Spending spree

[mank!]

OK, I get paid next week and feel like a CD buying spree. Only problem is, I've got all the albums I want currently and fancy broadening my musical horizons a bit. This board is full of a wide range of musical tastes, so I thought you lot would be good to ask!

A list of the albums I currently own can be found here. Only type of music I really really hate is hip-hop and rap. Everything else I can cope with

Advice please!

 

[FatBusinessman]

YUO MUST GET TEH WESTLIEF ALBMU!!!!!11

*ahem*

 

[mank!]

I'll take it into consideration.

*ignore*

 

[Summo]

Tenacious D! They're funny and they ROCK!


/edit: To encourage and help you, I suggest you get it from here. Quick delivery and only £9.

/edit again: Seeing as you have a Foo Fighter's album, you might like to know that Dave Grohl is a huge fan of The D and played drums on their album. He even tagged along on their recent London gig which I done saw.

Can't help noticing you don't have any REM in that list. Try Automatic For The People to start with.

 

[Testin da Cable]

do a search of the forum for 'music' and 'best' or something. I suspect you'll get a nice cross-section of the best tunes of the past three years [and more]

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by Summo
Tenacious D! They're funny and they ROCK!

I got bored of Fuck Her Gently and Tribute... very quickly tbh :/ I might investigate them, however!

Originally posted by Summo
Can't help noticing you don't have any REM in that list. Try Automatic For The People to start with.

I hate REM with a passion. My Mum has most of their albums, so I've been subjected to it. Cannot stand his voice.

Originally posted by Testing da Cable
do a search of the forum for 'music' and 'best' or something. I suspect you'll get a nice cross-section of the best tunes of the past three years [and more]

Just tried that, got about four threads into the list and gave up. All of them had degenerated into slagging peoples taste off pretty quickly No doubt this will follow suit fairly quickly

 

[mr.Blacky]

Bryan Adams- unplugged

 

[mank!]

You cunt. You just single-handedly ruined my thread.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Norah Jones - Come away with me, fantastic mixture of jazz, blues and even country, plus she's a honey to boot.

Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP, songwriting like this doesn't happen very often anymore, 2 guys with acoustic guitars singing how your life is.

Vines - Highly Evolved, aussie 4 piece, very retro sound, yet lovingly crafted harmonies and charging distorted guitars.

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, the liner notes from Brian Wilson contain a quote that explains why this album should be in everyone's collection "When people listened to this album, I wanted them to feel loved" Put it on and you realise he was serious.

Eels - Soul Jacker, controversial picking this over Electro Shock Blues, but for me the eclectism of SJ wins me over, Pounding rock songs, string led anthms to Love and the usual depreciating Eels style all add up to a fantastic album.

Doves - The Last Broadcast, joint best album so far this year, nuff said.

Idlewild - The Remote Part, the other best album relased so far this year, Scottish rockers transformed into beautiful ballad writing indie heroes, top work lads!

Soulwax - 2 Many DJs, essential cd for sitting around with fellow music lovers and playing Spot the Tracks used. Cut and paste style mix album with frequent moments of breathtaking imagination interspersed with sheer comedy, sing with; I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller...

Depeche Mode - Exciter, essential for so many reasons, feeling down, put it on, feeling up, put it on, people over, put it on, everyone seems to love it, handy that.

Massive Attack - Blue Lines, THAT song and the fantastic Hymn of the Big Wheel, an essential for everyone's collection.

Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children, bleurgh, blargh, what is it? Indie, hip hop, downtempo, techno? All of the above and more, another album that at times is so perfectly right, and even when it's not is still thought provoking.

Marlena Shaw - Best of, the best female soul singer ever, yes, really

Brian Eno - Before and After Science, the closest to tunes that the chill out master ever got, as relaxing as you'd expect, perfect sunday music (or getting stoned)

Underworld - Beaucoup Fish, techno like none other, pounding and peacefull simaltaneously in places, how does it do it?

I'll think up a better list when I've had a flick through my collection for 'essentials'

 

[caLLous]

You could try a bit of Reef, mank. Glow was good.

On a sidenote, I just found a fantastic Jurassic 5 live show.

 

[nath]

fleetwood mac (no jokes) are good

Portishead: dummy

Leftfield: leftism I've been listening to loads recently, it's tres good.

Look in to some primal scream too, happy = screamadelica, rocky/angry = exterminator


(i'm just looking through my own cd collection atm)

Massive attack you pleb! (mezzanine=dark and scary, protection=hmm, can't think, just good. blue lines=trip-hop I believe)

that's all I can think of atm, I'll be going on a cd/dvd buying spree too soon, get paid at the end of the month

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass

Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP

Heard Mind Over Money awhile back. Liked muchly, candidate.

