Please make me a beginner doom/stoner, etc… workout playlist

[Michedelic]

Wow, a recommendation from the 21st century!

It’s all a continuum; time markings are superficial. Latest isn’t always necessarily the greatest, and if someone from 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago had an original idea but it languished in obscurity, for whatever reason, it’s new to you. Robert Johnson’s “Hellhound On My Trail”, with its downward chromatic riff, is pure doom; he just didn’t have a Marshall stack to play it through.

 

[Deleted member 365158]

Bongzilla

 

[whatizitman]

Clutch keeps coming up as a quintessential stoner rock band. Like I said, I just can’t seem to get them. Another band like that to me was Deftones. I rarely hear about them anymore. But back in the late 90s, at least in CA, they had quite a presence. Where do they fit in all this? I loved their one radio cut, and was of course disappointed to find none of their stuff was like it. However, their stuff did sound to me like a lot of earlier Clutch material. Just kinda curious how the time thread for metal-ish sub-genres has been through the decades since the early 70s. I’m kind of a music history junky. Thanks everyone for humoring me.

 

[Spectrum]

I have been known to listen to this entire album from end to end while running or working out:

 

[whatizitman]

Kyuss, Lowrider, 1000mods, Yawning Man, Nebula, Fu Manchu.

On the more “metal” side, High on Fire, The Sword, Corrosion of Conformity, Pallbearer, Elder, Khemmis, and my 2 personal favorites, Down and Crowbar.

Crowbar is gonna be at our local haunt in a few days. I should probably see them, and finally put my beavis & butthead vision of them to rest. There are several other bands that came about in the late 80s/early 90s I need to give a good listen to, like Corrosion of Conformity. Need to give Melvins more time, too. They never caught me back then. But that was then. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Brich]

Bongripper.

 

[lokikallas]

Alabama thunderpussy is another cool stoner metal band.

 

[Nebula24]

My favs already mentioned (fu Manchu, nebula, lowrider) so I will add:
astroqueen


Sheavy


Red giant


The glasspack


Monster magnet


But I might have forgotten if they were mentioned already.

 

[Spectrum]

Also good for working out:

 

[lokikallas]

Baroness and The Sword are worth checking out

 

[Renegade bass]

Ah yeah Monster Magnet. Negasonic Teenage Warhead is a massive track.

 

[Renegade bass]

Everyone is mentioning Sabbath but would anyone agree Hawkwind are probably as important as a pioneering act?

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Clutch keeps coming up as a quintessential stoner rock band. Like I said, I just can’t seem to get them. Another band like that to me was Deftones. I rarely hear about them anymore. But back in the late 90s, at least in CA, they had quite a presence. Where do they fit in all this? I loved their one radio cut, and was of course disappointed to find none of their stuff was like it. However, their stuff did sound to me like a lot of earlier Clutch material. Just kinda curious how the time thread for metal-ish sub-genres has been through the decades since the early 70s. I’m kind of a music history junky. Thanks everyone for humoring me.

I have 2 coworkers who are big Clutch fans and don't understand why I'm not into them. I just feel nothing when they play. It's not any one thing about them.

 

[smallmouthbass70]

• Monolord
• Windhand
• Acid Mammoth

 

[higain617]

Lunar Womb and The Church Within by The Obsessed. I think Clutch is extremely boring. Population II by Randy Holden is often cited as the first doom album.

 

[whatizitman]

I have 2 coworkers who are big Clutch fans and don't understand why I'm not into them. I just feel nothing when they play. It's not any one thing about them.

Well, the vocals are definitely an issue for me. Just can’t get passed it. But I also can’t get a pulse on their overall vibe. It’s all over the place. Nothing feels consistent. I know some people are drawn to bands with lots of “variety”, I guess. But that’s just not me. I mean, I don’t always get Prince or Beck, if that says anything.

 

[Strung_Low]

Most of my faves have been mentioned already but, check this out:



Oh and, this too

 

[whatizitman]

OK, so far I’m digging Dozer/Greenleaf, All Them Witches, Fu Manchu, Truckfighters… Kyuss is kind of a given.

So, yeah. Definitely more desert than doom. Looking back, I’m kinda bummed I missed the early desert scene. I moved out of SoCAL right at the time it was kicking off, went to college at a conservative religious school, and just wasn’t into anything that wasn’t post punk, classic rock, or some grungy mix of both. The radio actually had so much good stuff in the early 90s, I was too well pre-occupied to notice anything else going on at the time. I mean, was any desert rock/metal showing up at the first Lollapaloozas? It was probably considered too metal at the time. Well, I had roommates that considered Soundgarden fans “hessians”, so that’s kinda the environment I was in at the time.

 

[ardgedee]

Ahh, well then, there’s SunnO))) of course, and my favorite, Boris, with the lovely Wata…



Plus Nebula and Fu Manchu.

Boris is awesome and everything they do is gold, but doom is just a slice of their repertoire. They work with Merzbow frequently, they play hardcore, dabble in shoegaze, and their latest album is ambient.

EDIT: and this is a wild hybrid of stoner rock and Visual Kei:

 

[Topkat13]

Pick up your bass, play it…enjoy life.