I am thrilled to hear you gained an appreciation of Sabbath! Children of the Grave is one of my all-time favorite metal songs. In terms of Zappa he’s on my personal grew on me over time artists. A family member I didn’t really know passed away in 1994 leaving about 200 CDs in the basement of a house he owned. My grandfather was asked to find someone who would appreciate them and he immediately thought of me. Those 5 Zappa CDs in there sounded too experimental to me on a first listen but I later came to appreciate Joe’s Garage from 1979 for all its oddities the most. The Central Scrutinizer with the odd xylophone, whispering dystopian lyrics and assorted other weird sound effects slides right into the smooth tight hook of the title track. Good headphone listen to catch little nuances throughout this album.
Great video Tom. Here's my 5: Pink Floyd in 1977 after hearing Animals, Neil Young in 1979 being high and listening to Decade, REM in 1986 with the release of Life's Rich Pagent, The Grateful Dead sometime around 2016, I don't really know why but I bought over 30 of their cds since and lastly Queen thanks to my daughter becoming a fan after the release of Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018.
I love The Strawbs. Couldn't listen to them at first. I was expecting something else. Found a double album of the first two albums for 6 bucks thinking If they stunk it wouldn't be a lot of money wasted.... played the album and BANG!! Now I understand what they're about. Such a great band!!!
My love of the Strawbs was slow to grow, led me to Fairport, Steeleye Span. I bought an American Strawbs release(Capitol?) called "All Our Own Work" as a cutout long ago. I cannot find a picture of the b/w cover my album had. I later lost the lp...... it had a b/w pic of them along a picket fence, a house in background.
I don't really do "grew on me" much -- probably not five times since '66, when I started getting really interested in music. It's usually love or hate at first listen, and no second dates for the rejects. Leonard Cohen might be one of the rare exceptions. I was aware of some of his songs, but didn't connect until I married a fan, and worked with a musician who was also a fan, about the time Various Positions came out -- then I was hooked. Finally saw Cohen with a full band in '93 and it was a thrill. Something similar happened with Nick Cave -- the wife's influence again. Queen is close to a classic example of what you're talking about; I didn't like them at all for their entire career, then gradually started appreciating what they'd done after it was all over (still not a rabid fan, though). Usually I'll just be totally ignorant, then get hit by something at exactly the right time and place. I had no idea who the Pixies were until people started bringing them up all the time after Nirvana hit. Zero clues about Shonen Knife until I took Japanese class in the late '90s. The Muffs meant nothing to me until I picked up Really Really Happy in 2005 and found there was a substantial back catalog. This is the good side of the love or hate reaction, but delayed. Broken up? No problem, new to me!
Interesting, I used to be a love em or hate em on first listen person. If it didn’t move me in some way as soon as that needle dropped I would discard the album immediately. I think jazz turned that around for me decades ago as I had to listen with different ears and slowly pick up on subtleties and such.
Three acts that grew on me over time: Captain Beefheart, early Jethro Tull (1968-70), Joni Mitchell in her early thirties (1973-76)... Our intro-to-Zappa album was "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" (1970)... I'll be checking out Blur; never heard of them (thanks!)
By the way, Zappa deserves a full video in which his albums need to be analyzed in more detail and in the chronological order. He is a significant artist.
Regarding Zappa, I recommend giving The Grand Wazoo a listen. Oh, and Burnt Weeny Sandwich is a great Mothers of Invention album. I'd suggest Uncle Meat, but you already have that covered.
Crazy, I have also come around to Zappa and Blur within the past year. I always used to think of Zappa as sort of pretentious and noodly, more quantity over quality because of his giant catalogue, but he’s pretty phenomenal. Apostrophe and Overnite Sensation are two seventies classics, also You Are What You Is from the 80s is amazing and hilarious. Ruben and the Jets from 68 is also good if you like the doo wop stuff
As a friend had said about the music of Cohen, it is both a sense of joy and a kind of sadness that cannot be expressed fully. Like something is stopping them from becoming fully realized.
It is interesting to hear the arc of your getting into particular artists. How about a list of cover songs that opened your taste to an artist or song that was previously inaccessible.
