As a follow-up to my earlier The ‘recommend me an album by this artist’ thread, this thread is for Dopers to ask for recommendations of albums by artists they may have heard of, but aren’t terribly familiar with.
Recommend me a Bob Marley album.
Exodus is terrific, and Legend (a best-of) is where a lot of people get started in his catalogue. But I think my top recommendation is the complete, new version of Live at the Roxy. I think in a live album, you get more of the energy and understand why the band was so popular.
This is the Marley I listen to all the time.
What is the quintissential metal album?
There are about 35 genres of metal that I think can be broken into 5 larger styles. Picking one album to represent all of that is pretty much impossible.
That said, I’d say the following five albums will give you a pretty good idea of the different styles out there and are all classics of their field:[ul][]Judas Priest, Screaming for Vengeance[]Metallica, Ride the Lightning[]Candlemass, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus[]Bathory, Blood Fire Death[*]Korn, Life is Peachy[/ul]Black Sabbath’s Paranoid and Led Zeppelin II are also both essential, but don’t really fit into any modern genre.
Live! is another good introductory album.
Thanks to everyone for the recs. In case anyone is interested, the following requests are still open from the previous thread:
Recommend Hunter Hawk a Bill Laswell album.
Recommend continuity eror a Jonathan Richman album.
Recommend Talon Karrde a Lou Reed album.
Instead, listen to King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry’s Super Ape and Revenge of Super Ape, or any other real dub music. I’ve always thought that Laswell was the dub equivalent of Al Jolson in blackface singing “Maaammmmy!” - that is, a white dilettante raping a fundamentally black artform and selling it to the Kenny G set. Ok, that was a litle harsh. His Tzadik stuff, like “Invisible Design,” are actually worth listening to.
Definitely the self-titled Modern Lovers album; it remains Richman’s finest moment. 2001’s Her mystery not of high heels and eye shadow was incredible, probably his finest record since.
Well, Transformer is kind of the gimme; the songs are phenomenal and the album works together as a cohesive whole, which is unlike the vast majority of Reed’s recorded output. A lot of people will recommend Berlin, but I’ve never been much of an apologist for it.
Alright, I’ll throw my hat in there. Somebody recommend me an album by Television.
Forget Legend–if you want a real Bob Marley album, get Burnin’.
Well, there’s no question that Marquee Moon is their moment by a mile. One of those life-changing albums that everyone should have.
That aside, the followup, Adventure, often gets overlooked for it’s more subtle approach.
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“Greatest Hits albums are for housewives and little girls.”
-Bruce McCulloch
P.S. Legend is the only Marley I own
Rastaman Vibration is my favorite. About the only one I still play. Includes my favorite song, “Who The Cap Fit”.