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kerraig UK

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Right so there's a million artists that i want to get into, but I just don't have the time to listen to all those gundreds of albums. But like, if a real fan gave us a top 10, then I could get those songs, educate myself, and branch out from there. Would this be helpful to others?

Artists i'm interested in but dont really know where to start: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Brian Eno, Muddy Waters, BB King

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Dylan : Highway 69 revisited, Blonde on blonde, Blood on tracks, The times they are a-changing.

Springsteen : Born to run, The River, Nebraska.

Brian Eno : Here come the warm jets, Before and after science, Ambient #1/Music for airports.

And the wonderful My life in the bush of ghosts with David Byrne

Good start I think.

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This sounds like a good idea. I’m sure I’m not the biggest Bruce Springsteen fan on here but I have all his albums and I’ve seen him live a few times so I’ll suggest 10 of my favourite Bruce tracks. It should be a good intro to his stuff as it covers all his big themes and all the different Springsteen/E-Street band sounds. I didn’t include any of the folk stuff.

The album they’re taken from is in brackets and if anyone is interested I can put them together in some kind of Rapidshare download after work today.

Thunder Road (Born to Run)

The River (The River)

Two Faces (Tunnel of Love)

When you’re alone (Tunnel of Love)

Streets of Fire (Darkness on the edge of town)

My Father's House (Nebraska)

I’m going down (Born in The USA)

Glory Days (Born in The USA)

Youngstown (The Ghost of Tom Joad)

Paradise (The Rising)

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Dude thanks for that bruce top 10. I've grabbed all those now and will give myself are very quick short sharp education on the boss forthwith.

3 albums is too much. there are at least 30 of these 'classic' artists i'd like a starter guide to (david bowie, Rush, allman brothers band, The band, elton john, rod stewart) and one album wouldnt give a true sample of their work.

SURELY a real fan of these artists could come up with a top 10. It might be debatable, but that just makes it interesting for the reader and more informative for the person who needs it.

For example, heres my top 10 for pink floyd to get someone started:

wish you were here

shine on you crazy diamond (delicate sound of thunder)

comfortably numb (the wall disc II)

brain damage/eclipse (DSoTM)

echoes (live at pompeii)

the gunners dream (the final cut)

see emily play (relics)

fat old sun (atom heart mother)

set the controls for the heart of the sun (a saucerful of secrets)

Careful with that axe, eugene (Ummagumma)

Of course i've missed absolutely brilliant songs off that list, but its also about an hour of absolutely perfect rock music spanning a bands entire career. And from it you can get an idea of the 3 different stages of the band, as well as working out which era you'd like to explore more. If you just said "listen to ummagumma" to someone starting out on pink floyd, they really might not get what the fuss is about.

ten for neil diamond

sweet caroline

play me

oh mary

I am i said

Girl, you'll be a woman soon

holly, Holy

play me

cracklin Rosie

Mr Bojangles

Brothers love travelling salvation show

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Ten for Bob Dylan:

Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

Tangled Up In Blue

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Mr Tambourine Man

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Like A Rolling Stone

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

Visions of Johanna

Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Desolation Row

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Led Zeppelin:

Dazed and Confused (LZI)

What Is and What Should Never Be (LZII)

Immigrant Song (LZIII)

Black Dog (LZIV)

No Quarter (HotH)

Kashmir (PhGr)

Achilles' Last Stand (Presence)

Over the Hills and Far Away (htwww)

Stairway to Heaven (htwww)

Going to California (htwww)

Black Sabbath:

Black Sabbath (BS)

War Pigs (paranoid)

Fairies Wear Boots (paranoid)

Children of the Grave (master)

Into the Void (master)

Supernaut (vol4)

Snowblind (vol4)

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (SBS)

Spiral Architect (SBS)

Symptom of the Universe (Sabotage)

Queen:

White Queen (as it began) (Queen II)

March of the Black Queen (Queen II)

Now I'm Here (SHA)

Bohemian Rhapsody (ANatO)

The Prophet's Song (ANatO)

Spread Your Wings (News)

We Will Rock You (live killers track 1)

Let Me Entertain You (live killers)

Play The Game (Game)

Innuendo (Innuendo)

I would still say checking out the best 2-3 albums for each artist would be a better idea

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I would still say checking out the best 2-3 albums for each artist would be a better idea

I'd say thats stage 2. If I did that i'd already have 9 albums i needed to listen to from 1 day in this thread. not gonna happen. As it is i've just got 30 songs to listen to. Much easier.

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Led Zeppelin:

Dazed and Confused (LZI)

What Is and What Should Never Be (LZII)

Immigrant Song (LZIII)

Black Dog (LZIV)

No Quarter (HotH)

Kashmir (PhGr)

Achilles' Last Stand (Presence)

Over the Hills and Far Away (htwww)

Stairway to Heaven (htwww)

Going to California (htwww)

The version of Immigrant Song on How the West was Won is far more immediate and is just one of those Led Zep songs that strives on being played 'live', so I'd recommend that verision. I'd recommend the whole album really. The opening of Immigrant song, Heartbreaker and Black Dog with little restbite is just an awesome opening to a brilliant live album and a great introduction to Led Zep.

