Unspooling the Thread: Best Places to Start with Beefheart, Acid Mothers and Oren Ambarchi

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Calling on collective power of our followers to help us get through the vast discographies! The artists in question this time are Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), Japanese psych-rock vets Acid Mothers Temple and Australian guitarist Oren Ambarchi.
What other artists with large discographies would you like us to tackle next? Feel free to sound off in comments and/or check out Vinyl and Indie Labels discussion.

Follow-up to recent tweet by @VogonLaundromat / @fuzzysunblog

What's the best place to start with Acid Mothers Temple?

— IHeartNoise (@Iheartnoise) May 4, 2019

Participants: Fuzzy Sun / Rockette Morton / Vogon Laundromat / Riot Season Records / Dubpixel / dothecranberry / Andrew Hall / Celebrity Doppleganger and more.

What's the best place to start with Oren Ambarchi and his discography?

— IHeartNoise (@Iheartnoise) April 10, 2019

Participants: Fabrica Records / Enthusiastic Eunuch / Adam Lehrer / Auxiliary Out / Neil Donovan and more.

I've never owned anything by Captain Beefheart, feels like I should have. Can anyone recommend a starting point and/or compilation? I'm not snobby about "best of" albums.

— Random Sense (@tedrogersbrains) May 8, 2019

Participants: Alan Morse Davies / Rolex Tharsus / Jeb Bishop / G0WAT / Justyn W. and more.

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1 year ago

Jandek

— Åustralovęnαtør (@Ed650b) May 9, 2019

@RStevieMoore is the vast-est. What do I win?

— Radiomancy Museum (@radiomancymuse) May 9, 2019

It’s interesting, I’ve got a lot of releases under a lot of names, haven’t ever looked at them as a body of work, more like an example of schizophrenia

— Dubpixel (@dubpixel) May 9, 2019

Ewe shmit/AtomTM and anton newcome/BJM….cough

— hagbard celine (@amoebadesign) May 9, 2019

I don’t think you can leave out The Dead. From Kesey and Owsley’s early recordings to pretty much every gig being taped and even now being released in massive sets. Only the mad and millionaires could ever hope to keep up with them all

— andrew (@AEHall117) May 9, 2019

With Beefheart it’s obvious: TMR is his magnum opus. That being said, I’m a big Ice Cream for Crow fan. AMT is one of those terrific bands who has put out vastly more terrible music than they have good music so they are really hard to choose but I’d say “Electric Heavy Land.”

— adamlehrer (@AdamLehrer) June 28, 2019

10 months ago

Love all Ambarchi albums I've heard so far, my favorite is still Triste on Southern Lord.

— Phirnis 🌸 (@phirnis) December 25, 2019