“Where should I get started with X’? - wrong answers only

Actually not sure about this. It does get noisy in the end and a lot of stuff post-The Downward Spiral was less noisy than it and what came before it.

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The Beach Boys - Kokomo

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:smiley: i mean it has its charms but yes.

David Bowie - Laughing Gnome

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I tell you handing someone 1.Outside would be quite the choice as a first Bowie album.

(Although I guess there are other contenders out there, e.g. Tin Machine)

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Killing Joke - Brighter Than A Thousand Suns

although it was where I started so :man_shrugging:

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Although it’s ironic that the preceding 14 tracks of Past Masters Vol 2 would be the perfect intro to The Beatles.

I know very little Bowie tbh but the Gnome song just leapt into my head

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Pumpkins – We Only Come Out At Night

Elton John - Ghetto Gospel, Jamaica Jerk Off, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (feat. Blue)

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Butthole Surfers - Weird Revolution

or Electriclarryland before it, both passable albums but neither bear any resemblance to any of the rest of the Buttholes’ output

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yeah you can have that one too :smiley:

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Legacy band - Their new album

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Beach boys - summer of love

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R.E.M - Around the Sun.

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Is that one good, then?

:wink:

*ducks*

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Lou Reed ‘Metal Machine Music’
Neil Young ‘Trans’

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I know someone who saw them on that 2006 NME tour, and thought they were so bad, to this day they’ve refused to listen to them ever again :sweat_smile: :thinking:

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The Clash - Cut the Crap

i know you said three but hope its okay if i name a couple more

“Air” David Byrne Fear of Music 1979 [24]
And She Was” † David Byrne Little Creatures 1985 [25]
“Animals” David Byrne Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“Artists Only” David Byrne
Wayne Zieve More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“The Big Country” David Byrne More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“Big Daddy” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
“Bill” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
Blind” † Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
“The Book I Read” David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light 1980 [29]
Burning Down the House” † Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
Cities” † David Byrne Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“City of Dreams” David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
“A Clean Break” (live) David Byrne The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads 1982 [32]
“Cool Water” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
“Creatures of Love” David Byrne Little Creatures 1985 [25]
Crosseyed and Painless” † Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light 1980 [29]
“Dancing for Money”[a] David Byrne Fear of Music (CD reissue) 2006 [22]
“The Democratic Circus” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
“Don’t Worry About the Government” David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
“Double Groove”[a] Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light (CD reissue) 2006 [23]
“Dream Operator” David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
“Drugs” David Byrne
Brian Eno Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“Electric Guitar” David Byrne Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“The Facts of Life” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
Fela’s Riff”[a] Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light (CD reissue) 2006 [23]
“First Week/Last Week… Carefree” David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
“Found a Job” David Byrne More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“Gangster of Love” Talking Heads Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1992 [33]
Girlfriend Is Better” † Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
“The Girls Want to Be with the Girls” David Byrne More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“Give Me Back My Name” Talking Heads Little Creatures 1985 [25]
“The Good Thing” David Byrne More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“The Great Curve” Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light 1980 [29]
“Happy Day” David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
Heaven David Byrne
Jerry Harrison Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“Hey Now” David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
Houses in Motion” † Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light 1980 [29]
“I Feel It in My Heart” David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 (reissue) 2005 [21]
“I Get Wild/Wild Gravity” Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
“I Want to Live” (demo) David Byrne Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1992 [33]
“I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That”[b] David Byrne Non-album single
B-side to “Psycho Killer 1977 [34]
I Zimbra” † David Byrne
Brian Eno
Hugo Ball Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“I’m Not in Love” David Byrne More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“In Asking Land” Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime (box set) 2003 [35]
“The Lady Don’t Mind” Talking Heads Little Creatures 1985 [25]
Life During Wartime” † Talking Heads Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“Lifetime Piling Up” Talking Heads Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1992 [33]
“Listening Wind” Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light 1980 [29]
“Love for Sale” David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
Love → Building on Fire[b][c] David Byrne Non-album single 1977 [3]
“Making Flippy Floppy” Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
“Memories Can’t Wait” David Byrne
Jerry Harrison Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“Mind” David Byrne Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“Mommy Daddy You and I” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
“Moon Rocks” Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
“Mr. Jones” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
“New Feeling”[d] David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
“No Compassion” David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
(Nothing But) Flowers” † Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
Once in a Lifetime” † Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light 1980 [29]
“The Overload” Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light 1980 [29]
“Papa Legba” David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
“Paper” David Byrne Fear of Music 1979 [24]
“People Like Us” David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
“Perfect World” David Byrne
Chris Frantz Little Creatures 1985 [25]
“Popsicle” Talking Heads Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1992 [33]
Psycho Killer” † David Byrne
Chris Frantz
Tina Weymouth Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
“Pull Up the Roots” Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
“Pulled Up” † David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
“Puzzlin’ Evidence” David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
“Radio Head” David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
“Right Start”[a] Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light (CD reissue) 2006 [23]
Road to Nowhere” † David Byrne Little Creatures 1985 [25]
“Ruby Dear” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
Sax and Violins” † Talking Heads [Until the End of the World:
Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack](Until the End of the World (soundtrack) - Wikipedia) 1991 [18]
“Seen and Not Seen” Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light 1980 [29]
“Slippery People” Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
“Stay Hungry” David Byrne
Chris Frantz More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“Stay Up Late” David Byrne Little Creatures 1985 [25]
“Sugar on My Tongue” (demo) David Byrne Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites 1992 [33]
“Swamp” Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
Take Me to the River” †
(Al Green cover) Al Green
Mabon “Teenie” Hodges More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“Television Man” David Byrne Little Creatures 1985 [25]
“Tentative Decisions” David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
“Thank You for Sending Me an Angel” David Byrne More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” † Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues 1983 [30]
“Totally Nude” Talking Heads Naked 1988 [27]
“Two Note Swivel”[a] Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues (CD reissue) 2006 [36]
“Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town” † David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
“Unison”[a] Talking Heads
Brian Eno Remain in Light (CD reissue) 2006 [23]
“Walk It Down” David Byrne Little Creatures 1985 [25]
“Warning Sign” David Byrne
Chris Frantz More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
“What a Day That Was” (live) David Byrne Stop Making Sense 1984 [37]
“Who Is It?” David Byrne Talking Heads: 77 1977 [28]
Wild Wild Life” † David Byrne True Stories 1986 [31]
“With Our Love” David Byrne More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978 [26]
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