New Music!!

audiobliss

Well, I've got a lot of new (to me) music to listen before; mostly groups I've never really listened to, and a good bit I've never heard of before! I bought about 80 or so cassettes from a guy on the Klipsch forum, and UPS just delivered them today.

One good prop for UPS: the seller put the wrong address on the box. That address didn't exist, and it was probably pretty obvious what it should have been, given that we have the same UPS man and he delivers a lot of packages and might perhaps recognize the last name, but at any rate...the seller emailed UPS the correct address and the package arrived perfectly fine on the originally scheduled date of delivery. I'm happy!

Here's a list I've compiled of the cassetes: (and now it's alphabetized!)

AC/DC
The Razors Edge
High Voltage

The Allman Brothers Band
Where it all Begins

The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and the Animals

Billy Idol
Vital Idol
Whiplash Smile
Charmed Life

The Black Crowes
Shake Your Money Maker

Blind Faith

Cinderella
Heartbreak Station

Command Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Lost In the Ozone

David Lee Roth
A Little Ain't Enough
Eat 'Em and Smile
Skyscraper

The Doors
The Best of
LA Woman

Dread Zeppelin
Un-led-ed

Eric Clapton
August

George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Move It on Over
More George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Grateful Dead
American Beauty

Great White
Twice Shy

Hanoi Rocks
Two Steps From the Move

The J. Geils Band
Bloodshot
Love Stinks

Jeff Beck Group
Rough and Ready
Self-titled

Jimi Hendrix
Kiss the Sky
Electric Ladyland
Axis: Bold as Love

Johnny Winter
Raisin' Cain
Johnny Winter Anthology

KBC Band

Kix
Blow My Fuse

Led Zeppelin
I
III

Little Feat
Hoy-Hoy!

Lou Reed
Rock n Roll Animal

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Gold & Platinum
Street Survivors
Second Helping

Michael Monroe
Not Fakin' It

Mott the Hoople
Greatest Hits

Nirvana
Uplugged in New York

Pete Townshend
Empty Glass

Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here

Poison
Flesh & Blood

Queen
The Miracle
Hot Space

Rebel Rock

The Robert Cray Band
Strong Persuader

The Rolling Stones
Exile on Main Street
Some Girls
Goats Head Soup
Sticky Fingers
It's Only Rock 'N Roll
Black and Blue
Let it Bleed
Beggars Banquet

Santana
Between Good and Evil
Abraxas

Slaughter
Stick it to Ya

Steve Stevens
Atomic Playboys

teve Winwood
Refugees of the Heart

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
In Step
Greatest Hits

Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I

Stuff
Stuff It

Ted Nugent
Motor City Madness

Ten Years After
Ssssh
About Time

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Damn the Torpedoes

Traffic
Welcome to the Canteen

U2
The Joshua Tree

Wet Willie
Which One's Willie?

The Who
Quadrophenia
Who's Better, Who's Best

ZZ Top
Deguello
Fandango!Recycler
El Loco





So, there's 82 cassettes mostly of music I've never heard before. While tapes don't offer high-fidelity, I figured for $45 this would be a great introduction to a lot of different bands/groups/artists.

What do y'all think? What stands out? What does it make you think of? What do you remember when you read some of these titles? What's best? What's junk? What's worth something (haha!)?

And, more importantly....what should I listen to first?!?!

Whenever I feel motivated, I'll probably make that list alphebatized...

audiobliss

I just put in Stevie Ray Vaughan - Greatest Hits. Can't say as I've ever heard him before.

hoosier21

heard and or have most of that list, here are few of my old favorites

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Gold & Platinum - classic rock and roll

Nirvana
Uplugged in New York - my favorite CD of this group

Pete Townshend
Empty Glass- realy dug this guy, well till the the whole kid **** thing

Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here - great stuff here

The Robert Cray Band
Strong Persuader - the hidden gem in your purchase, GREAT

The Rolling Stones
Exile on Main Street - fav Rolling Stone CD

Santana
Between Good and Evil
Abraxas - Santana is a great artist, some great songs here

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Damn the Torpedoes - TPs break out Albumn and his best to date

several other good ones in there, have fun

bobman1235

audiobliss wrote:

And, more importantly....what should I listen to first?!?!

