Hey guys! I\'m a new poster to the forums but have been a lurker for a long time.
I\'m working on building my BH collection and my friend recently offered to purchase any 5 BH albums for me (as repayment for some work I\'d done for him.)
Because I am a college student with no income, my current collection is tiny. Right now I own Captain EO\'s Voyage, Electric Tears, Colma, Enter the Chicken, Monster\'s and Robots, Dawn of the Deli Creeps, and the new Untitled "Holiday LE." (oh, and an awesome BH t-shirt - thanks PawnBot!)
My question for you is, aside from what I currently own, what would you chose as the top 5, must-have BH/BH featured albums?
Any of the albums Buckethead did with Travis they\'re all amazing
Inbred Mountain
Crime Slunk Scene
Giant Robot (1994 release)
Cornbugs Celebrity Psychos (Just to try one out)
For me these are all great albums to build your collection off of ;)
Also, welcome. ;D
Can o\' Worms!! :)
Everyone\'s got a different taste for Buckethead stuff...
Here\'s what I recommend:
Giant Robot 1994 (if you can find it - for me its his #1 album)
Elephant Mans Alarm Clock
Inbred Mountain
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
Dragon\'s of Eden
Good luck finding your preferred style!! :)
Elephant Mans Alarm Clock
Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
Peppers Ghost
Crime Slunk Scene
(love these but they are a little different)
Elstew
Island of Lost Minds
Somewhere of the Slaughterhouse
Cobra Strike II - Y, Y + B, X + Y
Imbred Mountain
(Then some of his best work with Travis that you dont own)
Thanotopsis - Thanotopsis
Dragons of Eden
Population Override
Gorgone
Running after Deer
I like:
Decoding the tomb of Bansheebot
Albino Slug
Elephant men\'s alarm clock
Any Praxis album
The big eyeball in the sky
:)
A Real Diamond in the Rough
Decoding The Tomb of Bansheebot
Crime Slunk Scene
Elephant Mans Alarm Clock
Giant Robot
and the Giant Robot NTT Download
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NJVSTWSS
What I recommend:
A Real Diamond in the Rough
The Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
Inbred Mountain
Chicken Noodles
So many others are up there as well that I\'m not listing (Shadows Between the Sky, Pepper\'s Ghost, the three Thanatopsis albums, etc.) but the ones listed are some of my personal favorites. And obviously try and get Population Override if possible, but I doubt you can find that for cheap these days.
I suggest that you get the collabs with travis! Pop. Override, thanatopsis, left hanging, dragons, iconography.. That would be mybest suggestion.. But if you want strictly buckethead.. Then gettt
The elephant mans alarm clock
Giant robot
Peppers ghost
Inbred
Shadows
Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock
Inbred Mountain
Crime Slunk Scene
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
Pepper\'s Ghost
Hey JG. Aloha and welcome, it\'s always nice to meet new post-ers. What are your favorite 2 BH cds that you already own? Do you want cds only offered here at TDRS? You absolutely need Giant Robot(1994) or Bucketheadland. They are a couple of the essential BH cds. I have an extra copy of each
(used) and would happily send you one for free. PM me :-)
Duckhead is the man!!!
Loing time no see Duckhead...I hope all is well in HI! :)
Greetings, I am also a newcomer to the forum but no stranger to the vast library which we all love! My top 5
Giant Robot
Praxis Metatron
Bucketheadland 2
Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
Pepper\'s Ghost
It is nearly impossible to narrow it down to 5 so here\'s 5 more!
Cobra Strike 13th Scroll
Thanatopsis 1st CD
Somewhere over the Slaughterhouse
Colma
Monsters and Robots
AHHAHA! i contributed.
My top five goes a little something like this. Aside from what you have.
1. Crime Slunk Scene or Elephant Mans Alarm Clock
2. Peppers Ghost
3. Population Override
4. Albino Slug
5. Inbred Mountain
But i love everything he does so its not really a top 5. Just start anywhere and you\'ll like it. i do.
