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[Ducky]

Chic - s/t, C'est Chic, and Risqué
Sister Sledge - We Are Family (which is effectively Chic fronted by Sister Sledge, released in between C'est Chic and Risqué)

Four of the best albums ever recorded, barely two years between them to boot. Still some of the freshest sounds that you can conjure from a set of speakers. Fuck yeah

[Blackout]

It is amazing with the plethora of social media platforms out there that people have to troll on, someone manages to find the time to troll a small metal forum.   

[hellfire]

Converge - Axe to fall

Used to be curious about Converge back when it was all magazines and no internet. Where would you suggest starting with them?

[mugz]

Converge - Axe to fall

Used to be curious about Converge back when it was all magazines and no internet. Where would you suggest starting with them?

their stuff is good but interchangeable

[mugz]

It is amazing with the plethora of social media platforms out there that people have to troll on, someone manages to find the time to troll a small metal forum.   

I enjoyed the last 70s stuff he suggested, Chic can fuck off though.

[Carnage]

Converge - Axe to fall

Used to be curious about Converge back when it was all magazines and no internet. Where would you suggest starting with them?

their stuff is good but interchangeable

Axe To Fall is the only one if theirs I can listen to TBH. The rest are certainly much of a muchness for me.

[Ducky]

Converge - Axe to fall

Used to be curious about Converge back when it was all magazines and no internet. Where would you suggest starting with them?

Jane Doe encompasses everything they're about, The Dusk in Us is a mature work but still ferocious at times, You Fail Me (which I used to hate) is their most different sounding (get the remixed version with the white sleeve, sounds a lot better).

[Eoin McLove]

It is amazing with the plethora of social media platforms out there that people have to troll on, someone manages to find the time to troll a small metal forum.   

He thinks Darkthrone are shite.  God bless him.

[Ducky]

It is amazing with the plethora of social media platforms out there that people have to troll on, someone manages to find the time to troll a small metal forum.   

Err, no trolling going on here, I fucking love Chic. Juggz will vouch for this, he loves them too

Most heads on here have a pretty eclectic and varied taste in music, so someone with a boner for disco shouldn't be surprising.

[Ducky]

It is amazing with the plethora of social media platforms out there that people have to troll on, someone manages to find the time to troll a small metal forum.   

He thinks Darkthrone are shite.  God bless him.

Scandinavian mailman metal recorded through the mic of a tape deck that's the other side of the garden from the shed
that it's being played in or one of the most influential songwriters and producers of the 20th century, hmm...

[Blackout]

Converge - Axe to fall

Used to be curious about Converge back when it was all magazines and no internet. Where would you suggest starting with them?

Start with No Heroes dude, I used to think converge were mediocre enough but I found this and axe to fall really good solid outputs.  They are slow growers.

[Blackout]

It is amazing with the plethora of social media platforms out there that people have to troll on, someone manages to find the time to troll a small metal forum.   

I enjoyed the last 70s stuff he suggested, Chic can fuck off though.

Listen I am partial to the dairylea of the 80s from time to time but I draw the line at "four of the best albums". 

[Eoin McLove]

Thorns.

[mugz]

It is amazing with the plethora of social media platforms out there that people have to troll on, someone manages to find the time to troll a small metal forum.   

He thinks Darkthrone are shite.  God bless him.

I like how I think Darkthrone is gonna sound, but then I listen to them, and I don't. I have 4 of their albums but meh, I don't get it.

[Ducky]

It is amazing with the plethora of social media platforms out there that people have to troll on, someone manages to find the time to troll a small metal forum.   

I enjoyed the last 70s stuff he suggested, Chic can fuck off though.

Listen I am partial to the dairylea of the 80s from time to time but I draw the line at "four of the best albums". 

It's some sophisticated as fuck pop music, production is perfect, some of the tightest rhythm guitar you'll ever hear (and he's busting out more than a few power chords) coupled to some of the most recognisable bass lines of the 20th century. Then you have one of the most sampled songs in music history (Good Times) with a bass line so good Blondie and Queen decided to rip it off and it became ground zero and the founding stone of hip hop (as it was sampled in Rapper's Delight).

Nile Rodgers would end up producing some of the biggest records of the 1980s for Madonna, Bowie, Duran Duran and he's all over them. He's also produced Clapton, Jeff Beck, David Lee Roth, Mick Jagger, wrote Diana Ross' biggest album. He also wrote and played on a bunch of other artists' biggest hits.

Nothing from the world of metal (bar maybe Sabbath) comes close to the size and influence of Chic/Rodgers.

Anyway, been listening to Melechesh's Djinn and Sphinx for a change of pace