The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

What's in it?

I'm thinking this is a slightly different topic to "Can we talk about early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock?" (in some ways narrower and in some ways more expansive) although honesty compels me to admit that I was inspired to start this thread by picking up the Pacific Ocean Blue/Bambu remaster today.

Anything that suggests a desultory beach party is supa-desirable.

"Sandinista" The Clash.

Jimmy Buffett? I admit I've never heard the guy - I don't think anyone in the UK has!

That Manu Chao record - Clandestino or whatever it's called?

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/america.png

so America - S/T

I don't know if I totally understand the genre description but I could totally hear 'Uncle John's Band' at such a thing. So Workingman's Dead then maybe.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/So_far.jpg

^^^^ this cover says beardo beach hippie album to me. Not so balearic though perhaps.

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/7151/b00000251ivw2.jpg

are we on Yacht Rock again?

yeah, this is more than 70s soft rock

what about

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416W2ETG6TL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

or this

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2454512231_8f04a21c77.jpg?v=0

Vangelis, yes

http://www.comebackrecords.com/Vangelis_Dragon.jpg

especially "stuffed aubergine"

that's not a dragon, that's mighty cthulhu!

you guys change what the word balearic means every day

audioslave = heavy balearic

I think half the early suggestions on this thread have got the wrong idea

im not really sure what the idea is tbh, i wish tim had provided an example of what he meant besides p.o.b.

but i will suggest: http://www.dougpayne.com/hmiana.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2179/1565797393_e225068ceb.jpg?v=0

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ggFaXWbCL._SS400_.jpg

http://www.jeffbots.com/AlanParsonsProject-IRobot.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eDRS7vsyL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Sarah/ificouldonly.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EVZ1683PL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

jaxon, where to start with these? (apart from avalon, which I have solved)

get transfer station Blue it is dope as a rope

they're all equally amazing and solid albums, just depends on what you're looking for.

jan hammer - super funky fusion w/amazing songs
vangelis - weirdo art rock w/great songs and eastern sounds
alpert - funky jazz, spaced out synth arpeggios and great beachy melodies
parsons - funky pink floyd
shrieve - blissed out synth noodles w/moments of heavy light-jazz funk
crosby - stoned out of your gourd folky mantras
flash and the pan - funky 10cc

thanks for the pointers. funky 10cc sounds like good times.

I am down with vangelis (suggested him myself upthread)

the ambient eno box

alpert and crosby are good suggestions but jax ur list seems more like a general balearic canon and not necc "beardo beach hippie"

desultory beardo beach hippie

beck's sea change and modern guilt

so what makes something beardo beach hippy? is this like suggestions for balearock?

i sort of think tim just threw "balearic" into the title of the thread so that more people would read it and post to it

jeez not everything is balearic, guys

Tim, stuff from actual 70s? Or modern?

If the latter is allowed, o where to start.

The Beta Band and all their friends, for starters.

can we just put on cosmo galactic prism and dance around the campfire?

balearic is a state of mind man

jaxons mom is pretty balearic

smooth, easy, and perfect for getting down with after a night out

your mom's a beardo

I know my thread title is confusing, but it was sort of deliberate: the idea is that there definitely seems to be a loose canon emerging which stretches from David Crosby (but perhaps not CS&N per se) through to say Arthur Russell. If "beardo disco" and "nu-balearic" are slightly distinct but overlapping revivalist scenes then this is the stuff that members from both stuff think is good stuff, dude. Albums that I would get laughed off djhistory.com for not having heard.

It's distinct from soft-rock or "California rock" or any other actual historical scene partly because it's broader than that, but also insofar as this needs to be stuff that either has been or very soon will be recontextualised by people currently or formerly into dance music. But it doesn't need to dance-like itself. Am i making more sense?

jaxon seems to get it.

BTW jaxon is that the Alan Parsons Project album I should check out?

I'm thinking this canon might even include stuff like this as an outlier:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/355/thumbnailhp5.jpg

oh ok tim u should have just called it "maxs favorite albums thread" then

http://onlinestorefakrounmusic.com/images/45singllayahob.jpg

um, the new Hatchback album, Colors Of The Sun. Any track by Studio? Maybe those are too obvious but I think they definitely fit

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-436199-1118592662.jpg

andreas vollenweider maybe?

bordering on Harley and not beachy, but first three James Gang records.

Also, for similar reasons, first two Sugarloaf records.

chris rea is the king of the desultory beach party

the "crazy" angle: Osmonds' Crazy Horses and parts of The Plan

whenever i think of fool if you think it's over i think of miracles by jefferson starship and that makes me think of i'm not in love by 10cc. EVERY TIME.

A good chunk of The Free Design and Harpers Bizarre (it would have to be a bit of a twee beach)

"on the beach" has my favorite chris rea drum machine sound:

Lighthouse!

"all summer long" is great too:

"jax ur list seems more like a general balearic canon and not necc "beardo beach hippie""

max's point here is sound though: i sort of want the "beardo beach hippie" end of this continuum filled in more as I only know a little bit of this stuff, mostly at the more conservative end if/where my mother was a fan. But feel free to post anything along the continuum.

Stuff that would previously be considered as "rock" but now is considered genre-smashing avant genius (whether this seems fair or not) strikes me as interesting precisely for that reason, the way new ears "hear" something more than perhaps is even really there. The overreaching claims made on behalf of Pacific Ocean Blue are a good example (a great album despite not sounding like Remain In Light etc.). On the Dennis Wilson thread people were suggesting the following as canonical picks:

http://bp3.blogger.com/_aNTsUIQhmf0/SB8oGu7EW-I/AAAAAAAAATU/t-TxiAHZxwA/s320/Chris+Bell+-+I+Am+The+Cosmos+-+1992.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_BR-l63C-2iA/SAjBAsW2xQI/AAAAAAAAB7k/3UUYcibPvZU/s320/Gene+Clark+No+Other.jpg

http://bp1.blogger.com/_2U1VTXrO58c/RyGUgfK5L-I/AAAAAAAAAAM/OUgUCRhtwl8/s320/skip+spence+oar.jpg

http://www.valarock.com/starsailor.jpg

chris rea must be a huge jj cale fan. that's all i know. which is wonderful. cuz i love jj. who needs david sylvian when you can just listen to chris rea and jj cale? no fretless bass to distract either!

"i sort of want the "beardo beach hippie" end of this continuum filled in more as I only know a little bit of this stuff,"

well then seriously you should check that west coast thread again. there are only 4 million recommendations on there.

no other is the greatest album ever made. this year. for me. and maybe next year too.

"no other" is great but has more of a c/w vibe than "beach" vibe i think

david crosby is totally this tho! isnt there even a beach on the cover of "if i could only remember my name"?

My contribution: a band called Sea Level, also known as most of the Allman Brothers rhythm section.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/501033035f70b261/

Also Mcguinn, Clark and Hillman.

"looking for the summer" is the best chris rea summertime video though:

"no other" is great but has more of a c/w vibe than "beach" vibe i think"

really more of an undead hollywood goth pimp vibe if you ask me.

"david crosby is totally this tho! isnt there even a beach on the cover of "if i could only remember my name"?"

Yes! See upthread.

Scott the purpose of this thread is so that people like you and max can tell me that No Other, while amazing, doesn't fit into this canon. I haven't heard it so I don't know!

I want to check out everything on the west coast thread. give me a million years and a million dollars plz.

skot wolf king of la sounds more like that than no other does! i think.

So is it Ok for some vaguely rhythmic New Age to get thrown with all the Alan Parsons and Eno?

If so Kitaro, his first two albums mostly.

What is the best Santana album BTW?

i need more shadowfax albums.

oh jeez, where to start. santana have so many amazing albums. and so many different periods and sounds...

i spent a lot of time this spring with the first disc of this, but there is also a lot of crap in that box.

http://peelout.typepad.com/peel_out/images/wolf_king.jpg

^^ if this doesnt say undead hollywood goth pimp to you i dont know what does

buy LOTUS, i dare you. so amazing...

http://i.inlive.co.kr/alb/m00/d26/l0026439.gif

i like that john phillips record. i haven't heard it in years. i like almost everthing he ever did though. um, with group and on his own.

sorry, my last post was a confusing xpost re crosby.

u know what tim? im listening to no other right now with beach in mind and i think it might fit. title track in particular.

speaking of shadowfax, i always really dug tri atma too:

(first tri atma album is awesome, and sadly i no longer own a copy)

title track of no other fits everything that i am on earth. getting strength of strings tattoo one of these days.

Re No Other, I still plan to get it either way max.

I also liked the idea Jeff W proposed early on in the West Coast thread of a studio session musician artistry album canon (though he didn't put it quite like that) - something quite separate both to Gene Clark and balearic beardo beach hippies.

http://www.chaineux.de/kitaro/disco/clip/sm_astral_voyage_geffen_24082_cover.jpg
http://lh5.ggpht.com/MyJazzWorld/RoZecNHWxcI/AAAAAAAAAGU/KvTfovYGy-M/s288/SeaLevel_OnTheEdge.

Just to recap.

this is kind of hard cause some of this stuff--gene clark & john phillips say--doesnt necessarily scream "beach" (tho they do scream "70s LA" to me), but would totally fit in a mix sandwiched with 'beach party'-er songs. if that makes sense. so like "no other" doesn't necc work as part of this "canon" 'cause as an album its a little too c/w, i think, but individual songs given a chance would fit well

sorry i have to correct myself, "no other" isnt really all that country, im just using that as shorthand for like... "i was in the byrds and hung out with a bunch of LA cats in the 70s"

the new reissue of john phillip's "lost" jagger/richards record, pussycat, totally fits the wasted beach vibe, it's sleazier than wolfking

Obligatory shout out for On The Beach here.

max feel free to err on the side of inclusiveness when making these suggestions, but qualifiers like the above are interesting too.

In a more pop sense, I absolutely adored David Cassidy's "Romance (Love Mix)" (as used, go figure, on a Ronny & Renzo djhistory.com mix) - would love more stuff like that.

