Trollheart's Discography Rec Thread
Oh, why, why, why do I do these things? Can't even use the excuse that I'm drunk, as I don't drink! :banghead: :beer:
Anyway, here we go... Anyone can recommend ONE discography to me, and I will review it in my main journal. Any genre, but I do reserve the right to refuse any, unlike in "Love or Hate?" I also reserve the right to, once I realise this particular artiste is not for me, dump the discography. Should that happen I will then offer whomever recced it a chance to try again. I will review the entire STUDIO discography ** over a period of time in my main journal. When I say a period of time, this could stretch to months or even years, and your rec will not be exclusively attended to. I could do one album from yours tomorrow, say, and the next might not be till February or March, or later. So if you rec, please understand that and don't be throwing "when are you getting to the next album dude?" comments at me. Preferably hit me with something you think I'll enjoy or at least get something out of, because remember, you're not just reccing an album, you're reccing several, maybe double figures. Oh, and the likes of Zorn is out, as I'll be damned if I'm reviewing 459 albums! I won't place an actual limit on any discog, but let's agree to somewhere between 10 - 20 as a max. I don't mind going over that for some, if I accept them, if they look interesting, but I'd prefer not to buckle under the weight before I even start. All discogs will be reviewed in my main journal, and I may have questions for you about an album or even an artiste. I will do only the basic tracklisting, not any bonus, rare, live or remixed tracks. Once again: one discography per member, so choose wisely. Also, note the ones I'm already doing for myself, which will are now published, along with the full list so far, in my journal. As people rec, and I accept, discogs, I will note them here so that nobody ends up reccing the same one. This will NOT be FCFS, as I will choose to do the recs in whatever order I prefer, but all discogs will of course be done in order. If you choose an artiste I have already reviewed an album or albums by, I will link to that review/those reviews when I get to them. Oh, and no instrumental discogs, so probably no post-rock or post-metal. I don't mind doing one or two that occur within an artiste's discography, but not a full discog of instrumental music. And obviously no ambient or classical. ** Studio albums only. This rule will not be changed no matter how much anyone pleads their case. X number of studio albums is enough without going into live albums, EPs and so on. Current list (will also appear, in alphabetical order, in my journal, along with others I've chosen myself) Höyry-Kone (grindy) U2 (Neapolitan) Sigh (mythsofmetal) Queensryche (Anteater) Bathory (The Batlord) Roxy Music (Pet_Sounds) Richard Dawson (Frownland) Blue Oyster Cult (The Identity Matrix) Robert Wyatt (Plainview) Mewithoutyou (Mondo Bungle) Fugazi (Tristan Geoff) Death Grips (Goofle) Captain Beefheart (JGuy Grungeman) Anathema (Zer0) |
Höyry-Kone
It's prog. They have just two albums. I can't make this any easier. |
Brian Eno. He has a **** ton of records but it has to be the greatest span of albums of any artist, period. Literally every album he's been a part of is incredibly strong and influential. He obviously was also a huge innovator and pioneered ambient music.
Edit: He has some projects with other artists too, most of which are worth hearing. You might cherry pick slightly but I'd recommend: (No Pussyfooting) Evening Star -both With Robert Fripp Cluster and Eno -With Cluster, obviously. Great Krautrock influenced album After the Heat -With Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, both from Cluster Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror The Pearl -With Harold Budd Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics -With Jon Hassel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts -With David Byrne Ambient 3: Day of Radiance -With Laraaji Wrong Way Up -With John Cale Original Soundtracks 1 -With U2/Listed as Passengers |
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And there are loads of great Art Rock albums of Eno's too, that deserve a fair listen. |
I love me some Eno (more the rock stuff, but also quite a bit from the ambient end) but too much ambient gets kinda boring at some point. And I'm pretty sure TH would get bored much faster than me.
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Actually, new rule: no instrumental discogs. I don't mind if the artist has one or two instrumental albums, but nobody who doesn't sing at all. I don't think that would be easy for me to do, and it sure would not be much fun to write. |
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Would you ever consider U2? ...maybe the first six?
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I'm going to suggest that you check out Sigh's discography for this thread/project as my single request. Here're the titles and some info on all of their full-length albums (plus one other which I'm probably mentioning in vain, and I'm fine if you don't want to take it,) laid out in chronological order. I know that you're taking them chronologically, but I thought that adding descriptions might make it a bit exciting to see what you may be getting into before you start to listen to one.
Spoiler for A Little Bit Lengthy Description of Sigh's Albums:
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Melvins? Maybe just the studio albums and not the spin-off ones (Melvins 1983 and Melvins lite, even though those are really good too) or ones featuring Jello. That'd be easy enough, if not just time-consuming. Just be glad you don't have to do Buckethead.
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I think writing off any and all instrumental artists is a bit rash. You're basically denying a load of genres and amazing music. Fair enough if Eno is too much but I'd rethink that rule. For instance, I'm thinking of reccing Tortoise, who make great instrumental albums
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Melvins? I don't know. I'm not terribly interested in them and I think I heard one of their albums, which did not impress me. Let me look: hmm. I don't know. 24 albums? It's a lot, and I do want to do complete discogs. Let me think about it. Actually I think I'd really enjoy Buckethead, but I only have one lifetime... |
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Queensrÿche
Peter Gabriel Hall & Oates Faith No More Pagan's Mind Just a few I'd be interested in seeing your analysis on. :D |
Bathory. Only twelve albums.
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Roxy Music?
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Sometimes I wanna recommend stuff but really don't wanna wait for you to review the 9,418 albums recommended first.
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I think you'd enjoy doing Richard Dawson's discography after liking The Vile Stuff so much.
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Will update both OP and journal tomorrow. |
Anteater chose the one I was going to go with so I will pick...
Blue Oyster Cult. Would love to hear all of your opinions on those albums. |
Be interested to see what you make of Robert Wyatt's discography.
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So when you do an artist's discography, would that mean that for Robert Wyatt you would be doing his solo discography and all of his stuff with Soft Machine (which I almost reccd), Matching Mole, etc.?
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Actually I would like to recommend a discog, if I may: mewithoutYou
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Fugazi maybe? That one's short enough. If not that then Sleater-Kinney.
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Yikes, aren't you worried about burnout TH?
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You know he's too dumb to worry about that till he's strung out on heroin to numb the pain.
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Death Grips
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