Discovering a Large Discography

[washing machine]

Rounds is one of my all-time favorite records, and the climax of his discography for me.
I appreciate some of the directions he went afterward, but just not as easily digestible

Yeah. It took me all of two listens to recognize its place and the overall impact of this music over the last decade or so. Are there many other albums in his discography that carry on with that same "sample everything" method he used on those first two releases?

[bodysnatcher]

Rounds is one of my all-time favorite records, and the climax of his discography for me.
I appreciate some of the directions he went afterward, but just not as easily digestible

Yeah. It took me all of two listens to recognize its place and the overall impact of this music over the last decade or so. Are there many other albums in his discography that carry on with that same "sample everything" method he used on those first two releases?

Check out Burial next if you haven't
Much darker than Four Tet if you're into that side

[washing machine]

I'm familiar with Burial. I recall a thread on old RM called "Burial and Four Tet", actually. Did you start that one?

Anywho, Four Tet is just one of those artists who, for whatever reason, I missed the boat with the first time around. Happens to the best of us.

[Kevin Davis]

Apart from artists I've followed in real time, I don't think I've ever made it a point to discover an artist chronologically. I usually jump in with a universally regarded work and then bounce around as the spirit moves me -- it's worked well so far....

[washing machine]

I'll sometimes go chronological and other times I'll do what you do, KD. There's really no rhyme or reason to which way I decide except to say that modern artists tend to get the chronological treatment while artists like Neil Young or David Bowie, who have a gigantic catalog and jump from genre to genre with regularity, often require an approach centered around album merit. Life's too short, etc etc..

There's exception to this rule, of course. I recall listening to Talking Heads albums chronologically because I heard that their evolution from late 70's to mid 80's is a course in overall post-punk American music history. That little musical journey was fun.

[melonhead4]

Radiohead, Oasis, and the Smashing Pumpkins don't really have large discographies. Medium-sized.

For Oasis its pretty simple I just listen to their first two albums and don't bother with the rest of their work because its pure rubbish

[guestT]

If it's an artist like REM or Dylan where I'm familiar with some but not all of their discography, going chrono is a good way to fill the holes and tie it all together.

If it's someone completely new to me I usually start with a Greatest Hits or whatever album is generally considered their best and go from there.

[washing machine]

So here's a question sort of related to discovering a large discography, though this assumes you're well aware and have had plenty of experience with a large chunk of an artist's discography:

Name some albums from one of your favorite artists that you have for whatever reason never heard, or that you discovered long after you should have. For me, it's Diamond Dogs and Aladdin Sane. I've been a Bowie fan for something like fifteen years now, yet I only started playing those two albums all the way through shortly before Blackstar was released. Those releases between Hunky Dory and Station to Station never really interested me too much until recently when I realized that the era between Ziggy and Young Americans is much more nuanced than a broad "glam" template. I think it was an interview I read shortly before Blackstar that did it. In the interview, there was a lot of talk about Bowie's sax playing and the piano passages on Aladdin Sane...

Anyway, what are some of everyone's embarrassing discography omissions?

[Dev]

thread title is funny.

[Norah]

thread title is funny.

does it remind you of discovering a large dick?

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

Presence is my favorite Zeppelin album, FWIW.

[epilogue]

Presence is my favorite Zeppelin album, FWIW.

[Norah]

oh c'mon

[Norah]

1
4
2
3
5
6
7

[LoathedVermin72]

There are no 5 and 6

[Norah]

you know damned well what i mean

[LoathedVermin72]

Or 7 you editing bastard

[LoathedVermin72]

LOOKS LIKE ITS TIME FOR A RANK OFF

Presence
IV
I
Physical Graffiti
Houses of the Holy
III
Coda
II
ITTOD

[LetMeSleep]

III
II
Physical Graffiti
I
IV
House of the Holy
Presence
ITTOD
Coda