Wow! SO many different opinions, it\'s going to be difficult to choose which CDs to add to my collection first! :-/
QuoteHey JG. Aloha and welcome, it\'s always nice to meet new post-ers. What are your favorite 2 BH cds that you already own? Do you want cds only offered here at TDRS? You absolutely need Giant Robot(1994) or Bucketheadland. They are a couple of the essential BH cds. I have an extra copy of each
(used) and would happily send you one for free. PM me :-)
My 2 favorite CDs of my current collection are definitely The Untitled LE & Captain EO. After that comes Electric Tears & Colma. (Crap. . . you guys are right! How can you pick favorites when it\'s all incredible?) I\'m open for any/all CDs where Buckethead is involved! So far, I\'ve purchased my albums off of TDRS but am willing to outsource any that aren\'t available here. Also, thank you for your offer, I\'ll PM you! :)
I am pretty sure I\'d like Left Hanging to be one of my gifted 5 (I\'ve been obsessively playing the previews in the TDRS store.) Population Override & Shadows in the Sky are also sounding amazing (as far as I can tell from Amazon samples/previews.)
Ugh, I guess I better hope I win the Mega Millions jackpot hey? ;)
Welcome to TDRS!
Bermuda Triangle
Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock
The Dragons of Eden
Pepper\'s Ghost
Giant Robot
First of all, Welcome to TDRS!!!!!
Top 5 Albums I reccomend:
1) Inbred Mountain (pure experimental love)
2) Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock (bucket funk)
3) The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (big b going apeshit on his axe)
4) Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (the evil pepper\'s ghost)
5) A Real Diamond in the Rough (emotionally rendering slabs)
5 albums currently available from TDRS that would be a great start:
The Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock
Inbred Mountain
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
Crime Slunk Scene
A Real Diamond in the Rough
Electric Tears - (Miles ahead of #2)
Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock
Population Override
A Real Diamond in the Rough
Enter the Chicken - (A controversial choice, some don\'t like it)
(or Dawn of the Deli Creeps instead of EtC if that\'s allowed)
^^^she already gots Dawn of The Deli Creeps and ETC
I must say I\'m a bit surprised that no one mentioned Bucketheadland 2.
Here\'s my Top 5 (in no particular order)
A Real Diamond in The Rough
Buckeheadland 2
Happy Holidays LE (Untitled)
Giant Robot
Crime Slunk Scene
Favorite Collaboration:
Travis Dickerson - Iconography
My top-5
Praxis - Transmutation (First BH-related album I ever heard. Awesome stuff, especially Animal Behaviour and The Interworld And The New Innocence.)
BH - Giant Robot (1994, Sony Japan; one of his most varied albums, I for one love the variety.)
BH - The Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock (I think this is the most solid album of his \'recent\' releases; some may have more outstanding tracks but this is the most consistent as a whole.)
Guns n\' Roses - Chinese Democracy (I love BH\'s work on this + the whole album\'s pretty awesome. Never was a GnR fan before (or after BH, lol), but this shit is great.)
BH - In Search Of The... (Well, this definitely has variety in it... and lots of it.)
QuoteFirst of all, Welcome to TDRS!!!!!
Top 5 Albums I reccomend:
1) Inbred Mountain (pure experimental love)
2) Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock (bucket funk)
3) The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (big b going apeshit on his axe)
4) Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (the evil pepper\'s ghost)
5) A Real Diamond in the Rough (emotionally rendering slabs)
Agreeeeed!!!!!! That\'s a kick-ass list! It has all of the essential buckethead. If it was 6, I would add giant robot ntt. But as of now, giant robot is a free download. I highly recomend you make an extra purchase or donation to bucket if you download it though...
I might have to add Chicken Noodles to my list.
I got it in the holiday bundle... It\'s incredible. And it\'s signed by Travis! ;D
QuoteHey guys! I\'m a new poster to the forums but have been a lurker for a long time.
I\'m working on building my BH collection and my friend recently offered to purchase any 5 BH albums for me (as repayment for some work I\'d done for him.)
