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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Oct 6, 2016 11:15:56 GMT -5
How do you get into bands with an extensive discography?
I'm talking about bands like The Beatles, U2, New Order, Pink Floyd...basically, any band with 4+ albums.
Do you start with their greatest hits collection? Do you start at their first album and try to listen chronologically? Do you start with their critically acclaimed albums?
I never know what to do, and can get quite overwhelming. I try to do it chronologically (OCD much?), but you can see how difficult that can be.
Confession: I haven't listened to most of The Beatles albums yet! Christ.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 14:02:51 GMT -5
Find a track you like from a compilation or a single you've already heard, go to that album, listen to the album, buy it if you like it. Repeat for other tracks from other albums you know and like, until you're left with the Heathen Chemistry of the bunch (or Heathen Chemistries for larger discographies), then get that one for the sake of completion, and try and enjoy that one as well...  |
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Post by glider on Oct 6, 2016 14:12:36 GMT -5
With U2, I started with the respective greatest hits collections for both the 80s and 90s/early 2000s. Afterwards, the first album in full I heard was 'The Unforgettable Fire'. Worked my way up from there and went back to Boy, October, and War.
With Radiohead, I started on The Bends and worked my way up, then went back to Pablo Honey.
Oasis was just a matter of listening alot to the first 3 albums (plus The Masterplan), then b-sides, and eventually getting around to the Mark 2 era.
I'm still trying to get through The Beatles, but they have a lot of songs so it's just been in bits.
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Post by oasisserbia on Oct 6, 2016 14:27:44 GMT -5
Go to band's wikipedia page - discography - open all albums in new tabs - critical reception - find album with best average score - go to pirate ba...I mean go and buy album.
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Post by mystoryisgory on Oct 6, 2016 16:51:34 GMT -5
How do you get into bands with an extensive discography? I'm talking about bands like The Beatles, U2, New Order, Pink Floyd...basically, any band with 4+ albums. Do you start with their greatest hits collection? Do you start at their first album and try to listen chronologically? Do you start with their critically acclaimed albums? I never know what to do, and can get quite overwhelming. I try to do it chronologically (OCD much?), but you can see how difficult that can be. Confession: I haven't listened to most of The Beatles albums yet! Christ. Great question that I created a thread about a while back! These days, I don't really try to get into a band's entire discography, but I have tried all of those approaches and it really depends on what band we're talking about. The greatest hits collection would work very well with artists that have had a lot of hits, but not with album-oriented artists like Pink Floyd. Going chronologically is my preferred method, but even that has shortcomings because most bands take time to find their signature sound and release their masterpiece. But the best way to get into any band is to just take any set of songs of theirs that people consider great and listen to them until one clicks. The rest should follow after that. That's always the foolproof way to get into any band.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 17:35:11 GMT -5
That's where Greatest Hits albums are for imo.
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Post by albarncoxon on Oct 6, 2016 18:52:05 GMT -5
In my experience, it just happens. I´ve tried to get into U2 a few years back, but it was pointless. I started to listen to Muse a few months ago, and some songs are good, but others I just don´t like. On the other hand, for around 8 years I listen to a song at work on the radio, but never got the chance of catch the bands or song name. Until one day I did it: it was Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), by James. Since then, it was one song after another. A few weeks later I was buying some CDs, DVDs, and trying to get anything from the band (music, no posters or stuff like that ). I love the band, and it just happened. And it was really great to realise how many records and B-Sides they have. And their live shows... wow!!!! Same thing with Blur almost 18 years back!!!! They had so many kind of songs that I was shocked that they could perform so diverse songs like Girls & Boys and at the same time Song 2, The Universal, Tender... |
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Post by steve020409 on Oct 7, 2016 0:16:34 GMT -5
Try to listen to the most popular songs and the most "underrated" songs.
It's really easy to find songs from those famous bands.
I have listened to Please Please me (Album) and it was pretty disappointing.
Start out with the famous songs.
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Post by Frank Lee Vulgar on Oct 7, 2016 8:28:25 GMT -5
Good question actually, I have had this problem a lot recently. I usually try to start with the first album for a number of reasons - it makes the progress more natural, and it's often good but not the best (once you start with the best, the rest will just be a bit disappointing). Of course that only works if I know for sure that I will actually like this band - if I'm not sure, I will start with the album that has songs I know (The Gift is the first Jam album I bought, because I knew I wanted to have Town Called Malice!).
I try to avoid Best Ofs/Greatest Hits - most albums make sense as a whole, and listening to the album tracks later when you already know the best songs is underwhelming. I definitely would think less of Definitely Maybe if I had already known Supersonic, Live Forever and Slide Away by the time I first listened to it.
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Post by joladella on Oct 7, 2016 8:31:34 GMT -5
I usually let chance decide, by going into the next record shop and buy whatever album they have in stock. If I cannot find any, I go at it chronologically.
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Post by matt on Oct 10, 2016 22:12:39 GMT -5
With bands with a similar style throughout their careers like Oasis and The Smiths, I bought their 'best of' compilations (Stop The Clocks and Sound of The Smiths - probably the two most important CDs I ever bought in my life).
Bands like Radiohead and U2.... I don't really think these bands are great singles acts, because their best songs aren't singles in my opinion so compilation albums seem underwhelming for me. For these kind of acts, you buy their most accessible albums (The Bends and All That You Can't Leave Behind) and then I slowly fell into the weirder darker stuff (Kid A, Zooropa, etc).
Generally though, best of/greatest hits compilations are great in giving you an appreciation for a band if you can't be bothered delving too much into the band and their 'deeper cuts' - that's what the Red and Blue albums from The Beatles are for (or the singles collection '1'). In this case, I own ABBA Gold which is great but their individual albums don't interest me much, as they weren't really an albums band anyway.
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Post by newmercury on Oct 18, 2016 15:56:28 GMT -5
I don't have one method it sort of depends on the artist.
As a big fan of Queen people ask me such things related to Queen and I ask them what other bands/albums they like to try and work out where to start them. One guy recently I recommended he try the first 2 which he loved. Another had tried the second one not liked it much(somehow) I recommend The Game to him. He's now gone through the whole discography and still prefers the 80's stuff.
It just depends on how diverse the bands sound is too. The likes of Queen and even Rush change their sound a lot but bands like AC/DC tend to stick mainly to what works so I approach these differently.
To be fair it's a good question because it can be a hard thing to do.
P.s. The Beatles albums are worth a run through and are one band I'd recommend chronologically because it's good to see the change happening between the early stuff and the later stuff it doesn't just happen it's gradual.
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