Do I own too many Acid Mothers Temple albums?

Oh that one's really good too Magical Powers From Mars.

Heh -- I was about to post the exact same thing! In C and Electric Heavyland are also keepers, and that gets you five total.

10 Sun City Girls albums is definitely not too many. 5 Caroliner albums might be too many, but I won't be sure until I buy another one.

Chuck I should make you a copy of this disc by these japanese greasers Subvert Blaze, if you don't already have it (same label as the, yes great, Angel in Heavy Syrup.) They do a great cover of "Politician" by Cream, except they change the title. Or maybe they just rip off the riff. You'd like it.

Hey wait a minute, I like BOC as much as nearly anybody! And why do AMT remind you of BOC? Although that's actually a great anti-AMT headline: Harvester Of Lies! I might use that if I ever change my mind about them.

I do like "Don't Fear the Reaper" though.

Geeta, dude, have you heard that 3D thing? It's nice and crazy. You might like it.

i think i'm too young.

1. 41st Century Splendid Man
2. Absolutely Freak Out "Zap Your Mind!"
3. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
4. Does The Cosmic Sheperd Dream Of Electric Tapirs?
5. Electric Heavyland
6. Good-Bye John Peel
7. Hypnotic Liquid From The Golden Utopia
8. Mantra of love
9. Pataphisical Freak Out MU!!
10. St. Captain Freak Out & The Magic Bamboo Request
11. Starless and Bible Black Sabbath
12. SWR
13. Wild Gals A Go-Go

Yikes!

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. US Tour 2006
"The Other Side Of The Sky tour"

19 Apr.(wed) New York NY @ Knitting Factory
20 Apr.(thu) Providence RI@ AS220
21 Apr.(fri) Philadelphia PA @ Vox Populi Gallery
22 Apr.(sat) Baltimore MD @ Ottobar
23 Apr.(sun) Asheville NC @ Grey Eagle Tavem
24 Apr.(mon) Atlanta GA @ The Earl
26 Apr.(wed) New Orleans LA @ One Eyed Jacks
27 Apr.(thu) Houston TX @ Walters On Washington
28 Apr.(fri) Austin TX @ Emos
29 Apr.(sat) Denton TX @ Haileys
30 Apr.(sun) Kansas City MO @ The Record Bar
01 May. (mon) Denver CO @ Larimer Lounge
02 May. (tue) Salt Lake City UT @ Urban Lounge
04 May. (thu) Tucson AZ @ Plush
05 May. (fri) San Diego CA @ Casbah
06 May. (sat) Hollywood CA @ Knitting Factory LA
07 May. (sun) San Francisco CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
08 May. (mon) Portland OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
09 May.(tue) Seattle WA @ Neumos
12 May.(fri) Minneapolis MN @ Triple Rock Club
13 May.(sat) Chicago IL @ Empty Bottle
14 May.(sun) Detroit MI @ Magic Stick
15 May.(mon) Cleveland OH @ Grog Shop
16 May. (tue) Baffalo NY @ Soundlab
17 May. (wed) Wallingford CT @ Wallingford American Legion
18 May. (thu) Portland ME @ Space
19 May.(fri) Cambridge MA @ Middle East Upstairs
20 May.(sat) Brooklyn NY @ Northsix

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. :
Tsuyama Atsushi : monster bass, voice, cosmic joker
Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, guitar, voice, dancin'king
Uki Eiji : drums, wrecker & convoy
Kawabata Makoto : guitar, voice, speed guru
and
Jastin Waters : tour driver

We'll sell the new album "Have You Seen The Other Side Of The Sky?"
and other albums at SHOPZONE, also sell the limited Tour T-shirts too.

On the other hand, I have 25 NNCK albums. And I've listened to all of them a lot. Uh...anyone ever needs recommendations there, I can give em.

Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno *Starless and Bible Black Sabbath* sounds exactly the fucking same as every other Acid Mothers Temple album I've ever heard (well, except for the one where they covered Terry Riley's *In C,* since that one also kind of sounded like Terry Riley), For all I know, they just release the same album over and over again in new cool covers. (This one has a *very* cool cover, for whatever it's worth. And a cool name too, obviously.) As I believe I posted somewhere else on here once, they are sort of a conundrum in that it makes no sense whatsoever to own more than one album by them, but at the same time, their albums always seem to cool to get rid of. Oh well.
-- xhuxk (xedd...), February 17th, 2006.

(and not just "cool" by the way; also *beautiful*. Just made it through the the new one's 32 minute or so title cut -- 1 of only 2 cuts on it -- while puttering around the house {putting away CDs, washing dishes, getting pork stroganoff ready for tomorrow's lunch, cracking open a cold one} and it was quite relaxing. Basically 31 minutes of lovely feedback improv bullshit followed by 1 minute of dub echo and horror voices bullshit. nice! but if the phrase "guilty pleasure" means anything, this stuff is filed in that category in my book.)
-- xhuxk (xedd...), February 17th, 2006.

i always end up buying Acid Mother's tour only stuff - even though it's more expensive than anything i ever see in stores. who's putting out this new record?
-- blackmail (blackmai...), February 17th, 2006.

Just made it through the the new one's 32 minute or so title cut -- 1 of only 2 cuts on it -- while puttering around the house
You gotta be kidding me. They backed David Allen for a Gong record -- Acid Mothergong, I think -- and he made them stick to mostly three and four minute numbers.
Now technically, there are a couple twenty minutes numbers on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Then & Now but they're really not one long number, but a series of shorter tunes, some of which got passed off as pop on the radio. Like twenty minutes of "Take a Pebble Suite" has "Still You Turn Me On," "Lucky Man" and a couple other things in it.
-- George the Animal Steele (george_the_animal_steele...), February 17th, 2006.