Because I am a college student with no income, my current collection is tiny. Right now I own Captain EO\'s Voyage, Electric Tears, Colma, Enter the Chicken, Monster\'s and Robots, Dawn of the Deli Creeps, and the new Untitled "Holiday LE." (oh, and an awesome BH t-shirt - thanks PawnBot!)
My question for you is, aside from what I currently own, what would you chose as the top 5, must-have BH/BH featured albums?
Elephant Mans Alarm Clock (Lurker at the Threshold alone makes this essential)
Giant Robot (Has start of BH\'s mythology)
Ocatve of the Holy Innocents (Jonas Hellborg) (Great Acoustic shred)
Population Overide
Transmutation: Mutatis/Mutandis (Praxis)
Giant Robot
Praxis - Transmutation
Shin Terai - Unison
Colma
Cobra Strike (1 & 2)
Welcome fellow new member!
My picks are:
1. Pepper\'s Ghost
2. Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot
3. Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock
4. Albino Slug
5. Crime Slunk Scene
Looks like there\'s lots of love in particular for Elephant Man, Giant Robot, Tomb of Bansheebot, Inbred Mt. and Crime Slunk Scene.
All awesome albums, you can\'t really go wrong with any of them.
ok.
so here is what you do.
Type out all the albums onto a word document.
Print document
Cut document into single album slivers
Put all slivers into hat (or bucket)
Extract 5
Presto-chango, done.
Thanks to Duckhead my Buckethead collection just got a little bigger!
(http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab258/JewliaGoulia/giantrobot.jpg)
He graciously gifted me a copy of Giant Robot and some other recording from the In Search Of cd set (also he packaged it all up with an awesome note and some amazing Dr. Seuss stickers.) KICK ASS!
Thank you Duckhead!
Oh, and, PawnBot, that is the shirt you sent me - I live in it!
I can\'t thank you all enough.
I get to pick my first "pay-back" CD from my friend by the end of the month. I still haven\'t decided which to ask for first.
:)
my pleasure JG ;D
all kinds of amazing stuff happens in bucketheadland, happy you\'re enjoying the ride!
let us know what you think of the cd, and what other cds you pick.
aloha - Duck 8)
Warms my heart.
Bots rule.
smooches,
» Phy³
Quoteall kinds of amazing stuff happens in bucketheadland, happy you\'re enjoying the ride!
its happy halloween and happy christmas everyday in bucketheadland!!!!
Hello Bots,
Just touching base. Sorry I\'ve been absent from the forums lately, my Mom actually passed away so things have been crazy round these parts.
Anyways, I\'m due to receive my first repayment CD (of the 5 I\'m owed) and I ended up choosing. . .
Shadows Between the Sky.
(Now I just need to hunt down a copy.)
I still have 4 more CD\'s coming my way. It\'s SO hard to choose!
;)
QuoteHello Bots,
Just touching base. Sorry I\'ve been absent from the forums lately, my Mom actually passed away so things have been crazy round these parts.
Anyways, I\'m due to receive my first repayment CD (of the 5 I\'m owed) and I ended up choosing. . .
Shadows Between the Sky.
(Now I just need to hunt down a copy.)
I still have 4 more CD\'s coming my way. It\'s SO hard to choose!
;)
aww im sorry your mother passed away. btw you should buy all five of them at once, so that means the shipping price will be cheaper.
I know how it is to lose a parent my dad passed about 7-8 years ago, so I\'m deeply sympathetic for what your going through. I\'m sorry for your loss. Hope my shirt is still bringing happiness to your life.
Hey JG - hope you\'re doing well. Long story short is that my grandma passed just days after this past Christmas. She raised me, taught me how to respect myself and others, to be a gentleman and how to dance among other things. I miss her terribly. My deepest sympathies to you and your family. Music has always been there for me to help me through tough times, hopefully it has helped you as well.
