Wow, I don't even know where to begin with suggestions. I'd like to be helpful but it's almost like a vagueness that I can't even begin to think of how to tell you to branch out. Makes me regret deleting my country chart recently. I mean for country there's loads to go from (Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Glen Campbell, Mickey Newbury, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, Charlie Rich, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Ryan Adams, Neko Case, John Prine, Rosanne Cash, Nanci Griffith, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter... to name a few.) and with metal the subgenre branching just makes this plain difficult (Metal Church, Artillery, Onslaught, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray, Fates Warning, Dream Theater, Crimson Glory, Candlemass, Electric Wizard, Kreator, Sodom, Death, Gorguts, Sacramentum, Agalloch, Devin Townsend, Pain of Salvation, Orphaned Land, Nevermore, Queensrÿche, Angra, Helloween, Rhapsody, Sabbat, Kamelot, Firewind, King Diamond, Bathory, Amorphis.... I could go on for a long time about bands let alone albums!)
Goodsir, I'm just gonna echo this (listen to this man) and add a little something else. For country, also hit some Willie Nelson (Red Headed Stranger is fantastic) and even some later-era Byrds (e.g. Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, which Gowie pretty much covered by recommending Gram Parsons). If you want to include bluegrass under the umbrella of country, there's definitely even more to listen to.
As far as ambient goes, I think you know the usuals that people talk about here that aren't on your chart (Music Has The Right To Children and stuff like that). I'd also like to recommend Sun O)))'s "Monoliths & Dimensions", which is a pretty cool mix of metal and ambient/drone music. _________________ Progressive Rock
Just added a few more descriptions to round out my top 20 on my chart, and progress is under way on filling out the last 25 slots on the list. Changes and additions aren't quite ready to go live, yet, I don't think but I'd be surprised to not have a Top 100 by Sunday at the latest.
WARNING: PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS AHEAD. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN FLESHING OUT YOUR "HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE" OF THESE GENRES (YOU CAN READ A BOOK OR ANY ONE OF DOZENS OF IDENTICAL LISTS FOR THAT), BUT INSTEAD IN GIVING YOU A SAMPLER OF THE THINGS THAT PRODUCED THE MOST MILEAGE FOR ME SO THAT YOU CAN DEVELOP A LOVE, NOT JUST A RATIONAL APPRECIATION, OF THE GENRES
Country: Jenks "Tex" Carman, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, The DeZurik Sisters, and Carl T. Sprague are kind of a diverse bunch of recs to pique your interest and my favorites from their specific subgenres (namely, "core" country music, country boogie, country yodeling, and "cowboy" music as defined by RYM anyway).
Metal: Boris (specifically Feedbacker, for drone doom), Gorguts (for technical death), Dead (for death metal, as my personal taste is generally in old demos from the genre; try your mileage with Nirvana 2002, as well), Parabellum or Revenge (for black metal), Absinthe (for metalcore), Poison (not the one you're thinking of; they have a good demo that should give you another view of thrash metal and also happens to be my favorite thrash release).
Ambient: It depends on what you mean here, but if you're willing to break with ambient as a purely electronic concept (or rather as a purely instrumental concept) then Grouper is someone to check out, for sure. If you mean the more exact term of ambient techno, then Gas and Monolake are quite lovely. There are some variations on this kind of ambient music, like Tribal Ambient, where I personally have been loving Muslimgauze as of late, and Dark Ambient, where Deathprod has always been the artist against which I compare all others though Current 93 probably covers more ground and has his own great works.
After a fair amount of thought and time (mostly due to procrastination) I've finally finished my 60s chart.
Another 60s list that disregards soul music? Seriously, the 60s were one of the strongest (if not THE strongest) eras for soul music to see it not be represented again displeases me. 🙁
Made up my 1960s chart today. Keeping it to 25, and just like my 2010s one, not part of my "recent listen required" project for my Overall chart - just a source of some good albums you might not have heard of ranked in relation to the canon releases I like. It's pretty jazz heavy, which I'm happy with, but Gowie will be upset about my lack of soul releases (most of my exposure to the genre comes through singles, so it's not compatible with BEA's philosophy).
Also, since I realized today that the Wackies pick on my Overall was a bootleg and happened to give a re-listen to the fantastic Song Cycle that really blew me away, Wackies are dropped and Song Cycle is coming in fresh to the chart at #12.
I've decided to go back and reevaluate all my year then decade charts. So today I did a quick touch up of my absolutely minuscule 50s charts then i moved on to what turned into a VERY LONG project which was the 60s year charts then a total change up in the 60s Decade chart. It was a lot fucking tougher than I thought it would be. Damn.
Anyway, check it out.
Made up my 1960s chart today. Keeping it to 25, and just like my 2010s one, not part of my "recent listen required" project for my Overall chart - just a source of some good albums you might not have heard of ranked in relation to the canon releases I like. It's pretty jazz heavy, which I'm happy with, but Gowie will be upset about my lack of soul releases (most of my exposure to the genre comes through singles, so it's not compatible with BEA's philosophy).
Also, since I realized today that the Wackies pick on my Overall was a bootleg and happened to give a re-listen to the fantastic Song Cycle that really blew me away, Wackies are dropped and Song Cycle is coming in fresh to the chart at #12.
You'll have to fix that lack of soul then, plenty of LPs to grasp. 😜
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