Nice Vid Im a lifelong Zappa fan and will echo everyone who said Grand Wazoo Also Bongo Fury ( with Captain Beefheart ) Roxy and Elsewhere As for the the topic at hand heres 3 Ween was a band i really didn’t like in the 90s but then my son got in to the and through that i have discovered there catalog White Pepper , Quebec , The Mollusk and Chocolate and Cheese are all great albums Beastie Boys ; I got License to iLL upon release but it was years later before i returned to their amazing catalog The Cure ; so i mentioned my son and now my daughter turn , she is a huge Cure fan and I had pleasure of bringing her to MSG to see them ; first time at the Garden and her first Big Concert ; I have owned Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and Standing on the Beach ( greatest hits ) but I have since done a deeper dive and they are an incredible talented band and Robert Smith is as good a songwriter as any
I was never a huge Cure fan, but I must admit they have a very eclectic catalog. The Standing On A Beach comp is excellent. Always loved the track The Caterpillar. The Grand Wazoo is on my list along with Uncle Meat for next Zappa purchases. 😉
Great mention on Zappa's "One Size Fits All". Love that album. I listened to the heck out of that release back in the day. I was a big fan of Suzanne Vega as well. A few months ago I started re-listening to some of her stuff, after a long absence. Great video, by the way!
I love the Strawbs..have several on disc and two of these are compilations. Same with Leonard Cohen..Have almost all of these..I'm your man is my favorite..Black Sabbath is another that I have several of on disc..
Hi Capo. Thanks for the Cowboy ref from an earlier vid...lovely laid back melodic country...reminds me of an obscure band called Wally which you might want to check out...also I listened to Modern Life Is Rubbish on your prompting as my old CDs are buried in my cupboard. songwriting is very good...early Kinks vibe...I'm listening to a power metal band called Praying Mantis now..there's just too much music to listen to and get acquainted with lol...
You definitely have great ideas for videos here.Beefheart and the Doors, absolutely. Oh, sorry, Add Tom Waits; such variety for anyone's or almost, taste.
Three days ago one of my favorite TH-cam channels, Trash Theory, posted a video about Blur. I had been waiting to watch it and now seems the perfect time, since i really dont know a lot about them!
Nice idea for a video, once again. About Zappa: you need Absolutely Free. It really is a fab listen. Overnite Sensation too. Also, you need to get a vinyl copy of Freak Out.
I did find an original vinyl copy of Absolutely Free months back. Great album. Also a CD copy of Overnight Sensation. I’d like to find an original vinyl copy of Freak Out. I love the artwork on those Zappa 60’s albums.
I did not become a Sabbath fan until the early aughts, despite having grown up in the '70s. Most of what was promoted (by teenage fans) was the proto-metal stuff. Listening later on I found that they were some of the early creators of Heavy Prog. They seamlessly shifted modes and defied genres with tracks like the "Warning" medley on the debut, (as mentioned) classical influences on "Planet Caravan", swing tempos on "Fairies Wear Boots", and jazz/be-bop modes on "Hand of Doom", and "Rat Salad" on Paranoid, and a precursor to grunge and alternative on "Into the Void", on "Master" ...
Along with the riffs, that rhythm section can really swing. I like the warm production. Everything sounds natural unlike the metal productions of the 80’s and those appalling drum sounds, over the top reverb etc.
I love "Gypsy" by Suzanne Vega. That entire album (i bought it on cassette when it came out) is incredible. It even influenced me to look up Kasper Hauser in the encyclopedia. In the months before it came out I was trying to get over someone named Luca and was trying not to think of him hoping i never heard his name again. All of a sudden it was everywhere.
There was a time when concert’s were affordable. I remember seeing shows at huge venues like The Forum for $10. It’s absurd what tickets cost these days, plus the parking etc.
Damn. I love that compact disc of Suzanne Vega. Headshot is such a cool song..We have similar tastes. May I suggest Gentle Giant and Caravan? Van der Graaf generator?PFM?
I just recently picked up a copy of In The Land Of Grey And Pink. Excellent record, especially the second half. Check out Hatfield And The North. Great Canterbury band with Richard Sinclair. The album Rotters Club is a masterpiece.
My two fave zappa you already mentioned: One Size and Hot Rats. Lots of folks (and me too) like Overnight Sensation (Dynamo Hum, Montana, Slime on your TV) and Apostrophe (Nanook was an Eskimo). Live in NY is a classic too (titties and beer and the statistical density of Black Page part 2 among others). Bongo Fury with Capn Beefheart, perhaps (muffin Man). Joe's Garage is fantastic even if a bit over the top on the verbal nonsense SIde 4 (Watermelon and Little Green Rosetta) are worth the listen if the appliance sex songs are too much for you. Then there are the shutup and play yer guitar or other outtake guitar compilations which are worth the listen. That is my feedback. Edit: Forgot Sheik Yerbouti, lots like that one. not my fave but has its good points. Zoot Allures is worth the buy for Black Napkins alone.