Glad to hear you are about to get you BH payment, Shadows may be hard to find right now but it will be back here at TDRS eventually. My suggestion is to hold off on that cd for now and try out Real Diamond in the Rough, Chicken Noodles, Crime Slunk Scene or any of the Thanatopsis albums. Running After Deer is one of my favorite albums and I highly recommend it.
anyway just food for thought - take it easy!
Hey Bots I\'m pretty new to the world of Buckethead myself.
I just became a fan a few months ago and have recieved a few Buckethead albums as gifts from my wife for the holidays. I\'m trying slowly to put togehter a nice Buckethead collection. It was hard at first to even know where to start but i figured things out pretty quickly. I would say that right now this in my top five:
Thanatopsis : Axiology
Thanatopsis : Anatomize
Thanatopsis; Thanatopsis ( I really like Thanatopsis )
Elephant mans alarm Clock
Bermuda Triangle
I have to say though that trying to choose only five is very difficult but Axilogy will always be # 1.I can\'t stress enough how much I love the bucket and Travis Collabs,
recently I found a copy of The Dragons of Eden in a local record shop so I picked it up and that is also amazing, the synth work Travis does on Abstractions of Beasts melts my heart and blows my frigging mind at the same time.
Hii.
I recommend the above....
Decoding the tomb of Bansheebot
Elephant Mans Alarm Clock
Albino Slug
Crime Slunk Scene
Pepper\'s Ghost
Cheers..!
^
resurrect a dead thread! :)
Yay for resurrecting! ;D
It\'s been some time since I\'ve posted on this thread. Gotten a handful of albums since and am (so far) declaring Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot to be my favorite/the best Big B album and Tales of Dim Eden (off of The Dragons of Eden) to be my favorite/the best song.
With that said, I still need to get more albums like
Elephant Mans Alarm Clock, Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, Inbred Mountain, Albino Slug . . . ya, I\'ve got aways to go!
Definitely second the "Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock" nomination if you liked Tomb of BansheeBot, they have a similar vibe.
Also, if you haven\'t already (haven\'t taked the time to skim the whole thread), take advantage of the 10 year $5 Thanatopsis deal -- that album is a steal at that price.
QuoteDefinitely second the "Elephant Man\'s Alarm Clock" nomination if you liked Tomb of BansheeBot, they have a similar vibe.
similar vibe? man thats saying something....I would say EMAC is on an experimental funk metal category on its own, and DTTOB as the more mature, more structured version of PG.
^ I can see why you\'d say that AT. My prior post was more of a recommendation (based on the \'vibe\' I got from her stated preferences) than an assessment in the strictest sense. I should have made that more clear in my initial post.
So. . . astral_traveler mentioned the song "malaguena" on another thread. I hadn\'t heard of it so I looked it up on YouTube where I then found that it was on From the Coop. I hadn\'t heard of that entire CD (I didn\'t start my discography in order.)
Re: From the Coop. . . I might be dead. :o The recording is horrible and it was made over 20 years ago but I am completely in love. Disembodied Part 2 - holy shit!
It\'s a fantastic CD. A little 80\'s Satriani mixed with some Yngwie Malmsteen, Blues Saraceno, and a little Stuart Hamm with a whole lot of Buckethead.
I hope I never cease to be amazed by his talent! ;D
i would recommend:
- decoding the tombs of bansheebot
- albino slug
- peppers ghost
- crime slunk scene
- colma
oh and JewliaGoulia, if hadnt heard of "from the coop" you should check out "accoustic shards", if you havent heard of it.
If I am going to suggest albums for you to get what is you favorite albums of the ones you have, that way I can recommend similar ones, Buckethead\'s music spans a wide range of variety so what I think is good buckethead could be different from what you think is good buckethead,
oh and welcome to the forums ;D
Even though it is not a BH solo album, I think everyone owes it to themselves to check out the Praxis live at Bonnaroo album. Available as a download from Bonnaroo or also as a shortened version as Praxis: Tennessee. Some of BHs best improvisation and live soloing ive ever heard.