Not sure if this works with all the 70s beach pop, but its got a Roxy connection so maybe

http://www.disco-robertwyatt.com/images/reprises/images/Primitive_Guitars_big.jpg

Phil Manzanera - Primitive Guitars

Even though it has been over talked a bit on this thread, the theme of recontextualization played with my head when I first listened to No Other this morning front to back and the first track is extremely country to me. But then the rest of the album departs into coked out bluesey folk country madness. I mean i think all the music on this thread is the type that crosses typical genres such that the expectations to begin with dictate how the rest of the record can be perceived.

No Other was recommended to me by jax when I asked for more coked out 70s LA rock like Pacific Ocean Blue, all Fleetwood Mac, early Dan and such...

Fixed

I mean i think all the music on this thread is the type that crosses typical genre boundaries such that one's expectations upon listening dictate how the rest of the record is perceived.

Not that that is a revelation but the country aspects of No Other really blew my mind in this way. For instance, the slide guitar and the cracks in Clark's voice, typical country elements with a completely different context.

you know i feel like i have a long and complicated "personal essay" or something to write someday about all this music (by which i mean trad-balearic and nu-balearic and 'cosmic american music' and what have you--everything on this thread & the balearic thread and the 70s thread) and my relationship to it and its relationship to LA and my relationship to LA as filtered through this stuff. its weird--maybe not actually--but i dont think i really actually started to love and enjoy los angeles as a city and on its own terms until i started dipping into all of this, the sunny-tropical-cheerful music. i went from listening to a lot of east coast mobb deep/dj premiere/rza ice-cold winter-night rap to all these warmer records and i found that I started to love LA even more.

which is all sort of a preamble anyway to the half-formed idea i have about the way all this stuff relates and the way it relates to LA and to the beach and most importantly how LA itself relates itself to the beach and to its beaches and to a certain extent to the beautiful near-wilderness around it. and its so half-formed i dont really know how to articulate it--i sort of want to draw a diagram--but part of me thinks that what makes crosby and phillips and f'wood mac "fit" fairly easily under the umbrella of "balearica" and acts like the band and the dead (and feel free to disagree with me, anyone) fit far less easily under that same umbrella is some kind of interestingly-felt relationship with the beach or the idea of "beach" that LA has and SF doesnt.

i guess my theory is kind of shot down now because there are way more balearic-y guys coming out of the bay area than LA right now, but i think what i am sort of trying to say (and i guess i should mention that this is as much about the mental filters w/ which i listen to this music as anything) is that theres something very specific about los angeles that makes these acts work. like they occupy some LA-only space between what gram parsons called "cosmic american music" (which i guess i take to mean all these pseudo-revivalist 'americana' acts from the 70s incl. the band, the byrds, the dead, etc) and what ill just call "balearica" (by using which i mean to imply that im casting a slightly larger net than just "balearic") that isnt exactly a "beach-y" country & western pastiche (thats kenny chesney, right) but some kind of weird los angeleno thing.

and ill admit first that i am into this theory because it has a neat geographical symmetry, i.e., LA is "west" in a lot of ways--desert, hot, etc--but its right there on the beach, too.

looking at my post i see im casting an imagined dichotomy between 'americana' and 'balearica' and ignoring the sort of essential "hippy beardo" aspect

and you dont have time to post to my blog...

beaches in nor cal are way more desultory and beardo hippie than so cal

tbh im not really sure what a desultory beach party is, partly cause i dont really know what desultory means

"lack a plan, purpose or enthusiasm" sounds fun & balearic until the fourth word

Hey, Japanese beaches have hippies too. At least they did in the early 80s.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/501054475f84fc55/

Kitaro - Dawn of the Astral

maybe i should be clearer--this is sort of a pet theory that has as much to do with my own relationship to the music & to a place that ive lived as it does with any objective reality about this music or where it comes from in a geographical and/or spiritual sense, i dont actually think that ppl from the bay cant make good cosmic american balearica or that japanese people arent beardo beach hippies, i just think there are interesting things abt LA geographically & maybe culturally too that allow it to produce a high volume of music that fits well in this sub-sub-genre

i think desultory basically equals "moody cosmic" in this case, but maybe tim could clarify

dude max, i have to disagree with you there. how much of the stuff mentioned in this thread comes from LA? the 70s rock scene may be the major contributor, but honestly i think what makes it so amazing is to take a typical example, Studio, come from a completely different geographical and climate perspective. it seems to me more escapist, the tropical element. and while it works perfectly and could be very well meant for enjoyment in desert beach oases, i dunno if LA is the epicenter of creation you are making it out to be.

i did fall in love with this music in LA though, and I understand your connection. i went down last weekend and i miss the sunshine and the blue skies.

"lack a plan, purpose or enthusiasm"

I don't know, I reckon "lack of enthusiasm" kinda fits, maybe if you read it more as "lack of energy/drive". Sometimes this sort of music holds itself at arms lengths from "fun" and physical release, and also feels wistful and and sad about that. Like when you're at a party and you've drunk too much or you've had a bad pill and you think "I really want to dance right now, I love the idea of dancing, but nothing on earth is gonna get me off this couch right now..." That point of relaxation where you become supremely supine.

So in this context "desultory" for me means a certain gesture or allusion towards a party that cannot work itself up to inhabiting a full-blown party mindset (else, wouldn't we just play straight disco etc?) because inaction is sufficiently satiating.

Compare/contrast with the disco-punk revivalism of a few years ago, which had a precisely opposite relationship to disco - it was too pent-up, couldn't relax enough to just go with the flow, let alone lie down on the sand.

xp jimmy i meant mostly just the 70s cosmic american crosby-phillips-young-buckingham-nicks axis, the overlap btw. that 70s thread & the balearic thread basically--i mean i dont know that id call studio beardo beach hippies anyway--beardo beach maybe, but the hippie bit of what tim is asking makes me think of the 70s

i have a difft set of theories about why swedes are so good at balearica but i have to leave work now

haha studio is a little metropolitan, listening to buckingham nicks on the drive to vegas was pretty epic i must admit

That point of relaxation where you become supremely supine.

^^ not to make light of addiction, but i wonder if a lot of these LA cats tended to make good 'desultory' shit because a lot of them were into heroin in a big way

I got to admit that I sort of wish that Disco had become more of a big thing in Laurel Canyon.

Maybe it was just too insular back in the late 70s, not much from outside seemed to make a dent.

But then I really like the idea of Yacht Disco, so maybe thats just my thing.

Smacked out studio musicians playing lazy music with superb chops. Yup.

Its entirely possible that I've listened to Gaucho more than is healthy for any one person though.

yeah I think the important thing to stress here is that we're dealing with a continuum here that (I think Max correctly suggests) has one foot planted in "americana" and one foot planted in "balearica". And these aren't mutually exclusive terms but I think they define the state of play, in which all sorts of varying articulations can occur. Max's bio stuff seems to fit the americana end, definitely, though I'm hardly one to judge.

Another way to put the above is that this continuum stretches from a very rooted sense of geography at one end to a very internationalist, escapist idealized vision at the other. One thing I like about the term "yacht rock" is the fact that it implies a sense of placelessness - quite obviously, yachts aren't tied to the land, they can go anywhere. Yacht rock and balearic are different things, but they share that impulse I think, and that sense of upper-middle-class "global village" syncretic fusionism that I think really begins in the 80s (though there's a few 70s antecedents).

And the music that I think defines the core of the continuum-canon I'm trying to sketch out is the stuff that sets the two polar impulses off against each other, dialectically as it were - one difference between The Band and Fleetwood Mac for me is that the former seem totally, er, geographical, whereas Fleetwood Mac seem both "of a place" and "internationalist", they turn their geographical particularism into a universal. But you could run it the other way: maybe Studio and other Swedish bands are the anti-Fleetwood Mac, in that they turn an apparent geographical universalism (in their music) into a byword for "Sweden".

The covers of DJ Harvey's (bootlegged?) Sonic Disco DJ mix series are pretty telling:

http://img02.shop-pro.jp/PA01009/066/product/1612857.jpg

http://www.zona.ws/uploads/posts/1165495829_dj_harvey__sonic_disco_2.jpg

the jack nitzsche solo stuff that came out a few years back called "three piece suite" is def in this category. surprised i haven't heard much talk about it on ilm, maybe i missed a thread

The narrative that I'd like to hear in a mix of this stuff is roughly:

Yacht sets sail in the Bermudas in the late 70s loaded to the gills with models and playboys, blow and champagne.

Finds a mysterious hole in the fabric of space time, and is mysteriously shunted forward into 1988, right off the coast of Ibiza.

Sort of going from international waters into deep space and then back to the beach.

Alright, I'm only sharing this because I really like everyone in this thread.

If I was going to do that mix, I'd start with this song.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5010660562548279/

Recorded in California but from an band from Illinois.

The Ship - The Ship, The Order

WTF I don't see any connection between any of these things. But the first thing that came to mind for me was Summer Breeze (Seals and Crofts) which is mellow and smooth but also creepy and weird, to me anyway

http://www.101apparel.com/_2008SUMMER/t-shirts/balearic_kelly.jpg

haha we got people making balearic t- shirts now !!!

So where does a band like High Llamas fit in this conversation?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410AEFRBZSL._SS500_.jpg

JD feels your pain

Another way to put the above is that this continuum stretches from a very rooted sense of geography at one end to a very internationalist, escapist idealized vision at the other. One thing I like about the term "yacht rock" is the fact that it implies a sense of placelessness - quite obviously, yachts aren't tied to the land, they can go anywhere. Yacht rock and balearic are different things, but they share that impulse I think, and that sense of upper-middle-class "global village" syncretic fusionism that I think really begins in the 80s (though there's a few 70s antecedents).

