Suggestions Please

aoshea83 · 01-09-2012 05:15PM #1

I have a fairly extensive collection of rock with emphasis on hippy rock so to speak and I'm just looking for suggestions on broadening my knowledge/collection.

If you have suggestions on bands that might not be mainstream or hidden gems please post them here so I can check them out.

Here are some examples of collections i have amassed over the years (some single albums, some discographies), including:

AC/DC
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
The Byrds
Chicago
Chuck Berry
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Dire Straits
The Doors
The Eagles
Eric Clapton
Fleetwood Mac
Grateful Dead
Guns n' Roses
Iron Maiden
Jeff Buckley
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix
Journey
Kiss
Korn (Is this classic rock yet???)
Leonard Cohen
Metallica
The Monkees
The Moody Blues
Motorhead
Neil Young
Nirvana
Phish
The Police
Queen
REM
Chili Peppers
The Rolling Stones
Rory Gallagher
Johhny Cash
Led Zepplin
Santana
Thin Lizzy
Tom Waits
U2
The Who

if you can add to this I'd be grateful

mike65 · 01-09-2012 05:20PM

Korn (Is this classic rock yet???)
Leonard Cohen

I can see a ****ing great Led Zeppelin shaped hole in your collection! :eek:

aoshea83 · 01-09-2012 05:37PM

Whooo **** :eek: sorry and well spotted, I have Led Zepplin, but funnily enough only Mothership, the greatest hits album, throw me your suggestions

Rigsby · 01-09-2012 05:52PM

My suggestions to check out would be :

Traffic, Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull, Colosseum, Mott the Hoople and Free.

mike65 · 01-09-2012 06:09PM

I thought that had to an error!

Here is link representative youtube clip for each of the following (saves on scrolling and page loading times), needless to say you'd probably have a few spins to get the goodness out of some of these.

Jeff Beck - You Know What I Mean
Blue Oyster Cult - ETI
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth
Caravan - Memory lain, hugh
King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light
(Ian) Gillan - Gut Reaction
Rush - Tom Saywer

aoshea83 · 01-09-2012 06:35PM

Rigsby wrote: »

My suggestions to check out would be :

Traffic, Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull, Colosseum, Mott the Hoople and Free.

Right,

Traffic, yes, That is definitely to my liking, I'll be taking them further

Blodwyn Pig, I'll have to do a bit more listening to these guys and get a better feel, they seem to cover a few different styles.

Jethro Tull, again definitely yes but where to start!!!! can you narrow it down to a few albums, their best in your opinion, they have a recent greatest hits, maybe a good place to start?
PS I love their description on Wikipedia

Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson

Mott the Hoople, again yes, I'll be looking into them.

Free, well I'm surprised I have none of their albums tbh!

Rigsby · 01-09-2012 09:20PM

aoshea83 wrote: »

Right,

Traffic, yes, That is definitely to my liking, I'll be taking them further

Blodwyn Pig, I'll have to do a bit more listening to these guys and get a better feel, they seem to cover a few different styles.

Jethro Tull, again definitely yes but where to start!!!! can you narrow it down to a few albums, their best in your opinion, they have a recent greatest hits, maybe a good place to start?
PS I love their description on Wikipedia

Mott the Hoople, again yes, I'll be looking into them.

Free, well I'm surprised I have none of their albums tbh!

The founder of Blodwyn Pig, Mick Abrahams, played only on the very first 'Tull album. AFAIK, he is still playing today. Yes, they do cover different styles. They were a seminal band in as far as the gradual change over from blues/jazz to rock. They were experimenting with different styles. I think they originally released only two albums.

You are correct in that 'Tull have a very large output of albums. To be honost, my interest in them waned after their fifth or so album. My favourites are :

"This Was.." : Their first album with the above Mick Abrahams on guitar. Very much blues/jazz influenced, but you can hear the seeds of rock there too.

"Stand Up" : Their second album, minus Abrahams ( Martin Barre took over and became a permanent member) is a different sounding one from their first. Yes, there is blues here, as there is a unique kind of acoustic type songs ( ala the track "We used to Know"). Great album IMO.

