oh yes. We have a constant war on here between the 'where do I start with the Fall / Nick Cave / The Smiths etc etc' requesters and the DiSsers who like to roll their eyes and say 'we've done this before'.
Therefore I propose a thread in which each post contains simply the name of a band/artist and that person's choice for 'where to start'. See my example below.
You are not allowed to dispute the person's choice, once a band has been taken no more posts on that band are allowed. This post will eventually cover all bands with more than one album and be carved in a granite monolith to stand for all time.
The Smiths
The Queen is Dead
One Thread
To Rule Them All, One Thread To Find Them, One Thread To Bring Them All And In The Darkness Bind Them!
THE GRANITE MONOLITH IS ONE POST AWAY
FROM ONE HUNDRED 'VOTES'. THE GRANITE MONOLITH RULES YOUR PUNY THREADS AND MAKES SAURON HIS BITCH ALSO.
Mogwai
Young Team
Eye-roller here, reporting for duty
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Trail of Dead
Source Tags and Codes
The Fall
Peel Sessions box set
hmmm...
autechre - tri repetae
The Wedding Present
Seamonsters
Wrong
No arguing!
(He's right anyway.)
Aphex Twin
Drukqs
Black Flag
Damaged
Bish Bash Bosh
Louden Up Now
Nirvana
Nevermind
The Libertines
Up The Bracket
The other one
wasn't nearly as good :(
Elliott Smith
Roman Candle
I disagree
XO, clearly.
Fail
get out
From a Basement on the Hill
was the one I found to be most accessible on first listen
fuxxake
Sorry
I forgot the rules and thought MrScagdenSir and thommo were agreeing with yes_. :)
no way!
eitehr/or!
Tom Waits
Rain Dogs
nooo
Closing Time
Swordfishtrombones
closely followed by Rain Dogs is how I got into Tom Waits
I'd listened to Real Gone and Mule Variations before that, but only really got into Tom Waits with Swordfishtrombones
Talking Heads
Remain in light
Why?
Elephant Eyelash
Captain Beefheart
Safe As Milk
David Bowie
The Laughing Gnome 7"
lol, rofl and all that
but on a serious note:
David Bowie
Hunky Dory
KEINE DISPUTEN!
I assume that's german for "I argee, well said"
Melvins
Houdini
Elvis Costello
This Year's Model
belle & sebastian...
if you're feeling sinister
that's BS, man
Tigermilk
R.E.M.
Automatic for the People
uh errrr
Life's Rich Pageant
^Steward's Enquiry
Murmur was found to be the actual winner.
Will Smith
Big Willie Style
The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
.
Scouting For Girls - Scouting For Girls
Just out of curiosity..
What happens if a band releases a new album which is unanimously (to a reasonable extent) agreed to be a better starting point than any of their previous releases? Will the thread be updated then, or are rules rules?
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
pedant's corner...
is over there.
Thank you.
I'm sure I'll find plenty of company there.
All bands who appear on this thread
are henceforth banned from releasing new material (unless it is demonstratably inferior to what they have done previously).
I am law.
At the drive in
acrobatic tenement
VAYA
^
Acrobatic tenement is the best ATDI album
but that is for a DIFFERENT THREAD
I have monopolised opinions on atdi in the "granite stone monolith".
you just don't get it, do you?
sorry
that one is so wrong it hurts though.
Radiohead
Ok Computer
Nick cave
let love in
.
tender prey
Daniel Johnston
Don't be scared
Muse
Origin of Symmetry
Interpol
Turn On The Bright Lights
Pavement
Brighten the Corners
I never realised biting my tongue
could hurt so much.
Okkervil River
Black Sheep Boy
Bright Eyes
Fevers & Mirrors
must... not... contradict...
wide awake!
duh
Sorry
Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil...
I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
No competition whatsoever
Although lifted is close(ish)
Yes, you're right.
The National - Alligator
The Flaming Lips
The Soft Bulletin
Nope
Yoshimi DEFINATELY
Regina Spektor
Soviet Kitsch
Robbie Williams
Life Thru A Lens
Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation
wow thats spooky
same album, same time
same capitalisation and format!
Weird ...
Good job we agreed! I was tempted by NYC Ghosts & Flowers ...
weirder because your both wrong
goo
Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
leonard cohen
songs of leonard cohen
hella
hold your horse is
Television Personalities
And Don't The Kids Just Love It
sweep the leg johnny - sto cazzo!
blur - blur
Suicide
(self-titled)
Yo La Tengo (seeing as there is a thread for this every week)
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Soundgarden
Superunknown
Fugazi
Repeater
red medicine
Dinosaur Jr
Where you been
IN YOUR FACE EVERYONE ELSE!
I just bit my tongue so hard that it came off.
Helmet
strap it on
HA! AGAIN!
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Q And Not U- No Kill No Beep Beep
Fugazi
The Argument
d'oh
ignore this post. Alcxxk wins.
Kyuss
Welcome to Sky Valley
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Guided By Voices
Bee Thousand
correct!
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you experienced
Queens of the Stone Age
Rated R
Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American
Godflesh
Pure
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Les Savy Fav
ROME