In the early twenties i watched on video "Magnolia" by Paul Thomas Anderson; amazing film with great soundtrack by Jon Brion and Aimee Mann ! Since that day i started buying Aimee's solo (you can easily forget 'Til Tuesday) albums. Aimee mann never realesed a bad or average album : from "Whatever" to "Queens of the summer hotel" everything is great and if you want to try start by listening "Lost in space", "The forgotten arm" or "Charmer".
Black Sabbath's Paranoid was the first album I ever bought, back when I was 13, so I've always been a huge Sabbath fan. That said, the first six with Ozzy plus the first two with DIO are all anyone but obsessives really need. I also do have a soft spot for Live At Last, even though it wasn't authorized by the band and almost sounds like a bootleg.
I remember going to the record store, Record Bar, maybe and they were playing Suzanne Vega's first album. It was brand new and after a few cuts I knew that was the album I was walking out with that night. Not one that had to grow on me but one I connected with right off the bat.
I took a hard pass on most of the 80's in favor of learning about Classical & Jazz. 40 years later and I'm taking a another look. I've found a couple great albums by The Chameleons and The Rain Parade. I never paid much attention to Genesis either. I did not dislike them, but after a second glance I'm really starting to like their material.
Wow don’t get me going on the Mothers! I’m a crazed off the hook fan of their repertoire!!!! As for Franks catolog its hit and miss. But….. none the less important. As for Mr. Cohen yes his first lp is an explosive masterpiece. His out put is very eclectic and very listenable. You’re on the right track my friend. Just found you by….. channel surfin. Hey drop by my oasis Return to the Perfumed Gardens w/Rik Strange. We might be kindred souls?! 🚀🖖
Interestingly, I grew up with older siblings and only listened to hard rock in the early seventies, on first hearing all the west coast singer/songwriter stuff I thought it was boring, insipid and lacklustre. I still do
Been heavily into Zappa since high school. Get Uncle Meat on vinyl. Fans refer to the extra tracks on the CD as penalty tracks instead of bonus tracks.
I don’t know if you like reggae but I had some interest in Steel Pulse and for a while I only had their first album, Handsworth Revolution, on CD and I decided I needed more. I bought a few of their early albums and I hated the album Tribute to the Martyrs. I listened to it about 4 times and I couldn’t get into it at all although I kinda liked one song. Turns out that fifth listen was all it took for it to become one of my favourite albums of all time and the song Babylon Makes the Rules was in my head for months.
I’m a huge Marley fan, but apart from Bob and Toots and the Maytals I don’t have other reggae albums besides a few cool compilations. I’ll check out Steel Pulse.
You should definitely pick up Zappa's The Grand Wazoo. Knowing your taste through your vids I really think you'd dig it. Dylan grew on me. I bought Blood On The Tracks in 1990, liked it then shelved it. 1997 he released Time Out Of Mind and blew me away. After that (25 years ago) i was on a mission and amassed a dozen or so. I used to dismiss him in my younger, harder rock days
You're in for a wild but fabulous ride with Uncle Meat my friend!......one of my all time Zappa faves. Make sure you use the chicken to measure it though. Check out The Lost Episodes as well....incredible early Beefheart & Zappa.....contains some hysterical outtakes and Charva!
I want to get the vinyl version as I dig the bizarre artwork. I saw a cool live version of King Kong on You Tube from that period of the album’s release. Blew me away.
This isn't an artist, but for years I bought into the trope that from the day the music died until the Beatles debuted on Ed Sullivan was a musical wasteland, and it really wasn't until I was too old to be concerned with image that I started exploring that era. And it definitely is a singles era. Most albums are chock full of filler. But I now have tons of material. Now that he's dead, we can go back to enjoying Spector's Back to Mono. Rhino released an amazing girl group boxed set, packaged in a hat box. There's a good Cameo-Parkway set with Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharp, The Dovells, etc. Actually, Chubby Checker Lps are reasonably common and inexpensive, just hard to find untrashed. I HATED Duran Duran when they emerged. I'd turn the mute on when their videos appeared on MTV, so I could watch the painted ladies without having to listen. Of course my little sister was a mega fan, so I wound up hearing them all the time anyway. Today I really do like those classic early records (except The Reflex, I still can't stand that song). It used to be the only INXS song I liked was their cover of Good Times from the Lost Boys soundtrack, but I came around on them. ABBA. I was too much of a rockist to have an appreciation for perfect pop. Buck Owens. Growing up he was just that dude on Hee-Haw with the red, white and blue guitar. But those 60's albums with the Buckaroos are something special. No wonder John Fogerty listened.
