Ok so I know there was a bit on electronica previously, so I have to check out already, but right now I'm just focusing on glitch and drill n' bass (I'm not even sure if those are the right genres)

Basically few aphex twins and hrvatski, and bit ambient stuff: boards of canada music has the right to children. Right now I am really liking Autechre, where do you recomend I start.

When listening to Aphex and autechre its a fascinating experience to hear the inspiration for kid a songs like "idioteque" (just following the radiohead preservation act).

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Prairie Fire, you may like Amon Tobin (check out Supermodified)... It's a bit different but still fun and accessible. Fennesz is also very good, I'd recommend Venice and Endless Summer both of which are amazing.
I'm looking for some good soul/funk albums... Here are some of my favorites that I own:
Sly and the Family Stone- There's A Riot Goin' On
Marvin Gaye- What's Goin' On
Curtis Mayfield- Superfly & Curtis
James Brown- Star Time & Live At the Apollo
Box Sets and Compilations are good as well!

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I'm looking for some good soul/funk albums... Here are some of my favorites that I own:
Sly and the Family Stone- There's A Riot Goin' On
Marvin Gaye- What's Goin' On
Curtis Mayfield- Superfly & Curtis
James Brown- Star Time & Live At the Apollo
Box Sets and Compilations are good as well!

I have recently fallen in love with the double disc of Ike & Tina's Soul Anthology - soooo good

A classic must have in my library is Aretha's - I never loved a man the way I love you

STAX just reissued a ton of good stuff, some of my favs are:

Eddie Floyd
Otis Redding
Rufas Thomas
Willie Hightower
Carla Thomas

If you want something newer:
Sharon Jones and the Daptones are fantastic and funky!
actually most anything off of the Daptone label is great.

Some great but forgotten soul artists;

Bettye Lavette
Darando
Doris Duke
Candi Staton

An excellent (affordable) collection:
3 CD set - Blues Brother Soul Sister

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Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual:

I'm looking for some good soul/funk albums... Here are some of my favorites that I own:
Sly and the Family Stone- There's A Riot Goin' On
Marvin Gaye- What's Goin' On
Curtis Mayfield- Superfly & Curtis
James Brown- Star Time & Live At the Apollo
Box Sets and Compilations are good as well!

Try this thread or several other threads in the R&B/soul forum below.

Thank you kid and crazed....

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Originally posted by PrairieFire:
Ok so I know there was a bit on electronica previously, so I have to check out already, but right now I'm just focusing on glitch and drill n' bass (I'm not even sure if those are the right genres)

Basically few aphex twins and hrvatski, and bit ambient stuff: boards of canada music has the right to children. Right now I am really liking Autechre, where do you recomend I start.

When listening to Aphex and autechre its a fascinating experience to hear the inspiration for kid a songs like "idioteque" (just following the radiohead preservation act).

For glitch, check out Prefuse 73, Squarepusher, and Kid 606.

I would also throw in my support of REM as a bright spot in the 80s indie (as the others, "whatever that means"). I also enjoyed their Athens, Ga. mates The B-52s.

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Originally posted by kid_modular:
If you want something newer:
Sharon Jones and the Daptones are fantastic and funky!
actually most anything off of the Daptone label is great.

it's amazing how listening to Sharon Jones & the Daptones you'd think it's something from the 60s/70s soul/funk era but it's actually only two or three years old. Excellent album!

Alright, I'm coming out of a musical closet here:

I've never listened to Bjork.

So, tell me what I'm in for and give me some suggestions on where to start.

homogenic is her PERFECT album, like I just said at that other thingy.

You're in for mind-bogglingly beautiful vocals and lyrics. Every song is different, but the electronic keys and percussion do unify the album. I'll admit I'm not a big electronic guy, but these songs are all so striking, that's it tough for me not to love it. Plus it's got the greatest James Bond theme {"Bachelorette") never used in a James Bond flick.

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Originally posted by mark f:
homogenic is her PERFECT album, like I just said at that other thingy.

No, no, no. Start from the beginning - Sugar Cubes (Stick Around for Joy, Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week)! Then Gling Glo, then Debut->Post->... You won't appreciate the later albums as much without starting at the beginning IMO.

Couldn't find Sugar Cubes but I nabbed Gling Glo and Homogenic.

I started with Sugarcubes, and I still have the first two albums on vinyl, and I will wholeheartedly say that I DON'T appreciate any of her other work anywhere near what I think of homogenic, but of course, I'm WEIRD. homogenic sounds like God speaking directly to me.

