Recommend an Album... And why - General

If it hasn't been posted already... [IMG]http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u173/caseman260/CoverSm-140.jpg[/IMG] I thought it was a great starting point for discovering a really awesome band. You get a good taste of the many different sounds and genres the band worked with; interesting fusions of rock, funk, new wave, and world music. There music was (and still is) ahead of there time. If anything, Talking Heads were a band that changed the way people listen to music. If you're looking to expand your musical horizons, this is the place to start.

I think Talking Heads are one of the few bands who make it worth going through their discography chronologically. [editline]10:23PM[/editline] Psychokiller is the best

Grand - Matt and Kim [IMG]http://brentstephensmith.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/12593-grand.jpg[/IMG] Energetic, happy, and just incredibly uplifting. Amazing music to listen to while cruising around with your best friends. New Chance - The Tough Alliance [IMG]http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/10668-a-new-chance.jpg[/IMG] My favourite artist ever, amazing. Laid back and uplifting. Amazing when high.

[QUOTE=Akayz;22730591][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/NotoriousB.I.G.LifeAfterDeath.jpg[/img] superb album, words cant describe how good this is. All these posthumous albums make us forget the greatness that was meant to be released. This album is worthy.. Trust me [editline]07:06PM[/editline] Yeah i stand by my word. Very few modern albums can be seen as landmark albums due to the music industry being so developed ... Landmark albums are a lot different to just 'good' albums mate, it needs to influence a generation and have a unique concept in that sense. Cant name many but there definitely are[/QUOTE] Yeah man it's not kvlt enough is it? Fuck off and take your elitism with you, every time you post I gain another cancer cell. And you know these whole albums that drive generations? it's bullshit it drove a group of people, not an entire generation, only way that would have been possible is if everyone the world over enjoyed the same kind of music. Please, stop talking out your ass.

[QUOTE=bravehat;22750551] every time you post I gain another cancer cell.[/quote] How about a little more fucking substance rather than posting your aggrivation, nobody could give a shit. I don't get your point and i dont think anyone else would either. Why are you pissed off for a start? I recommended an album that in my opinion was a landmark record, influential for the industry, why are you pissed that i think black sabbath are a significant part of it? I couldnt give a crap about 'driving the generation' it doesnt even make sense! :argh:

[QUOTE=bravehat;22750551]Yeah man it's not kvlt enough is it? Fuck off and take your elitism with you, every time you post I gain another cancer cell. And you know these whole albums that drive generations? it's bullshit it drove a group of people, not an entire generation, only way that would have been possible is if everyone the world over enjoyed the same kind of music. Please, stop talking out your ass.[/QUOTE] um what

[img]http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/pfreire/listen/mhtrtc.jpg[/img] It's one of the most dense, well-crafted albums I've heard in my life. So many subtle layers and samples. [editline]01:32PM[/editline] it's also a perfect album from start to finish

Definitely gonna give that listen king, cheers.

[QUOTE=Akayz;22752093]How about a little more fucking substance rather than posting your aggrivation, nobody could give a shit. I don't get your point and i dont think anyone else would either. Why are you pissed off for a start? I recommended an album that in my opinion was a landmark record, influential for the industry, why are you pissed that i think black sabbath are a significant part of it? I couldnt give a crap about 'driving the generation' it doesnt even make sense! :argh:[/QUOTE] In the last decade there have been for sure, more than 2 or 3 milestone, land mark records. It's almost inconceivable to think that in my eyes.

Kid A and OK computer were pretty much landmark records

[QUOTE=thisispain;22766015]Kid A and OK computer were pretty much landmark records[/QUOTE] ...from two decades ago.

kid a came out in 2000 :saddowns:

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/BadReligionNoControl.jpg[/img] Probably the best punk album of the late 80s.

[QUOTE=MisterMooth;22766071]...from two decades ago.[/QUOTE] Well anything more than that and you can't really tell for certain it would be impossible to judge the future, but certainly OK Computer still influences the indie rock scene today

[QUOTE=Reaver1991;22766104]kid a came out in 2000 :saddowns:[/QUOTE] Kid a was a great album, i believe i have recommended that one here :smug: but i dont reckon it is a landmark record.. Of course its unique, but a landmark to me is something very different which unexpetedly makes a future classic. Even there newer stuf is pretty great so you cant forget that. Ok computer is a landmark record precisely due to that. Its all my own personal opinion so you dont have to agree with it unless you want to 00s wasnt a really brilliant decade for music but there are those few ones that are superb, probably more than 2 or 3 but lets hear em! Theres a Johnny Cash album in the past 10 years which is superb, a landmark....... For his career.