i watched you a day or two after a quarter turned you into a damon albarn fan. blur were abused at coachella about a month ago. the records after the ones you mention are solid as well as the latest gorillaz.
One more comment: Nice to see an American falling for Blur, but you have to listen to their two reunion LPs, The Magic Whip from 2015 and last year's The Ballad of Darren.
I picked up Magic Whip in the used section a few weeks back. Quite good. Need some repeated listening. Also heard the new one online. They really evolved from album to album. Again I never realized how brilliant they are. Like finding a buried treasure…
1st. Absolutely Free is top psychedelic classic. 2nd Hot Rats...3rd Bongo Fury Sam With Showing Scalp Flat Top 4th. Black Slacks...5th. Sheik Yerbouti Flakes... 3,4,5 are all underground approved... I can elaborate but it is rather extensive,
Zappa and Cohen are already my favorites right from the word go. Black Sabbath is a huge no no. Gotta check out Blur. I would pass up Suzanne Vega just for no reason.
beth orton xtc joshua lee turner bee gees teenage fanclub supertramp jane siberry frank zappa rolling stones laura nyro kate bush van morrison paul simon joan armatrading bangles lou reed bruce springsteen (though i have to limit it to his 70’s output) stephen stills nancy griffith all of these groups, (and more), did not grow on me so much as i just tended to judge an album by it’s cover, or i only heard one song by them, and thought i had heard it all.
Check out The Grand Wazoo and Chunga's Revenge from Zappa. From what you said, I think you will dig both of them (Both are better than Uncle Meat in my opinion). Also, give Black Sabbath Sabotage another chance. It's the last great BS album. It's got five 5-star BS songs on it. Start with the very last song (The Writ).
The Grand Wazoo is on my list for the next purchase. I’ll give Sabotage another listen. Nothing struck on first listen like those first 5 albums. I have to say though the title track of Never Say Die rocks! Just a great hook filled track.
I saw Blur play at Toad's Place in New Haven back in the early 1990s. Amazing night!
Very cool!
After my mom died Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" was my therapy.
One of my all time Dylan faves. Love that piano/organ combo. Music is the best therapy. 😉
Yes, the song is much like a dirge
I am thrilled to hear you gained an appreciation of Sabbath! Children of the Grave is one of my all-time favorite metal songs.
In terms of Zappa he’s on my personal grew on me over time artists. A family member I didn’t really know passed away in 1994 leaving about 200 CDs in the basement of a house he owned. My grandfather was asked to find someone who would appreciate them and he immediately thought of me. Those 5 Zappa CDs in there sounded too experimental to me on a first listen but I later came to appreciate Joe’s Garage from 1979 for all its oddities the most. The Central Scrutinizer with the odd xylophone, whispering dystopian lyrics and assorted other weird sound effects slides right into the smooth tight hook of the title track. Good headphone listen to catch little nuances throughout this album.
Great video Tom. Here's my 5: Pink Floyd in 1977 after hearing Animals, Neil Young in 1979 being high and listening to Decade, REM in 1986 with the release of Life's Rich Pagent, The Grateful Dead sometime around 2016, I don't really know why but I bought over 30 of their cds since and lastly Queen thanks to my daughter becoming a fan after the release of Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018.
I love The Strawbs. Couldn't listen to them at first. I was expecting something else. Found a double album of the first two albums for 6 bucks thinking If they stunk it wouldn't be a lot of money wasted.... played the album and BANG!! Now I understand what they're about. Such a great band!!!
I had a Strawbs album at one time. Traded it in. I’ll be honest I didn’t give it a chance. May need to revisit some of the catalog.
My love of the Strawbs was slow to grow, led me to Fairport, Steeleye Span. I bought an American Strawbs release(Capitol?) called "All Our Own Work" as a cutout long ago. I cannot find a picture of the b/w cover my album had. I later lost the lp...... it had a b/w pic of them along a picket fence, a house in background.
