Just signed up for family sharing on Spotify and looking to broaden my musical horizons a bit. My collection currently is stuck in the 1980s as that was when music was most important to me.
Thought this would be a good place to seek out some good recommendations for albums to listen to.
I’m open to all genres except glam rock, heavy metal and rap.
Thanks in advance.
The beauty of Spotify isn't in the album's, it's in the playlists. Search some artists you like and see what popular playlists they appear on or try Spotify radio based off a song you like and if you like or dislike a song a playlist will form itself for you from that.
Thanks for the tips which I’ll follow up. But, I’m also interested classic albums as I don’t like chopping and changing all the time.Originally Posted by wileeeeeey
Just been listening to White Ladder (David Gray) and Jagged Little Pill which where most enjoyable.
Ive found some great songs and albums in tv shows or movies im watching and then i just find them in spotify and fall down the rabbit hole!
Composer Clint Mansell composed Requiem for a dream & the Fountain, both of which are amazing.
Johan Johannsson is also terriffic, having composed Arrival & his own album Orphee.
That somehow led to Max Richter, another amazing composer, very soothing, slightly repetitive Philip Glass feel but with a modern twist.
Then there's the old favs of Gladiator, Interstellar (both by Zimmer).
Social networks soundtrack is outstanding work music, real focus material, gets your brain in the zone, thats all Trent Reznor from NIN.
Tron Legacy is great for focus too but in a different way, its Daft Punk and it just gets your thoughts ordered and flowing.
Thats all stuff from a relatively specific vein, but very much worth listening to IMO, with good headphones.
pink floyd -dark side of the moon
jeff buckley -grace
john frusciante - curtains
john martyn -solid air
london grammar- if you wait
nils lofgren -acoustic live
agnes obel - citizen of glass
david bowie - ziggy stardust
if you make some suggestion of some albums you like im sure ppl will be able to be more specific
* re clint mansell - i saw pop will eat itself multiple times when younger , i remember him saying in an interview once that hes made more money from lux aeterna than everything else hes done combined.
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Badly drawn boy - the hour of bewilderbeast
Radiohead - OK computer
The streets - a grand don't come for free
All cracking albums that you can dip in and out of, but really benefit from listening to in full.
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Aja - steely Dan
Forever changes - love
Trials of van occupanther - midlake
Crime of the century - supertramp
Who's next - the who
Bless the weather - John Martyn
Bat out of hell - meat loaf
Crosby stills Nash and young - Crosby stills Nash and young
The lamb lies down on Broadway - genesis
Screamadelica - primal scream
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If you're feeling sinister - Belle and Sebastian
The Bends - Radiohead
The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers (dark as hell but utterly brilliant)
1977 - Ash
I should Coco - Supergrass
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Hot Fuss - The Killers
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Western Stars Bruce Springsteen
Wish You were Here Pink Floyd
My Favourite Faded Fantasy Damien Rice
Alchemy Dire Straits
Unplugged Eric Clapton
Genesis Revisited Steve Hackett
The Yes Album Yes
The River Bruce Springsteen
Tom McRae, Tom McRae
Just a selection of albums I can listen to in their entirety
Couple which are not usual suspects:
Bill Fay - only done a couple of albums: Life is People & Who is the Sender.
Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare & Gentle Spirit
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A good selection. Add in some Nirvana and you’ll have a pleasant few evenings.
David Bowie: Pin Ups, Man who sold the world, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust.
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Sia- 1000 forms of fear
Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Elbow - The seldom seen kid
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A lot of quality music suggested. I find listening to Radio Paradise a great place to find new music. It plays some quality genres.
I take the group's name and search Tidal or Spotify and listen to their albums.
I love Duke by Genesis.
Odelay by Beck is good.
Out of the Cradle by Lindsey Buckingham is just about my favourite album.
Great thread ! Sounds like you would
Like....
Jack Johnson - in between dreams
You may like...as previously recommended, and again from me!
Stone roses - stone roses
Bowie- Ziggy stardust
Floyd - dark side of the moon
You could try.....(Post 1980s (just)
Portishead - Dummy
Air - moon safari
Pearl jam - ten
Morcheeba - big calm
Pre 1980s !
The stones - beggars banquet
The stones - on her satanic majesty’s request
The doors - strange days
Cream - strange brew the very best of cream
So many - love a good album !
Ooo there are lots. To suggest a few:
59 Sound - Gaslight Anthem
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Springsteen
The big to-do - Drive by Truckers
Southern Rock Opera -Drive by Truckers
Rumours - Fleetwood mac
From the fires - Greta Van Fleet
Somewhere else - Lydia Loveless
The Monitor - Titus Andronicus (not an easy listen but a worthy comment on the futility of war - ok I am not selling it but I like it)
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Red Hot Chilli peppers - Mother’s Milk
The Wedding Present - George Best
Beastie Boys - The in Sound from Way Out ( instrumental)
Sea Sick Steve - Man From Another Time
An album that caught me by surprise not being my normal genre but recommended by someone was Plan B the defamation of Strickland banks each track is like a chapter of a story really well done.
Holst's The Planets - Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal / Charles Dutoit
Joy as an Act of Resistance - Idles
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Tapestry - Carole King
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Simple things -Zero 7
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
Van Morrison - Into The Mystic
Derek & The Domino's - Layla and other assorted love songs.
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Alabama Shakes - "Sound and Colour".
Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt" and "Gordon".
Jenny and The Mexicats - "Jenny and The Mexicats".
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - "Raising Sand".
Steve Earle - "Jerusalem", "Transcendental Blues" and "El Corazon".
F.T.F.A.
Riverboat Soul - Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three
Jungle Blues - CW Stoneking
This thread could run and run...