^^ this is a dope idea that helps put into place some things ive been thinking abt balearica.

what interests me most though--and i think u point toward this, or are saying it in a slightly different way--is the interplay btw the placenessless/rootlessness of the stuff (in the specific sense of, lets say, lacking definite coordinates) vs. the serious dependence on, i dont know how to put this, but, like, geographical zone? or something? by which i mean: beaches, obviously. or, you know, The Beach. i dont know if that makes sense! but im into the way that balearica taps into a this cosmopolitan/internationalist fantasy of never being tied down, whether its boating around on ur yacht or jetting from island to island for beach parties--while still being totally dependent on a very specific *kind* of place, i.e., The Beach. so its sort of internationalist in a very narrow sense--the music doesnt imply the frozen tundra or, like, the desert, or uh, stonehenge, or whatever. (i think btw that this dual sense of rootlessness/rootedness is intrinsic to the idea of the ocean and the beach and sailing in general--complete and utter freedom to go wherever you want, as long as that place is a port, and i think that the fact that balearica taps into the same feeling is part of why its so successful at evoking those ideas/places/practices)

what is interesting to me (as a geographical literalist who only wants to interpret musical production around the framework of climate zone) is how swedes and brits and dudes from the bay area, none of whom have proper beaches, are cranking out the best 'balearica' around. but i guess the answer to that is sort of apparent--if balearica requires a certain placelessness (and i think thats true in particular of the 'nu'-balearica of the last 3-4 years) it is probably advantageous to have no beach-y tropical art forms around that will influence and make specific your far more 'general' Beach music.

i am not sure that i believe any of what i am saying about why artists from some places are making certain specific types of music but i enjoy doing it as a thought experiment, and i have to say that it seems particularly 'right' to do so when talking about so much of this--its weirdly difficult to have a conversation about studio, say, without talking about how theyre from sweden

good beach music from germany too

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Boney_M._-_Oceans_Of_Fantasy_%281979%29.jpg

I think that for me this music is almost purely escapism, I've only been to LA a couple of times and they were two very short visits.

As someone who lives a fantasy life through music the reverse slumming of listening to music that was explicitly upper class can be sort of freeing.

That and I live in the center of the North America and coastal beaches are in short supply here.

Its interesting that you choose the Band as an example of specifically regional music Tim, seeing as they were a Canadian band making music heavily indebted to a rural and mostly Southern experience. The Dead were similarly very far away from the Ozarks from which they derived so much of their sound. But yes, Fleetwood Mac took that a step farther (UK band making music that was sort of a cosmopolitan synthesis of blues and country and arguably some soul). Almost all of these Californian bands who went so stylishly rural in the 70s had very little to do with the experiences made reference to in their music. Except for some very specific cases like Gene Clark or Gram Parsons.

I feel that the yacht sound was more honest, it at least sounded like California, like privilege and wealth.

Its interesting that you choose the Band as an example of specifically regional music Tim, seeing as they were a Canadian band making music heavily indebted to a rural and mostly Southern experience. The Dead were similarly very far away from the Ozarks from which they derived so much of their sound. But yes, Fleetwood Mac took that a step farther (UK band making music that was sort of a cosmopolitan synthesis of blues and country and arguably some soul). Almost all of these Californian bands who went so stylishly rural in the 70s had very little to do with the experiences made reference to in their music. Except for some very specific cases like Gene Clark or Gram Parsons.

i was actually going to mention this! cause the thing about "cosmic american music" or "americana" is that at the level of "AMERICA" is way totally rootless/placeless--i mean thats why its called "americana" instead of "country western" or "appalachian" or wvr! except that--tim is from stupid australia, so at a global level "americana" is pretty specific and geographically limited.

ha you know what fits into this thread? brightblack morning light.

hippie-ass-rootless-american-beardo-codeine-funk

they are from the south! though they do live in the desert now. and are happy to be rooted there.

i do like the idea that they made their new album using only solar power. they are funny hippies.

in that arthur interview i just read, brightblack dude goes on about how he doesn't like people using phony southern accents when they sing.

i know! they're from rural louisiana (or at least the dude is) and then they started making music smokin a ton of weed in huntingdon county and then moved down to the desert! rootless!

haha the dude has a major LA accent

uh LA there means louisiana

Brightblack's first album really made me wonder why no one picked it up and remixed it.

Maybe its just too stoned and too slow, but I was listening to a lot of dubstep and disco when it came out so it made sense to me.

is it sort of hard for anyone else to link balearic and beardo so easily? kind of like sonny crockett hanging out with chong or something?

i guess i'm still thinking of beardo as that harvey "mad dog chronicles" and led zepellin but that thread is kind of all over the place...

http://www.8ballrecords.it/database/database_public/img/GERRY-RAFFERTY-CITY-TO-CITY.jpg

also this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B91V046XL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

which i think was actually recorded at a desultory beach party. liner notes:

So here we were --
singing for a small crowd that
stood so far away
we couldn't see their faces clearly,
so -- not worrying about it --
playing pretty much for ourselves,
having some fun in Florida --
performing in a tiki hut (!) --
mandarin orange slices with almonds,
fresh fish,
a big condo all to ourselves with a
washing machine in the very building --
The Rough Squirrels and I enjoyed this gig and on a
return engagement decided to get a tape machine rolling --
these are some of the highlights --
purely for your pleasure --
Here's your Pizza!

P.S. The real words to the first line of
the first verse of "Samson and Delilah" are
"I'm-uh ease your mind an' tell you
where to find the best salon."
The second verse is supposed to start with
"Donna's gonna graduate an' Katy's
got a date -- Alright!"

does bob welch fit here, or is that too slick? fleetwood mac connection tho

also, some nilsson. possibly all nilsson. definitely this nilsson:

xpost. welch totally fits. check this track? slick, and wonderful
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Let-Me-Fall/dp/B0017QQAE6

and this one is totally driving, bearded rock

"tim is from stupid australia"

Yeah we have no clue. Even our one big country singer is called Keith URBAN.

sorry i seem to have dragged this thread into "max has fantasies about sweden and los angeles"

stuff from the 70s thread that does NOT fit this: the beau brummels & the byrds

maybe some rick roberts solo stuff? burrito bros probably not. maybe firefall

siah and max's points about the imaginariness of americana are interesting. I guess you could say that americana is like a fascimile of realness where balearica is like a photocopy of a photocopy on an order of infinite regress. Which I imagine is what siah is getting at when he commends the "honesty" of "yacht rock". It's the honesty of faking so real u are beyond fake.

what beardo's listen when it's raining and they can't get to the beach:

http://www.whiskeyexperience.co.nz/music/images/m/Martyn,%20John%20-%20Bless%20The%20Weather.jpg

apostrophe catastrophe

Haven't read this thread all the way through, but would "In The Skies" by Peter Green qualify?

i don't want to come off all mike taylor about this, but let's try to keep one foot firmly rooted in reality. i've lived most of my life within sight of the ocean. in fact right now i live close enough that i can hear the waves on the beach. the "geographical literalist" argument makes no sense to me. practically nobody here listens to this kind of music. surfers listen to jam bands (like dave matthews, jack johnson or tortoise), indie rock (modest mouse, ratatat), rap music (conscious or not), new punk and AOR reggae (marley family offshoots). if they listen to 70s music its likely to be stones, sabbath or bowie rather than freak-folky obscurity.

jokes bruv

lol tho vahid one of my posts above had "i should stop before vahid jumps on me for just making shit up" but i edited it out

i'm not trying to deny that it's interesting to try to sketch out an "imaginary genre" here but i just don't want anybody thinking that this is some sort of california cultural phenomenon or anything like that.

back to suggestions

bobby brown's 'The Enlightening Beam Of Axonda'

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61GH2KN4C9L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

OMG YES

i just bought the reissue on sundazed last week and i was thinking of adding it to this thread before i decided to rant

xxp i think ive made it clear that im not trying to account for anything outside of my head here; that the blog-ass ramblings above are mostly half-hearted attempts to articulate my own, uh, i dont know, like, 'spiritual' or 'psychic' relationship to this music and what it represents in terms of places that ive lived and visited.

that being said i do think that a sense of place, or lack thereof, is at stake in a big way w/r/t much of the music being discussed here--both on the strictly formal level insofar as a lot of it involves the wrangling of quite culturally/geographically specific musics and on the more, like, cultural level where its produced and received as a piece of the tropics, from or for or out of the beach.

xp actually it was on akarma, not sundazed.

though that's not really "beach party" in the sense of dancing around a bonfire ... it's more like the sound of hippies lying in the sand with their heads touching and their feet forming a star, watching for comets while frying.

i dunno max, on one level what you're saying about geography makes perfect sense and i am sympathetic to it, on the other it sounds a bit like arguing that "music for airports" is actually about airports, or best understood in terms of thinking about airports. which it might be, come to think of it ...

yeah i think the geographic thing makes perfect sense and if you are a cerebral music nerd living next to the ocean it makes sense that it informs your listening habits. that's speaking 100% from experience (i live a block away from the pacific next to some beaches that are naturally very intense and wild).

perhaps we can continue both the thought experiment and suggestions?

only because i am curious as to how both max and siah view this music or freedom of location/this sense of placelessness somehow correlates with a particular fantasy of wealth or upper class lifestyle. maybe this is the most truly American attribute to the contextualization of this music because unless i remember incorrectly, the balearic sound derives from the music played on the paradise-like balearic isles in the 1970s when they were inhabited by loads of hippies who did nothing but walk around nude all day and go to dance parties at night listening to this music. in this sense i think the music relates to the island paradise driven concept of escapism which now permeates many americans' fantasies of escaping (or maybe just me, siah, and max). that this music is somehow now contextualized as upper class though is interesting because at first i had trouble fitting the whole "hippie" label into this pseudo-genre which i, given my urban perspective on the music, took to be much more cosmopolitan. now i'm rambling as well...

for a suggestion, the new Woolfy vs. Projections album The Astral Projections Of Starlight is quite beautiful with beachy guitars and dreamy vocals but then again it fits into my more cosmopolitan version of a balearic beardo hippie beach canon

One track has been posted to 20JFG here

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/10/15/a-post-so-smooth-it-could-be-made-of-baby-skin/#comments

balearic is kind of like rockism in that I have only seen those two godforsaken words on this webpage

I'm kinda interested in the Scandinavian/Kraut/European side of this spectrum, esp. considering the fact that E2-E4 loosely fits this vibe (Gottsching was sooooo a hippie). There has to be more in this vein...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/258081144_081a7a6cf3.jpg?v=0

Plus, the whole Laurel Canyon-beach vibe you're going for just doesn't make sense to me. Guess I just don't see how the 'beachy' side fits in, especially in "If I Could Only Remember My Name," which has always been about the mountains for me (who cares what the cover looks like). I mean, maybe you're just looking for country-rock made by drug casualties of the '70s, but that starts to veer towards boogie-rock territory or loner-psych, which is way more 'beardo' than 'balearic'.

