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Classic albums that hardly ever, if even NEVER, get discussed on this site...perhaps due to people's fixation on "funk" There are so many classic albums that NEVER get mentioned on this site...perhaps it's because people are so strangely fixated on only "funk" and "grooves." Perhaps folks have never bothered to listen to this stuff. Who knows?
Anyway, spread the music here...share classic albums that people should seriously check out...
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KingSausage said: There are so many classic albums that NEVER get mentioned on this site...perhaps it's because people are so strangely fixated on only "funk" and "grooves." Perhaps folks have never bothered to listen to this stuff. Who knows?
Anyway, spread the music here...share classic albums that people should seriously check out... [list] [*]"Tumbleweed Connection" by Elton John You know,KS,I don't have any albums by Elton John.I just have several Greatest Hits compilations and his box set,but I'd really like to get some of his albums.Is 'Tumbleweed Connection' a good place to start? What other classic Elton albums would you recommend? [This message was edited Fri Jun 27 0:25:52 PDT 2003 by DavidEye] | |
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DavidEye said: KingSausage said: There are so many classic albums that NEVER get mentioned on this site...perhaps it's because people are so strangely fixated on only "funk" and "grooves." Perhaps folks have never bothered to listen to this stuff. Who knows?
Anyway, spread the music here...share classic albums that people should seriously check out... [list] [*]"Tumbleweed Connection" by Elton John You know,I don't have any albums by Elton John.I just have several Greatest Hits compilations and his box set,but I'd really like to get some of his albums.Is 'Tumbleweed Connection' a good place to start? What other classic Elton albums would you recommend? Fuck his greatest hits. I'd start with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Tumbleweed Connection is VERY different, however. No big hits on it...just classic Western Americana. An absolute classic. You'll either love it or hate it. [This message was edited Thu Jun 26 12:53:22 PDT 2003 by KingSausage] "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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I would also HIGHLY recommend Elton John's "Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy" | |
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Here are a few:
REM Document Travis The Man Who John Mayer Room For Squares Depeche Mode Violator Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now And. . .if you really like a nasal voice: Rufus Wainwright Rufus Wainwright I admit, Rufus is an acquired taste, but the album is incredible . . | |
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is amazing. I always call it the SOTT of the 70's. lol
The live in Australia album is great because you hear a different approach to his older songs. Madman Across The Water is great as well. Goodbye may be the saddest ballad ever composed. Yea, funk aint all there is: Radiohead, OK Computer-- How the fuck can an album be this perfect? So beautiful even the devils in the fiery pits grab for hanks of tissue. The Church, Starfish. Great murky, jangly alternative pop. mix the Doors with Echo And The Bunnymen. All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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floralelephants said: And. . .if you really like a nasal voice: Rufus Wainwright Rufus Wainwright I admit, Rufus is an acquired taste, but the album is incredible . . Floral I'm with you on the talent AND on the nasal voice. I'm kind of partial to Poses though. LOVE POSES!! C | |
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KingSausage said: There are so many classic albums that NEVER get mentioned on this site...perhaps it's because people are so strangely fixated on only "funk" and "grooves."
Perhaps folks have never bothered to listen to this stuff. Who knows? Anyway, spread the music here...share classic albums that people should seriously check out...
And maybe its just me... but Tumbleweed Connection is a FUNKY - AS* album!! Especially Son Of Your Father!! ouch! | |
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KingSausage said: There are so many classic albums that NEVER get mentioned on this site...perhaps it's because people are so strangely fixated on only "funk" and "grooves." Perhaps folks have never bothered to listen to this stuff. Who knows?
Anyway, spread the music here...share classic albums that people should seriously check out...
i hear your point loud & clear. i love FUnk. but i listen to all types of music,too. dylan's and elton's albums are pretty good. i haven't heard these 2 in ages. ej's made more popular albums but my memory of this one( a friend of mine played me it and dylan's years ago) told me it was just as good as the more commerical ones that took him to number 1 consistantly in the mid-late 70's! nebraska's different than most of bruce's records. i'm not a big fan of his...but i dig this album. 5 stars to the stones "buttons" & the police's "ghost in the machine (i gotta pull this one out of the closet and play it! ) cool thread. oh before i 4get k-sausage...here's a few clasic ones i have in my collection...do U remember these: 1.some girls-stones 2.law and order -lindsay buckingham (underrated artist...i like his solo stuff better than his f-mac stuff) 3.are U experienced & axis as bold as love-jimi (listen to these and you'll think of prince a lot) 4.band on the run & the russian album-mccartney (macca rocks his ass off...rootsy shit) 5.catch a fire & exodus-marley (bob's best) 6.fly like a eagle & the steve miller box-set (stevie was HOT as a motha in the 70's) | |
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you said Elton John | |
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CDHTUNE said: floralelephants said: And. . .if you really like a nasal voice: Rufus Wainwright Rufus Wainwright I admit, Rufus is an acquired taste, but the album is incredible . . Floral I'm with you on the talent AND on the nasal voice. I'm kind of partial to Poses though. LOVE POSES!! C I agree, Poses is great as well. . .and have you heard that a new album should be out sometime this fall? | |
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floralelephants said: CDHTUNE said: floralelephants said: And. . .if you really like a nasal voice: Rufus Wainwright Rufus Wainwright I admit, Rufus is an acquired taste, but the album is incredible . . Floral I'm with you on the talent AND on the nasal voice. I'm kind of partial to Poses though. LOVE POSES!! C I agree, Poses is great as well. . .and have you heard that a new album should be out sometime this fall? Heard of it, yeah. He advertises it on his site as being the "mother" of all albums. I'm personally keeping a closer eye on Martha Wainwright and Teddy Thompson. | |
