It kills me that nobody who has name-checked Led Zeppelin has spelled their name correctly. Can you truly celebrate their entire catalog without even knowing how to spell their name?
Seriously, with people listing like 20 artists who they claim to celebrate the entire catalogue of,
But I will list one:
FUNKADELIC
Not only do I celebrate their ENTIRE catalogue, but their albums are all killer from beginning to end. I regularly throw on their records and listen to them all the way through because they are simply amazing peices of music, witt, political comentary and George was a damn genius.
It kills me that nobody who has name-checked Led Zeppelin has spelled their name correctly. Can you truly celebrate their entire catalog without even knowing how to spell their name?
Riddle me this: if you don't ace your hard-rock spelling bee, can you truly appreciate John Bonham's pounding drums, Jimmy Pages' shredding guitar, Robert Plants' not so veiled references to anal sex, and John Paul Jone's funky bass lines?
he has a few disco terds but pretty much everything he did was solid (or everything i've heard at least).
ennio morricone.
okay his later stuff is a little, um, sentimental, but he has a broad range of styles covered from avant garde, bossa nova, soundtracks, even some tacky funk for good measure.
It kills me that nobody who has name-checked Led Zeppelin has spelled their name correctly. Can you truly celebrate their entire catalog without even knowing how to spell their name?
Riddle me this: if you don't ace your hard-rock spelling bee, can you truly appreciate John Bonham's pounding drums, Jimmy Pages' shredding guitar, Robert Plants' not so veiled references to anal sex, and John Paul Jone's funky bass lines?
The answer is yes my friend.
Sure you can. But if you've listened to enough Zep to celebrate their entire catalog (which would, logically, mean listening to their entire catalog, probably several times), one would think you've also spent considerable time with the album sleeves in your hands, in which case, it would be hard to explain why you couldn't spell the two words that appear on those sleeves.
But hey, maybe people don't actually look at the album covers. I do.
And please to elaborate on the anal sex references. I believe I may have missed those.
love. i like pretty much all of there back catalog. false start is a bit lame and so is the one with "be thankfull for what you got". although i do like that track.
funkadelic. even though im not as keen on some of there later lps. there whole westbound lp's do it for me.
m.f. doom is yet to slip in my opinion.
axelrod. he is some one i find it hard to tire of.
free design. i aint heard anything i can't listen to by them.
left banke. fair enough they only did two lps but they were pretty faultless.
Radiohead - Even their weird shit is interesting The White Stripes - Something I can always rock out to. The new Icky Thump is HEAVY, in a good way Ghostface - been mentioned before, but the epitome of hip hop consistency Isaac Hayes - Even his not-so-good is better then most Solomon Burke - I can dig his newer stuff.
Ditto on De La Soul: In my opinion, they have survived every freakin' fad and fashion in Hiphop. Their shit is quality through and through. Every album is . Plus, plus, they put on one hell of a show.
EW&F- Sorry guys, I even like their disco days (in which is when I first heard about them growing up. Eventually, I got a late pass to dig into back into their discography)
Kool & The Gang- Again, same thing- first heard Ladies Night and liked them ever since. Went back and heard Summer Madness and it was for surely over. After that, dug deeper to find shit.
Ann-Margret: Country to pop to psych to disco, her voice is a winner Charles Mingus: One of the most consistent, versatile jazz musicians. I love upright bass. Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra
It kills me that nobody who has name-checked Led Zeppelin has spelled their name correctly. Can you truly celebrate their entire catalog without even knowing how to spell their name?
Riddle me this: if you don't ace your hard-rock spelling bee, can you truly appreciate John Bonham's pounding drums, Jimmy Pages' shredding guitar, Robert Plants' not so veiled references to anal sex, and John Paul Jone's funky bass lines?
The answer is yes my friend.
Sure you can. But if you've listened to enough Zep to celebrate their entire catalog (which would, logically, mean listening to their entire catalog, probably several times), one would think you've also spent considerable time with the album sleeves in your hands, in which case, it would be hard to explain why you couldn't spell the two words that appear on those sleeves.
But hey, maybe people don't actually look at the album covers. I do.
And please to elaborate on the anal sex references. I believe I may have missed those.
you're point is a valid one. Indeed, I'm not the biggest Led Zep fan there is and it has been a while since I pulled out an album and examined it. But I haven't heard an album of theirs that I haven't enjoyed.
The anal sex reference I was referring to is on "Whole Lotta Love." He mentions "giving every inch of my love" - obviously talking about his dick. Then later says "I want to be your back door man" - you can interpret this in several ways I guess....
Then later says "I want to be your back door man" - you can interpret this in several ways I guess....
Aw, man that's funny. I never thought of it that way.
A "Back Door Man" is an old term for a guy who's screwing your wife on the side. It comes from the idea that they come and go by the back door so as not to be observed. There's another Zep line from "Since I've Been Loving You" that references this: "I open my front door, hear my back door slam, You must have one of them new fangled back door man." I actually don't think that's exactly how it goes, but I copied it from a lyric site. Anyway, the gist is the same.
I may be too critical a dude to ride for anyone's entire catalog. Those who I come closest on are as follows:
ramsey l. yusuf l. ray barretto beatles impressions de la ghostface pavement (and that's as far as i go; their last album only gets celebrated for two tracks.)
seriously, its tough to say you can ride for someone 100%...Every artist makes some clunkers. It is part of the process.
And that round of posts will be followed by "I celebrate the entire catalog" (which is used so often it oughta be an emoticon by now).
There is a .gif that some people use and it's my favorite .gif/graemlin on this board. It has the dude from "Office Space".
