Good Starter CDs

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For example: which Bjork CD would you recommend for a first-time listener?

[vegasusa555]

I would get her "Greatest Hits" cd first so you can hear her best stuff and get a feel for her music to see if you like it. If you dig her, I would go for "Vespertine" and "Homogenic". Those are my favorite albums of hers.

[biondetta]

Heh. I would have said Debut or Post, so I guess the Greatest Hits CD is perhaps the best idea. That said, I do really love Homogenic, particularly the first half. The song Bachelorette is so achingly beautiful; it gives me chills every time I listen to it. It's tied with two other songs (by Elvis Costello and Age Pryor) as my all-time favorite song in the world that I can listen to on infinite repeat.

[Casino Bride]

biondetta said:

Heh. I would have said Debut or Post, so I guess the Greatest Hits CD is perhaps the best idea.

Same here. That GH is a thing of beauty and it gives you a really good idea.

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Robbie Williams' greatest hits is always a good starting point, followed by "Swing When You're Winning". The guy may be a bit of an egotist but he's pretty flexible in terms of singing styles.

[ahenobarbus]

Isn't the answer to this question always "Greatest Hits"?

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ahenobarbus said:

Isn't the answer to this question always "Greatest Hits"?

Not always. I usually recommend Weezer's second album "Pinkerton" over the Blue Album. Greatest Hits don't always have the best songs, rather the more popular ones.

[ahenobarbus]

Well, all right, if the band doesn't have a Greatest Hits album you can't exactly recommend that.

[glitterbug]

Yeah, I would definitely recommend Debut by Bjork - listening to it right now actually and it's fab. It's the one I started off with, and is probably the least random - her later albums are more instrumental-ish, whereas Debut has some really gorgeous lyrics and catchy beats underneath - it's easy to get sucked into it. Post is also brilliant but some of it can be difficult to "get". She brings the crazy. I adore her. I just found some of her more out-there lyrics hard to get my head round, I found it a bit distracting. The Sugarcubes are good too, a bit more mainstream.

[heyalice]

Elton John has 5,692 Greatest Hits CDs. Can someone recommend one, please? Thanks. And Queen too.