In 2022 I decided to pick bands and listen to their studio back catalogue

Submitted by RianSG t3_zy35fm in Music

I had some loose criteria, of no posthumous release albums or soundtrack albums which I didn’t always adhere to. Obviously there was some easy bands that only had one album, but others like Bowie had quite the collection. Roughly around 232 albums in total.

Here’s the list:

  1. The Beatles
  2. Radiohead
  3. David Bowie
  4. The Smiths
  5. Ramones
  6. Madonna
  7. Queen
  8. Foo Fighters
  9. A Tribe Called Quest
  10. Sublime
  11. Rihanna
  12. Beyoncé
  13. Sex Pistols
  14. Justin Timberlake
  15. Metallica
  16. Kanye West
  17. Guns n Roses
  18. Queens of The Stone Age
  19. REM
  20. Smashing Pumpkins
  21. Bon Iver
  22. Taylor Swift
  23. Arctic Monkeys
  24. Carly Rae Jepsen
  25. System of A Down
  26. Kendrick Lamar

Biggest surprise enjoyments for me were Rihanna and Carly Rae Jepsen.

Favourite albums were Rihanna “Good Girl Gone Bad” or David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust”

David Bowie was such an experience to listen to his sound shift throughout the eras.

I was surprised by Justin Timberlake, as I like many of his most famous songs but a lot of the other stuff just didn’t stick with me.

Foo Fighters I’d done before but after the passing of Taylor Hawkins I went back and revisited.

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DenseVoigt t1_j23iqis wrote

Great thing to try!!

For 2023- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. That’ll keep you going for 6 months!

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CMN82 t1_j23t0zo wrote

I went back and re listened to Queens of the Stone Age. Found a new appreciation for albums that I didn’t previously love (Lullabies to Paralyse and Era Vulgaris) that I now can’t stop listening to.

How did REM hold up? Some of their stuff I love, but some I just couldn’t get into. My favourite era of theirs is the late 80’s run of albums from Life’s Rich Pageant up until Green. I re listened to Out of Time lately, and found that it really doesn’t hold up. Just my opinion, but it sounds dated, and there’s some real filler on it - the good songs are excellent on there but there are only 3 or 4 of them and the rest wasn’t very good.

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revjor t1_j24dync wrote

Era Vulgaris is really good.

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CMN82 t1_j24wj78 wrote

Yeah. For some reason it didn’t click with me at the time. I never gave it much of a chance.

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ParanoidEngi t1_j246i7m wrote

Carly Rae Jepsen having a great back catalogue sounds like a meme, but she's genuinely brilliant

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RianSG OP t1_j24lqvz wrote

She’s got a lot of fun pop songs to just bop along too

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katoman1532 t1_j247em0 wrote

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genesis/peter gabriel

elvis costello

neil young

B-52's

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MoochoMaas t1_j24bx5s wrote

Neil's catalogue will keep anyone busy for a while.
Such a prolific old fart !

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Traditional_Bag_5457 t1_j23piwl wrote

Why Kendrick at the bottom

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RianSG OP t1_j23pl1h wrote

Thats in order of when I listened to them

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Utilitarian_Proxy t1_j23ps09 wrote

Definitely a major undertaking with some of those acts!

Could also have been tough to keep going if you'd maybe decided you didn't enjoy some of the material, perhaps if they'd had a patchy career. Some good broad choices.

My recommendations for 2023 would be Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix.

For Hendrix I'd urge you to include listening to the posthumous release First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Although he died in 1970 and this wasn't released till 1997, it's basically a compilation of the material he'd been working on and had intended as his almost complete fourth studio album. The tracks are even presented in the sequence he'd been planning. The delay was mainly down to legal problems with who owned the intellectual property rights.

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OnceIWasYou t1_j245h3n wrote

Would also add Villanova Junction. It's fantastic.

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revjor t1_j24ftys wrote

Also include must include Band of Gypsys for Hendrix

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SparkDBowles t1_j26ggym wrote

I’m a deadhead, but a lot of their albums suck. Live shows is where it’s at.

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MoochoMaas t1_j24bhyl wrote

Bowie the chameleon !

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DMT1984 t1_j24cwmz wrote

I tried to do this with Metallica and I just could not get through Lulu. Did you actually listen to the whole thing?

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6IXMILITIA t1_j24e4mm wrote

Unpopular opinion, st anger is actually a pretty good album though definitely not their best of course

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HugoSimpsonJr t1_j251ydv wrote

I agree with you. Very different sound but I didn't think it was bad.

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revjor t1_j24e9in wrote

Some 2023 Suggestions

Prince

Parliament and Funkadelic

SufJan Stevens

OutKast

and

Led fuckin Zeppelin

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ancastervillagers t1_j24kc8n wrote

Did this with The Cure this past year and now I’m obsessed.

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HugoSimpsonJr t1_j251htg wrote

I have a lot of time at work so I started doing this as well. Currently I'm on Modest Mouse.

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Charlatangle t1_j25t5tc wrote

This is how I've been listening to music most of the time for the last six years, although I haven't had the time for it in 2022.

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sorengray t1_j2842he wrote

Did you do them all in chronological order? That's my favorite way to listen to an artist grow and evolve.

Bowie definitely makes that trip interesting.

I recommend trying it with Thin Lizzy and Led Zeppelin and King Gizzard

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Johnny_Segment t1_j243u3k wrote

No Talking Heads, you suck (but seriously; I love you)

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RianSG OP t1_j24lslm wrote

They were on the list, just didn’t get to them. Maybe 2023

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Lazy-Lawfulness3472 t1_j24859a wrote

Eric Clapton, in all his forms and facts, from the Yardbirds to his solo stuff, to his guest appearances, like Roger Waters ' the Hitchhiker's guide to the Universe, or movie soyndtracks

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mrmike5157 t1_j25ao7o wrote

The Roger Waters album is ‘The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking’, the title you referenced is ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’, one of a series of novels written by Douglas Adams. Just sayin 🤷🏻‍♀️

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rageagainst123 t1_j24axk2 wrote

Some bands if you do this in 2023

Public Enemy Between the Buried and Me Alice In Chains Clutch Type O Negative Billy Joel U2

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