things that you're just now getting into

[Bob]

this thread is to post bands or whatever that have been around forever, but you're only just now starting to listen to.

i recently got into eric b & rakim for the first time, i picked up paid in full and follow the leader...about 50% of rap makes much more sense now.

[Qdrop]

yeah....while i've had singles and dubs...and known of them since thier inception....i've only recently (past year or so) been buying up albums of Erik B and Rakim....and old Public Enemy albums...

i started liking Journey and some other ballad-rock bands of the 70's and 80's in only the past 3-4 years or so....first as a complete joke between friends....then we really started buying the albums and going to the reunion tours and shit....
i just saw Styx for the second time, along with foreigner....
i don't even care if people think it's gay....i love that shit.

i've just recently realized that CCR's "down on the corner" is one of the funkiest songs ever written in ANY musical genre ever.

[enree erzweglle]

i started liking Journey and some other ballad-rock bands of the 70's and 80's in only the past 3-4 years or so....first as a complete joke between friends....then we really started buying the albums and going to the reunion tours and shit....
i just saw Styx for the second time, along with foreigner....
i don't even care if people think it's gay....i love that shit.Oh God, not Journey and Styx! I seriously hated them the first time around.

I caught onto public enemy just in the last few years although I knew some of their songs from hearing them play through car speakers during the summer. :)

[Lyman Zerga]

roy orbison
the smiths/morresey

cant even spell it yet

[adam_f]

I bought the four Busta Rhymes albums I didn't have yesterday (The Coming, Genesis, It Ain't Safe No More, The Big Bang).

I never liked DMX much until recently.

I like Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick more now.

For some reason, I've got the fever I had a few years ago when Vice City came out and I'm listening to everything I can find from the artists on the soundtrack, from any of stations. So I guess everything from Whodini to A Flock of Seagulls.

[Qdrop]

I bought the four Busta Rhymes albums I didn't have yesterday (The Coming, Genesis, It Ain't Safe No More, The Big Bang).


The Coming- solid debut.

Genesis - a little unven...but pretty decent.

It ain't safe no more- how is that? heard bad things. liked Make it Clap though.

Big Bang- and how is that? i like the single..

[adam_f]

The Coming- I've heard most of it before, and from what I remember it was pretty solid.

Genesis- Haven't listened to it yet.

It Ain't Safe No More- It's okay. I'm listening to it right now and I'm getting near the end. Despite the fact that several tracks were produced by J Dilla, I still can't get completely into it like my favorite, regardless of the corny Y2K bit, Extinction Level Event. I don't know, I may put Genesis in instead because aside from "Make It Clap," I really haven't been nodding my head to any of it.

The Big Bang- Exceptionally well done. All but three songs have guests, but unlike, say LL's latest in which all but one has a guest, the guests aren't distracting. Stevie Wonder provides the hook on the autobiographical "Been Through the Storm" and Rick James appears on "In the Ghetto" which samples his classic. Nas and Missy Elliott appear as well on separate tracks, and even an appearance by will.i.am doesn't completely piss me the hell off. One thing I'm extremely glad about is that there is no "Touch It" remix. I didn't like the fact that Busta seemed like a guest on his own damn record. I would definitely purchase this.

[DipDipDive]

Gang Starr, DJ Shadow, & Bonobo

I didn't know before and now I do. I feel quite silly for living without these artists all this time.

[Tzar]

i am going to start getting into* some talib and mos def

*indicates start buying their albums, so gimme some suggestions.

[adam_f]

Start with Mos Def's 'Black On Both Sides' and Talib Kweli's 'Quality'

Their 'Blackstar' album can get old (even though I do enjoy it) and I still don't like Kweli's Reflection Eternal album with Hi-Tek.

Mos Def's 'New Danger' is hit or miss and Kweli's 'The Beautiful Struggle' is a really good album, with the Mary J. Blige song 'I Try' that you might've heard. Kweli's latest 'Right About Now' is also pretty decent.

You could also buy Rawkus Records ten year anniversary album that features some of each of them, and it also includes Pharoahe Monch, Common, and Big L. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BRD6Z8/qid=1150301987/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-2793323-7289634?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

[mickill]

I wish I could hear Eric B & Rakim's first 3 albums again for the first time. And PE's first 4. I'm sure that about 60% of all rap songs from between 1988 and 1994 comprised at least one vocal sample from Paid In Full or Nation Of Millions...