So glad your channel appeared on my feed, Tom! Give us a Favorite Female Vocalist submission, please!!
Sounds like a great idea. I’ll make that happen soon. 😉
I don't really do "grew on me" much -- probably not five times since '66, when I started getting really interested in music. It's usually love or hate at first listen, and no second dates for the rejects. Leonard Cohen might be one of the rare exceptions. I was aware of some of his songs, but didn't connect until I married a fan, and worked with a musician who was also a fan, about the time Various Positions came out -- then I was hooked. Finally saw Cohen with a full band in '93 and it was a thrill. Something similar happened with Nick Cave -- the wife's influence again. Queen is close to a classic example of what you're talking about; I didn't like them at all for their entire career, then gradually started appreciating what they'd done after it was all over (still not a rabid fan, though).
Usually I'll just be totally ignorant, then get hit by something at exactly the right time and place. I had no idea who the Pixies were until people started bringing them up all the time after Nirvana hit. Zero clues about Shonen Knife until I took Japanese class in the late '90s. The Muffs meant nothing to me until I picked up Really Really Happy in 2005 and found there was a substantial back catalog. This is the good side of the love or hate reaction, but delayed. Broken up? No problem, new to me!
Interesting, I used to be a love em or hate em on first listen person. If it didn’t move me in some way as soon as that needle dropped I would discard the album immediately. I think jazz turned that around for me decades ago as I had to listen with different ears and slowly pick up on subtleties and such.
Three acts that grew on me over time: Captain Beefheart, early Jethro Tull (1968-70), Joni Mitchell in her early thirties (1973-76)...
Our intro-to-Zappa album was "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" (1970)... I'll be checking out Blur; never heard of them (thanks!)
“Sheik Yerbouti” is one of my favorite Zappa albums
Can, Gordon Lightfoot, PJ Harvey, and Kris Kristopherson are artists that have me digging for more these days.
Overnight Sensation is a great Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention album from 70’s.
By the way, Zappa deserves a full video in which his albums need to be analyzed in more detail and in the chronological order. He is a significant artist.
Regarding Zappa, I recommend giving The Grand Wazoo a listen. Oh, and Burnt Weeny Sandwich is a great Mothers of Invention album. I'd suggest Uncle Meat, but you already have that covered.
Crazy, I have also come around to Zappa and Blur within the past year. I always used to think of Zappa as sort of pretentious and noodly, more quantity over quality because of his giant catalogue, but he’s pretty phenomenal. Apostrophe and Overnite Sensation are two seventies classics, also You Are What You Is from the 80s is amazing and hilarious. Ruben and the Jets from 68 is also good if you like the doo wop stuff
As a friend had said about the music of Cohen, it is both a sense of joy and a kind of sadness that cannot be expressed fully. Like something is stopping them from becoming fully realized.
A unique songwriter and artist.
It is interesting to hear the arc of your getting into particular artists. How about a list of cover songs that opened your taste to an artist or song that was previously inaccessible.
Good idea. 😉
Great idea for a show:
King Crimson
Thin Lizzy
Black Sabbath, too
Thin Lizzy is awesome. Saw them back in ‘80. Stellar show.
Nice Vid
Im a lifelong Zappa fan and will echo everyone who said Grand Wazoo
Also
Bongo Fury ( with Captain Beefheart )
Roxy and Elsewhere
As for the the topic at hand heres 3
Ween was a band i really didn’t like in the 90s but then my son got in to the and through that i have discovered there catalog
White Pepper , Quebec , The Mollusk and Chocolate and Cheese are all great albums
Beastie Boys ; I got License to iLL upon release but it was years later before i returned to their amazing catalog
The Cure ; so i mentioned my son and now my daughter turn , she is a huge Cure fan and I had pleasure of bringing her to MSG to see them ; first time at the Garden and her first Big Concert ; I have owned Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and Standing on the Beach ( greatest hits ) but I have since done a deeper dive and they are an incredible talented band and Robert Smith is as good a songwriter as any
When Muffin Man kicks in on Bongo Fury…that song rocks.
I was never a huge Cure fan, but I must admit they have a very eclectic catalog. The Standing On A Beach comp is excellent. Always loved the track The Caterpillar. The Grand Wazoo is on my list along with Uncle Meat for next Zappa purchases. 😉
Great mention on Zappa's "One Size Fits All". Love that album. I listened to the heck out of that release back in the day. I was a big fan of Suzanne Vega as well. A few months ago I started re-listening to some of her stuff, after a long absence. Great video, by the way!
