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Originally Posted by Antonio
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I guess I'll get some "seriously?" responses from people, but could I recommend something?
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Well the problem is that I don't have any interest in hip-hop/rap, and so that doesn't fit in with what I want to do. I've never heard of that album, or artiste, and I guess the title of the journal possibly should be "Classic albums I've never heard but know of". although I think that's implicit in the word "classic". I mean, classic in that I know of them and they're regarded as classic. Mind you, that sort of pulls in things like "A nation of millions" and stuff. But I don't, at the moment, want to tread too far outside my preferred genres, so I'll pass on that thanks, but thanks for the suggestion.
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
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I like all of them. A lot of those bands are related somehow with a few musicians playing in different bands here and there, they're even connected with John Lennon and Frida Lyngstad as well. As favorites, I went from Pink Floyd to Yes to Genesis. But I really didn't buy any Pink Floyd when I was young because I always heard them on the radio. My cousin had Genesis' first live album, and I remember the only track I played on it was Watcher of the Skies, playing it over and over. I like Calling All Stations, it's kinda sad ending to a band that left behind hefty amount of really really good music. I almost have their whole catalog on CD. I like related bands too like GTR, Mike and The Mechanics and the solo careers of Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel & (some) Phil Collins. I didn't delve all the way into ELP, King Crimson, or Supertramp but I have a half a dozen albums among them. But I do have a good amount of Yes and Genesis.
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Oh yeah, I love all the associated Genesis solo stuff too: Hackett, Gabriel, Banks, Rutherford. Not mad about Collins, obviously, though his first album was very good; after that it slid a bit into too poppy/commercial territory for me. Anthony Phillips' stuff is really good too.
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Tbh I was hoping to make you a full fledged fan of early Yes :shycouch:
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Meh, stranger things have happened. That pope becoming horse, for one, or that time in fifth century Burgundy when it rained herring! ;)
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
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But you're still limiting yourself from both normal punk and hardcore by eliminating the Never Mind the Bollocks...... and Damaged albums. You've stated that you want to listen to classic albums that you don't know. The whole idea of classic albums is that it's a real chance to like a style of music that you don't normally like, because that is what classic albums are often designed to do, so just think of it as a challenge.
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No, I don't care. I'm not interested in the divisions between punk. I don't like it, and the furthest I'd venture would be what I suppose would be considered fringe or semi-punk bands like the Clash, SLF and the Buzzcocks, maybe the Stranglers? See how little I know about punk? I want to know less.
Also, I haven't stated I want to hear classic albums I don't know, I've said I want to hear classic albums I haven't
heard: there's a difference. You could tell me that Johnny Lampost Head and His Burning Sticky Labels first album "I hate you all" is a classic, but if I haven't heard of it it's not a classic to me. The perfect example is "Loveless". I have heard people raving about it, though I don't know anything the band has done, and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. It's more albums I think I should have heard, or owe it to myself to hear.
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Anyway talking of classic albums, when are you finally going to listen to the Diamond Head debut, I've been hitting you over the head with a hammer on that album for a while now:bonkhead:
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Watch my journal for the fourth installment of "Witches, Bitches, Maidens and Monsters", where I focus on Diamond Head and review their albums. It's in there. Finally.
Mind you, you may not like what I say about them....
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He would be but he's too stubborn to do so and would end up in sheer awe after listening Close to the Edge.
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I'm really interested to see if that measures up to all the hype, I just don't want to go directly to it first, be too predictable.