Help me out, please?

Hey guys. I'm new to the boards. My name's Steph. Anyway, I was sitting around the other day talking about music, and I realized, I'm not as musically "educated" as I once thought I was. So I've decided to work on that. But I need help. If you could give me a list of say, the 10 most essential artists and their essential songs, that would rock my socks off! or ya know... if you want to give me more, that's cool too. I'm not really into rap or hip hop, or much country. But everything else is free game. Thanks kids!

See ya on the boards....

Steph

 

Hi Steph, welcome to the forums. What genres are you already educated on? I don't really know much about music but I'm sure I could suggest some stuff you'll enjoy!

 

I think you would get 10 different songs from every memeber here..
But I think you should listen to The Mars Volta, because thats all I listen to these days..

 

Well, with your name, it looks like you got the Dead down. But i dont really know how much you do know.
if you've never heard em, check out the Velevet underground. check out tunes like, "Sister ray" "Rock n' Roll" and "I'm waiting for the man". its some pretty hardcore stuff.

 

The Used, listen to them, holy shit

 

Well, I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for, but seeing as most people here seem to like '60s music, I'll give you the essential '60s albums (as compiled by Skelter and I).

The Band - Music from Big Pink (1968)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)
The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album) (1968)
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum (1968)
David Bowie - Space Oddity (1969)
Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968)
Tim Buckley - Happy/Sad (1969)
Eric Burdon & the Animals - Winds of Change (1967)
Eric Burdon & the Animals - The Twain Shall Meet (1968)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East-West (1966)
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension (1966)
The Byrds - Younger than Yesterday (1967)
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
Can - Monster Movie (1969)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe as Milk (1967)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room (1969)
Cream - Fresh Cream (1966)
Cream - Disraeli Gears (1967)
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)
Donovan - Sunshine Superman (1966)
Donovan - A Gift From a Flower to a Garden (1967)
The Doors - The Doors (1967)
The Doors - Strange Days (1968)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding (1967)
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (1969)
The Electric Prunes - Underground (1968)
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (1969)
The Fugs - The Fugs (1966)
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Guilded Palace of Sin (1969)
The Golden Dawn - Power Plant (1967)
The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead (1969)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (1967)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968)
HP Lovecraft - HP Lovecraft I (1967)
HP Lovecraft - HP Lovecraft II (1968)
The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968)
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's (1967)
July - July (1967)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks (1967)
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (1969)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Love - Da Capo (1966)
Love - Forever Changes (1967)
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (1966)
The MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (1969)
The Millennium - Begin (1968)
Moby Grape - Moby Grape (1967)
The Monks - Black Monk Time (1966)
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (1967)
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (1969)
The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow (1968)
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails (1969)
The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones (1964)
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (1966)
The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (1968)
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed (1969)
The Silver Apples - The Silver Apples (1968)
The Silver Apples - Contact (1969)
The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (1968)
The Soft Machine - Vol.1 (1968)
The Soft Machine - Vol.2 (1969)
The Sonics - Here are the Sonics!!! (1965)
The Sonics - Boom! (1966)
The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)
The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (1967)
The 13th Floor Elevators - Bull of the Woods (1968)
Tomorrow - Tomorrow (1968)
Ultimate Spinach - Ultimate Spinach (1967)
The United States of America - The United States of America (1968)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969)
The Who - My Generation (1965)
The Who - A Quick One (1966)
The Who - The Who Sell Out (1967)
The Who - Tommy (1969)
The Yardbirds - Five Live Yardbirds (1964)
The Yardbirds - Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds (1965)
The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer (1966)
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! (1966)
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it for the Money (1968)
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle (1968)

 

there is some cool paul simon stuff out there too, my mind shoots to simple desultry philippic (a satire of dylan) the late great johnny ace ( a memorium of one of the earliest fathers and victims of rock and roll) jimi hendrix is just cool, I like some van morrison and of course the beatles rock there is more but I don't know what you know so there we are

 

I've got 15+ GB of songs on my harddrive, covering all genre...tell me the style and I'll slide 'em over.

 

Excellent list, Derek.
Btw, i've been listening a lot to 'The Who Sell Out' lately. Now i realise how great they actually are!

 

Hi welcome to hipforums... l think Lucifer Sam has covered the answer well..

 

Great question ! Music is subjective except in my case I have THE definitive list ! Actually I dont have a list just a few suggestions. Try a little of everything ! Blues covers lots of different styles and so does jazz just like rock has many different sounds.

Van Morrison is soulful and poetic, try These are the Days.
Allman Brothers Eat a Peach is nice.
Motown anything ! Marvin Gaye Whats Going On is sweeet !
Los Lobos, theyre all over the place.
Etta James Life Love & the Blues....whooo !
If your (in the mood) Teddy Pendergrass will get you there, listen to Turn Out the Lights or Love TKO.
Cherry Poppin Daddies is swingish & funky, remember variety will get you to open your musical ideology and expose you to new sounds.
Neville Brothers Yellow Moon is really good BIG sound funk & jam !
Pat Metheny Imaginary Day...fusion jazz at its best !
Of course anything Carlos Santana is spiritually invigorating.

The list could go on & on but if you have a used record store pick up something you wouldnt normally buy, for 6 bucks even if you dont like it what the hell give it away or you might get lucky and find a gem, and ask those guys at the store they know the music......have fun and its always better when you crank it up !!!

 

I put two lists together that each of us made in another thread about '60s music. I think it's pretty solid for a very well-rounded '60s pop/rock collection.

Great! The Who Sell Out is one of my favorite albums. Have you listened to A Quick One? It's one of my favorite albums of 1966. The early Who had an uncanny ability to blend wacky comedy with great pop and rock music.

 

These guys are right. It all depends on YOUR tastes. I know John Denver and his music VERY well. What would you like to know?

 

Yeah, But i still haven't heard 'Tommy' (I know it's your favourite album!)

 

Yeah, it's my favorite Who album -- and quite possibly my favorite album of all-time -- but it seems for most people to be a 'love it or hate it' kind of thing. Most people either hail it as genius or dismiss it as garbage.

 

Tommy is genious, but I don't like how it sounds all that much... I enjoy A Quick One and The Who Sell Out much more.

 

Essential albums:

Mayhem - De mysteriis dom sathanas
Darkthrone - A blaze in the northern sky / Transilvanian hunger
Immortal - Battles in the north
Emperor - In the nightside eclipse
Satyricon - Nemesis divina
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst
Burzum - Filosofem

(eeek! I only have four of those officially! :'()

 

rofl, death metal posts. she's into the dead, so I guess classic rock is something you like. you should listen to all hendrix, especially band of gypsys I recommend Soulive to everyone, cause they are the best band touring right now. (I am prepared for all the shocked faces of SCI, moe., mmw, umphrey's fans)

 

Anything by Can

 

if you gonna listen to Hendrix i recommend 2 albums, Blues and Jimi by himself so called Home recordings
my other fav guitarists are JImi Page therefore Zeppelin where there is great drummer JOhn BOnham
also listen to Clapton or the CReam for amazing guitar the cream has also a drummer with very rare style of drumming
other well rounded bands are Deep purple or Iron MAiden
anybody mentioned Pink Floyd?
me personally love the CUre for the lyrics, especially albums Faith and the Top, Wish, Wild mood swings, the Head on the door
other good lyrics are Neil Young and Bob Dylan
to chill out get some Bob Marley

there are tons more out there