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
Doves - The Last Broadcast

Another candidate

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
Idlewild - The Remote Part

Bought it this week, very very good. Beats the knickers off Captain. Modern Way Of Letting Go = tune.

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
Soulwax - 2 Many DJs

Another good candidate, heard a few of their songs a long time ago. Pretty good stuff

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Depending on how much I like Mezzanine I might buy this. Thanks!

Originally posted by caLLous
You could try a bit of Reef, mank. Glow was good. [/B]

They played at my school, it was utterly comical... Pass

Originally posted by nath
fleetwood mac (no jokes) are good

Rumours rules me, my house, my cat and my garden.

Originally posted by nath
Portishead: dummy ... Massive attack you pleb!

Ordered already!

Oh, nath - I strongly recommend you avoid CD shops until you get paid if you want to do a proper spree

 

[Embattle]

Massive attack - Blue Lines
Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
Tracy Chapman
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked
Paul Simon - Graceland
Kate Bush - Various
Depeche Mode - Various
Art Of Noise - Below the Waste
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet

Have to say I enjoyed them all in the last couple of days.

 

[Embattle]

Love both Fleetwood mac and Mike Oldfield myself

 

[caLLous]

Originally posted by mank!
They played at my school, it was utterly comical... Pass

Define "comical".

 

[mank!]

Playing rock music to a bunch of schoolkids being charged 20p is quite comical in it's own little way. It was hardly an exciting gig. Plus they were utterly shite anyway, IMO

 

[FuZor]

Originally posted by Scooba Da Bass
Massive Attack - Blue Lines, THAT song and the fantastic Hymn of the Big Wheel, an essential for everyone's collection.

My Fav

 

[Xtro]

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegtables.

When I first heard "I Kill Children" (with its chorus "I kill children, I bang their heads in doors)) I thought they were just another daft punk band). Then I listened to "Holiday In Cambodia" and "California Uber Alles", noted the lyrics and noted that the band not only sound fucking A1 but the lyrics are v v v spot on politically and funny as fuck.

Too Drunk to Fuck is a classic too .

On an completely different day I would listen to Aphex Twin - got anything of his?

 

[caLLous]

Windowlicker is a nice track. And if you're looking for comedic, novelty music, you can't go far wrong with Kevin Bloody Wilson.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Originally posted by Xtro
On an completely different day I would listen to Aphex Twin - got anything of his?

Druqks is very very very pretty

 

[nath]

Originally posted by mank!
Oh, nath - I strongly recommend you avoid CD shops until you get paid if you want to do a proper spree

Ahh, but I have plenty of credit left on my CC.. but you're right, I'm trying to avoid putting too much on it yet.

I recently bought in utero (got it on tape but needed a cd ver) and unplugged in new york by nirvana, both from play simply because i'm going on a nirvana fest atm, and they were so cheap

 

[echo]

The Clash - London Calling
Beach Boys - Best of ( There's a few versions, any'll do )
Manic Street Preachers - Faster EP
Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory)
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction / Use Your Illusion 1 or 2
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia - Indian Ink
Slash's Snakepit - Ain't Life Grand
Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits ("If you don't like Bruce Springsteen, you don't like rocknroll" - Joe Strummer)

....or something

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by Xtro
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegtables.

Really not into Punk, but I'll give it a try

Originally posted by Xtro
On an completely different day I would listen to Aphex Twin - got anything of his? [/B]

I've got Come To Daddy EP and Selected Ambient Works 85-92 both of which are very good if I'm in the mood.

Originally posted by nath
I recently bought in utero (got it on tape but needed a cd ver) and unplugged in new york by nirvana, both from play simply because i'm going on a nirvana fest atm, and they were so cheap [/B]

Nirvana are great, though I think In Utero is overrated. Good album, but not a classic. Unplugged is very, very good mind Listen up Bryan Adams, that is how to make an Unplugged album

ps: snoopy, check your pm's

[edit: Also just noticed, nice sig snoopy - read Everything by Simon Price lately?]

 

[Sir Frizz]

Zero 7 - Simple things.

The Hives - Your new favourite band.

Moby - Play...NOT 18 'cos thats quite shit.

 

[mank!]

Got Play, contemplated buying both the Hives album and Zero 7 album many times.

 

[Mellow-]

So you don't like rap then ... hmmm, how about










Eminem

 

[mank!]

I ashamedly own his first album, fuck... I can't even remember what it's called

Anyway, fuck off

 

[Sir Frizz]

Originally posted by mank!
Got Play, contemplated buying both the Hives album and Zero 7 album many times.

"You can DO IT"

 

[bodhi]

I have noticed a lack of U2 - Achtung Baby on your list. Get it sorted, as it was easily the best album they ever did. Pop is also good if you want something a bit different yet a bit familiar.

 

[mank!]

Yes boss.

I'm going to run out of money