Album Rating: 4.5

tom waits has like 2 good albums and a whole lot of shit lol.

Album Rating: 3.5

lol no... i'd even go as far a saying Tom's discog is way more solid that David's.

Album Rating: 4.5

like half of mule variations is good, rain dogs, and bone machine and some of alice. he has written some seriously awful shit tho. bad as me, blood money, the black rider. almost all of his albums are riddled with annoying shit too. he does have some of my favourite material of any artist ever though. like, if i could compile an album of 20-30 tracks of his it'd be a masterpiece

(I'm not surprised Rabid is a Tom Waits fan)

Album Rating: 5.0

David Sylvian and Scott Walker, to answer the question

Album Rating: 3.5

weird that you feel that way, gyro. Most people i know either love all or almost all of his stuff or can't fuck with it at all.

Album Rating: 4.5

a huge yes to david sylvian. secrets of the beehive, manafon, and brilliant trees are all 5s

Album Rating: 5.0

Nick Cave is up there with Bowie, Sylvian, and Gabriel imo. Could never get into Waits myself.

Album Rating: 5.0

On a huge Walker kick atm and outside those four "wilderness" albums and Til the Band Comes In, his discography [inc. his material from Nite Flights] is remarkable. Any Sylvian fan should find it necessary to listen to Climate of Hunter, although there are better albums from him.

Album Rating: 5.0

I can't get into Walker either. Coincidentally I actually finally tried yesterday after hearing about him for a while, and it was not for me at all haha

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah, outside of the drift (which is a bloody fantastic album) nothing else really grabs me

Album Rating: 4.5

i'll try climate of the hunter. outside of the drift, i've heard bish boch or w.e it's called and tilt, which were both meh

Album Rating: 5.0

I think Drift was the one I tried and it did nothing for me. I didn't hear much of it tho, I'll give him another shot at some point.

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh yeah, definitely Tom Waits and Nick Cave to go along with Frank Zappa. Swans if that counts?

Album Rating: 5.0

The newer albums are a very terrible starting point, you're better off trying 3/4, Climate, or Tilt. The Drift, Bisch Bosch and Soused are all very out there, even by Walker's standards. You can tell Sylvian was influenced by him, because he sings quite similarly to Walker at times, even down to the minor inflections in his voice.



the self-titled albums are all great, but are more deeply rooted in baroque pop, with the first two being cover-heavy as well. 3 and 4 are mostly original material, but are more experimental in turn. If you like Bowie's Brel covers, Scott's are essential. Climate of Hunter is more of a new wave record in the vein of his four songs on Nite Flights (check those out, they're essential -- Bowie covered the title track). Tilt is a weird mix of classical and dark ambient, although it definitely steeps more into the weirdness that'd permeate The Drift and Bisch Bosch, but is a lot more serious than those records. A big part of his newer albums is that Scott doesn't take himself way too seriously, so you'll have a lot of humor inserted into songs that sound ominous.

Album Rating: 4.0

I heard someone mention Zappa and Waits, and both are love

Album Rating: 5.0

Also, this is a different one, but personally, Nico's discog is incredibly consistent. You'd think Lou Reed or John Cale would have the most remarkable solo stuff post-VU, but stuff like Chelsea Girl and The Marble Index absolutely blows most of those albums away.

Album Rating: 4.0

I still need to actually get into VU



I guess I know a half of the debut and half of WL/WH though so it's almost like I've heard 1 entire VU album?

Album Rating: 5.0

Both of those albums are drastically different, although both share a few similarities (mainly Tom Wilson's production and the fact they're relatively lo-fi recordings, especially WL/WH). WL/WH is my favorite, and while Nico isn't on it, it's a lot more noisier and aggressive. John Cale is on the first two, and on the other two VU albums without him, you can very much tell how much he contributed to the band in terms of experimentation and the more abstract ideas the band used were now not as pronounced.

Double post lol dumb