That being said, what do you think of Jim Ford in this context? Is he on the Americana side of the axis, even though he was notorious for coke-fueled yacht parties and could bust out some seriously funky grooves alongside the honky-tonk?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Yxx2vqHKL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

yacht rockism?

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS1360340-02A-BIG.jpg

Jim Ford is certainly hard to pin down...I always saw him as more C & W than R & B...he was a notoriously violent drunk, which I always thought explained his predilection toward honky-tonk...he also always claimed to be the true author of "Ode To Billy Joe"...

re jim ford: hmmm, don't know if he fits, the funkier tunes maybe get close??
some great tunes on that either way
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Some more suggestions, possibly slightly too Dad Rock, maybe not beachy enough.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515BhRBIt%2BL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

http://www.musicdirect.com/shared/images/products/large/crhi78274-2.jpg

And no I'm really not kidding about that Doobie album, its basically Gaucho with Michael McDonald singing.

i love that little feat album

And this is for Tim as He's looking for stuff in the Santana line of thinking.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VAFDS0RVL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

http://www.zshare.net/audio/501517708612833b/

Gypsy - Gypsy Queen Pt. 1

Max you're totally right about Shawn Phillips BTW. So much of his stuff would fit on this thread.

Let me dig around a bit.

hey what about that mike simonetti "balearic sabbath" mix from earlier this year? all 70s shit i believe.

get it here: http://www.allez-allez.co.uk/2007/08/mike-simonetti.html

i guess that runs a little more toward r&b than it does toward the kind of americana stuff thats popping up here (despite opening w/ buckingham/nicks) but its a spiritual cousin!

And a lot of the stuff that Jaxon mentioned has been included in Kosmiche Kid's Cosmic Dancing Mixes.

http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?p=308560

Which I was completely unaware of until this thread, thanks Jaxon for inspiring the google.

the idea is that there definitely seems to be a loose canon emerging which stretches from David Crosby (but perhaps not CS&N per se) through to say Arthur Russell.

wrong. check out Dark Star

as far as santana, some of his beardier releases are Welcome (produced by alice coltrane and leon thomas on vocals)

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/images/amg_covers/200/dre800/e876/e8769171tkg.jpg

and Love Devotion Surrender with john mclaughlin and is a tribute to john coltrane (so heavy and sooo sooo soo beautiful)

http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/1/26/albumcoverJohnMcLaughlin-CarlosSantana-LoveDevotionSurrender.jpg

lol at cosmology at 1:00 in dark star video

Just thinking about San Frandisco's question.

I suppose I see Yacht Rock as upper class because that was its image I guess, rock stars sailing out to international waters to have parties. And as poor as I am the Balearic islands might as well be on Mars. I've never been to Europe and unless the factory I work at suddenly gives me a 6 dollar an hour raise I very likely will never go there. Cheap dollar bin records (or very obscure psych ones) are a readily accessible commodity where yachts and international vacations are out of reach.

Rural america on the other hand is something I have a far too intimate a knowledge of to think of as escapist. A couple of years in the country gave me a great Southern rock collection, but it almost drove me out of my mind. I've got no desire to go back to living with ex Meth addicts so that I can round out my Americana collection.

Here's some Shawn Phillips.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/50154308677b8d28/

For a folkie, he sure brought the funk sometimes.

the shawn phillips album Spaced is a bunch of his outtakes that are all jazz funked out. tons of rhodes and breaks. even has a dj shadow sample on it

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7859/o68602dl2.jpg

Sounds tasty.

Someone needs to do a Venn diagram so I know how this all fits in with rare groove, acid jazz, etc.

For example, is the Azymuth album Balearic?

Is it Rare Groove? Is it Cosmic Disco?

I guess its definitely not hippie Beardo, but it fits in a lot of these categories.

Oops misspelled that, I meant the Azimuth album. Not the stuff that they did as Azymuth.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000KB1Y1S.01-A3HKN0V35GPHDY._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V37305148_.jpg

Is Shuggie Otis a hippie? Balearic?

he's from la so i guess so

Tusk, obv

I'm kinda interested in the Scandinavian/Kraut/European side of this spectrum

mebbe a couple of the less psych-y more rockin' Pekka Streng tracks.

in that regard, what about that alf emil eik guy that's on lindstrom's late night tales?

I'd also be interested in any Australian suggestions coz i got nothing.

I had a great pizza and bottle of wine tonight and the restaurant played tusk and I thought of this thread. so tusk.

Flash and the Pan have already been suggested, wilter.

oh yeah!

I actually downloaded the self-titled Dingoes album just to see if it fit in here, it doesn't really lol.

brennan green played a mental as anything track on beats in space once

Whatever the first track is on the Västkustska Ryggdunkarsällskapet mix for 'Cool in the Pool' is pretty fantastic for this thread.

I guess the whole mix is, actually. Pure Scandinavian beachy beardo bliss. Emphasis on the beardo

Also, for some reason I had never heard this until someone mentioned it in a related post...

http://www.batini.com/sales/cd/canflowmotion.jpg

I didn't know Can got so Polynesian ha. It's so great because they fail at the Steely Dan thing but in their own amazing way

maybe (ahem) jan akkerman's oil in the family?
middle eastern guitars vs disco beat etc etc

back home I listened again to it and, under the carelessly flat production and the cheesy sound, there's still beautifully summery in it - but maybe its just me.
big in turkey, apparently.

dude, listen to some earlier akkerman. gets rid of all that shitty smooth production

I have this one too: but in that case, shitty smooth production is okay for me! : )

Really love that Pekka Streng and Tasavallan Presidentti album, looking forward to finding more from Streng-- thanks for the reccomendation.

From a completely different angle...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618JMTSC8WL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

this is the kind of thread that my wallet can't stand!

??http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/cherry_don~_brownrice_101b.jpg??

I would say yes, esp. the title track.
And what about Gary Burton's "Vibrafinger"?

Surely a bunch of ECM stuff (Metheny, Tibbets, Eberhard Weber)

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^^^^ JJ Cale's "Naturally," (among other LPs by him)... it's perhaps a little obvious, but necessary

oops

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5125K29V55L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

this is the kind of thread that my wallet can't stand!

...isn't most of this stuff in the dollar bins? I thought that was kind of the point, but I guess it's all relative to your region/local record stores

also, where should I start with the ECM albums? Never was too big on Jarrett, but ECM has huuuuge and intimidatingly awesome-looking catalog.

I guess Azimuth was mentioned

Pat Metheny - First Circle

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HNMG7ER5L._SS500_.jpg

Plus, the whole Laurel Canyon-beach vibe you're going for just doesn't make sense to me. Guess I just don't see how the 'beachy' side fits in, especially in "If I Could Only Remember My Name," which has always been about the mountains for me (who cares what the cover looks like).

Well, I think that record concerns both beach + mountain. Mt. Tamalpais, Big Sur, that whole vibe...and l.a. winding canyons

For that matter, where do nineties+ revivalists like these guys and their offshoots fit in?
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-876173-1168133506.jpeg

As far as ppl consciously making very explicitly "beach" vibe records, ya gotta take these guys into account, right?

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-876173-1168133506.jpeg

oh goddamnit, i need to fix this balls image link. fucking internet

For that matter, where do nineties+ revivalists like these guys and their offshoots fit in?

As far as ppl consciously making very explicitly "beach" vibe records, ya gotta take these guys into account, right?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2967347627_8427e6f398.jpg?v=0

Cool thread, though. The geography+music thing, which I'm assuming must have been discussed previously on ilm, is something that I think about often.

Quick thoughts along those lines:
a. I always thought sixties l.a. scene (beach boys, byrds, love, etc.) blew away its bay area counterpart, but in recent years i've come to soak up and more fully appreciate northern ca goodness like sly stone, grateful dead, the jefferson airplanes...
b. maybe much of l.a. music wow-dom is due to the ambition factor- ppl historically have gone there to "make it"...and/or some of them end up playing in highly "professionalized" environments as studio musicians-- hence you end up with yr "yacht rock" acts, etc...by contrast, nocal is more "laid-back" for real, and so stuff comes out of there that lacks the chart-making urgency that l.a. stuff has. this is a theory with millions of holes in it, but i'm throwing it out there nonetheless
c. when i lived near the beach i paradoxically had less interest than usual in the kind of music that is the subject of this thread, but both before and after, being fairly landlocked back east i have found myself with a renewed appreciation for this kind of stuff
d. i never delved properly into rickie lee jones' catalog until i moved back east, but now that i'm here, without exception every time that i listen to her, i am immediately transported back to california. that seems weird to me
e. i have been reading lots lately about the history of seventies porn films in southern california/sf/nyc. i'm wondering if there are musical analogues to this phenomenon? i'm inclined to think "yes"-- the way ppl talk about the nyc films vs west coast reminds me of ppl talking about vu vs golden state "hippies"

Well, I think that record concerns both beach + mountain. Mt. Tamalpais, Big Sur, that whole vibe...and l.a. winding canyons

omg i have hella listed to that album so many times on highway 1. the beach + mountains equation seems to be a large part of what this thread is going for

That's awesome. Seriously.

Yeah, I've always been a passenger when I was on journeys along those lines, and it was always some situation where I was in a car in which the stereo was busted or the equivalent thereof.