"Benefit" : Takes over from where "Stand Up" left off.

"Aqualung" and "War Child" are two other favourites of mine. After that, their music lost some of it's appeal for me. This is not to say they are not good albums. Perhaps others might give opinions on these.

BTW, two other great bands springs to mind......."Steppenwolf". Check them out. Almost everyone knows "Born to be Wild".

The other is "Ten Years After".

quickbeam · 01-09-2012 09:47PM

Some of my favourites that you haven't included:

Neil Young (surely a typo that you didn't include him already?)
The Band
Warren Zevon
Nick Cave
The Grateful Dead
The Kinks
T.Rex

aoshea83 · 01-09-2012 10:14PM

Right lads,

This is excellent!

I'm pretty free monday so I intend taking full advantage of my internet allowence and checking out all these suggestions

quickbeam wrote: »

Some of my favourites that you haven't included:

Neil Young (surely a typo that you didn't include him already?)
The Band
Warren Zevon
Nick Cave
The Grateful Dead
The Kinks
T.Rex

I actually have some Neil Young albums, must edit that and I think I have all The Grateful Dead albums!

Rigsby wrote: »

You are correct in that 'Tull have a very large output of albums. To be honost, my interest in them waned after their fifth or so album.

I'll start checking out sites that recommend their Top 10 songs etc and take it from there, I know most will recommend what they believe others want them to recommend as apposed to what they like themselves but it's a starting point.

mike65 wrote: »

I thought that had to an error!

Here is link representative youtube clip for each of the following (saves on scrolling and page loading times), needless to say you'd probably have a few spins to get the goodness out of some of these.

Jeff Beck - You Know What I Mean
Blue Oyster Cult - ETI
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth
Caravan - Memory lain, hugh
King Crimson - The ConstruKction of Light
(Ian) Gillan - Gut Reaction
Rush - Tom Saywer

As I say I'll check these out over the next few days cheers

MACHEAD · 02-09-2012 02:10PM

Being a bit of a Zepp fan I'd find it difficult to direct you to a specific album to get more of a 'feel' for their music than just a sampler such as Mothership. I'd very tempted to just tell to start with 'Led Zeppelin' and work your way chronologically up to 'Coda'. But if you'd rather get a broad taste of Zepp in just a few albums, I'd suggest listening in this order.

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Led Zeppelin III
3. The Untitled album
4. Houses Of The Holy
5. Physical Graffiti
6. (And I know this will be unpopular) The Soundtrack From The Song Remains The Same.

Most fans berate the live album, Jimmy Page apparently cringes when he hears it, but I can't help but like it.

Another band to add to your list would be Marillion.

aoshea83 · 02-09-2012 03:17PM

MACHEAD wrote: »

Being a bit of a Zepp fan I'd find it difficult to direct you to a specific album to get more of a 'feel' for their music than just a sampler such as Mothership. I'd very tempted to just tell to start with 'Led Zeppelin' and work your way chronologically up to 'Coda'. But if you'd rather get a broad taste of Zepp in just a few albums, I'd suggest listening in this order.

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Led Zeppelin III
3. The Untitled album
4. Houses Of The Holy
5. Physical Graffiti
6. (And I know this will be unpopular) The Soundtrack From The Song Remains The Same.

Most fans berate the live album, Jimmy Page apparently cringes when he hears it, but I can't help but like it.

Another band to add to your list would be Marillion.

I'm quiet lucky to have an friend mad into them so have free access to their albums to listen over and decide on which ones to get for myself

General Relativity · 03-09-2012 09:46AM

PINK FLOYD!

The Beatles !!
Elvis
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Stooges
Velvet Underground
The Ramones
Bob Marley

bodking · 03-09-2012 10:22AM

Twelth night
Fridgid pink
Pallas
IQ
Angelwitch
Blackfoot sue
Rainbow
Whitesnake
Tygrers of pang tang
ZZ top
Aerosmith

Are but a few

aoshea83 · 03-09-2012 11:35AM

General Relativity wrote: »

PINK FLOYD!

