Bob Mould comes to mind with his various bands and solo work. If i'm not mistaken he was behind the Cheryl Crow sound, thats what I heard on the radio long long ago anyway.
Desert island catalogues
I've been playing over the past few days some old favorite U2 albums -- "Achtung Baby" and "The Joshua Tree" -- and then moved on to some not so old and not so favorite U2 discs -- "Pop" and "Zooropa." -- and found myself quite enjoying the lesser-known and lesser-liked discs. (OK, so I'm a U2 fan.) And this got me to thinking: Who are the rock 'n' roll artists whose whole catalogues I'd want to hear over and over and over again. The quick answers were easy: The Beatles. Led Zeppelin. U2. But then when I began to think of Dylan and Joni -- two artists I love almost unreservedly -- I started to think of songs and records of theirs that I wouldn't want to hear ever again. Cutting out these discs or ending at this date ... But that's not the game I was playing in my own head. So, I started looking around in my own collection and found two (sort of) surprises: I'd bring any Suzanne Vega disc to any desert island and be happy hearing any of 'em any time. And did I mention Van Morrison? God, he's been smoking since I was a little kid. There are bands and artists with great records -- the Rolling Stones, XTC, The Clash -- but whose entire body of work is lacking. Any bands or individual artists whose whole catalogues you never tire of hearing? Any band whose worst work is still pretty darn good, better even than most of the rest?
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