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I'm trying to build my back catalogue and I want something that's essential, but not new. The record store I go to is okay, but doesn't have the greatest selection in the world. Start throwing out some albums. I'll wade through what I have and don't and look on allmusic for descriptions.


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13th Floor Elevators - The Psychadelic Sounds Of...
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
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The Zombies - Odyessy & Oracle
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilkded Palace of Sin
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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.


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a few different choices...classics, punk, metal, techno...

roxy music - country life
lou reed - transformer
black flag - damaged
goldie - timeless
at the gates - slaughter of the soul


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todd = so predictable :)

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todd = so predictable :)


At least I didn't say:
Wire - Pink Flag

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.


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I know you were inquiring about downtempo stuff, so I'll recommend some essentials:

Nightmares on Wax- Carboot Soul
DJ Krush- Code 4109
DJ Shadow- Entroducing
Tricky- Maxinquaye
Thievery Corp- The Mirror Conspiracy
Kruder & Dorfmeister- The K&D Sessions

Just to name a few.

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Portishead - Dummy
De La Soul - Is Dead
Otis Redding - Any Best Of Album
Any later Beatles album...

It's hard to pick things out without a context...

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Well, guess if you really wanted someone to just regurgitate the Rolling Stone essential albums guide you wouldn't have asked here ;)....so one I was just listening to recently, and one I love to bring up in discussions about underrated but essential classics, is the first Mink DeVille album from 1977. They probably won't have it at the store, but it's one to catalog in the back of your mind for future consideration.

Sometimes called just Mink DeVille, and sometimes (and I think more properly) known as Cabretta, which is how it is titled on the back cover. But no matter what it's called, it is and always has been a classic in my mind. Just 10 songs clocking in at about 35 minutes, yet it is sequenced with the fast and slow songs interspersed so that the flow seems to cycle, kind of an ebb and flow. Still goes by pretty fast, though. I guess it's partly because I like all the songs so much. Nothing to drag it down. Anyway, great album. Willy has a very distinctive and soulful voice and a very tight band working behind him on this one. Add in a well written collection of tunes with a couple well chosen covers and add a top producer and the scene was set. I just checked at the Rock Around The World site and they have a nice interview section with Willy DeVille talking about "The Tale of the Mink" that you can read if you like, but I'll post a short paragraph below which ends with a very telling line, something that seems to characterize a lot of classic albums - that being, the artist really had no idea at the time how good it was, nor exactly where the magic came from. Guess that's why they so often never recreate that greatness again....

The services of legendary Jack Nitzsche were procured to produce the first Mink DeVille album . . . it was a completely natural choice, as Jack had worked with groups that had provided the soundtrack to Willy's youth -- like The Crystals and The Ronettes: "Jack and I hit it off beautifully. It's a real spiritual relationship. Sometimes it's like looking in a mirror with him . . . it got to the point where I didn't even have to talk, just say, 'Jack . . . ' and he'd say, 'Yeah, I think so . . . ' It was very tight, very magic -- a lot of pressure, but good, positive pressure. It snowballed. There is something in that album that I don't even understand."


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2nd the Television: Marquee Moon suggestion, as well as the Lou Reed: Transformer suggestion.

I'll also toss out a couple reggae suggestions...

The Congos: Heart of the Congos
The Mighty Diamonds: Right Time

And, a couple rock things...

MC5: Back in the USA
Black Sabbath: Paranoid

And, a couple personal electronic favorites...

Everything but the Girl: Walking Wounded
New Order: Power, Corruption, and Lies


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Everything but the Girl: Walking Wounded


Oooooh I'm a big EBTG fan, I LOVE Tracey Thorn's vocals...

other albums I dig by EBTG:
Temperamental (something about "Temperamental" and "Blaze" gets me every time)
Back to Mine (a mix of house, hip-hop, trip-hop... it's a good chill-out album plus a good "sex" album, haha)
Like the Deserts Miss the Rain (a good comp of EBTG's singles)

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I've been meaning to check out Tempermental for a really long time.

I like their Back to Mine too.


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what about something like leonard cohen?

- the songs of leonard cohen
- songs from a room
- songs of love and hate


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This thread gave me an idea. We should start compiling an essential album list that encompasses obner listening. Kinda like the Rolling Stone essential albums list or the mojo list, but not as lame. Anyway, I think it would be a great reference tool for everyone who has a slightly less than impressive cd/record collection. We wouldn't even have to rank it. Maybe artist/album/genre/year or something. What do you think?

I'm leaning toward 'Marquee Moon' at the moment, but I'm not even sure this record store will have it in stock. I'm printing this thread though to help in my future back catalogue buying.

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I've been meaning to check out Tempermental for a really long time.


Do you have AIM? I can bring a copy in tomorrow and rip for ya if ya like...

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This thread gave me an idea. We should start compiling an essential album list that encompasses obner listening.


That's what the CMJ top 100 essential albums list was for... ;)

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the lockness lobster Wrote:
This thread gave me an idea. We should start compiling an essential album list that encompasses obner listening.


That's what the CMJ top 100 essential albums list was for... ;)


Yeah, but I mean bigger. Like 500 or 1000 albums. I thought that list was kinda fucked up anyway. We could seperate it out by year. What was the essential albums of 1974 etc.


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Where is the top 100 albums of all-time btw? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

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Davey gots some taste! I think I may have been the only one to include Cabretta in the ol' Listmania exercise.


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