Occurred to me the other day I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a heavy metal album all the way through. Even though the likes of Iron Maiden, Metallica, GnR etc were massive and everywhere when I was a kid. Might not have even made it all the way through any single song tbh.
Pretty sure I’ve never listened an album of anything you’d call heavy rock either - post rock yep but nothing like AC/DC, Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple. Oh I’ve listened to Dark Side of the Moon so maybe that counts or maybe that covers me for prog rock.
Anyway what are the gaping holes in your listening?
Not sure I could ever be bothered to listen to a heavy rock or metal album now tbh.
I struggle to listen to the big artists in anything other than album order. Dunno why, just how my brain works. As a result, I rarely get past anyone’s second or third album.
Lots of stuff considering music is my main passion in life – Similarly I’ve never listened to a Metallica, Iron Maiden or GnR album – of those I reckon I could get into Metallica but not the others. I’ve also never listened to an entire Nirvana album somehow despite being familiar with all the more famous songs. (I think this comes from a bit of teenage snobiness when I was listening to Godspeed and Slint and Tortoise instead of Nirvana, Rage and Slipknot). I’ve no doubt I’d love them, especially after enjoying the recent BBC documentary but it sort of feels like the ship has sailed.
There’s tons of Jazz artists and albums I’ve never listened to even though my love of Jazz has grown tons over the last few years. I think it comes down to the sheer size of some of their catalogues; I’ve maybe listened to 2 albums a piece by Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
I’ve occasionally tried to dive wholesale into an artist by working my way through an album ranking list by stereogum or whoever. I did this for Miles Davis so listened to about 15 of his albums and I guess it gave a good overview of his different styles/periods.
Would love to be better versed in both hip hop (which I’m delving into and loving) and reggae (where the commercial stuff has never really hit me in the right spot but i think dub stuff and whatnot i could definitely get into - was in a pub recently and there was some reggae stuff on and it was tremendous, plus some of the stuff in that episode of small axe about the house party was cracking).
Wire (magazine) is terrible for reminding me of huge gaps in my listening. Their ‘Primers’ expose so much music and so many artists I know nothing about and won’t be able to properly dedicate time to listening to. Can’t listen to it all. Makes me feel good in a way, lots of new potential rabbitholes to go down and music to enjoy.
I did a reggae playlist for work that you might like some of. Some classic roots, quite a bit of dancehall, plus UK contemporary and a big old helping of dub:
edit: so has @hesastopsiiiiign, I see. That’l teach me to read the entire thread before posting (it won’t)