Got a 3 hour commute roundtrip for my new job and I need some of you Dramanauts to recc some music to me. I don't want to put on the same 2-hour album every which way and I'll easily get bored of listening to Miles Davis' 70's music about three hours a day. I'm looking for more longer albums but short albums are fine to recc.
I could and have used RYM before but a lot of those ilk are either 1) pseuds, 2) r-slurred (socially or mentally), or 3) Twitter users. Most of the stuff there is good but they're about as radlib/milquetoast as you get.
Here's some recs, other than the jazz ones I've given before
Guitar Blues, Folk, and Country
Leo Kottke - Dreams and All That Stuff
Junior Kimbrough - Most Things Haven't Worked Out
Muddy Waters - Electric Mud (Pete Cosey, Miles' best 70's guitarist behind John Mclaughlin, is on this)
Michael Hurley, The Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Fredricks & The Clamtones - Have Moicy!
Pop
Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me
Funk and Soul
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Isley Brothers - The Heat Is On
Parliament - Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
Kool & The Gang - Wild and Peaceful
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Les Nubians - Princesses Nubiennes
Gil-Scott Heron & Brian Jackson - Bridges
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Body Meta
Classical and Microtonal
Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet, & Pat Metheny - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
Scelsi - Quattro pezzi per Orchestra, Anahit, Uaxuctum
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
Harry Partch - The World of Harry Partch
Post Rock and Experimental
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music
Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
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Given your likes I think Krautrock and progressive electronic would be up your alley. And I'm sure you've heard some/plenty already, but if not: pre-'80s Kraftwerk, Amon Duul II, Ash Ra Tempel, Heldon, Klaus Schulze, Gong, Faust, Harmonia, and so on. I've listened to many things and I'm not sure it gets any better. Too tired and drunk to do links though.
edit: Ooh wait, just thought of a killer for someone who likes '70s Miles, Soft Machine 3
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