I recently decided to listen to the Ten Years After records I have in my collection. I didn't even know what the hell kind of music they played before Sunday. It's okaaaayish, I guess.

[Bob]

I wish I could hear Eric B & Rakim's first 3 albums again for the first time. And PE's first 4. I'm sure that about 60% of all rap songs from between 1988 and 1994 comprised at least one vocal sample from Paid In Full or Nation Of Millions...

yeah, really. that's what i was getting at with the "50% of rap makes much more sense" comment, i never realized how many lines came from them. the vocal samples too, it was like a constant deja vu, listening to them, as i tried to figure out where i'd heard everything before.

one really notable thing about them, i don't think rakim ever swears. at least if he has, i haven't noticed it. not that it bothers me when rappers do, but it seems really rare. he's so cool, he sounds so...comfortable. i love it.

[ericlee]

I wouldn't say it's 'just now getting in to' but, I've always liked Steve Miller and I'm just now buying his c.d.'s.

[mickill]

one really notable thing about them, i don't think rakim ever swears. at least if he has, i haven't noticed it. not that it bothers me when rappers do, but it seems really rare. he's so cool, he sounds so...comfortable. i love it.
Yeah, he hardly ever does/did in songs. But the version of 'My Melody' that's on the album is edited.

He was 18 when he made that song. Think about 18 year old rappers today sounding that cool. Impossible. These days young rappers sound like morons. Which is why the most accomplished rappers today are all in their thirties. Back then there wasn't even such thing as rappers in their thirties.

[abcdefz]

A couple of months ago I started listening to Can -- stuff from roughly 1971-74. It's amazing; funky trance polyrhytmic stuff. I knew they were considered Krautrock which I assumed was all autotromic vocals and bleeps and blips and stuff.

Just last weekend, I bought a Mouse on Mars CD, which is sort of like a cool cross between Chemical Brothers and Ricardo Villalobos. (But then, those are two of the very few electronica touchstones I have.) The CD is called Idiology [sic] and came out in 2001, I think. And it is so, so, so cool. Loving it. (y)

[yeahwho]

i've just recently realized that CCR's "down on the corner" is one of the funkiest songs ever written in ANY musical genre ever.

That is a very astute observation, I've always felt "Willy and the Poor Boys" is perhaps one of the most "American" albums ever put out. Creedence Clearwater Revival are to this day an amazing band. I fucking love late Sixties, early Seventies Music. The production and youthfulness, a certain optimism that is completely lacking in bands of the past few decades.

I just never thought of "Down on the Corner" as being "Funky" but you know what Q, your dead on.

[mickill]

A couple of months ago I started listening to Can -- stuff from roughly 1971-74. It's amazing; funky trance polyrhytmic stuff. I knew they were considered Krautrock which I assumed was all autotromic vocals and bleeps and blips and stuff.

Yeah, I don't really think of Can as Kraut, even though they sort of defined the whole early sound of it. They're a lot less electronic sounding than a lot of the bands that followed them, who are what I think of when I think Kraut, like Kraftwerk and Faust.

[abcdefz]

re: CCR


It blows me away to think that (supposedly) a lot of critics dismissed them as just a silly singles band back in the day. Willie and the Poor Boys and Green River are a couple of flat out awesome albums, and Cosmo's Factory is no slouch.

[Qdrop]

I fucking love late Sixties, early Seventies Music. The production and youthfulness, a certain optimism that is completely lacking in bands of the past few decades.

(y)

[abcdefz]

Yeah, I don't really think of Can as Kraut, even though they sort of defined the whole early sound of it. They're a lot less electronic sounding than a lot of the bands that followed them, who are what I think of when I think Kraut, like Kraftwerk and Faust.



Yep. I sampled stuff by those folks, since music guides link Can to Kraftwerk, faust, Neu!, and others, and my reaction was like, "That's not the same at all!" (n)

[Qdrop]

yeah, really. that's what i was getting at with the "50% of rap makes much more sense" comment, i never realized how many lines came from them. the vocal samples too, it was like a constant deja vu, listening to them, as i tried to figure out where i'd heard everything before.

one really notable thing about them, i don't think rakim ever swears. at least if he has, i haven't noticed it. not that it bothers me when rappers do, but it seems really rare. he's so cool, he sounds so...comfortable. i love it.

Rakim, KRS1, Slick Rick, Chuck D...

where would the hip-hop scratch-sample world be without them?

and Audio Two's Top Billin...i seriously think that virtually every-other line in that song has been sampled by somebody.
it's pathetic.


i even sampled it.
*sigh*...it's like a narcotic.

