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So I guess I didn't really have that many rules last year. Anyway, here's how it works:
You pick one album per band that you think people should start out with to learn about that band. I tally the votes, and when I arbitrarily decide a consensus has been reached, I add that album to the OP. Discussion and argument is encouraged. A good tiebreaker is usually which album is more likely to show up on the setlist at Roo. If a band only has one major release, let me know so I don't waste my time tallying votes!
"Consensus" starter albums
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [E-Note: Then move on to College Dropout. Then everything else. Man's a genius] Jack White - Elephant (White Stripes album) [E-Note: White Blood Cells is a close second] Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend AND Modern Vampires of the City The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Arctic Monkeys - AM [E-Note: Whatever People Say I Am... is a close second] Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers Disclosure - Settle* Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours Zedd - Clarity* Ms. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Chromeo - Fancy Footwork Broken Bells - Broken Bells James Blake - Overgrown Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe Ben Howard - Every Kingdom* Fitz & the Tantrums - Pickin' Up The Pieces Cake - Fashion Nugget Janelle Monae - The Archandroid Grouplove - Never Trust a Happy Song CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe* Mastodon - Leviathan Capital Cities - In a Tidal Wave of Mystery* Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap* The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You Phosphorescent - Muchacho Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South Sam Smith - Nirvana* Danny Brown - Old [E-Note: XXX is a close second] Warpaint - Warpaint A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord* Darkside - Psychic* Shovels & Rope - O' Be Joyful* Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig The Wood Brothers - Ways Not To Lose Pusha T - My Name Is My Name Goat - World Music ZZ Ward - Til the Casket Drops* MS MR - Secondhand Rapture* First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar Rudimental - Home* Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu* Vintage Trouble - The Bomb Shelter Sessions* Robert DeLong - Global Concepts* Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - We the Common Valerie June - Pushin' Against A Stone BANKS - London* Break Science - Seven Bridges* Real Estate - Days The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow* Jon Batiste - Social Music La Santa Cecilia - Treinta Dias* Classixx - Hanging Gardens* Allah-Las - Allah-Las* Vance Joy - God Loves You When You're Dancing* Haerts - Hemiplegia* Deafheaven - Sunbather St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Half the City* The Wild Feathers - The Wild Feathers* Blank Range - Phase II*
* = Only major release by artist
Fuck it, I'm just gonna list the rest of the vote totals and be done with it
The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (6), Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (4), Embryonic (1), Clouds Taste Metallic (1), The Terror (1), Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (2)
The Head and the Heart - The Head and the Heart (2), Let's Be Still (1)
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Tedeschi Trucks Band Live (1), Relevator (1)
Umphrey's McGee - Hall of Fame 2011 (1), Hall of Fame 2012 (1), Mantis (1)
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (4), Terrorist Threats (1), Death Certificate (2), The Predator (3), Straight Outta Compton (4)
Slightly Stoopid - Chronchitus (2)
Amos Lee - Amos Lee (1)
Cage The Elephant - Cage the Elephant (6), Melophobia (4)
Die Antwoord - $O$ (2)
Andrew Bird & the Hands of Glory - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (3), Break it Yourself (3), Hands of Glory (1), Noble Beast (1), Swimming Hour (1)
Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg (2), Shangri La (1)
Dr. Dog - Easy Beat (2), We All Belong (1), Be The Void (1), Fate (2), B-Room (1)
Yonder Mountain String Band - Elevation (1)
John Butler Trio - Three (1), April Uprising (2)
Little Dragon - Ritual Union (3), Machine Dreams (3)
City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love (2), The Hurry and the Harm (1)
The Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea (1)
Washed Out - Paracosm (4), Within and Without (2), Life of Leisure (3)
Seasick Steve - Dog House Music (1)
Lucero - That Much Further West (2), 1372 Overton Park (1), Rebels, Rouges & Sworn Brothers (1)
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve (1)
Poliça - Shulamith (2), Give You The Ghost (4)
DakhaBrakha - Light (2)
Seun Kuti - From Africa With Fury: Rise (2)
Blackberry Smoke - Little Piece of Dixie (1)
Hannibal Buress - My Name is Hannibal (1), Animal Furnace (1)
The Bouncing Souls - Hopeless Romantic (1), Maniacal Laughter (1)
Ty Segall - Melted (4), Slaughterhouse (4), Twins (2)
Sarah Jarosz - Follow Me Down (1), Song Up In Her Head (1)
Okkervil River - The Stage Names (3), Black Sheep Boy (2), The Stand Ins (1)
White Denim - D (2), Corsicana Lemonade (1)
Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare (1)
Typhoon - A New Kind of House (1), White Lighter (1)
King Khan & The Shrines - Idle No More (2), The Supreme Genius of King Khan... (3)
Cherub - MoM & DaD (2)
The Black Lillies - Whiskey Angel (1)
Caveman - CoCo Beware (1)
Big Sam's Funky Nation - King of the Party (1)
Cass McCombs - Wit's End (2)
J. Roddy Walston & The Business - J. Roddy Walston & The Business (2), Essential Tremors (1)
Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose (1)
Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits (2)
The Preatures - Is This How You Feel? (1)
Lonely bands that haven't been brought up yet
A Tribe Called Red Greensky Bluegrass The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar, with special guests Billy Martin, Marc Ribot, DJ Logic and Shazad Ismaily
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Tedeschi Trucks Band - Tedeschi Trucks Band Live Disclosure - Disclosure Umphrey's McGee - Hall of Fame 2011 Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe Phosphorescent - Muchacho Classixx - Hanging Gardens Darkside - Most people will say their one album, Psychic but I say this
Edit to this: Chvrches, Classixx, Darkside and Disclosure all only have one full-length release.
