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Where to start?
nufan:
--- Quote from: Tom on 28 Feb 2010, 11:55 ---Were should I start with Bob Dylan and others of the (electric) folk persuasion? I've been listening to On The Beach and the rest of Neil Young's Ditch trilogy and digging it immensely.
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Stick a random pin in any of Dylan's 60's output and you've got a winner. Like Young in the 70's Dylan pretty much could do no wrong for near an entire decade all the while exploring new options with each album. For his one-man folk stuff Freewheelin' is probably the best bet, for his electric phase I'd go with Highway 65 Revisited, but I'm serious when I say get pretty much everything from that period.
Actually now I think of it, your best bet is probably Bringing It All Back Home, as it has 50% folk (the second half) and 50% electric rock (the first half) and also contains Subterranean Homesick Blues which is worth the money all by itself, and also has the finest lyrics of any album I know of. Blood On The Tracks is also one of the best albums of all time and pretty much a must (yes I'm a bit of a Dylanphile).
kwami42:
I don't know anything about Jazz outside of Miles Davis, any suggestions on where to go?
Inlander:
Do you know what type of jazz you prefer? Big band? Small group? Dixieland? Swing? Bop? Fusion?
Hahaha, no, I'm kidding, nobody prefers fusion.
kwami42:
Well, I like all the Miles Davis I have (Kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool, Bitches Brew) so stuff like that is good I guess.
Inlander:
Actually, have a listen to all of these, tell me which you like best, and we can go from there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86bO53-gpFs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqmgVOc-K1Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeqwPX4T4E0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT4CVz1TXUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q-ePYiCJYM
I only really go up to the 50s as far as jazz is concerned. After that you'll have to get someone else to help you out.
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