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I haven't used it for years unfortunately. I know everyone does and at some point I have to re-setup my account. If someone will put one together, these would be my recommendations. Obviously some of their works are entire album sides or even entire albums like The Lamb, and in many cases, songs feed into songs that continue a theme. So I'll leave off Supper's Ready which is probably Gabriel's best work and just say that it's mandatory outside of this primer.
Gabriel Era albums:
From Genesis to Revelation - Skip this album entirely
Trespass - The Knife
Nursery Cryme - The Musical Box (story of a boy accidentally decapitated by his friend who comes back as an old man trying to seduce her and is ultimately destroyed)
Foxtrot - Watcher of the Skies (whole album rules, but it's meant to be listened in full; Supper's Ready is the best song, but again, it's like 23 minutes)
Selling England by the Pound - I Know What I like, Firth of Fifth, The Cinema Show
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, In the Cage, Carpet Crawl, Riding The Skree/In the Rapids/It <-- Obviously this double album is also meant to be listened in its entirety. The Raven (part C of Colony of Slippermen could also be used)
----------------------------------- Collins Era
A Trick of the Tail - Ripples, Los Endos
Wind & Wuthering - Blood on the Rooftop, Afterglow
And Then There Were Three - Follow You, Follow Me; Scenes from a Night's Dreams
I was wondering if that might have been what brought it up. I'm happy to hear it sparked an interest!
Here's my rough draft playlist. I'm happy to have any input or suggestions. I stuck mainly with studio stuff because the live recordings can get more rambling.
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on Jul 16, 2020 11:54:02 GMT -5
I have more of a genre request: new rap (within last 5 or so years) from younger artists that isn't (a) all over the radio or (b) from the huge artists who have been around for decades. I wanna hear the up-and-coming stuff
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Today I'm going to be making playlists for Tame Impala and Muse. I know not many people will care for a Muse playlist, but they're who made me fall in love with music when I was a kid so I have a pretty obsessive knowledge of them lol. And their back catalogue pre-Resistance is fantastic.
Today I'm going to be making playlists for Tame Impala and Muse. I know not many people will care for a Muse playlist, but they're who made me fall in love with music when I was a kid so I have a pretty obsessive knowledge of them lol. And their back catalogue pre-Resistance is fantastic.
Absolution and Black Holes are solid stuff, would be a fun nostalgia trip playlist for me if nothing else!
The 10 or so minutes I got to see of them at Lolla a few years back was very fun (rained out sadly)
This is a true primer, I'm pleased I was able to keep it so short while still including "Supper's Ready". I left out a significant amount of classic tracks, so there is plenty more to explore. It gives you a taste of each era, if you like a certain song you can then jump into that album.
It is roughly chronological, so you can see the progression from the Gabriel era, to the early Collins prog era, to the 1980s full on Collins pop era. The exception to the chronological order is I started the playlist with two songs from "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", Gabriel's last album with the band. They are two tracks but they are really more like one song. These two tracks take up about 5 minutes, if you are not at all moved or intrigued by the end of that 5 minutes, maybe check out the Hot Chip playlist instead.
From there you have "Can-Utility and the Coastliners", which is like a mini "Supper's Ready", and a beautiful introduction to the pastoral progressive style of early Genesis. Then you have "Firth of Fifth", IMO the best Gabriel-era Genesis song. The Collins era begins a few songs later with "Squonk", a personal favorite. Few more songs from this era and you are into "Duke", which I maybe controversially think is the band's greatest achievement, regardless of era. A perfect combination of progressive song-writing and the pop sensibilities which were coming later. The playlist wraps up with "Invisible Touch", which is Genesis in pure 80s pop mode.
After "Invisible Touch" I included "Supper's Ready" as a bonus track. This is an early Genesis song and their longest. It's really, really good. I just didn't want to include it at the beginning because a 23 minute song on an intro playlist is a lot to ask of the listener. But if you make it all the way to the end, treat yourself and give it a listen.
really enjoying this. great example of a band i've heard bits and pieces of but never really jumped in. thanks for putting the playlist together.
they sound kind of like if the Happy Mondays were a good band.
i love the Happy Mondays though.
Great to hear. They've really transitioned through so many sounds over the years. Their first album is more post punky than I realized, then they got all Madchester-y, then blues rock, then noise/electronic rock and back again. They get a little less love on here than I'd expect for a band that worked with both MBV and Chem Bros on the same album.
If a band/artist has several hits, do you guys think they should all be included? Or since this is inforoo and not the general population, do you think it should be more songs people may not know but that well represent the band?
Today I'm going to be making playlists for Tame Impala and Muse. I know not many people will care for a Muse playlist, but they're who made me fall in love with music when I was a kid so I have a pretty obsessive knowledge of them lol. And their back catalogue pre-Resistance is fantastic.
Absolution and Black Holes are solid stuff, would be a fun nostalgia trip playlist for me if nothing else!
The 10 or so minutes I got to see of them at Lolla a few years back was very fun (rained out sadly)
Yeah that's a shame. Muse truly is a band that made it big based on their reputation of putting on an incredible show.
All in all you are a very dying race Placing trust upon a cruel world You never had the things you thought you should've had And you'll not get them now And all the while in perfect time Your tears are falling on the ground
If a band/artist has several hits, do you guys think they should all be included? Or since this is inforoo and not the general population, do you think it should be more songs people may not know but that well represent the band?
