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Must Have Music?

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jlbenedict

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My BMG subscription is offering me a pretty good deal this month. 2/3 off, so most cds are around $6.00 - $7.00, and if I order 5 or more, free shipping.

What are some "must have" cds that I should add to my collection??

I've been listening to alot of old stuff in recent years (i'm 31)..
Stuff I like:

Metallica (have almost every release)
Megadeth
GnR (own every release)
and other 80's hair-band, thrash/hard metal..


I just added Dokken to my cart. Honestly, I had never heard of this before, and I liked what they have...
Any others?

 
Here are the CDs that I own that I wouldn't want to part with:

Anything by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Who-Who's Next?
Stone Temple Pilots-Purple
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Steve Vai-Passion and Warfare
Steve Cole-NYLA (This is some kind of poppy-type Jazz, but I like it)
Dream Theater-Images and Words

 
hey, uncle rico, 1982 is over. you might want to branch out of metal and hair bands. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Here are the CDs that I own that I wouldn't want to part with:

Anything by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Who-Who's Next?
Stone Temple Pilots-Purple
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Steve Vai-Passion and Warfare
Steve Cole-NYLA (This is some kind of poppy-type Jazz, but I like it)
Dream Theater-Images and Words
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Thanks.. I'll definately check those out.
 
that's not so hot for individual discs at BMG, cancel and rejoin, you can do a lot better than $6-7 simply by using the introductory offer.

BMG is kind of limited but they're good for stocking up on certain artists that are essential:
Van Halen (all the albums with Roth up through "1984," the guitar playing in every single band you mention was hugely influenced by Eddie Van Halen)
Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
the Who

Other stuff you might like:
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Pantera
Anthrax

Hair metal, not so "classic" but these are some of the ones I can stand:
Motley Crue
Ratt
Cinderella

And all the guitar virtuosos:
Satriani
Vai
Eric Johnson
Yngwie Malmsteen
John Petrucci (Dream Theater)
etc

You can probably preview a lot of these with Youtube videos if the 30 sec audio clips at BMG or Amazon aren't enough.

I would add early Ozzy Osbourne (Randy Rhoads albums especially) to the essential list, but not from BMG. They offer the 2002 remasters, where Sharon Osbourne had the original bass/drum tracks taken out and re-recorded with new musicians, because she's feuding with the old bassist and drummer over money. Big thumbs down to those reissues :thumbsdown:
 
I put together a list of stuff that I thought you would enjoy given your tastes and would help you branch out a bit into different genres (many of these are high profile releases, so you might of heard many of these)-

The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Clash - London Calling
Joy Division - Closer
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Pixies - Doolittle
Radiohead - OK Computer
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

PS: If you haven't listened to The Pixies, I'd put that immediately above anything else I recommended.
 
Any Led Zeppelin CDs, but especially IV
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush; Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Pink Floyd - DSOM; Meddle; The Wall; Wish You Were Here

I know these are more 70s, but they'll fit right in.
 
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
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I second all of this. And he pretty much parsed out the 2 DT cd's that will make the biggest impact. The new one Octavarium is pretty dang weird imho.. 8 songs, each one represents a particular key in Minor, with the first song starting in F(ironically called the ROOT of all evil), next song is in G, next in A, next in B, all the way back to F for the last track which is Octavarium... its a pretty neat display of theory but isnt as approachable as images and words or scenes from a memory..

HOWEVER, since a few folks have already pointed out DT, i think something even more approachable is OSI, which has the former keyboardist for DT and Mike Portnoy, DT's drummer. These are more radio friendly SONGS, then the typical extended DT epic. that and OSI is more like a combo of Tool and Pink Floyd than it is any kind of link to DT. That and most people think the vocals in OSI are more listenable than the vocals in DT.

2 myspace pages for OSI.
http://www.myspace.com/osimusic
http://www.myspace.com/osiband


 
Temple of the Dog (Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, etc. a classic grunge CD)
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple, Core
Live - Throwing Copper, Secret Samadhi
Richard Thompson - Action Packed - The Best Of The Capitol Years

grrl power 🙂
Breeders - Last Splash
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
 
Some good albums that I suggest:

Alice in Chains - Dirt
In Living Colour - Vivid
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Soundgarden - A-Sides
Nirvana - Nevermind
 
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