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Mizzunderstood said: you said Elton John
Damn right I did. Listen to Tumbleweed Connection; it'll redefine your perception of "Elton John." I'm not talking about The Lion King here. I'm talking about widely-recognized classics. Elton had a STRING of them in the 70s. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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Mizzunderstood said: you said Elton John
See...comments like this, and your one about The Police just being "wannabe White reggae" on the other thread, are just as ridiculous as people who foolishly say, "Prince?!? That loser hasn't had a hit since 1991...is he even alive? Shit, he wasn't even good in the first place...just a lame pop star trying to pretend like he was Hendrix or something..." Educate yourself. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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INXS - Whencome to wherever you are
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water The Cranberries - No Need to Argue Abba - Arrival! The Human League - Dare Terrence Trent Darby - The Hardline according to The Beatles - Abbey Road Tears For Fears - The Hurting . | |
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Mizzunderstood said: you said Elton John
and what's the matter with elton john? don't pretend that you never listened to "bennie and the jets" or "daniel" and thought the ish wuz hot. as for my thoughts on this....believe it or don't, i didn't totally grow up on straight-up funk. radio in the midwest has gotta be the deadest of 'em all. but there were quite a few bands, songs n'such that me and my relatives dug...mo' on this later, ya'll. edit schmedit [This message was edited Thu Jun 26 14:15:45 PDT 2003 by Handclapsfingasnapz] | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: Mizzunderstood said: you said Elton John
and what's the matter with elton john? don't pretend that you never listened to "bennie and the jets" or "daniel" and thought the ish wuz hot. true | |
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Mizzunderstood said: Handclapsfingasnapz said: Mizzunderstood said: you said Elton John
and what's the matter with elton john? don't pretend that you never listened to "bennie and the jets" or "daniel" and thought the ish wuz hot. true See! "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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KingSausage said: Mizzunderstood said: Handclapsfingasnapz said: Mizzunderstood said: you said Elton John
and what's the matter with elton john? don't pretend that you never listened to "bennie and the jets" or "daniel" and thought the ish wuz hot. true See! but all that candle in the wind stuff has got 2 go [This message was edited Thu Jun 26 14:19:38 PDT 2003 by Mizzunderstood] | |
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Mizzunderstood said: KingSausage said: Mizzunderstood said: Handclapsfingasnapz said: Mizzunderstood said: you said Elton John
and what's the matter with elton john? don't pretend that you never listened to "bennie and the jets" or "daniel" and thought the ish wuz hot. true See! but all that candle in the wind stuff has got 2 go [This message was edited Thu Jun 26 14:19:38 PDT 2003 by Mizzunderstood] Damn straight. That shit needs to go right down the toilet... "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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floralelephants said: Here are a few:
REM Document Travis The Man Who John Mayer Room For Squares Depeche Mode Violator Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now And. . .if you really like a nasal voice: Rufus Wainwright Rufus Wainwright I admit, Rufus is an acquired taste, but the album is incredible . . Violator Kicks ASS!!! | |
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Pet Sounds | |
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I'd like to add Black Sabbath's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Metallica's ...And Justice For All to this list. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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Machine Head - Deep Purple
Physical Grafitti - Led Zep Woman & Children First - Van Halen Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age Rocks - Aerosmith (before they turned into what they are now) Live - Marvine Gaye Everything from Ben Harper, Lords of Acid, Zeke, Kyuss, ACDC, Mozart and Los Lobos. | |
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Slave2daGroove said: Machine Head - Deep Purple
Physical Grafitti - Led Zep Woman & Children First - Van Halen Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age Rocks - Aerosmith (before they turned into what they are now) Live - Marvine Gaye Everything from Ben Harper, Lords of Acid, Zeke, Kyuss, ACDC, Mozart and Los Lobos. Excellent choices...People on this site never mention Highway to Hell by AC/DC...or Toys in the Attic by Aerosmith... "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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The Queen Is Dead - THE SMITHS
Pet Sounds - THE BEACH BOYS Confessions Of A Pop Group - THE STYLE COUNCIL Bryter Later - NICK DRAKE Grace - JEFF BUCKLEY Scary Monsters - DAVID BOWIE Blonde On Blonde - BOB DYLAN Live At The Roxy - BRIAN WILSON JOHN LENNON/Plastic Ono Band It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah!!! - BLACK GRAPE | |
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Bad Brains-The ROIR Tape
The Smiths-anything but I have to pick The Queen is Dead Pixies-Surfer Rosa Velvet Underground & Nico Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures Ny Dolls-NY Dolls Cocteau Twins-Treasure Nick Drake-Pink Moon Throwing Muses-Throwing Muses Belle & Sebastian-TigerMilk Love-Forever Changes From the top O' my head.. | |
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George Harrison's All Things Must Pass
Derek & The Dominoes' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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Steely Dan -- Aja
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Don't mean to add too much to what is becoming more of an Elton John thread- but I would highly recommend his album "Blue Moves" from '76. It's my favorite album of his, and I don't think it gets near enough recognition.
For some reason, (and I have almost all his albums) I never could get into "Tumbleweed Connection". It's just not as catchy as the self titled album that came before it or several of his huge albums that came after. Other albums I want to mention: Steely Dan- Pretzel Logic (before they really made it big) Billy Joel- 52nd Street (came out after The Stranger, his most jazz influenced record) Spacehog- Resident Alien (skipping a couple of decades here) Paul Simon- There Goes Rhymin' Simon Sting- The Dream of the Blue Turtles REM- Automatic for the People | |
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