Open yer mind! Keb’ Mo’ & Friends. Back to the beginning of Rock/R&B influencing most of the major groups such as The Stones & Beatles.

https://youtu.be/_oL_pCjPgUg

Get a listen to him with Taj Mahal - brilliant joint album.

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Nevermind by Nirvana

Hold on hold on put down your pitch forks. I just wish Endless, Nameless wasn’t on it. Something in the Way would be a perfect closer but that’s ruined by the too long and overly aggressive Endless, Nameless.

First Impressions of Earth by The Strokes

is super bloated with way too many mediocre tracks

Favorite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys

This would have been a better EP than an album. D is for Dangerous, House is a Circus, If You Were there Beware, the Bad Thing, and Old Yellow Bricks could all be left off and the remaining seven songs would be an amazing Ep or short album but these other songs really drag it down and need more time in the oven

As a Brit I liked Jimmy Carter, a very compassionate man, and still to this day listen to the Allman Brothers all of the time - love Soulshine even though it was written by Warren Haynes.

Yeah BSSM is my favorite but I love the chilli peppers during the stadium arcadium era. Tons of good b sides. I had an album on my iPod back then called Mars and it had them all together. So many gems I wish it all could have been a 8-12 song album.

I tried getting back into them last summer when I saw them live and idk. It’s not the same. You might be right

In order to decide which band is most punk, you have to define what you mean by punk. Appearance? Attitude? Values? Politics? Either way you slice it, NoFx is a contender though.

Woah, RTL, IMO, the best Metallica album and beautiful from start to end. But hey, look, we all have different opinions. I wouldn’t disagree with anyone who prefers MOP, even if The Thing That Should Not Be is rubbish.

Propagandhi could be a contender for embodies, personified, and push punk the most.

10 songs across multiple genres

Kes - Liki Tiki

Candlebox - Breathe Me In

Arden Park Roots - As Long As You’re There

Shenseea feat Kerwin DuBois - Can You Feel It

Pasadena - Rock Bottom

Wheeland Brothers - In With the Newport

Aaron Kamm and the One Drops - Don’t Say

Tsunami Rising - Been Here

Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds - War Letter

Stick Figure - Once in a Lifetime

As a tribute to this gifted writer here is the famous song given full orchestral treatment with Gary Brooker in Denmark 2006.

Enjoy

https://youtu.be/St6jyEFe5WM

That seems pretty unfairly reductive to me. McLaren was obviously hugely influential via the Pistols, but there was a lot more to the English punk scene than just one band that was together for less than three years.

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces is a sort of concept album, or maybe a shaggy dog story, about a guy's quest to find out where the other half of the moon has gone, wandering through a number of musical styles, with narration by the inimitable Stanley Unwin.

Cusp by Alela Diane. Here she explores the agonies and Ecstasies of the motherhood.

Get a telecaster. They are simple guitars which are great for beginners but it is probably the most recorded guitar in music history because it's a reliable instrument. At the very least stay away from complicated bridges systems. String changes on a Floyd Rose style bridge is not for beginners and will discourage you every time you break a string.

Procol Harum has as much in common with The Monkeys and The Archies as a normal band. They were formed/created after "Whiter Shade of Pale" was a hit.

Blood Mountain, also from Mastodon is right up there with Crack the Skye

L.A. Guns is way better than Ballad of Jayne

That song is actually so sad beneath the fun and happy sound, I just never realized it until recently. Good pick.

A Grand Don’t Come For Free by The Streets.

• “To Pimp A Butterfly” by Kendrick Lamar. It’s a fantastic prog-rap view into his personal journey of gaining fame and the internal conflicts he experienced from it. The prog-rap nature of this album is unique and a work of absolute genius. There is an overarching poem that sums up the album and it is told in full at the end of the album, but is also given in parts throughout the album, with each song serving as an expansion of each individual part of the poem. There’s a great, cleverly-executed reveal at the end with an ‘impossible’ special guest.

• “The Hazards of Love” by The Decemberists. A folk/rock album of a kind of folklore story of a girl who meets a boy who has a magical ability given to him by the personified queen of the forest, and they fall in love. The story is about their budding love, and the forces that try to keep them apart. The end of the story is absolutely gut-wrenching and bittersweet, and beautifully told.

• The “Acts” albums (I through V) by The Dear Hunter. Follow the life story from birth through death of the main character, who is a flawed protagonist. There’s a variety of characters and they’re all interconnected, such as a Priest who moonlights as a brothel operator, where the protagonist’s mother once worked, unbeknownst to him, and where he meets the love of his life. The story takes place in the years leading up to and through WWI, and the character leaves the town to fight in the war before returning to the town with a stolen identity. Lots of issues ensue because of the protagonists poor choices, while he searches for redemption by the end of the story. The band incorporates lots of different styles and genres.

• “Thirteenth Step” by A Perfect Circle. Addresses how addiction affects people. Each song kind of covers a different facet of addiction and the people affected by addicts. Dark, but beautifully written.

• “Darkest Days” by Stabbing Westward. Follows the facets and emotions someone goes through after a bad breakup. Every 4 songs kind of personify 4 phases that such a person experiences following the breakup. Super dark and bleak, but with tones of hopefulness towards the end.

• “Coma Ecliptic” by Between The Buried And Me. In a world where a machine exists where a person can trade their life to be allowed to experience their past lives, a man takes the offer and is not sure that if the past lives was a better choice than the life he was trying to get away from.

• “Deloused In The Comatorium” by The Mars Volta. After entering a coma following a failed suicide attempt, a man discovers a bizarre and surreal world where he feels some sense of belonging, only to be pulled from it when he eventually wakes from the coma.

• “In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3” (and most albums by) Coheed and Cambria. In a futuristic world, a family is torn apart when the controlling leaders discover that the family has the ability to destroy the universe. Prog-rock masterpieces, and almost all albums by C&C follow different aspects of this ‘universes.

• “Passion of the Heist II” by I Am Abomination. This is a ‘part 2’ to a previous album in which, after being crucified on the cross, Jesus was resurrected, but done so by the aliens who created us. This album is about how the aliens decided that humans failed their experiment by killing Jesus, and decided to come back to earth to wage war on the planet. Starring Jesus as the cyborg main antagonist. Despite the goofy concept, the album is a musical masterpiece, incredibly well-structured, and is absolutely the best work by this incredible band.

Better than BSSM or Californication if cut down?

You cant beat Iggy

This is a great song and a good album. Mix isnt great though.

Honestly I think Fun House is the best Stooges album.

Remove In Bloom from Nevermind. Radio always used to play it made me think I hated Nirvana, then I listened to the rest of the album turns out I love Nirvana just really hate that song

Although I disagree and think that the California hardcore thing is more of a second wave, you’re entitled to your opinion, and totally valid, but why is Television seen as a proto-punk band? Not just from you, have seen it mentioned before. They were very much apart of the original New York thing, started around the same time as those other bands, Marquee Moon wasn’t released until 77’, wouldn’t they need to be, like, before the thing to be proto, not during?

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