I love the Strawbs..have several on disc and two of these are compilations. Same with Leonard Cohen..Have almost all of these..I'm your man is my favorite..Black Sabbath is another that I have several of on disc..
Hi Capo. Thanks for the Cowboy ref from an earlier vid...lovely laid back melodic country...reminds me of an obscure band called Wally which you might want to check out...also I listened to Modern Life Is Rubbish on your prompting as my old CDs are buried in my cupboard. songwriting is very good...early Kinks vibe...I'm listening to a power metal band called Praying Mantis now..there's just too much music to listen to and get acquainted with lol...
That’s for sure. 😉
You definitely have great ideas for videos here.Beefheart and the Doors, absolutely. Oh, sorry, Add Tom Waits; such variety for anyone's or almost, taste.
Three days ago one of my favorite TH-cam channels, Trash Theory, posted a video about Blur. I had been waiting to watch it and now seems the perfect time, since i really dont know a lot about them!
They have a wide range of styles. Just total infectious guitar pop with stellar songwriting and hooks galore.
🙋♀️👍 luca and hot rats
Nice idea for a video, once again. About Zappa: you need Absolutely Free. It really is a fab listen. Overnite Sensation too. Also, you need to get a vinyl copy of Freak Out.
I did find an original vinyl copy of Absolutely Free months back. Great album. Also a CD copy of Overnight Sensation. I’d like to find an original vinyl copy of Freak Out. I love the artwork on those Zappa 60’s albums.
I did not become a Sabbath fan until the early aughts, despite having grown up in the '70s. Most of what was promoted (by teenage fans) was the proto-metal stuff. Listening later on I found that they were some of the early creators of Heavy Prog.
They seamlessly shifted modes and defied genres with tracks like the "Warning" medley on the debut, (as mentioned) classical influences on "Planet Caravan", swing tempos on "Fairies Wear Boots", and jazz/be-bop modes on "Hand of Doom", and "Rat Salad" on Paranoid, and a precursor to grunge and alternative on "Into the Void", on "Master" ...
Along with the riffs, that rhythm section can really swing. I like the warm production. Everything sounds natural unlike the metal productions of the 80’s and those appalling drum sounds, over the top reverb etc.
I love "Gypsy" by Suzanne Vega. That entire album (i bought it on cassette when it came out) is incredible. It even influenced me to look up Kasper Hauser in the encyclopedia. In the months before it came out I was trying to get over someone named Luca and was trying not to think of him hoping i never heard his name again. All of a sudden it was everywhere.
IMO 1980's "Heaven and Hell " by Black Sabbath and "Back in Black" ACDC are two of the best track for track Rock albums of all time.
Excellent video Tom. Check out the Sparklehorse track, The Man Who Played God. Suzanne Vega was the vocalist/guest musician.
Sounds cool. I’ll check it out. 😉
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also today is my oldest sister birthday ❤😊
Nice. Happy Birthday! Have a great day as well. 😉
Check out the 3 disc CD compilation, Shut Up and Play Your Guitar. A collection of Zappa's music, all previously unreleased. Pretty awesome stuff!
Will do. 😉
Sabotage is a great album. I saw them in 1975 at the Ontario Speedway, CA. Peter Frampton & Lynyrd Skynyrd opened up for 8 bucks!!!
There was a time when concert’s were affordable. I remember seeing shows at huge venues like The Forum for $10. It’s absurd what tickets cost these days, plus the parking etc.
Damn. I love that compact disc of Suzanne Vega. Headshot is such a cool song..We have similar tastes. May I suggest Gentle Giant and Caravan? Van der Graaf generator?PFM?
I just recently picked up a copy of In The Land Of Grey And Pink. Excellent record, especially the second half. Check out Hatfield And The North. Great Canterbury band with Richard Sinclair. The album Rotters Club is a masterpiece.
My two fave zappa you already mentioned: One Size and Hot Rats. Lots of folks (and me too) like Overnight Sensation (Dynamo Hum, Montana, Slime on your TV) and Apostrophe (Nanook was an Eskimo). Live in NY is a classic too (titties and beer and the statistical density of Black Page part 2 among others). Bongo Fury with Capn Beefheart, perhaps (muffin Man). Joe's Garage is fantastic even if a bit over the top on the verbal nonsense SIde 4 (Watermelon and Little Green Rosetta) are worth the listen if the appliance sex songs are too much for you. Then there are the shutup and play yer guitar or other outtake guitar compilations which are worth the listen. That is my feedback.
