When I was talking about Busdriver, I realized that you only need one of his albums to really grasp who he is as an artist for different reasons. One may be theyre extreme sound might be too harsh to get into their full catalog.

So think of artists that you are fine with owning one album. This is not a post about picking an artist's best album.

signature pose.

and that's not a diss,
because i like that song quite a bit.

but it's still just one song.



now if you LOVE that song,
feel free to buy their entire catalouge.

but if you're only a casual fan of that song,
then you don't need more than one ac/dc album
to get an accurate impression of what every other ac/dc album
they you'll ever hear will sound like.

i think my "favorite" ac/dc album is "highway to hell."
but really, it doesn't matter.

even when they switched lead singers,
they still released the same album.






>When I was talking about Busdriver, I realized that you only
>need one of his albums to really grasp who he is as an artist
>for different reasons. One may be theyre extreme sound might
>be too harsh to get into their full catalog.
>
>So think of artists that you are fine with owning one album.
>This is not a post about picking an artist's best album.

...I don't agree. I think that from their australian debut up to "Back in black", they did subtle changes to their music from album to album and I always found that type of trajectory very fun to analyze and dig, far more so than artists who throw their evolution right in the face of the listener. Basically, very subtle band but I'd have no problem to explain the evolution either; each one of their 70's album introduced a new aspect to the bands sound (actually, it was often a case of what they were NOT playing rather than what they were playing). I'd say that "Let there be rock" was the big break since they weeded out the 12 bar Chuck Berry-style boogie rock songs and became heavier and more aggessive. On "Powerage" they started to expand their riff-vocabulary beyond just power-chords to arpeggiated lines and "notey" riffs on a few songs.

"Highway to hell" was of course the first album produced by Mutt Lange and was much more commercial in the sense that EvERY song needed an anthemic chorus and there was also more harmony singing. Additionally, the more minimalist riffing they often had on earlier albums disappeared too and almost every song had a snappy staccato-riff instead.

I tend to view "Back in black" as a mixture of ''highway...'' and ''powerage'' but with a new element added:refined songstructures. If you listen to that album, the songs have intros, bridges, unique riffs played underneath the guitarsolos (as opposed to just soloing over the main riff) on several songs.

They would continue to make tiny changes and e4mphasize or de-emphasize various aspects o4f their style but the popularity of ''BIB'' m4eant that they were pretty much set-not much left to do.4

This type of evolution is quite common amongst hardrock and metal-bands and may seem boring to a Radiohead fan but you have to remember that fans of this type of music take the instrumentation, dynamics and riffing-style for granted so other aspects become easier to hear.44

AC/DC is a bit extra with it though, even I can admitt that and even a lot of rockers find them too subtle...

i guess I never thought to articulate the differences,
I guess b/c they were too subtle to give them much thought for me to really notice them...

but when you out it that way,
I can see the differences between the albums.


which is not to say that I feel the need to
go back and pick up the albums again...

but I do feel what you're saying.
that was a pretty cool breakdown.

Back in the days of tapes and cd's, I got on a BR kick and got all of them in one fell swoop.

I kept thinking to myself, this is a long ass song, until the tape flipped over.

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how I felt about WYWH, but I'm at least willing to try that again. I never heard Animals.

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he was never the album cat even during his prime and peak at motown.

what album or albums of his are seeing Marvin and Stevie's?? naw his catelog of songwriting is on that Mount Rushmore with some of the greatest over the course of time, however his albums just ain't never really held up for me on a whole. he came close with his "Quiet storm" album but not quite all the way.

Smokey has composed some of the greatest songs ever and whatnot, however he was never a cat that you hear folks bragging about his albums as the end all be all.

he is living proof that you can be Great at more than one thing and still not be a great album artist.

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I appreciate the response, but I **heavily** disagree.

Like, I don't think I've ever disagreed with you more, ever.

His first three (Smokey, Pure Smokey and Quiet Storm) are easily on par with Stevie and Marvin and above anything else on Motown at the time, if you ask me.

I mean, honestly, Quiet Storm was iconic enough to birth a whole sub-genre named after it — does it get any bigger than that?

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Smokey is One of the Greatest Artists ever in the Songs and Vocalist department, however his albums were never really mentioned with Prime and peak Stevie and Marvin or Al Green let alone Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes.


however as a Songwriter SMokey towers above so many, but his albums were never that big of a deal.

Quiet Storm the song is classic. his hit songs are timeless no doubt, but his solo albums? not so much like that.

we agree to disagree and that is cool, i'm a big smokey fan, but just never his albums all the way through except the greatest hits ones.

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I SHOULD like the others as much as Bitter.

But everytime I migrate iPhones, I only bring Bitter and leave all the others.

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