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
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
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