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For great industrial metal, check out Tool, it is sort of a gimme, but if you want to get into metal, start with Tool. The lyrics are always symbolic and intelligent, and the musicianship is stellar, particularly the drummer danny carrey.

Tool is industrial? Not really. If you want to get into industrial, start with Pigface - the industrial supergroup of the '90s (kind of like The New Pornographers of the genre). Everyone was in Pigface at one time or another - including Trent Reznor. Start with Gub and Fook, by far the best of their work.

And if anyone wants an opinion about metal...Start with the best - Black Sabbath. If you don't like them, you're not ever going to be a metal head. In that case, maybe go for Led Zeppelin. If you do like Black Sabbath, then you're in luck, because every metal band since then has basically built on their sound.

Some thoughts on death metal, doom metal, and black metal. If you want to "try out" these three genres, again, go for the best:

Death metal - Carcass (Necroticism...)
Doom metal - Cathedral (Forest of Equilibrium) (a close second is Disembowelment's Transcendence into the Peripheral)
Black metal - Burzum (Burzum/Aske)

If you don't like these albums, you probably won't like the genre or sub-genre. Remember, these are just my opinions, but they are correct.

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If you don't like Burzum, though, you can always go a different direction w/ your black metal. Personally, I appear to like the more "mainstream" black metal. I'm constantly reppin Dimmu (to many people's dismay) and I just am not able to get into Burzum.

But, yeah, starting at the beginning is generally the best way to get into anything musically. Gives you a good knowledgebase and you'll be able to say "Ohhh! I understand how [insert band/genre/ w/e] to..."

And I'm currently really enjoying Gling Glo. Which brings me to my request:

Alright. Good jazz (I know there's currently a thread going so I'll check that).
My guitar teacher had me working that Jazz Fuzion a lot, and what I've heard I've liked but I can't think of any jazz I've ever really listened to. I had a Yellowjackets (I believe) CD that he gave me, but I don't even remember what they sounded like.

So, I'm enjoying Gling Glo's loungy-ness. I like Fusion (I think). Guide me.

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Originally posted by Jglass:
If you don't like Burzum, though, you can always go a different direction w/ your black metal. Personally, I appear to like the more "mainstream" black metal. I'm constantly reppin Dimmu (to many people's dismay) and I just am not able to get into Burzum.

Well, like Coldplay is to Radiohead, Dimmu is to Burzum. Dimmu does actually have a couple "true" albums (For All Tid & Stormblast), which I would compare to Coldplay's first couple of albums (see where this is going?). Those are pretty good albums, even if you're a music snob, inasofar as black metal heads have a right to be music snobs. Then Dimmu just went downhill and way too far from their roots, and we get the X&Y albums of their career. They started to sound "sinister" like "we mean it, dude, we're scary now", as opposed to their earlier stuff which was more like, "we're all gonna die today, and this is how I feel about it, couldn't give a flying fcuk if you're listening to this shit".

Edit...And someone out there is going (in his best Jim Gaffigan impression), "How the hell can this guy listen to Burzum and The Sugar Cubes? I just don't get it..."

I just like the HUGE sound of Dimmu. I love the operatic feel the whole thing has...

But Stormblast and For All Tid do kick ass in my opinion (although "Puritanical..." is probably my fav.)

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Originally posted by Jglass:
If you don't like Burzum, though, you can always go a different direction w/ your black metal. Personally, I appear to like the more "mainstream" black metal. I'm constantly reppin Dimmu (to many people's dismay) and I just am not able to get into Burzum.

But, yeah, starting at the beginning is generally the best way to get into anything musically. Gives you a good knowledgebase and you'll be able to say "Ohhh! I understand how [insert band/genre/ w/e] to..."

And I'm currently really enjoying Gling Glo. Which brings me to my request:

Alright. Good jazz (I know there's currently a thread going so I'll check that).
My guitar teacher had me working that Jazz Fuzion a lot, and what I've heard I've liked but I can't think of any jazz I've ever really listened to. I had a Yellowjackets (I believe) CD that he gave me, but I don't even remember what they sounded like.

So, I'm enjoying Gling Glo's loungy-ness. I like Fusion (I think). Guide me.

I'm not a major jazz devotee, but I love the classics. My three favorite Jazz records are "Time Out" by the Dave Brubek quartet and "Bitches Brew"/"Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. I like them for entirely different reasons. The Brubek is stylish and accessible and off-kilter (literally as most of the songs use mixed-meter) but Miles and his accomplices are just the pinnacle of jazz in my opinion.