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Great forgotten albums

Frank Newgent

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Frank Newgent
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What can compare with the joys of listening to My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama while driving through a cold rain in Midland, Texas? If I'd only had external speakers through which to enlighten the homeland with the opening electric violin solo from Directly From My Heart To You.

Both, of course, from the Mothers Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Any other suggestions? I have a lot of driving to do the coming months.
 
B-52s. Mesopotamia. At midnight.

Stevie Ray Vaughn. Live Alive. Anytime.

Ali Akbar Khan. Pre-Dawn Ragas. Dawn, while heading west into New Mexico.
 
Lou Reed Berlin.
John Cale Fear, Paris 1919, Helen of Troy
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground (that third album, with Candy Says)
Ayers, Cale, Nico, Eno June 1, 1974
Captain Beefheart Lick My Decals Off, Baby
John Fahey The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

Those will haunt a house from across the street, if that's your thing.
 
The Kinks: Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround

The Kinks: Preservation Act 1 (If you like really weird, but musical, albums)

Ry Cooder: Get Rhythm (If the title cut doesn't get you rockin' in the aisles, they creamted you 15 minutes before...and it may work even then!)

Little Feat: Ain't Had Enough Fun
 
Frank Newgent said:
What can compare with the joys of listening to My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama while driving through a cold rain in Midland, Texas? If I'd only had external speakers through which to enlighten the homeland with the opening electric violin solo from Directly From My Heart To You.

Both, of course, from the Mothers Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Any other suggestions? I have a lot of driving to do the coming months.
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Weasels is a favorite of mine, too.

How about Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick?
 
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

seriously
 
LuxFerum said:
Old music is overrated.
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I was going to say something about sweeping statements, then I realized that sometimes they're perfectly true, for instance: No listenable music has been created in the last 20 years... ;)
 
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Evolver said:


Weasels is a favorite of mine, too.

How about Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick?
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Don't forget THIS WAS and BENEFIT, also.

And, just about anything from Slade!
 
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Temporal Renegade said:


Don't forget THIS WAS and BENEFIT, also.

And, just about anything from Slade!
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I kinda missed Slade.
What album would you recommend?
 
Mark said:
The Kinks: Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround

The Kinks: Preservation Act 1 (If you like really weird, but musical, albums)
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Indeed. And the first time I heard Muswell Hillbillies it was a 99 cent cut-out. Still one of my favorites.

Hey, how about T-Bone Burnett's Truth Decay or Proof Through The Night? The first is hard to find and the second impossible (on CD). Criminal Under My Own Hat is nearly capable of spawning totally unprecedented EEG patterns.
 
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Evolver said:


I kinda missed Slade.
What album would you recommend?
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Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply--the first one I had gotten (the first one I could find!) is pretty good;especially, of course, Run Runaway.

Rogues Gallery--just about every song's a 'get on yer feet' one.

Sladest--which has Cum On Feel The Noize, which made improper spelling cool long before Prince did it!
 
The Germs: MIA. Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum. hmmm, does Lodger by David Bowie count as forgotten? i'm not sure i can consider anything by the Kinks or the Velvet Underground as "forgotten". i think Blue Cheer counts, as most people, at least among those who care about such things, think that Iron Butterfly invented Heavy Metal. :rolleyes: The Germs get overshadowed by The Sex Pistols and The Clash, whch is tragic, and nobody i know has even heard of Lodger, despite it being fantastic.
 
Sundog said:


I was going to say something about sweeping statements, then I realized that sometimes they're perfectly true, for instance: No listenable music has been created in the last 20 years... ;)
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That means that you like music from the eighties??:D

Im not saying that todays music is better. But the problem is when someone talk about old music, they only talk about the good ones, all the rest is completely forgotten. And when someone talk about todays music, they only talk about the bad ones.

That is unfair, old music is as bad as today music. A lot of todays music will resist the test of time too.
 
EdipisReks said:
The Germs: MIA. Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum. hmmm, does Lodger by David Bowie count as forgotten? i'm not sure i can consider anything by the Kinks or the Velvet Underground as "forgotten". i think Blue Cheer counts, as most people, at least among those who care about such things, think that Iron Butterfly invented Heavy Metal. :rolleyes: The Germs get overshadowed by The Sex Pistols and The Clash, whch is tragic, and nobody i know has even heard of Lodger, despite it being fantastic.
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I have Vincebus Eruptum...and it should be forgotten. "Summertime Blues" is OK if you think of it as parody. However, I do have Blue Cheer's "New! Improved!" LP which is still quite good...well, the second side, with the 3 man line-up, anyway. The first side, with the expanded line up is just OK. The only LP I have ever seen with 2 different line ups on each side.

Anything by the Kinks from their "RCA period" can easily be considered forgotten, since they never did at all well sales-wise in the first place. As Frank Newgent pointed out, Muswell Hillbillies hit the bargain bins practically as soon as it came out...but it is am amazing record. Same with the Preservation records...including Schoolboys in Disgrace.
 
"The Accused" - More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral!

"Wargasm" - Why Play Around?

"Kreator" - Pleasure to Kill

"Napalm Death" - Harmony/Corruption

Just to name a few (c:
 
Jaan said:
"The Accused" - More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral!

"Wargasm" - Why Play Around?
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Not what I'd call a great album. Bullets and Blades was cool though.
 
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