Inspired from the rapcra thread...If you had to recomend an album from the genre of music you love to someone who doesn't like it, what would it be?

Originally posted by A_Partridge
Inspired from the rapcra thread...If you had to recomend an album from the genre of music you love to someone who doesn't like it, what would it be?

Easily Led Zeppelin IV or Led Zeppelin II. Sometimes I don't understand how people just can't at least appreciate it.

A signed by all the band presentation copy of Zep II is up for auction in a week for charity. I am tempted.

Oh yes, the music would have to be 'In my time of Dying' or When the Levee Breaks' by Zep of course.

Originally posted by Bloomdido
Oh yes, the music would have to be 'In my time of Dying' or When the Levee Breaks' by Zep of course.

Physical Graffiti and LZ IV respectively :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Bloomdido
A signed by all the band presentation copy of Zep II is up for auction in a week for charity. I am tempted.

do you have a link for it?

No. Just an e-mail address. If you drop me a pm I can e-mail you the photo of it or try
http://www.compton-hospice.org.uk/
where there is a fundraising section but I can't find anything specific to this.

My charity has been given the opportunity to auction signed discs courtesy Our Price but they don't have any Zep ones left!

Oh, It's reached £1,055 so far, which will be the starting bid price at the auction. I still think that's pretty cheap.

Originally posted by Bloomdido
Oh, It's reached £1,055 so far, which will be the starting bid price at the auction. I still think that's pretty cheap.

:wow:

I don't have that much money in the world! :lol:

Nevermind mate

led zeppelin are great...but i dont think they have done a album that i could put on random play and love every track.. but thats personal choice...theres just something about led zeppelin that doesnt do much for me... bout 10 songs that i LOVE but so many that i just dont get.

i loved the jimmy page / david coverdale album 10 times more than any led zeppelin album!. but thats me :)

ok...i recommend APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION by guns n roses. every track a killer, right time, right people, right songs. perfect.

and for any1 who likes def leppard, extreme or any melodic rock.. check out HAREM SCAREM's debut album. not too many people know about this canadian band..and they are absolutely amazing.

:) byezebye

(led zep fans dont hit me... ;) i was tryin to play livin lovin maid recently :clap: .......trying.. haha.. i didnt get far past the riff)

What about Comfort in Sound by Feeder? It got played for 2 months solid in the car.

Originally posted by MTheo
(led zep fans dont hit me... ;) i was tryin to play livin lovin maid recently :clap: .......trying.. haha.. i didnt get far past the riff)

I won't hit you buddy.

Just a little surprised that you could put led zeppelin and guns and roses in the same post :huh: :P

Trying to play livin lovin maid on guitar or listening to?

'The Colour and The Shape' by the Foo Fighters

John Mayer - Room For Square. I never get tired of playing it, and as most people here haven't heard of him I would recommend it. Has one of my all time fav songs on too 'Your Body is a Wonderland', but so many great songs on there. BUY IT NOW!!!

livin lovin maid.....trying to play on the guitar....i often play the intro / main riff then give up. haha. :) amazing song.

why is it confusing to put guns n roses and led zeppelin in the same post?

John mayer is great/ Led Zep is fab but you need to be introduced to it carefully.

I would reccommend AC/DC if you want blood if you are in a rock mood.

Or if you are in a melodic mood
Try Spilt Milk by Jellifish

I know that a lot of people are put off by the music of Bob Dylan, the album I would choose to recommend would be.

Blood on the Tracks - 1975



p.s. "In my time of Dyin" is a Dylan original :)

Originally posted by MTheo
livin lovin maid.....trying to play on the guitar....i often play the intro / main riff then give up. haha. :) amazing song.

why is it confusing to put guns n roses and led zeppelin in the same post?

Joking about Guns and Roses and Led Zeppelin being in the same post nevermind- that joke fell flat on it's face.

I play Stairway to Heaven (on guitar) up to the solo then: "stuff it" :P

Livin Lovin maid is good but it's not on of my favourites, I like the track after that, 'Ramble On'

Originally posted by Dolouz
I know that a lot of people are put off by the music of Bob Dylan, the album I would choose to recommend would be.

