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ac88 · . Joined: 06 Nov 2009 Posts: 112

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. · YOUTH Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 4472

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

kypdurron · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject:

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.
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laterallateral · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:24 pm Post subject:

benecol · Guest

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 · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:48 pm Post subject:

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.
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Bacchus · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:03 am Post subject:

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.
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BobArsecake · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:25 am Post subject:

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 · BLOWN MINDS Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 4640

NMH -aeroplane over the sea

though i dont know every song..

gaybear · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:41 am Post subject:

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.
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cobascis · . Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 3829 Location: Mendocino, CA

Most robert pollard and GBV

Really any blues stuff, too, because that is really easy to sound good when jamming to.
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hotrodperlmutter · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:35 am Post subject:

creed - my own prison
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serfx · Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:36 am Post subject:

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

Johno · . Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 1881 Location: East London

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 · . Joined: 23 Dec 2009 Posts: 329

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

clarkbar · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject:

foo fighters - the colour and the shape
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kim · [='±'=] Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 12084 Location: BE

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.
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