I celebrate their entire catalog Pat II
DB_Cooper
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Since I can't find the old thread, I'm makiing a new one. I put the entire Creedence discography on my car iPod several months ago, and I have come to the realization that their entire catalog is solid. Every track is good, if not great. Awesome music to cruise around to, and makes me want to get some good green and just Lebowski around.
One of their rare dark jams:
One of their rare dark jams:
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Burzum : Yea the guy is a survivalist white power murderer (depending on how you view his story) but his output has been solid and he pretty much plays all the instruments to my knowledge. The mix of moody keyboard goth song and black metal songs is interesting.
Carol Kaye : I'm not sure she has much (any? other then instructional records) solo stuff, but her bass playing always makes make a song better. Northern Windows with Hampton Hawes and Spider Web is some of the best Jazz/Funk around. Killer players and Axelrod!
Kenny Rogers : Saw him live and forgot how many hits this man has put out in his life. Great showman and singer.
Willie Nelson : Still kicking it! He puts on a long show with nothing but hits and you know all the words. That pretty much says it all. Even when he bring out a new song your singing it by the end. In the early 90's my friend said forget the Dead, Willie is the party concert and Willie shows are still like that to this day.
Kool and the Gang : Even when they got pop/disco it was still better than a lot of stuff out there. Still kicking it and hits galore.
Dolly Parton : Her versions of I Will Always Love you and Seven Bridges Road slays Whitney and The Eagles. Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Actor and genuinely good person. You don't get that combo often.
Cannonball Adderley : Quality music all around
Tribe Called Quest : I won't celebrate the entire Love Movement LP but still had some good songs. Just a few LP's and changed rap forever.
Los Lobos : Always breaking ground and they put on a killer live show.
Sly and the Family Stone
Santana
Grateful Dead
Steve Miller Band
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Journey, Dead Kennedys, E-40, and Green Day didn't make the cut.
Pretty much showing why top X lists are silly since you can never give everyone the credit they deserve. The people who came first get the main credit but this doesn't account for new music form etc. Plenty of CCR fans wouldn't give DK or E-40 the time of day.
really? for my money "high on you" was the last decent thing he ever did and that album was spotty as fuck. "heard ya missed me", "back on the right track" and "ain't but the one way" are completely flaccid, burned out (and not in a good way a la "riot"). that shit is painful to listen to. and don't even get me started on "ten years too soon". so, i guess what i am saying is that i have tried to ride for the man's whole catalogue and failed, maybe that's a thread in itself "bands you tried to ride for the entire catalogue."
its kinda hard, near impossible to pick a group or artists that had at least a 10 year plus career without some duds. i guess donny hathaway never put out anything sub-par but he only had like 5 albums and two of them were live joints. surely had he kept producing music in the 80's it would have been "adult contemporary" style...
ok, i have it. steely dan. i like every one of thier albums including the last two and the live records. mind you, "everything must go" had some serious weak points... ok, change my answer again, it's donald fagen, i love all of his solo records, singles, b-sides, etc.
Led Zeppelin
Coda?
I ride. Also, The Pixies (up until the recent EPs they just put out which I haven't heard).
I yield. Pass the hot honey.
In response to Rootless, I named the 5 greatest Bay Area bands, not candidates for I celebrate their entire catalog.
Almost 30 years and not a dud track, never mind album.
From shiny dance-pop to moody jazzers to glittering loungecore, it's ALL good.
Most cat: EBTG
Half cat: Teh Lizzy, but their 1/2 greater than anybody's whole canon.
Part cat: Damned
No cat: Dylan
I'll second this particular sentiment as it is rare. Get Down On It is funky, and for pop, I really like Celebration. Not even guilty.
I was gonna say Sade but i dont ever return to the last album.
Soldier of Love i hold the mayo on.
What song from Forever would you play out?
Merl Saunders
Escovedos (Pete Thomas Shelia)
Aposento Alto
Tower Of Power
Sly & Family Stone
And a token rock band for 6 Jefferson Airplane.
CCR, to me, has lots of fun radio songs, but no depth.
OK, ok, strike them from the list - I don't celebrate their entirety, but when they went pop they still had good stuff.
Oh shit, good call. I'm not the biggest fan of Trompe Le Monde, but I feel like it's a pretty solid album as long as I'm not comparing it to their earlier material.
Also, everyone always sleeps on how super-good the Come On Pilgrim EP is! elevator lady elevator lady elevator lady elevator lady lady levitate me. Bitch broke up with me and now I hate that song, but it's fucking good as hell.
van halen w/dlr
zep minus coda and itod
the meters
flower traveling band
aphex
congos
squarepusher
remarc
underground resistance
king tubby in general
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burzum and carol kaye in the same post is the meaning of diverse volumeean-respect!
Michael Hurley.
Amon Duul.
Cheater Slicks.
Anne Briggs.
Captain Beefheart.
Dead Moon.
Dead C.
Overhang Party.
Jim Shepard.
Them.
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments.
VU. Because "Squeeze" DOES NOT COUNT.
Absolutely.
And to clarify about when I say I celebrate the whole catalog, I mean it in the strictest sense. No bad tracks. Not one. Even my least favorite are OK.
bob marley
i can tolerate most beatles songs
unfortunately, that is all
That's what makes it such an interesting topic, I think. How many artists maintain that level of consistent quality that there's not a single bad track?
And stepping out of strictly artist territory, surely there are those who ride for Lee Perry?
Not that every single track is a sureshot, but pretty damned close.
Ouch. I would disagree. Sure "Looking out my back door" is a fun diddy but it's also creative lyrically. Everyone thought is was about drugs even though Fogerty says it's almost a kids song. The fact that it means different things to different people give it depth IMO. I think they are the kind of group that seem simple but really there is more to it. They covered social issue as well as fun pop songs and heartbreak. I would call that depth.
The Beatles have a similar things going where they have a lot of sing along diddys but if your a musician you know how good they are playing and it takes talent to put out hit after hit like that and speak to such a large fan base. Even if it is in a simple manner sometimes.
No, I'm not saying CCR are as good as the Beatles. Everybody calm down.
That changes things a little. Pretty hard to live up to. Even the best bands make some self indulgent stuff on a lark. Or the ballad the record company forced them to do.