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The Teletubbies album was one I had to endure as the kids were of that age at the time. Oddly, once past the single and the other dafties, it smoothes out into some soothing Mike Oldfield type mood pieces, and ends with a vitual Tom Waits singing "Good Night TeleTubbies". This making the album way better than you might expect.

Ray! Derailed this thread already!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Nephew: USADSB

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

.. (I forgot I was going to add) .. A bit like the Moby album "Play"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay Z + Linkin Park

― Reviewer: Sir Potomus (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cyberpunk" - Billy Idol

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Moby: Hotel

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

moby: 18

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Moby: That vegan punk album

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

or, second thoughts, i have an idea that it might actually be quite good in all its absurdity. i want to hear it, anyway. it can only be better than his other stuff.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Primal Scream - Evil Heat
Killing Joke - all except the first two.
All Grateful Dead
The new Julian Cope
All Country Joe and The Fish
All Ryan Adams

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

dear catastophe waitress isn't bad. the dead had good albums. killing joke had some great records after the first two. the first country joe and the fish record is really nice.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

but you are probably right about primal scream and ryan adams. i will go with those two too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

all bright eyes

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Heartbreaker one by Ryan Adams has some okay stuff....I even like that nu-wave song he had out this year....he's a douchbag, but still....

Scott,

what are the "good Dead" albums? I've always wanted to get one but I'm scurrred.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The best entry-level Dead albums are American Beauty and Workingman's Dead. They sold loads too, so you should be able to find vinyl copies on the cheap.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The best entry-level Dead albums are American Beauty and Workingman's Dead. They sold loads too, so you should be able to find vinyl copies on the cheap.

those are like the "hits" right, the more country rock stuff?

i was hoping they has some wierd acidy early freakout stuff....like I almost bought Live Dead once but chickened out....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Live/Dead is great for the acid freakout, if you can get by the side of "Turn on your lovelight." "Anthem of the Sun" and Aoxomoxoa are their most psychedelic albums, IMO.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, workingman's and american beauty are good for the folky/countryish stuff and they both have some of their strongest songs on them. and for the 60's/west-coast/psych thing go with anthem of the sun and aoxomoxoa.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

x-posttttttt

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Grateful Dead live, Dick's Picks etc - S&D

xpost

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, you know what, if you find a decent used copy, What A Long Strange Trip It's Been is a really good mix of 60's/70's/live/studio. It has a good flow to it. You could start there. It's a fine double-album best-of. It really is.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that was the first one i bought when i was 16.the what a long strange trip comp. or maybe it was dead set. dead set is good too. so is reckoning. for later live stuff anyway. after that, you are on your own with live stuff. i don't travel into the 80's very much.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

juliette lewis and the licks. I think that's what tehy are called.

― owen reading, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The Killers

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

the Bright Eyes debut.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Joanna Newsom: I'm certain she sings like a chirpy rodent.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Chinese Democracy. It's a letdown, you can tell already.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Kasabian. Except I have heard it. But it is shit.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy Bob Thornton, Pirate Radio.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been curious about the more psychedelic Dead stuff. Is it just like noodly hippie guitar playing or is like total fucking freakout city?

And more importantly: are there tape loops??

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

no tape loops. live/dead is very good (first half of live/dead is very very good). few songs from aoxomoxoa are very good - st stephen and rosemary are great.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.shaw.ca/amazingone/criss_cat1.jpg

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I once got that Peter Criss album for a friend as a gag Xmas gift

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"I've been curious about the more psychedelic Dead stuff. Is it just like noodly hippie guitar playing or is like total fucking freakout city?"

you know what? the dead weren't really all that great a psych band. they were way better at the old-timey shit. which makes sense cuz hunter and garcia were the only true talents in the band.

the acid test stuff is kinda historically interesting. the most interesting drug music in the 60's was NOT made by all those west coast bands that everyone associates with drug music. although they all made fine music on drugs and about drugs and within drugs and without drugs and there are plenty of exceptions and people like the airplane and others made their fair share of groovy acid-drenched shit. (i'm talking about the biggies. airplane, fish, quicksilver, dead, big brother.)the u.k. pawned the west coast as far as psychedlia goes.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the heavy psychedelic stuff regarding the Dead was always the live experience anyway, and by that I mean the stuff in addition to the music. The real freakout stuff was drums/space in a live setting which was basically like a NNCK album condensed.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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