That being said, as unlikely as it may sound, early Scott Walker served me well traversing the Marin headlands...and also, one of my best memories of hearing "Eight Miles High" was when driving south towards SFO airport territory and seeing a huge bank of fog eclipsing the water.

In short, I am deep green with envy as far as it concerns being able to soak in these musics in their proper contexts. Like, smoke up and drive across the Bixby bridge or go do it up on some beach thereabouts while listening to "Draft Morning" or some such. I think it's worthwhile to do, even if only in the spirit of experimentation as far as concerns these music/geography nexuses.

i'd like to know more about what those crazy hippies were listening to in Ibiza or Goa before the whole balearic style emerged...

http://www.goagil.com/albums/Scrapbook/OLD_GOA_2.sized.jpg

Alt-F "Danny O'Keefe"

:(

http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lp801ea9.jpg

I heard the great whales crying,
saying, "Brother, brother, we are dying."

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/5928/lp801ea9.jpg

Does this thing fit in here somewhere?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/493414410_5d1852d241.jpg

I can't really look at the thread title without the pictures of the freaks in the gatefold popping into my head to the tune of 'Pali Gap'. There's that whole globe-trotting jetting-off-to-a-hippie-beach-party vibe in the (terrible) film too.

maybe much of l.a. music wow-dom is due to the ambition factor- ppl historically have gone there to "make it"...and/or some of them end up playing in highly "professionalized" environments as studio musicians-- hence you end up with yr "yacht rock" acts, etc...by contrast, nocal is more "laid-back" for real, and so stuff comes out of there that lacks the chart-making urgency that l.a. stuff has. this is a theory with millions of holes in it, but i'm throwing it out there nonetheless

OTM I think - one of the things that links IICORMN and No Other (see poll thread), as well as Forever Changes (Beach Boys too, come to think of it) is the odd disjunctive MOR associations you get with each - The odd Anita Kerr harmonies on Tamalpais ....on the Crosby records, the no quite schmaltz of Strength of Strings, the Herb Alpert-ness of Clark and Hilldale....

Maybe those associations only seem odd because we've been fed this myth about the 60s, about how them cool hippies and folkies were against pop and Hollywood schmaltz. But in reality, American folk and pop have always been inextricably linked.

That said, I don't think this applies to the Beach Boys. They grew up in the pop realm.

Good point.
The individual Byrds pre- careers are exemplary in this respect

Totally. And it even extends to the Bay Area. Before Marty Balin was a folkie, he was a teen actor/singer who dug Tony Bennett. At the time, that seemed bizarre. But listen to some of Balin's great ballads with the Jefferson Airplane, and you realize the guy is a great crooner, who understood classic Tin Pan Alley singing.

Huh. Cool, I don't think I've ever made all of those connections, and even if I had, probably would not have been able to articulate them in the fashion that you guys have done here.

Marty Balin, wow. I have such a weakness for some of the Starship-era stuff-- Miracles, Count on Me, Runaway... I guess Scott was comparing some of that stuff to Chris Rea upthread, but I'm not sure that I hear it. The near seven-minute version of Miracles, for one, never fails me. Fool if You Think it's Over, by contrast, sounds like yr standard issue Benny Mardones-ish yacht-rock material.

Runaway is saddled with a godawful bridge that I can't listen to without cringing, but otherwise, me love the MB.

All this So-Cal vs. Nor-Cal talk makes me want to post a gem from this guy...

http://therisingstorm.net/audio/mu-300x300.jpg

Merrell Fankhauser is the mannn. He purportedly invented the riff for "Wipeout," then became obsessed with Hawaii and it's mythology and made this album with dudes from Beefheart's band.

And he's from CENTRAL CA, aka Arroyo Grande, aka halfways between SF and LA. And this album rules--though perhaps a bit on the proggy end of this spectrum--it totally fits.

He still hosts the most hilarious cable-access show in that area, called Merrell Fankhauser's Tiki Lounge. His wife tapes it in their living room(!), and I was lucky enough to be there when he interviewed Swedish psych band Dungen . I think they sorta started their association that led to these rereleases on Dungen's Subliminal Sounds label...

http://www.subliminalsounds.se/DOK/merrellfankhauser.html

That was the most awkward interview ever, btw. "What's your name and what instrument do you play?..." followed by broken english, etc.

Mu is the "lost continent" aka what some people call Hawaii (where dude lives now). straight up hippy beach music. i posted a song from that album ("Eternal Thirst") to my site. sounds like tim buckley on vocals and jeff cotton of beefhart's magic band on slide guitar. there's a crazy long percussion breakdown with weird ass chanting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(lost_continent)

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holy crap. look at this! this is the most balearic beardo beach hippy video ever!

seriously, that video pwns this thread

"nobody wants to shine" has an incredible bassline, too

just wanted to reiterate how fucking amazing Terry Reid's Seed Of Memory is. by far my favorite album of his (even though i love all the stuff i've heard by him) and it totally fits in this thread. funked out folk rock w/a bit of twang.

http://robotsinheat.com/trax/OohBaby.mp3

There's a mix from dirk of eskimo recordings on lovefingers that's all balearock/funky/folky/classic rock. Great stuff.

http://www.lovefingers.org/mp3/dirk.mp3

Think there's also another one on beats in space worth searching for.

but part of me thinks that what makes crosby and phillips and f'wood mac "fit" fairly easily under the umbrella of "balearica" and acts like the band and the dead (and feel free to disagree with me, anyone) fit far less easily under that same umbrella is some kind of interestingly-felt relationship with the beach or the idea of "beach" that LA has and SF doesnt.

just wanted to point out (as brought to light here:No Other V If I could Only Remember My Name) that the grateful dead theyselfs made a large part of crosby's best album. So there was a lot of the same stuff going on, and I think the dead actually made some albums that would be perfect for this thread.

but you're dead on about la being oriented much more towards the beach. i duno if it manifests itself in a genre that is concerned with being rural in nature, however.

i mean la as a city, by the way, not as a musical entity. and country/americana is what i'm referring to by 'a genre that is concerned with being rural in nature'

Just had a brainstorm, it doesn't have even the slightest amount of twang in it though.

http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/7811/b00000250l01sclzzzzzzzmb6.jpg

Its about as hippie as funk gets without being Sly.

Check the title track.

Check out Linda Perhcas,Parallelograms. Doesn't cut it on the beardo part (and perhaps not the balearic part)but it's pretty damn boss on all other fronts.
http://music.geocities.jp/viennagarden/parallelograms.jpg

Um, make that Perhacs

well perhacs i will check it out....

she does live in hawaii if that makes it fit in the thread

great, great album btdubs

is "balearic" just the self-aware Other Music-goer's way of looking down on people that jumped on the "yacht rock" thing?

its a term we made up to make you annoyed

Does yacht rock presuppose dinghy rock?

There's a few Perhacs tracks that almost work, but that record is way too intimate to be included here, and I feel it has a certain English folk formalist vibe to it that is decidedly un-balearic. But it is a great record indeed.

nobody has used the word "oceanicity" yet :-/

played 80s trivial pursuit this weekend and had the question asker scoff and say "you are SOOOOO never going to get this,,, name a zurich born harpist that was listed in three US billboard charts in 1984."

i got up and threw my Andreas Vollenweider record in his face!

i can't remember the question, but the same thing happened when they asked about the william hurt film gorky park. the soundtrack's epic, assholes!

i'd also like to point out this jean michel jarre video. he plays a stack of synthesizers on the beach!

in my opinion the underpraised-in-recent-years Tranquility Bass album should be on this list

hahahaha jaxon i hope you stormed out after that

never got into the album, but the Tranquility Bass singles and comp tracks, the ones on the Exist Dance Transmitting from Heaven CD, are total classic.

http://www.starsend.org/graphics/mgtropicalheat.jpg

I've been avoiding this album for a long time since I kept on hearing that this was Ashra's low point, but given it's balearic sounding title (Tropical Heat) and it's Gottsching I figured it's worth a listen. It's not nearly as bad as I anticipated. I'm not sure if this would be the right thread to post this in, but I'm surprised this album hasn't been reconsidered (maybe it really is that bad) or at least mentioned*.

*the search function turned up nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennMD1fPtXA

This remains one of my favorite ILX threads.

On the Herb Alpert tip: his disc with Hugh Masekela has got some lovely stuff on it.

holy shit is that the sample on the beginning of Biggie's Hypnotize?

yess indeed... wasn't it the theme to general hospital or something as well?

http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks1e259DQJ1qzoj6fo1_100.gif http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks1e0d57MK1qzoj6fo1_100.gif http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks1efuT6kh1qzoj6fo1_100.gif

today is a good day for a desultory beach party

those are credit stephd.biz btw

http://stephd.biz/gifs/5/peacock.gif

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This record is so this thread......

Oops...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu2bT-yEiWc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9wbumIKJJ0

that batteaux record is great. this is the track of theirs to get. Mirror. so amazing
http://www.divshare.com/download/9846879-0a2

i have a paul horn record where they cover High Tide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxRvI6k4nPI

awesome revive. was hoping we could get this thread going with some recommendations again, feel free to disagree with the following...

steve winwod - arc of a diver. if you can get with his voice there are some great tunes on here, "spanish dancer" especially
http://p.dada.net/cspv/59-10-68-10-00-MetaPreview-Cover-JPEG256x256/steve-winwood/arc-of-a-diver.jpg

yello - claro que si. a lot of yello songs are just ott balearic, i think this record has more of that vibe than the others (disagreements welcome). they don't exactly scream 'hippie', but some of the early stuff might be cosmic enough to fit. also check "blue green" from the record before this one, also on ralph
http://www.musicline.de/cover/Yello_Claro+Que+Si_602498307564.jpg

little river band - s/t 1975. real surprised nobody has mentioned them here yet. "it's a long way there" is a pretty ideal fit for this thread imo
http://bigpondmusic.com/images/AlbumCoverArt/117/L/Little-River-Band2.jpg

does Roxy Music's "Like A Hurricane" fit here? Kinda?

ya, the 12" of Steve Winwood's Night train from that album has an instrumental and i've seen harvey and rub'n'tug play it

would like to hear that instrumental, you mentioned it once before iirc. are there any instrumentals of the joe cocker stuff on island? that would be similarly awesome.

and xp- i think roxy music fits, esp if we're talking about a neil young cover

yeah, it's the neil young song. sounds like Studio sort of.

http://robotsinheat.com/temp/Night%20Train%20(Inst).mp3

when this gets going, it kills me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUbw9fFEe4

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=u97jlruLKbk&v=9KJgs1ZlAKk

my record collection needs more tri atma, reminds me of my favorite kitaro tracks. tho maybe it's more fit for a revive of that 'global village syncretic fusionism' thread (which could use a revive anyway, imo)

btw i think this thread is the reason i got hooked on ilm. cheesy but true.

