board has some great YMO threads to get rid of that blind spot and see the yellow light. Like this one, for starters.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
I was going to say metal, but the OP contains the phrase "wish you knew more about." And I really don't. I have friends who followed hardcore into thrash and got way into early Metallica and Slayer, and then whatever followed. They were (and are) super into it, and I admire their rock spirit, but it'll never be my thing.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
I don't know about that, Cluster, Neu! + their respective offshoots have some things in common.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
I always want to get to know country music from the 80s through the present and never put in the time -- I guess I like what I hear just enough to be curious about but not enough to devote significant effort to.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
i quite like pre-70s country music but don't know enough about it
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
xxxp ah, missed that. in that case scratch metal and sub in classical, which I really do wish I knew more about. it's been fun to follow along with the "1800s" polls.
― subway Stalinist (sleeve), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
I like country too but never listen to it. Such good songwriting.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard YMO either--is BGM the best place to start?
― rob, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
probably Solid State Survivor, its their most well known and accessible
BGM is their best album IMO but it took me a while to warm up to it - very murky and strange.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Their earlier stuff is more, I don't know, proggy? I agree about BGM. I also really like the actual songs on x∞Multiplies.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
it might be interesting to do a similar thread but about music you consider yourself to have true expertise over.
sometimes I feel like every genre is a blind spot to me. 90s and 2000s IDM, which I feel I know a lot about, still has a huge amount of artists I've never heard. New wave, well I know the big players and the classic cuts, but I'd be lost if someone were to ask me to deep dive into the more obscure acts..
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
cool thanks, I'm going to try Solid State right now.
dl, I also never feel like an expert even in genres I have spent years listening to. on the plus side, I have also never felt burdened by completism
― rob, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
I've always been fascinated by people who have a very specific knowledge of one style of music. like people who collect Northern soul or dj a certain style of tech-house. my friends who run a soca night and radio show, I would say are experts on the genre and go deep on Dennery from St Lucia and know their power soca from their I don't know what.. They do listen to other stuff and I love that music but man, talking to them you realise you're just skimming the surface
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
If you're not hung up on the whole 45 thing, there are loads of great non-Numero CD comps out there collecting the rare and not-so rare non Motown & Stax stuff that won't break the bank. Start with Brit labels like Kent and their parent Are.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
*"Are" = Ace, yes? - https://acerecords.co.uk/soul-1/14?various=1
― Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
Yeah ACE. Stupid phone.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
Probably Berlin School electronic, which just seems to me like the shovelware of genres. I find a record I kind of like and immediately find out the person behind it has done 100 that sound the same but different that week. I _like_ "the same but different" but I just throw up my hands at that point and say "fuck it".
I kind of wish I was more familiar with the Great American Songbook. It really belongs to an earlier generation.
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link
Post-70s Jazz
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
y'all they're not blind spots if you don't want to correct them, that's just you not liking something
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
Per my revive, I take 'blind spot' in this context to mean 'something that, given my general musical inclinations, I should really have checked out by now but have been unaccountably circumventing to an extent which some might call perverse'.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
I don’t have blind spots. I just don’t feel I have much musical knowledge. I tend to skip from one thing to the next. No really extensive mastering of the history. I know a lot of names/genres but rarely delve into a genre deep enough. :-((( And especially these days I obsess over a few songs. Atm Ann Peebles’ Playhouse.
― nathom, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
Pat Metheny's catalog is a huge blind spot for me. I own Zero Tolerance For Silence, of course, but have never really listened to more than a few minutes of anything else. Might try to fix that this year.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
If you have never heard Song X, that might be a place to start. I love some of the mellower stuff like New Chautaqua and As Wichita Falls ... myself but I'm not sure about your taste wrt that sort of thing.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
my big one is Rush, I'm a huge prog head and I like a lot of Rush's singles but just never really felt like listening to a full LP
― frogbs, Friday, 10 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
You might wanna just write off Rush. In my experience Rush live > Rush on record, and it's not close. I was always OK with whatever songs got radio airplay but didn't need to hear more, but then I saw them live in 2011 and 2013 and was stunned by how much I enjoyed it. But I still never listen to their albums.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 10 January 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
At least listen to Moving Pictures and A Farewell to Kings before making that call. (If you're going further, maybe try Hemispheres if you want them at their proggiest.)
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Friday, 10 January 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
Oh, another one for me: Harry Nilsson. Almost every music fan I know can speak knowledgeably about the man's entire discogarphy, but all I know are the obvious big songs ("Without You," "Coconut," "Everybody's Talkin") "Me and my Arrow," and Pussy Cats (the latter of which I bought because someone told me it was "his Like Flies on Sherbert")
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 10 January 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
well shit, hope he didn't take it personally
― frogbs, Friday, 10 January 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
frogbs, hemispheres is up there with close to the edge, relayer, and thick as a brick
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
alright, y'all have convinced me. especially given what just happened :/
― frogbs, Friday, 10 January 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
re: Pat Metheny - I don't know that much of his stuff but the Offramp album is seriously great
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 11 January 2020 08:08 (four years ago) link
If you like that, try the other 'mellow' ones I mentioned.
― One must put up barriers to keep oneself intact (Sund4r), Saturday, 11 January 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link