Post by problem dog on Feb 20, 2014 0:32:46 GMT -5
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Jack White - White Blood Cells The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In (as a starter album, probably not even a top 5 overall, though) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (and you Zonoscope freaks can suck it through my jeans) Janelle Monae - The Archandroid Mastodon - Leviathan Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South Washed Out - Paracosm Lucero - That Much Further West GOAT - World Music Ty Segall - Melted Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy Cass McCombs - Wit's End
Post by thebrianman on Feb 20, 2014 0:33:56 GMT -5
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Jack White - Blunderbuss Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads James Blake - Overgrown Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady Mastodon - Blood Mountain Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap Cage the Elephant - s/t Phosphorescent - Muchacho Danny Brown - Old Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse Deafheaven - Sunbather Darkside - Psychic Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Chances are you haven't ever heard of Typhoon before, but I'm convinced this will be one of the best sets of the weekend. You will see me on the rail singing along to every song. I will look like an idiot. I won't care.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) Jack White - Elephant (2003 - The White Stripes) Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down (1983) Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (2013) The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You (2009) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (2012) The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) Broken Bells - Broken Bells (2010) Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe (2012) Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990) Cake - Fashion Nugget (1996) Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid (2010) Grouplove - Never Trust a Happy Song (2011) Amos Lee - Amos Lee (2005) Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe (2013)
Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant (2008) Die Antwoord - $O$ (2010) Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005) Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg (2012) Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap (2013) Dr. Dog - Easy Beat (2005) Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking It Easy (2010) Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (2008) Danny Brown - XXX (2011) Warpaint - The Fool (2010) A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord (2013)
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig (2010) The Wood Brothers - Waiting Not to Lose (2006) Pusha T - My Name Is My Name (2013) ZZ Ward - Til the Casket Drops (2012) Blackberry Smoke - Little Pice of Dixie (2009) MS MR - Secondhand Rapture (2013) First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (2012) Break Science - Seven Bridges (2013) The Black Lillies - Whiskey Angel (2009) Caveman - CoCo Beware (2011)
So I guess I didn't really have that many rules last year. Anyway, here's how it works:
You pick one album per band that you think people should start out with to learn about that band. I tally the votes, and when I arbitrarily decide a consensus has been reached, I add that album to the OP. Discussion and argument is encouraged. A good tiebreaker is usually which album is more likely to show up on the setlist at Roo. If a band only has one major release, let me know so I don't waste my time tallying votes!
Here are some of my votes:
Kanye West - Late Registration Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare Fitz and the Tantrums - Pickin' Up The Pieces Pusha T - My Name is My Name Mastodon - Leviathan White Denim - D Deafheaven - Sunbather
Sarah Jarosz- Follow Me Down Carolina Chocolate Drops- Genuine Negro Jig Shovels & Rope- O' Be Joyful Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Drive-By Truckers- Southern Rock Opera Big Sam's Funky Nation- King of the Party
First set of votes are tallied up, I'll let some more votes build up before making the initial list.
Bookkeeping: -andymac is showing ya'll how its done! -Delicious Meatball Sub Use text instead of pictures so I can ctrl+f for stuff!!! -We already have votes for 64 bands! That's more than half the lineup! Good job! -Don't forget, if you agree with someone else's vote, quote it or second it or add it to your list or whatever so I can build a CONSENSUS!
Post by J. Alfred Prufrock on Feb 20, 2014 9:48:43 GMT -5
Real Estate - Real Estate Cake - Comfort Eagle Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse Washed Out - Within and Without Andrew Bird - Break it Yourself Arctic Monkeys - AM Cut Copy - Zonoscope Vampire Weekend - Contra White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade Darkside -
Post by rustyautoparts on Feb 20, 2014 9:54:19 GMT -5
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory Drive-By Truckers - Dirty South Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid Ty Segall - Twins Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
For Damon Albarn, wait until his album is formally released. There may be a few blur and Gorillaz songs which are worked in, but listening to those bands won't really help you with what his show will sound like.
This is just going to turn into everybody throwing out their favorite albums for each artist and anyone trying to wade through it will have no way of knowing whose tastes they will identify most with. Because of this, I've created a personality test to determine if we like the same shit, and thus have a 10% higher chance of liking similar music. On my list, I avoided bands that only have one record or the one I'd recommend is just painfully obvious.
If you're into the following things, proceed to my list of starter albums:
old war films fantasy novels racquetball spiced rum tiramasu expensive board games mountains supa hot fire and the classic stage production, "Les miserables"
Kanye West College Dropout Elton JohnGoodbye Yellow Brick Road Vampire WeekendVampire Weekend Avett BrothersEmotionalism PhoenixWolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Arctic MonkeysWhatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not The Flaming LipsEmbryonic Nick CaveLet Love In CakeFashion Nugget Andrew Bird Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs MastodonCrack the Skye Dr. DogWe All Belong Danny BrownXXX Cloud NothingsAttack on Memory Ty SegallTwins King Khan & the ShrinesIdle No More
Last Edit: Feb 20, 2014 10:38:04 GMT -5 by nate - Back to Top
Emoney serves more of a purpose than any of you, especially Nate, whose incessant, garbled ramblings are so mindless and pointless that I get depressed just seeing them.
Post by James Baxter on Feb 20, 2014 10:14:16 GMT -5
Cake - Fashion Nugget Ty Segall - Twins Arctic Monkeys - AM Danny Brown - XXX Jack White - Elephant -> WBC Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic Janelle Monae - The Archandroid Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory Hannibal Burress - My Name is Hannibal
(1) Damon Albarn (2) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (3) King Khan & His Shrines (4) Ty Segall (5) Ms Lauryn Hill (6) Darkside (7) Kanye (8) Janelle Monae (9) Goat (10) Meshuggah.