There's a copy of that Little River Band LP at a market stall near me.... all the encouragement i need.

has there been any john martyn posted in the thread? if not, there should be. i've been buying his later albums and they are always amazing and as they get smoother, get more balearic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLVM560Fok

^ not necessarily that one. that one's more on the hippy beach part of it. but he uses cheap drum machines and is produced at Compass Point and even worked with lee perry

"hole in the rain" is ill

i just watched that john martyn clip on youtube like 30 mins before jaxon posted. totally weird that he hasn't been mentioned much here

played 80s trivial pursuit this weekend and had the question asker scoff and say "you are SOOOOO never going to get this,,, name a zurich born harpist that was listed in three US billboard charts in 1984."

i got up and threw my Andreas Vollenweider record in his face!

i can't remember the question, but the same thing happened when they asked about the william hurt film gorky park. the soundtrack's epic, assholes!

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:50 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this story still makes me lol for some reason

man i must have been so stoned upthread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OY1OlKOIiU

jaxon, can you re-up the winwood track? if not here, then elsewhere...

reuploaded. for some reason my server was acting crazy yesterday

can't believe I never looked at this thread properly until now...really nice music thanks guys

loving Batteaux's "Mirror" and the Winwood track

I love that Ned Doheny song. Hard Candy and Prone are two albums worth tracking down. His self titled album is my favorite, but it's more west coast country rock than Balearic.

king of impossible to find, or so i've seen. there are also Tata Vega and Average White Band covers of that song.

nerve pylon posted the loggins messina album cover upthread, but this song is just so epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdVFQRn3Emo

also this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowuyzxgmtg

There's a mix from dirk of eskimo recordings on lovefingers that's all balearock/funky/folky/classic rock. Great stuff.
http://www.lovefingers.org/mp3/dirk.mp3
Think there's also another one on beats in space worth searching for.
― jaxon, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:45 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is the BIS mix. probably one of my all time faves. so perfectly sequenced and mixed. and with really obvious songs, but it doesn't even matter. so great.

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/323

I just found Batteaux self titled on a blog. It fits perfectly what i was needing to hear today. Is this a hard to find record?

i got mine for $6 at a record fair. haven't really seen it around otherwise. there's an 8track copy on ebay for $2.50

posting everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9NJNAMHsdI

X-post to Jacob
Picked up mine for 3 euro - think it's a reissue: there is a few on musicstack for about 10e/$

Someone up thread mentioned Jim Ford, someone I have only heard of in passing. So I sought out his records this weekend and I found one called Harlan County. I don't see how it fits into this thread at all. But it sure is good. Almost sounds like Don Covay or Swamp Dogg mixed with Billy Swan? Anyway really great album.

yea it doesn't really fit with a beachy vibe, but he sure did love yachting and cocaine!

Are his later recordings different than Harlan County? After listening to this a few times, I keep asking myself is this a subdued Don Covay?

i haven't heard everything, but the comps i have seem to indicate that he didn't really switch his style up too incredibly much. does jim ford not have his own thread?

ahh here tis- I Can't Find The Recent Thread On Recently Rediscovered Singers That Mentioned Jim Ford So I'll Start A New One For Him

that john martyn clip is killing me

this is the BIS mix. probably one of my all time faves. so perfectly sequenced and mixed. and with really obvious songs, but it doesn't even matter. so great.

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/323

― jaxon, Sunday, March 7, 2010 1:12 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

i know what u mean, but lol @ the standard for 'obvious' here

I'm a lazy Sid, so I only gave a quick glance to see if these were mentioned.

Lee Hazlewood sorta owns this, though the time period might be a bit off.
John Phillips
Lyme & Cybele [I believe Warren Zevon was Lyme]
Buffy St. Marie
Richie Havens
Fit & Limo

...maybe - if I truly grasped the question. ;-)

Is there still any interest in this genre?

Might this be the ultimate BBBH jam?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXXBg7aPUsM

Stay for the whole thing, the vocal/guitar effects are worth it.

Also way into live versions of John Martyn doing "Outside In,' which Lovefingers used in the "1984" track last year. I want to hear more if people have picks.

im still interested

ill selection, btw

kinda over nu-balearic (never really got under it tbh), edits and dance music in general, but BBBH is one of those things i just won't tire of.

hippie

tripster

beardo

(xpost ^ i'm a tripster)

harper's 'stormcock' (from where that song comes from) is one of the most amazing records ever.

hats off to that man imo

I was worried that people had moved on to windsurf funk or christian campfire rock.

Admittedly haven't explored Harper that deeply, but will now. Thanks for the tip, Jaxon.

you posted it!

rocked this one this morn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKy2qe5iIpQ

and this one (both from the Folk is not a Four Letter Word comp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isyYxHjRm7w

Oh, ya duh - I just got turned onto to the harper track from some dude's FB page, so I didn't really feel it was "mine." That Heaven & Earth track is nice, can't really get into Koloc's vocals tho.

Has Peter Green been mentioned?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeosPciyU8o
Totally loving vocal fx on these lazzy jams.

Someone mentioned Green up there somewhere, but still...

one more john martyn just bc seeing that clip upthread was a major revelation for me and i've pretty much watched every live perf. by him on youtube since. this is one of the best ones (all the best ones are from one world imo, can't believe i wasted the first 22 years of my life not listening to it every day)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btRv4MnPOBE

^ he wrote that one w/lee perry

yeah i spent a while tryna find other stuff that lee perry did w/ a similar fusion aesthetic but didn't know where to look. Also got no joy on finding another martyn album that had the same spaced out w33d+heatstroke vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRMBZZK0aKI

this is the BIS mix. probably one of my all time faves. so perfectly sequenced and mixed. and with really obvious songs, but it doesn't even matter. so great.

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/323

― jaxon, Sunday, 7 March 2010 19:12 (5 months ago)

Loving that mix. Found the following tracklisting with a couple of gaps. Can anyine fill them in?

00 susane christie - paint a lady
04 mindless boogie 2 – tonic edit
10 buckingham nicks - frozen love
17 eagles – those shoes
21 blind faith – can’t find my way home
24 ?
28 seals & croft – sweet green fields (edit)
32 eurythmics - did it just the same
35 ?
38. ? do it to you mama
42 fleetwood mac – world turning
46 womack and womack – love wars
51 supermax – It ain’t easy

Also found Volume 1:Trip to Balearock.mp3:

1. Black Sabbath - Weird Caravan
2. Aphrodite's Child - Aegean Sea
3. Iris Muhammed - Loren's Dance
4. Los Chicharrons - Love Magic (?)
5. C, S, N - Wooden Ships
6. Loggins & Messina - Full Sail
7. The Quiet Village Project - Pillow Talk
8. Flash And The Pan - Hole In The Middle
9.
10.
11.Small faces - Odgen's Nut Gone Flake
12. Animated Egg (also known as 101 Strings) - Sock in My Way
13 Chairman of the Board - Life and Death

Whoah. There's a tracklisting over at BiS now. Was that always there? Pretty sure it come's up with 'no playlist' in the Lyrics section of the MP3 which is where Tim usually puts the tracklistings.

1. The Art Of Noise – Paranoimia
2. Susan Christie – Paint A Lady
3. Joe Walsh – County Fair (Tonic Edit)
4. Buckingham & Nicks – Frozen Love
5. The Eagles – Those Shoes
6. Blind Faith – Can't Find My Way Home (Tonic Edit)
7. Black Sabbath – Symptom Of The Universe ( Lexx – Edit)
8. Seals & Crofts – Sweet Green Fields (Tonic Edit)
9. Eurythmics – I Did It Just The Same
10. Nacht Und Nebel – Beats Of Love
11. Jim Capaldi – I'm Gonna Do It
12. Fleetwood Mac – World Turning
13. Womack & Womack – Love Wars
14. Supermax – It Ain't Easy

fyi (prob more appropriate to the actual beardo disco thread), but belgian group Villa just put out a cover of that Nacht und Nebel "Beats of Love" track from the bis mix. sounds great
http://www.myspace.com/villanese

I am really getting into Trip to Balearock, Vol. 1, it's definitely up there with Vol. 2. I found a complete tracklisting.

1. Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
2. Aphrodite's Child - Aegian Sea
3. Iris Muhammed - Loren's Dance
4. St Tropez - Belle de Jour
5. C, S, N - Wooden Ships
6. Loggins & Messina - Pathway to Glory
7. Quiet Village - Pillow Talk
8. Flash And The Pan - Hole In The Middle
9. James Gang - The Bomber
10. ZZ Top - El Diablo
11. Toy - Suspiscion
12. Small faces - Odgen's Nut Gone Flake
13. Animated Egg - Sock in My Way
14. Chairman of the Board - Life and Death

he's also got one on http://www.lovefingers.org/. i forget what it sounds like now though.
Dirk (Eskimo Recordings) : Summer Of Love '69

Plaxico: I had the same revelatory experience with the Martyn toob. I had Solid Air a little while ago but didn't get too blown away by it, but I'm loving the stuff from One World. Have you explored the live/bootlegs from the 70s/80s at all? I recently grabbed Live at Leeds, Live in Milan (bad sound on this one), and One Other World. I think One Other World is my fave. Be interested to know if anyone else has listened to/found other live stuff that is great.

tbh, i had dled one other world by mistake and only realised it wasn't one world when i got went looking for a higher bitrate!