Edit: Forgot Sheik Yerbouti, lots like that one. not my fave but has its good points. Zoot Allures is worth the buy for Black Napkins alone.
In the early twenties i watched on video "Magnolia" by Paul Thomas Anderson; amazing film with great soundtrack by Jon Brion and Aimee Mann !
Since that day i started buying Aimee's solo (you can easily forget 'Til Tuesday) albums.
Aimee mann never realesed a bad or average album : from "Whatever" to "Queens of the summer hotel" everything is great and if you want to try start by listening "Lost in space", "The forgotten arm" or "Charmer".
She’s put out great material. Always liked the I’m With Stupid album.
Uncle Meat is excellent. And for 70s albums try Sheik Yerbouti (Adrian Belew is on it)
Black Sabbath's Paranoid was the first album I ever bought, back when I was 13, so I've always been a huge Sabbath fan. That said, the first six with Ozzy plus the first two with DIO are all anyone but obsessives really need. I also do have a soft spot for Live At Last, even though it wasn't authorized by the band and almost sounds like a bootleg.
I remember going to the record store, Record Bar, maybe and they were playing Suzanne Vega's first album. It was brand new and after a few cuts I knew that was the album I was walking out with that night. Not one that had to grow on me but one I connected with right off the bat.
I recommend "Burnt Weenie Sandwich" for a Zappa play.
Cool album. I have the vinyl version. Wide mix of styles. Frank loved his Doo Wop. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Yes, this album has everything.
Check out Absolutely Free by Zappa.
I really enjoy your videos.
Thanks. I found an original vinyl copy of Absolutely Free awhile back. Cool record.
Burnt Weeny Sandwich is a masterpiece
I have that one as well. Interesting mix of styles. Doo Wop etc…
BTO was working overtime.
I took a hard pass on most of the 80's in favor of learning about Classical & Jazz. 40 years later and I'm taking a another look. I've found a couple great albums by The Chameleons and The Rain Parade. I never paid much attention to Genesis either. I did not dislike them, but after a second glance I'm really starting to like their material.
Wow don’t get me going on the Mothers! I’m a crazed off the hook fan of their repertoire!!!! As for Franks catolog its hit and miss. But….. none the less important. As for Mr. Cohen yes his first lp is an explosive masterpiece. His out put is very eclectic and very listenable. You’re on the right track my friend. Just found you by….. channel surfin. Hey drop by my oasis Return to the Perfumed Gardens w/Rik Strange. We might be kindred souls?! 🚀🖖
I’ll check it out. 😉
Interestingly, I grew up with older siblings and only listened to hard rock in the early seventies, on first hearing all the west coast singer/songwriter stuff I thought it was boring, insipid and lacklustre. I still do
Ha!
💕 black sabbath
Been heavily into Zappa since high school. Get Uncle Meat on vinyl. Fans refer to the extra tracks on the CD as penalty tracks instead of bonus tracks.
I will definitely get the vinyl version. I’ve always been drawn to that demented artwork on those 60’s Zappa albums.
I saw Black Sabbath play the Fillmore East back in 1971. J.Geils opened for them!
Very cool.
I don’t know if you like reggae but I had some interest in Steel Pulse and for a while I only had their first album, Handsworth Revolution, on CD and I decided I needed more. I bought a few of their early albums and I hated the album Tribute to the Martyrs. I listened to it about 4 times and I couldn’t get into it at all although I kinda liked one song. Turns out that fifth listen was all it took for it to become one of my favourite albums of all time and the song Babylon Makes the Rules was in my head for months.
I’m a huge Marley fan, but apart from Bob and Toots and the Maytals I don’t have other reggae albums besides a few cool compilations. I’ll check out Steel Pulse.
@@tomrobinson5776 Steel Pulse and Marley toured together. He said they were his favourite band.
You should definitely pick up Zappa's The Grand Wazoo. Knowing your taste through your vids I really think you'd dig it.
