Preferably all his canon releases. In other words, no compilations, re-issues, greatest hit’s, or live albums (EP’s are OKAY). I’m looking to collect his canon releases (as I’ve already done with The Beatles and The Kinks) and wanted to find his "official" album discography. I looked at Wikipedia and Allmusic.com, but they seem to mix in the re-issues and other randomness. It doesn’t matter if you include his U.S. or U.K. releases, as long as they are canon. So far the only one’s I own are "Essence to Essence", "Cosmic Wheels" and "Beat Cafe", but I’m looking to complete the collection.
Holy Gurdy Batman! You are awesome! Thank you soooo much. And by all means, give your recommendations. My favorite songs by him are "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "There is an Ocean" and "Cosmic Wheels". As I said, i only own a couple albums so I couldn’t really say which is my favorite, but of the ones i own, Cosmic Wheels is my fav.
Hi, I’ll do my best….
What’s Been Did And What’s Bin Hid’ 1965
‘Fairytale’ 1965
‘Sunshine Superman’ 1966
‘Mellow Yellow’ 1967
‘Wear Your Love Like Heaven’ 1967
‘For Little Ones’ 1967
‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’ 1968
‘Barabajagal’ 1969
‘Open Road’ 1970
‘HMS Donovan’ 1971
‘Cosmic Wheels’ 1973
‘Essence To Essence’ 1973
‘Tease’ 1974
‘Slow Down World’ 1976
‘Donovan’ 1977
‘Neutronica’ 1980
‘Love Is Only Feeling’ 1981
‘Lady Of The Stars’ 1984
‘Donovan Rising’ 1990
‘Sutras’ 1996
‘Beat Cafe’ 2004
Apologies if I’ve missed any, I might get back with my reccomendations if I get time.
I have a music blog that I haven’t done much with, it is mainly technical stuff like lists of albums by year and ranking bands etc… What do you think I should do next with it? Here it is (earliest post is at the bottom):
http://alloftheabovemusic.tumblr.com/
One idea I’ve been considering is reviewing bands/albums, starting with either The Beatles discography or maybe going in order chronologically of any bands I feel like reviewing. Or maybe I’ll start with obscure prog bands etc. as that is one of my main interests… or perhaps I’ll focus on more modern releases first. Another idea is doing band bios… I’ll start with 20th Century stuff like Jazz and popular music but I might move on to Classical too.
But anyway, tell me what you think, what ideas do you have as for where I should go with this blog, try to be original and think of ideas I haven’t stated but you can recommend what things to review too.
BQ: Favorite album of this year so far?
Jerry in my ranking D and E level still have some good stuff, overall those genres have way more bad than good tho. And of course the list is subjective, I don’t take it all the seriously, it could use some revision too.
That goes for D and level artists too, although a D artist I would call "decent/pretty good" and an E is "ok/average".
Sexy Tuba maybe I will review porn… at least it’ll get more views… -____-
I’d stick with the obscure prog bands idea. Or maybe like ‘Frick’s Picks’ in Rolling Stone magazine, review a few albums you know are fairly obscure and something to maybe expose new listeners too.
BQ: ‘Plastic Beach’ – Gorillaz
A super-evolved alien species has invaded Earth. They discovered our planet after receiving a stray transmission–of The Adventures of Pluto Nash. So, of course, they loathe humanity. They have abducted you (you deserved it, going out by yourself, trying to be a hero) and you are now faced with a series of decisions. They present you with two artists/bands. You can save one’s discography–future generations will be able to hear their music, etc.–but the artist/band you don’t choose? Their discography is destroyed forever. Every album, single, etc. Their music will disappear from our collective memory, as if it was never recorded at all. All right?
Which would you SAVE? –
Beastie Boys or Public Enemy?
The Beatles or David Bowie?
Black Sabbath or the Clash?
Bob Dylan or Miles Davis?
Édith Piaf or Nina Simone?
Green Day or Oasis?
Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd?
New Order or U2?
Pavement or Sonic Youth?
Pixies or the Smashing Pumpkins?
The Rolling Stones or the Who?
The Strokes or Yeah Yeah Yeahs?
dammit im at the bottom! :p
Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan
Nina Simone
OASIS…wow.
Led Zeppelin (hardest decision in my life.)
i love U2, but New Order has my heart.
Sonic Youth!
must you make me suffer? Smashing Pumpkins
easy…The Rolling Stones
ehh i really cannot choose. i love both.
If it is I’m planning on buying it,does it come with all of their studio albums.
It has em all cept Abbey Road and Lt it Be abd the 2nd side of Yellow Submarine and also dosent have The Ballad of John and Yoko or Old Brown Shoe
It was a website about The Beatles discography a few years back. I wonder if anyone knows what happened to it or has any information/connection to it. Anything would be helpful, thanks!!!
it was shut down, because there is whole dispute about who owns the beatle songs and blah blah blah. also ever since mj died its been worse. so the website was shut down by the creator but he didnt have a real reason as to why he shut if down.
If you were stranded indefinitely on a deserted island and you had a magical music player that only played ONE musical artist’s ENTIRE discography, who would you choose and why?
I’d probably pick the Beatles because their music varies from album to album and they have a LOT of songs to keep me occupied…
Michael Jackson!
Looking over the Beatles discography, it looks as if there are many Beatles songs that were released as b-sides on the original 45’s but were never included on their full albums or on greatest hits compilations. Does anyone know of a good CD compilation of Beatles b-sides? Thank you.
Your best bet may be Past Masters Vol. 1 & 2. Those discs contain everything that wasn’t released on studio albums.
http://www.beatles-discography.com/
It’s gone. It was an incredibly useful Beatles site.
Looks like someone didn’t pay the domain-name fee. It’s still probably backed up somewhere, but as of now, it’s going to be closed.
hey, i just downloaded the entire bob marley discography and imported it to iTunes, only to find there were no artist or album info attached to the tracks.
the tracks are sorted by album and track number when they’re in their respective folders in windows explorer, but once imported they only have track info, e.g. 01 – [track name].
now there’s 3gb of tracks and i do not have the time nor patience to individually name each track correctly and add in the respective albums, i know you can shift + click to group a bunch of tracks and type the album name in but that doesnt help.
iTunes cannot update the track names and stuff by itself as it’s not from a CD or the iTunes Store.
this is also applicable to a beatles discography i have which is unordered by track numbers and just doing the album and track names took an hour for that.
anyway TL;DR, what’s the easiest way to get iTunes (or another program) to give me all the info readily attached to each track so all the album, artist and track number stuff is right there??
Happened to me before, I just went through them and listened to them and typed in the name.
you best give me best answer if nobody answers well, I gave you like 10 for no reason lol
I mean, every single song they ever recorded. B-sides, songs that weren’t on albums, demos, everything. I’ve heard the entire discography of The Beatles, The Clash, The Smiths, The Fall, The Jam, Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks. And almost the entire discography of the rest of my favourite bands.
Beatles
Stones
Who
Buffalo Springfield
Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Steely Dan
Temptations
I don’t know. It’s really hard to say because you asked have you "heard" all of it. These are the ones I know I have.