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The Smiths
the clash
black sabbath
the rolling stones
the beach boys
michael jackson
Stones should have been the first band on this list
bowie
Group Ongaku
Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza
everyone one else can go to hell.
The Wesley Willis Fiasco
Anal Cunt
Gay For Johnny Depp
Andrew W.K.
Kid Rock
The Shaggs
James Brown
Funkadelic
Trololol guy
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Out
Kast.
*Cast
There aren't any
Aphex Twin
No music is "essential" if you don't like it surely?
Dunno, depends what this thread's about /how we're interpreting things
I mean, out of stuff mentioned so far, I'm not a fan of the Beatles or the Stones, and the Smiths are pretty meh, but I think for someone to be "into music" they should at least check them out. Maybe. I'm not too sold on this point myself, but I can kinda see the argument.
Talk Talk
Scooter.
SCOOTAH!
The Beatles
Robert Johnson
Howlin' Wolf
DJ Shadow
Miles Davis
James Brown
Metallica
Bob Marley
Fela Kuti
Marvin Gaye
Public Enemy
Nina Simone
Tortoise
Pink Floyd
Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Pavement
The Velvet Underground
Herbie Hancock
Guns n Roses
Fairport Convention
Boards of Canada
A Tribe Called Quest
Four Tet
All the ones soapy said (and some other ones mentioned upthread)
^massively rockist list and in no way representative of my actual favourites, but stuff I'd generally expect people to have some kind of knowledge about and be able to use as reference-points. Probably all it does though is show my massive lack of knowledge of certain styles/eras. And I've not included anything classical.
guns n roses?
jesus.
To clarify: there are 2, maybe 3, GnR songs I'd ever consider listening to myself
The Stooges
If you don't like The Stooges, I'd almost go as far as to say you don't really like music.
I don't think I like you much
This guy doesn't like The Stooges...
http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=1012
bob dylan
although i'm sure there are people who say they have no interest or "it's not for them" i just refuse to believe that anyone could not find anything good from dylan 60 to 70, he has like 50 songs from that period alone that are some of the greatest pieces of work in music history
not to mention that absurd run of classic albums
and some of his lyrics, even if you're not much of a lyric person you've got to love or at least admire stuff like it's alright ma
^Yeah pretty much all of that.
pretty much the same for Neil Young as well
JS Bach
Sebastian Bach*
...because we all know most harmony and chord progessions
that became standard in Western music came from Skid Row
The Smiths
If people tell me they don't like some of my other favourite bands, like New Order or Tindersticks for example, fine, I can live with it. But when people tell me they don't like The Smiths they go down in my estimation. They are as close as I've ever come to a religion and I go all fundamentalist when confronted with non-believers :)
i used to be like that about the smiths
but then one day i suddenly realised how fucking irritating morrissey is, now i can barely listen to them
your religion has the most boring bass and drums of all the religions
Bass?
Whatevs
Traditional Instrumental Music
Anything from any of the periods.
Marvin Gaye
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
King Crimson
I didn't look very hard but most of the others have been mentioned.
trying not to repeat other entries
Kinks
NRBQ
Elvis Costello
Chuck Berry
Phil Spector's philles singles
Stax singles
anything recorded at Cosimo's Nawlins studio
and if you want the deep dish ...
Hasil Adkins
MC5
The Fall
Sun Ra
Charlie Parker
Pizzicato Five
sweet gorilla
Kraftwerk
Outkast
Depeche Mode
the only real answer for me is the beatles
i'm no beatlemaniac, but when people tell me they don't like the beatles i'm instantly wary.
i regard them akin to how i'd regard an alien species.
What did The Beatles ever do for us?
is that
the new adam hart-davis series?
have we done comedy answers yet?
Big Dumb Face
downset
Fieldy's Dreams
arsequake
methodaire
Megadeth
Megadeth isn't a comedy answer.
i think this was meant to be a comedy answer
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4280781#r5937162
but it'll probs. get mistaken for the real thing, and people will be like 'errr, what a dick, making suggestions of essential bands, and propping up heteronormative african-baby killing hegemonies'
Christ
you bunch of simpering cunts. lol
The concept of essential listening can be left to hacks trying to sell magazines
There's no such thing, and all it represents is a calcified canonisation and feedback loop of the recycled tastes of the( largely white, middle-class, male, conservative) cultural upper income bracket.
This is what I meant
in my post.
I liked yours more
http://www.theonion.com/articles/affluent-white-man-enjoys-causes-the-blues,1511/
Love the onion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U990QFyvN3M
Steely Dan
essential listening if you're a seedy old perv
haha, but also everyone else too
I respectfully disagree
I know some fine people who seem to enjoy Steely Dan though. For some reason. Maybe it's the crisp hi-hat sound.
Its the impossible perfection of the sound/instrumentation
wrapped in those sleazy undertones.
Definitely not for everyone.
Janelle Monae
And Refused's Shape Of Punk To Come, if you're not a turbo bender.
Booker P and the MGs
Are they like Booker T and the MGs?
But with a P ?
anyone who's said the Smiths
can bog off, they're a load of simpering fey crap.
dunno if i'd hate them as much if i wasn't from manchester tbf
every time i have to hear 'this charming man' a small part of me dies forever.
Low
Big Dipper
K'Naan
Nick Cave....
... And all derivatives of.
Fleetwood Mac
Talking Heads
The Cure
Tusk for me
and dare I say it Tango In The Night too!
ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL
swag
Mortiis
Sparks
Who could hate them? Only someone with a humour/fun bypass who hates music.
Really?
Nobody mentioned Radiohead yet? Damn.
Excellent choices from everybody.
DiS and Radiohead need a break you see.
Otis Redding
Rebecca Black
artists i've never heard anyone criticise
or at least anyone with an opinion i respect
woody guthrie
marvin gaye
neutral milk hotel
jeff buckley
tom waits
MF DOOM (in all guises)
the beach boys
sufjan stevens
aretha franklin
(early) stevie wonder
so i'm gunna go and say all of them are essential. ok?
oh
and the vengaboys
neutral milk hotel really?
I like them but I think they're a bit marmite, know plenty of people who dislike them
Tom Waits
I don't think someone who's pretending to be a hobo and putting on a funny voice is essential.
Generally I think
I rarely can find anyone with a bad word to say about Motown music generally, at least the stuff good enough to be remembered, even if people aren't really 'into' it
oh and maybe
Outkast perhaps.
Orchid - essential discography
Neil Young - can pretty much start anywhere outside of the 80's.
Skrewdriver
this is essential
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izp5ab_00yg
SOME BAND I LIKE
I'd say the only case of this I have ever seen in my life
is Outkast, everyone I knows likes them to some degree, even those who hate music
thread of the week?
please no