The GET ME STARTED Thread

[adrianlee]

We're always on the look out for new music (be it old or new) and often times these bands have incredibly massive catalogs. This thread is to have people point us in the right direction when trying to figure out where to start.

I'll start:

Jefferson Airplane
The Doors

No idea where to start as I've always thought of the doors to be something of a novelty (all the stupid fake hippie stoners in high school always wore Jim Morrison shirts and kind of made me shy away from it. Jefferson Airplane always get mentioned in conversations, i just never think to ask where to start.

So, GET ME STARTED.

[SPACERITUAL]

Jefferson Airplane
The Doors

Def start with waiting for the sun by the doors. Some of the sickest tracks of their career are on that album.....like this one

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_-HqcNum7M[/youtube]

As for jefferson airplane....i dunno man. I really like the song crown of creation but the album itself kindof blows....sooo?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_oJ64K-z2g[/youtube]

[sonidero]

Doors are kinda wonky and one trick ponyish... I'd watch the movie and see what you think...

Jefferson Airplane is hit and really miss... It's all about Jorma Kaukonen and he did most of his better stuff with other bands (Hot Tuna)...

[sonidero]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURyLc[/youtube]

Volunteers is overall pretty good and has some good Jorma fuzz...

[SPACERITUAL]

Doors are kinda wonky and one trick ponyish...

TAKE THAT SHIT BACK DONT MAKE ME SNATCH A BITCH WEAVE UP

[sonidero]

Doors are kinda wonky and one trick ponyish...

TAKE THAT SHIT BACK DONT MAKE ME SNATCH A BITCH WEAVE UP

You can snatch my weave as long as you...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G8DCFJ4vr4[/youtube]

[D.o.S.]

Doors are fucking rad. Their Self Titled is awesome, as is Strange Days. Morrison Hotel and LA Woman are top notch as well.

Check out their live records from '70. The band was at its apex, IMO. And they play, hands down, the best version of Who Do You Love that I've ever heard.


Jefferson Airplane is also rad. Their live version of 3/5ths of a mile in 10 seconds is to die for. Plus Jorma and Jack are top notch players. As for studio, you can't go wrong with Surrealistic Pillow and Volunteers.

[Bellyheart]

Morrison Hotel and Soft Parade are great Doors

Surrealistic Pillow is a great Jefferson Airplane! That album is start to finish.

[TroySanders]

people are strange

[D.o.S.]

when you give strangers.

[dubkitty]

for the Doors, i've always thought that the first album and Strange Days were the best albums in that they're the most consistent. the other albums have brilliant tracks but IMO don't really hold together, and have some real bowsers as well. the first two are great straight through. what used to be LP Side 1 of Morrison Hotel is perhaps their best LP side ever, though.

the Airplane is a more difficult case in that their albums didn't really reflect their live sound. Surrealistic Pillow is widely loved and has the hit singles, but the album cuts are brittle-sounding and swamped in reverb. After Bathing At Baxter's is much looser and more fun while retaining the folky compositional feel of Pillow and adding a slashing rock edge. the live Bless Its Pointed Little Head is perhaps the best representation of the classic Airplane lineup, with the singers in full polyphonic wail and Casady and Kaukonen galloping in tandem all over the material, and i mean that in the most positive way possible. compare the live versions of "3/5 of a Mile In Ten Seconds" and, especially, "It's No Secret" to the studio versions.

the studio albums with Marty Balin after Pillow (Crown of Creation, Volunteers) resemble the later Doors albums in that they combine brilliant pieces with heinous filler. the post-Balin albums are even more so; Long John Silver in particular has some of their best 70s songs ("Aerie [Gang of Eagles]," "Twilight Double Leader") paired with some of Kantner's most specious cosmo-historiographical speculations ("The Son of Jesus," "Alexander the Medium"), and some of the material on Bark is only explainable by resort to pharmacology. the final live Thirty Seconds Over Winterland features a terrific live sequence from the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago with a long Kaukonen/Casady jam on the Bark track/Hot Tuna standard "Feel So Good."

[cheesecats]

my favorite doors album is soft parade

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdcSdNgCcxU[/youtube]

a good start for the airplane is surrealistic pillow

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uokp0aEiT-A[/youtube]

these are two crucial bands regardless of any retro revisionism crap

[cheesecats]

how about some steppenwolf
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jpb67dWc-M[/youtube]

and some spirit

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q-XhYMdOzM[/youtube]

and sopwith camel

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX4s4GsA7pg[/youtube]

[adrianlee]

All of these songs are most excellent. Awesome!

[mrmtzion]

Ok, I have a few. I "never got" king crimson, deep purple or mc5 shoot me in the right direction.