Blood on the Tracks - 1975



p.s. "In my time of Dyin" is a Dylan original :)

id say street legal is another good dylan album ive always rated it :clap: :clap: :clap:

Originally posted by Dolouz
p.s. "In my time of Dyin" is a Dylan original :)

lol yeah... and led zeppelin didn't steal it :rolleyes: :P

Originally posted by ianmitchell

I play Stairway to Heaven (on guitar) up to the solo then: "stuff it"


At 'Wavelength' on London Road (guitar shop) they used to have a sign in the bit where you could try out guitars and amps:-
"No Stairway to Heaven."

Try downloading any Django Rheinhardt / Hot Club of France for guitar licks and then remember Django only had 3 working fingers on his left hand! Howdeedoodat?

Originally posted by nuf_said
At 'Wavelength' on London Road (guitar shop) they used to have a sign in the bit where you could try out guitars and amps:-
"No Stairway to Heaven."

a la Wayne's World right? :P

I love that film!

Yes panda street legal really good, but then again i could go on all day boring you about other albums/outtakes/lyric changing ha ha ha

At the moment I am hooked on a live album called "stop cryin" (based on the song from street legal) which is brilliant. Different versions of tangled up in blue, shelter from the strom and I want you. More or less the same time as Budukhan 78.

See there I go, give me an inch I take a mile.

Wot about Thin Lizzy "Live And Dangerous" album (well almost live but def dangerous) that was a killer album and the band were def underrated.

Originally posted by Dolouz
I know that a lot of people are put off by the music of Bob Dylan, the album I would choose to recommend would be.

Blood on the Tracks - 1975



p.s. "In my time of Dyin" is a Dylan original :)


is blood on the tracks the album what dylan did after a bitter divorce ? if it is i might get it after xmas ,only got one bob dylan album and thats the vastly underated STREET LEGAL

i really must look at previous posts on the same thread as ive already said that street legal was a good album oh silly me:loopy: :loopy: :loopy:

Strictly Commercial, by Frank Zappa. A collection of his more accessible, lyrical funny material with a serious dose of impossible guitar and rich, orchestral music. Perfect gift for non-zappa fans who need to see the light,

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Strictly Commercial, by Frank Zappa. A collection of his more accessible, lyrical funny material with a serious dose of impossible guitar and rich, orchestral music. Perfect gift for non-zappa fans who need to see the light,

ive got the newer version of the best of frank zappa and like phan says above its well worth a listen as zappa always did various styles of music im sure theres something on there for just about everybody

:) :) :)

p.s i bet santa dont bring me joes garage on cd by fz on the 25th

;)

Originally posted by Dolouz
p.s. "In my time of Dyin" is a Dylan original :)

Sorry, not true. It's a traditional song. Dylan learned it from the 1930s versions by Blind Willie Johnson and Josh White.

To broaden it out from Dylan a bit some albums I'd suggest to people who wouldn't normally consider the respective genres.

The Libertines Up The Bracket
Mike Oldfield Crises
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

They've all got a real variety of stuff on them, and probably would surprise a lot of people as to their overall quality.

Kanye West - College Dropout

Best commercial Hip Hop album I've heard all year.

How about London Calling by The Clash? Punk, Reggae, Ska and Blues on one album!!!! Totally revolutionised the media perceptions about punk's limitations and still sounds relevant today. I have the album on CD and had the 25th anniversary album for Christmas..... Highly reccommended if you want a taster of what The Clash were about.

Yeh i totaly agree with you pinhead

Thank you Nakita!!! I'll play that one for you next time you are round. Thank W for the garlic bulb it went in my Spag Bol today

"Discovery" by ELO. A good album, although a horrendous dance version (ie a few lines from the song repeated over and over again) of one of the songs is being played regularly on Galaxy at the moment.

How about Inkubus Sukkubus-Away With the Faeries or Inkubus Sukkubus-Heartbeat of the Earth, both very good albums if your that way enclined.:thumbsup:

i like def leppard so i say the vault album is dead good

Originally posted by lemonkirdy
i like def leppard so i say the vault album is dead good

Good call :D

Leppard fan myself :headbang:

Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project (1997).

I lent this to a friend she never returned it so I bought another. It is truely one of the finest albums I own.

Also:

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis Classic

Bruce Springsteen- 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town'

It will take a few listens to get into it (not as instantly catchy as Born To Run) but the lyrics are amazing and you will eventually be hooked.