^^^^^
Misread that as 'thought I had died....etc' and the whole sentence seemed unimaginably cosmic in its significance

I'm really enjoying this thread. Seriously.

he's also got one on http://www.lovefingers.org/. i forget what it sounds like now though.
Dirk (Eskimo Recordings) : Summer Of Love '69

― jaxon, Friday, 20 August 2010 19:04 (2 days ago)

http://alainfinkielkrautrock.blogspot.com/2007/05/dirk-summer-of-love-69-mix.html

The Free > Living In The Sunshine
Cane & Able > Girl You Move Me
Super Sessions > Stop
The Alan Bown Set >
The Pretty Things > Cries From The Midnight Circle
Spooky Tooth > Waitin’ for the wind
Mystic Moods > Cosmic Sea
The Music Machine > Common In
The Kinks > Big Sky
M*A*S*H* > Suicide Is Painless
Blue Oyster Cult > Don’t Fear The Reaper
May Blitz > Smoking The Day Away
Brethren > Success Brand Oil
Brian Auger’s Oblivian Express > Freedom Jazz Dance
Booker T & The Mgs > Eleonar Rigby
The Small Faces > Song Of A Baker
The Birds > Draft Morning
The Allman Brothers > Dreams
Tim Buckley > Sweet Surender

Cale was briefly mentioned upthread but.... Probably you will have to replace "beach" with "desert" for this one to fit the equation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_msX9iHwg&feature=related

Anyone heard this Alan White album?
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/a/alan-white/album-ramshackled.jpg
I dl'ed "Ooh Baby" from a blog awhile ago and it fits the bill nicely

yeah, that track is on the purple brain comp, and it's awesome haven't heard the album

YESSSS

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/NedDoheny-HardCandy-Columbia-74801.html

haha my friend dropped $130 on a copy of the original a few months ago

i made this when i was bored one day. it didnt get me a 60 day ban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eNoDKVRNoI

Can't really put into words how much I love this tune. It captures the spirit and the essence of own trips to Hawaii and Beverly Hills/L.A. etc, during the first year of Clinton's presidency - so, the good old days, already! (I'm not from North America.. )
DeerStop69 4 months ago

such a jam. was this ever a radio hit? i don't recall ever hearing it on the radio but every time i play it for people they end up singing along and i can't tell if it's a weird thing where the song is just really hooky or if it's legitimately popular and i'm just oblivious

I love Give it up for Love!! I also love Ned's first self titled record. I didn't know his records were so rare until a few years ago. I bought them cheaply back in 03 in Houston,TX at a shop called Black Dog records.

Is Doheny's the original version of that song? I think I've got about four different versions of it, none of them this one.

doheny's is the original, there's a version by tata vega on motown that was a big deal iirc. that was the first version i heard (it is awesome) but i like both. i forget who did the other big cover of it

I've got the Tata Vega one and also ones by Average White Band and Social Disco Club

the other cover version i have is by The Mob ... as featured on Bill Brewster's "Secret Weapons" cd

the other cover version i have is by The Mob ... as featured on Bill Brewster's "Secret Weapons" cd

I knew I had a fourth version! If I remember though there's no tracklisting with that Bill Brewster bonus cd although I think I've identified most of them.

ave white band yeah thats the other ive heard

$130!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????

what can i say? sometimes things slip by me. i'm only human. when did ned become hip with the beardo set? total dollar bin fare for years.

i put ned on my sexy sailor mix a few years back and i also did a list of similar albums that i like that people here might want to check out. i'll post my post here. not ALL appropriate for this thread, but the vibes are somewhat similar in many cases:

Skot's Sexy 70's Mix For Sailors, Searchers, and Seers

Just the tip of the iceberg, but I made a quick list of underheard albums that I go back to again and again for whatever reason. Some apply to this mix/thread, some don’t, but whatever. I’ve also talked a bunch about most of them on ilm or included them on a mix that I’ve posted here. These are all a part of my 70’s non-hard rock rock canon. didn’t include more obvious stuff. In 2009, my holy trinity would probably be ian matthews, michael franks, and poco! Who would have guessed? I used to listen to a lot of crass records. Anyway, for what it’s worth:

Allesi – s/t (a&m – 1976) (probably my favorite brothers of the 70’s. or maybe that title goes to the gurvitz brothers. can’t decide.)
curved air – phantasmagoria (wb – 1972) (really, everything by them in the 70’s. like babe ruth. or savage rose.)
curtiss maldoon – s/t (capitol – 1971)
jackson heights – king progress (mercury – 1970)
howard werth & the moonbeams – king brilliant (mca – 1975)
vance or towers – s/t (a&m – 1975)
gary farr – addressed to the censors of love (atco – 1973)
danny o’keefe – breezy stories (atlantic – 1973)
string driven thing – the machine that cried (charisma – 1973)
east of eden – s/t (harvest – 1971)
molkie cole – s/t (janus – 1977)
bloomsbury people – s/t (mgm – 1970)
redeye – s/t (pentagram – 1970)
danny o’keefe – american roulette (wb – 1977) (hell, really everything from the 70’s.)
trefethen – am I stupid or am I great?/it’s all mom’s fault (1980) (recorded in the 70’s though.)
gallagher & lyle – the last cowboy (a&m – 1974)
john randolph marr – s/t (wb – 1970) (also, bubba fowler’s album *and then came bubba*, but I think that might have been 69 or even 68. can’t remember. The marr album is essential for nilsson fans.)
country joe mcdonald – hold on it’s coming (vanguard – 1970) (i can’t even begin to describe how much I love this album. it is the end and the beginning of something wonderful. )
song – album (mgm – 1970) (essential.)
cowboy – s/t (Capricorn – 1977) (again, who am I kidding? I love everything they ever did. Possibly one of the top ten most underrated/underheard major label acts of all time.)
boxer – s/t (virgin – 1975)
george geddes – obituary (ua – 1971) (but, you know, everyone needs son of obituary from 1972 too.)
thomas jefferson kaye – s/t (dunhill – 1973)
mckendree spring – s/t (decca – 1969) (oops, 1969. But you can substitute it with *3* or *tracks* from the early 70’s.)
facedancers – s/t (paramount – 1972)
barnaby bye – room to grow (atlantic – 1973)
dane donohue – s/t (Columbia – 1978)
tim hardin – painted head (Columbia – 1972) (one of my heroes, and his 70’s stuff doesn’t get near enough praise. And it’s all worth people’s time. )
tim hollier – message to a harlequin (imperial – 1968) (1968? but it’s so good. and I can’t find a copy of skysail from 1971 and I can’t afford a copy of his 1970 s/t album which is also awesome.)
dave morgan - morgan (ampex – 1971)
mick greenwood – living game (mca – 1971)

i should really do an updated list too. heard so much great stuff since then.

quick you can still buy dane donohue and jess roden albums for five bucks on ebay get them while you can!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSeAem7PDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIKiNX1ChHo&feature=related

gr8080 is your youtube clip comprised of "people who've figured out how to live" photos?

Hey Scott I would like an updated list.

i'll see what i can come up with.

there's a pretty great soundtrack to They Call It An Accident. it has a few wally badarou tracks, a few steve winwood instrumentals, a track by marianne faithful from her broken english album, a song by Compass Point All Stars (badarou & sly & robbie). jess roden & peter wood have a track on there called "Some Vision". i guess this is their band?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUaNpVesezQ

^ this stdk sounds excellent. have you seen it around anywhere?

i love that mark e edit of the tata vega version

it's not even close to as good as the actual tata vega or the doheny but it's definitely worthwhile

iirc theo p did an edit of the vega too

gr8080 is your youtube clip comprised of "people who've figured out how to live" photos?

― Tim F, Monday, April 4, 2011 3:16 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

just my favorite photos from alohafriday.org

but to answer your question: probably!

gr8mix

http://www.mysterymix.com/mp3/TuTu_Mix.mp3

ha scott there are a number of bars in london where yr mixes get played pretty regularly. hope this is ok :)

cool! i wish i could get it together to make more. if i do upload more they will go on the vinyl board.

i never read that board so bump one of the old threads when you do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYT4Ut3dtY

Sort of fits here, I think....

this recently got reissued on 4 men w/ beards and is the bee's knees

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/stormbringer.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZuepQ0mFt0

also, can a mod find the image that's asking for a password in this thread? it's kinda annoying

the best part about beardo/balearic (as mentioned above), but also what adds to the confusion of what it is, is that you can make anything that has a certain vibe fit the genre. like this chill soul tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxc8Sf7RaYY

draggjn my heels has been my mellow morning tune of choice for the last few weeks

what about 'draggin the line'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skydln4BhDI

this has been my jam lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94x4Ezs_OVM&feature=related

woah that is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAP9qFHj6jE&feature=share

do you want to have kids?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxuAZictJ4

that nina version of 'baltimore' is a classic, first heard it on npr lol

i like this version a lot too tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lttEUZbK8

surprised no one's mentioned Eden Ahbez, the original Beardo beach bum proto-hippie (he looked like this in the late 40s)

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/edensisland.jpg

album is languid exotica with ambient beach sounds and Eden's spoken word extolling the Nature Boy way of life, the balearic urtext.

also, i passed out to John Martyn's 'Glorious Fool' the other night, the tracks I heard before sleep were gorgeous. don't let the 'Produced by Phil Collins' credit scare you off, it's a sign of quality.

^^^^^
Yes. The version of "Couldn't love you more" (first track I think) gets nice and balearic if you pitch it up

i'm interested in more sunny soul tunes, this is an obvious one that may or may not have already been mentioned:

http://youtu.be/M36OGCfYp3A

i guess "be thankful for what you've got" also fits this sub-category

oh and that youtube link is roy ayers, didn't mean to post it that way.

that psychemagik mix they're talking about on the nu-balearic thread is full of this type of stuff

ha, i'm wondering what kind of machine dane donohue put the title tracks from gaucho and aja through to make that thing scott posted up there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7f4BHHcW10&feature=youtu.be

don't let the 'Produced by Phil Collins' credit scare you off, it's a sign of quality.