[QUOTE=Akayz;22768836]Kid a was a great album, i believe i have recommended that one here :smug: but i dont reckon it is a landmark record.. Of course its unique, but a landmark to me is something very different which unexpetedly makes a future classic. Even there newer stuf is pretty great so you cant forget that. Ok computer is a landmark record precisely due to that. Its all my own personal opinion so you dont have to agree with it unless you want to 00s wasnt a really brilliant decade for music but there are those few ones that are superb, probably more than 2 or 3 but lets hear em! Theres a Johnny Cash album in the past 10 years which is superb, a landmark....... For his career.[/QUOTE] For me, the 00's have had nothing but good music. The beauty of music is that it evolves. Elitism will keep it dying, stale, and stagnant. I would like music to evolve eventually.

[img]http://tonemarrowreviews.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/battles-mirrored.jpg[/img] Mirrored by Battles I don't think I've ever heard anything like it. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp-22t0lU[/media]

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;22769527]For me, the 00's have had nothing but good music. The beauty of music is that it evolves. Elitism will keep it dying, stale, and stagnant. I would like music to evolve eventually.[/QUOTE] Autechre :smug:

[QUOTE=Akayz;22730591] yeah i stand by my word. [b]Very few modern albums can be seen as landmark albums due to the music industry being so developed ...[/b] Landmark albums are a lot different to just 'good' albums mate, it needs to influence a generation and have a unique concept in that sense. Cant name many but there definitely are[/QUOTE] oh lawd the ignorance, such ignorance. There are thousands of albums made in the last 8 years that never in your wildest dreams never knew existed and never will. That's a huge assumption

[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;22770006]oh lawd the ignorance, such ignorance. That's a huge assumption[/QUOTE] Ignorant to what?? Music that has yet to be discovered? Bravo mate... That makes perfect sense, they must be landmark albums if its so great not to be heard. I keep hearing all these arguments with very little suggestion... Does that say much?

[QUOTE=Akayz;22770116]Ignorant to what?? Music that has yet to be discovered? Bravo mate... That makes perfect sense, they must be landmark albums if its so great not to be heard. I keep hearing all these arguments with very little suggestion... Does that say much?[/QUOTE] [B]Stop being a classic rock snob.[/B] The music industry has imrpoved, before, if you started a band, you had to get lucky for people to even know who you were. There weren't any indie releases because without the help of record companies, magazines and such, your band would defintatly fade into obscurity. And today? People releasing their stuff online, people creating record labels. Hell, one of the biggest changes in my opinion is forums promoting, new, obscure bands. Also, stop using elipses to end every sentence.

[QUOTE=Shibbey;22770215][B]Stop being a classic rock snob.[/B] The music industry has imrpoved, before, if you started a band, you had to get lucky for people to even know who you were. There weren't any indie releases because without the help of record companies, magazines and such, your band would defintatly fade into obscurity. And today? People releasing their stuff online, people creating record labels. Hell, one of the biggest changes in my opinion is forums promoting, new, obscure bands. Also, stop using elipses to end every sentence.[/QUOTE] I never said it was a bad thing[B][I][U]...............[/U][/I][/B] :smug: People argue that there are "plenty" of albums that have developed the industry further by a large margin. When people don't give evidence it just makes no sense to me. Sure there is lost talent, but that isn't the point of the argument.

[QUOTE=Akayz;22770116]Ignorant to what?? Music that has yet to be discovered? Bravo mate... That makes perfect sense, they must be landmark albums if its so great not to be heard. I keep hearing all these arguments with very little suggestion... Does that say much?[/QUOTE] Ahahahaha, oh god you're so wrong. Something doesn't have to be well known to be "landmark" you dolt. It's something that causes a revolution or a change. It leaves a mark in the scene, a mark which will influence bands for years to come. It doesn't have to be worldwide to be a landmark, get that into your brain.

[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;22770276]Ahahahaha, oh god you're so wrong. Something doesn't have to be well known to be "landmark" you dolt. It's something that causes a revolution or a change. It leaves a mark in the scene, a mark which will influence bands for years to come. It doesn't have to be worldwide to be a landmark, get that into your brain.[/QUOTE] I didn't say "worldwide", but you suggested that apparently thousands of albums that I have yet to have heard must be a landmark in the industry. please enlighten me.