Is everybody over 50 on this page?!! Some of the music recommendations remind me of smashy and nicey's playlist...tinted Aviator's anyone?

After saying that I respect other people's choice of music as its their choice.

I would just like to recommened an album called Everyday by The Cinematic Orchestra. If you like chilled out nouveau jazz then get it. Or even try Brand New Second Hand by Roots Manuva....meaningful british rap which is darker than a dark night in Pitsmoor

how bout EXILE ON MAIN STREET by the rolling stones quite possibly the best album they did:) :) :) :)

I got LA Woman for christmas

Excellent album :thumbsup:

Originally posted by IanMitchell
I got LA Woman for christmas

Excellent album :thumbsup:

that is a good album tell you whats a good album the allman brothers live at filmore east :) :) :)

Jeff buckley . Grace , just beautiful, made me cry

soulful jams - Keep it solid steel - mr scruff
and UNKLE never never land - Just thought I throw in some newies as you all seem to be livin in the past - JOKE - The Grace album is a masterpiece by the way (J Buckley) It didn't make me cry it me we moist instead - Check out the first two they are amazing - funky - sad - thoughtful - just so good

I'd highly reccoment "hex enduction hour" by the fall, which is re-realesed today.

Its a corker. And for any Mark E Smith fans, there's a doc on BBC4 10:00pm this Friday. Check it outm the man's a genious.

I don't really have a favourite type of music....one album I am really enjoying at the moment and I can't really say why is Black Cherry by Goldfrapp.

The band that got me into metal was Pantera and 'This Love' :twisted: so that would have to be Vulgar Display of Power

Moon

anything by the smiths, they're not as miserable as everyone says. Esp. The queen is dead

Also if you didn't get razorlights album, up all night, last year then do so soon.

Also i literally found a copy of stevie wonders songs in the key of life, and i thought it was superb, esp. the second volume.

Moon Safari by Air can't be beat for chilled out grooves, and Off the Wall is my favourite disco album, and IMO Jackos best.

I would recommend Tago Mago by the German band, Can. This album, first released in 1971, has just been reissued in remastered form on Spoon. It is a wonderful mixture of Teutonic avant-gardism, spidery, choppy guitar work and cyclical drumming. Bands and artists like Brian Eno, New Order, Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, Cabaret Voltaire, John Lydon [Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd], have all cited Can, and particularly their work on Tago Mago, as a major influence. The best track is Hallelujah, which predates the kind of funky, repetitive, dischordant material Miles Davis attempted in the later seventies. Listen to this album by ex-students of Stockhausen, and you will hear something very special, mysterious and European. You will hear the sound of a truly original and experimental band, who sound like one big, organic, pulsating organism. Heil Tago Mago!

o o o..The Police's debut album, Outlandos L'Amour, excellent example of their early stuff.

fever to tell by the yeah yeah yeahs

In no particular order...

Lamb - Fear of Fours
Air - Moon Safari
Royksopp - Melody AM
Portishead - Dummy
Breakbeat Era - Ultra Obscene
Kosheen - Resist
Mr Scruff - Keep it Unreal
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Kasabian - Kasabian
Audio Bullys - Ego War
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free

Then from my very distant past

Any Smiths but especially Meat is Murder
Any Housemartins but especially London 0, Hull 4
Any Jamiroquai but especially Emergency on Planet Earth
Suzanne Vega - Solutude Standing (!!)
ABC - Lexicon of Love (!!)
Japan - Tin Drum (!!)

Tori Amos, any of her albums,

"Little Earthquakes" maybe,
and "From The Choirgirl Hotel"
and "Under the Pink" :bigsmile:
etc..

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol. 2

.... It's good, Honest.

Originally posted by vivo966
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol. 2

.... It's good, Honest.

Yep, nice choice...

And "Window Licker" is one of my all time favourites....

I now have both Kings Of Leon albums, they rule if you like 100% guitar tunes.

Muddy, is that the Jellifish that did the King is Half-Undressed years ago? That was a great cheesey summer album I seem to remember...

Queen 2 (side black)
Dire Straits - Makin Movies
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Duran Duran - Rio
Magnum - Marauder

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

DJ Shadow+Cut Chemist ~ Brainfreeze

Fabriclive ~ John Peel

Billy Bragg ~ Back to Basics