John Cage is the only person who I've never gotten rid of anything by.
Ornette Colman would be second... I'll ride for basically everything up till the 80's with him.
As for pop groups who have more than 3-5 albums, I celebrate pretty much all of the Beach Boys albums up till about 1977. They best both the Beatles and Dylan for lengthiest creative streaks as far as I'm concerned. But I can generally find something to dislike about most artists catalogs. It's called BEING DISCRIMINATING.
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It kills me that nobody who has name-checked Led Zeppelin has spelled their name correctly. Can you truly celebrate their entire catalog without even knowing how to spell their name?
But I will list one:
FUNKADELIC
Not only do I celebrate their ENTIRE catalogue, but their albums are all killer from beginning to end. I regularly throw on their records and listen to them all the way through because they are simply amazing peices of music, witt, political comentary and George was a damn genius.
End rant.
Riddle me this: if you don't ace your hard-rock spelling bee, can you truly appreciate John Bonham's pounding drums, Jimmy Pages' shredding guitar, Robert Plants' not so veiled references to anal sex, and John Paul Jone's funky bass lines?
The answer is yes my friend.
piero umiliani
he has a few disco terds but pretty much everything he did was solid (or everything i've heard at least).
ennio morricone.
okay his later stuff is a little, um, sentimental, but he has a broad range of styles covered from avant garde, bossa nova, soundtracks, even some tacky funk for good measure.
The Free Design
The Beastie Boys
People Under The Stairs
Abba
ATCQ
Fugazi
Sonic Youth
I mentioned this thread to a friend last night and he immediately named the same two bands.
Others:
Can
James Brown
Fela (though some of the Egypt 80 stuff rather weak relatively speaking)
Zeppelin
Marvin Gaye
Sure you can. But if you've listened to enough Zep to celebrate their entire catalog (which would, logically, mean listening to their entire catalog, probably several times), one would think you've also spent considerable time with the album sleeves in your hands, in which case, it would be hard to explain why you couldn't spell the two words that appear on those sleeves.
But hey, maybe people don't actually look at the album covers. I do.
And please to elaborate on the anal sex references. I believe I may have missed those.
funkadelic. even though im not as keen on some of there later lps. there whole westbound lp's do it for me.
m.f. doom is yet to slip in my opinion.
axelrod. he is some one i find it hard to tire of.
free design. i aint heard anything i can't listen to by them.
left banke. fair enough they only did two lps but they were pretty faultless.
The White Stripes - Something I can always rock out to. The new Icky Thump is HEAVY, in a good way
Ghostface - been mentioned before, but the epitome of hip hop consistency
Isaac Hayes - Even his not-so-good is better then most
Solomon Burke - I can dig his newer stuff.
Lucinda Williams
Nick Drake
Cormega
Otis Redding
Hank Williams
Nina Simone
Prince
Faust
One Way
EW&F- Sorry guys, I even like their disco days (in which is when I first heard about them growing up. Eventually, I got a late pass to dig into back into their discography)
Kool & The Gang- Again, same thing- first heard Ladies Night and liked them ever since. Went back and heard Summer Madness and it was for surely over. After that, dug deeper to find
off the head folks...
Charles Mingus: One of the most consistent, versatile jazz musicians. I love upright bass.
Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra
you're point is a valid one. Indeed, I'm not the biggest Led Zep fan there is and it has been a while since I pulled out an album and examined it. But I haven't heard an album of theirs that I haven't enjoyed.
The anal sex reference I was referring to is on "Whole Lotta Love." He mentions "giving every inch of my love" - obviously talking about his dick. Then later says "I want to be your back door man" - you can interpret this in several ways I guess....
A "Back Door Man" is an old term for a guy who's screwing your wife on the side. It comes from the idea that they come and go by the back door so as not to be observed. There's another Zep line from "Since I've Been Loving You" that references this: "I open my front door, hear my back door slam, You must have one of them new fangled back door man." I actually don't think that's exactly how it goes, but I copied it from a lyric site. Anyway, the gist is the same.
Does that mean that you actually like this album?:
Rasan Roland Kirk
Yusef Lateef
Yann Tiersen
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (and all their side projects/groups)
Boogie Down Productions
ENTIRE......?
YACHT SOUL????
Ornette Coleman (he has some stuff that's a little out there for me, but nothing I can say is striaght up dookie)
Charles Mingus (duh)
Cannonball Adderley (I'm assuming, he has so many albums I've never heard, but out of the 30 or so I have heard, I have been able to enjoy them all)
Miles Davis (i'm not mad at water babies and on the corner like most people are, I'd say at least 95% of his catalog was good)
Joe Henderson (haven't heard them all, but please point me to a shitty joe henderson album)
Clifford Brown (short music career/life, but everything he did was great)
JOY DIVISION
Rosanne Cash
Fleetwood Mac
ramsey l.
yusuf l.
ray barretto
beatles
impressions
de la
ghostface
pavement (and that's as far as i go; their last album only gets celebrated for two tracks.)
seriously, its tough to say you can ride for someone 100%...Every artist makes some clunkers. It is part of the process.
John Cage is the only person who I've never gotten rid of anything by.
Ornette Colman would be second... I'll ride for basically everything up till the 80's with him.
As for pop groups who have more than 3-5 albums, I celebrate pretty much all of the Beach Boys albums up till about 1977. They best both the Beatles and Dylan for lengthiest creative streaks as far as I'm concerned. But I can generally find something to dislike about most artists catalogs. It's called BEING DISCRIMINATING.