You folks are probably doing what i did i.e. digging up old stuff that you forgot you had and giving them a spin. It's amazing how many good discs we have that end up collecting dust just because we forget about them.
I expected to see stuff like the Beatles, Stones, the Dead and possibly even Hawkwind due to the volume of releases and age of the band, but i'm pretty surprised at how many different discs / recordings that some have of Neil Young. While i know that he's no spring chicken ( like most of us ), i had no idea that he had that many recordings available. I'm guessing that at least a good portion has to be live bootleg recordings, etc...
As far as Classical music goes, the fact that you can have 100+ versions of the same Beethoven piece by a million different artists is confusing as hell to us that aren't well versed in this type of music. That's why i mentioned that it would be good to share specific recordings of specific pieces i.e. your experience in this area can help some of us find the cream of the crop and maybe help to widen our appreciation of Classical music.
Personally, i'll stick "spin-off" bands with the main band that they splintered from until the "spin-off" has several discs of their own in my collection. Then i'll give them their own space.
Speaking of spin-off or "off-shoot" bands, what bands came out of / were related to the Pixies? This is a band that i'm not familiar with but i've been told ( a million times ) that i would really like. Maybe i'll have heard some of their "siblings".
As far as Skyclad goes, i've got some Sabbat and loved it, hence my search for more of Martin's work, which turned up Skyclad. He's now doing Return To The Sabbat, which i hope to pick up soon.
Glad you like the thread and i hope that others will contribute. The more specific we can be, the more likely we are to picque someone else's curiosity about that band / performers. After all, if "Billy Bob" likes them enough to buy XX amount of their recordings, maybe there's something to them : ) Sean
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I expected to see stuff like the Beatles, Stones, the Dead and possibly even Hawkwind due to the volume of releases and age of the band, but i'm pretty surprised at how many different discs / recordings that some have of Neil Young. While i know that he's no spring chicken ( like most of us ), i had no idea that he had that many recordings available. I'm guessing that at least a good portion has to be live bootleg recordings, etc...
As far as Classical music goes, the fact that you can have 100+ versions of the same Beethoven piece by a million different artists is confusing as hell to us that aren't well versed in this type of music. That's why i mentioned that it would be good to share specific recordings of specific pieces i.e. your experience in this area can help some of us find the cream of the crop and maybe help to widen our appreciation of Classical music.
Personally, i'll stick "spin-off" bands with the main band that they splintered from until the "spin-off" has several discs of their own in my collection. Then i'll give them their own space.
Speaking of spin-off or "off-shoot" bands, what bands came out of / were related to the Pixies? This is a band that i'm not familiar with but i've been told ( a million times ) that i would really like. Maybe i'll have heard some of their "siblings".
As far as Skyclad goes, i've got some Sabbat and loved it, hence my search for more of Martin's work, which turned up Skyclad. He's now doing Return To The Sabbat, which i hope to pick up soon.
Glad you like the thread and i hope that others will contribute. The more specific we can be, the more likely we are to picque someone else's curiosity about that band / performers. After all, if "Billy Bob" likes them enough to buy XX amount of their recordings, maybe there's something to them : ) Sean
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PS... The subject line above where your response goes gets cut off when you enter a post. As such, we end up losing any info, names, comments entered there. Please don't enter data there as not knowing what was said there sometimes changes the meaning or level of understanding of your post due to getting cut off. This is something that Agon needs to address and should delete. Hopefully, they'll read this and take note : ) Sean
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