Lots of good choices in there, guess it depends on your mood.

These would be my choices to listen to first :

AC/DC - always great, especially for working out an dstuff like that,

The Allman Brothers Band - I love the Allman Brothers, mostly for nostalgia purposes, as I used to go to their concerts 2-3 times a year when they came around to the Tweeter Center. Outdoor venue, sitting on the lawn, nice relaxing jam band type stuff.

Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker has some good stuff, although I like some of their other albums (Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Amorica) better. If you like Monye Maker, I definitely recommend investing in those two albums.

Blind Faith - basically a group made of the best musicians of the time, put together at once. Only like 5 songs on the one album they made, but... great stuff.

George Thorogood and the Destroyers - George Thorogood has some great drinkin music, although I don't recognize any of the songs on either of those albums, so... not sure how to feel about that.

Hendrix - Listen to the full Voodoo Chile on Electric Ladyland. That guy could just make a guitar sing. Also like "Crosstown Traffic" on that album.

Led Zeppelin - so many great songs on those two albums, including my all-time fave Zep song, "Since I Been Lovin' You" (maybe tied with the Rain Song).

Queen - I like some Queen stuff, but the two albums you got aren't really a good set....

U2 - the entire second half of The Joshua Tree is a masterpiece. The first half is overplayed sappy crap at this point, but starting with Running to Stand Still... just perfect stuff.


Enjoy teh new music!

audiobliss

Thanks for your comments! I'm glad you said that about the Robert Cray Band...probably would have been one of the last I would have listened to. Pete Townshend - same with him.

I'm on to Stevie Wonder now...GREAT stuff. I LOVE Superstition.

:D

audiobliss

Thanks, disneyjoe! The information helped a lot.

I've never listened to AC/DC...that will be interesting. I can't wait to listen to Jimi Hendrix, as he's AWESOME, but *I* don't know that as I don't really know a thing about him.

seo

These are ones I like-

George Thorogood and the Destroyers - Move It on Over

Grateful Dead
American Beauty

Pete Townshend
Empty Glass

Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here

The Robert Cray Band
Strong Persuader

The Rolling Stones
Let it Bleed

audiobliss

Wow, this Robert Cray character is pretty good!

schwarcw

Nice pickup AB! Cassettes are dirt cheap and obsolete, they are a great buy to hear some music that you're not familiar with or just want to hear. I bought over 200 classical cassettes recently for $5. Sound quality is not as good as CD, but very tolerable in many instances. Enjoy!

audiobliss

Thanks!

AC/DC High Voltage isn't too bad.

I'm stoked! I wonder how long it'll take me to listen to them all...:D

MrNightly

What's a cassette?

Fireman32

Nirvana unplugged is a great album

mrbigbluelight

MrNightly wrote:

What's a cassette?

A cassette is a bulimic 8-track. :rolleyes:


Back in the day (early 70's), to have a Nakamichi 1000 cassette deck meant you communed with the gods.

audiobliss

Hmmmm...The Who - Who's Better, Who's Best isn't in the greatest sounding condition...

David Lee Roth - Skyscraper was pretty cool, though.

zombie boy 2000

Ha ha...:D

I'd forgotten about Dread Zeppelin....

Talk about a blast from the past

krabby5

Thats quite a range of music..

From The Who to Nugent to Cinderella to AC/DC

Personally Im an 80's junkie (my heyday)...so seeing Cinderella, Kix, Great White, and Poison in that group made me smile

Plus ACDC rocks..

