come here for music recommendations.

[TheCrimsonSaint]

Anybody got any jazz, blues, or funk recommendations to hand out?

[Alright_Computer]

I need album starters for the Mekons, Public Image Ltd., and The Nation of Ulysses.

Mekons - Fear & Whiskey (alt-country/post-punk goodness)
Nation of Ulysses - 13 Point Plan to Destroy America

Anybody got any jazz, blues, or funk recommendations to hand out?

I could go on for hours and hours on these genres (especially jazz) but I'll just give you a few albums that I consider the essential albums from each genre:

Jazz:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (everyone should have this album)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (if you don't like this one, try Giant Steps)
Joe Pass - Joy Spring
Art Blakey - Indestructible
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream (also check out Straight, No Chaser)
Dave Brubeck - Time Out

And if that stuff's not as accessible for you yet, I'd be happy to recommend you some jazz fusion that you might like more.


For blues, check out my earlier post in this thread:

A few good starting points by some more well-known blues artists:

B.B. King - Completely Well
Bo Diddley - self-titled
Buddy Guy - Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
Muddy Waters - Folk Singer and Sail On

This is pretty standard and essential blues/blues-rock fare. Also, check out Stevie Ray Vaughn's stuff, particularly Texas Flood.


And for DA FUNK:

Average White Band - AWB
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
James Brown - Sex Machine
Parliament - Up For the Down Stroke
War - The World Is a Ghetto

[CommonCriminal]

Any bands close to Happy Mondays?

[Alright_Computer]

Any bands close to Happy Mondays?

I'm not too familiar with Madchester, but I always did like the Charlatans. Check out their debut Some Friendly.

[TheCrimsonSaint]

Got SlSk, A_C?

[Alright_Computer]

Got SlSk, A_C?

Yeah, my username is thesuperalive. I can't run it right now, but I'll probably be on later tonight.

Edit for reference: I'm pretty sure I have all the albums ripped to my HD, but there might be one or two I haven't. You can probably find them elsewhere though.

[afterstasis]

okay what album then? (I was thinking the first band to be mentioned would be ABBA)

jens lekman - night falls over kortedala
abba - self titled and arrival

Swedish Death Metal recs aside of Tribulation, Maim, Death Breath, Bloodbath, Dismember, Unanimated, Eurcharist, Carnage, Entombed, and melodeath.

nothing you're unfamiliar with, but i dig spawn of possession, death breath, pan.thy.monium, and dissection.

Anybody got any jazz, blues, or funk recommendations to hand out?

from my "genre's finest moments" thread...

jazz albums: peter brotzmann - machine gun, miles davis - b*tches brew, alice coltrane - universal consciousness, sun ra - space is the place, and don cherry - brown rice

funk albums: funkadelic - maggot brain, budos band - II, and james brown - hell

[a21schizoidman]

Texas Flood[/I].

no The Sky Is Crying?

War - The World Is a Ghetto

the debut and faust IV are good to start out with and then move on to the other 70's material when you're cool with them just being more of an experimental unit, rather than a krautrock band.

Faust IV is very very good, and IMO so are Faust So Far and The Faust Tapes

I suggest Can's Monster Movie for krautrock

ehh, i like Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi better myself, mostly because i prefer Damo to Mooney

[MdrnDayWarrior]

I need album starters for the Mekons, Public Image Ltd., and The Nation of Ulysses.

s/t and Metal Box.

[Soratar]

You're doing it wrong.

Well, I'm not really looking for anything new right now, so I let other people (who are looking for more music in that genre) know that I am an expert on one of the bands in that genre.