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

gastr del sol. galaxie 500. charalambides. the congos.

[wanton wench]

i just got into this thread :cool:

[abcdefz]

galaxie 500



On Fire is a masterpiece. (y)

[Guy Incognito]

Since Ally Al sent me a Led Zep Comp - am really starting to explore their stuff - i always liked them just never scraped the surface - never realised there was so many breaks of theirs and also how much i knew already.

Got into ugly ducking just recently. Am liking a lot

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

I saw The Presidents Of The United States Of America live a couple weeks back, and I just got their debut album a couple days ago. Good stuff.

Peaches, yo. (y)

[Mr Films]

The Streets

back in 2004 I decreed that he sucked.

then last year I started thinking "maybe not"

now, I full blown love it.

I stand by that the new album is, if not the best, at least the most consistent.

[g-mile7]

always liked thier work, but now more then ever the WU is influencing me....espcially G.Deni'

[EN[i]GMA]

Rakim, KRS1, Slick Rick, Chuck D...

where would the hip-hop scratch-sample world be without them?

and Audio Two's Top Billin...i seriously think that virtually every-other line in that song has been sampled by somebody.
it's pathetic.


i even sampled it.
*sigh*...it's like a narcotic.

Yeah, I heard the "If you step up, you could get hurt" line on a DJ battle that was on Scratch and thought "Man, that line is ill as fuck" and I heard the song, finally, and though "Damn! I know that line!".

Awesome.

[EN[i]GMA]

On Fire is a masterpiece. (y)

God damn right it is.

Every song sounds the same, but they're all so good.

[EN[i]GMA]

Recently, I've been catching up on modern indie rock. Some of it's good, some of it's meh:

I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One by Yo La Tengo is very shoegazy. I like it.

Both of the Shins records. I love the second one, but don't really care for the first one.

Destroyer's Rubies by Destroyer. Good, but I liked City of Daughters better.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Don't really like it. I can stand 'bad' vocalists, but this is too much even for me. He sounds exactly like Bejar from Destroyer, only he sings worse, which I thought unimaginable. There are 'good bad singers' and 'bad singers' and this guy is just bad.

[HEIRESS]

modest mouse

[hpdrifter]

Beck. I never was much into his stuff but heard Guero in its entirety on a road trip and decided I forgive him for Devil's Haircut.

Hell yes.

[kaiser soze]

my drawing professor played alot of Petty and Young and I dig em now

[HEIRESS]

CLAP YOUR HANDS IS AWESOME

I also adore the moldy peaches too though

[Planetary]

the beatles and supergrass. i used to listen to these all the time. then i stopped for a few years. now im just getting back into them again-getting out the old albums. more supergrass than beatles but still.

[Kid Presentable]

Since Ally Al sent me a Led Zep Comp - am really starting to explore their stuff - i always liked them just never scraped the surface - never realised there was so many breaks of theirs and also how much i knew already.

Got into ugly ducking just recently. Am liking a lot
When I got into Zeppelin, it was all about the beats. True story.

[Lyman Zerga]

well add midge ure/ultravox to my list

someone stop me from being so totally 80s

[Qdrop]

GMA']Yeah, I heard the "If you step up, you could get hurt" line on a DJ battle that was on Scratch and thought "Man, that line is ill as fuck" and I heard the song, finally, and though "Damn! I know that line!".

Awesome.

yeah, actually the line is "step up if you wanna get hurt"...but the dj juggled it and changed the line to "if you step up, you get hurt"....

sick.

[abcdefz]

well add midge ure/ultravox to my list

someone stop me from being so totally 80s



Please hand over your OMD cassettes now, please.

[Lyman Zerga]

only if you send me your frank sinatra records!

[abcdefz]

*clutches 'em tightly*


I'm pretty sure I got the better end of that deal.


By the way -- you've got a Haircut 100 record on your -- no, no... a little left... little -- now UP. UP. Right... there! Got it. (y)

[Lyman Zerga]

but first give me my godamn mungo jerry albums back!
life can be pretty tough without them :(

[abcdefz]

I think I have your Falco records, too.

Oh! -- and Toni Basil.

Hmmm.... Fun Boy Three? I didn't even know you were into them.