The Beatles !!
Elvis
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Stooges
Velvet Underground
The Ramones
Bob Marley

I would go so far to say I have every pink floyd album in cirulation, I have The Beatles greatest hits album, 1 I belive, I'm sorry, I just can't get along with Elvis, and I have a good few Bob Marley albums, time to update the list again, cheers for the suggestions, I'll check them out later today

Sarky · 04-09-2012 03:00PM

ZZ Top are essential. If this song doesn't send a shiver down your spine, there's something wrong with you.

I'd recommend having a look at The Answer, a northern Irish band I really like. They sound sort of like a cross between Led Zeppelin and Guns'n'Roses. Class act.

--Kaiser-- · 04-09-2012 03:15PM

aoshea83 wrote: »

Whooo **** :eek: sorry and well spotted, I have Led Zepplin, but funnily enough only Mothership, the greatest hits album, throw me your suggestions

Being a major fan I would say all of their albums are essential. If I had to pick one I would say II. Feast your ears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyhu2ysqKGk

Rothko · 04-09-2012 11:51PM

You might like:
The Yardbirds
Blue Cheer
Love
13th Floor Elevators
The Zombies
Elvis Costello
Patti Smith
Captain Beefheart
Frank Zappa
The Smiths
The MC5
The Stooges
Traffic
The Monks
The Blues Magoos
The Sonics
The Allman Brothers Band
Yes
King Crimson
Mike Oldfield
Uriah Heep
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Tim Buckley (Jeff Buckley's father)
Soundgarden
Temple Of The Dog
Can
Neu!
Amon Duul II
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Small Faces
Sly & The Family Stone
Roxy Music
Brian Eno
Peter Frampton
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

listenup · 08-09-2012 08:17PM

motley crue
inxs
great white
scorpion
pantera
pearl jam

big b · 10-09-2012 08:09AM

This would be bandwidth well spent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTl6FDsLj7Y

RayCon · 10-09-2012 05:25PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXYMOgHQI4

pbowenroe · 19-09-2012 03:27PM

THE BEATLES

o1s1n · 19-09-2012 09:31PM

Try Badlands. Short lived band, their first self titled album is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=171F09muWFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6LXVqetMeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IepGiupfguM

Another underrated one, Kingdom Come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBGzj_BEDfo

Both above singers have been slated a bit for 'copying' Robert Plant. But then again, so did David Coverdale...!

Another one worth checking out, Blackfoot. Better southern rock band than Lynrd Skynrd if you ask me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTO1B7hAK60

Dublin Spur · 20-09-2012 12:06PM

try:

The Black Crowes
Airbourne
The Quireboys

OldRio · 20-09-2012 01:02PM

Some earlier bands that may have passed you by,

Hawkwind...In Search of Space, Doremi or IMHO one of the best live albums I have heard Space Ritual. ( Saw that tour in 1971 ) All the albums released in the very early 70s

Groundhogs....Spilt, which i think was recorded in 69/70. McPhee is an incredible guitarist.

Gong......Any of their TeaPot albums.Very hippy and a little strange.

Thanks to the poster for the Steve Hillage link.

Grid. · 20-09-2012 02:44PM

Gotta get yourself Argus by Wishbone Ash....no collection is complete without it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tna0Mmu1XlI

Rocker chick · 20-09-2012 03:04PM

I would suggest RUSH - The Spirit of Radio.
Other bands which you could include to your repertoire are Alcatrazz and UFO.

Poor Uncle Tom · 21-09-2012 07:09AM

America
The Band
Marc Bolan
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Canned Heat
Thin Lizzy
Steely Dan

Jake the dog · 21-09-2012 02:18PM

Listen to the Mott the Hoople album, Mad Shadows. its sublime.

Others well worth checking out are the Groundhogs, Alice Cooper (especially the early albums), Montrose, Grand funk railroad, Whilst Slade's live album, Alive!, is just a joy to listen to.

If you like Ziggy era Bowie, you'd probably love the Bebop deluxe album Axe Victim too.

For late sixties psych check out Quicksilver Messenger Service first album