Recommended Non Metal Albums

[Carnage]

Bought a few of their albums there, after this stuck in my head. Went for the deluxe versions as they're fairly cheap these days, so plenty of extra material to get through.

I watched The Insatiable Ones again the other night, great documentary on the history and reformation of the band if anyone's bothered.

Nice one. Have all the standard pressings alright and the b-sides but I'd say you're sorted for plenty of those with the deluxe, which is a good thing as quite a lot of their top shelf stuff are the b-sides.

Three of them arrived this morning (Suede, Dog Man Star & Head Music) and there's a serious amount of bonus material on each, between B-sides, demos, unreleased tracks etc. DVDs with each one too. Looking forward to working through them.

An interesting afterthought in the booklet for each, Anderson gives his preferred tracklisting for each album, with the benefit of hindsight. Some songs omitted, B-sides slotted in. Whether they work as albums I don't know.

[101_North]

Artist: Grobschnitt
Album: Solar Music Live
Year: 1978
Genre: Krautrock / Space rock / prog

Easily in my top 5 favourite live albums. Takes a while to get going but a superb piece of music. Essentially one track in 9 parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC9bLGgQRLg&list=PL6SCSKZiO_MU1kU-fmQO7foI3ZjxuM9Ww&index=4

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Artist: Grobschnitt
Album: Solar Music Live
Year: 1978
Genre: Krautrock / Space rock / prog

Easily in my top 5 favourite live albums. Takes a while to get going but a superb piece of music. Essentially one track in 9 parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC9bLGgQRLg&list=PL6SCSKZiO_MU1kU-fmQO7foI3ZjxuM9Ww&index=4

Fuck yes. Brilliant.

Girl Band's Live at Vicar Street album is out finally. I was at this gig, definitely does it justice, glad they put out a live album because they're a serious force live.

Noise rock, surgical chaos. Doesn't seem to be much middle ground with people on this band, they either love it or think it's bollocks. I'm very much in the former camp!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQXUwM_zz2U&list=OLAK5uy_lKgJLDrantm_XEzLmT4rYqbxKNO5nzbJY&fbclid=IwAR29q9SAsfz7lcWg2_C1aUPtRH0c1To4BnT7FSV0TkUOt45t5mtDFMDHxeQ

[ochoill]

They're fair class and I only got into them in the last few months so will definitely give this a lash later.

[DyslucsicJK]

Eletric Youth
Grimes
The Midnight
Sleigh Bells



Soundtracks:

Conan
Mandy
Mary Poppins
The Fountain
Willy wonka and the choclate factory
The Wizard of Oz

[101_North]

Artist: Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin
Album: Love Devotion Surrender
Year: 1973
Genre: Jazz fusion
RIYL: Mahavishu Orchestra

Some of the guitar work on this is stunning as you'd expect with this pair involved! Never mind the drumming from Billy Cobham! Some fantastic versions of popular John Coltrane tunes too. Brilliant!

https://youtu.be/QpbmFAd1g0E

[Bogmetaller]

What would people's attitudes to Oasis be like here?? The first 2 albums are pure genius.....

[Cosmic_Equilibrium]

Slade with a hangover.

[Pedrito]

What would people's attitudes to Oasis be like here?? The first 2 albums are pure genius.....

Great albums, great songwriters. Too easy to disregard because it all looks easy until you try to do it yourself.

[Carnage]

Big fan here, just bought the deluxe reissues of the first 3 albums on Friday. Yes, they're dicks and he rips off plenty of people but he can put a song together.

[Bogmetaller]

I used always think that Liam was the gobshite of the two but it looks more the other way around now.

[Pedrito]

Their oul lad is from Duleek, they couldn't be any other way 

[open face surgery]

Some of the later stuff is great as well.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Blur > Oasis

There we go lads; rock bottom discussion level for a metal forum 

[Grim Reality]

Dead Can Dance

The Serpents Egg (1988, I think)

Description? Hmmm. World/Darkwave??

https://youtu.be/FfE365EFivE

I think DCD are pretty well known amongst the metal scene. Certainly the black metal scene anyway. I suppose there is some sort of spiritual yearning in common. They've become a major part of my listening this last decade. There are metal albums I loved from ten years ago when I started to get into DCD that I just have moved on from, no longer connect to. But Dead Can Dance persists and is on permanent rotation.