[Lyman Zerga]

you naive little boy you
theres so much you dont know yet ;)

*listens to the beastie boys*

:eek:



heh that would even shock me

[Ally Al]

[QUOTE=Lyman Zerga]well add midge ure/ultravox to my list



i LOVE ultravox, well done lyman(y)

[abcdefz]

I can't front on Ultravox.

[Ally Al]

i like a lot of the early 80's synth stuff, Japan, Numan, Human league etc etc. It got a lot of play in my house at the time. Next time i post the cd's A-Z i'll hook you up with a couple of my that era compilations

[Lyman Zerga]

yeah i mainly love/listen to 80s pop

i should also get into human league and new order since many seem to like it

[abcdefz]

i like a lot of the early 80's synth stuff, Japan, Numan, Human league etc etc. It got a lot of play in my house at the time. Next time i post the cd's A-Z i'll hook you up with a couple of my that era compilations


If anyone can make me a fan, you can. (y)

Most of that stuff... I liked some of the singles ("Don't You Want Me," stuff like that) but couldn't abide by the kind of instantly-dated synth sounds and draining of human soul in the playing and vocals, etc.


yeah i mainly love/listen to 80s pop

i should also get into human league and new order since many seem to like it


Oh, man..... New Order's Power Corruption & Lies is awesome. (y)

[Ally Al]

yeah i mainly love/listen to 80s pop

i should also get into human league and new order since many seem to like it


i have a feeling you will love them in a special way

[TimDoolan]

Peter Allen, Godsmack.

[Ally Al]

Most of that stuff... I liked some of the singles ("Don't You Want Me," stuff like that) but couldn't abide by the kind of instantly-dated synth sounds and draining of human soul in the playing and vocals, etc.



I know what you mean but in a way thats what i like about it. You're dead right about synths, i think any music that uses the technology of the time becomes dated fairly quickly, but i like that about it also. Cars by Gary Numan sounds dated BUT it's still a great record 25 years on. A lot of the r&b i listen to at the moment (j-davey, sa-ra, sugarush beat company etc etc) is using those synth sounds again and i'm really really diggin it.

[Lyman Zerga]

ill also try to get into echo and the bunnymen

well in fact im trying to get into every 80s pop band

[Ally Al]

[QUOTE=Lyman Zerga]ill also try to get into echo and the bunnymen

Yes the EB's definately had their moments

try some Japan, Ghosts and The Quiet Life are my favourite tracks of theirs, both excellent songs

[abcdefz]

You guys might want to check out XTC's Drums and Wires if you haven't already.

[Lyman Zerga]

no we wont! shut up already!

[Ally Al]

You guys might want to check out XTC's Drums and Wires if you haven't already.


XTC is one group i've never checked, i remember a couple of singles, was making plans for nigel one of them ? And some friends of mine in a band used to cover one of their songs, i think it was called The Mayor of Simpleton, is that right ??

[Ally Al]

shut up already!


DAMN! (c) Prince

[abcdefz]

making plans for nigel one of them ? And some friends of mine in a band used to cover one of their songs, i think it was called The Mayor of Simpleton, is that right ??


"Making Plans for Nigel" is on Drums and Wires.

"Mayor of Simpleton" might be on Skylarking. Maybe.

[Lyman Zerga]

sorry
i couldnt take the heat anymore

[Ally Al]

"Making Plans for Nigel" is on Drums and Wires.

"Mayor of Simpleton" might be on Skylarking. Maybe.

So Drums and Wires is a good place to start ? Did they have that early 80's synth sound ? I'd never really considered them as part of that movement

[Ally Al]

sorry
i couldnt take the heat anymore


no I'M sorry Lyman, it was just a quote from a Prince song, HOUSEQUAKE

it's how the song starts SHUT UP ALREADY! DAMN!!

a bit late 80's for you i think

[abcdefz]

So Drums and Wires is a good place to start ? Did they have that early 80's synth sound ? I'd never really considered them as part of that movement


Yeah, no. No, they weren't the synthy sort of band like that; I thought you were talking about new wave stuff in general. Sorry.

Maybe you could try Big Pig. Trashy synth/big drum fun.

[Ally Al]

Yeah, no. No, they weren't the synthy sort of band like that; I thought you were talking about new wave stuff in general. Sorry.

Maybe you could try Big Pig. Trashy synth/big drum fun.


sorry thats me getting confused, we were talking about new wave stuff generally i just went off on an electronic tangent

Big Pig does ring a bell with me

[abcdefz]

sorry thats me getting confused, we were talking about new wave stuff generally i just went off on an electronic tangent

Big Pig does ring a bell with me


You can sample it here. (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1srb286c056a)

"Breakaway" was their hit (it was in one of the Bill and Ted movies, if I remember right), but the sample for that sucks. Skip to #13 -- even though it's the remix, it might sound familiar -- or #1 "Iron Lung."

