Robot Rock

The Bus

Read my first posts. I'm talking about great albums from the 60s to early/mid 80s that I would've overlooked. These albums don't make mainstream "Best Album of All Time" lists and don't get played on classic rock stations.

But they still have to be great. Most of what everyone has been suggesting has been great.

Some, for 1978, more Magazine — Real Life and less Police — Outlandos d'Amour.

Not that the latter is a bad album, it's just much, much more well-known.

The Bus

The Throbbing Gristle is good but maybe not something I'd listen to over and over. I have to admit I was completely thrown by the cover.

Now, the Dr. John is simply great. It reminds me of Sly Stallone's There's a Riot Goin' On in how gritty & dirty it sounds and how it draws you into its world. Not that the message is similar in those two albums.

The Bus

I also listened to a little of Another Green World and Juju and liked what I heard but obviously didn't hear the entire album.

Giles

I also recommend his score of Antarctica

Dr Mabuse

Giles

The Bus

Mabuse: Nick Drake is great. I've got three of his albums. I don't have any Moby Grape, but I do have Skip Spence's Oar.

cgray

That Ray Lynch cd is pretty fun...

Supermallet

For maximum effect, Juju should be listened to in one uninterrupted sitting. While any individual song from it is great, the way it's sequenced makes it all the better.

Giles

it's a toss up between these two Yello albums:


YELLO - STELLA

it's very poppy and fresh sounding

a good companion album is

Supermallet

King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic










Snakefinger - Chewing Hides The Sound


Peter Gabriel - Security

Giles

and if you like punk, and don't have this album there is something seriousily wrong with you.

Giles

less polished and more punchy I prefer this over 'Stop Making Sense'

Supermallet

I prefer Stop Making Sense, if only for the version of Psycho Killer on there, but yeah, The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads is pretty amazing, the remastered Rhino CD set is fantastic.

Sessa17

Glad you dig it, just an album I love, kind of an unheard of masterpiece IMO. It's like crazy-drunk-voodoo-soul-music.

Larry C.

You should have heard of these but these are great complete albums for me.

Talkin2Phil

Big Star
Taj Mahal Mo' Roots
Roxy Music
Marianne Faithfull- Broken English

Supermallet

Oh god yes, Broken English is amazing. And so is For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music.

Hiro11

Moby Grape - one of the great unfullfilled promises of the 60s. Their debut is on of the best American albums of the late sixties and they never made anything nearly as good again. Don't miss the debut, it's incredible.

The Bus

Some of my suggestions:

Neu! — Neu '75
Can — Tago Mago
Culture — Harder Than the Rest and Two Sevens Clash
Sly and the Family Stone — There's a Riot Goin' On
The Specials — The Specials
Jorge Ben — África Brasil

and

Terry Callier — Live at Mother Blues 1964

Dr Mabuse

I don't know how experimental your tastes run, but the groundbreaking stuff from 'Clock DVA' still does it for me. Not sure you can even get this one any more, I have a few mp3s.


An example of their stuff:

The Bus

I like that Clock DVA stuff. Too bad it's not readily available.

I got One Night Stand! and will be giving that album a listen over the weekend.

I also got Neu!'s self-titled debut and am absolutely floored by the opening track "Hallogallo":



I have Neu! '75 but nothing on there compared to this. I'm looking at expanding krautrock. I've got some of the basics (Can, Kraftwerk), but here's what I'm looking at so far:

La Dusseldorf
Tangerine Dream
Guru Guru
Harmonia
Cluster

I know there's Amon Düül but they have the worst name of any band I think I've ever heard. It seems their stuff might be a bit more... advanced. So I'll check it out later.

Anything else I'm missing?

The Bus

Oh, and Faust.

Dr Mabuse

You might look at 'Haujobb' stuff.

Maybe 'Juno Reactor'.

On Clock DVA, it is a little hard to find. I made that 'video' above.