Actually most of that selection rocks..!:D

shack

Are these pre-recorded studio cassettes or are they recorded from other sources on good tape? If they are the former the SQ probably sucks. If the latter the SQ "could" be pretty good depending on the source and equipment used. I have some cassettes I recorded from vinyl and CDs that still sound good.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - In Step - The album that introduced me to SRV and I am now a huge fan.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping - an underrated album that is very good. Street Suvivors isn't too bad either.

Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal - The American precursor of punk and glam rock when he was with Velvet Underground. This may be the album to own. "Sweet Jane' alone is worth the price of the album.

audiobliss

They are all pre-recorded cassettes, with the exception of Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here. which he appears to have copied to a cassette himself.

Yes, I am now a fan of SRV and Stevie Wonder. Is there any relationship between those two?

I'm rockin' to Jeff Beck Group (self-titled) at the moment.

George Grand

Electric Ladyland - Bobman nailed it. Everybody loves the short Voodoo Child (slight return). Real men listen to the "live in the studio" long version with Steve Winwood on organ, and the other guy from Traffic too. The other real long song, "1983, A Merman I Should Be" are the absolute highlights of that album. Rainy Day and the sequel, Still raining are excellent also.

Beggars Banquet - The Stones WISH they could make another album like that one.

Little Feat's Hoy-Hoy gets honorable mention.

audiobliss

Thanks for the info, GG. I'll have to play some Jimi Hendrix before class today. I hope I have time.

George Thorogood is pretty good, too.

miner

SRV - In Step

Que up Riviera Paradise, sit back and enjoy. At his best with this song according to SRV himslef). he was clean then - drug & alcohol free. If you get the chance read 'Caught In the Crossfire'.

audiobliss

Wow, this Black Crowes tape is pretty awesome! I think I'll listen to it a few times!

Sami

Hanoi Rocks' version of Up Around The Bend is pretty good. The Doors starts to really shine when you play it hi-fi, some of the songs are not that great on low end system (or cassette) but on hi-fi system played loud, OMG! Like said, for Queen, definately pick up something else. Vital Idol by Billy Idol is one of my favourites from the 80's.

hearingimpared

WOW !!!!! Great stuff!!! I am extremely envious. You have some extraordinary classic stuff! I can't believe you are just turning on to Stevie Ray Vaughan. He's gone, but he can still raise goose bumps. . .

Here is a new one to try that my 23 year old son turned me onto is:

"Maroon 5"

Great music, great performance, great recording, the lead singer can really belt it out and they have their albumn on vinyl as well as CD.

audiobliss

Well, a year and three days after the last post in this thread, I'm reviving it.

I've listened to maybe about 10 of these cassettes off and on in the last year, but I've yet to really explore them all. And they've still been sitting in the box they were shipped in all this time.

Not any more. Now they're all arranged alphabetically in a drawer in my room, and I'm home alone for a week, so I'm going to go through as many of them as I can! I should probably make myself NOT play any of them twice this week, no matter how good it is, just so I can get through them all...but that might be too hard.

Right now I'm rocking out to AC/DC - High Voltage, and it is really good.

madmax

ZZ Top
Deguello

This was always a favorite.
madmax

audiobliss

Hmmm. That's all the way in the Z's. I better take this seriously and not sleep any if I'm going to make it all the way through them!

ledhed

You have Pink Floyd's best song - Wish You Were Here. LISTEN TO IT!!!

Of course, I trust you have already listened to the Zeppelin.

audiobliss

Hmmm. I might not have listened to the Zep tapes. I have a few copies of Zep CD's that I have listened to, though, so hopefully that spares me that beating.

Hmm. Pink Floyd. I should be able to get to the P's no problem this week.

audiobliss

This Allman Bros Where It All Begins tape is pretty awesome!

POLKOROLLA

ah, it is so good to see a southern boy find his roots. great music, especially some good southern rock like allman bros., black crowes, and of course skynyrd. of course living in nc you are required to know almost all skynyrd songs by heart. and welcome to the world of srv as well. one of the greatest guitar players of all time period.