A young'uns guide to purusing extensive artist discographies

[Miroir Noir]

I'm surprised that no one has written on Hendrix, Clapton, the Allman Brothers, Winwood, SRV, Van Halen, AC/DC, etc., etc. I'd be interesting to read a non Rolling Stone-ifed take on some of the classic guitar gods.

I can do the Police and U2 if anyone is interested.

[TallGuyCM]

Mother Love Bone writeup: coming soon

Nice. Looking forward to this, I'm only familiar with a few songs.

[SoulDischarge]

Maybe I'll do Carl Craig one of these days. It'd be fun to immerse myself in his music for awhile.

[bmack86]

Patrick, did you ever finish Swans?

[SoulDischarge]

Do I ever finish anything? (The answer is no.)

[bmack86]

I'll admit: I knew that and was just hinting that i want to read more

[cutterbutter]

Could someone do Low? I've had Things We Lost in The Fire forever... And just got their Christmas album. Wouldn't have to be very detailed.

Also, here is the post if anyone wanted to lookup what has been done already:
http://www.coachella.com/forum/showp...postcount=1959

[ods..]

I was thinking of doing one of these over break... Maybe Bonobo? Thievery Corp?

[bmack86]

I think Lee already did Theivery Corp, but I may be mistaken.

What are some other acts that haven't been done? I can't think of too many. F'Lips?

[TallGuyCM]

Glenn Branca.

[TallGuyCM]

Oh and Fela Kuti would be fantastic as well. And Serge Gainsbourg.

[ods..]

HA Fela Kuti would be a chore. Dude was so prolific.

Same with John Zorn.... I can't imagine listening to all of Zorn's music.

I do have the Fela Complete works though...

[ods..]

Sun Ra. That would be a task for someone. I would love to read that. Only have like 5 releases.

[TallGuyCM]

^ Seconded.

[TallGuyCM]

What are some other acts that haven't been done? I can't think of too many.

If someone could do Bonnie 'Prince' Billy that would be great.

[FEELS]

If someone could do Bonnie 'Prince' Billy that would be great.

Agreed.

[cutterbutter]

Sun Ra or bust.

[zircona1]

I might do one on Liz Phair, the only album I haven't listened to is Funstyle.

[TallGuyCM]

Would anyone with the knowledge be willing to do a write-up for any krautrock band not called Can?

[bmack86]

I could do early Faust, and I could do Kraftwerk (didn't I do Kraftwerk)? NEU! don't have enough releases, but if I included La! Dusseldorf and Michael Rother's solo work I could probably do them as well.

[TallGuyCM]

Yeah, you did Kraftwerk, overlooked that one.

What about just a general all encompassing Michael Rother write-up with all those you mentioned?

Coincidentally enough, I'm listening to Neu! 75 for the first time right now, really great so far.

[bmack86]

La! Dusseldorf actually is Klaus Dinger's post NEU! band that he did. They had two really good synthy krauty releases.

[roberto73]

Are there any artists on this year's lineup deserving of a write-up? Like, say, Madness or James or Squeeze? I could do the latter two, but I'll probably only feel motivated if there's interest.

[TallGuyCM]

Definitely interested in the latter two. Between them I only know that Laid song, haha.

[bmack86]

I can do fIREHOSE, the Black Keys and ATDI. I can also do Black Flag to cover Greg Ginn's early work.

[swdshfsk]

Holy damn! I am amazed that this thread is still rockin' after YEARS! Way to go Coachellers. I have so much catching up to do

[SoulDischarge]

I think I started Faust at one time, but like so much in life, never followed through. Maybe . . . maybe . . . but don't get your hopes up.

[TallGuyCM]

Spiritualized:
Hey boy, you can go almost anywhere with this group and not fail. They've maybe released one or two bum notes in their whole career. Starting with Ladies and Gentlemen We're Floating in Space is a good way to go; that's their classic, and it's so damn good. However, Pure Phase and Lazer Guided Melodies are both excellent lead ups to that album, and you can hear them developing their sound.

*bump*

Spiritualized definitely have a stellar catalog, front to back. My small gripe is that on some of their non-LAGWAFIS albums, it just sounds like they're rewriting the same songs. There are at least two other songs in their repertoire that sound nearly identical to Electricity. To me, anyway. It's that way with a few other LAGWAFIS songs, too.

[bmack86]

Yeah, but Laser Guided Melodies is my favorite dream-pop record, so suck it.

[TallGuyCM]

I'd like to politely ask if someone (possibly bmack?) could do the Elephant 6 bands that haven't been covered. From what I can tell at a glance, only Elf Power has been done. OTC and CS have pretty brief discographies, but the rest, especially Of Montreal, would be much to my liking.