[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;22770006]oh lawd the ignorance, such ignorance. There are thousands of albums made in the last 8 years that never in your wildest dreams never knew existed and never will. That's a huge assumption[/QUOTE] It's not like he said albums from the last last decade have been bad. He's just saying there haven't been any landmark albums. We're talking important, unique and influential albums. Stuff that's worthy of being called a "classic", and can stand out amongst most of everything else. I haven't seen another Sgt. Pepper's or Nevermind. I've listened to many albums from the past decade that I would call "amazing", but it's hard to call any of them landmark albums. It's possibly because almost all of these are fairly underground in terms of popularity, and the impact of these albums are generally restricted to their own genres. But even so, it's still too early to analyse the impact of albums from the past decade.

Mooth, that is an excellent point. Also Akayz I can give you some "suggestions" The band black flag from California are considered to be one of the first hardcore punk bands. Now I'm not saying listen to them, but I'm saying that their first couple of albums were "landmarks" in the genre because they lead a movement. It pioneered a lot of different styles we know today. Hardcore punk bands led to regular hardcore, which mutated into many different subgenres. From hardcore, we had metalcore, again not telling you to listen to it just listing. From metalcore. it spawned another huge bunch of sub genres. From there, deathcore ect and again regardless whether people enjoy it or not. Hardcore, Metalcore, and Deathcore are all huge chunks of modern metal we know today. They're huge parts of the scene, and due to that little change in style, and the landmark albums that Black Flag produced, we had a whole massive movement eventually take place. What I'm saying is, it is a "landmark" because the stuff that you've never heard of or listened to influenced so much and it's reverberations can still be felt today. It doesn't need to be well known to be a landmark, it just needs to make a concious change.

[QUOTE=Akayz;22770256]I never said it was a bad thing[B][I][U]...............[/U][/I][/B] :smug: People argue that there are "plenty" of albums that have developed the industry further by a large margin. When people don't give evidence it just makes no sense to me. Sure there is lost talent, but that isn't the point of the argument.[/QUOTE] :smugissar: Ok, albums or bands that in the last 15-20 years have shaped how music is today. For example, [B]Nirvana.[/B] They had a massive impact. Especially their first album.

One band I consider unique and imo has changed the music is Meshuggah. They may have only changed the metal genre but they changed it for forever. I've never heard anything like I or Catch 33, I consider them as the landmark albums.

[QUOTE=Akayz;22770315]I didn't say "worldwide", but you suggested that apparently thousands of albums that I have yet to have heard must be a landmark in the industry. please enlighten me.[/QUOTE] Meshuggah's albums undeniably are a driving force in metal right now, but you will undoubtedly choose to ignore that information because it is not the style of music that you choose to listen to. They've basically redefined the harmonic and rhythmic language of certain styles of death metal,as well as the instrumentation and arrangement, and though I really don't like Meshuggah, I wouldn't deny for a second their immediate and visible influence on the death metal community. Dream Theater's post-2000 albums have spawned a swarm of copy acts, and John Petrucci of that band is one of the most recognized virtuoso guitarists in the world right now. Rush's "Snakes and Arrows" has introduced an entire new generation to their music, and you can bet that will be reflected in future music. Opeth's "Blackwater Park" is one of the most acclaimed masterpieces in metal from the last decade. Again, of course you do not know this, because it is not the style of music that you listen to. From what I've gathered, you're big on soul music from the 60's and 70's. Unfortunately, the 60's and 70's are not the last decade, so of course Marvin Gaye isn't going to be releasing any classic albums soon. Likewise, I'm doubting that you're a big Allan Holdsworth fan, and maybe you don't know the name. Nonetheless, he's totally not mainstream, and he's been releasing 'landmark' records since the 70's that have influenced countless musicians since. Most non-musicians that I know have never heard of Holdsworth. Does this make any of his work less seminal? Edit: [QUOTE=whitespace;22770892]One band I consider unique and imo has changed the music is Meshuggah. They may have only changed the metal genre but they changed it for forever. I've never heard anything like I or Catch 33, I consider them as the landmark albums.[/QUOTE] Beat me to it, ha.

^ Perfect example, pretty much what I said.