Help me help you

[schmeankman]

Without the "help you" part. Recently I have discovered a excess of music on which I do not know where to start, so I come come to this community for help....


Would you suggest buying a (the) Zombies album? If so which one?
Best Canned Heat album?
Jar of Flies or MTV Unplugged?
I just heard Another Brick in the Wall on the radio... where do I start with Pink Floyd?
Is Van Morrison's debut album good? Which albums would you suggest by him besides Wavelenght, Tupelo Honey, Avalon Sunset, Moondance, St. Dominic's Preview and Greatest Hits? (which I already have)
Best Neil Young album?
Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, or David Crosby solo albums worth buying?
Is Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain" album any good? (I only heard the title track)
Big Star... yay or nay?
Is "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" the best album to start with for Modest Mouse?
Good Ozark Mountain Daredevils studio albums?
Best Jefferson Airplane album?
Is "Children of the Future" a good early Steve Miller Band album?
Is "With a Little Help From My Friends" a good classic Joe Cocker album?
Arlo Guthrie studio albums? Woody Guthrie?

Also I have worked up a list of album which I plan on purchasing:

Days of the New - Days of the New
Where's Moo - Dear Friend Dopamine
Little Feat - Little Feat
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends
Jane's Addiction - Strays


Here's my last.fm profile for suggestions:
http://www.last.fm/user/schmeankman

Thanks in advance.

[afterstasis]

Would you suggest buying a (the) Zombies album? If so which one?
yes, definitely... get "odessey & oracle".

Best Canned Heat album?
either "boogie with canned heat" or "future blues".

I just heard Another Brick in the Wall on the radio... where do I start with Pink Floyd?
i personally prefer syd-era, so i'd recommend "the piper at the gates of dawn", though it's a lot different than the song you heard on the radio.

Is Van Morrison's debut album good? Which albums would you suggest by him besides Wavelenght, Tupelo Honey, Avalon Sunset, Moondance, St. Dominic's Preview and Greatest Hits? (which I already have)
try "astral weeks".

Best Neil Young album?
"harvest", though i think you should check out as many of neil's albums as possible. i consider him by far one of the most consistently good artists of his age.

Is Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain" album any good? (I only heard the title track)
absolutely. great album.

Big Star... yay or nay?
yay. all three of the main LP's are fantastic.

Is "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" the best album to start with for Modest Mouse?
i think it's a pretty bad album myself... i'd start with either "the lonesome crowded west" or "the moon & antarctica".

Best Jefferson Airplane album?
"surrealistic pillow".

Is "Children of the Future" a good early Steve Miller Band album?
Is "With a Little Help From My Friends" a good classic Joe Cocker album?
yes, both are good picks from artists i don't typically like.

Arlo Guthrie studio albums? Woody Guthrie?
i'm not really into arlo, but "this land is your land" and "dust bowl ballads" are the two woody albums i keep on hand. i haven't heard as much as i should, though.


best of luck!

[Soror_YZBL]

I can only offer: Big Star = yes.

[Insane3]

I just heard Another Brick in the Wall on the radio... where do I start with Pink Floyd?
i personally prefer syd-era, so i'd recommend "the piper at the gates of dawn", though it's a lot different than the song you heard on the radio.



That's exactly the problem. To start with the band, he's better getting The Wall. Pipers is very good, but you have to get used to the Pink Floyd sound.

[thesemodrnsocks]

Best Neil Young album?

That's a difficult question. I'm partial to "Rust Never Sleeps" and "Zuma."



Is Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain" album any good? (I only heard the title track)

If you liked the title track at all, then yes, I'd consider it an essential purchase.


Big Star... yay or nay?

Yay.

[schmeankman]

Thanks guys.

Also, is "Little Feat" a good studio album choice? I haven't really listened to much outside of "Waiting on Columbus" and I just thought I would grab another album, is that the best one?

[polishdog90]

For Floyd, I would get the Wish You Were Here album. Or maybe Animals. Make sure you have a good ammount of time to listen to the albums, because you have to listen to them all of the way through to truely apreciate them.

[Cubecubed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPo5QfGbOA

[schmeankman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPo5QfGbOA
He he.... I just finished watching Scrubs, actually.

[CycoMiko138]

For Pink Floyd, or music in general, the best album to start with is Dark Side of the Moon. Personally, I feel it's one of the few perfectly crafted albums ever made.

I saw Days of the New on your list, but which album are you referring to, the Orange, Green, or Red album? (all of their albums are self-titled) The Orange album is the most commercial with a more grunge-like sound. For the Green album (my favorite), the singer fired the rest of the band and moved in a more progressive direction with elements of techno, Celtic music, and classical orchestration. The Red album is a continuation of that style, but leans a bit more towards the accessability of the first album.

[Insane3]

For Pink Floyd, or music in general, the best album to start with is Dark Side of the Moon. Personally, I feel it's one of the few perfectly crafted albums ever made.


I don't agree, I find it to be their most boring album. I have to say there are a lot of excellent songs in it, but after great gig in the sky, the album gets boring.

[schmeankman]

For Pink Floyd, or music in general, the best album to start with is Dark Side of the Moon. Personally, I feel it's one of the few perfectly crafted albums ever made.

I saw Days of the New on your list, but which album are you referring to, the Orange, Green, or Red album? (all of their albums are self-titled) The Orange album is the most commercial with a more grunge-like sound. For the Green album (my favorite), the singer fired the rest of the band and moved in a more progressive direction with elements of techno, Celtic music, and classical orchestration. The Red album is a continuation of that style, but leans a bit more towards the accessability of the first album.
Their debut...

Anyway, I ended up compiling this list:

Sly and the Family Stone - "Stand!"
Where's Moo - "Dear Friend Dopamine"
Joe Cocker - "With a Little Help From My Friends"
Pink Floyd - "The Wall"
The Steve Miller Band - "Children of the Future"
Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain"
Alice in Chains - "Jar of Flies"
Little Feat - "Little Feat"
Days of the New - "Days of the New (Debut)"
Big Star - "Live in Columbia/ Live at Missouri University"
Van Morrison - "Astral Weeks"
The Zombies - "Oddessy and Oracle"
Modest Mouse - "Good News For People Who Love Bad News"
Jane's Addiction - "Strays"
Guns 'n' Roses - "Chinese Democracy"
Mudhoney - "Superfuzz Bigmufff: The Early Singles"
The Screaming Trees - "Dust"
Sonic Youth - "Daydream Nation"
AC/DC - "Black Ice"
Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow"
Canned Heat - "Boogie With Canned Heat"
Sublime - "Sublime"
Deep Purple - "In Rock"
Bob Dylan - "Blood on the Tracks"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Without A Sound"
The Pixies - "Doolittle"
The Allman Brothers Band - "The Allman Brothers Band" (And mp3 download of "Midnight Rider")
Jerry Cantrell - "Boggy Depot"