Going onto 80 albums today! Thanks for all the nice feedback so far guys, it's been a lot of fun so far. Hopefully I keep you guys entertained with more good albums.
1. RJD2 - Getting Jukie Wid It Volume 2 What? Hip Hop When? 2003 Why? Time for another producer based hip hop album. RJD2 works with some of the best emerging talent, and this album showcases it. Show me!+ Show Spoiler +
2. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes What? Singer-Songwriter When? 1992 Why? One of the best albums in the genre. Great voice, great sound, intelligent lyrics. Show me!+ Show Spoiler +
3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not What? Indie When? 2006 Why? One of the classics of the postpunk revival. Great fun. Show me!+ Show Spoiler +
4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid What? Classic Rock When? 1970 Why? One of the most influential albums in classic rock. Mind-numbingly good. Show me!+ Show Spoiler +
5. Orphaned Land - Mabool What? Eastern melodic death metal When? 2004 Why? The sounds on this album are astonishing. There are definitely too few melodic death bands from Israel. Show me!+ Show Spoiler +
Some better known albums on today, but I think many might have missed them. Let me know what you think!
Disclaimer: The title says that it is Daigomi's guide to good listening. That means its my opinion. Feel free to disagree as long as you provide reasons; I enjoy a good discussion as much as the next person. Also, I just like listening to music, I don't give a shit for the political implications of any music.
Day 4 - Eti307 - Wale sampling Yann Tiersen Day 8 - - Name a song that samples Rodriguez's Sugar Man. Day 9 - - Which arcade game's music is sampled in Percee P's 2 Brothers From The Gutter? Day 14 - ZZangDreamjOy - Cake's Long Skirt/Short Jacket as Chuck's theme song.
Orphaned land is soooooooooo weird and good at the same time. I mean it sounds like some strange metal mixed with oriental music. But i prefer their songs without growls ;(
On March 14 2010 05:06 heyoka wrote: haha I listened to Mabool a few weeks ago for the first time in probably 4 years, I really dig that album.
Interesting that you classify Sabbath as classic rock
It is such a good album. Really awesome!
To me, Sabbath influenced metal but they didn't start metal. To me, artists like Iron Maiden and Saxon started metal in the 70s, while bands like Anthrax, Morbid Angel, and maybe Mercyful Fate took metal pretty much to an established genre.
Things like Led Zep, Black Sabbath, and even Kiss are more hard rock (and now classic rock), than they are metal
On March 14 2010 05:46 Boblion wrote: Orphaned land is soooooooooo weird and good at the same time. I mean it sounds like some strange metal mixed with oriental music. But i prefer their songs without growls ;(
Hmmm, I prefer Mabool, which is a touch more melodic, to their older albums like Sahara and El Norra, but I really like their growls. I've always enjoyed a good combination of growls and clear vocals
On March 14 2010 06:47 Stormer wrote: Orphaned Land are Israeli and are influenced by eastern music, not Balkan Great band though. Also nice choice on Black Sabbath and Tori Amos ^^
On March 14 2010 08:13 PH wrote: Tori Amos as "singer-songwriter" doesn't actually tell much about her music, lol.
Thanks for keeping this up, btw. I've found a lot of new stuff I've liked. (:
Haha, no problem! I'm actually enjoying these more as I do them, as it's getting me to listen to music I've often ignored for a few years now. To me singer-songwriter is something of a genre: Music focused on one person singing, usually accompanied by a guitar or a piano and little else. I mean, it differs obviously, Leonard Cohen and Tori Amos don't sound exactly the same, but yeah, there are differences in all genres
On March 15 2010 03:16 lac29 wrote: Listened to this today. Just straight up meaningful lyrics:
I love Atmosphere, that album will almost surely still get a list sometime. Hip hop is so amazing when its good, but I tend to think that bad hip hop is worse than bad other genres. Like, my hip hop library is still one of my smaller ones, but everything in it is amazing. My indie library is much larger, but I'd say the number of "great" albums in it is roughly the same, simply because an average indie album can still be enjoyable, while an average hip hop album can be horrible :p
On March 15 2010 07:23 7mk wrote: man I love little earthquakes so much. I wish I could connect to her later albums like I do to this one.
I dunno, I actually like many of her later albums. I enjoy Boys for Pele, Under the Pink, and even The Beekeeper. I haven't listened to anything after The Beekeeper though. In fact, most of my favourite songs are from these albums. Little Earthquakes is better as an album though, it doesn't have any weak tracks.
Well I didnt really mean to say "later", more like "latest" I include Boys For Pele and Under The Pink on the list of albums that I like a whole lot. Dont love them as much as little earthquake but Under The Pink at least is close. I mean who doesnt love cornflake girl :p
But like her last 3 albums, while they are certainly not bad, I mean they all have good songs but I just can't connect to them like that. I'm not sure I've ever listened to beekeeper though, unfortunately I cant listen to that song with Damien Rice because sony is a bitch.
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Great band though. Also nice choice on Black Sabbath and Tori Amos ^^
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