[mteorman]

Try Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica. Completely batty album. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs is also pretty strange and interesting to listen to.

 

[tru blu]

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Originally Posted by mteorman /img/forum/go_quote.gif Try Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica. Completely batty album.

$.02 on Beefheart, since this is the 2nd mention of Trout Mask…if I was trying to get someone into him I'd start with one of his last three records:

Bat Chain Puller (Shiny Beast)

Doc at the Radar Station

Ice Cream for Crow


One more band worth checking out:

Orchestra Baobab - rockin' rumba from Senegal

 

[Andrew Jones]

A few I like:

Gomez: Bring It On, Liquid Skin
Barenaked Ladies: Gordon
Bebel Gilberto: Bebel Gilberto
Wire: Chairs Missing
Deep Purple: 24 Carat Purple
Eels: Beautiful Freak
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound (or anything else pre 1977)
Jah Wobble: Take Me To God
Kings of Leon: Only By The Night
Led Zeppelin: BBC Sessions
Nickel Creek: This Side
Paul Weller: 22 Dreams
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure
Santana: Moonflower
The Auteurs; Now I'm a Cowboy / After Murder Park
Yes: Close To The Edge

 

[pow3rtr1p]

Depends on what exactly you mean by eclectic, but...

Animal Collective
City in Colour
Showbread
The Fratellis

That should be varied enough, I hope.

 

[Mario_Fpolis]

Try

Garbage
Ocean Colour Scene
Kodo
Porcupine Tree
Spock´s Beard
Santana
Funk Como Le Gusta
The Rippingtones
Toto
Leonard Cohen

 

[fatcat28037]

Give a listen to the Josh Butler Trio.
Amazon.com: Grand National: John Butler Trio: Music

 

[bigrigdog]

Here are a few of my eclectic faves. Most mainstream rock has been purged from my collection.

D.M. Stith: Heavy Ghost
This is my current fave. D.M. Stith manages to take the flamenco, black gospel, swing jazz, and classical music- then put them into a blender. He's very similar to Grizzly Bear, but with a heavier uptempo experimental edge. You can also Google his website and download a few songs from his Curtain Speech EP. Could almost say that it's a NY swing emulation of Lustmord.

Andrew Bird - any album since 2000
Grizzly Bear - any album
Doves: Kingdom of Rust (these guys should be more popular than Coldplay)
Black Keys: Attack and Release (like Steve Winwood singing real blues backed by Black Sabbath)

 

[saintalfonzo]

Frank Zappa hasn't been mentioned? Hmmm... no fooling?

 

[buddhashenglong]

 

[mattcalf]

Nine Inch Nails.

 

[goosemeister]

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Originally Posted by bigrigdog /img/forum/go_quote.gif Doves: Kingdom of Rust (these guys should be more popular than Coldplay)

just like elbow should be.

elbow - powder blue (from asleep in the back)

 

[wuwhere]

Steely Dan
Traffic

 

[bixby]

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Originally Posted by goosemeister /img/forum/go_quote.gif just like elbow should be. elbow - powder blue (from asleep in the back)

At my house! they get lots of play. Can't remember last time I played a Coldplay album.

now for the more Coldplay than Coldplay angle, give a listen to Keane - Hopes and Fears...very good Brit Pop.

 

[vai-777]

Husker DU - New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig
Bob Mould - Workbook
Sugar - Copper Blue
Faith No More - King For A Day
Catherine Wheel - Ferment
Catherine Wheel - Happy Days
Verve Pipe - Villans
Marvelous 3 -Hey Album
Mother Love Bone - Mother Love Bone
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Pete Townshend - Empty Glass
Prong - Cleansing
Public Image Limited - Happy?
The The - 45 RPM The Singles
American Beauty Soundtrack
Traffic - 20th Century Masters
Wildhearts - Earth vs The Wildhearts
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg - Time is the Enemy
Joe Jackson- Night and Day
Joe Jackson - I'm the Man
Iceberg - Coses Nostres
Buckethead - Colma

SOMETHING TO BLOW YOUR MIND....
Borah Bergman and Evan Parker - The Fire Tale
Borah Bergman and Andrew Cyrille - The Human Factor
Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues

 

[Ingo]

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Originally Posted by buddhashenglong /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Wow, cheesiest album cover in the history of the world. Has to be interesting, however, if it involves Wooten.