― herbal bert (herb albert), Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:04 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

i want to hear this now. is there much drum machine/synth stuff?

More latter than former, if I remember correctly? Still very much has the mark of early 80’s Phil. Tuff drum sounds. Textural vocoder. Etc.

yeah, not really new wave but it has Phil on drums and the bassman plays a Chapman Stick and it's 1981 so has that 80s modern sound of Abacab, Face Value, Discipline, Security et al. higly recommended (esp for $1)

it's a beautiful album. def recommended. if you want full on balearic smoothness, check out Sapphire. i had it for one day, thought it was great and then dropped and chipped it and haven't been able to find it again.

cool, I'll def grab it if I see it about. i'm going through a bit of a John Martyn phase atm, Stormbringer! and One World getting a lot of play time

while i love Bless the Weather through Insides Out, i find that i reach for One World most often. will have to seek out Glorious Fool and Sapphire now.

BiS episode with Jonny Nash back in Januray finished with this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySmRL-Ey8mE

which i swear to god i heard in a movie i saw recently but I cant remember what

i put a track from that on one of my ilx mixes. can't remember which one.

was it that same song?

this one:

Macondo - Do It To Me

Francisco - Heal Yourself

Abe & Malka - Silver's Really Grey

Laurin Rinder & W. Michael Lewis - Anger

Neil Merryweather - Sunshine Superman

Smokey Robinson - Theme From Big Time

Jackson Heights - Sunshine Freak

Barrabas - Mr.Money

Michael Franks - Born With The Moon In Virgo

Don Fardon - Belfast Boy

Morning Glory - Even When I'm Up I'm Down

The Hues Corporation - All Goin' Down Together

Red Rhodes - Lunar Nova

Scott Bradford - Essential Horror

The Face Dancers - Let The Music Set You Free

Tropea - Tambourine

Spread Eagle - Piece Of Paper

The Turtles - Hot Little Hands

Charlie D & Milo - Om Sweet Om

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, January 9, 2007 5:50 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

maybe thats just where i remember it from. could have sworn it was a movie though.

coulda been. that's a good album.

been digging this album today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0bDFiWS0oQ&feature=related

please forgive my lack of balearic-ness. i don't really know what the hell is going on here.

love this one too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_y_kmmVJnQ&feature=related

you guys have this album, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV0f5Bhk0oQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZAWwV3i0EU&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm1kdVPgGKo&feature=related

new track that totally fits this vibe. starts w/a CSNY vibe. drums kick in half way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0UpGDQxqB8

Does Peter Green's "Little Dreamer" fit into this beach balearic category? I'm really loving this track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94x4Ezs_OVM

Does anyone know if that Ned Doheny reissue is legit or not as Bill Brewster and some of the others over on DJHistory are suggesting it's just a bootleg?

fuck yes @ that peter green-- was that on a skotrok mix? i know ive heard it on a mix somewhere

i put it at the end of one of my mixes
http://www.cosmicdisco.co.uk/2010/07/cosmic-disco-is-4/

and it was also lovefinger's farewell track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gC24OoIwwg

something new for the canon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVmGXs5U6l0

New Seahawks album coming soon, according to Phonica.

^ i saw that! tho it seems like they are constantly updating the soundcloud with new and dl-able tracks

Oh sweet! Thx for the tip.

ahhh that Johnathan Wilson is great-- how's the rest of his stuff?

also sorry my Santana video is more "beardo disco" but that thread's all new releases lately so i came here

i've only heard two jonathan wilson tracks, other one not as good. his album comes out in september. he jams with all kinds of classic rock dudes, plus vetiver and the guy from black crowes.

here's the other one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix4bFtMhJ8I

the only track on spotify is a madonna cover lol

this is not too far from zero 7 at this point

the only track on spotify is a madonna cover lol

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:51 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha, i saw this today somewhere, couldn't tell if it was the same guy or not. this is some other jw The Jonathan Wilson Archive

"at this point"

i've been obsessed with this Kourosh reissue from last year for the past couple of weeks. i think it fits here, but you know, iranian.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl_BtpesbjU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0d8GJssi0U

er sorry can't tell if those links work or not, but they are the songs dar enteha and ashiooneh.

This thread is astonishing... Days and days worth of material and food for thought to immerse myself in. The first song that sprung to mind part of the way through the thread was this one, although this is perhaps a little more melancholic than much of this stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-PVWrjAdQ0

Maybe too on the nose but whatever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr6H7dynyLo&

cecilio & kapono are playing at my work this week!

so many broken youtube links itt that its a tragedy.

someone post some youtube links today.

i'm in to this lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tVVWn2wMgY

From Nightlife! Think Lizzy's most underrated album!

made a new mix that draws a lot from this thread

http://soundcloud.com/gradydj/808-mixtapes-vol-4

Ned Doheney - Get It Up For Love
Vangelis - Let It Happen/The City
Clout - Sunshine Baby
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Brightblack Morning Light - Everybody Daylight
Gabor Szabo - The Lady In The Moon
Black Sabbath - Laguna Sunrise
Jonathan Jeremiah - Happiness (Quiet Village Remix)
Dorothy Ashby - The Moving Finger
Jan Hammer Group - Don't You Know
J.J. Cale - Durango
Dr. John - I Walk On Gilded Splinters
Agitation Free - First Communication
Peter Green - Little Dreamer
David Crosby - I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
George Duke - North Beach
Jonathan Wilson - Desert Raven
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'

so many broken youtube links itt that its a tragedy.

someone post some youtube links today.

this is the kind of music that saves lives

the bass on "Cowboy Movie" is fAAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eRY5QG3yo

Iasos?
http://youtu.be/UlUKbyLm-qE

I expect the forthcoming 'I Am The Centre' collection of private-press New Age synth on Light In The Attic will be a perfect fit for a rum-guzzling beach soiree.

also for Knew-Age music: nu-balearic hippies who fell asleep on the beach and woke up staring at the stars.

honest question: so is there a meaning of "balearic" that is any more precise then just "beach and sun-inspired"? b/c it seems like it's applied to anything from "if only i could remember my name" to sunny LA 70s pop to like, lindstrom or neon indian or ibiza dance music

That's the joy of it maaaaaaaaaaaan. Its a 'vibe' yo.

balearic refers to a style of djjing practiced by djs in mid-late80s mediterranean. midtempo club music with flamenco guitars, evocative of beaches. Think "sue o latino".

see: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Classic-Balearic-Mastercuts-Volume-1/release/144535

i guess in the context of this thread it means "mellow open minded 70s rock that may have come out of LA"

think "la isla bonita", that's basically balearic beat gone mainstream

(Or 'balearic style song everyone would know')

I know there's loads of John Martyn in this thread but this is like the most Balearic song ever recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgHGRtFcGME

"honest question"

maybe read the threads?

one world is a great alb

"honest question"

maybe read the threads?

― zvookster, Monday, October 21, 2013 2:55 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i.e. read 15 threads and 2000 posts to see that the term is applied to strikingly different kinds of music? sorry i'd prefer to just ask the question

uh the term "balearic" was not invented by this message board

really

if you have to ask you'll never know http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

here's what Dictionary.app (Free with all copies of OSX, an operating system for Macintosh computers) says:

Balearic |ˌbalɪˈarɪk, bəˈlɪərɪk|
adjective
relating to the Balearic Islands: the Balearic government.
• relating to or denoting a style of synthesized dance music that developed in Ibiza: the Balearic beat.
ORIGIN from Latin Balearis + -ic.

^^ so the fact that there's standard definition of "balearic" that includes ibizan dance music means that somehow it's not okay to ask a music message board why the term is applied to tons of totally different music?

sorry i just didn't anticipate snark to what i thought was a fair question

it's ILM there's no escaping snark

don't harsh the vibe, chill bros

iziba dance music is tons of totally different music, is the pt

why the term is applied to tons of totally different music?

because 'balearic' djs play different styles of records

also it's confusing because it gets (mis)applied to hairy nu-disco dudes (lindstrom) and chillwave/indie rock (neon indian)

sorry
Let's all dance to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14DP6vxInQA

all john martyn albums are the best

That Jerry Williams is fantastic. just what i needed right now down to the title of the track. thx

all john martyn albums are the best

― caek, Monday, October 21, 2013 8:59 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah but he had a lot of greats.

Replace "Balearic" with "goth" and see if the idea of multiple strands of music sharing the same unified ~vibe~ is still confusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1CY3TVQdWs

xp balearic is probs the most nebulous/numinous instance tbfttl... certainly a game i've never quite got the hang of anyway

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1382078_10151933923033454_2096384745_n.jpg

lol

djhistory's 100 best balearic tracks on spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/fingermag/playlist/1S4X40YzybVNS3KrHqPel5

― max, Saturday, July 30, 2011 6:55 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like that jerry williams album a bunch.

my hero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz8RN9mCfWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdrH944IIxc

leon lowman compilation from last year on music from memory is an all-around solid listen, surprised i haven't seen it mentioned in any EOY reissue lists. i think this is the most well-known track but seriously check out the whole damn thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xO9RKQgxBw

yes, good album

did you like the spike album, psych?

the snippets i've heard, yes! i keep forgetting to seek out a copy, seems like it should have some serious appeal beyond the types of people that usually spring for golf channel stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FoDiIck060

(^just to make it easy for lazy people like myself)

i guess spike is beardo but beyond that i really don't know how i'd categorize what he does. power pop? what i've heard is very rundgren, but fuzzier and more excited to just vibe out for a while

yeah, it's like minimal synth kraut power pop, lol

all with that warm hazy lo-fi production style, really nice

sounds like I need that in my life

spike is the bomb