My current heavy rotation
August and everything after. Counting crows
Yeezus. Kanye west
A deeper understanding. War on drugs
Holy fire. Foals
Migration. Bonobo
Random access memories. Daft punk
Audioslave. Audioslave
Big fan of Hans Zimmer, I was listening to Daft Punk's Tron Legacy on the walk to the pub yesterday and I agree about using the best quality headphones/sound system you can afford.
OP - I've been listening to a lot of Pomplamoose and Scary Pockets recently, a chap by the name of Jack Conte providing the link between the two. I'm not going to recommend any particular album however I will say that they do the best cover versions and mash-ups in the business, they also have some great guest vocalists and brilliant YT videos.
Go on to YT and look up Pomplamoose MMMBop, Jamiroquai/Bee Gees and, seeing as Daft Punk has already been mentioned, I Feel It Coming/The Weeknd. If you don't fall in love with Laura Mace's vocals then you must be deaf!
The Velvet Underground featuring Nico.
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake.
Two completely disparate albums that are classics IMO.
Cheers,
Neil.
Several Lana Del Rey albums, but this one is definitely worth a listen right through...
This one from Sudan Archives (Athena) is getting a regular play through too ...
As is this one from Weyes Blood (Titanic Rising)...
z
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Great thread for ideas
A few to add:
Moby - Go
George Michael - Older
Luther vandross - Give me the Reason
Peter Gabriel - So
Electric Light Orchestra - The Definitive Collection
Maroon 5 - It wont be soon before long
Powderfinger - Vulture Street
Hard Fi - Stars of CCTV
and an 80's throwback
Yazoo - The very best
John
Badly Drawn Boy is at the Roundhouse in January 2020 if you’d not seen already
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In no particular order.
Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall
Issac Hayes - Black Moses
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band - Hand Clappin' Foot Stompin' Funky-Butt... Live
Public Enemy – Fear Of A Black Planet
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
Nathan Haines - Sound Travels
Roni Size - New Forms
Chas & Dave - One Fing N Anuvver
Frank McComb - The Truth
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
A twist of fate meant we ended up in Singapore instead of HK recently and found out U2 were playing so I dug out the Joshua Tree before we went - fantastic album and they were every bit as good as they were in the 80’s.
Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour
I know Bono can be a dick and The Edge is hardly what you'd call a virtuoso but The Joshua Tree has to be one of the greatest albums of all time. However, there was a poll a few years back asking which was the greatest Irish album ever and TJT had to settle for 2nd place with Loveless by My Bloody Valentine taking the (well deserved imho) honours.
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I prefer live albums.
Bowie - A reality tour; especially with this album's version of Ziggy Stardust!
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty. Not really live, but with The Load Out and Stay live recorded.
Rolling Stones in Havana - With Gimme Shelter and Midnight Rambler
Cream - Royal Albert Hall
AC/DC - Live at River Plate (when the crowd is louder than the band, you know that it's recorded at the River Plate Stadium)
Special attention for a band too often neglected: Humble Pie. All their live albums are brilliant.
Listen to Humble Pie's live version of Honkey Tonk Women on Live At Winterland and you can understand why Mick Jagger wasn't keen on contracting Steve Marriott! Marriott was a far better singer than Jagger.
Not the Live At Winterland version, but you'll get my point...
Honestly, I didn't pay much attention to HP anymore after Steve Marriott's untimely death. My interest was reawakened after seeing the first scenes of Urban Outlaw on Vimeo. The movie about British entrepreneur Magnus Walker living in LA, now heavily involved in classic Porsches.
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My favourite recent rock album is Ferral Roots by Rival Sons, they are fantastic live too.
So do I Menno.
Two of my faves here...
Cheers,
Neil.
A few varied types not already mentioned:
DJ Yoda - The amazing adventures of DJ Yoda
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Cat Power - Jukebox
Marvin Gaye - What's Going on? or Here, My Dear
Massive Attack - Blue Lines/Mezzanine (quite different from each other!)
Queens of the Stoneage - Rated R/Songs for the deaf. I'd argue Rock rather than Heavy metal myself.
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Prince - Purple Rain
Prodigy - Fat of the land
Quite partial to a good soundtrack myself - Trainspotting/Jackie Brown/Pulp Fiction/True Romance/Carlito's Way/Chef/O'Brother, where art thou?
Alex
When We Were Kings
I can see a separate Movie Soundtrack thread coming up!
Menno
I’m very much a rocker but of my non heavy favourite stuff I’d recommend any of the following:
Steely Dan - all of them up to Gaucho
Frank Sinatra - Capital Records releases
Christina Aguilera - Stripped
Sheryl Crow - most of them
The Carpenters
Quincy Jones - The Dude
Prince - Sign o the times
Alison Kraus - Paper Airplane
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
Quadrophenia by The Who
Chigaco Transit Authority by Chicago Transit Authority.
scooter
That could be quite a long list, but one that springs to mind and should have been on my earlier post is :
The official soundtrack to Watchmen which is huge in range and very offbeat in places too so if you’re looking for variety it’s got you covered!
British Sea Power. Have a listen to Do You Like Rock Music? if it's on there.
Roddy Frame - Surf
Mark Ronson - Versions
Big Country - Eclectic
Paul Anka - Rock Swings (UK version)
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Carole King -Tapestry
Michelle Shocked - Texas Campfire Tapes
If you fancy a bit of really well written and played literary Americana and like to play an album all the way through here's a few:
The Projector - Simone Felice
Sitcom Afterlife - Frontier Ruckus
Live at Biko - Mark Kozalek
Failer - Kathleen Edwards
All killer, no filler....
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