Recommend an Album... And why

[AK'z]

[QUOTE=cr2142;29076861]
I love you![/QUOTE]

I'm starting to think a lot differently about Neo-Soul. I used to think it was so inferior as compared the real thing.
Some groundbreaking stuff there.

[AK'z]

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Cymande - Cymande - 1972

Early Funk album. Makes me glad to be British because this is actually very good. I would put it right up there with the true greats of the genre. It really is worthy and one that gets missed out.

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See that?

[Herr Sven]

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[URL="http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=65414"]Abyssphere[/URL] - Образы И Маски (Images and Masks)
Ridiculously underrated Russian Melodic Doom Metal band. Plainly it's pure beauty straight through it and believe me, Russian is a great language for the genre! And this is their best album.
If you like bands similar to STS, Daylight Dies and Draconian; Give this a listen!

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[AK'z]

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Frank Zappa's Lumpy Gravy

This needs to be more celebrated. It is such a vibrant mixture of orchestral sounds while not being overly complex or over-produced.
It is a bit "musique concrete" but it's not avant garde.

A beer was dedicated to this album, that is how awesome it is :smug:
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[Take_Opal]

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Deathconsciousness: The Plow That Broke the Plains & The Future (double album) by Have a Nice Life.

Absolutely amazing voidy mix of shoe-gaze and post-rock. Atmospheric, moody and deep - probably my favorite album of all time It saddens me deeply that this band is so unheard of when this album is seriously this amazing. They don't even have a wikipedia page. They only made ~500 copies by themselves and published it through Enemies List Home Recordings. You can however buy it for $5 digitally which comes with a 75 page book that was written by some history professor about the themes of the album.

I will oversell you this album -- I cannot recommend it more. Buy here: [url]http://enemieslist.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=1[/url]

[editline]17th April 2011[/editline]

One of my favorite tracks from the album, probably the most approachable and still gives a sense of the album.

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[AK'z]

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Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat

Good album. Very remiscent of his work with Steely Dan and his 80s pop stuff. Through and through this is a pleasing album, lot's of good points to talk about. Mostly about production. But since I can't be asked to delve into that, I'll just leave this here.

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[FunkyHippo]

Awesome post, Take_Opal. I
<--big fan of shoegaze.

[AK'z]

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High Tide - Sea Shanties - 1969

It's prog metal in 1969....

What else do you want me to say? Oh yeah and the singer sounds like Jim Morrison. :smug:

[Xen Tricks]

Cross-post from the other topic:

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At The Mountain of Madness by Electric Masada. Plays Masada compositions in a noise rock jazz fusion style, it's fantastic and another genius brainspawn of John Zorn.

I'd also recommend Live in Sevilla and Live at Tonic by Masada, and all of the Bar Kokbha albums as well. The Masada project is possibly the greatest thing John Zorn has ever done, which is saying something.

[AK'z]

[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;29312395]Cross-post from the other topic:

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At The Mountain of Madness by Electric Masada. Plays Masada compositions in a noise rock jazz fusion style, it's fantastic and another genius brainspawn of John Zorn.

I'd also recommend Live in Sevilla and Live at Tonic by Masada, and all of the Bar Kokbha albums as well. The Masada project is possibly the greatest thing John Zorn has ever done, which is saying something.[/QUOTE]

Your recommendations never fail to impress.

Get a last fm account for me :3:

[Karlos]

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Personal best album of 2011; fantastic symphonic death metal even better than their previous masterpiece, Communion.

[Xen Tricks]

[QUOTE=AK'z;29316214]Your recommendations never fail to impress.

Get a last fm account for me :3:[/QUOTE]

I have one from a while back but it's kind of skewed and not great. I've been meaning to get a new one for a while, so i'll go do that later.

[john_pelphre]

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Sleep Party People - Sleep Party People

Electronic Dark Ambient is the best way to describe this album, and it's amazing. The vocalist has a a beautiful voice that goes perfectly with the music, which is drones and cools like the best, a brilliant album.

[editline]21st April 2011[/editline]

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Song from the album, to give you an idea.

[AK'z]

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Wapassou - Salambo

Not for the light hearted, Avant-Prog at some of it's best. Very obscure this is, so worth getting if you are... that kind of person :smug:

[Kagrenak]

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This has most likely been recommended before, as the original issue is one of King Crimson's best albums.

I'm bringing this up again, specifically Red, but more broadly, all of the 40th anniversary reissues of the King Crimson back catalog. About two years back or so, they finally found the master tapes for In the Court of the Crimson King, so to celebrate the finding & King Crimson's 40th anniversary, they commissioned a remaster of the first ew albums that they had released.

