favorite albums to play along to

ac88 · Post by **ac88** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:45 pm

favorite albums/bands to play along, I never blast them over a P.A. or anything, I play along with headphones on.. Usually the best ones are albums strictly in a tight standard tuning so I can blend in and just be another guitar track..

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Grandaddy - Sumday
Stereolab- Mars Audiac Quintet/Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Weezer- Blue
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Dinosaur Jr. - Yr Living all over me
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Any more good ones?

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:57 pm

The holy bible by Manic street preachers is my favourite to jam along with. Nothing else really =/

kypdurron · Post by **kypdurron** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:07 pm

hm ...

David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust (rise and blabla)
Johnny Cash: Live at St. Quentin
Nick Cave: Murder Ballads
Hank Williams Sr: Whatever, everything
The Who: Live at Leeds

But in times of youtube, I don't store everything that I want to play to. So mostly it's just "I want to play that song" and find it on youtube.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:24 pm

kypdurron wrote: Nick Cave: Murder Ballads

WIN

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:24 pm

This is a really good topic. I like:

Orange by The John Spencer Blues Explosion
The Stooges by The Stooges
Millions Now Living Will Never Die by Tortoise.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:48 pm

Recently it's been:

Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
The Warlocks - Rise and Fall
Chinese Stars - A Rare Sensation
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

And that's basically because that's what I want the band I'm in to sound like.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:03 am

Ozzy: Blizzard of Ozz

The guitar was always about where my level of technique is, and Ozzy's range in those days matches mine more or less exactly.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:25 am

Songs for the Deaf, Revolver, and I want to say a Smiths one but their stuff is too hard to play a full album through D:

DICHOTOMY · Post by **DICHOTOMY** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:30 am

NMH -aeroplane over the sea

though i dont know every song..

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:41 am

Metallica-Kill Em All through Justice
Willie Nelson-Always on my mind
most beatles shit.

i like to play my trumpet to all sortsa Dixieland Jazz albums.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:54 am

Most robert pollard and GBV

Really any blues stuff, too, because that is really easy to sound good when jamming to.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:35 am

creed - my own prison

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:53 am

gaybear wrote:Metallica-Kill Em All

This, i can't tell you how many times i've done that. In fact, i'll head off for that right now

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:14 am

Haze wrote:
gaybear wrote:Metallica-Kill Em All
This, i can't tell you how many times i've done that. In fact, i'll head off for that right now

it's the best cause it's both metal and rock n roll.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:39 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote:creed - my own prison

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:36 am

Propagandhi - how to clean everything
Slayer - Undisputed Attitude
Black Flag - Damaged
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
NoFx - Punk in Drublic
Chixdiggit - Chixdiggit
Zeke - Death Alley

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:17 am

Don't really play along to records anymore. Used to when I frist started learning, some of my faves for learing bass were Janes Addiction / Ride / Fugazi records as the bass is quite prominent & easy to hear in the mix.

For guitar I think I learnt to play all of PJ Harveys Dry when it first came out on an old classical guitar, i was still a bassist then so didn't own an electric. Sonic Youths Goo was a good one too.

toez10 · Post by **toez10** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:37 pm

meet the beatles - the beatles
the fabulous ronettes featuring veronica - the ronettes
doolittle - the pixies

clarkbar · Post by **clarkbar** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:02 pm

foo fighters - the colour and the shape

kim · Post by **kim** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:34 pm

velvet underground, joy division, black horse (mongolian band, with alt tuning on an acoustic you can come up with cool stuff to improvise), bratmobile/frumpies, nirvana, guitar wolf, gories, coachwhips.

all random albums with random songs of theirs that i like, no specific full albums.

on bass i used to teach myself tool, violent femmes, sleeping people, shellac and also this tori amos live album because the bass player on it is really good.