The studio verision of Stairway to Heaven is better than the one on htwww though imo. Page mangles the solo a bit and comes in with it later than on the studio version, which makes it lack a certain punch. Im not a huge fan of the song anyway though.

Achilles Last Stand is fucking awesome though, can't get enough of it at the moment.

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Sonic Youth

Early (Abrasive, droney, lots of feedback and noise)

Society is a hole

Death Valley '69

Tom Violence

Expressway To Yr Skull

Experimental but melodic

Schizophrenia

Stereo Sanctity

Tuff Gnarl

Teen Age Riot :D

Cross The Breeze

Candle

Grungey and accessible

Dirty Boots

Kool Thing

100%

Drunken Butterfly

Sugar Kane

Bull in the Heather

The Diamond Sea

Sunday

Superstar

Recent (spacious, clean, epic, beautiful)

The Empty Page

Rain on Tin

Sympathy For The Strawberry

Unmade bed

Dripping Dream

Stones

New Hampshire

Reena

Jams Run Free

The Lee Renaldo songs (Wonderful voice, great lyrics, excellent songcraft :( x100

Hey Joni

Eric's Trip

Karen Revisited

Paper Cup Exit

Skip Tracer

Hoarfrost

NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Pipeline/Kill Time

I ran well over 10 but they've such a diverse catalogue that I thought I'd split it up into sections to cater for different tastes.

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I'll have a go at doing a list for REM... even though I'm not as familiar with their earlier songs as their later ones.

I decided to pick one song per album. The ten song limit meant I decided to miss out Reveal and Fables of the Reconstruction, as much as I like them. I'm not too sorry about missing out Around the Sun though. :(

Radio Free Europe - Murmur

Feeling Gravitys Pull - Reckoning

Begin the Begin - Lifes Rich Pageant

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - Document

Orange Crush - Green

Half a World Away* - Out of Time

Drive - Automatic for the People

Bang and Blame - Monster

Electrolite - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Daysleeper - Up

* Just for a change from Losing My Religion. :)

Sonic Youth

Experimental but melodic

Schizophrenia

Stereo Sanctity

Tuff Gnarl

Teen Age Riot :D

Cross The Breeze

Candle

What, no Silver Rocket? For me that was the most catchy/accessible song on Daydream Nation. I'm not familiar with many of their other albums though, so thanks for posting that list.

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Sonic Youth

What, no Wish Fulfillment?

Probably the single most most accessible song off their earlier albums.

Anyway, I'll try and do Pixies

Debaser - Doolittle

La la love you - Doolittle

Hey - Doolittle

Gigantic - Surfer Rosa

Letter to Memphis - Trompe le Monde

Bone Machine - Surfer Rosa

Dig for fire - Bossanova

Winterlong - B sides

Here comes your man - Doolittle

I've been tired - Come on pilgrim

I've missed out some amazingly brilliant songs here like Caribou, U Mass, Monkey Gone To Heaven, Wave of Mutilation. Just go and buy all their albums if you haven't listened to them before. You won't regret it.

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What, no Wish Fulfillment?

Probably the single most most accessible song off their earlier albums.

Anyway, I'll try and do Pixies

Debaser - Doolittle

La la love you - Doolittle

Hey - Doolittle

Gigantic - Surfer Rosa

Letter to Memphis - Trompe le Monde

Bone Machine - Surfer Rosa

Dig for fire - Bossanova

Winterlong - B sides

Here comes your man - Doolittle

I've been tired - Come on pilgrim

I've missed out some amazingly brilliant songs here like Caribou, U Mass, Monkey Gone To Heaven, Wave of Mutilation. Just go and buy all their albums if you haven't listened to them before. You won't regret it.

Great list for the Pixies, but for me Wave of Mutilation is absolutely essential

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Rush:

Bastille Day - live (Different Stages)

2112 (2112)

Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres (Hemispheres)

Freewill (Permanent Waves)

Jacob's Ladder (Permanent Waves)

Natural Science (Permanent Waves)

Red Barchetta (Moving Pictures)

Subdivisions (Signals)

Afterimage (Grace Under Pressure)

Marathon (Power Windows)

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Rush:

Bastille Day - live (Different Stages)

2112 (2112)

Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres (Hemispheres)

Freewill (Permanent Waves)

Jacob's Ladder (Permanent Waves)

Natural Science (Permanent Waves)

Red Barchetta (Moving Pictures)

Subdivisions (Signals)

Afterimage (Grace Under Pressure)

Marathon (Power Windows)

Another great list but lacks Spirit of Radio :D

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Can someone do a Tom Waits one? Ta :D

That's quite difficult, due to his massive discography(Then again, I managed with Rush, who have one of a similar length)

But here's my attempt:

Ol'55 (Closing Time)

Grapefruit Moon (Closing Time)

Heartattack and Vine (Heartattack and Vine)

Soldier's Things (Swordfishtrombones)

Singapore (Rain Dogs)

Jockey Full Of Bourbon (Rain Dogs)

Temptation (Franks Wild Years)

I'll Be Gone (Franks Wild Years)

Chocolate Jesus (Mule Variations)

I'm Still Here (Alice)

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