I wouldn't pay full price for it, but I got the CD in a dollar bin and was pretty happy, but subsequently too embarassed to ever play it at a party or anything. :D

[Lex Diamonds]

The Clash
The Jackson 5
Notorious BIG (I never used to think he was in the same league as Pac and Nas and them but recently I've started really feeling his flow)

[Ally Al]

You can sample it here. (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1srb286c056a)

"Breakaway" was their hit (it was in one of the Bill and Ted movies, if I remember right), but the sample for that sucks. Skip to #13 -- even though it's the remix, it might sound familiar -- or #1 "Iron Lung."

I wouldn't pay full price for it, but I got the CD in a dollar bin and was pretty happy, but subsequently too embarassed to ever play it at a party or anything. :D


hmmmm, interesting. I don't know any of the songs though, maybe i was thinking of war pigs

[DroppinScience]

Please hand over your OMD cassettes now, please.

Hey, ain't nuthin' wrong with OMD. :D

And damn, Ultravox is a band I've been wanting to try out for some time...

[DroppinScience]

And since you guys are mentioning some '80s synth/new wave-type stuff, you all better listen to Nouvelle Vague (a French group that sings bossa nova versions of '80s new wave/post punk, etc... pure heaven!).

[Videodrome]

Sonic Youth; I'm really feeling their sound. Now I'm just trying to figure out which albums to get. They've released a lot!

[abcdefz]

Sonic Youth; I'm really feeling their sound. Now I'm just trying to figure out which albums to get. They've released a lot!


Daydream Nation
Goo
Sister
Dirty



...probably start there. The Ciccone Youth album is kinda fun, too.

[Lyman Zerga]

yeah i also should listen to more prince

thanks for ruining my day!

[Ally Al]

yeah i also should listen to more prince

thanks for ruining my day!


:(

sorry, i promise i'll try my best to make it up tp you

and yes, you should listen to more prince, late 70's/ 80's prince

[Lyman Zerga]

80s only!

[Ally Al]

80s only!


well he was at his best in the 80's so plenty for you to enjoy little Miss Pedantic

[Lyman Zerga]

:D

[Ally Al]

have you downloaded those Japan tracks yet ? If so, what do you think ?

[Lyman Zerga]

i should buy a bumper sticker saying "i have a gay ass download limit, so dont even talk to me brad pitt!"

padster would give me mad respect for that line



but thank you anyway

[Ally Al]

oh lyman, get it sorted i have loads of stuff that you'd like

[Lyman Zerga]

i said THANK YOU


perv.

[Ally Al]

i said THANK YOU


perv.


:D

most welcome


pervette

[Lyman Zerga]

anytime babes

i just realized i need the miami vice soundtrack
not owning it just feels wrong

[Ally Al]

anytime babes

i just realized i need the miami vice soundtrack
not owning it just feels wrong


that could be taking your 80's fascination just a little bit too far

[Lyman Zerga]

bah im sure tal wouldnt mind it and thats what really matters

80s pop owned hip hop


and that must be true cause it rhymes
we rule!

[Ally Al]

bah im sure tal wouldnt mind it and thats what really matters

80s pop owned hip hop


and that must be true cause it rhymes
we rule!


indeed!

don't get me wrong, i have no problem with the 80's, they ruled, for all sorts of reasons

[Lyman Zerga]

i wish the 80s wouldnt rule so much cause wanting so much without having money is torture, pure toture!

arrrrrrghh 80s (n)

[abcdefz]

Man -- the '80's had some great albums.

1982 alone, if I remember right, had

Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Squeeze - East Side Story
Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Paul McCartney - Tug of War

[Lyman Zerga]

good list cause it doesnt ask for more

[Ally Al]

i wish the 80s wouldnt rule so much cause wanting so much without having money is torture, pure toture!

arrrrrrghh 80s (n)


pssst, get a better download limit and i'll hook you up with allsorts of 80's goodness

just between me and you of course

[Videodrome]

Daydream Nation
Goo
Sister
Dirty



...probably start there. The Ciccone Youth album is kinda fun, too.
thanks, i'll check these out (y)

[So Ruff]

Sly & The Family Stone, The Meters, James Brown, etc.