I'm advocating for a 45-hour long primer list with hits and essentials, and a 2 hour long deep dive list without hits for people that liked the primer and want to go further.
If a band/artist has several hits, do you guys think they should all be included? Or since this is inforoo and not the general population, do you think it should be more songs people may not know but that well represent the band?
I'm advocating for a 45-hour long primer list with hits and essentials, and a 2 hour long deep dive list without hits for people that liked the primer and want to go further.
I hope you mean 45 minutes, because that's quite the primer
If a band/artist has several hits, do you guys think they should all be included? Or since this is inforoo and not the general population, do you think it should be more songs people may not know but that well represent the band?
I'm advocating for a 45-hour long primer list with hits and essentials, and a 2 hour long deep dive list without hits for people that liked the primer and want to go further.
Post by snowmanomura on Jul 16, 2020 15:23:05 GMT -5
Grateful Dead - (mostly) Studio Output
I made a Dead primer just from their studio stuff (for the most part).
the Dead played around San Francisco a lot in the 60's, many times at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, where they'd just make electric kool aid and jam for hours. This playlist is chronological and starts with their first album The Grateful Dead from 1967. The first few tracks exemplify their mix of rock n roll and blues. Many of the songs in the repertoire were covers of traditional folk, jug band, and blues tunes. The dead often shared vocal duties, and I included a song from Jerry, Bob Weir, and Ron Pigpen McKernan from their debut. Bob and Jerry brought a lot of the folk, acoustic, old-timey sound to the band, but Pigpen (organ, piano, harmonica) had a penchant for the blues (and booze) and his energetic, sometimes frantic vocals on early live Dead stuff is some of favorites, and why I included their cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's Good Morning Little School Girl here. Pigpen was only in the band until his death in 72, but he was a huge influence on their bluesy sound and he's arguably the best "frontman" the dead ever had. That's It for the Other One became a live staple, and was a multi-part song that displays their psychedelic jammy side on record. Dark Star was released as a single in '68, and though less than 3 minutes on record, would typically expand to 20+ in concert and served as a vehicle for the Dead to jam out, same as the follow up track St. Stephen (aside: stephen malkmus pulls a jam band move and teases st. stephen in this great track from 2014 Cinnamons and Lesbians). Next comes China Cat sunflower, another live staple that typically jammed straight into I Know You Rider after ~1970ish. I included a track from their Live/Dead album, Turn on Your Lovelight, because this was Pigpen's main vehicle and was a showstopping closer in the late 60's and early 70's.
In 1970 the dead released their two most revered studio albums, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. I included a half dozen tracks from both of these (and purposefully left of Casey Jones). They both bring their folk and country influences to the forefront, with lots of acoustic instrumentation and contributions from mandolinist and Jerry collaborator Dave Grisman. Workingman was the dead's exploration of the sorta Bakersfield country rock sound (the byrds, CSNY, Dylan) and American Beauty expands on that is generally considered their best studio output, where even Freaks and Geeks made it a central part of their finale. I included a Phil Lesh (bass) sung tune, Box of Rain, written with longtime Dead Lyricist Robert Hunter (longtime dead lyricist and included as a nonperforming member of the band).
I put 3 tracks from the Dead's first official untitled live album known as Skull and Roses because I think they are essential GD tracks and don't appear on studio albums anywhere else. Bertha is an excellent example of early 70's dead, and Jerry's voice sounds good and he peppers the latter half of the song with blues licks. playing in the band was a Bob-led live staple that serves as a jam vehicle. And Wharf Rat is, imo, one of the best dead tunes overall, lyrically and compositionally.
From there we move out of the 60's and to Wake of the Flood, their 1973 album and first with new keyboardist Keith Godchaux. Many of these tunes were debuted on the road, and moved from the country rock to more jazzy, with Godchaux, a much more technically able piano player, taking a prominent role. He was around for From the Mars Hotel and Blues for Allah, the latter of which provided the help on the way>slipknot>franklin's tower run that would become a typical long ass jam in concert. Over this run of albums, imo, Jerry showed some of his best jazz influenced guitar lines, and on songs like Row Jimmy took a simple, slow song and made it really complex on close listens.
Terrapin Station moves us into high-production Dead. Estimated prophet is a syncopated, effect-laden funk and the title track is an orchestral suite that takes up an entire side of an LP and even the band questioned the embelishments afterward. I'm told it's great for smoking a bowl with friend though.
And then we're into "just listen to the live stuff" era of the dead. Godchaux had left and was replaced with Brent Mydland. He was arguably the best overall keyboardist/singer the dead ever had, he was just there in the 80's, and 80's dead suffers from what everyone in the 80's did - a little bit too much cheese. The highlights are here, and none of them are bad songs, but there is steady decline in quality studio output in the 80's, and their last offical album, Built to Last in 88, was...meh. By this point in their career they had become a live band, and their studio output wasn't indicative of their shows. so...typical jam band?
edit: that was some fortuitous timing from postjack
I'm advocating for a 45-hour long primer list with hits and essentials, and a 2 hour long deep dive list without hits for people that liked the primer and want to go further.
I hope you mean 45 minutes, because that's quite the primer
Post by potentpotables on Jul 16, 2020 15:35:19 GMT -5
Cookin' Mama great job on the Prince list. I don't know how I'd whittle it down to 18 tracks from late 70s/80s Prince. DMSR, Baby I'm A Star, I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, Do Me Baby, basically anything from Dirty Mind that you have...such a great primer.