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Where to start?
20 jazz funk greats:
god, i wish there was a separate thread for the "some labels don't pay their bands so good" debate.
(oh wait)
okay i'm done pretending to be a mod now.
here is a great diamanda galas song for you, alex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjCnKvA4IE
<3
SWOON! at My Gravitas:
So, how 'bout that Colour Haze? I've technically already started (with their self-titled album), but I am wondering where to go next.
De_El:
Paging Onewheelwizard and/or dimmukane to this thread...
I'm not super knowledgeable on Colour Haze save for I know I'd like them if I put the time into listening to more of their stuff. At the very least, Los Sounds de Krauts is excellent and really easy to get into, especially if you're into their oeuvre already.
Ptommydski:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 18 Feb 2010, 12:40 ---Talking Heads (though I guess Emilio sort of said Remain In Light?)
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You have to get the first four albums in order because there's a massive difference between each one which would be hard to accept if you ignore chronology.
The live album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads wouldn't be a bad start actually.
De_El:
What da ya want outta yr Tom Waits? He's got kind of a lot of records. Before Small Change his voice sounds like a totally different animal than around, say Swordfishtrombones, and by Bone Machine he sounds totally raspy and ragged, but his voice is still big. The early stuff is all like, piano and strings Americana, occsionally bluesy and jazzy. Blue Valentine amps up the jazz quotient and Heartattack and Vine is a straight up blues record.
Small Change would be an interesting place to start because it's something of a transitional record. You can use it to decide whether you want to explore his earlier, less accomplished records, or move forward chronologically as he explores new sonic territory. I do like his early records: Closing Time, The Heart of Saturday Night and Nighthawks at the Diner. But they're definitely less essential documents of his career. You may only want to listen to them after you've already decided you really like Tom Waits.
Swordfishtrombones and his other, stylistically related mid-period records Rain Dogs and Frank's Wild Years, depart somewhat from his earlier style by approaching songwriting in a less rigid manner. The instrumentation branches out a lot too; he introduces more interesting drums, marimbas, glockenspiel, organs, harmonicas; w wider variety of horns, etc. All of the three records from this period are excellent. If you're going to start with this period of his music, you ought start with Swordfishtrombones and go through them in order.
Bone Machine is where he starts to get weird. His style varies more from album to album after that, so they stand alone more than his earlier albums, which form a clearer progression. For my money, the highlights from this period are Bone Machine and Mule Variations. The rest are all pretty good too, but they're not as close to my heart as those two.
So, tl;dr I'd say start with Swordfishtrombones or Small Change, just know that the two options will lead you to pretty significantly different paths.
Oh and fyi Frank's Wild Years is the one with the theme song from The Wire on it. Hope that helps!
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