This turned out to be so much more than that. Steven Wilson came into the project to do the reissues, cleaning up the sound and developing new stereo masters for each one of the albums done. What really advances these releases is the 5.1 mixes he did. King Crimson in surround is an almost indescribable musical experience. Go do it. Even if you just have headphones, use foobar2000 + the Dolby headphone surround plugin.

[Kyle v2]

Can - Tago Mago

[img]http://monolithcocktail.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/tago-mago.jpg[/img]

Amazing album, a psychedelic and experimental masterpiece, the singer's erratic vocal style perfectly compliments the complex instrumentation.

[AK'z]

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This has most likely been recommended before, as the original issue is one of King Crimson's best albums.

I'm bringing this up again, specifically Red, but more broadly, all of the 40th anniversary reissues of the King Crimson back catalog. About two years back or so, they finally found the master tapes for In the Court of the Crimson King, so to celebrate the finding & King Crimson's 40th anniversary, they commissioned a remaster of the first ew albums that they had released.

This turned out to be so much more than that. Steven Wilson came into the project to do the reissues, cleaning up the sound and developing new stereo masters for each one of the albums done. What really advances these releases is the 5.1 mixes he did. King Crimson in surround is an almost indescribable musical experience. Go do it. Even if you just have headphones, use foobar2000 + the Dolby headphone surround plugin.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, a surround sound version of that album would be amazing...

I'm in need more for a surround sound Larks' Tongues In Aspic first. :v:

[AK'z]

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Mozart - Requiem

Derf, I'm recommending a classical album. But in all seriousness this album is something else. It makes me realise that the man was a force not to be reckoned with. :smug:
The songs just play into each other and it is pretty much a great starter album.

[Stizzles]

[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;29312395]Cross-post from the other topic:

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At The Mountain of Madness by Electric Masada. Plays Masada compositions in a noise rock jazz fusion style, it's fantastic and another genius brainspawn of John Zorn.

I'd also recommend Live in Sevilla and Live at Tonic by Masada, and all of the Bar Kokbha albums as well. The Masada project is possibly the greatest thing John Zorn has ever done, which is saying something.[/QUOTE]

:aaaaa: I'm interested.

[AK'z]

[QUOTE=Stizzles;29441413]:aaaaa: I'm interested.[/QUOTE]

You should get it. :iia:

[Stizzles]

I should get many things.

[ragawaga]

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... Pretty intense lyrics[/QUOTE]

This :D fucking good album

[AK'z]

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Neil Young's Harvest

Not my all time favourite album of his, but this I would say is one of the best starter albums for his stuff. This is a classic, must have.

[CheeserCrice]

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Its fleet foxes.

[john_pelphre]

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Its fleet foxes.[/QUOTE]

It better or the same as their first?

[Njittie]

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You should feel bad for not knowing this already, great indie rock from Canada.

[Kagrenak]

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Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Vol 2: Judges.

Usually, the manner in which an album is recorded makes no difference to my perception of its quality. Although I do have a large interest in production techniques, this changes when I sit to listen to music. When I'm listening to a work, I can't bring myself to care much about the machinations of a producer or artist.

With this album, this all changed quickly. With the exceptions of a french horn on track four, and various guest vocals, this entire album was recorded in a succession of single takes, with no overdubbing or multi-tracking. The album consists solely of one very talented man on the bass saxophone. The realms of sound produced by this singular man on his singular instrument are comparable to the depths produced by a band like Sunn O))) or Boris, if in a unique way that is wholly similar and completely unlike those two groups. The album is purely massive but yet remains humble throughout.

Just go listen to it.

[CheeserCrice]

[QUOTE=john_pelphre;29457686]It better or the same as their first?[/QUOTE]

Similar sound, but I prefer this album as a whole.

[AK'z]

[QUOTE=Kagrenak;29381377]King Crimson in surround is an almost indescribable musical experience. Go do it. Even if you just have headphones, use foobar2000 + the Dolby headphone surround plugin.[/QUOTE]

Okay, I'm gonna do that.

[thisispain]

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This has most likely been recommended before, as the original issue is one of King Crimson's best albums.

I'm bringing this up again, specifically Red, but more broadly, all of the 40th anniversary reissues of the King Crimson back catalog. About two years back or so, they finally found the master tapes for In the Court of the Crimson King, so to celebrate the finding & King Crimson's 40th anniversary, they commissioned a remaster of the first ew albums that they had released.

This turned out to be so much more than that. Steven Wilson came into the project to do the reissues, cleaning up the sound and developing new stereo masters for each one of the albums done. What really advances these releases is the 5.1 mixes he did. King Crimson in surround is an almost indescribable musical experience. Go do it. Even if you just have headphones, use foobar2000 + the Dolby headphone surround plugin.[/QUOTE]

i am totally willing to say that this album laid some important ground rules for post-rock