Dylan grew on me. I bought Blood On The Tracks in 1990, liked it then shelved it. 1997 he released Time Out Of Mind and blew me away. After that (25 years ago) i was on a mission and amassed a dozen or so. I used to dismiss him in my younger, harder rock days
The Grand Wazoo and Uncle Meat are my next Zappa purchases. 😉
You're in for a wild but fabulous ride with Uncle Meat my friend!......one of my all time Zappa faves. Make sure you use the chicken to measure it though. Check out The Lost Episodes as well....incredible early Beefheart & Zappa.....contains some hysterical outtakes and Charva!
Lost Episodes is pretty great
I want to get the vinyl version as I dig the bizarre artwork. I saw a cool live version of King Kong on You Tube from that period of the album’s release. Blew me away.
This isn't an artist, but for years I bought into the trope that from the day the music died until the Beatles debuted on Ed Sullivan was a musical wasteland, and it really wasn't until I was too old to be concerned with image that I started exploring that era. And it definitely is a singles era. Most albums are chock full of filler. But I now have tons of material. Now that he's dead, we can go back to enjoying Spector's Back to Mono. Rhino released an amazing girl group boxed set, packaged in a hat box. There's a good Cameo-Parkway set with Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharp, The Dovells, etc. Actually, Chubby Checker Lps are reasonably common and inexpensive, just hard to find untrashed.
I HATED Duran Duran when they emerged. I'd turn the mute on when their videos appeared on MTV, so I could watch the painted ladies without having to listen. Of course my little sister was a mega fan, so I wound up hearing them all the time anyway. Today I really do like those classic early records (except The Reflex, I still can't stand that song).
It used to be the only INXS song I liked was their cover of Good Times from the Lost Boys soundtrack, but I came around on them.
ABBA. I was too much of a rockist to have an appreciation for perfect pop.
Buck Owens. Growing up he was just that dude on Hee-Haw with the red, white and blue guitar. But those 60's albums with the Buckaroos are something special. No wonder John Fogerty listened.
i watched you a day or two after a quarter turned you into a damon albarn fan. blur were abused at coachella about a month ago. the records after the ones you mention are solid as well as the latest gorillaz.
I need to check out the Gorillaz catalog. Only have heard the hits.
Anything Frank Zappa
One more comment: Nice to see an American falling for Blur, but you have to listen to their two reunion LPs, The Magic Whip from 2015 and last year's The Ballad of Darren.
I picked up Magic Whip in the used section a few weeks back. Quite good. Need some repeated listening. Also heard the new one online. They really evolved from album to album. Again I never realized how brilliant they are. Like finding a buried treasure…
For me it’s Beck.
1st. Absolutely Free is top psychedelic classic. 2nd Hot Rats...3rd Bongo Fury Sam With Showing Scalp Flat Top 4th. Black Slacks...5th. Sheik Yerbouti Flakes... 3,4,5 are all underground approved... I can elaborate but it is rather extensive,
I've read that Leonard Cohen is King Charles favorite musician. 'Modern Life is Rubbish' is a great album alright. Cheers.
Cheers!
Zappa and Cohen are already my favorites right from the word go. Black Sabbath is a huge no no. Gotta check out Blur. I would pass up Suzanne Vega just for no reason.
i've always enjoyed ozzy osbourne's black sabbath, suzanne vega, leonard cohen AND frank zappa.
beth orton
xtc
joshua lee turner
bee gees
teenage fanclub
supertramp
jane siberry
frank zappa
rolling stones
laura nyro
kate bush
van morrison
paul simon
joan armatrading
bangles
lou reed
bruce springsteen (though i have to limit it to his 70’s output)
stephen stills
nancy griffith
all of these groups, (and more), did not grow on me so much as i just tended to judge an
album by it’s cover, or i only heard one song by them, and thought i had heard it all.
Wow, that is quite a list. Very cool.
Just saw Teenage Fanclub on Sunday. They were terrific
@@kevtruth Cool, what venue and city?
@@tomrobinson5776 Thalia Hall. Chicago.
@@kevtruth that’s awesome. where did they play ?
Check out The Grand Wazoo and Chunga's Revenge from Zappa. From what you said, I think you will dig both of them (Both are better than Uncle Meat in my opinion). Also, give Black Sabbath Sabotage another chance. It's the last great BS album. It's got five 5-star BS songs on it. Start with the very last song (The Writ).
Thumbs up on Chunga's Revenge.
The Grand Wazoo is on my list for the next purchase. I’ll give Sabotage another listen. Nothing struck on first listen like those first 5 albums. I have to say though the title track of Never Say Die rocks! Just a great hook filled track.