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IUG posted:I’m in the same boat where I have just “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”. I had “At War with the Mystics” in my queue to try next. Is that one not recommended? I saw that there was a Flaming Lips thread, and saw there’s a drastic drop off in quality at a certain point. It's very good. But also investigate the album before Yoshimi, "The Soft Bulletin"
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The Flaming Lips had a really good run from In a Priest Driven Ambulance to At War With the Mystics. Of those, Clouds Taste Metallic, the Soft Bulletin, and Yoshimi are the ones I would direct new people towards.
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Cemetry Gator posted:The Flaming Lips had a really good run from In a Priest Driven Ambulance to At War With the Mystics. Of those, Clouds Taste Metallic, the Soft Bulletin, and Yoshimi are the ones I would direct new people towards. I’ll cosign this and add Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
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Franchescanado posted:I’ll cosign this and add Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It's very good. But also investigate the album before Yoshimi, "The Soft Bulletin" I have the Flight Test EP I found at a second hand shop, so I’m doing Mystic and that EP. After that I was going to go backwards, it seems that Mystic is the furthest to go according to that other thread.
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I may be in the minority but I enjoy Embryonic way more than anything else they have done post Yoshimi. I might actually enjoy it more than Yoshimi and soft bulletin but I haven’t listened to those albums in ages. I’m also a much bigger fan of their earlier stuff so take my opinion with a boulder of salt.
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Same, Embryonic is weirdly under appreciated.
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As someone with a lyric from The Terror in his avatar I have to say that it isn't a bad album but it's definitely very different from Yoshimi or Mystics.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Biggie Smalls? He only has two albums. Ready to Die is by far the better one though Live After Death has some major hits.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Ready to Die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEaPDNgUPLE If you get totally hooked, he's got a lot of great guest verses as well.
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Henchman of Santa posted:He only has two albums. Ready to Die is by far the better one though Live After Death has some major hits. Well hell, I didn't even look first. I think it was Party and Bullshit that got me thinking I need to dig into him more. I think I've mostly heard his guest spots.
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Ready to Die is a drat masterpiece and if you don’t have at least seven different picks for “best song on the album” (one for every day of the week) you haven’t listened to it enough yet. Since it’s Wednesday the best song is obviously Everyday Struggle.
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So I was listening to Ready to Die and stepped away from my desk while gently caress Me was playing on the speakers and boy was I alarmed that my coworkers might have overheard that
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Minister of Sound posted:Thin Lizzy? Jailbreak is their best and has the big hits, but you can't go wrong with any album from 1975-79.
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Also look up Live and Dangerous. Their last album, Thunder and Lightning with John Sykes on guitar, had some really good stuff too after their peak years.
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Fighting is my favorite TL record (it's the one immediately before Jailbreak), and Cold Sweat, off that aforementioned Thunder & Lightning record, might be my single favorite track of theirs. just good stuff up and down
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The best thing about listening to Thin Lizzy albums is finding out how many songs there are that you never realized were Thin Lizzy songs. Also the lyric "tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." Uh maybe in the vicinity of the jail?
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The 1-2 punch of Bad Reputation and Johnny The Fox... ace.
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I listened to Run The Jewels 4 and HOLY poo poo THIS GOES HARD. What order should I listen to the previous 3 in? And Killer Mike and El-P's solo work, too
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Junpei posted:I listened to Run The Jewels 4 and HOLY poo poo THIS GOES HARD. What order should I listen to the previous 3 in? And Killer Mike and El-P's solo work, too 2, 3, and then 1. 2 is like a masterpiece, 3 is a follow up to a masterpiece that might be better, maybe?
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Junpei posted:I listened to Run The Jewels 4 and HOLY poo poo THIS GOES HARD. What order should I listen to the previous 3 in? And Killer Mike and El-P's solo work, too You can listen to them in any order, but my personal ranking would be 2/1/3. Then listen to R.A.P. Music, which was the Killer Mike album that El-P produced, leading to RTJ’s existence. All three El-P albums are also great but have a very different vibe. It’s weird to listen to Fantastic Damage and think that a decade or so later this guy would get significantly more famous doing goofball rhymes about his dick with a guy who pops up on Outkast albums. Those records are less “drat this goes hard” and more “drat this world is a cruel and brutal place.”
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I really love "I'll Sleep When You're Dead" and "Cancer 4 Cure". Really off-kilter records, almost a series of vignettes/short stories like the best of Aesop Rock's stuff. Habeas Corpses off ISWYD, Tougher Colder Killer, For My Upstairs Neighbour and Stay Down off C4C are top picks. Don't sleep (no pun) on the Cannibal Ox record El P produced either
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I'd say Rubber Soul or Revolver. If you like the more straightforward poppy sound go back in time, and if you like the more psychedelic bits go forward.
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As someone who doesn't really like them that much, I think Sgt Pepper is a really great album. Although when I was a kid I actually loved their poppiest stuff. poo poo's good catchy as hell.
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if you don't want to start with albums, you could do worse than the red and blue compilations they put out in the seventies but yeah, otherwise, the whole thing pivots around revolver before, more rock and roll (rubber soul and earlier) after, more psych (sgt. pepper and later) there's experimentation before revolver and rock tunes afterwards, of course, but yeah
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I would almost say the Red and Blue albums might be the way to go for a beginner, since it has most if not all of the singles that made the Beatles the superstars they were on there in addition to choice album cuts. Otherwise, I'll second the Rubber Soul/Revolver recommendations.
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I like magical mystery tour and the white album the best
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ultrafilter posted:What about Django Reinhardt? Pick a collection, any collection.
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Janet Jackson. I do know that like, broadly she never stops being good, she just switches her sound up. I've listened to a couple of the big hits-Nasty, Escapade, Rhythm Nation, That's The Way Love Goes, Together Again. From what I can tell, Control is funky and fun, Rhythm Nation (the album) is more industrial-y and socially conscious, and then the self-titled is sexy, and then The Velvet Rope is sad?
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BigFactory posted:Pick a collection, any collection. What's your favorite?
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ultrafilter posted:What about Django Reinhardt? The Complete Django Reinhardt and Quintet of the Hot Club of France Swing/HMV Sessions 1936-1948 (Mosaic)
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NuclearPotato posted:I would almost say the Red and Blue albums might be the way to go for a beginner, since it has most if not all of the singles that made the Beatles the superstars they were on there in addition to choice album cuts. Otherwise, I'll second the Rubber Soul/Revolver recommendations.  It's the gathering of singles in one place that's really nice and helped me learn the Beatles.
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Celso Piña? I like groovy cumbia with a good beat.
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