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01-09-2012 6:15pm#1I have a fairly extensive collection of rock with emphasis on hippy rock so to speak and I'm just looking for suggestions on broadening my knowledge/collection.
If you have suggestions on bands that might not be mainstream or hidden gems please post them here so I can check them out.
Here are some examples of collections i have amassed over the years (some single albums, some discographies), including:
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
The Byrds
Chicago
Chuck Berry
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Dire Straits
The Doors
The Eagles
Eric Clapton
Fleetwood Mac
Grateful Dead
Guns n' Roses
Iron Maiden
Jeff Buckley
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix
Journey
Kiss
Korn (Is this classic rock yet???)
Leonard Cohen
Metallica
The Monkees
The Moody Blues
Motorhead
Neil Young
Nirvana
Phish
The Police
Queen
REM
Chili Peppers
The Rolling Stones
Rory Gallagher
Johhny Cash
Led Zepplin
Santana
Thin Lizzy
Tom Waits
U2
The Who
if you can add to this I'd be grateful
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I thought that had to an error!
Here is link representative youtube clip for each of the following (saves on scrolling and page loading times), needless to say you'd probably have a few spins to get the goodness out of some of these.
Jeff Beck - You Know What I Mean
Blue Oyster Cult - ETI
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth
Caravan - Memory lain, hugh
King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light
(Ian) Gillan - Gut Reaction
Rush - Tom Saywer0 -
My suggestions to check out would be :
Traffic, Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull, Colosseum, Mott the Hoople and Free.
Right,
Traffic, yes, That is definitely to my liking, I'll be taking them further
Blodwyn Pig, I'll have to do a bit more listening to these guys and get a better feel, they seem to cover a few different styles.
Jethro Tull, again definitely yes but where to start!!!! can you narrow it down to a few albums, their best in your opinion, they have a recent greatest hits, maybe a good place to start?
PS I love their description on WikipediaTheir music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson
Mott the Hoople, again yes, I'll be looking into them.
Free, well I'm surprised I have none of their albums tbh!0 -
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Right,
Traffic, yes, That is definitely to my liking, I'll be taking them further
Blodwyn Pig, I'll have to do a bit more listening to these guys and get a better feel, they seem to cover a few different styles.
Jethro Tull, again definitely yes but where to start!!!! can you narrow it down to a few albums, their best in your opinion, they have a recent greatest hits, maybe a good place to start?
PS I love their description on Wikipedia
Mott the Hoople, again yes, I'll be looking into them.
Free, well I'm surprised I have none of their albums tbh!
The founder of Blodwyn Pig, Mick Abrahams, played only on the very first 'Tull album. AFAIK, he is still playing today. Yes, they do cover different styles. They were a seminal band in as far as the gradual change over from blues/jazz to rock. They were experimenting with different styles. I think they originally released only two albums.
You are correct in that 'Tull have a very large output of albums. To be honost, my interest in them waned after their fifth or so album. My favourites are :
"This Was.." : Their first album with the above Mick Abrahams on guitar. Very much blues/jazz influenced, but you can hear the seeds of rock there too.
"Stand Up" : Their second album, minus Abrahams ( Martin Barre took over and became a permanent member) is a different sounding one from their first. Yes, there is blues here, as there is a unique kind of acoustic type songs ( ala the track "We used to Know"). Great album IMO.
"Benefit" : Takes over from where "Stand Up" left off.
"Aqualung" and "War Child" are two other favourites of mine. After that, their music lost some of it's appeal for me. This is not to say they are not good albums. Perhaps others might give opinions on these.
BTW, two other great bands springs to mind......."Steppenwolf". Check them out. Almost everyone knows "Born to be Wild".
The other is "Ten Years After".0 -
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Right lads,
This is excellent!
I'm pretty free monday so I intend taking full advantage of my internet allowence and checking out all these suggestionsSome of my favourites that you haven't included:
Neil Young (surely a typo that you didn't include him already?)
The Band
Warren Zevon
Nick Cave
The Grateful Dead
The Kinks
T.Rex
I actually have some Neil Young albums, must edit that and I think I have all The Grateful Dead albums!
You are correct in that 'Tull have a very large output of albums. To be honost, my interest in them waned after their fifth or so album.
I'll start checking out sites that recommend their Top 10 songs etc and take it from there, I know most will recommend what they believe others want them to recommend as apposed to what they like themselves but it's a starting point.I thought that had to an error!
Here is link representative youtube clip for each of the following (saves on scrolling and page loading times), needless to say you'd probably have a few spins to get the goodness out of some of these.
Jeff Beck - You Know What I Mean
Blue Oyster Cult - ETI
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth
Caravan - Memory lain, hugh
King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light
(Ian) Gillan - Gut Reaction
Rush - Tom Saywer
As I say I'll check these out over the next few days cheers 0 -
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Whooo **** :eek: sorry and well spotted, I have Led Zepplin, but funnily enough only Mothership, the greatest hits album, throw me your suggestions
Being a major fan I would say all of their albums are essential. If I had to pick one I would say II. Feast your ears
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Try Badlands. Short lived band, their first self titled album is amazing.
Another underrated one, Kingdom Come
Both above singers have been slated a bit for 'copying' Robert Plant. But then again, so did David Coverdale...!
Another one worth checking out, Blackfoot. Better southern rock band than Lynrd Skynrd if you ask me
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Gotta get yourself Argus by Wishbone Ash....no collection is complete without it!
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