Karelfd,
Sweetnighter stuck out as a great Weather Report record for me too. You might really dig the cover of Boogie Woogie Waltz by Ayers Rock (if you can find it).
Zappa- Hot Rats (Can't beleive this at first sounded like random honking noise)
Miles Davis- Jack Johnson
Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
King Crimson-Larks Tongues In Aspic (seemed clinical precise...way heavier than most hard rock from 73')
The Music Improvisation Company (ECM 1970, amazing display of unconventional skill and weirdness... had to move some boundaries to get this one to sink in at all)
Can- Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi/Future Days (Big evolutionary step in psychedelic music)
Hendrix- Are You Experienced (The big bang for rock guitar)
Terje Rypdal- Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away (long slabs of electric bass, somber french horn and mellotron backdrops w/ superb narcotic electric guitar, came out long before new age and is way more real and powerful)
Nirvana- Nevermind (Thought the whole three chord garage band vein had been completely mined out... WRONG!)
Tipographica- Tipographica (If FZ's instrumental work opened the door... these guys found a couple of new rooms, amazing poop).
Massacre- Killing Time (A %$#+!!! warehouse of twisted scary mind frying bass/drum/guitar ideas.
Trettioariga Kriget (first record has cool structures, percussively way ahead of most rock stuff in 73'. Got it 'cause a catalog descibed it as astoundingly complex guitar dominated rock (it is), but it's not wankery or shred. Alot of the passages will stick in the head after a few listens. It pre-dates and dwarfs most metal stuff that fills the racks.
Sweetnighter stuck out as a great Weather Report record for me too. You might really dig the cover of Boogie Woogie Waltz by Ayers Rock (if you can find it).
Zappa- Hot Rats (Can't beleive this at first sounded like random honking noise)
Miles Davis- Jack Johnson
Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
King Crimson-Larks Tongues In Aspic (seemed clinical precise...way heavier than most hard rock from 73')
The Music Improvisation Company (ECM 1970, amazing display of unconventional skill and weirdness... had to move some boundaries to get this one to sink in at all)
Can- Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi/Future Days (Big evolutionary step in psychedelic music)
Hendrix- Are You Experienced (The big bang for rock guitar)
Terje Rypdal- Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away (long slabs of electric bass, somber french horn and mellotron backdrops w/ superb narcotic electric guitar, came out long before new age and is way more real and powerful)
Nirvana- Nevermind (Thought the whole three chord garage band vein had been completely mined out... WRONG!)
Tipographica- Tipographica (If FZ's instrumental work opened the door... these guys found a couple of new rooms, amazing poop).
Massacre- Killing Time (A %$#+!!! warehouse of twisted scary mind frying bass/drum/guitar ideas.
Trettioariga Kriget (first record has cool structures, percussively way ahead of most rock stuff in 73'. Got it 'cause a catalog descibed it as astoundingly complex guitar dominated rock (it is), but it's not wankery or shred. Alot of the passages will stick in the head after a few listens. It pre-dates and dwarfs most metal stuff that fills the racks.