The Comprehensive Music Collection - the F's

[HoyaSaxa03]

Previous Letters

The Fall - "Hex Education Hour", "This Nation's Saving Grace"
Faust - "Faust IV"
The Feelies - "Crazy Rhythms"
Fennesz - "Endless Summer"
The Field - "From Here We Go Sublime"
The Figgs - "Palais"
The Fire Theft - s/t
Fischerspooner - "#1"
Ella Fitzgerald - "The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks" [8-disc Verve box set]; "First Lady of Song" [3-disc Verve box set]
The Flaming Lips - "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart"; "The Soft Bulletin"; "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Fleetwood Mac - s/t, "Rumours"
Flotation Toy Warning - "Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck"
The Foreign Exchange - "Connected"
The Format - "Dog Problems"
Fountains of Wayne - s/t, "Welcome Interstate Managers"
Four Tet - "Rounds"
Sage Francis - "A Healthy Distrust"
Aretha Franklin - "Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings"
Fugazi - "Repeater"; "13 Songs"
The Fugees - "The Score"
Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain"; "One Nation Under A Groove"
The Futureheads - s/t

[Jaguar]

Flavor Crystals
First Communion Afterparty
Fleeting Joys
For Against
Flux Utopia
Flowchart
Füxa
Foxtail Somersault (I provided some musical direction and input for the band.  )
The Flies (Sean Cook's band. Ex-Spiritualized & Lupine Howl)
The Flies (An old Garage band)
Fotheringay
Fairport Convention
Flipper
Falco
The Flaming Stars
The Flaming Sideburns
Felt
The Field Mice
FC Kahuna
The Fauns
The Fakes



Hoya, good call on Faust and Funkadelic!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Foo Fighters - First three LPs
Fujiya & Miyagi - Both LPs
Frou Frou - Details
Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby, Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
The Forty Fives - High Life High Volume

[Mark_Read]

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits (Peter Green era) and Tusk
The Fratellis - Costello Music
Fairground Attraction - First of a Million Kisses
Fun Boy Three - S/T and Waiting
Roddy Frame - Surf
The Fireman - Electric Arguments
Neil Finn/Tim Finn/Finn Bros

[bearman🐻]

The Feelies -- Only Life
Face to Face -- self-titled, Don't Turn Away, Live
Filter -- Short Bus
Fischerspooner -- Odyssey
Front 242 -- Front by Front
Flin-Flon -- A-OK

and because I think I forgot to put this in the B section....

Frank Black -- Teenager of the Year

[thatguy]

flogging molly-entire discography

[Bombay Chutney]

Fear - The Record

and something by The Faces and The Flaming Groovies.

You can never have enough Funkadelic.   

[nkotb]

I'd drop Yoshimi and instead place Priest Driven Ambulance.  Man, that's a killer record.

Previous Letters

The Flaming Lips - "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart"; "The Soft Bulletin"; "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"

[kosmo vinyl]

Fun Boy Three - S/T Debut and Waiting
Fine Young Cannibals - S/T Debut and "The Raw and the Cooked"
The Features - Exhibit A
The Feeling - Twelve Stops From Home
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
The Figgs - Low-fi at Society High
The Flashing Lights - Where The Change Is

and an epic FAIL on hoya's part for failing to mention these

Jason  Falkner - Presents Author Unknown and "Can You Still Feel"

Honorable mentions
The Fireman - Electric Arguments
Flykkiller - Experiments in Violent Light

[kosmo vinyl]

There should also really be a Felt album or two on this list, I'm just not that familiar with the groups catalog to make a suggestion.

[Jaguar]

There should also really be a Felt album or two on this list, I'm just not that familiar with the groups catalog to make a suggestion.

If you look above, you will see that I already listed Felt. Did not list any particular albums for anyone though. Not up for being that particular. Have fun exploring.

[BookerT]

pretty much every felt album is essential. the "absolute classic masterpieces" comps are good places to start, though. "strange idols pattern," "ignite the seven cannons" and "forever breathes the lonely word" after that.

there are at least a dozen fall albums that should be on here. pretty much everything up through "the frenz experiment" in 1988.

the field mice two-disc comp "where'd you learn to kiss that way?" is a twee pop classic. same with the flatmates "love and death." not quite as twee.

nkotb is right about the lips. forget "yoshimi," add "priest" and also "clouds taste metallic" and "hit to death in the future head."

"sin city" by flying burrito brothers should cover you there since it has everything from their first two albums.

and the first three funkadelic albums are absolutely essential.

[sweetcell]

franz ferdinand - s/t and "you could have it so much better"
the foals - "antidotes"
the faint - not sure which album belongs in an "essentials collection", i'd go with "wet from birth" or "faciinatiion" but that's because i know them best.

[Sage 703]

franz ferdinand - s/t and "you could have it so much better"
the foals - "antidotes"
the faint - not sure which album belongs in an "essentials collection", i'd go with "wet from birth" or "faciinatiion" but that's because i know them best.

The Faint - Danse Macabre (definitely would be the one that I pick)
Faithless - No Roots

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I think you guys are totally forgetting about Lefty Frizell and Flatt and Scruggs.