One of the reason's I got off the bus for Yes' Tales of the Topographic Chinchbug. One song per side, if it hadn't been vinyl and physically limited in terms of inner groove distortion, they easily would have went to thirty minutes. Vinyl was good for some things!
-- George the Animal Steele (george_the_animal_steele...), February 17th, 2006.

>who's putting out this new record?<
alien 8 (out of, uh, quebec i think.) doubt i'll listen to it again, to be honest. life is short.
-- xhuxk (xedd...), February 17th, 2006.

AMT = the new Fall? a new label puts out every other record! this one has a cooler title than most...i wonder if it's like what people say about star trek movies, you know, that every even numbered one is o.k.
-- blackmail (blackmai...), February 17th, 2006.

Trying to put together and number an AMT discography at this point seems like one of those brain-shattering tasks that drive Lovecraftian narrators mad.
-- adam (hexenductio...), February 17th, 2006.

My favorite is probably "Wild Gals A Go-Go"

Instead, another week and a new AMT album is released, and I can't help buying it. I do not know why.

and yeah, they were amazing and kind of got lost in the shitstorm of AMT releases.

There was some talk on the AMT BBS in march of this year about re-issuing both the Floating Flower CDs and the Uchu CDs, though I do not know if it will happen. Correction, it appears as if the Floating Flower CDs will be re-issued again: http://www.featheredspiritofmother.com/upcoming.html

I would have to agree that they generally do not push their music in any new directions, but they are about the only band that I can think of whom I don't mind releasing similiar sounding music over and over again, because generally they do it very well.

Tickets a tenner from www.mushrumps.com *ahem*

Here's their UK tour list: http://www.acidmothers.com/Cgi-bin/index_pre061209/latesttourdetails.html

Everyone go see them!

Has anyone any idea what it is called? Is it available on any live tapes (date and venue would be good)? Cos it was absolutely phenomenal and I would love to own a version. I know of at least one other ILXor who would also appreciate it.

Thanks

I now have the following and enjoy them all greatly (and more or less equally):

• Electric Heavyland
• Just Another Band from the Cosmic Inferno
• Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness

What should i look out for next? Preferably in-print, easy (relatively speaking) to find and domestically (USA) released. But I can be flexible on that, if it's worth checking out something else in particular.

And of course I've read/skimmed the thread, I just wanted some direct recommendations.

Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo and Crystal Rainbow Pyramid etc are great, they keep getting better as a band, but i could listen to him play guitar all day, so you might say there's too much stuff on all their records that's not a guitar solo.

i sold all my amt CDs on ebay. and i traded in the new one about a month ago. now i own...zero.

but scott! why!!>>?!?!

picking my jaw up off the floor now, dont mind me....

i don't really listen to CDs that much. and i needed money.

pretty much the only CDs i listen to are metal CDs that i get in the mail.

do you still have AMT vinyl?

i could listen to him play guitar all day, so you might say there's too much stuff on all their records that's not a guitar solo.

wow. this is sort of exactly the opposite of how i feel about AMT. and it's why i pretty much stopped buying their stuff a few years back.

Was really into AMT circa 02/03. Bought a bunch stuff: Absolutely Freak Out, 41st century Splendid Man, In C, New Geocentric Worlds, Pataphysical Freak Out Mu and Electric Heavyland, as well as the 3 Magical Power CDEPs, all in the space of about 18 months. Saw them a couple times, too. Phenomenal live -- varied, virtuosic, clear (rather than "blown out"), and one of the most psychedelic experiences I've had undrugged. But the records, even the best of them, only half worked for me. Sometimes I'd enjoy them, but more often they'd bore me. Eventually, like Scott, I moved on and sold/traded nearly everything. Kept and still listen to the Mainliner LP every once in a while, though I prefer High Rise.

IMO, though they've got a great sound, they don't do enough with it (in the studio, at least) to justify the endless torrent of STUFF they put out. They're not a band who write songs or even compose albums -- instead, they're a band who do this (insert furious jamming noise). And it's not enough. Les Rallizes Denudes did it much, much better, and they at least had the good sense to make themselves scarce.

As a curiousity, AMT are cool enough to warrant some investigation, especially if you're into endless psyche jamz. But unlike, say, Zappa, The Fall or Pollard/GBV (who also seemed to release everything they ever recorded), dealing with AMT can't be reduced to cherry picking the "good stuff". Some moments are definitely more appealing than others, but there isn't a big difference between the wheat and the chaff. As a result, you're stuck with this massive, unweildy totality, and it's admirable in some sense, but it's also not quite worth the price of admission, in $$$ or in time. Still fantastic live, though.

Saw AMT and the Cosmic Inferno tonight. Their merch stand was enormous.

I nearly bought the new one the other day on vinyl, but it was $50!

Contenderizer exactly articulates my thoughts there.

Enjoyed them, like I always do, when I saw them on Sunday. Didn't feel inclined to take any merch home with me.

If I was gonna buy a chunk of their stuff it would be the ones with a lot of doomy/proto-metal riffs, which is my favourite AMT mode

none of you are religious are you?

i think you would all like the Crystal Rainbow Pyramid album anyway, it's way together and kind of kraut-groovy and way mind-bendy.

Contenderizer exactly articulates my thoughts there.

^^^^^ yes

xpost OTM about Crystal Rainbow Pyramid, just picked that one up this week and it's nice & groovy (for an AMT record at least, hah!)