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.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 October 2008 10:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
"Sandinista" The Clash.
― Mark G, Monday, 20 October 2008 10:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
Jimmy Buffett? I admit I've never heard the guy - I don't think anyone in the UK has!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Monday, 20 October 2008 10:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
That Manu Chao record - Clandestino or whatever it's called?
― sonofstan, Monday, 20 October 2008 10:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 11:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
so America - S/T
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 11:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― NickB, Monday, 20 October 2008 11:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^^ this cover says beardo beach hippie album to me. Not so balearic though perhaps.
― NickB, Monday, 20 October 2008 11:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
― nerve_pylon, Monday, 20 October 2008 13:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
are we on Yacht Rock again?
― baaderonixx, Monday, 20 October 2008 13:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah, this is more than 70s soft rock
what about
or this
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 15:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Vangelis, yes
especially "stuffed aubergine"
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 15:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
that's not a dragon, that's mighty cthulhu!
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 20 October 2008 16:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
you guys change what the word balearic means every day
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
audioslave = heavy balearic
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
I think half the early suggestions on this thread have got the wrong idea
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
im not really sure what the idea is tbh, i wish tim had provided an example of what he meant besides p.o.b.
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
but i will suggest:
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
jaxon, where to start with these? (apart from avalon, which I have solved)
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
get transfer station Blue it is dope as a rope
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
they're all equally amazing and solid albums, just depends on what you're looking for.
jan hammer - super funky fusion w/amazing songsvangelis - weirdo art rock w/great songs and eastern soundsalpert - funky jazz, spaced out synth arpeggios and great beachy melodiesparsons - funky pink floydshrieve - blissed out synth noodles w/moments of heavy light-jazz funk crosby - stoned out of your gourd folky mantrasflash and the pan - funky 10cc
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
thanks for the pointers. funky 10cc sounds like good times.
I am down with vangelis (suggested him myself upthread)
― caek, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
the ambient eno box
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
alpert and crosby are good suggestions but jax ur list seems more like a general balearic canon and not necc "beardo beach hippie"
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
desultory beardo beach hippie
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
beck's sea change and modern guilt
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
so what makes something beardo beach hippy? is this like suggestions for balearock?
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
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
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
jeez not everything is balearic, guys
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
can we just put on cosmo galactic prism and dance around the campfire?
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
balearic is a state of mind man
― tricky, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
jaxons mom is pretty balearic
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
smooth, easy, and perfect for getting down with after a night out
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
your mom's a beardo
― jaxon, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
BTW jaxon is that the Alan Parsons Project album I should check out?
― Tim F, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm thinking this canon might even include stuff like this as an outlier:
― Tim F, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh ok tim u should have just called it "maxs favorite albums thread" then
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
um, the new Hatchback album, Colors Of The Sun. Any track by Studio? Maybe those are too obvious but I think they definitely fit
― Bomb Bomb Iran (san frandisco), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
andreas vollenweider maybe?
― max, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
surprised no one's mentioned Eden Ahbez, the original Beardo beach bum proto-hippie (he looked like this in the late 40s)
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.
― herbal bert (herb albert), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^^^Yes. The version of "Couldn't love you more" (first track I think) gets nice and balearic if you pitch it up
― Bangelo, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 15:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― dell (del), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 15:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
― D-40, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
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?
― ur reading from a season in hell but u don't know what it's abt (missingNO), Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Bangelo, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
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)
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― jaxon, Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― ur reading from a season in hell but u don't know what it's abt (missingNO), Friday, 22 April 2011 05:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― beta blog, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
BiS episode with Jonny Nash back in Januray finished with this song:
which i swear to god i heard in a movie i saw recently but I cant remember what
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
i put a track from that on one of my ilx mixes. can't remember which one.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
was it that same song?
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe thats just where i remember it from. could have sworn it was a movie though.
― gr8080, Friday, 22 April 2011 22:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
coulda been. that's a good album.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2011 23:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
been digging this album today
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2011 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
please forgive my lack of balearic-ness. i don't really know what the hell is going on here.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2011 23:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
love this one too
you guys have this album, right?
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2011 23:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
new track that totally fits this vibe. starts w/a CSNY vibe. drums kick in half way
― jaxon, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Does Peter Green's "Little Dreamer" fit into this beach balearic category? I'm really loving this track
― van smack, Thursday, 26 May 2011 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
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?
― groovypanda, Friday, 27 May 2011 08:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
fuck yes @ that peter green-- was that on a skotrok mix? i know ive heard it on a mix somewhere
― gr8080, Saturday, 4 June 2011 00:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
i put it at the end of one of my mixeshttp://www.cosmicdisco.co.uk/2010/07/cosmic-disco-is-4/
and it was also lovefinger's farewell track
― jaxon, Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 12 August 2011 00:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
something new for the canon
― mizzell, Friday, 12 August 2011 00:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
New Seahawks album coming soon, according to Phonica.
― lol is not enough (blank), Friday, 12 August 2011 00:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ i saw that! tho it seems like they are constantly updating the soundcloud with new and dl-able tracks
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 12 August 2011 00:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh sweet! Thx for the tip.
― lol is not enough (blank), Friday, 12 August 2011 00:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
ahhh that Johnathan Wilson is great-- how's the rest of his stuff?
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 12 August 2011 01:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
also sorry my Santana video is more "beardo disco" but that thread's all new releases lately so i came here
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 12 August 2011 01:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― mizzell, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
here's the other one
― mizzell, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
the only track on spotify is a madonna cover lol
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 12 August 2011 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is not too far from zero 7 at this point
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
― ( •ิ.•ั) (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
― mizzell, Friday, 12 August 2011 03:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
"at this point"
― max, Friday, 12 August 2011 04:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
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_BtpesbjUwww.youtube.com/watch?v=e0d8GJssi0U
― mizzell, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
er sorry can't tell if those links work or not, but they are the songs dar enteha and ashiooneh.
― mizzell, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
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:
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 28 February 2012 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maybe too on the nose but whatever: &
― Deverly (Bangelo), Saturday, 3 March 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
cecilio & kapono are playing at my work this week!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 4 March 2012 10:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
so many broken youtube links itt that its a tragedy.
someone post some youtube links today.
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 4 June 2012 18:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm in to this lately
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 22 June 2012 00:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
From Nightlife! Think Lizzy's most underrated album!
― Austin, Friday, 22 June 2012 02:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 LoveVangelis - Let It Happen/The CityClout - Sunshine BabyNina Simone - BaltimoreBrightblack Morning Light - Everybody DaylightGabor Szabo - The Lady In The MoonBlack Sabbath - Laguna SunriseJonathan Jeremiah - Happiness (Quiet Village Remix)Dorothy Ashby - The Moving FingerJan Hammer Group - Don't You KnowJ.J. Cale - DurangoDr. John - I Walk On Gilded SplintersAgitation Free - First CommunicationPeter Green - Little DreamerDavid Crosby - I'd Swear There Was Somebody HereFleetwood Mac - AlbatrossGeorge Duke - North BeachJonathan Wilson - Desert RavenHarry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 30 June 2012 05:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
so many broken youtube links itt that its a tragedy.someone post some youtube links today.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 25 October 2012 13:58 (6 months ago) Permalink